My Pain Is My Strength.

"Someone I loved once gave me a box of darkness, it took me years to realize this was a gift too" - Mary Oliver https://www.tumblr.com/blog/bitemeplez

[abbylonian-deactivated20220825]

me playing with a cat: hee hee toy on a string

the cat: what the fucks it gonna take for this bird to die

[myquotidien]

[the-absolute-best-posts]

NEVER STOP BELIEVING

[saintdri]

L I Q U I D S 

★Insp★

[catchymemes]

Hilarious Instagram movie poster mash-ups

By: Jaemy Choong

[tastefullyoffensive]

[masha-russia]

(first tiger jumps in) *laughing* Vanya, what is this? Van’ … Van’, get out of the boot, Van’. (second tiger approaches) Mishka … let’s go. Mish, let’s go. Mishka! Mish, let’s go. Come on, sit. Sit. (third tiger comes in) Bonya, you too are here! Ok let’s go guys. Let’s go! *starts singing* x

[sentry-34]

Just Russian Things

[fozmeadows]

Big cat stuff can often be sketchy even if the content looks cute, so I clicked on the source for the video and this guy apparently runs a sanctuary for rescue tigers and other big cats near Moscow. His YouTube bio is in Russian, but here’s what it says according to Google Translate:

So you can feel happy knowing that these big dumb cats are loved and being looked after.

[eighthdoctor]

Yeah, you’re gonna need to do a little more research than that.

Mikhail Zaretsky is (or was, I can’t find a more recent english language source) the tiger trainer for the Nikulin Circus (source). He currently posts videos on youtube about taking his tigers to boarding schools for kids to pet and climb on (source), and how his tigers and lions live together happily (source). Over on instagram, he likes to post videos of himself handling leashed tigers (source) and sometimes riding them (source). (He also tags all of his instagram posts with #bengaltiger, but that’s confusing rather than problematic.)

I’ve been over this before: There is no way to safely, healthily keep an adult tiger full contact in a human residence. You either declaw, defang, or drug the tiger (which he’s been accused of doing), or the human is going to end up dead.

And if he is planning a reserve, he should know better than to transport tigers in an SUV. Or to keep them on leash. Or to let them interact with schoolkids. Or to let them paw at his face. Or to cohabilitate different species. Or to overfeed his tigers–when I first saw this video, I thought they were from the fur trade, that’s how fat they are.

So yeah, keeping big cats in close contact with humans is still a really bad idea.

Edit: This site (source) repeats that he’s running a sanctuary, but I can’t tell if they have a second source outside of his social media, and they bring up that literally no one has vetted this. Big cat “sanctuaries” are notoriously sketchy and prone to existing just because the owner wants to keep big cat pets. Which seems to be what’s happening here.

[fluffy-shenanigans]

Reblogging this version because I knew something seemed sketchy about this video

[fluffy-shenanigans]

hey I still have mutuals reblogging this video thinking it’s totally kosher and cool, so I’m bringing this back as a reminder that it’s really, really not

[fbwzoo]

Saw this video before, here’s a better version with appropriate commentary on how this video is NOT cute, safe, or okay.

[world-of-cats]

[fuocogo]

The hero we need

[markv5]

[hotvampireadjacent]

powerful

[cwunch]

♡

[squishyscribbler]

Weapons of mass destruction

[orchidvioletindigo]

Oh my God, watch it unsheath its little claws in the first one

[spartanlocke]

[jesterrlavorre]

I loved so many of the cute animals on vine……

[birdfries-deactivated20200124]

this is my favorite vine comp of all time

[different-landscapes]

[danger]

Cloud Atlas ( 2012 ) 

[danger]

Love is Love ( 2015 ) 

[stanford-pines]

okay so theres an episode of whats new scooby doo where the gang goes home on valentines day, and i guess the studio really wanted to avoid the implication that daphne and fred were sleeping together because daphne and velma live together and fred lives with shaggy and scooby 

but that attempt at avoiding anything risque backfired spectacularly because now it just seems like daphne and velma are a comfortably domestic couple and fred is trying to learn how to live with his boyfriends over excitable and really hungry great dane

[jabonion-deactivated20240130]

It’s far cuter like this anyway.

[leapyearfrog-deactivated2022103]

[cloudstreamer-deactivated201710]

OOOOOOOOOOOOH SNAP

[gaydaphne-blog]

CANON

[lacrimalis]

i don’t have a source for this just a gut feeling, but doesn’t everyone in the gang call him “freddie” at some point? which would imply that the entire gang is poly and dating

[ignitiondorks]

If any group in pop culture is poly, it’s definitely the errant kids from the 60s with a groovy hippie van

[daily-showerthoughts]

Life would be much more interesting if farts were contagious instead of yawns.

[cloudsongs]

[we-are-ready-for-takeoff]

“Disney is for kids, GROW UP!”