styofa doing anything
$LAYYYTER
Xuebing Du
Show & Tell

if i look back, i am lost

JVL
Mike Driver
d e v o n
No title available
trying on a metaphor

blake kathryn

No title available

Janaina Medeiros
sheepfilms

oozey mess
No title available
No title available
Sweet Seals For You, Always

Product Placement

izzy's playlists!

seen from Malaysia
seen from United Kingdom

seen from T1

seen from Austria

seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from Luxembourg

seen from Malaysia
seen from Singapore

seen from United States
seen from Germany

seen from Malaysia

seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Singapore

seen from Malaysia
seen from Canada

seen from Austria
seen from Malaysia
seen from Brazil
@orchidfromspace
I feel completely disconnected from the world today. I feel nothing. I am nothing.
Depression is not always sadness, by the way. Sometimes it is emptiness.
Debussy, Arabesque #1, Piano Solo
Life is a shit show
@chojubo
I’ll just…
image / twitter / facebook / patreon
Watch: Chicago woman had some great responses to a white man’s disturbing racist attacks.
I reblogged this 0.2 sec ago but I love her clapbacks so much
“He does not look to be of any Native American descent” YASSSSSS YOU BETTER LET THEM KNOW
by AC Stuart (aka Noob the Loser)
That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.
It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.
The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.
It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.
The like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.
They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.
They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.
It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.
Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.
This is very true. I’m currently living in Italy, where I’ve learned that the free-roaming cat colonies that live here are actually protected by law and allowed to live and go where they want. I believe most cities register the colonies so they have an approximate idea of how many there are and where.
But yeah, the cats here live together in groups and do their own thing. There’s even a beach in southern Italy, Su Pallosu, that’s marketed to tourists as “The Cat Beach” because a colony lives there.
Dismantling toxic masculinity one illo at a time! Giving boys permission to cry for NPR. Story here.
a little body postivity on this rainy Saturday.
You know you´re a good match when you both crack up at a funny dog pic in the middle of being nervous breakdown. Guess what I’m trying to say is I’m getting married! woooooo! so many feeeeelssss! so close to submitting the application. We’re doing our best to get everything done for it and so much hard work, still half way to go, but getting there! I’m happy, so so happy and nervous and happy and dogssssssss. <3