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i just watched a professional cat judge call a cat a “sack of oats” in a positive way

Edit here is the video.

“It’s a female, I love the length of her body. Pick her up here she hangs like a sack of oats. Nice, round, open expression.”

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THEY PLAYED THE ROOSTERTEETH PRODUCED MV FOR ONE OF THEIR SONGS??? i was not prepared to look at burnie burns this evening

guy i’m seeing agent florida live on stage tonight (barenaked ladies concert)

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omg….

guy i’m seeing agent florida live on stage tonight (barenaked ladies concert)

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guys i’m seeing agent florida live on stage tonight (barenaked ladies concert)

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i learned about a stupid looking bird today and i cant stop laughing

its called a crested satinbird (cnemophilus macgregorii)

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for the past few months all i have been managing to do is starting new paintings and getting about halfway through and then promptly abandoning it.

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been thinking about anakin a lot lately

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I sold a single Lego horse and got the most amazing feedback, complete with attached picture

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I refuse to draw the fucking knifle at that angle what on gods green hell was that. Why is it so shaped. Kinda lackluster compared to the wip but By God am i proud of his visor. And that shoulder. Waow.

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those irene & seulgi pics……… yeah <3

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I don’t mean to be old but computer used to just have games. U didnt have to pay for em either but if u wanted u could get a little CD that put the game onto the computer and you could play it forever and ever even if the company that made it went to hell and shit. You didn’t even need the internet or wifi or anything. And it was pretty neat

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today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

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got 3 deadlines approaching in a row with none of the work done for them so desperate times call for desperate measures

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going to gay events where no one compliments my 8 stripe gilbert baker embroidered jeans fly like Look At My Crotch Boy

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made a discovery today

this is a star trek post for the two people who follow me that care about star trek. specifically odo from DS9.

if you haven't looked up the actor before, his wikipedia is some crazy shit. looked at today literally just because i needed a clear photo of him for the sake of making a joke.

this is

René Auberjonois.

wikipedia spiraling to be found under the cut

when i scrolled down on his wiki page to find out god knows what i was even curious about, i noticed that some of his family members have wikipedia pages. like "oh cool was his dad like an actor or something?'

no.

that's not what this was.

let's start with his father:

his father was a swiss-american journalist who worked as the foreign correspondent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade. Throughout most of the Cold War, Auberjonois was one of the most admired American reporters based in London.

During World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. and served on secret assignments, including setting up radio transmissions for the Allies to divert the German's attention from the real invasion site on D-Day. From World War II through the Cold War, he worked for many print organizations, and also for NBC and Voice of America. (source)

pretty cool, pretty cool. it gets wilder.

his grandfather:

His grandfather René, who he was presumably named after, was a prominent swiss post-impressionist painter. No clue how well known he is outside of my very specific art-history freak circles, but i can tell you that i was absolutely familiar with his work before this research spiral. Here are some examples of his work:

Nature morte en bleu et rouge (left) and Prière devant la croix (right)

this is an artist whose work i actively studied in class so im aware this won't be as surprising to anyone else but. man. WILD that i never noticed the two people had the same damn name.

ANYWAYS onto the main event:

his great-great-great grandparents.

it's so rare that i look at an actor's wiki page and see someone so distantly related who has a wiki page. i clicked on his great-great-great grandmother's page and was absolutely in no way prepared for what i found.

she was royalty.

not only that, but she's

NAPOLEON'S FUCKING SISTER.

caroline. bonaparte.

younger sister to napoleon, who upon becoming emperor gave her the title of imperial princess. she also was married to Joachim Murat. who was the literal king of Naples from 1 August 1808 – 20 May 1815. (pictured below)

also this other painting of him that is genuinely one of my favorite paintings from the era.

caroline bonaparte and joachim murat's direct descendant is the man perpetually referred to by me as "that goo guy from star trek"

what the hell