Saner on the Inside

I'm basically friendly, occasionally bite. I'm actually a cat, and sometimes I write. QO Fic Recs || Ao3 || QO Art Recs

[shinji--moon-deactivated2017123]

What do you think all writers have in common?

an overwhelming and insatiable longing for something more than this

[hylianengineer]

There is one very important thing I need people without major dietary restrictions to understand: the distress caused by allergies, celiac disease, and other food restrictions is largely not about the food.

Do I miss some foods I can't eat anymore without getting sick? Sure, but that's not what really bothers me. What bothers me is being excluded from a huge portion of human social life of which food is a crucial component. What bothers me is the stress and social stigma of trying to figure out what I can safely eat. What bothers me is the amount of extra work and cost that is required of me to identify, obtain, and prepare safe foods. What bothers me is people treating my needs like a nuisance, as though I chose to be like this - as though their brief inconvenience to check an ingredients list is unreasonable, when I deal with this every day of my life forever.

I don't miss the food that much. I miss not having to worry about what I eat. I miss freedom. I miss when trying new foods and new restaurants was fun instead of a minefield. I miss not having to plan my entire life around the need for safe foods.

Food is such a basic human need, and a lot of people don't really need to think about it. When your danger foods can be anywhere and everywhere, suddenly your entire life revolves around avoiding them, and it massively sucks. You get used to it and it's not a big deal most of the time, but then you go to a new restaurant, or your office has a potluck, or you've been invited to a party and suddenly it feels just as miserable and exhausting as it ever has.

[cheezeknif]

Bird painting

[turnnoffyourmind]

Fire Sunrise

Frutillar, Los Lagos, Chile.

[timemachinebastard]

me and my wife (doctor who) separated, not on speaking terms for months & i just heard from a friend of a friend shes been shot

[mouse-doubleo100]

hey, dont cry modern doctor who fans, 159 classic who episodes, 517 books, 1952 audio stories, 1267 comics ok?

[sleepnoises]

i want to do a painting of a tiger taking a bath to put in a bathroom (bathroom-themed bathroom) and to this end i made a little maquette out of clay and i suspect this will scope creep into having both a painting and sculpture of a tiger or perhaps only a sculpture of a tiger. if i do both should they be displayed together or separately

[sleepnoises]

Tiger maquette by the way 🐅

[sleepnoises]

Working on cutting out a large piece of wood to do the painting on, which is a constraint that will either be really fun or really annoying. Maybe both

[sleepnoises]

Wood primed and underpainted and sketch transferred mostly by cutting it out in different chunks and tracing around them. Stripes to be determined. Nobody let me work on this again for at least two weeks

[sleepnoises]

The finished Ms. Tigers

[perriaeyjeve]

[gryffon]

[birdtongue]

You rang...

[goth-queen]

[berdymane]

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[beardedmrbean]

Congratulations on the cat

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[turnnoffyourmind]

Autumn Symphony

Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia Chilena.

[andhumanslovedstories]

have I heard recent fandom stuff? interesting question. the answer is I did my fucking time and now I universally unilaterally refuse to learn anything ever again. thank you

[andhumanslovedstories]

Unless!! it’s VERY funny

[minotauri]

ocean sounds for those of you who need it