The Neighbour's Cat

Finnish, she/her, ace. Good Omens, Animated Films, Literature, stuff about Finland. Blog is both in English and Finnish/ sisältöä englanniksi ja suomeksi.

[charlesoberonn]

Did teen girls in the 60s write weird fanfic in their notebooks about being sold to the Beatles or Beach Boys?

[charlesoberonn]

So apparently there weren't actually that many unironic "sold to One Direction" fics in the 2010s. Most of them were satirical.

[mr-elementle]

There should be a name for the phenomena where something does a plot or elements that enters the public conscious as a cliche despite most instances of it's actually being a parody of 1 or very few in ironic examples.

Like there are almost no horror movies that are earnestly about a group of teens going to a cabin in the woods and getting got by monsters, almost every example is either a parody or satire or a subversion,

[charlesoberonn]

Phantom Trope maybe? Like phantom islands.

[nerathul]

Isn't that just dead unicorns?

[charlesoberonn]

That's brilliant, actually. Like "beating a dead horse" but the horse doesn't exist.

[duckthisshit-deactivated2014042]

[koskenkorvakanelipulla]

[lusiferi]

[thesweetnessofspring]

“Never mind,” said Valancy dully. “And so there’s nothing the matter with my heart?” “Well, nothing serious. You had what is called pseudo-angina. It’s never fatal—passes away completely with proper treatment. Or sometimes with a shock of joy. Have you been troubled much with it?” “Not at all since March,” answered Valancy. She remembered the marvellous feeling of re-creation she had had when she saw Barney coming home safe after the storm. Had that “shock of joy” cured her?

This might, like the rosebush, be a super obvious metaphor, but I like that

Valancy's pain comes from her heart, which is her emotional center.

Valancy's problem was never something that couldn't be treated. It wasn't ever fatal, it could always have been fixed.

What fixed her was a "shock of joy," like her heart was being revived.

This read what got to me was that it was treatable, it wasn't deadly. It might be very "child's fantasy" type of ending, but the power was always with Valancy to change her circumstances. It doesn't mean that it would be easy, but that she always had the option to.

[rappiokausi]

Totta puhuen, vaikka hänen sisarensa nyt tekivät kaiken voitavansa veljen eteen ja kutsuivat häntä "Richard rukaksi", hän ei ollut ollut muuta kuin kovapäinen, tunteeton ja kunnoton Richard Musgrove, joka ei ollut koskaan tehnyt mitään, mistä hän olisi elävänä tai kuolleena ansainnut muuta kuin lempinimen Dick.

—Arkaileva sydän. Jane Austen. 1817. Suomennos Kersti Juva. Teos, 2024.

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The most horrifying thing about being a human is that no matter how intelligent you are or how much customer service training you have, nothing will stop you from being the idiot customer on occasion. At some point you won't read a sign or you'll misread a menu or ask the dumbest question a human has ever formed and there is nothing you can do to prevent this. It will happen. Accept it and continue on your way as one of today's dipshit customers.

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[teaboot]

TRIED TO COME UP WITH AN ON-THE-SPOT ANALOGY FOR BEING ASEXUAL AND THE FIRST THING MY BRAIN SHAT OUT WAS "IT'S LIKE A WAFFLE MAKER"

[teaboot]

Ways that sex is like a waffle maker:

1. Lots of people have one but you don't really think about it until they start talking about making waffles and you're like "oh shit they have a waffle maker"

2. Messy as fuck and you know what as far as I see it why even bother when you have pancakes, you don't need to bother with all those fluids and crevices with pancakes

3. WHY DOES EVERYONE AT THE WEDDING THINK YOU NEED ONE

4. Theoretically implied fun with whipped cream until it melts and starts soaking into shit

5. If you don't prep ur surfaces ur gonna have a bad time

6. It's fun in the kitchen but only on like special occasions cause again it's a pain in the ass to clean

7. ??? I prefer crêpes tbh I don't get it

[teaboot]

Looking forwards to celebrating the 6th birthday of the post I made to describe a stance I was assured I'd grow out of by 13

[rhodeys]

[philcollinsenjoyer]

about 90% of fanfiction takes place in a utopia where men are thoughtful and unsure of their place in the world

[mycatismyfriend]

@skulandcrossbones this might be the greatest tag on a reblog I’ve ever seen.

[autiebiographical]

My encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars isn't very good at paying the bills.

[stephenroot]

I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.

[stephenroot]

Genuinely I just don't think people younger than 35 know how good they have it. I distinctly remember the year in my childhood that it became illegal to smoke in restaurants, I remember what it was like when people used to smoke indoors everywhere, you all think it's cool because it's this illicit fun thing people are doing drunk outside bars now, you don't remember what it was like when fucking everything reeked all the time and you couldn't get away from it and how life changing it was when you could suddenly go out to eat and everything didn't taste like ash and all your clothes and hair didn't stink for days when you got home.

[rappiokausi]

Niinpä he menivät isoon taloon istumaan puoleksi tunniksi vanhanaikaisen neliönmuotoiseen saliin, jonka kiiltävää lattiaa peitti pieni matto ja johon talon nykyiset tyttäret olivat vähitellen luoneet muodikasta epäjärjestystä tuomalla sinne ison pianon ja harpun sekä sirottelemalla joka puolelle kukkatelineitä ja pikku pöytiä. Oi, olisivatpa puolipaneelin yllä riippuvien taulujen mallit, ruskeaan samettiin sonnustautuneet herrat ja rouvat sinisessä satiinissa nähneet huoneen tilan, miten kaikki järjestys ja sopusuhtaisuus oli heitetty romukoppaan! Itse muotokuvatkin näyttivät tuijottavan ällistyneinä.

Arkaileva sydän. Jane Austen. 1817. Suomennos Kersti Juva. Teos, 2024.

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

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Do you recognize this TV theme song? #661

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can't name the series

I might know this

I've never heard this

Voting ended onJul 5

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

Series: Harry Wild (2022-Present)

Composer: Ray Harman

[depsidase]

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

top gun is great because tony scott was like “i want to make a movie about sunsets” and the us navy was like “No you’re gonna make recruitment propanganda for the navy” and val kilmer was like “the studio has tricked me, juilliard trained val kilmer, into being here, so i’m going to portray a closeted homosexual” and tom cruise was like “i’m in a ray bans commercial!”