#on famous people's cats

[bitletsanddrabbles]

"Dear Charles,

A man named Inkstead* took some pictures of me for Harper’s Bazaar a while ago (I never found out quite why) and one of me holding my secretary in my lap came out very well indeed. When I get the dozen I have ordered I’ll send you one. The secretary, I should perhaps add, is a black Persian cat, 14 years old, and I call her that because she has been around me ever since I began to write, usually sitting on the paper I wanted to use or the copy I wanted to revise, sometimes leaning up against the typewriter and sometimes just quietly gazing out of the window from a corner of the desk, as much as if to say, “The stuff you are doing is a waste of my time, bud.” Her name is Taki (it was originally Take, but we got tired of explaining that this was a Japanese word meaning bamboo and should be pronounced in two syllables), and she has a memory like no elephant ever tried to have. She is usually politely remote, but once in a while will get an argumentative spell and talk back for ten minutes at a time. I wish I knew what she is trying to say then, but I suspect it all adds up to a very sarcastic version of “You can do better.” I’ve been a cat lover all my life (I have nothing against dogs except that they need such a lot of entertaining) and have never quite been able to understand them. Taki is a completely poised animal and always knows who likes cats, never goes near anybody that doesn’t, always walks straight up to anyone, however lately arrived and completely unknown to her, who really does. She doesn’t spend a great deal of time with them, however, just takes a moderate amount of petting and strolls off. She has another curious trick (which may or may not be rare) of never killing anything. She has brought into the house at various times such things as a dove, a blue parakeet, and a large butterfly. The butterfly and the parakeet were entirely unharmed and carried on just as though nothing had happened. The dove gave her a little trouble, apparently not wanting to be carried around, and had a small spot of blood on its breast. But we took it to a bird man and it was all right very soon. Just a bit humiliated. Mice bore her, but she catches them if they insist and then I have to kill them. She has a sort of tired interest in gophers, and will watch a gopher hole with some attention, but gophers bite and after all who the hell wants a gopher anyway? So she just pretends she might catch one, if she felt like it.

She goes with us wherever we go journeying, remembers all the places she has been to before and is usually quite at home anywhere. One or two places have got her – I don’t know why. She just wouldn’t settle down in them. After a while we know enough to take the hint. Chances are there was an axe murderer there once and we’re much better off somewhere else. The guy might come back. Sometimes she looks at me with a rather peculiar expression (she is the only cat I know who will look you straight straight** in the eye) and I have a suspicion that she is keeping a diary, because the expression seems to be saying: “Brother, you think you’re pretty good most of the time, don’t you? I wonder how you’d feel if I decided to publish some of the stuff I’ve been putting down at odd moments.” At certain times she has a trick of holding one paw up loosely and looking at it in a speculative manner. My wife thinks she is suggesting we get her a wrist watch; she doesn’t need it for any practical reason – she can tell the time better than I can – but after all you gotta have some jewelry.

I don’t know why I’m writing all this. It must be I couldn't think of anything else, or – this is where it gets creepy – am I really writing it at all? Could it be that – no, it must be me. Say it’s me. I’m scared.

- Ray

*Actually John Engstead."

- Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler edited by Frank MacShane, pg. 49-51

**I don’t know if the repetition was intentional on Chandler’s part, an error in the letter, or an error in the book, so I left it as is.

[the-nefarious-vampire]

"you only say you're autistic because you want to feel special and different" actually finding out i was autistic made me feel significantly less special and different. before i was autistic i was Strange and Unpredictable in some sort of Unknowable way which Surely meant i was Predestined for Greatness (like storybook character). now im just some fuckin autistic guy like any other. i significantly prefer it this way btw

[brickcollector]

Tugboat is worn out from all the attention

[chaoticallyfluffy]

Ok consider:

A new hero emerges and the Justice League watches him for a while who make sure he’s not a threat. They see this giant clumsy man who moves like he’s not used to his body, smiles goofily every time he saves someone, and is clearly inexperienced with his powers and they’re all just like. Ah. This is a child.

Except they don’t think he’s a ten year old or however old Billy is at the time, no no. Clearly this hero came into existence shortly before his first appearance, just a few months ago. They don’t know how or why but It’s not the weirdest thing they’ve seen so it’s pretty easy to believe.

But they can’t just leave this toddler with the powers of a god to stumble around and potentially hurt someone by accident, nor go down the wrong path and become a villain. So of course they decide to ‘subtly’ guide him without alerting him to the fact they’re onto him.

They introduce themselves but instead of inviting him to the league they pop by every once in a while to ‘subtly’ teach him about responsibility and power, but also about love and humanity. They try to teach him to enjoy life and that he doesn’t have to act like an adult around them, instead encouraging him to enjoy his childhood even if it’s not an ordinary one.

(Too bad the Justice League suck at subtlety.)

Billy is certain they somehow found out he’s a kid before they even met him, probably because of Batman’s freaky know-it-all powers, but he isn’t very worried as they seem nice and don’t treat him like he’s dumb or fragile. They respect him as a hero despite his age so he lets himself act like a kid around them after a while.

When he gets comfortable enough to detransform Billy thinks that’s his identity reveal. The league thinks that he magicked himself a body that’s more of a representation of his true self and fits his developmental age better, possibly as a way to blend in with humans and experience what it’s like to be a normal child. Good for him!

Basically Billy gets a bunch of super powered parents and the Justice League get a newborn man that they think they’re raising from scratch lol

[agenttommykinard]

[icewindandboringhorror]

a quite simple outfit, trying to use the little blue and white apron thing (which is actually a dress I think, that I just leave un-buttoned in the back and added an apron-like tie to lol)

[eyebrow-power]

NEED HELP!

Three minutes ago I realized my goal in life...

To know who officially has the best eyebrows...

BUT I NEED YOU! to help me make a list of competitors! send me asks, respond to this post, or reblog with anyone you can think of who has crazy cool eyebrows! Also, this is a compliment, we aren't making fun of anyone's eyebrows because eyebrows are incredibly powerful

SOME RULES:

-no making fun of anyone's eyebrows, this is a positive poll

-person/character you submit can be from any media, cartoon or live action, etc

-You can think they have the coolest eyebrows for any reason at all, whether they have bushy eyebrows, long eyebrows, no eyebrows, thin eyebrows, short eyebrows, drawn on eyebrows, unibrow etc

Currently, I can think of several eyebrow havers to start with:

Peter Capaldi (of course)

Bowser

Wang Peng from the Integrated Chinese Textbook

Spock

Popular Science Fiction Writer, Adrian Tchaikovsky (yes, he's the spider guy)

Worf

Frida Kahlo (shes iconic, I could never not include her)

Black cats with visible bald spots between their eyes and ears:

like this guy^ and my own cat

PLEASE ADD TO MY LIST

also i've never done a poll like this so hopefully I'm doing it right!

EDIT: I really appreciate the additions so far and Im definitely adding them to my list but its not enough for a proper poll yet, please reblog! This post wont get anywhere without reblogging! Thank you so much!

[enbysiriusblack]

marauders in a famous au:

sirius- actor/comedian (famous influential family)

james- actor/comedian (started as a footballer but had a career ending injury early on)

peter- music artist

remus- youtube essayist/tutor (father famous in the anthropology sphere)

marlene- bassist (started as a rugby player but quit after she was outed)

lily- photographer

mary- model

emmeline- painter/artist

dorcas- footballer

[torra-and-the-toons]

I haven’t drawn anything more with Isaac, so have some random doodles! 

He’s literally the dumbest cat alive and his mere existence is to disprove everything Edd has to say about cats being intelligent and clean.

He’s on a fixed feeding schedule because otherwise he’ll eat himself silly, and he gets a bath once a week. His favorite snack to steal is tortilla chips and his favorite pass time is to yell for no reason. 

Ed adores him despite being heavily allergic, and Eddy has the very Dad Attitude of “I hate cats,” but he can’t resist that cute widdle face. Edd has caught Eddy falling asleep snuggled with Isaac a few times when he happens to stay over too late. He saved a photo in his phone for blackmail purposes. 

[detectivehole]

for as much as i support whatever the hell furries are doing and im sure its all fine i really have never in my life understood it- and i have actively tried, like put effort into trying to see the appeal- which is fine. not for me, and i wont understand, and thats just how it is with some stuff

for a year, i was abroad for school. i kept in regular contact with my family of course, but by nature of being so far away and also just because its not how conversations work, i was never 100% aware of what everyone was doing. for instance, my little sisters are always getting into new stuff and hobbies and whatnot, and i was probably privy to only about half of it, whereas im usually aware of at least 80% of it if im in the country

the point of both of these statements is that i came back from a year away to spend an extended amount of time with them to catch up a bit and make up for lost face-to-face time and they immediately bombarded me with furry terminology. they had both gotten into warrior cats while i was gone, and are making fursuit heads. which is fine thats pretty normal 11yo behavior all things considered but theres few greater shocks in your life than sitting with someone you do not at all associate with that sorta thing and having them look up to you with their big trusting "youre my role model for some reason" eyes and go "do you have a fursona?" and having to swallow the strange discomfort you associate with the term while also trying to process that they know what that all is AND try and categorize the information you know on the subject into "age appropriate", "not age appropriate," "stuff they probably know anyway regardless of whether its appropriate or not," and "stuff i can try and relate to them about this" taking points. all fast enough that you dont hesitate too long and can formulate a nice, encouraging response. also youre on 13 hours of jetlag

"no i dont, but i know what that is. do you have one? can i see? "

[sonknuxadow]

i have to wonder if maybe knuckles not having as much screentime as he should in the series is due to budget or time constraints. like im not sure if they had more or less money to work with that the movies did but either way animation is very expensive and time consuming especially the particular style theyre going for here so i feel like its possible there just wasnt room in the budget and/or schedule to give knuckles more focus. which would suck if it was true because idk why they would wanna make a knuckles series if they cant afford to actually make knuckles be the main character

[mariahryry]

Mariah and her cat 🐱

[catdemontraphouse]

Are there a lot of very urgent problems in China? Yes absolutely without a doubt. But I hate to see people use that to justify shitting all over China in a broad sense like writing off all the amazing art and culture and acting like there aren’t tons of amazing Chinese people with good hearts and fantastic talent and such. Like… come on yall. Many countries have serious issues and bad people who are stain on society, that’s a human problem that affects anywhere humans live it’s not an exclusively China only problem. You know what I mean? I know I’m preaching to the choir here but it just frustrates me. Like people can call out the severe problems a country faces and do their part to fight against injustice without simultaneously declaring that anyone and anything from said country is “bad.” It’s not just China that I see this attitude towards but that’s a common target. :/

[daydadahlias]

What I love about Ashton getting a cat (I'm assuming the cat is his), is that people can start writing his cat into fanfics!!🐱 The first cat in the 5SOS group!!!

that is not his cat

[slicedblackolives]

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[lucalicatteart]

Poll adventure (paventure? lol) Day 5: read the small story tidbit below the poll for more details, OR just vote based on initial impression

(✦ see past poll results + further information HERE (link) ✦)

The winning option of yesterday's poll was that the adventurer should choose a suspicious egg as his gift ….

"He carefully plucks the egg from the gift pile, wrapping it in spare fabric and tucking it away inside a small wooden box within his backpack for safety. Not really wanting to stick around and get accidentally pulled into scary underground tunnels or something, he shakily bids the Well Creature farewell, and continues on through the forest, just following whatever he can find that looks vaguely like a path.. He makes an occasional stop to pick up a cool rock, harvest berries, or let the cat play in the grass, but mostly just wanders aimlessly, lost in daydreams and contemplations of how his New Fun Life Of Spontaneous Adventure is going so far......

Eventually, the forest tapers off into a more open area of land, hosting what seems like a humble little village. By this point, it's nearly nightfall, which reminds him that he's actually quite afraid of the dark, so he scrambles about town for a moment until finally finding the local Inn. After nervously stumbling inside, he rents the cheapest room available, then sits alone, snacking on some free leftover food scraps and plain water. It's been a tiring day, but in the spirit of becoming an adventurer and pushing himself to have as many experiences as possible, he figures he could hang around downstairs a little longer, perhaps get one more thing done before bed -- What should he do?"