It's that time again!

The World's Faire Carnival is just around the corner and Leon and Cay (@mekandawn) will be back to peddle all kinds of fancy wares! And also Leon will challenge people to eat a shoe faster than he can again! It's definitely not a curse for him or for you!

This year's wares include an assortment of cool stuff influenced by, or best used in, Gilneas! Turns out that your homeland finally being both safe to inhabit and more or less clear of insurgents gets a guy feeling really nostalgic, and Leon is far from immune to this phenomenon. Prepare to get DAPPER! And also kind of gloomy. Gloomy and dapper. Very Gilnean, really.

There's new plushies, new books, new belts, new hats, dangerous drinkware, a really nice box, and lots of returning favorites!

And did I mention there's a shoe-eating contest?

That part's important.

WHEN: March 10th to 16th, 2024, 6pm-12am MG (CST) time WHERE: Mar'at/Ramkahen, Uldum (make sure you're in the old phase, NOT the n'zoth one) WHERE PART 2: Booth 16, same as last year!

(Silliness aside, WFC is a really cool event that's intended to foster community, make our own fun in-game, and raise money for charity. If you've never attended, give it a shot! I recommend getting the Listener addon to make keeping track of all the chatter easier!)

New to the faire and to the Catty Crow listing as a whole: FOOD! Leon was a chef before he got into leatherworking full time, and he's sold a couple snacks here and there since... so heck with it, he's brought those back and a couple new treats to offer!

Take a peek at the Tasty Treats section today!

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR SEVEN YEARS

DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS TO ?????

That last fatal scream tho

THE TERROR IN HIS SCREAM OH GOSH

i’m crying

WAAA-

I will always reblog this on the off chance some other poor soul has been searching for it

IT’S BACK

HOYL SHIT ITS B A CK

IT’S BACK?? ON MY DASH?

re-blogging again xD

what was that we were just saying about still having posts circulating from ridiculous numbers of years ago? 😂

I feel like it’s a duty to reblog such a natural treasure

All those accounts though….

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

If you see this post it is important to send it to someone else so they too can understand

People hardly ever change their minds in front of you...the conversation becomes one of a series of slow drips that builds up to a realization

Star Trek: Enterprise // S02E14: Stigma

I'm so happy to announce that my DIY koi lanterns are available now on YuumeiArt.com/shop

Build your very glowing koi and bring magic to your home. Choose from 8 metallic colors and 2 fin types, pair with RGB LEDs for an infinite display of colors :)

The unique design allows the koi to be posable, you can bend the fish in any direction and make it swim like a real fish.

Hang your koi anywhere

Or have a beautiful tabletop display

Decorate your koi with metallic markers to customize it to your imagination

Bring home your koi today

"I prefer my liquor served in a quivering belly button, distilled in fear and arousal."

Oh. Oh my.

calling every gnc cis person you see an "egg waiting to crack" even as a joke is not cool or funny at all actually it is extremely invasive and weird and you are just reinventing gender roles but making it "progressive"

is it just me or is this is an extremely weird thing to say about a random stranger based on nothing but a snippet of an eavesdropped conversation

last time i made a post abt this i got fucking eviscerated lmao but that’s prob bc i had the audacity to mention how this intersects with race and ethnicity, how y’all LOVE to forcibly feminize east asian and jewish men then ignore centuries of harmful stereotypes you’re playing into.

Its absolutely a weird and invasive thing to say. Especially because non-binary people can choose to present in mixed ways instead of androgynously. Especially because everyone should be allowed to choose scents, colors, products, patterns, and clothing that they LIKE, without it having to be based on gender. Because masculine people should be allowed to smell like flowers or wear pretty things if they just fucking want to.

This is something I noticed a TON on Twitter and fucking hated it.

As soon as a man is the LEAST bit feminine, or what white western society perceives as feminine, he will be called a trans girl. And I obviously don't have anything against trans girls or recognizing yourself in others and shit, but like

You fucking can't destroy gender roles by rigorously enforcing them.

Stop calling every cis man who likes "girly" stuff a woman. Y'all know this is also homophobic as shit, right? Y'aal know that's also MISGENDERING, RIGHT??

Let people like what they like. A guy who likes skirts and nail polish? Cool. Unless HE HIMSELF says otherwise, he's a guy. Stop this shit.

Real people are not your blorbos to project your experiences onto. If you relate to something that a cis person does, that just means that a cis person is relatable to you, which is not, in fact, a bad thing.

happy pridemonth bitches

It has come to my attention that not everyone has seen the “Kalecgos eating soup ASMR” cameo and I’m here to change that

HE’S VASH THE STAMPEDE!!!

gonna post a controversial take alright are y’all ready??

…

actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY

so like

…yeah that was basically it, thanks for reading

also websites that  automatically replace your typed out <3 and :D with emojis upon sending them are a Danger To Everything That’s Good In The World

bring back nose smilies :-)

There is no emoji that captures what I mean by :P (I do NOT mean “hur hur goofy-ass face!”) and the one for :^/ is not great. And lest we forget, 🤷🏻‍♀️ is absolutely inadequate compared to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Faces no emoji has ever managed to capture, imo:

:P

^_^

:3

^u^

:/

O.o

0.0

>:/

<(^u^)>

I am too old to stop using XD

i have never yet found an emoji that fully captures the shifty energy of: 

>_>

<_<

Oh man, I’ve missed O.o

Especially alternating to really capture how boggled you are.

O.o

o.O

O.o

Whatever the name of this team is, I am on it

this is   awesome

._. is pretty good too and 😐 just ISN’T THE SAME

XD, ^-^, :3, <3, and =P until death

¬_¬ is the most eloquent keystroke combo

U_U is my fav, and also O_O

the SHEER MISCHIEF of OvO

me af

I use emoji, kaomoji AND emoticons. They all have different moods!!

🤷🏻 is like ‘i have no idea’.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is like ‘who knows. nothing in life matters & we were all born to die’

Don’t be forgetting uwu

This 😕 could NEVER compare to :/

:c and :v are both amazing too

Don’t forget OwO and >:3c

I will never give up o_O

And is there any real equivalent to \o/ ? I don’t think so

This is a very powerful life hack.

We need to make it clear early on that anyone spouting this drivel is either a domestic abuse apologist or an abuser themselves. Because let us be extremely clear here: what these men miss is literal ownership of their wives. That is what they want, that is what they are aiming for. That is its own form of domestic violence, and it encourages other forms of domestic violence.

Edit: Since multiple radfems have reblogged this addition, I feel like it is fucking essential to point out that while this push is clearly and obviously coming from misogynistic cis men and primarily directed at cis women married to cis men, that domestic abusers come in all shapes, sizes, ages, assigned sexes, genders, and backgrounds. If this bullshit were to pass, it would 110% be utilized by abusive cis women to prevent their husbands from escaping them and these male survivors would have even less recourse because of how unlikely it is that they will be believed about the domestic violence they've endured. Domestic violence is an LGBTQ+ issue also, but I seriously doubt that if society has regressed to the point where no fault divorce has been rescinded, that same sex or perceived same sex marriages would be legal, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Any ideology that promotes the idea that men are always abusers or are the only abusers, and/or that women cannot be abusers of other humans regardless of assigned sex or gender, are ALSO abuse apologists or abusers themselves.

Anyway, I wrote this in a very truncated way that can apparently be misread by bigots and other fools, so I thought it was critical to clarify what I'm saying here.

Reblogging this for my necessary correction. Do not reblog the prior version if you happen to see it, and maybe check up on who you saw it from to make sure they're not a terf or similar bigot that you're inadvertently following.

OP you are so sexy for saying this.

reblogging especially for the additions. because yeah, I’m a guy who got a no-fault divorce from my emotionally and verbally abusive wife. if I’d had to testify against her or prove she abused me, that would’ve been a nightmare. if I’d had to live with her longer, it might’ve become physically dangerous.

all kinds of people can abuse their partners, not just men.

Way too funny not to share