forever in disbelief

typical tumblr of people, cats, places, ideas and foods. Mostly cats tbh. class traitor. I check all follows, and if you're a spam, porn-heavy or empty blog, i'll block, probably after reporting a bunch of your posts. There's enough real hurt and abuse in the real world, we don't need to imitate it - and remember often life imitates art - I avoid it irl and definitely here - older than most vampires don't ask (yes over 21 lol) - if I comment on one of your posts trust me I'm not arguing unless it's obvious usually I'm just adding more context if you send me an ask for money i'll report your account - don't do it

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for once not living up to her full name TerrorMisu

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Copy-paste of my blog header since nobody reads those, for pinned post, as if anyone will actually read it here:

typical tumblr of people, cats, places, ideas and foods. Mostly cats tbh. class traitor. I check all follows, and if you're a spam, porn-heavy or empty blog, i'll block, probably after reporting a bunch of your posts. There's enough real hurt and abuse in the real world, we don't need to imitate it - and remember often life imitates art - I avoid it irl and definitely here -

older than most vampires don't ask (yes over 21 lol) - if I comment on one of your posts trust me I'm not arguing unless it's obvious usually I'm just adding more context

FYI i soft-block suspected bot blogs (ie not completely obvious, since those get a report and a block). If you actually want to follow people put something in your blog that makes it look like you may be interested in what they post about and try again.

running mostly on queue; while i'm almost always on here, you can't actually assume that just because you recently saw a new post!

[tockthewatchdog]

Every Novel Is Boring—Until It Isn’t - Public Books

“If you didn’t get into novels at a young age—and organically discover that, at some point, a switch would flip, and then you couldn’t stop

i think this is a really great point, though i feel like they should persist due to not having a choice, because parents and teachers should (generally) be making children read books and making them face unpleasant consequences for refusing to read books if their only justification is "it's boring"

[aint-love-heavy]

I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed

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i remember reading books as a kid and some books i kid you not there was a bigass dictionary right next to me because i had to look up a lot of words

actually that brings something up that i noticed a while back

today i can search for "$word definition" and boom there's the definition

but back in the day you had to search for that word and in the process you couldn't help but read other words as you passed them by and who didn't occasionally go "oh that's an interesting word what's it mean" and there you go, leaning five new words before you find the word you were originally looking for

similar with wikipedia - i love wikipedia don't get me wrong but also as a kid i would get so sidetracked reading about all kinds of different things just because they were seen in my way to an encyclopedia article that i needed for a report

so back to the literacy crisis - i think it's first because of abysmally low expectations, absentee parents - not necessarily physically but parents handing kids off to tech instead of engaging with them - and tech itself spoon-feeding precisely what needs to be known and no more, and then the kids have so many other distractions now (tech) that they have no desire to go roving into books

as a kid i didn't have tv, partially because my mom "didn't believe in tv" but moreso because we were poor and where we lived you could only barely get one channel over the air and cable was expensive where available, and definitely not available down our dirt road (when we moved there we literally had a party line phone - which isn't the good time that it sounds like from the name, hick ass undeveloped area)

so i had two primary things to occupy my time - legos and books (my sister and i were convinced bigfoot was right outside - unlikely, but definitely yes to mountain lions, bears and many coyote so we didn't often wander far from the house solo)

and that's why the standardized tests said 99.9 percentile reading from about 4th grade on, because there wasn't anything else to do. today? many kids hardly read anything, and we're surprised they don't know how to critically comprehend written language?

[salamispots]

wobbly cat wip; cat body is made from yarn I spun :'D

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ok first close fire of the season

it's actually two miles as the crow goose (geese fly much straighter paths)

right next door to some friends of ours

looks like calfire has it in hand now but it did burn their neighbor's house

[nettles-and-petals]

[phoeberoze]

pencil work is soothing

[bobbole]

Jenna Smith

[bludragongal]

Working on a new story idea about Alien Elves colonizing their solar system and their Dragon Mounts getting loose on a planet and breeding with the local fauna to create new horrific genetic offshoots, which isn't helped by the local indigenous (human) interference.

This guy is an Elven Criminal (marked by a cut ear) who has been exiled to this world to serve out his sentence, and the feral little girl he finds who all the Dragons love for some reason. He doesn't like kids but she keeps following him around.

[bludragongal]

Tub the Inbred Dragon's design has been tweaked to be a bit more Jimothy-coded.

[maureen2musings]

Yukon River

peter.mather.photography

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that is how you fish???

i'm going to have to teach you the proper way.

[ullathynell]

A friendly reminder that my 2027 wall calendar is now available from the Kickstarter campaign, bundled together with my art book Woodlands. There's also a bundle that includes both of my hardcover art books (Woodlands and Faraway Dreaming), as well as the calendar. The Kickstarter campaign has discounted international shipping so I really recommend checking it out if you're also interested in my books.

After the campaign is over, you'll be able to order the 2027 calendar on its own from the publisher's website: there's "sign up here" link on the product page if you want to get an email when it's available.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I like how the kid who got raw milk also got chocolate milk which is definitely pasteurized. Not fully dedicated to the cause I see

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Listening & learning

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it's apparently all raw

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

The Minneapolis Journal- February 3rd, 1914 via Robbinsdale Historical Society

[soul-luminnous-eyes]

Elena Polishchuk, 1978-

Quiet conversation, 2026, oil on canvas, 70×70 cm

[lindamarieansonsnaps]

I had a way too large aperture on, so the focus is... way out. But this little friend was too cute not to post.

[corvidconventicle]

In the 1920s male linguists came up with a name for this process of giving an object a human pronoun; they called it “upgrading,” as if by calling these things “she,” they are elevated to human status. They couldn’t quite see that it simultaneously downgrades women to the status of toys and property. In practice, what these metaphors of women as nature, territories, and technologies do is place feminine gender in that same distant category of “other.” According to Romaine, by comparing her to things like storms and seas, “woman is symbolic of the conflict between nature and civilization, tempting men with her beauty, attracting men with her charms, but dangerous and therefore in need of conquest.” Woman is a continent to colonize, a fortress to siege. These sentiments are reflected not only in English; in languages all over the world, from Italian to Thai, a nation’s government is labeled as having “founding fathers,” while the land itself (“Mother Nature,” “virgin territory”) is perceived as a feminine entity. In grammar as in allegory as in life, women are considered reckless places outside the civilized male world—wild things meant to be tamed into the weak, delicate flowers we’ve traditionally wanted women to be.

Wordslut: A Hilarious and Informative Exploration of Gendered Language and Its Impact on Women - Amanda Montell

[ursa-arctos-arctos]

Awesome wasp!

08/2026, Germany