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While we’re at it “indoor” cats are also abused, ever read warriors? Cats need to be free and to hunt and when you keep them inside you prevent them from living their lives

I see

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to this day possibly one of my best ideas. someone get me a pitch meeting with the hallmark channel

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Reminder that Cloud Strife is actually goofy and not in a "in spite of himself" way, that's who he is It kinds of depend on the choices you make but he canonically can: - Hijack the "date theater play" and kiss the dragon in Gold Saucer for his own amusment, or literally say "Something" when Yuffie (if you manage to date her) asks him to say something because the mood is incredibly awkward. - Potentially do a lot of joke answers ("Barret looks like a bear wearing marshmallow!") - Make some jokes never mind what you choose and say lame things that will have his friends do a facepalm ("lets mosey" , "Dog, i will dognap you!" ) - Bother Nanaki with a foot ball in Costa Del Sol

And that's before *and* after he had a therapy à la Tifa

He didn't actually brood that much in the OG game, even when he was hidding under his "jerk" persona (he was just a jerk then) . In fact, dissociating and *not* remembering what's seriously wrong and shrugging it off is also one of his coping mechanism

Idk i just find it sad that many people (maybe because of advent children and somewhat the remake/rebirth in a way) think he is Squall V2 (nothing against Squall, that guy also has hidden depths but Cloud is not Squall. Cloud is in fact pretty open about being friendly to his team at some point. Also nobody buys his "i am a cool guy leave me alone" facade that lasted 20 minutes in game. I am not even sure we can call Cloud an introvert!)

(also he visibly openly laugh some times and not just in the end, thank youuuu)

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Folks someone just made the most amazing thing I've seen in ages

the eye pinning when they're excited???? sent me

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i enjoy this particular genre of creature

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The person who subbed the 70s czech cinderella in english added emoticons so the entire movie is like

and this one is making me lose it

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I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

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tbh this is one of my fav things i've ever made. and its on t-shirts

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recently, while my wife and I were playing minecraft together, she made an offhand comment wishing that cats could have more than two modes of existing, a somewhere in the middle where they're tamed and friendly, but don't constantly follow you around if you haven't commanded them to sit

so I decided I would make her a mod

it is nearly done now. Once a cat is tamed, you can have it sit and stand on command as before, but when it stands, the cat makes a 50/50 decision whether it will follow you (vanilla tamed cat behavior), or wander around the village (untamed cat behavior + not shy anymore).

Or if you want to get a for sure switch, you can give the cat a piece of string to play with, and it will wander, or a chicken treat and it will follow you. I also added chicken as a temptation item, and you can tame with it.

speaking of temptation, tempting a wild cat with fish so you can tame it has the cat moving at 0.5 speed, which makes sense as it is skittish and you are trying to befriend it. But tempting a tamed cat had the same speed, and I thought that was just silly. In my experience, if a cat likes you and you offer food, the cat will approach you quickly. So now a tamed cat's tempting speed is 1.5 instead. May fiddle with that number a bit later

oh, also I decided that since creepers are wary of cats already... Why not let the cats hunt them? So now cats, both tame and wild, will attack creepers. (Careful, though, sometimes the cat will end up chasing a creeper towards you, lol!)

What I'm working on now is a visual distinction between the modes. The idea is that when the cat is working (follow mode), it can wear a harness the same color as its collar, which can be done by messing with the texture files.

this... has probably taken me longer than the rest of the mod, and I still haven't fully figured it out. It seemed so simple, but it turns out to be more complicated than I had thought.

I've put it down for now.

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izuna for @beatriceportinari

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team 7 dog pile!

(AU where they all make it to jounin rank together and then ambush their former sensei (plural) in celebration)

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Another fanfic become my victim! Muhahaha ENJOY!

Title : Grandma's been kidnapped!?

Author : bumblebeelex

Link :

Scene 1

Madara skidded to a stop in front of his target and threw the sliding door open, peering into an alternate dimension.

Senju Tobirama, the Ghost, the White Demon, was kneeling, holding a skein of yarn around his around his hands as Suzuka knit a…scarf?

“But how did he not realize the tea had been poisoned?” Tobirama asked, brows furrowed.

“Well, I was still under the table. He was a bit distracted once my hand was on his-“

Scene 2

“Madara, what have I said about sitting up straight? You always need to make a good impression.” Madara looked up incredulously at his grandmother who turned to Tobirama. “He likes to throw his tantrums, but he’s a good egg. He’s such a good cook too!”

Madara groaned, face back down into the tea table.

“Is that so?” Tobirama said, holding out his armful of yarn again as Suzuka picked her knitting back up.

“Yes, you wouldn’t expect it but he’s a wonderful homemaker. And great with kids.”

“Baa-chan, stop,” Madara begged.

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This weeks shop update: Mini Paintings, Here's whats up today! They'll all be available in limited stock on my shop!

Etsy Shop

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"Don't let them take away your shine."