Meow and Kaboom!

Absolute junk-drawer blog of a writer and artist who puts most of her important stuff elsewhere. Over 30, She/Her, Asexual. 

[littleapocalypsekitten]

Welcome.

This is a blog for my original art, writing and random junk.  Whatever I want to put up, whatever I want to reblog.  Hopefully, a pit of delightful insanity, like most tumblr blogs.   For the sideblog where I repost the short stories that I also post here, without random-junk reblog interruption, go here: Rusted Dreams Stories.   For art without the random, go here: Shadsie’s Art Attic.  She-Ra fandom (not much used anymore) - @freedfromthegalactichivemind  Zelda Fandom - @kiltons-monster-manual Trigun Fandom - @lost-technology  Reblogs are welcome.  No paste-reposts. Always link back to the relevant blog if recommending / critiiquing / talking about something on one of them.  Thank you.   A few things to know about me before you interact, in case you do not want to. *Planting the red flags* *Brings out the Nicholas D. Wolfwood’s portable confessional from Trigun.*   1. I’m over 40.  I know that some people on here do not want to interact with people who are starting to get a few gray hairs.  Understandable, just letting you know.    2. I’m an Exvangelical.  I used to be an Evangelical Christian, long ago.  Currently, I haven’t been to any kind of church in decades and my personal spiritual identity is - weird.  Too heretical for mainstream Christianity (Universalist and whatnot) and somewhat agnostic, but not skeptical enough for the atheist-crowd.  Buddies with any and all who aren’t hell-bent on (de) converting me when my spirituality is at “lackadaisical at best” levels.  I’d rather hear your opinions on the Legend of Zelda timeline or your favorite weapons in Skyrim or something.   3. Currently politically-leftist.  Formerly politically-conservative (when I was churched, young and stupid).  Letting both sides know.  I’d rather not interact at all with MAGAs (I had enough of that with a former coworker).  I’m also warning leftist tumblr-users who think that a person needs to have been born leftist and remain pure as the driven snow that I’m more like that February-snow on the side of the road with dirt and car-soot and maybe a dead squirrel in it.   4. Once upon a time, in the ancient year 2000, I was briefly involved with the U.S. Air Force.  My reasons for signing on were selfish and stupid.  I was not immune to the “Americans as the good guys” propaganda of the time, which is much more difficult for the Powers that Be to replicate in now-times with greater information access all around and less of an ability to hide their agendas.  In the end, I didn’t even make it through the first half of basic training and was a washout.  I never even got benefits, let alone wind up actually becoming a part of the machine.  I’ve done a lot of waking up, unpacking and deconstructing since then and you will never find people who are more anti-military than people who were involved in it in some way.  Not innocent.  Dirty snow.  I recognise it.  I do not ask for forgiveness, I am simply letting people know so that they can know what they’re getting into before they interact with me and decide whether or not to accordingly.   5.  If you’re the type of person who says “kys” to people casually for ANY reason, even in jest, I am not interested in interacting with you.  In the words of Vash the Stampede of Trigun “Sorry, I don’t do requests.”     “Mind the tags” as they say on Ao3.  If for any or all of the reasons above you do not wish to interact with me, don’t.  Hitting the block button is free.  

[jeffcross5000]

[jenjen4280]

This made me smile. Maybe you need a smile today too.

[lizardsfromspace]

Hello, welcome to 2050, our gallery - oh, no, that art is not done with AI, the industry collapsed decades ago, but human artists have rediscovered the aesthetic and are using it ironically. Yeah they call it Neo-Modern AI Chic, they've been trying to recover surviving slop and put it in the archives. Oh, we're very into 2020s aesthetics now. You remember, Hyperlink Unburbia? Rustic Pseudo-Cryptid? Self-Care Shadowscape? You don't...know any of those? That's weird. They really define your time, is all, uh, and we're into it

[earlgraytay]

That china dog that ornaments the bedroom of my furnished lodgings. ...I do not admire it myself. Considered as a work of art, I may say it irritates me. Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.

But in 200 years’ time it is more than probable that that dog will be dug up from somewhere or other, minus its legs, and with its tail broken, and will be sold for old china, and put in a glass cabinet. And people will pass it round, and admire it. They will be struck by the wonderful depth of the colour on the nose, and speculate as to how beautiful the bit of the tail that is lost no doubt was.

We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog. In 2288 people will gush over it. The making of such dogs will have become a lost art. Our descendants will wonder how we did it, and say how clever we were. We shall be referred to lovingly as “those grand old artists that flourished in the nineteenth century, and produced those china dogs.”

-- Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

[headspace-hotel]

Unburbia...

[littleapocalypsekitten]

I have a feeling that The Future (TM) will NEVER understand the political AI art-slop the way we do. Me, a time-traveler: No, the majority of Americans living in the 2020s did NOT see their president as a muscle-bound, strong hulk protecting the country. it was a fad among his supporters to depict him as resembling the action movie protagonist John Rambo from storylines that seem to be largely forgotten now - which is ironic since said president, in his youth, dodged the draft for the Vietnam war five times due to the intervention of his wealthy father on very dubious grounds. Oh, and the pictures of him as an astronaut and a cowboy - *laughs* he was never those things. *Talking with art historians* Me: Oh...no, it was not normal at all for us to have idealized images of world leaders, not even with the AI industry. You are lucky. You brought me over, someone who was born in a time before AI art. I believe I was in what was called "Generation X?" Is it still called that? (gives birth year and years of growing up). It was NOT normal at all - in fact, That Guy was the first to receive such superlatives from people who were too lazy to create their own art and outsourced it to machines. I created protest art. You say you have a great collection of remaining homemade signs? Yeah, those were great! Lots of traditional media, markers and poster-board. I used to paint canvasses. Good times. Well, not good times, because if they were good, we wouldn't have been protesting. But, anyway, no, preceeding leaders were never depicted as Rambo and Santa Claus, at least not unironically. Times back then were very stupid. Yes, we were all insane then. I blame the microplastics.

[littleapocalypsekitten]

The more I think about antique collectables that were everyday objects and art of the past, I have to wonder how many things that we just casually have around that The Future will find to be super-dangerous? AI-slop aside, I mean... Uranium Glass. That stuff rocks. If I had room, I'd love to get a cabinet full of little cups and saucers of early to mid-20th century glassware lit by a blacklight at night. We know now that you should never, EVER use it for anything other than decorative purposes and should not use it to drink tea or eat cake off of because, you know, the radioactive component. But it was intended to be used, because the people of yesteryear did not know. They just knew that it was brightly colored and pretty - it had an internal shine. Sooooo many painted glassware pieces with heavy metals in the paint. I only recently learned of the danger, but I spent nearly my entire childhood drinking out of those little glassware mugs from a McDonald's promotion that had Garfield mini-comics on them. I LOOOOVED my Garfield-mugs for drinking cold tea out of. Apparently, I was slowly poisoning myself with so much cadmium... or at least low levels of it. So... what shit do we have around that we use / eat off of, etc. that is dangerous now that we're going to find out about later and will become cabinet-decor pieces in The Future? Along with hand-painted canvasses of the Rustic Psudeo-Cryptids on the wall, perhaps depicting various SCPs?

[lizardsfromspace]

Hello, welcome to 2050, our gallery - oh, no, that art is not done with AI, the industry collapsed decades ago, but human artists have rediscovered the aesthetic and are using it ironically. Yeah they call it Neo-Modern AI Chic, they've been trying to recover surviving slop and put it in the archives. Oh, we're very into 2020s aesthetics now. You remember, Hyperlink Unburbia? Rustic Pseudo-Cryptid? Self-Care Shadowscape? You don't...know any of those? That's weird. They really define your time, is all, uh, and we're into it

[earlgraytay]

That china dog that ornaments the bedroom of my furnished lodgings. ...I do not admire it myself. Considered as a work of art, I may say it irritates me. Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.

But in 200 years’ time it is more than probable that that dog will be dug up from somewhere or other, minus its legs, and with its tail broken, and will be sold for old china, and put in a glass cabinet. And people will pass it round, and admire it. They will be struck by the wonderful depth of the colour on the nose, and speculate as to how beautiful the bit of the tail that is lost no doubt was.

We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog. In 2288 people will gush over it. The making of such dogs will have become a lost art. Our descendants will wonder how we did it, and say how clever we were. We shall be referred to lovingly as “those grand old artists that flourished in the nineteenth century, and produced those china dogs.”

-- Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

[headspace-hotel]

Unburbia...

[littleapocalypsekitten]

I have a feeling that The Future (TM) will NEVER understand the political AI art-slop the way we do. Me, a time-traveler: No, the majority of Americans living in the 2020s did NOT see their president as a muscle-bound, strong hulk protecting the country. it was a fad among his supporters to depict him as resembling the action movie protagonist John Rambo from storylines that seem to be largely forgotten now - which is ironic since said president, in his youth, dodged the draft for the Vietnam war five times due to the intervention of his wealthy father on very dubious grounds. Oh, and the pictures of him as an astronaut and a cowboy - *laughs* he was never those things. *Talking with art historians* Me: Oh...no, it was not normal at all for us to have idealized images of world leaders, not even with the AI industry. You are lucky. You brought me over, someone who was born in a time before AI art. I believe I was in what was called "Generation X?" Is it still called that? (gives birth year and years of growing up). It was NOT normal at all - in fact, That Guy was the first to receive such superlatives from people who were too lazy to create their own art and outsourced it to machines. I created protest art. You say you have a great collection of remaining homemade signs? Yeah, those were great! Lots of traditional media, markers and poster-board. I used to paint canvasses. Good times. Well, not good times, because if they were good, we wouldn't have been protesting. But, anyway, no, preceeding leaders were never depicted as Rambo and Santa Claus, at least not unironically. Times back then were very stupid. Yes, we were all insane then. I blame the microplastics.

[creatingblackcharacters]

#Make Racists Scared Again 2026

[creatingblackcharacters]

Share if you want people to know they should be scared to be racist around you 👊🏾

[dailyclassicart]

Vincent van Gogh - "Field with Poppies" (1889)

[duncanor]

Zionists going to war against NY's socialist mayor when he isn't even a real anti-zionist is both amusing and insufferable.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

[thestarsaredown]

Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain

[holy-muffins]

We’ve made it 5 years folks

[knightshade86]

[kitkatpancakestack]

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[demi-shoggoth]

The children yearn to be Mewtwo

[k-eke]

Be careful princess  🌸

[grotusrinocerose]

[heatandapathy]

I just love that multiple people not only though “the black one is a princess and those are her bodyguards” but also came to the conclusion “they’re also, obviously, samurai.”

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[punissuer]

ID / TL;DW: young Black man explains the history of voodoo dolls: they originated in England, where Black people where prohibited from learning to read or write, to help witches keep track of what ailed their patients. Eg., person goes to witch and laments headache, they treat their headache and make a small doll (called "poppet"), trying to represent them as good as possible, stick a needle in its head and put it up a shelf. When they return next week, the witch takes their poppet and asks about their headache. If it's gone, they remove the needle, otherwise they know they have to treat a rather persistent headache.

[tartrazeen]

I'm just gonna freeze-frame this for everybody:

[sigmaleph]

every day i am thankful to ancient humans for the domestication of the cat. fucking genius idea. agriculture was a good one too btw but you really outdid yourselves with the cat thing

[pissvortex]

[obsidianpegasus]

Basic Fandom Etiquette Everyone Needs to Remember:

Creators do not owe anyone content. Do not ask writers when they will update.

If an author did not ask for [negative] criticism , do not give criticism.

Read the tags carefully before reading a fanfic.

If you ignored the tags and were upset, that is your responsibility, not the creator’s.

Disliking a ship does NOT give you the right to attack people who enjoy it.

Do not tell authors or shippers that their ship is “disgusting,” “wrong,” or “shouldn’t exist.” Shipping fictional characters is not a moral failing.

No one is obligated to justify why they ship two fictional characters.

Headcanons are PERSONAL interpretations, not universal truth.

Dark themes in fiction do not equal real life beliefs or intentions.

Leaving kudos or short positive comments genuinely matters.

Not every fanwork is made for you, and that is okay.

Scrolling past content you dislike is better than engaging negatively

Enjoying a fandom later than others does not make someone less of a fan.

Disliking a fanfic does not entitle you to announce that to its creator. Sending hate comments to authors is NEVER justified, even if you disliked the work.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

th fact that some people's right wing radicalization backstory is literally just being told some people have it harder in life is kind of crazy to me like first day on planet earth orsomething

[innerchildabortionclinic]

and The Left is supposed to address this how, by lying? lol

[pseudomantis]

requesting my food be prepared "ant style" at every restaurant i go to

[littleapocalypsekitten]

I have seen advertisements for a hot sauce come up on my Facebook feed called Ant Sauce. There are various intensities. I took a look at the webpage to see if it was just a name or what it was about. Literally made from ants. The people who make it raise and collect ants and I think the different intensities of the sauces are from different species of ant. "1000 ants in every bottle" - something like that.