instead of tears

These vines are my life

Alan Turing was convicted for indecency because he truthfully admitted to being in a relationship with his boyfriend. In The Imitation Game they purposefully changed this fact to him being caught with a male prostitute.

BAM.

I have never hit reblog so fast in my LIFE.

dat sass in the last gif holy fuck

THE WAY SHE KEEPS ON SMILING 

Where’s my Oscar for acting like I was straight all those years

The sync for the second gif is really remarkable.

(via Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15) by Yao Xiao

words to remember

This is so good. I try to be mindful of things like this but it can be hard if you feel self-conscious about your feelings in the first place!

I just traded my neighbour a jar of raw honey for his parakeet’s corpse.

It is also worth noting that the only reason I have so much raw honey is because I made a dress for a beekeeper’s daughter.

And that I need the parakeet bones to make a necklace for the woman who fixed my antique cello.

And that I got the cello as payment for juggling at a child’s birthday party.

When did my life get this weird?

your life is a fucking sidequest

So a new blog has started called “Is There Rape In It”. Basically, it’s a blog dedicated to listing movies, TV shows, and videos game that have rape in them, so that victims and survivors can avoid triggers. 

Since they have just started up, they don’t have full lists yet. So if you are aware of rape in any of those forms of media, please reblog their lists and let them know!

Boost.

there is also one for suicide and self harm!

istheresuicideinit

(their lists arent that long yet either so if you have anything to submit to either, please do)

i wonder if my pets have like a proper language and when i try to speak back to them im just speaking jargon

like for example my cat always speaks to me when I come home and i meow back to her and she’ll meow again & even though i don’t think twice about it to her it’s probably a situation where it’s like

her, meowing: “im glad you’re home”

me, meowing back: “tax benefits”

her, meowing: “why do u always do this”

me

cats actually have a human-specific language. cats don’t often meow at each other and seem to use subvocal communications that humans can’t hear to chat cat-to-cat. however, cats seem to use what humans would call “shout-until-you’re-understood” to speak to humans. so basically, it’s more like:

“I’M GLAD YOU’RE HOME!”

“tax benefits”

“NO, I’M GLAD YOU ARE HOME”

“waffle iron”

“IT’S OKAY. I LOVE YOU TOO, MY DUMB HUMAN”

It’s fucking amazing the way cats have adapted to life with humans okay

like they domesticated THEMSELVES because us storing grain created a habitat for rats and they were like ‘why hunt in the wild when I can hunt in one place?” and then it turned out we had these fireplaces with nice warm hearths AND that we were willing to put rugs on floors and cushions on chairs and surrender our body heat if we were properly mollified and cats were like ‘hell fucking yeah’ and just moved the fuck in.

But the above poster is right, cats don’t meow at each other very much.  Feral cats rarely vocalize in our hearing range at all, and when they do it’s because they’re about to do violence.  Not only did cats adopt us, and not the other way around, they developed a method of communicating especially FOR living with us.  They observed that humans make mouth sounds in a specific range and started making their own mouth sounds in that same range in the hopes of communicating their needs to us and if you don’t think that’s the most awesome shit get out.

But it gets cooler.  Obviously cats have variable intelligence - I have met very bright cats and I have met truly stupid ones.  But the species as a whole has the ability to make somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 distinct vocalizations that humans can perceive.  Which means cats can CHOOSE A MOUTH SOUND that means ONE THING and have it consistently mean that one thing.  And humans who bother to pay attention can actually learn what the cat is saying and respond to it properly.

Mine is one of the bright cats who does that.  So far, her vocabulary of distinct and identifiable sounds include: 

And the thing is, I don’t actually think I listed all of them.  We joke constantly about how Sephie bosses my husband around because she can make herself understood very well but the truth is, her vocabulary makes her about as easy to understand as your average toddler who can say ‘milk’ when she wants milk.  Cats are cool as shit and brilliant when they want to be and I will never get over it.

My cat had a safeword she used with the dog. 

They would wrestle, and she like to play ‘rough’. It would freak out people who had never seen it before, because it looked like he was hurting her. 

She made all sorts of happy play sounds, and so did he. IF however he nipped too hard, or twisted her funny, or otherwise did something she wanted to stop, she would make this very specific noise. It was higher pitched, very short, and different from any other sound she made. And it would cause him to stop. He would pull back, put his face down and check on her, and wait. She would either wander off (nah, I’m done) or pounce him (ok, lets play more). If she wandered off he would follow her and make sure she was ok.

Yeah, my dog and cat had one of the healthiest BDSM relationships. 

concept: a TV show runs for a decent number of years. More than four. The characterizations stay consistent. The writers don’t do anything wildly inappropriate like excuse rape or abuse. No one you’ve invested hours upon hours of your life into has their story reduced to a “shocking” death scene that has no meaning beyond that shock value. The quality of the storylines don’t take a sudden, strange spiral downward. When it ends, you leave it feeling bittersweet. Sad that it’s over, but glad you got to experience it and take a journey with some people who you came to care about.

lil sebastian died for shock value

thank you for making my very favorite comment on this post

*screams into the night* JUST USE THE WORD BISEXUAL

I know right now homophobes trying to distance themselves from the orlando shooter and I just want you all to know that you’re the same. you won’t take a gay persons life, but you also won’t advocate for anti-discrimination in employment, housing, and healthcare… the basic necessities that make life sustainable. so don’t pretend to feel remorse for the 50 dead and 53 injured, you wouldn’t care less if they died of poverty alone. you’re all the same every single one of you

This is the dumbest thing I’ve read and if you don’t want to employ a gay person or buy them a house or pay for their insurance you’re not the same as the Orlando shooter. (But you are still slowing down the progress of humanity) don’t listen to this fucking moron tho😒

if you deny someone employment, housing, or medical insurance on the basis of their homosexuality then you are committing an act of economic and psychological violence on that individual. obviously, lacking these 3 necessities more than often leads to poverty and serious health implications.

homophobes through rhetoric alone are a threat to the wellbeing of the LGBT community and although some do not commit direct acts of physical violence their belief systems alone are inherently violent to others

the point of the post is that homophobes are all violent one way or another. obviously you’ve missed the point, so go fuck yourself

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