#for now though yeah.. just cats

[icewindandboringhorror]

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[coyoteclan]

Big TW for pet loss

Hey, clangen tumblr and those who just enjoy the silly cats on this blog. I know it's been a little bit of time since my last update, but unfortunately during the past few months, I have been caring for my closest friend, Comet.

She's been my best friend for 15 whole years, and on February 9th of 2024, I'm sad to say that she has passed. I won't lie when I say that this is one of the hardest posts I've ever made, but I want to continue this blog in her honor. Normally, I have a terrible habit of just letting projects like this slip by me and gather dust; however Comet was meant to play an integral part within the blog to immortalize her, and I refuse to let something meant just for her to go to waste.

I want to thank you all first of all for being such an amazing community. I've genuinely had so much joy come of this blog, and it pains me that I let it go stagnant for as long as I have. There are 568 of you now, which is so extremely wild to me; but I hope that from now on, you can all love Comet as much as I did, even if as a memory.

I hope to return to posting content both here and on my main, @mxssacre , but for now I still need time to grieve and come to terms with the loss of someone that was so incredibly intertwined with everything I've done since I was 9 years old.

Thank you for everything Comet, my heart, my soul, my love.

More of my favorite photos of her beneath the cut.

It's hard to choose favorites out of the thousands of photos I've taken of her over the years, but I hope these do her justice to show what an amazing being she was. I hope you're hunting your toy mice in the stars, Comet.

[deer-with-a-stick]

I LIED AND I'M BACK ON MY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS BULLSHIT

HE-

[pebblezone]

How many silly hobbies can Seras pick up? That answer is between me and god ❤️

[drawbudd]

LOVE WINS???

[mokeonn]

Since I found out steam does a year in review (I had no idea until this year) I have decided that I must play video games more and play every game in my steam library so that my year in review is 100% accurate next year and I don't get told that my top 2 games were Disco Elysium and Baldur's Gate 3 because I would Hyperfixate on one game for a whole month (or three) and play nothing else, and still have my genre graph have nothing to do with those two top games and instead have "cats" as a genre while calling me a fag

[jessiesjaded]

Lost in the sauce

[acoraxia]

Me, trying to identify the common thread between Wukong’s relationships with Tripitaka, Macaque, and Erlang - is it the self righteousness in the face of all evidence to the contrary? Is it the unwillingness to see Wukong’s perspective or even see him as a person? Is it the hurting Wukong until they need something from him?

Oh I know! They need to either improve their behavior or be kept far far away from him!! (And that’s being generous)

Me sliding into my notes after taking my final exam for my psych course: well then

I find it interesting how Sun Wukong’s relationships can be separated into three categories involving these 3 specific characters: Fatherhood, Friendship and (at the very core) Brotherhood

Tripitaka was seen as a father-like figure to Sun Wukong and the use of master and student dynamic further proves this in the sense that Tripitaka was someone who Sun Wukong wanted to impress. He sees him as someone of higher status than him (“You’re the great monk!”) and the whole overarching moments in the book where Sun Wukong cries or tells Tripitaka that everything he does is for the sake of pleasing his master and wanting him to be proud of him. 

And while Tripitaka was not actively choosing to be awful to Sun Wukong he certainly did his damage in not taking Sun Wukong serious when he should have and listening to others (Zhu Bajie) when Sun Wukong warned him about dangers. Because remember that Tripitaka’s first experience with Sun Wukong was seeing him as a demon who was trapped and then freed and then he murdered right in front of him — and we know that Sun Wukong did not know that, hey, murder is bad so of course he was proud of that moment and didn’t understand why Tripitaka was so appalled by this.  

And this is a reoccurring thing with them: Sun Wukong getting punished and called out by Tripitaka but never told why his actions are bad and why he deserved his punishments. 

Their relationship wasn’t the best because of this, SWK wanting to protect Tripitaka and get praise from him but Tripitaka not ever seeing SWK as someone willing to learn and only as a cheeky, impish monkey. 

Macaque was supposedly Sun Wukong’s best friend and because we don’t know much of their dynamic it sucks that I can’t really fully go into depth with this dynamic but he does lose the sense of seeing Sun Wukong as just a friend when he starts putting him on this high pedestal and then having unrealistically high expectations from him since day one of his appearance. He wants Sun Wukong to go back to his old self, refuses to acknowledge that he’s changed and then proceeds to target everything around him to get him to bite back. 

He doesn’t care for how much his actions effect others and he’s not fully evil but he’s so blinded by the concept of getting his old friend back that it kind of makes him do the worst possible decisions in order to get there. 

There's some love there (platonic, romantic, whatever) because honestly if he didn't love Sun Wukong at some point then he wouldn't go this far to try and get a rouse out of him, try to get him to look at him or talk to him or even attempt to get in his line of vision as much as possible by holding up Xiaotian and everything else he holds dear to him to get his attention. But he doesn't know how to deal with these emotions properly so he instead chooses the most destructive patterns instead.

He’s the friend who says he’s the closest person in Sun Wukong’s life without realizing that Sun Wukong’s already moved on and wants to start a new life and he doesn’t try to move on as well so he can catch up to Sun Wukong.

Their relationship is equal to that of old friends who fell out and they both had a play in this but it takes time to mend it and while it is not broken forever they are still going to need more than one apology (both of them need to apologize btw) to make amends.

Erlang on the other hand is interesting.. because they didn’t start out as brothers. And their interactions are so minimal in the book (as far as i can tell they interact once before Sun Wukong meets him again to defeat a demon and then he’s never mentioned again) but if you add in the continuation of Erlang’s story with the Lotus Lantern, it’s much more interesting.

(I rechecked and Erlang is only written 80 times in my copy of the book: when he’s summoned by Guayin, when he fights Sun Wukong, when he imprisons him, when he burns down his mountain, when he fights alongside him and when his dragon wife is mentioned.)

From a perspective outside of the Heavenly realm, this quarrel between them can just be seen as two brothers fighting over who gets to be the one who’s right at that moment. It reads off as more of a dispute between who is “favored” more — because Sun Wukong was excited to meet Erlang, he praised him and said he heard of him from legends (similar to a little brother hearing all of his big brother’s accomplishments).

This is how Erlang learned of Sun Wukong:

‘The Great Sage Equaling Heaven, the monkey fiend of the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, has rebelled. Because he stole peaches, wine and pills while in Heaven and wrecked the Peach Banquet, we have despatched a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and eighteen heaven−and−earth nets to surround the mountain and force him to submit, but we have not yet succeeded. We do now therefore especially appoint our worthy nephew and his sworn brothers to go to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit and give their help in eliminating him. When you succeed, large rewards and high office shall be yours.’ Erlang was delighted. [...]

And then their following interaction:

"Now I remember who you are," replied the Great Sage. "Some years ago the Jade Emperor's younger sister wanted to be mortal and came down to the lower world, where she married a Mr. Yang and gave birth to a son, who split the Peach Mountain open with his axe. Is that who you are? I should really fling you a few curses, but I've got no quarrel with you; and it would be a pity to kill you by hitting you with my cudgel. So why don't you hurry back, young sir, and tell those four Heavenly Kings of yours to come out?"  When the True Lord Erlang heard this he burst out angrily, "Damned monkey! Where are your manners? Try this blade of mine!" The Great Sage dodged the blow and instantly raised his gold−banded club to hit back.

Note that Sun Wukong is being cheeky here — if he genuinely wanted to fight Erlang he would have done so instantly but due to knowing his origin he didn’t want to. That and he probably didn't know it was bad manners since he is, in fact, a monkey. Meanwhile Erlang is the one who struck first and it sits with me that Erlang continues to strike down on Sun Wukong despite SWK no longer wanting to fight.

Their fighting is less of Sun Wukong instigating Erlang and more of Erlang wanting to beat him down for not being the “right type of god” that Heaven wants — which could easily be said about him, too. The passage of brotherhood these two go down on is always so interesting due to the fact that Sun Wukong doesn’t want to fight him and that Erlang is the one who calls Sun Wukong a sworn brother. The book can be taken in many ways of course but Erlang keeps breaking all the things that Sun Wukong holds dear to him (his kingdom, his monkeys, his pride and his generals) and then doesn’t apologize for it whatsoever. 

These three characters refuse to see Sun Wukong as a changed man and that’s where their problems lie, actually, and it’s interesting how it’s portrayed in three different types of relationships that are often different from the typical type of relationship seen in media.

[skrunksthatwunk]

found out that rascal's owner took him again while i was out, and he's probably not gonna be back since the semester's almost over. i don't even know if his owner's coming back next semester, if i'll ever see him again. if he'll ever see me again. why do they wait until im not around to do this? why do they never let me say goodbye to him?

[dykethang]

hm. having a ptsd time because of Some Stuff I Was Cursed To See. come to tumblr instead. immediately see a continuation of The Same Thing, Except Untagged. think perhaps the social media is not working for my brain todays

[orcelito]

Having lost my cat, my uncle, my great grandmother, my grandma's best friend (& one of the people who helped raise me), AND my dad all within the span of 9 months,

I have little sympathy for people who use deaths as an excuse to be an asshole. I get it, it sucks. Get the fuck over it. Your grief is not an excuse to treat others like shit. What the fuck.

[lungache]

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[shopcat]

also just for funs bc i'm for the actual first time just taking whoever i LIKE instead of trying for a particular Theme these are my current villagers ^_^ plus tybalt for spacing

[coffee-bat]

huge announcement everyone:

for the first time in my life, i have gotten the elusive Heartburn

[answrs]

they're finally home. i haven't opened the packages yet but after four years my girls are finally home.

[upsidedowngrass]

see, i dont know if just not htat many people watched the interview, but literally the interview with that person has been INTEGRAL to my understanding of liam. like the fact that liam was described as a cat person, AND that he would name the cat “something practical, like Fluffy” has literally changed how i look at liam ever since i watched it