That Curious Cat

Sometimes I write things.

[hthrrloooo]

Catastrophize Benedictine

[gayhornythoughts]

Suicidal Naan

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Dyslexia pesto

[lady-viccy]

weak central coherence taco

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Dissociation buffalo wing

[numbersareimaginary]

Executive dysfunction cake

[buttsandboltguns]

Anxious Mac and Meaty

[a-rebellious-waffle]

Inattentive Tunafish

[wayfindingheart]

Time Blind Beef Ragu

[thisandthatcuriouscat]

Night Terror Pasta

[morningmightcomebyaccident]

Replied to a recent comment on a fic that I wrote years ago and then took the time to revisit previous comments and I say this with complete sincerity:

Leaving a comment on a fic provides compounding delight. Authors will love initially receiving a comment, will love later recalling this and that particular aspect of a comment, and they will love rereading comments and being reminded how readers enjoyed the work.

Comments are not a one-time act of kindness and consideration. They keep giving.

Thank you to those who take the time to give a nice word, describe an excited reaction, point out favorite parts, and generally let it be known that not only has the work been read but it had some effect. :)

[animentality]

[agent-mcsweetheart]

i saw a post earlier today and now i can’t find it but someone was like the only reason i get through studying is by saying “let’s go steal a grade” where they just imagine they’re doing research for a leverage con and they have to know all the information to pull it off successfully. I’m at my internship rn and i found the original score for the og show and redemption and let me tell you i have never been more productive

[agent-mcsweetheart]

@imaginable-horror you are an inspiration 😌🫡

[onyxbird]

Replace imposter syndrome with the conman method! You're a fraud, and you're such a competent fraud that the mark is never going to realize what hit them until the gloat.

[batfam-belfry]

Batman: Urban Legends #10

He loves his family. That is all.

[asinglebluefeline]

The UTRH Bruce and Dick team-up is so funny 2 me, because first we have Bruce's internal monologue:

"And tonight... it's also about the company I keep.

It's different with him out here. I think about when he was younger. When I was younger. It was a different time. Simpler. And... I miss it. I miss those days. For that... it's hard to be around him."

- Under the Red Hood (part 2)

And I've seen this posted a lot and it's great, HOWEVER

the very next issue we've got Dick's POV, while they're fighting Amazo:

"By the time I think, "this is bad"... he's already airborne and on the attack. Even after all these years, I'm still amazed by him."

- Under the Red Hood (part 3)

And it's so great bc from the outside they're fully locked in, annihilating multiple enemies or winning against a robot that has all of Justice League's superpowers, and that must mean they are just focused on tactics, or thinking about every little movement they make in order to stay alive, or analysing their enemies' weak points, stuff like that, right?

WRONG, they're just:

[thisandthatcuriouscat]

Oh holy shit you're the author of Good Fellows i just reread through the entire fic and didnt even draw the connection till you came up on my feed

Great fic!!! Lovely work tysm for sharing it with us all

yes that’s me! I wrote Good Fellows and Puzzles Made of Broken Glass. Thanks so much! 🫶

[thisandthatcuriouscat]

You are one of the best batman fan writers out there, thank you for your contribution to the craft o7

incredibly sweet! Thank you so much. 🫡

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

one of my favorite internet posts

[3psboyd]

Spitballing with the fellas on discord and we've come up with a Star Trek character we want to see: A 200-year-old top Vulcan diplomat attending a function and laughing boisterously and slapping backs with everyone and then just relaxing into resting bitch face the moment nobody is watching him. He takes his job deadly seriously and studied parties extensively in the diplomatic academy. Every year he's brushing up on new developments in party theory. He knows every party nuance you could possibly think of, for the sake of intergalactic relations. Peace in the galaxy depends on it. It's weird but you gotta meet people where they're at, he thinks.

[fionn-o-nassus]

Sarek fucking hates this guy and it's 100% envy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

human diplomat: [laughs at joke]

vulcan diplomat (to himself): this is great. I’m going to get a good grade in Party, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

[emery-matsushita-vt]

I Got A Degree In Party Rocking

[aron-q]

This gonna be a hit with the Neurodivergents (Me)

[wizardarchetypes]

I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

[pixelartpeach]

Are there any other particularly egregious examples?

[theglintoftherail]

This book already exists, sort of! Or at least, it’s a biology textbook but I bought it for writing purposes:

It starts with a chapter about freezing to death, and it is without a doubt the scariest thing I’ve read in years (and I read a lot of horror fiction).

[wandercuriosity-deactivated2024]

This book can be downloaded for free on Researchgate, posted there by the author himself:

The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments

[thisandthatcuriouscat]

Photo references for the Titans Tower scene in “Progress, Not Perfection.”

[thisandthatcuriouscat]

Really excited to read the rest of « Progress, not perfection»! I read both « Good Fellows » and « Puzzles made of broken glass » and they’re both incredible! They have so much humor and heart! Genuinely my comforts fics to read whenever im down. Thank you for writing and sharing such amazing fics and I hope to keep reading your work soon!

so incredibly sweet! Thank you anon 🫶

[tsarina-anadyomene]

I kind of do think "this is not who we are, we need to live up to our democratic heritage" is a winning message in a way "america is basically and fundamentally evil. fuck you all" isn't

[independence1776]

Prev tags:

#we've often failed to live up to the ideals & beliefs & rights that our country was founded upon but they remain good & necessary ones#they're still fundamental to living in a free & equitable liberal democracy#the sins of our history & the current crisis we're in does not mean that our country is corrupt beyond saving#it means that we have to work to *make* those ideals & beliefs & rights equally accessible & true for *everyone*#it'll mean generations more difficult effort & setbacks but i do still truly believe it'll be worth it#because i want everyone living here now & in the future to live in that free & equitable democracy that we promise#because this is *my* country. and i love my country. and i want my country to love all its people too

[jewishpangolin]

[inqorporeal]

There's something very sad and defeatist about the people who say, "No this IS who we are, the country is awful and--"

Yeah, yeah. It's bad. We get it. Kinda hard to miss right now. You know what? So is everywhere else. You are not going to find a single government, a single nation, anywhere on earth that is perfect and unproblematic.

We need to acknowledge this. Nowhere is perfect. Everywhere has corrupt people who actively seek positions they can use to exploit power and enrich themselves at the expense of others. The vast majority of countries in the world have a lot of blood on their hands and were founded in war; loads of countries have a history of colonization and exploitation of other countries, and a lot of that is continuing to this day.

Now raise your hand: who here was taught as a child to believe in the good your nation can do for its people and the world? Who here was raised with the idea that your country had an awful past but has learned better and is trying to move forward to do better and be better in the future?

Short of buying a boat and hiding away at sea, you are never, ever going to be free of nationality. Not even if you burn it all down; something new will just arise in its place. This is the world we have; this is the society we have to live in. Do you not wish it was better? Do you not wish that is did reflect that optimism you were raised with?

The reason children around the world are taught to believe in the good side of their nation is NOT because the people teaching us want to indoctrinate us into the cult of nationalism (okay yeah, some do do that on purpose, and sometimes that's just the result despite teachers' best efforts), but because they want us to see that good side, see what things are like now, and get angry and disappointed and energized enough to fight to make it reality. To actually do better and become a better world for everyone.

Throwing up your hands and declaring it beyond hope helps only the people who don't want you fighting to make things better. Making things better is not a problem that will be solved in any one person's lifetime. As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree is ten years ago. The second best time is now.

[loucifersbitch]

if you need me, i’ll be sobbing on the floor. humans, man

[herewithinthevoid]

every so often something nice happens on the other hellsite 𖹭

[uhhhhmanda]

Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.