Hey, my name is Melissa, aka caterpillar. This used to be my Sims 3 blog, but I'm pretty much done with Sims these days, so this is the place I post pics of my cats.
My Fallout 4 blog is Bourbon and Sugar Bombs
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted anything to tumblr, and I’ve had a lot of changes in my life, including a huge cross country move.
Most recently, I’ve started a Redbubble shop for my artwork, where I go by CatterMeow, which I am shamelessly self-promoting here.
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
This is so well put I am stunned
I love seeing your kitties! They’re beautiful. ♥ *sends them pets and catnip* Also, Garrus looks huge here! :O Is it just the angle, or did he really grow up to be such a big guy?
I love seeing all the kitties and doggos, too. And really all the animals.
Garrus really is a huge little guy. We’re pretty sure he is at least part Maine Coon, which is a breed known for their size. They can grow up to 35 lbs. Garrus has every physical and personality trait of the breed, right down to the weird muttering. But we’ll never know for sure since he was left abandoned (with a major injury) as a baby in front of our vet’s office. In his last weigh in, he was at 17 lbs, and my husband says he feels like 20 lbs. lately. (he’s really good at weight guessing, so I trust it). He’s 2 years old, and Maine Coons continue to grow until they are around 5.
Biscuit on the other hand, is on the petite side, with little delicate paws. For her it’s like dealing with a ten foot tall toddler, lol.
@ashuriphoenix, (sorry to not copy paste your reply here, just gonna reply to your allegations of illegal cat names) I was actually saddened to learn how many cats and dogs are already named Biscuit. Way too many. Her name was originally Elektra. She was also abandoned at our vet’s office, not sick or injured, but her previous owner boarded her there while they tried to find a home for her. They eventually stopped paying for the boarding service and the vet couldn’t reach them, so they put her up for adoption. Anyway, we weren’t keen on the name, so we were just calling her ‘tiny teacup’ and ‘busy kitty’, and that kind of morphed into ‘biscuit’ and she respond to that, so the next time we took her to the vet, we officially changed the name on her files there.
And yes, my vet’s office is always trying to push abandoned cats on us. But we don’t have room for more than 2 here in our little apt.
[The older generation of writers who had established the rules for modern fiction under the assumption that their experience was “universal”] gained the ability to write stories where they could “show” and not “tell" … They had this ability not because they were masterful stylists of language or because they dripped with innate talent. The power to “show, not tell” stemmed from the writing for an audience that shared so many assumptions with them that the audience would feel that those settings and stories were “universal.” (It’s the same hubris that led the white Western establishment to assume its medicine, science, and values superior to all other cultures …)
Look at the literary fiction techniques that are supposedly the hallmarks of good writing: nearly all of them rely not on what was said, but on what is left unsaid. Always come at things sideways; don’t be too direct, too pat, or too slick. Lead the reader in a direction but allow them to come to the conclusion. Ask the question but don’t state the answer too baldly. Leave things open to interpretation… but not too open, of course, or you have chaos. Make allusions and references to the works of the literary canon, the Bible, and familiar events of history to add a layer of evocation—but don’t make it too obvious or you’re copycatting. These are the do’s and don’ts of MFA programs everywhere. They rely on a shared pool of knowledge and cultural assumptions so that the words left unsaid are powerfully communicated. I am not saying this is not a worthwhile experience as reader or writer, but I am saying anointing it the pinnacle of “craft” leaves out any voice, genre, or experience that falls outside the status quo. The inverse is also true, then: writing about any experience that is “foreign” to that body of shared knowledge is too often deemed less worthy because to make it understandable to the mainstream takes a lot of explanation. Which we’ve been taught is bad writing!
Cecilia Tan, from Uncanny Magainze 18 (via violetephemera)
Geez, it must be horrible to work for a boss like that…
imagine Bob Ross painting in the style of Hieronymus Bosch
“this little demon down here is kind of lonely, let’s give him some happy little friends. little demon party.”
#Hieronymus Bob
It’s your tortured human soul, you can choose how many blackbirds you want to fly out of his anus. Just as many as you think it needs.
there really is a tumblr discourse rhetoric hole that people, and disturbingly a large amount of very young people, jump down into. a place where people cease to be real people, concepts cease to have real life applications, and reality itself warps away into a mess of rhetoric and useless words thrown around for no particular reason other than it equates to status in a virtual reality to do this.
internet activism and social justice are good, necessary things; but the moment that you stop taking into consideration the offline effects and applications of your speech and behavior, when you stop valuing the off-tumblr goals for that activism, when you stop seeing things and people as real but as only concepts or tools in a debate or rhetoric, your activism not only ceases to be meaningful; it becomes a dangerous thing in itself.
activism is not a performance. it’s not a manipulation of words to see how many people you can get to agree with you and/or applaud you. it is a practical effort for positive change. if you can’t remember that, you’re not doing activism.
