I looked into getting some silvervine kickers after seeing @l3irdl3rain thank someone for sending some (all 3 cats love them now, so it was a good find!), and the silvervine kickers I ordered came with three of these compressed catnip wall rollers. PLEASE look at my daughter's 5 year old cat, Dusty, generate an actual fucking puddle of drool 3 seconds after I stuck this to the wall and took the cap off!
My copy of Thriller40 arrived at my Aunts house (I’m heading to the US on Thanksgiving so I thought it just made more sense to have it sent there).
I know it arrived, not because of the delivery notification (which never popped up in my emails, weird), but because when I face timed my Mother and I asked about it, she rolled her eyes at me.
“Yeah it arrived. Why do you need another copy of Thriller?”
I hadn’t mentioned what it was. “You opened it?”
“Well yeah. I was wondering why you’re buying CDs in this day and age.”
“...I wanted it?”
“Ok. Don’t you already own it?”
“Uhhh...”
“You don’t even know do you?”
“...I mean...”
“You don’t even know where your CDs are do you?”
“Yes I do. They’re on top of my closet.”
“So?”
“So what?”
“So do you already own Thriller?”
-Evasively- “...I’m not sure I do actually.”
“Alright, keep me updated, won’t you?”
...She knew I can’t leave well enough alone and I’m going to have to look now. >:(
the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
people who go through the main tags of big and tumultuous fandoms looking for new fresh good posts to reblog are essential to any circle. they’re like true hunter gatherers leaving the safety of settlement and braving the unknown wilderness to find food for the flock. they risk their lives every day and will come back with a few scratches at best and severe psychological damage at worst
this was a commission for @/elnorawhittaker on instagram of her amazing Dusty Omens au. might be one of my favorite little wordless comics ive ever done. if you want an incredible au with amazing character designs go check it out rn its so good
I need to talk about Cash Piggott and how important his character is to the asexual community.
I absolutely adore the fact that Cash calls people out on their acephobia and never, ever apologises for who he is. He doesn't think he's broken.
In season one, we see Darren say "you know what, I think there's something really fucking wrong with you, Cash," and Cash immediately, with no hesitation, screams "well fuck you then".
In season two, we see Dusty say that he's being selfish asking Darren to give up sex and he immediately stands up and says "fuck this" because he knows he doesn't have to listen to people making him feel bad about his sexuality.
And when he's talking to his nan about it, Cash says "it's not fair, I would do anything, why does it have to be the one thing I can't change about myself?"
In every single one of these scenes, we never see Heartbreak High blame Cash for his sexuality. We never see him apologise to anyone for not feeling sexual attraction, and we never see him feel guilty about it, or try to change who he is.
CA$H recognises that his sexuality might be difficult for people to accept and understand, but he never lets other people make him feel like he's broken, or flawed. And that's so powerful to see.
Because asexual people are not broken. And we can't be fixed. And we are not being selfish for putting in boundaries.
I absolutely adore Douglas Piggott. He means the world to me, and this representation is so, so important.