May 9, 2022
A web about how cats are incredible and the best little silly companions
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
Anonymous, Pangur Bán (trans. Seamus Heaney)
Book of Hours, 15th century (link)
Kobayashi Issa, ‘Arise from sleep, old cat’ (trans. Peter Beilenson)
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Emperor Uda of Japan, writing about his new kitten in 889AD
via @eatsleepcrap (cut down to text only)
Found on the walls of a bookstore full of cats (via @tmmyhug)
Mamie Dickens, My Father as I Recall Him
The kitten mascot of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle in the hammock made for her by the ship's sailmaker, c. 1945 (via)
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
Jean Cocteau
#webs#web weaving#theme: animals#theme: naming#theme: history#mine#requests#i'm actually hoping to get a pet soon and it'll probably be a cat so this was such a fun web to make#also yes i'm flexing my scrawny bachelors in history for all its worth#terry pratchett#pangur ban#seamus heaney#kobayashi issa#(and he actually has a ton of cat poems!!)#neil gaiman#emperor uda of japan#@eatsleepcrap#@tmmyhug#mamie dickens#charles dickens#l. m. montgomery#jean cocteau