before i was a faggot or a tranny or an autist i was weird and surprisingly just being weird is enough to make people treat you like all of the above
"why are so many of your friends queer" because they're the only people who accepted me as a weird neurodivergent teenager when it felt like the whole world was against us and everything mattered too much.
Your mom finding her friend at a store is like unskippable cutscenes
The fucking worst is that as I get older i completly understand the interest to catch up an unreasonable long time because turns out adults just dont get enough time to hang with friends, so catch up next to the Aldi cheese aisle it is
you can see the increasing age of tumblr users, these posts are like tree rings.
shoutout to They Might Be Giants for writing very few songs about romance and instead making music about cool, relatable stuff like being a drum-playing fake doctor/real worm, former us president James Knox Polk, a statue that makes you die, or wanting to buy a big prosthetic forehead and wear it on your real head
what do you mean by "99.99% of domestic cats have no breed ancestry"? surely they come from something? or is General Cat a thing?? i am so curious
this is an African wildcat. it’s domestic relative, Felis catus, is what we have in our houses. THAT is where all cats come from.
when we spread from Africa, so did domesticated cats. in different countries/climates, feral populations developed traits to help them survive, or genetic quirks unique to the region (the name for this is landrace = local genetically related population adapted to that particular landscape). as an example, on the Isle of Man a genetic quirk of the population is the occasional shortened or ‘Manx-type’ tail.
then Animal Fancy popped into existence a couple hundred years ago as a hobby, and people started deliberately breeding cats with unusual or exaggerated traits to win ribbons at conventions. this is when ‘breeds’ became a thing - cats with suitable traits were plucked from randombred populations to be incorporated into closed and registered genetic groups. and so (to go back to that earlier example) a handful of short-tailed landrace cats from the Isle of Man were selected by cat fanciers to become a breed, the Manx cat.
now keep in mind, that doesn’t automatically make all randombred cats on the Isle of Man part of the Manx breed! only the select individuals chosen as the genetic foundation + their pedigreed ancestors would be considered Manx.
that’s why the cat pictured above, despite sharing a shortened tail + place of origin with Manx cats, has no breed origin.
any modern cat breeder worth their salt will require a spay/neuter contract when selling kittens, so there isn’t much genetic mixing between purebred and randombred populations. the purebred population of cats is extremely small, and the randombred population unfathomably massive, so yes: 99.99% of cats have no breed origin.
if you don't know the direct ancestry of your adopted/rescued cat it is EXTREMELY unlikely for it to be anything other than randombred, even if it shares traits with a breed. most colourations/mutations/traits found in breeds also exist in randombred populations. and yes, this post is an extremely long-winded way of saying your large fluffy cat is not part Maine Coon.
I do want to emphasize that being randombred isn't a negative thing. having a cat that's a unique grab-bag of traits is actually really cool!
for instance, my mom's cat Fossey was found with her sister in a construction site. Fossey has bright golden eyes, a tail that curls, and huge fat-pads in her cheeks that make her look like an unfixed Tom cat. when she's happy, she stick out her little pink tongue.
Fossey is randombred, and there will never be another cat quite like her!
A Very Day's 1st Law of Perseverance
"No one remembered my birthday-" Well, but did YOU tell anyone it was coming up and you wanted to celebrate it with them?
"I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I'm fine-" Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you're doing?
"I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-" Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?
"I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-" Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?
"No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-" Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?
"I miss my friend but they haven't texted me-" Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?
Sometimes people are mean, uncaring assholes, in which case you get to be mad. But sometimes you just need to communicate better. Try communication before you assume someone doesn't care!
i’ll never get tired of seeing this quote
Girl why are you numbers
Big fan of the notes on this. Good job everyone
I think you should legally disclose if something is ai just like how you legally have to disclose if something is an ad
thumbs up is one of the most useful and versatile things that an autistic boy can have in his arsenal
me when I'm 33
he made it
and we will be healed. and we are going to make it
Ed and Stede + dahlias ✿ dahlias symbolize everlasting love
