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only-cat-memes

Your daily dose of cat memes

butterfliesdreamtoo

I do in fact need everything to be okay

charlesoberonn

Middle-aged magical girl.

She's been defending the Earth since the early 90s and she's very tired.

charlesoberonn

My name is Tominaga Haruka. I was chosen by a magical talking animal, and for the last 29 years I've been Earth's one and only... Wonder-Sparkle Princess.

gropeable-boychest

she's been fighting the same villains for three decades and they are also tired of it. Most of them aren't giving it their all. Half of them are in a groupchat they've added her to where they schedule their evil plans to make sure they don't interfere with each other, or more importantly, with *her* Xalkrax the space demon from outer space decided to attack the city when she was taking her vacation time once, and now he's dead, because even the power of friendship and redemption can't save you if you interrupt her rare vacations

charlesoberonn

Demon Queen Eluria: Gonna fill the city people's hearts with hatred on thursday to cause mayhem and discord.

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: Can't, got a PTA meeting.

Demon Queen Eluria: Friday?

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: A birthday party.

Demon Queen Eluria: Damn. How about I fill just the mayor's heart with hatred then?

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: That'd be redundant, lol. Maybe fill his heart with a desire to fix the fucking potholes?!

Demon Queen Eluria: LMFAO love you, bitch. Stay strong.

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: You too, gurl. How's the husband? Still dead?

Demon Queen Eluria: Yep. Thanks for that, btw.

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: Don't mess with my time off :p

writing-prompt-s

You made very understanding friends online and they invited you to go camping. At sundown, you all reveal your true forms, you heard the horrifying sound of breaking bone and tearing skins as you friends transformed into 8ft tall werewolves, who are very confused about the fursuit you unpacked.

pusheen

caats

cryptonature

It takes work to curate your online spaces, but if you don't do it, corporations will do it for you using a couple harmful key principles. 1) Negative emotions hold your attention better than positive emotions. 2) Calm/contented people are less likely to spend money.

queeranarchism

Curate your online spaces starter pack:

Blacklist, block and mute at will. You don’t owe anybody anything.

Turn off those notifications.

Decide when you log on. Don’t use social media at breakfast if it will stress you out all day. Don’t use it before you go to bed if it will keep you up. Find a fun ritual to replace it, like a video game or craft thing.

Consider which platform allows you to avoid topics that upset you. For example: tumblr is kinda shit for fan fiction because everything ends up in the same tag. The older forum-style platforms are much better for finding content you enjoy and avoiding content you don’t.

Leave online communities that don’t spark joy. You don’t need to stay in a place where everyone is always fighting. You don’t need to stay in communities where you are afraid to speak your mind or to make mistakes.

Ask yourself: could this ‘debate’ also be a conversation instead? Don’t debate people who seek debate to upset you. Don’t debate people who seek debate to get an audience for bigotry. Don’t debate people who seek debate to win instead of to learn. Don’t debate people who do not acknowledge your humanity.

Repeat to yourself: doomscrolling is not activism. Nothing in the world gets better just because you read, liked and reblogged posts about how terrible things are.

[Tweet by Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV: “O best beloved, if you are doomscrolling Twitter today, ask yourself if there is anything you can personally do. If there is, do it. If there isn’t, remember that anxiety is not activism. Your misery does not improve the world a single iota.”]

dduane

THIS. And a half.

neomikey

Oh yeah, ALL of this.

bunneis

Where there is love, there is abundance💚

Art by Anna-Laura

shanthescribe

I love this 🥰💕

shencomix

🍋 Public U. Art Club Season 1 🍋

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targuzzler-deactivated20180224

hey guys so apparently the boss baby was based off a book

targuzzler-deactivated20180224

snoopingasusualisee

Yeah.

interrogationspecialist

Don’t Like That

theamazingsallyhogan

But wait, there’s more!

Watch the transitions from book to Dreamworks movie.

starlighttori

I’m going back to bed

urbanfantasyinspiration

Everyone who contributed to me having to see this die

briansfancies

I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence.

kaiyonohime

For a word to be spoken there must be silence. Both before and after. -Ursula K LeGuin

angrylittlesliceofpizza

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” […] He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Hayao Miyazaki was talking about storytelling, but it’s the same with life, online or not. you have to pause sometimes. get some silence, some context, some rest.