Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

Mostly Bioware fandom, wildlife, kitties, unpredictable outbursts of feminism, terrible puns, and whatever else floats my boat at the moment. Also pirates. Currently obsessed with The Witcher, too.

[tiredkitchenwitch]

[hallohartje]

Kim Addonizio

[weirdlandtv]

Dutch artist, Redmer Hoekstra.

[nimmenstjer]

Ooooh, because “path” and “toad” are written and pronounced the same way in Dutch!

Pad en pad.

Een paddenpaadje.

A road of toads.

[lorax177]

I trode on the toad road

[iridescentoracle]

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

just learned about farming simulator

I mean, I already knew about it, but I just learned about it

Did you know that the target audience for Farming Simulator is actual real-world farmers? Because I didn’t. I just assumed that farmers probably don’t want to go home from a day of farming to do some (presumably highly inaccurate) virtual farming?

Like, imagine if the target audience for Power Washing Simulator was actual professional power washers.

Farming Sim gets sponsored by companies and shit to put ads in their games. But since the game is for farmers, all of the ads target farmers. Advertising products that, realistically, only farmers would be interested in. Aka John Deere tractors and shit.

There’s a fucking farming sim esports league. Where do they play? Agriculture conventions. not gaming conventions. agriculture conventions.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

post cancelled this is way funnier

[loaf--of--toast]

My buddy who is a farmer has the type of planter that drives itself across the field using GPS at a steady speed, and he just needs to turn it around at the end of each row. He added a little folding desk to his chair and plays farming simulator on it while he plants.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

okay playing farming simulator while farming is crazy

[needsmoreexplosions]

[nudityandnerdery]

Look, people hate the real world and come home and play The Sims.

[tfemflightinstructor]

[raddnapqueen]

Can we please go back to putting summaries on the back of books?? Idc what Susan thought. I want to know what the book is about.

[daily-big-cat]

Daily Big Cat

[importantpics]

[girlballs]

god it would be awesome if the human brain could just ignore an upsetting thing instead of constantly wandering back to it for no fucking reason

[bowlby4]

[charl0ttan]

will the owner of the goalpost out in the bailey please move it down the slippery slope towards the middle ground where a strawman is currently begging the question. we have a bandwagon waiting to help you, unless youre too much of an uneducated dipshit to handle any of that, in which case we can circle back to a true scotsman who will be able to appeal to our authority.

[saturnmortis]

(:3 っ)∋ <- seal

[penny-anna]

Now you see, I’ve watched enough cartoons to know that this square of the carpet is on a separate animation cell from the background & therefore something funky will happen if I step on it. You won’t catch me making a rookie mistake like that no sir!

[lisaonatree]

Did you step on it?

[penny-anna]

I forgot it was there & stepped on it, plummeting through the concealed trapdoor into the cellars. Please send help.

[lisaonatree]

Help it’s on its way!

By the way, are the bricks all the same colour?

[penny-anna]

I can’t see anything! It’s pitch black down here. All that’s visible is my eyes.

[damndinarzade]

Just make sure there isn’t a second, more dangerous pair of eyes somewhere around yours

[secondmoredangerouseyes]

Hey

[prokopetz]

At this point I've seen like three unconnected pieces of American media set in a superficially idyllic small town with a big fuckoff lake that functions as a liminal boundary between the Known and the Unknown and in which a major character attempts suicide by drowning, and now I'm wondering if the Liminal Death Lake is just a thing American small towns have.

[ionized-alpaca]

[frostedmagnolias]

Necklace

c. 1897-1899

gold, enamel, opals, amethyst

by René Lalique

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are now this random animal, you can't go back!

Do you like it?

Heck yeah!!

I'm down for this

Eh, not mad

Nooooooo

Help I wanna go back

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN ADD THIS

Results/other

Remaining time: 2 days 19 hours

poll submitted by anonymous!! thank you anon!!

[thestuffedalligator]

“Toymaker” as a job description in fairy tale fiction is one of my favourite bullshit occupations. “Dollmaker” is fine, “carpenter who makes wooden toys as a side hustle between jobs” is fine, but so many stories have a character whose entire occupation is described as “toymaker” and is heavily implied if not explicitly confirmed to have made all of the toys in their shop, from wood boats to plush animals to porcelain dolls to music boxes to tin soldiers, all made under the tiny hammer of one person.

And it’s not impossible for one person to be at once a highly talented seamstress and tinsmith and carpenter and clockwork engineer and every other talent in the world that would allow you to build everything from china dolls to rocking horses, but to be all that and then single-handedly supply the whole stock of an entire toy store? In a rural whimsical little fairy tale village?? By themselves???

[thebadhat]

No? Of course not, they have elves on staff. It's like, a legacy thing. In the same way the nicest restaurant in town is an upgrade from the humble street meat stall, so is whatever Santa has going on a grander version of the average toy shop. But they ALL have elves in the back. Elves love making toys. The 'toymaker' is just there to man the front and do the accounting and market research and keep the supply chains running. Maybe they do a little carving on the front porch to entice the customers, but it's elves all the way down.

That's why everyone made such a big deal about the elves working for that shoemaker - that just never happens. Only real rebels ever do work outside of toycrafting. Like that one elf that wanted to be dentist-

[thestuffedalligator]

[bowlby4]