#WHERE DID THIS CAT COME FROM!!!!

[lvllns]

oh this barn cat was absolutely someone’s pet because he just stood there without complaint while i pulled a little twig out of his eye

[naamahdarling]

You know what? You know what I think?

I think that if we lived as we were meant to, in larger intimate ("extended family") groups and with more shared labor and time to do it (UBI NOW) people like me would not feel so useless and burdensome because there would be people around to help and to do what neurodivergent people can't while making valuable space for the neurodivergent to do what they ARE good at.

The way we live right now, all right, the way we live right now forces units of two adults to be able to do EVERYTHING or PAY to have someone come do it for them. I have to do the housework. I have to do it! But I am having to do a million different things and most of them I am not good at. I suck at them.

I wouldn't feel like shit, okay, if I had more than one other person around who was not a child and who could do the things I can't, like do the yard and cook and do repairs and basic maintenance; and someone else to split everything else that I like but is too much for me. It would free me to do what I am good at and enjoy. Cleaning, as in the sink and toilet, the windows, the blinds. Taking out trash. Folding, hanging, and sorting laundry.

But because all the shit I can do often relies on other shit being done first, and I can't do or have trouble doing those things, the shit I can do often can't be done. And even the shit I can do, I can't do ALL of it. So I can't keep up, and things get very bad.

We aren't meant to live like this. We are not meant to live like this.

That thought hurts so much because being able to flee the birth family is integral to survival for so many people. I'm so afraid that living in larger family groups would create more opportunities for, say, queer kids to be isolated, rejected, bullied, and abused. But if we gave people enough money to survive, and stopped considering children the property of their parents with no system in place to help them escape bad situations except a system that is often just as bad, just different.

I'm aware that communes and collectives aren't all that successful and are kind of a joke. I don't mean that. I mean a fundamental shift to multigenerational families where taking in "strays" (which my family did) is also normalized so people escaping abuse into existing households was accepted, with these families centered in maybe a couple of different larger residences so not everyone has to buy and maintain their own fucking washing machine and vacuum cleaner, and so people can benefit from large group meals that yield leftovers, and so child and elder care can also be centralized.

Then disabled people and the neurodivergent and sick and injured people, and pregnant people, and grieving people, would not have to either labor through all those stressors or consign themselves to living off an unlivable pittance or being put under legal guardianship.

I'm not saying anything new. People live like this in other parts of the world and maybe it sucks and I am wrong. But I'm just really mad right now because I can either do laundry or clean the sink but not both, and I really think we could improve society somewhat by making it so I did not have to choose one without sacrificing the other.

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

Bruce, not ready to wake up: Just five more…

Tim, bored, irritated, and sensing an opportunity to sow the seeds of chaos:

Tim: *races into the kitchen*

Tim: You guys will never believe what Bruce just said!

Damian: Well?

Duke: What did he say?

Steph: You can’t leave us hanging like that.

Tim: He said five MORE.

*collective gasp*

Steph: I had better not be one of those five.

Damian: Why does Father get to adopt five more children and I can not adopt five more cats? Cats are much easier to care for than people.

Tim, shrugging: I’m sure he’d be fine with it.

[bonefall]

if rainflower was given a dishonor title, what would it be?

also is mapleshade still killed by crookedstar in the BOTTE?

Definitely something related to animals they disrespect. I don't see him going as far as to hit her with "Cuckoo" but he'd want to center her cruelty and lack of compassion. "Lamprey" makes a fine choice, and there's also a disrespectful word in Clanmew for egg-laying animals that don't care for their young.

But, he would certainly not do it because Rainflower is popular. Hailstar is a smart cat, in spite of how long he spent denying the problem and justifying it (sometimes intellect just makes you better at making excuses). He knows full well that something like that could backfire politically.

There's a portion of the Clan who thinks he was wrong to punish her at all, and more who are in that nebulous state of not being totally sure if his response was justified or not. He took her child and stripped her of all status. If he went further than that, it would look like retribution... which it would be, and in another, more furious Clan, would have appeased the angry mob.

But this Clan isn't furious. The reception is mixed. Hailstar's goal isn't to make a big point, it's to protect Stormkit the way he should have done a long time ago.

The best plan of action is the action that makes this transition go smoothly. Rainflower does not need to wear a name like Lampreypool right now, to draw attention to her, to have the whole Clan be looking at her while she plays the poor, besieged victim of a cruel and unusual leader. She needs to be kept out of power, and away from Shellheart's son as the poor child recovers.

(Also Mapleshade didn't die in the Battle of the True Eclipse! Not in BB and not in canon's The Great Battle either, lmao. She's still around, chilling in the Dark Forest, haunting Applekin.)

[poscariastri]

oscar piastri as silly cats. here u go

bonus checo and max :3

[bloodbathfortwo]

Nigel and Alex have their rare moments of intimacy behind closed doors. Lingering touches, and blazing warmth.

[sparkdoesart]

Moonpaw and her weird mystical girlfriend because this ship is getting me back into warriors

Shitty background bc idk how to do backgrounds<33

[pinpilinpaux]

ireneparedes4 🔙JJOO #paris2024

[pearly--rose]

Yes I did stay outside in 38 degree weather for 3 hours tonight because when I took my recycling out my next door neighbors were standing there, and they told me a kitten was under my porch.

They ended up going inside around 10:15 because they have school in the morning. My dumbass stayed out until 12:20am and only managed to scare the kitten into our building’s backyard and underneath an old grill.

I left Pearl’s old carrier out there with some food and towels inside, so hopefully the kitten will go eat and get warm at some point—there’s a freeze warning tonight, so I’m really worried about the poor little thing.

And I’ll try again tomorrow (hopefully with a real trap this time!)

[thischristianguy]

I am days old knowing Ravage, Rumble, Frenzy and Lazerbeak are called Recordicons

Did Daniel Warren Johnson come up with this?

Mind you we all know Shockwave is gonna get it if he tries to recycle Ravage

[alieliscious]

stupid fucking cat

[shitpost-factory]

It’s been a while since I watched The Sandman but I remember there was this story about cats. And correct me if I’m wrong but they basically said that cats used to rule the world and suddenly it turned around and now humans rule it.

So now I wonder how the Cat King fits into that story. He can be both a cat and a human and he’s the king of all cats but not humans. Could he have anything to do with the change from cats ruling things to humans?

[octothinq]

You know I don't think I agree with April first being Sampo Koski's birthday. As much as I would love for him to be an april baby like me it just doesn't feel right. April first. Yeah I get why people would immediately choose that date. I mean it's right there. Fools day. Pretty easy pick. But I don't think that's right. was he born to be a fool. Was that his only option. Did he have a choice in this. That's why I don't agree with April first being his birthday. You know that's a very popular date. Very obvious. It's a date you always hear a lot of. A date where you're told a prank might be played on you. That wouldn't make the prank fun anymore. Because you were told to be wary of a prank today so you were expecting it when it did happen. Which isn't the point of a prank. The goal usually is to surprise and confuse. can't do either if you're already expecting something. Anyway my point is April first is too predictable of a birthday for Sampo. October 27th. That's a date I just thought of. A random date to me that means nothing. It was the first thing that came to mind. So that's his birthday now.

[naamahdarling]

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[bonefall]

mistystar n who

I think fratboy Podlight who sends his powerful grandmother stupid texts is a VERY funny concept.

"My dad didn't love me because he could never move on from the lover he had in his 20s. My sister is up to no good. I party hard at Aftergatherings about it, are you rockin' with me?"

He is 38 cat-years-old.

[sillylildragon]

currently losing my mind over weird cat alastor. someone please explain the lore