#i'm a cat blog

[queenerdloser]

first weekend off in a while and just ruminating on my two beloved kitties who have been hanging out with me in my bedroom at all times during this very lazy weekend. love them both so much for very different reasons.

sweet truffle will literally bully her way to slink under my duvet (i usually have it over my legs at least when i'm hanging out in bed on my laptop) so she can pass out between my legs for hours at a time in the most boneless kitty slump known to man. and yet the moment my laptop or book closes she knows that means i'm about to get up and will meow at me as i lift the cover for kisses and snuggle time. softest most plump & snuggly kitty i've ever had.

mr fluffyman dumpling has literally been staring at the sunspot on the ceiling caused by my laptop for the last 15m because he is FASCINATED by sunspots of any kind and desperately wants to chase it. meows in ardent frustration when he can't reach it. yesterday he circled around on the floor and yowled his fervent melancholy at the sunspot on the ceiling at the end of the bed. truly the stupidest king of all cats. i'd die for him.

[thatnununguy]

Rosecat (she doesn't like being held)

[andiv3r]

"If you could have any superpower, what w-"

Shapeshifting. Shapeshifting shapeshifting shapeshifting. I'm a transgender therian, what the fuck did you think I would pick.

[littlekittybabies]

spooky boy mason says happy friday the 13th!

[mxssacre]

Rereading her super edition (again)... I love this grumpy old cat So Much

[front-facing-pokemon]

[speyeralling-down-thy-majesty]

There's a building on fire,and in front of it lays a very fluffy reddish brown cat, unharmed and clearly enjoying the flames. Walking closer one can hear her purring.

[somegrumpynerd]

Some doodles for the Gay cat panic au from @krossheadquarters's anon that I finally remembered to finish

[mel-loly]

[peppermint-moss]

CALIGO WARRIOR CAT AU!!! HONESTLY HOW HAVE I NOT DONE THIS EARLIER (caligo is the city of mist ttrpg campaign i play with my friends C: i love our mind blorbos sm)

I had way too much fun with this lmao; like the mlp au I drew these in my sketchbook a few months ago and got the chance to colour them digitally recently. And then for this au I couldn't help but make additional digital doodles haha

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[queenerdloser]

one of my favorite things about truffle is that she has a very Set Idea of when bedtime is. and because she shares my pillow every night, she can't go to bed unless i go to bed (as i usually use our sleeping pillow as a backrest when awake, so it is utterly useless to sleepy kitties until i am also about to sleep). so when i am staying up Past The Bedtime, she has this habit of sitting right next to me on my bed and just staring up at me, pointedly yawning and trying to kill me with her eyes when i dont immediately go to sleep right then and there. and then she'll circle around me and huff off and come back and do it all again like 10m later. peak comedy hour. i am getting passive aggressively nagged by a cat who barely even meows.

[bonefall]

Genuine question, is the two-faced kitten phenomenon not related to chimerism?

Not always! Sometimes it is!

Like I explained, a chimera is a fusion of two fully fertilized zygotes in one body. The chimeras we're talking about are Natural Fusion Chimeras: the result of two fully fertilized zygotes which fused together in utero.

Though the "split face" is the most dramatic example of it, many chimeras are actually fused in patches all over the body. This can resemble a mosaic, which is where that other term "mosaicism" comes from!

But like I explained, it's important to understand that chimerism and mosaicism are actually two VERY different things under the hood, which can be confused for each other if you don't actually know what the terms mean.

(Chimera = Two full sets of zygotes. Mosaic = one zygote with extra info.)

This is a chimera dog, his name is Tiger!

Tiger's face is not split. He has black patches! This is one type of chimera!

Here is another example of a chimera, this time a cat with the split face in question. His name is Narnia.

Chimeras are a fusion of two sets of genes, and that expression doesn't have to "meet in the middle." It just happens to occur sometimes, because the majority of multi-cellular life on earth is bilaterally symmetrical.

That's fancy talk for most animals being mirrored on both sides. It's a pattern in nature. A cleft palette is most common in the middle of the lip, having two faces splits a skull down the middle, having a divided tail happens at the tip, etc.

There's evolutionary theories about it, but bottom line is that it's just an observable fact of the natural world. Animals are usually bilaterally symmetrical, so if it's going to NOT be symmetrical, it will happen split down the center.

So, torties can just have the split face and it's nothing peculiar.

Like this one! Probably not a chimera, just a cute tortie with a split face pattern! Tortoishells are known best for it because they're common and beautiful, but they can be any two colors.

Here's one who's gold, gray, and white. Also genetically a tortie but I'm actually not a cat genetics enthusiast, you'll have to ask someone else for that info

Here's the pattern in black and white.

So, in a nutshell, the canon design for Moonpaw is actually not uncommon in nature, nor is it a dead ringer for being a TRUE chimera. Not even with the heterochromia, though it does help.

It is your mission and moral imperative to make your Moonpaw design as BONKERS as possible. NO RULES. SMASH TWO CATS TOGETHER. GO NUTS!

[mattodore]

pov your boyfriend asks if you're really not going to stay the night :(

[hamsternamedmarinette]

Adrien watches that one Powerpuff Girls episode where the girls try to be more like their favorite comic book heroes and fail to stop a monster because they're trying to be someone else and taking for granted the things that make them special and great at what they do. And he completely misses the moral of the story and he's like "wow 🙂 yeah 😀 the Powerpuff Girls really are the best superheroes ever 😊" And the next time he goes to fight crime as Cat Noir he's like trying so cringefullly hard to be Buttercup

[bitterclan]

You guys remember BitterClan? Me neither

i thought this was cute hehe

[mcyt-cats]

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