Chaos Cat (loves this thing in particular)

Chaotic disaster human semi-successfully masquerading as a responsible adult. Or might be secretly several cats in a cloak. No promises. Fan of stories in all their forms, especially fanfiction as an interactive, transformative medium that sometimes does violence to the original canon. The author is dead and if they're not spinning in their grave at what you did to their stories, you're not trying hard enough. Fans deserve Harry Potter more than JK Rowling does and we should get it in the divorce. Also fan of Star Wars, the Locked Tomb, CATS the musical, Tomb Raider, Penny Dreadful, Lovecraft Mythos, Victoria Goddard's Nine Worlds stories, fairy tales, folk tales, and a shitload of garbage 80's-90's-era sci-fi and fantasy. Source of spontaneous fandom meta essays, shitposts, and the occasional fic, as well as the tendency to find something shiny about practically any subject under the sun (or above it, or including it). Yes, I reblog things in their gazillions all at once because the queue system has extra steps, bite me. Yes, my inbox is as abandoned and overgrown as Sleeping Beauty's tower, bite me some more. Fiction is tagged In which I write. AU speculations and other things that may eventually become stories are tagged story building.

[justcatposts]

Little girl teaching her cats how to draw a flower 

(via)

[hottiewitabloggie]

they’re? just? sitting there ???

[ladycavalier]

it makes it 100% better that i can’t understand her, i feel like i’m hearing what cats hear

[socialistexan]

[crtter]

Heh, she’s speaking Portuguese! Here’s what she’s saying:

*baby voice* “… and if you have any questions, just ask me! And now… yeah. And now you draw the roots. You draw them all twisted up! Got it? A flower? Now draw it. Did you get it, Luis Roberto? Did you get it, Jurandir? Look. Did you get it? That’s how you draw a flower.”

Luis Roberto and Jurandir are people names (Jurandir is especially a name associated with older men) so it’s extra funny that the cats are named that, heh.

[dduane]

Be Happy... it's Bloomsday!

Because of The Day That's In It, it's become traditional at the Ebooks Direct store, on this date each year, to make a particular piece of reading available free.

This means that, for the next twenty-four hours, you can download the tale of how the Fair Folk of Dublin were threatened by a terrible alien force (that is to say, Late-Stage Capitalism in a particularly nasty form...): and how to save themselves from being wiped out, the Good People sought the help of Ireland's first superhero.

The 12,000-word novella Herself is free today!

Just go to the ebook's page at the Ebooks Direct store, go through the checkout process (naturally you won't be charged anything!) and download a copy.

And happy Bloomsday!

(With the usual warning to any British residents who may pass through: even though this is a freebie, due to the paperwork associated with Brexit, we can't let you "purchase" it through the store. Our apologies.)

[charlesoberonn]

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

but only once.

[unidentifiablelifeform]

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access

Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the l

[tofixtheshadows]

Do you think Naomi Novik ever looks at AO3

sees some incest mpreg

and whispers to herself “I never wanted this.”

[astolat]

No. :)

[vethyourhalflingmother]

my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:

he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year

[fromwolfsandgods]

Chaotic good

[swordshapedleaves]

NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn’t just mean cheeky!

[dragkingandreweldritch]

this is like how Sweden stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness because people started a campaign of calling in gay to work

malicious compliance is one of the best tools in the arsenal of civil rights activism

[dracogotgame]

Always reblog for malicious compliance

[findingfeather]

sometimes following the letter of the law works even better than ignoring it.

[ltleflrt]

In Utah the new book banning laws apply to the bible, and there’s already someone petitioning to get it removed from schools and libraries.

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

I hope no English teacher ever puts up with “banning pronouns” for even a moment

[gehayi]

Update: The Utah book ban has, in fact, resulted in the Bible being banned in elementary and middle schools in Davis County, and high schoolers now only have limited access to the King James Version, due to “vulgarity and violence.” 

Now the Book of Mormon is under consideration for a ban as well. The parent who complained said that it was very violent.

[vethyourhalflingmother]

my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:

he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year

[fromwolfsandgods]

Chaotic good

[swordshapedleaves]

NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn't just mean cheeky!

[kyraneko]

lawful nuisance. i approve.

[blasteffect]

The Moon from the International Space Station,

through Earth's blue skies.

Courtesy: The James Webb Space Telescope

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[were--ralph]

pac man ghosts

[naamahdarling]

Wow! There really is no such thing as unskilled labor.

[tricia868]

Beaded Rainbow Odenwald Shawl!

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

I've done A LOT of knitting/crochet this year while chronic illness kept me from my sewing machine, but I'm feeling much better now. There will be new quilts to look forward to soon, plus a few more yarn crafts to share in the meantime!

[depsidase]

[mreullogy]

[whisperingsoup]

it exists to divide the working class. All labour is skilled labour. Yes including that one. Yes, including that one too.

Do you know what's unskilled labour? Owning capital. There's no labour involved, thus requires no skill. And you can tell because people can be born into owning capital.

[iamrockqueen]

[zawmbikilla]

every time i see this image it makes me happy

[emo-oreos]

or this one

[sprinkledsalt]

It drives me insane that you still regularly get articles treating Elon Musk like a serious thinker and someone whose takes on anything at all should be listened to when he, as the richest man in the world, has murdered hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in the world thus far by killing USAID. The richest man in the world starving the poorest children in the world to death is so evil it feels like a bad movie script, but no one cares. It’s not even in the average person’s mind when you bring up his name, in part because the media just shrugged and will only occasionally mention it as like, one line in an article about him as a mere afterthought.

Musk has done other terrible things, too, but god, this one has a high and increasing body count. It should define his legacy. Every article about his wealth should mention how he not only refuses to use any of it to help people, but he actively cut money that wasn’t even his from providing food and medicine to the poor. But nope. No one cares.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

A 2026 peer-reviewed study reveals the ecological consequences of releasing pet goldfish into freshwater lakes, showing they can destabilize

Lots of us already knew that goldfish--a type of carp--wreak havoc when released into ecosystems they aren't native to. This recent study enumerates the specifics of the damage:

"The damage was quick and extensive. The Journal of Animal Ecology study found that water clarity dropped almost instantly in nutrient-rich conditions as goldfish stirred up sediment from the lake bottom. Populations of snails, amphipods, and zooplankton the small invertebrates that are the base of healthy aquatic food webs crashed through direct consumption and habitat destruction. Native fish exhibited declining body condition, an early warning indicator of long-term population health."

Defenders of invasive animals often claim that the introduced species aren't really causing harm, or that they're just accelerating evolution. (There's also the appeal to emotion that the animals didn't choose to be there, and therefore we should leave them alone.) But whether it's goldfish and European starlings in the US, Sitka spruce in Europe, rabbits in Australia, or hippos in Colombia, the facts show that non-native species have a deleterious effect on ecosystems they're introduced to, taking up space and other resources needed by native species.

The article also got me thinking about the irresponsible attitude many people have toward "disposable" pets like inexpensive fish. When I lived on the coast, I had a 60 gallon aquarium with a variety of tropical fish. Before I moved back to Portland, I rehomed all the inhabitants minus the bladder snails (which are thriving in a jar with my marimo moss balls). I very easily could have just walked a hundred yards to the lake behind my coastal home and dropped the platies and cardinal tetras in there; instead I took the time to find them new homes with other people.

I get that people don't want to euthanize unwanted pets, even goldfish. And there aren't as many rescues that take pets that aren't furry or feathered. But the answer is not to dump these animals in the wild and hope they can survive; this is how we end up with lakes full of giant yellow carp, and domestic rabbits spreading diseases to wild rabbit populations. It also leaves a lot of these poor creatures to slow, lingering deaths from exposure or starvation, assuming they don't end up as predator food.

Responsibility toward nature includes properly caring for those we have domesticated or tamed, to include ethical care from beginning to end, and responsible breeding practices. Unfortunately as long as there is a profit to be made, there will be those facilities--and that is the best name for them--that will churn out large quantities of high-demand, inexpensive animals to meet the pet trade without taking any responsibility for where they end up. While an ethical breeder of dogs, for example, will always take back one of the dogs they've bred at any age, you can't just return your goldfish once you realize you can't house a two foot long carp.

Most importantly, I think we need to keep pushing back against the "Well, it doesn't matter if I do it just this one time" mentality. Imagine how many individual people think this when they dump a few aquarium fish into a pond,. Even if not all of these animals survive, odds are that enough will to become established invasive populations. It's a multi-pronged problem, and getting people to change their assumptions and habits sometimes feels like an uphill battle. But studies like this one help to foster change by educating people about the reality of invasive species.

[aphel1on]

never stop being obnoxious about fictional character online. you will find like-minded people and it will literally save you

[glorious-spoon]

honestly i think the selling point of romance for me (and where it usually fails to land) is 'can i imagine these people sharing an in-joke'

like, are they in cahoots. can they laugh together. do they have a similar enough or at least complementary enough outlook that they can connect over something being funny (even if it's funny in a fucked up way! sometimes those are the best in-jokes!)

that's not necessarily true love in and of itself, but it does feel like an essential component to me

[laerugo]

[abwyld]