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Feel free to call me any permutation of TheCatMotif, though Tif is the most common

Any pronoun works for me!

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rainbowgaez

evil great lakes

lake inferior

lake normal

lake offtario

lake hurton

lake michigan

justcatposts

Little girl teaching her cats how to draw a flower

(via)

hottiewitabloggie

they’re? just? sitting there ???

ladycavalier

it makes it 100% better that i can’t understand her, i feel like i’m hearing what cats hear

socialistexan

crtter

Heh, she’s speaking Portuguese! Here’s what she’s saying:

*baby voice* “… and if you have any questions, just ask me! And now… yeah. And now you draw the roots. You draw them all twisted up! Got it? A flower? Now draw it. Did you get it, Luis Roberto? Did you get it, Jurandir? Look. Did you get it? That’s how you draw a flower.”

Luis Roberto and Jurandir are people names (Jurandir is especially a name associated with older men) so it’s extra funny that the cats are named that, heh.

malewifenat

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

captainlordauditor

same energy

princesskuragina

unscharf-an-den-raendern

definitely-not-lordenglish

catradoraism

there’s more

snenby-with-two-daggers

0palite

hulking-godless-child-beast

augustdementhe

SIGH

i-restuff

here’s another one

daeva-agas

IT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY ADDITION

elamikaaa

how does this get even worse

moontideempress

I think about once in a while…

chamomiletea-baggins

We have another one…

notemily

zenon-karr

This is the internet now tho 😭💀

sigridlaufeyson

@lifeistooshorttowasteyourtime @marril96 @latent-thoughts @suometar

😂😂😂

latent-thoughts

Omg so many additions since I last saw this post! 😂😂😂

rosalysaoirse

It’s funny but incredibly telling how entitled/ignorant/insensitive some of these people are… idk if it’s an education gap or purposeful ignorance.

mastreworld

The really bewildering thing to me is that I remember when you needed to get up and pull a dictionary off the shelf, or visit a library to look up the facts you needed. Now people have all kinds of information literally at their fingertips and they can’t be bothered to use it.

wolfpawn

Oh dear gods, it’s gotten worse

fierceawakening

When you know politics but no facts

anarchistmemedistro

don’t take people too seriously on the internet

captaindibbzy

This hits different when combined with that “Americans don’t learn other countries exist till they’re in 5th Grade” post from the other day.

dzamie

Demily recently got another one lads

Also, I love that, in the sign language one, it seems like the last image might’ve been a gif of “fuck you,” screenshot at the perfect time to let you know they were about to sign “fuck you”

rickhunolt-deactivated20260329

As a romanian person I gotta add this one too

derinthescarletpescatarian

This is my favourite post on this website

I have literally had people tell me that I’m a gross appropriator for learning sign language while not deaf.

I sometimes cannot speak, but leaving that aside, what the FUCK lol

ohnoitstbskyen

I still remember the guy who got mad at me because I spoke about the cultural role of the Norse gods in my life and my culture and insisted that I should be “proud of my Christian heritage instead” and quite simply would not believe me when I told him I was from Scandinavia because “that doesn’t exist anymore.”

hugtheteadrinkthekitten

someone please edit that map of europe with the spain void to also have a void for the whole of scandinavia

dduane

Every now and then I just have to reblog this.

(while particularly loving: “Gender of the Day: Wales”)

(also “Port O’Rico”)

byebiscus

(Yes, this Mei person appeared earlier in this post, where someone said they weren’t Asian, but “mostly Muslim, probably somewhere near Syria”)

marshmallow-dust

this is rediculously funny and unbearably painful at the same time

papercranesandpride

I think if you want to understand bigotry against aromantics, I have a good case study. Let me talk a little about my dad's family.

My dad has 4 half siblings and two step siblings. They're all a decent bit younger than him. When I was a teenager, we went to a family reunion, and I realized something—my dad did not respect his siblings. He looked down on all of them. He saw them as fuck-ups and overgrown children. My dad had the American dream: well paying management job, suburban house, wife, and three kids. My aunt and uncles did not. Excluding my aunt, none of them were married or in serious relationships. They hadn't really settled into long term careers. Several of them were working the kind of jobs that get called "Unskilled labor." So he looked down on them because the youngest one was in his thirties (and several were much older), and yet none of them had "settled down" into what he saw as lifelong, permanent careers and relationships and lives. He was polite to their faces, sure, but I heard how he talked about them behind their backs, to my mother.

And then a few years ago, we visited his brothers again for Thanksgiving. And I realized something again--he respected them now. He saw them as equals. Why? Well. All of a sudden, every single one of them had serious, committed romantic partners. They didn't even need to still be with those partners—one of my uncle's fiance passed away from cancer before they could marry—just having had one showed that they matured into a real adult participating in society. In fact, at one point, my aunt was telling my mom about how one of my uncles was no longer living in an apartment she owned, but instead, after having a steady girlfriend for about a year, he moved in with her. And my mom literally said to my aunt, "wow. Look at that. He finally grew up."

One of the lines that frequently gets repeated about anti-aspec sentiment is "why would anyone hate asexuals/aromantics/etc? They aren't even doing anything." And that's exactly it. In the eyes of amatonormative culture, we aren't doing anything. Adults are supposed to do things. That's how you become a member of society.

I know that my father will never see me as a successful adult. He will never approve of my life. And I think most people would assume that that's because I'm trans. And don't get me wrong, he sure as shit doesn't like or respect that, but I do think if given enough time, he would get used to it. He would eventually realize that it isn't going away. And if I settled down with a spouse and a respectful job and a few kids, he could see me as a successful adult that he could be proud of anyway. But of course, that's not going to happen. Because I'm aromantic. So I'm never going to do that one thing that signifies that his job is complete, and I'm officially a full-fledged adult. I will perpetually be that fuck-up kid who won't settle down. In my personal case, that's okay. My dad is a conservative piece of shit, and if he doesn't approve of you, that just means you're doing something right. But on a societal level? This kind of attitude is a massive problem. Aromantics deserve to be treated like adults, and to feel like the accomplished adults that they are. We should feel like we belong in society.

achillesinhighheels

platypusinplaid

Everyone please look at this snapping turtle, walking to the pond outside my house, still groggy from a 6-month nap.

saint-batrick

the music made this one of the most hilarious things i have ever seen, thank you so much.

theinfiknight

GJJGJRKGNH THE MUSIC GOES UNDERWATER WITH THE TURTLE

taraljc

sound on sound on sound on

glumshoe

I’m suddenly laughing at the idea of a cliche noir detective story written in the brutally concise style of Hemingway.

A woman walked into my office. She had legs. I noticed her legs. “I have a problem. I need your help,” she said. They always said that. I knew her legs weren’t the problem. I hoped she might want my help with them anyhow.

glumshoe

“Can you pay?” I asked. Of course she could. Her shoes were worth more than my rent. She could pay. “I can pay,” she said. Her eyes were wet. I wondered if anything else was wet. Probably not. I am not handsome. Not since the war. She was looking at my scar. Lots of people do. Most look away. Not her. She did not look away. She looked at my scar and I looked at her legs. There were two of them. I liked that about her. I liked that a whole lot. “Will there be danger?” I asked. There always is. This city bleeds danger, then drinks it right back up again.

glumshoe

“I’m afraid there might be danger,” she said. She had the voice of a beautiful woman. She also had the face and body of a beautiful woman. She was beautiful.

The light from the window was striped. It made stripes on my cigarette smoke. The end of my cigarette crumbled into ash. My marriage had also crumbled into ash.

“I can handle danger,” I said. I patted the butt of my gun. My gun was a Colt. My gun and my scar were all that was left from my time as a soldier. My gun, my scar, and the nightmares. I looked her up and down. “I am good at handling things.”

glumshoe

“It’s about my husband. He’s gone missing.”

She was not wearing a ring. It means something when a woman does not wear a wedding ring. Usually, it means that she is not married. “Seems your ring has also gone missing,” I said. I hoped her dress would join it.

Her red mouth curved upwards. She was smiling a little. “I don’t wear it outside. A diamond that large would only invite trouble.”

“In my experience, trouble doesn’t wait for an invitation.” I looked at her legs again. They were both still there. “When did you last see your husband?”

maemaybe

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.

maicrocozm

starburst 🌟

mediasideblog

scienceoftheidiot

I just saw something of the likes on IG and I'm going to repeat it : we're not complaining we don't have ACs. We're complaining about CLIMATE CHANGE

You know what increases climate change but most importantly increases local temperatures in cities immediately when you start using them ? ACs. Using ACs also makes it worse for your neighbours who don't have any.

This is not being angry at people who have ACs. If you have to you have to, and if I don't have one it's because I'm a lucky bastard with an old house with thick walls in the middle of the countryside, AND that I've been raised in the south so managing house temperatures is something ingrained in my culture.

But the thing is.

The problem is not wether you use ACs or not. The problem is that people in countries where the weather used to not warrant them using ACs needing them. And I'm not talking needing them to chill, I'm talking needing them so they don't die en masse.

On Wednesday, the state counted 7 deaths related to the heatwave in France. And it's just started ! And it's """""only""""" 37C when we already had heatwaves get to 45-48C before ! It's going to get worse !

And before you whine, yes I know these deaths are mostly drownings and people exercising too much while it's too hot outside. But thing is : this will increase. And you'll have overheating deaths on top. Even I who's very wary of it, had to go out on Monday afternoon and nearly passed out !

We are complaining because this is NOT NORMAL, and it shouldn't be normalized and we shouldn't have to listen to advices from people who live in the fucking Death Valley to survive in our countries that are NOT supposed to have this climate !

I'm trained as an ecologist. I knew this was coming, and I'm still baffled. I've been fighting with climate denialists for a while now.

Also, good advisors, where were you during the Indian heat wave ? That is still ongoing ? Are you going to Indian bloggers and telling them to stop whining when it gets to 50C and to just buy ACs ? Why not ?

Can we stop trying to see who pisses the furthest, and understand that our problem is not thee lack of AC or even the temperatures at a punctual time, but the GLOBAL WARMING of the whole planet that not only creates these heat waves but also increase the number of meteorological catastrophes, disturb oceanic currents that govern most of the global climate one way or another, and will. Kill. Us. All. If we don't do anything (and miss me with the paper straws) ?

But if you guys from the USA are going to keep annoying us about ACs and how poorly we react to heat, allow me one fucking low blow : whose country is the one who produces the highest amount of greenhouse gases AND has withdrawn from all climate protection programs AND has decided to stop the development of renewable energies AND relies so heavily on cars that they have no rail infrastructure?

Idk, you tell me, okay.

gravitcat

a thing for mermay i guess

judilyart

happy yuri day to all sapphics 💕👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

art prints of these here

i-am-a-fish

please do not look up to me. I am 1 inch tall. I'm down here. if you look up you won't see me

breezey-with-an-e-art

but what if i.....

i-am-a-fish

I REALLY LIKE THIS ART THIS IS SO CUTE I'M BEING HELD UP

supreme-leader-stoat

I have a very rough idea in my head that I don't think I can clearly articulate beyond "And that concludes tonight's reports on German air forc—WHAT'S THIS? IT'S KING ARTHUR WITH A STEEL CHAIR"

the-writers-wrench

IDK what this is about, but I want to know more.

supreme-leader-stoat

This isn't exactly the same idea but it could be but there is more rattling around in here so:

The Blitz here manages to qualify as Britain's Darkest Hour, thus triggering the return of Arthur from the Realm Avalon.

He does not speak a lick of modern English. He speaks an unholy mishmash of Brittonic and Late Classical Latin.

(Honestly I can see the latter becoming a plot point if they manage to get their hands on a Roman Catholic priest to act as a translator. It wouldn't be a perfect arrangement, but probably better than anything else.)

Truthfully he probably gets mistaken for a madman.

Somehow manages to steal a Spitfire out from under the RAF's nose, proceeds to use it to bring down like half an enemy squadron on his own, then lands in a field in the middle of nowhere.

Police and RAF converge on his location on account of the whole "stealing a plane" thing. They eventually overwhelm him with sheer numbers, but he manages to knock out an impressive number of them in the process. I mean, come on. It's Arthur.