Nekomata No IroIro

Miscellany, mélange, hodgepodge, pastiche. Things a two-tailed demon cat likes.

[fox-teeth]

'm working towards making series 3 of my Medieval Illuminated Manuscript stickers happen, and I wanted to know if any of you had suggestions?

What favorite weird marginalia freak or zoologically dubious bestiary creature would you want to include? Leave a comment!

[fox-teeth]

Based on your suggestions on bsky & tumblr and my various artistic whims here are sketches of six of the stickers.

Left to right: a beautiful noble lady, a snail dragon (you recognize him), a goose, a hedgehog gathering fruit, a highly questionable elephant, and a fish with legs.

I need two more! Should I go with some bestiary classics I haven't gotten to yet, like griffins and lions? Or more fish that stretch the definition of "fish"? Or more random hybrid freaks found running around the margins of better manuscripts? Check out some options in the image below and in the non-legally-binding poll:

What medieval beaft do you want to see as a sticker?

Griffin

Hyena

Lion

More weird ""fish""

Sea hare

Narwhal

Lobster Knight

Flying Boar

Donkey Jester

None of these beafts will do I'm commenting something else

Voting ended onJun 26

[fox-teeth]

The result of your votes:

But don’t worry Donkey Jester Nation…I got you:

[rubysapphrald]

i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people

[rubysapphrald]

people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!

[wordfather]

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

[wordfather]

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

[wordfather]

THIRTY TWO??????

[phillyphillyphilly]

Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.

May I present the best apple:

[wordfather]

the world is so big and beautiful

[nekomatanoiroiro]

#humor #funny

[beemovieerotica]

[preserving-tiktok]

[taraljc]

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

[liminalbeauty]

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

[punchspeedchunk]

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

[notasapleasure]

this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[status-quo-hater]

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

[nebulositycosplay]

Pray

The order of this is a struggle to read but I like the sheer chaos. I find this part of the song is this overwhelming disjointed and chaotic reflection of internalised feelings so I want to kind of make that clear. My head is such a mess of feelings and thoughts that I struggle to get out in any way that isn’t art or writing at the moment so this I feel is a fun little characterisation of that.

[thestuffedalligator]

“Are you the witch who turned eleven princes into swans?”

The old woman stared at the figure on the front step of her cottage and considered her options. It was the kind of question usually backed up by a mob with meaningful torches, and the kind of question she tried to avoid.

Coming from a single dusty, tired housewife, it should’ve held no terrors.

“You a cop?”

The housewife twisted the hem of her apron. “No,” she muttered. “I’m a swan.”

A raven croaked somewhere in the woods. Wind whispered in the autumn leaves.

Then: “I think I can guess,” the old woman said slowly. “Husband stole your swan skin and forced you to marry him?”

A nod.

“And you can’t turn back into a swan until you find your skin again.”

A nod.

“But I reckon he’s hidden it, or burned it, or keeps it locked up so you can’t touch it.”

A tiny, miserable nod.

“And then you hear that old Granny Rothbart who lives out in the woods is really a batty old witch whose father taught her how to turn princes into swans,” the old woman sighed. “And you think, ‘Hey, stuff the old skin, I can just turn into a swan again this way.’

“But even if that was true – which I haven’t said if it is or if it isn’t – I’d say that I can only do it to make people miserable. I’m an awful person. I can’t do it out of the goodness of my heart. I have no goodness. I can’t use magic to make you feel better. I only wish I could.”

Another pause. “If I was a witch,” she added.

The housewife chewed the inside of her cheek. Then she drew herself up and, for the first time, looked the old woman in the eyes.

“Can you do it to make my husband miserable?”

The old woman considered her options. Then she pulled the wand out from the umbrella stand by the door. It was long, and silver, and a tiny glass swan with open wings stood perched on the tip.

“I can work with that,” said the witch.

[hotgrrlbummer]

fuck summer fuck blue skies i want it to be OMINOUS and FOGGY i want to feel like im going to get MURDERED by a GHOST

[yocholol]

night terror

[mighty-meh]

Yeah, for thoses who don't know, Aurora Perrineau who play Eurydice in Kaos, is the daughter of Harold Perrineau, who play Mercutio in THAT Romeo+Juliet adaptation (you know the one)

[roach-works]

can you fuckin imagine you get hired for a creative job and they say 'you're gorgeous and we want you to look as beautiful and free as this haunting vision we once adored when we were young' and you look at the kiss-stained inspo board and there's your slutty dad

[tpwrtrmnky]

Yeah uh sorry but we're denying you the medication that makes you regrow the hands you lost in the accident due to cancer risk.

Oh the type of cancer? Hand cancer. It's. It's significantly higher when you have hands.

Higher than for the general population of people with hands? Uhhhhhhhhh well now you're asking really complicated and sort of ideologically motivated questions.

[despazito]

[coyoteprince]

Alright there's this. Now back to drawing undead gay dog men in love.

Tip Jar!

[coyoteprince]

[Image ID: A long, digital infographic about dealing with heat sensitiviity, styled with black ink on an aged 1800's poster and muted red accents. Largely filled by text, there are some decorative elements of filigree and the artist's persona, a fat fairy with curled ram horns and a long tufted tail. /End ID.]

Those on mobile are experiencing issues with reading this due to tumblrs compression, so here is it cut up for easier reading!

But first, HERE IS A LINK to the plain text for those who use screen readers or would prefer straight text.

[cosmonautroger]

Sigourney Weaver & Jones Cat, Alien, 1979

[shirecorn]

Harbinger

[shirecorn]

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