The gay pirates got to me, ok?

Emma, she/her, geriatric twenties

[dreg-heap]

Working on a good luck babe dark souls parody, I get as far as "you can make a hundred poison swamps" before closing my laptop and applying to grad school on my phone

[vladimircollectsceramicunicorns]

We got a cat last November, so naturally we make up songs to sing to him and about him all the time. My partner was doing a version of Pink Pony Club called Cute Kitty Club. "Cute kitty club, I'm gonna keep on purrin at the cute kitty club," etc. So we moved a few months ago, partly because it was time and partly because the new property management company who bought the building was terrible. There were mice and we told them and they wouldn't send an exterminator. We called all the mice (we only ever saw a few) Lil Squeaks as though there was only one mouse. Green Bean (the aforementioned cat) killed a mouse one night and we kept saying RIP Lil Squeaks. So one day as I was thinking of how I could add to Cute Kitty Club, inspiration struck: "I'm having wicked dreams of killing Lil Squeaks" (you kind of have to pronounce it little for it to work but I'm still pretty proud of it)

[cleavedred]

theres something about being disabled and needing to sit down constantly in public spaces that makes you notice how often benches are put up as tributes and memorials. and before i hit an age where i really started to need them as frequently i think i never fully understood the sentiment but now its become very endearing to me. a bit of relief and care for you in the name of someone who offered us the same… i dont think i had a point with this post but i hope everyone thats been memorialized as such knows how loved they were to become synonymous with respite even to total strangers

[weaver-z]

Fondly remembering the time that a cat owner casually entered their calico Maine Coon in a cat fancier’s competition and the judges lost their minds because the cat was 1) male and 2) able to bear children

[weaver-z]

Anyway here’s Dawntreader Texas Calboy as a silly lil kitten

[weaver-z]

Here’s an excerpt from one of the articles about the drama his entry caused among the Cat Fanciers that I thought was very earnest and sweet <3

And also some of Calboy’s children!

[gasterofficial]

@pangur-and-grim

[elodieunderglass]

He is fearfully and wonderfully made!

[rainbow-lizzard]

ALT

I was about to say he would technically be an intersex king (not because I dislike the concept of trans cats, just bc intersex rep is sorely needed too) but I did some more reading on this icon and actually found the article OP referenced.

ALT

He’s not your usual male calico kitty as it turns out. That’s already cool and rare, but he’s even cooler and rarer than that!

ALT

ALT

Calboy is a chimera!! Which is really fucking cool of you ask me. The chances of having a male calico this way are slim to none, but the mad lad still exists! What an icon. I would die for Calboy.

[weaver-z]

Everyone in the tags of this post @ cat show judges

[sweetenby]

Originally I was looking for an adult picture of Calboy

(He’s so pretty 🥰)

But I also found a source for the article screenshotted above! And folks it’s WILD. It’s an incredibly interesting read if you happen to love hearing about niche hobby drama. It’s also just a fantastically written article!

The parts I find the most interesting are about how conservative the cat fanciers association is. This isn’t even all of the parts that talk about that.

People are so mad about this cat spefically because he has female colors. An animal who couldn’t choose how it was born. This is happening in Texas by the way. Hm. I wonder how they treat trans people over there?

[ilovedirt]

Reblogging again for this crucial addition

[ardienothesieno]

wait i’m sorry

people are being transphobic. towards a cat.

what the actual fuck.

[iconuk01]

Also, not to derail, but “You know, we don’t let three-legged cats in here either”

Well, to put it politely, “Screw you and every single one of you who make that sort of decision”

[vladimircollectsceramicunicorns]

Shane: I'm very ticklish.

Ryan: Where?

Shane: All over.

The mischief in Ryan's eyes holy shit

[shaniacsboogara]

[vladimircollectsceramicunicorns]

Now this is the extremely specific content I'm here for

[dwellsinparadise]

Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.

What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

enough toxic masculinity I'm ready for salubrious mexicanity. I'm ready for a social movement that encourages (esp straight, cis) men to indulge in things that make them more joyful, emotionally healthy, and help them strengthen not core muscles but core compassionate communication skills.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I cannot stress enough that I have a minor speech impediment and voice-to-text decided it was more likely that I said "mexicanity" than "masculinity." I was not in fact alluding to the potential healing benefits of being Mexican. I am however perfectly content with this post being about that instead.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

many thanks to those who thought this post was about gomez addams. from this moment forward, tis

[honeydetective]

know what that is? growth.

[wearewatcher]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!

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[wilwheaton]

[kodaksnacks-blog]

[997]

and she picked just the right song

[saltcircle5558355298234432204-d]

whhat the f

[mentethemage-deactivated2018122]

today I learned you could figure skate on roller blades

[angelicdevil]

This kid is KILLING it!

[a-dumb-bitch-apparently]

I’ll be back in going to go watch Every single video about this subject

[spiritsonic]

Been meaning to do this for years

[redbuddi]

Artist for the official sonic comics ^

[kimmycup]

*scrolls past*

*reads caption*

*scrolls back to reblog*

[ekftff]

saw this comment on a cricket noise video and felt like something changed in me idk

[powerofthestruggle]

Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904

[comradepiyaz-deactivated2016020]

this is an extremely important picture

[fear-and-trembling-pdf-deactiva]

Ive never seen someone from 1904 having fun omg

[scootsenshi]

He has a nice face

[fearwax-deactivated20200108]

No but the history behind this picture is really interesting

The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.

It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.

But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren’t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that’s the pose he wanted to strike.

[thisisarebeljyn]

I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.

[avatar-dacia]

Hey, look; “Man Laughing Alone With Rice” is back on my dash.

[jumpingjacktrash]

always reblog Happy Rice Guy. once upon a time, he really enjoyed his lunch, and that’s beautiful.

[wyattcrafty1]

Happy rice guy deserves reblog

[godbirdart]

i am apparently the designated Knocker of the Doors for my neighbors pets because i keep encountering their animals in the building hallways locked out and crying. i don’t mind this, but it is odd that this has happened to me more than once.

[godbirdart]

also very interesting to see how dogs and cats differ in handling Got Locked Out of the Apartment situations

[weaver-z]

[offonaherosjourney]

Petition for Rian Johnson to release a 10 minute short film where Ransom Drysdale and Miles Bron are cellmates, because Miles "I only spent 10 seconds planning each of my murders" Bron and Ransom "my murder plan was so smart and elaborate it could have been in one of my grandpa's novels" Drysdale would drive each other ABSOLUTELY MAD and I would enjoy the fuck out of every second

[blackberreh-art]

Just played around with some brushes~