Live for the Future

My name's Courtney. If you're nice to me, I'm nice to you. It's as simple as that.

[radiqueer]

Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

dogs might look like their owners but cat people always have a cat with the same mental illness as them

[gean-grey-blog]

My last cat was owned by my friend's Trekkie uncle who passed very suddenly in a car crash. The family just couldn't take him and asked me to possibly foster him until they could. I almost immediately adopted him.

I would set my computer to play a video for him when I left for work. He got mad if it wasn't star trek. He learned to hit the spacebar to pause and start it.

I am and have always been a Trekkie. One time I was having a shit day bc I was in the middle of MCAS starting to kick my butt and I was just crying on my couch. He hopped onto the table and started star trek for me

Then he just stared at me like "did that work?"

And this was his staring face so yes of course it did

But I'm forever amused that I shared needing the same comfort show, with a cat

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

Omg this is amazing

Like learning to pause???

And knowing it comforted you as well???

[gean-grey-blog]

It took him some trial and error, but he figured out pawing the keyboard in the area of the spacebar made it stop and start. And also at my mouse, which he had stolen bc I was paying too much attention to the video, in that picture

He was a very smart and like. Attenuated cat.

[ampervadasz]

[drtanner]

Love that you can see the exact moment that Enlightenment™ occurs for this little dude. Good job, you did it.

[r4cs0]

Right there

[mirandahamilton]

spartacus fashion: lucretia’s emerald green gown with gold accents in spartacus: blood and sand (s1e9)

[yvesdot]

Alright, fine, here's the backstory about replacing my Microsoft Copilot key with a picture of a carp. Warning: that's the whole story.

When I bought my latest laptop, which coincidentally is already losing functionality in multiple keys, I noticed that the right Control button was no longer a right Control button. This was a bad sign for me, someone who fairly frequently used the right Control button. Worse still, it now bore the Microsoft Copilot logo and would open, when pressed, Microsoft Copilot. Not having personal interest in that particular robot, I was now in the market to rebind that key to something else.

I initially considered setting it up as my dedicated The Sims 2 button, but not only do I not yet have The Sims 2 installed on this computer, the way I play that game, it takes upwards of 15 minutes to boot up. I knew I would be constantly accidentally hitting this key, and I did not want to be constantly accidentally opening The Sims 2.

My partner immediately suggested that I set it to open "a jpeg of a fish." I Googled "carp," found an image, and set my right Control key to open a tiny browser window with a link to said fish. Though it is a .png file from pngtree labeled "pngtree-rohu-carp-fish-png-png-image_4022775.png", in an effort to display matrimonial piety, I dutifully labeled it "fish jpeg."

I now accidentally open this link multiple times a day, which is great, because it means I have a lot of opportunities to see a fish. Sometimes I accidentally hit it several times in quick succession, which means I get to see several fish! When I close all my open programs to shut down my computer, I usually find at least one forgotten fish. Things are working out beautifully, and everyone is happy.

The other day I brought up this story to a friend and relayed the saga of my success to her through her obvious confusion. At the end of my tale she asked me, "Why didn't you just bind it back to right Control?" and I had to admit to her that it honestly never occurred to me.

[dailycatsblog]

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i bring a "technically i could do this tomorrow" energy to things that tomorrow me really resents

[sockablock]

Knowing a fic author through AO3 is like attending someone’s thesis presentation and politely clapping at the end, knowing a fic author through this hellsite is like going over to their house at 3AM to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sometimes I attend somebody’s thesis presentation and I’m so impressed that I follow them home to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am.

[itsmyturnonthegender]

Sometimes I watch someone eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am with such fervour I am compelled to attend their thesis presentation

[beneathsilverstars]

tomorrow i have to give my daughter’s pikachu plushie gender-affirming surgery

[beneathsilverstars]

her results look great, congrats pikachu! 💖⚡️🏳️‍⚧️

[urgetocreate]

John Brosio, State of the Union, 2011, oil on canvas

[jughead-is-canonically-aroace]

[thebusylilbird]

there’s a sequel !!

John Brosio, State of the Union 2, 2014, oil on canvas

[stupidusernamerequest-blog]

Oh sick!!! Big fuckin crows!!!

[askfordoodles]

OH SHIT EVEN BETTER

[mistakenot4892]

@evreeone

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

[veerletakino]

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Don’t feed the trolls the next 1,157 days

[superbeans89]

I had an idea, sorry

[beardedmrbean]

Is this from Muppet's Goncharov?

[assortedcrackers]

It is! Only the directors cut though.

[business-as-usual-bats]

I’m 85% sure Batman has really really bad Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

[business-as-usual-bats]

Not, “keep things tidy” or “wash my hands until they bleed” but, like, his obsession with being Batman and fighting crime is driven by fear. The repeating thought of “if I don’t become this bat vigilante then people will die” is… irrational. But he doesn’t see it that way. He trains. He can’t not train. If he doesn’t then people die. He pushes himself to the brink of death, pushing himself beyond the limitations of his body because if he relents for just a moment people will die. It’ll be his fault. He needs to be out on the street every night. He needs to train every day.

Without people like Alfred, his obsession would’ve killed him within the first year. That’s not normal. He literally cannot stop himself from going out and fighting crime. He tried to stop being Batman before, but he always come back to it. He’s too afraid. He needs to be Batman. It’s all he thinks about.

By all means he should be dead. He’s basically insanely smart and lucky.

Thinking he’s personally responsible for the deaths in Gotham is his obsession. His compulsion is to train all the time and to go out every night to fight criminals.

Batman definitely has obsessive compulsive disorder.

[business-as-usual-bats]

Other examples of his irrational ways of thinking include

“I need to be miserable and alone.”

“Using a gun makes me as bad as the serial killers”

“Killing no matter the circumstance will turn me into someone like the Joker.”

[overlyobsessivefangirl]

In a DC Nation comic they put multiple hero’s sanctuary files, Batman being one of them, and at the bottom listed their diagnoses conditions.

[business-as-usual-bats]

Damn I’m good

[make--it--gayer]

[veztemporana-deactivated2019061]

bonus:

[scumbagsblog]

I’ve never seen this with the update and it makes it so much funnier

[stevenrogered]

it’s almost that time of the year again, so you know what that means

[gaynfl-moved]

[fullmetalfisting]

You know, that’s fair

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

Those saying “oh but he had a baby boy who’s just now lost his father”

That kid will genuinely have a better and kinder childhood without that man alive to act as his father

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

The same dude who said he'd make his 10 year old daughter carry a fetus resulting from rape

[thisworldisawh0re]