#crazy names

[beckym29114]

Barnabas

Day 15 of @hinnymicrofic - Found

Now that most of Harry's children were at Hogwarts, he was no longer used to anyone waiting by the door when he got home from work. So he was very surprised when he was greeted by a small calico kitten that let out a mournful meow as he hung up his cloak.

"Hello there," he said as he picked up the kitten. It began to purr with contentment as he held it in his arms.

"You met Barnabas," Lily exclaimed as she ran up to her father. "Isn't he the cutest kitten ever! Mum and I found him this morning. He is super sweet! I promise that I'll feed him and keep his cat box clean. And he's so little that he won't hardly take up any room. Plus, I can take him with me to Hogwarts next year. Can we please keep him? Pretty please!

"Can I make it past the door before you start asking me for something?" Harry asked while he tried to keep the amusement out of his voice.

"Of course!" Lily jumped out of the way and followed Harry into the living room. Harry set the kitten down next to the pile of new cat toys. When he turned around, Lily looked up at him expectantly with her big brown eyes.

"Yes, we can keep him."

"Hooray! You are the bestest dad ever!" Lily shouted as she hugged Hany tight. He hugged her back and kissed the top of her head. When he let go, she plopped down next to the new kitten, chattering away and waving toys in front of his face.

Harry walked into the kitchen to greet his wife. "So, Barnabas," he said as he bent down to kiss Ginny.

"Lily actually picked out the name."

"I've always said that she takes after her mother," Harry said with a smile while Ginny turned back to the counter. Once she started chopping vegetables again Harry asked, "Where exactly did you find him?"

"The pet store."

[thedisablednaturalist]

Im fucking sobbing looking at the new black footed cat at Utah's Hogle zoo

Shes just a fucking baby

Baby with a 60% successful kill rate

[soaked-doors]

*romance dawns your trio* celebrating the end of the semester with these fools

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

Yuri but its toxic and they kiss about it

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton rating his FNAF animatronics,,

[wheatormeat]

Ms. Mia Fey

[saltedbiscuiit]

Apple Zai

[txttletale]

once you notice how normalized it is to call women who are public figures by their first names in contexts where you';d refer to any man by surname you'll start going insane

[mothmancat]

Israeli Miku Israeli Miku Israeli Miku!!!

[bone-apple-teeths]

Imagine you're me, about to listen to the new Magnus Protocol episode. You see the title is "Getting Off" and you chuckle to yourself. Then you immediately feel bad because no, you just have a dirty mind. Johnny and Alex are trying to craft a serious, complex, and horrifying story that hopes to surpass its amazing predecessor and you're laughing. Grow up me. Getting off is probably referring to a train or a bus -- maybe even a boat! Yeah that makes sense, because the last statement we had was ocean-themed. Cool, now that we got that cleared up, let's press play--

And the episode is about a fucking killer mascot going to a strip club. God I hate it here.

[ferncloud]

🌗 moonpaw

[dieinct]

i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

[cosmosnout]

The real reason Oda had to get rid of her was not for plot convenience, but bc she would have kicked everyone’s ass. (Source: trust me bro)

[sailoreddy]

[majunju]

olorun

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton’s awkward family reunion in FNAF 3,,