The Queen of Cats

Queer and really here. Musings of an avid crafter, a fatty and an expert procrastinator. I like wool and hair and fatness and yoga and I promise that I will never knowingly reblog a picture of a thin white woman.

[gennyescsecsemo]

[sizvideos]

Two disabled friends build a forest around their village

[thelilskee]

In a thousand years there will be fables about these two

[gifsboom]

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[seastarcrunchies]

@why-animals-do-the-thing what the heck?

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

This is priceless. Fur is a great nest-building material. Normally, birds get it from snags on branches or (maybe, I’m not sure) dead animals. I know some people who actually put out a bird-feeder full of hair for the birds after they brush out their dog, specifically so that it can be turned into nesting material.

This is a very brave birb who has learned where it comes from and just decided to go get some from the source, and a dog who is probably too asleep to care.  

[ok2befat]

To be a happy fat person in a world that demands fat misery is a powerful statement.

[queerbeldam]

Herbs good for seasonal Allergies

Here is a list of herbs I like to make into a tea. If you can find local raw honey, that also can help the body fight allergies as well.

Calendula, red clover, and fennel keep mucous membranes hydrated to help ward off infection.

Nettle is a natural antihistamine.

Spearmint and peppermint help open up airways.

Lavender has antiseptic properties in case infection creeps in (calendula is great for this too).

Eyebright is helpful for a whole slew of sinus issues and especially good for hay fever.

Yerba santa acts as an expectorant, reducing mucous and phlegm.

Lemongrass and a pinch of stevia are there to help make the tea tasty.

ButterburI the herb appears to work as a leukotriene inhibitor, which blocks some chemicals that trigger swelling in the nasal passages.

[thejoyofq]

Lemongrass to make things not taste like butt! Genius

[thejoyofq]

Brb ordering shit off the internet that is plainly at least 2 sizes too small but which I will force my bawdy into because yolo

[bigbeautifulboldrock]

Making this size too small dress work at all costs because I needed her in my life.

[thejoyofq]

Bb u look super hawt! I'm forever hacking a purple of inches off the bottom of things n sewing them in under my armpits to expand too small dresses so I feel u

[petitetimidgay-deactivated20240]

my hobbies include caring about people who don’t give a shit about me and still being bitter about things that happened five years ago

[dania88]

[littlealienproducts]

[best-of-memes]

[colinquinn]

[shejla11]

[stay6sic]

i hate how even in the punk community the beauty standard still feels like slim white girls

[liquidcoma-deactivated20160903]

its almost as if punk was never truly a counterculture and has been completely whitewashed as a movement ever since it stood shoulder to shoulder with Journey fans to shout “disco sucks” all the time, it’s almost as if punk isn’t counterculture but subculture, not challenging any of the norms of white western society that need to be demolished and only challenging the easy targets such as “well i wanna dye my hair green and still get an office job” “i want tattoos and i dont want my sister Mackenzie looking at me funny from across the dinner table” “i wanna go shop at hot topic but mom won’t let me” and my favorite “i wanna be a famous musician but i don’t wanna be any good at playing instruments” its almost as if punk has been declawed by middle class white kids who are bored with suburbia and think the sex pistols count as rebellious

[thejoyofq]

Aahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

[thejoyofq]

And also fuck yeah sing it!! #truth

[stay6sic]

i hate how even in the punk community the beauty standard still feels like slim white girls

[liquidcoma-deactivated20160903]

its almost as if punk was never truly a counterculture and has been completely whitewashed as a movement ever since it stood shoulder to shoulder with Journey fans to shout “disco sucks” all the time, it’s almost as if punk isn’t counterculture but subculture, not challenging any of the norms of white western society that need to be demolished and only challenging the easy targets such as “well i wanna dye my hair green and still get an office job” “i want tattoos and i dont want my sister Mackenzie looking at me funny from across the dinner table” “i wanna go shop at hot topic but mom won’t let me” and my favorite “i wanna be a famous musician but i don’t wanna be any good at playing instruments” its almost as if punk has been declawed by middle class white kids who are bored with suburbia and think the sex pistols count as rebellious

[thejoyofq]

Aahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

[penicillium-pusher]

“girls only wear makeup and dress nice for guys!”

false. 

[freyjapup-blog]

Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled

[mediumsizetex]

Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.

[silkktheshocka]

This is so fucked up.

[prokopetz]

To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.

In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.

This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.

Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.

The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.

This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.

(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)

[ibedressin]

And in those industries women work on girls properties and men work on boys properties. There is rarely overlap and it’s not exactly easy to work in boys toys if your a girl. Not that there aren’t women involved but women’s influence is very limited…

Some companies are trying to change this but they can’t create a movement like that on their own.

They do need a lot of public support and not in the way of an outcry but where the public puts their money where their mouth is.