#kitten wisdom

[violet-kitten-yandere]

My professor's hot and she likes Lady Dimitrescu, and she watches anime

Where has she been all my life?

[withasmoothroundstone]

Igor has gorgeous eyes. It's not just their physical appearance either. It's the curiosity and intensity and imagination and gentleness and mischief and never-ending sense of wonder about life, that shines through them and gives him a very unique appearance. Not to mention his moments of pure kitten wisdom. Also he looks like cartoons I've seen where the entire cat is in silhouette form except for eyes drawn in but none of the rest of his face. In certain lighting he looks exactly like that.

[violet-kitten-yandere]

I'll be hosting a New Years livestream on Twitch tomorrow from 8 pm- 12 ish am EST on Twitch

My friend and I will be drinking, chit chatting, and playing some video games (Among Us, 7 Days To Die) until the ball drops

If you wanna come celebrate New Years with us, please check us out at twitch.tv/honeykitt

[violet-kitten-yandere]

I'm always amazed at people that consume media while simultaneously telling the creators of that media that they don't deserve money for creating it.

Photographers deserve to be paid. Actors deserve to be paid. Painters deserve to be paid. Digital artists deserve to be paid.

People create art because it's their passion, but they need to pay their bills like everyone else. If you feel like artists shouldn't be paid because "they should've chosen another career path" then maybe you should stop consuming art.

Pay your artists. Pay their commissions, pay the amount in their contracts, pay them for their work. They spent years of studying and practicing to make something wonderful. Don't demand their product and expect them to walk away feeling accomplished because you "paid them in experience/ exposure".

If they have a price listed, then you know their listed price. Pay it and move on. Don't haggle with someone's livelihood. They're most likely short-changing themselves in the first place and asking them to go lower is insulting.

[violet-kitten-yandere]

A/S/L?

I'm learning, but the most I can do is the alphabet, swear words, and "horse"

[violet-kitten-yandere]

Sometimes in life we're given amazing, wonderful, life-altering things. Sometimes it changes our entire perspective, sometimes it just feels like a friend that gives you a shoulder to cry on. These things can feel like the thing you need to continue on. They give your life a purpose that you never knew you needed. Sometimes these amazingly wonderful things make you feel less alone in your empty house, and they fill your lonely thoughts

But these things don't always exist to maintain permanence. Sometimes it exists to make you feel less alone in the moment. Sometimes they offer what you need in a moment of crisis. Sometimes these things exist for the sole purpose of keeping you going for another day, until something else can take over.

Just because these things, or these people, don't maintain permanence in your life doesn't mean that they weren't important while they were there. Some of the most important things in life don't last forever.

In fact, most things in life come to and end before we want them to, but it doesn't make those things bad.

Sometimes relationships weren't meant to be, sometimes friends grow apart, sometimes items of importance get broken and need to be thrown away, sometimes our favorite shows get cancelled.

But just because things aren't the same anymore, it doesn't make those important things in our lives are any less important when they're gone.

Sometimes past relationships will teach you hard lessons going forward. And faded friendships will give you insight for friends going forward.

Everything that you consider important now will still be important in your life's story when you're older. It'll remind you of your lessons, and of your joy. It'll bring you some happiness and wisdom as you continue to navigate through life. These things are important, and their longevity has no influence over their importance.

[violet-kitten-yandere]

I'm a simple girl

I have simple needs

I need ferret and Bingus

[withasmoothroundstone]

Igor, the sweetest doofus in the entire world, wrapping himself around my head while purring up a storm.

It’s so strange having a kitten who feels, emotionally and practically, like raising a son.  I never expected to have parental feelings over a cat, especially since my last cat (of roughly 17 years together) was the one who had parental feelings over me.  But Igor has treated me like a mama cat from day one(1), and I treat him like some cross between a kitten son and a human son.

Like, I’m not one of those people who treats cats like lifelong babies, which is an attitude that really freaks me out.  Or someone who treats cats like humans in general.  But I’m also not one of those people who assumes that specific traits must only exist in humans and that anything less than seeing animals as dumb robots driven only by “instinct” and humans as driven by “intelligence”, and that animals don’t have deep and complex feelings, or assorted other abilities that they very definitely have (or can have), etc.

But it’s very hard not to relate to him as human-like in some ways.  In particular his intellect.  I don’t mean he’s smarter than other cats -- he’s very smart, but that’s not what I mean.  I mean the shape of his intelligence is primate-like in a way I almost never see in cats.  He puts ideas together in a way I’ve seen in humans, apes, monkeys, and some kinds of birds, but not usually cats.  Everyone responds to him as if he’s human -- I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t at some point start earnestly and elaborately explaining something to him only to catch themselves and realize they’re trying to use complex sets of words to talk to a kitten(2).  And some people on just meeting him have told me that they instinctively want to pay him the kind of attention that they personally rarely pay to cats and usually pay to humans, whenever he’s in the room.  One person (whose religion believes in reincarnation) told me he was probably human (and possibly a scientist) in at least one of his past lives.

But his wisdom on the other hand is pure cat.  When he shows wisdom, he shows what I call kitten-wisdom, and it’s a form normally found in cats, that I can’t describe or explain very well.  It’s very endearing especially given that he’s such an enormous doofus in some ways.  And yet you’ll see this pure earnest kitten-wisdom shining out of him at the most unlikely of moments.  Which is one thing that makes him resemble Arhu.

I love my little weirdo.  (And I can say that, I’m a big weirdo.  In fact one especially weird thing about him is that he would completely fit into the level and even the type of weirdness and eccentricity shown by actual blood relatives.  And yes he’s plenty weird for a cat, too.)  And a cattish human and a humanish cat do surprisingly well together.

(1) Cats are very gender-divided and not as a rule very paternal.  (They don’t usually kill their own kittens, though.  If they do kill kittens, they generally try to kill kittens that are not their own, to give their own kittens a better chance.)  Kittens are raised by their mothers, and sometimes also by an assortment of female friends and relatiives of their mothers as well.  (Sharing kittens, among many other benefits, keeps the toms confused about whose kittens are whose, and less likely to kill them.)  There are tomcats who get involved with the childcare but even when that happens the bulk of the care is done by the mother (and other queens).  So generally if a kitten is relating to you like you’re their primary child-raiser, they’re relating to you like a mother, not a father, regardless of your gender.  (Or like an aunt or mom’s best female friend and the like, but still basically a maternal figure.)

(2)  He clearly knows some words, and I’ve made an effort to teach him as many as he’ll absorb.  I don’t think he understands long strings of sentences but I figure he might understand the tone and other things conveyed nonverbally, while catching a few words here and there.  But you never know.  Especially with Igor, who is a very strange cat.  If prairie dogs can have complex vocabularies, I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of possibility that he could understand more words than I give him credit for, but my guess is he has a large vocabulary for a cat but a small vocabulary by far for a human.  But given he gets a lot out of being talked to -- regardless of which element of conversation and attention he’s responding to -- I don’t at all mind the fact that people are constantly talking in depth to him about stuff he’s doing or curious about.