#for people who wanted to meet my cats

[jb-nonsense]

Meet my cats post

This is the Big Bubby Boy, Todd. He's just under 3 ft in length from the tip of his nose to tip of his tail but his legs missed the memo and are the average length for a cat, so when he sits down, he looks like a bowling ball. His favorite things are hair ties and cuddling in bed. He hates anything that sounds like thunder and will hide. He'll be 7 this year.

This is the Lil Booboo girl, Riley. She's small and will sit on my shoulder no problem. Hyperactive, she's the one running crazy and instigating play all the time. She loves to cuddle up on your lap but only if you have a blanket on it. She's shy at first but once she warms up to you after a few years, will greet you with trills and head bumps. She'll be 6 this year.

[just-in-the-nickleback-of-time]

Atreus:

[lucky-clover-gazette]

vent

did not expect kissing and realizing i’m lowkey dating a guy to send me down an existential spiral of reminding me that i have only one life to live and then i am going to die without living any other different lives

[venice-1987]

You know when you see a man so attractive, so handsome, so beautiful that you just wanna

Cartoon chomp sound effect

[considerad]

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 you know that post about creating community if that's what you crave?

I made an enormous pile of choc chip cookies and I batched it out for our upstairs and downstairs neighbours, my ma and my great-uncle across town, and my granddad's old pal and his family, and I just got done delivering them and I feel like 🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽

so alight and alive with it all!!!! I love people! I love them!!! I am so full of fruit and phone numbers I probably won't ever call!

Life can be so unbearably sweet ❤️

[aeide-thea]

thinking abt like. if you introduce someone to something you're into and they're like, wow, that's so awesome, you're probably tickled that they dig it and are seemingly a kindred spirit at least that far; if you then introduce them to another thing you're into and they're again like, wow, that's so awesome, you're probably still pleased but also perhaps guiltily wondering whether they know any other adjectives; and if you introduce them to a third thing and yet again they're like, wow, that's so awesome, you're probably asking yourself, was any of that affirmation actually real or is this person just so reflexively accommodating that they've been turning off whatever independent critical faculties they possess in order to play a better yes-man???

(for values of 'you' that primarily mean 'me' obviously)

[thedreadvampy]

oh boy the depression hole is deep and it is muddy

hahaha I fell into the classic trap! overidentify with your job and considering leaving it will trigger an existential crisis!!!!

[rocaillefox]

the anime romantic killer does genuinely seem like just a tone shift away from becoming a horror show

[jtownraindancer]

Served as a canvas for some aspiring artists and made a new friend 🌈🎼🎨💚💙

[fancy-rock-dove]

today in defenses of boromir that no one asked for: tired of reading that boromir’s death was in vain because he failed to save merry & pippin from the uruk-hai.  the fact that this clearly important warrior was willing to die to protect those two is what convinced the urukhai that they had indeed captured the halfing who carried whatever important thing saruman wanted.  they took the hobbits to isengard (to isengard gard) because they thought they had the right ones!  boromir didn’t succeed in preventing their capture but he did in fact keep them alive by making them seem valuable.  furthermore, he actually also saves frodo in this way: because the orcs and uruk-hai think they have what they came for, they stop looking and turn back: if they had not, they might have ultimately found and captured frodo or at least raised the alarm that a hobbit with an Important Thing was on the loose, setting others searching.  which is the very heart of tolkien’s worldview - that you do the right thing because it is right, and doing the right thing is never in vain. 

to conclude this essay boromir died a hero and saved not just merry and pippin but also frodo and sam - and in doing so also saved himself from the ring’s attempt to twist him to its own ends

[solidsnakepenis]

sorry men it turns out i might not be a wanted man

[quantomeno]

LostWinds

aka the best WiiWare game ever

I want to go on and on about this game but I don't think anyone I know (outside of my siblings) has actually played it. So I'm telling you lot instead.

The story goes that Steve Burgess from Frontier developments was watching the wind blowing leaves and thought to himself 'wouldn't it be cool if you had a Wii game where you could control the wind?'

And in fact he was right.

The game is very reminiscent of Avatar the Last Airbender (which was great because I was a huge fan of Avatar around that time): a young boy, Toku, discovers a shard of a stone which contains the wind spirit, Enril. Enril explains how she and the other elemental spirits who formed the world worked together to seal Balasar (a spirit who turned evil) in a spirit stone, but in the battle she got trapped with him too.

Balasar freed himself, breaking the stone, but she remained trapped. Thanks to Toku, she is now free too, but her power has been lost (get it? lost winds), locked away in shards of the stone which lie scattered across the land. She and Toku work together to find her lost powers and fight Balasar's darkness that threatens to corrupt and poison the world.

You control Toku with the nunchuk and Enril with the Wii remote: Toku is pretty weak and useless, but he can interact with physical objects (pulling switches, opening chests, planting seeds) while Enril can control the air, lifting Toku up to higher areas or using gusts of wind to fight enemies. It is an elegant set-up and while it can be a little frustrating at times (and what wii game isn't?), it is quite possibly the game that best uses the Wii remote (I'm talking about from an ingenuity perspective and am also excluding sports games). It also makes it rather difficult to replicate perfectly on any other console, but it was (temporarily) released on iOS and I think is currently available on PC. It's a platformer with lots of little puzzle-y things and some fighting. Most of the fights are pretty simple and you can often just as easily run past without fighting, or just blow the enemy away (without killing necessarily it).

The game had a sequel, where you have to save Toku's mother (who is an explorer and got cursed by some of Balasar's poison). This time you meet the spirit of the seasons, Sonté, and you get the power to change seasons from her. The game ends without any complete resolution though, because we still haven't faced Balasar, but the series ended there. The second game was a complete improvement over the first one, so it's such a shame it ended when they were hitting their stride. I partly blame the fact the Wii was approaching the end of its lifetime, but there was probably more to it than that.

One of the best things about the game was the art and the music. I mean, look at some of the locations:

(It's harder to find nice shots of the scenes I wanted online than I thought, so these'll do)

And the music... I reblogged the title theme, but the rest of the soundtrack is just so elegant too.

Oh yeah, and I forgot the art that shows during Enril's story of how she got trapped:

I'm also sad that there seemed to be a plan for all the spirits (fire, water, earth and seasons) to appear in a game (judging by how the first game ends), but we only meet Sonté and Enril. I wanted to meet the water spirit...

But yeah, I 100% would recommend this game. Its only fault is it can be a bit short, especially the first game. The sequel's final boss fight I also found a bit annoyingly tough, but I haven't fought it in a while though.

[intertexts]

blghhhhhh i need to pack. also. =_=

[dreams-in-daylight]

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[earthrealm-konquest]

━ ⋆ God im so bad at online mortal kombat but I'm on it for the weekly skin..... if you guys ever find someone with 2 wins and 10000 losses thats me.....

[harrysfolklore]

max verstappen being the perfect boyfriend: a compilation

summary: max verstappen can’t help but talk about his girlfriend whenever he cans, fans make compilation videos about it

folkie radio: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAXIEEE, it's been a minute since the last time i did a compilation blurb and this felt like the perfect occasion to bring them back, i hope you like this!

MASTERLIST | MY PATREON

Max Verstappen, three time world champion and the best driver of his generation is known for his incredible driving skills and relentless pursuit of victory on the track.

However, behind the wheel, Max has another passion that rivals his love for racing: his girlfriend.

In every interview, press conference, and social media post, Max can't help but gush about her, seamlessly sharing stories of their life together into conversations about lap times and race strategies.

Fans quickly began doing compilation videos about all the times he mentioned his girlfriend publicly, and those gathered millions of views across social media platforms.

The most popular one was called "Max Verstappen being the perfect boyfriend: a compilation," and it began with a video of Max arriving to the paddock for media day, Red Bull's social media team filming him while he answered some rapid fire questions.

"Waffles or Pancakes? You know I used to love pancakes but I think I've had too many because my girlfriend is obsessed with making them," he said as he signed some stuff, "So I would go for Waffles at the moment, but if my girlfriend is watching this I'd say I take her pancakes every day."

The next clip was from a post qualifying interview, and of course, Max earned the pole position, the interviewer had asked him what was expecting for the race the following day.

"To win of course, that's what I'm here for," he said with so hesitation, "But I'm also looking forward to it because my girlfriend will be here, it's the first race she attends this season and I can't wait to see her in the crowd while I take on the podium."

The video moved to show Max with his teammate Sergio Perez, they were playing a game of Green Flag or Red Flag, they were asked about people who film themselves at the gym and Max immediately waved the red flag.

"I actually don't go to the gym anymore," Max added, "I get annoyed by everyone else so I just exercise at home."

"So no topless selfies, not even at home," the interviewer said.

"I don't need to impress anyone, I've got my girlfriend, so," Max shrugged.

The next clip was taken from Max's own Youtube channel, he was showing some of his preparation routine for a race, that included some neck training, checking statistics, quick meetings with his team and engineers among other things.

And of course, his girlfriend made an appearance, standing in a corner watching everything unfold. He approached her, race suit on and helmet in hand, kissed her lips gently as she caressed his arm.

"Be safe out there okay?" her voice could be faintly heard.

"Always schatje, I love you."

In the next segment, Max had just earned his second world championship and was doing a casual interview for a sports channel.

"Do you have your girlfriend now call you 'Two time world champion Max Verstappen' or just Max,"

"Definitely not the first one," Max laughed, "She'd never do that, she says she likes to keep me humble."

"Your girlfriend has a pet name for you?" the guy asked again.

"We call each other a bit different but I prefer not to say that on camera," Max laughed again, "I don't want the internet to make fun of me for being cheesy."

The next clip was from Max's streamings, he was too immersed in a game that he didn't hear his girlfriend come into the room, noticing her presence when she leaned into him.

Out of habit of keeping their privacy, he covered the camera but forgot to turn his mic off.

"Schatje I'm streaming," he said, unaware that everyone could hear him.

"Oh I'm sorry, I was going to ask if you could feed the cats but I'll do it myself," his girlfriend spoke.

"No I'll do it, just let me get off the stream,"

"Baby, there's no need," she insisted.

"I was missing you anyways, just give me a minute."

His audience couldn't see anything but they clearly heard how Max kissed his girlfriend's lips, turning his attention back to the screen, he realized that he was broadcasting their conversation to everyone.

His viewers went wild in the chat, spamming heart emojis and comments about how sweet the couple was. Max ended the stream with a laugh, addressing his fans. "Alright, you heard the boss. I gotta go feed the cats. See you all next time."

On the same note, another clip from a video for RedBull with Checo was included, they had been asked to show the most recent picture in their phones.

"Oh it's from this morning, my girlfriend with the kids," Max said, showing the picture to the camera.

"The kids?" Checo asked with a laugh.

"The cats are our kids," Max shrugged, "Jimmy and Sassy Verstappen."

A particularly touching moment was from a press conference after a difficult race. Max had finished fifth, a rare position for him given his usual dominance. When asked how he dealt with setbacks, he gave a candid response.

"It can be tough, but my girlfriend always knows how to lift my spirits. She's my biggest supporter and always finds the right words to say. Just being with her makes everything better, no matter how bad the race went."

During a clip of Max giving a tour of the Red Bull factory, he stopped at a wall covered in race-winning memorabilia. Among the trophies and champagne bottles, there was a small, framed photograph.

"This is special to me," Max pointed it out, "It's from my first win with Red Bull. But look closer..."

The camera zoomed in to show a young woman in the background of the photo, cheering in the pit lane.

"That's my girlfriend," Max said softly. "She was there for my first win, and she's been there for every one since - even if she can't always be at the track. The team knew how much that meant to me, so they made sure she was in this photo when they framed it."

In the next segment, Max was asked about his favorite off-track activity.

"I love cooking," Max grinned, "Well, more like watching my girlfriend cook. She's amazing in the kitchen, and I'm just there to taste-test everything."

The compilation included a moment during a press conference, Max addressed a question about his girlfriend facing criticism online. The question arose after she received negative comments following a public appearance with him.

"Look, it's tough sometimes," Max began, his expression turning serious. "She didn't choose this life, but she supports me through everything. It's not fair for her to get hate just because of who she's dating. If you have a problem with me that's fine but don't go after my family or my girlfriend because that is just unacceptable."

The final clip that wrapped the video us was from the FIA Prize Giving ceremony, Max received his trophy for winning the 2023 championship.

In his acceptance speech, he thanked his team, his family, and, of course, his girlfriend.

"Winning races and championships is amazing, but having someone by your side who believes in you and supports you unconditionally is truly special. To my girlfriend, thank you for being my rock and my biggest cheerleader. I love you."

The screen faded to black, showing a text that read: Max Verstappen, three time world champion and the perfect boyfriend.