#they're having cat-to-cat communication

[xenolinn]

A silly draw of @snekberry's Future!Jon and Cat!Jon

[luci-st4r]

Dude we apparently have fictives of both the pro prat kitty cat and anti prat kitty cat. god take me back just so I can ask you to save me /silly

...what if I made them answer asks? Like. Make a little sideblog for them just to answer asks n stuff (=^･ω･^=) (this is me saying to drop questions for them since they're both fully formed headmates and wanna talk but can't talk among our main friend group for reasons)

[thedreadvampy]

oh boy the depression hole is deep and it is muddy

hahaha I fell into the classic trap! overidentify with your job and considering leaving it will trigger an existential crisis!!!!

[alphaboyd]

we all have a hunger.

[hiighborg]

Insufferable chair jockey harasses local grifter ? What will he do?

[iwantyoursexmp3]

sunday morning lie in having dorothy and felix childhood revelations that make me want to jump into an active cement mixer

[smile-files]

so i have a story idea about magical girls who metamorphose at night and turn into mothmen... and they go around saving the world using light-themed powers...

[nexus-nebulae]

hmmm

[anawkwardlady]

I think it might get people mad but I don't fully believe in those communication carpets you can "train" animals to use. I think a lot of human overinterpretation is going on in here and since people like to throw around the Koko the Gorilla case, well it was kinda debunked too. I don't know why humans seem to think we should hold animals by human standards to show we're respecting them and seeing them as intelligent, sentient beings.

Those communication carpets videos are still funny to watch tho.

[circusballoon]

Hellooo I return, I think! Just finished moving into a new place and I'm so dang tired, but starting to get back in the groove of life :D

I hope y'all are hanging in there! Love you!

[truethes]

no but genuinely this scene in chapter 31 breaks my heart because kur.o has spent his life avoiding everything to the point no one felt that he was listening to them. that, by running away from all of his problems, he didnt hold the same amount of regret and remorse as they did for such events occurring, even if they were by his own hand. these thoughts are a constant, have been one for over 200 years - but he still would not, and could not show it to anyone without the forceful push that mahi.ru’s held all the way towards here. 

[cloudshapedpatch]

okay this might be weird but i wish my little brother lived with me for the sole reason that there are so many kids in my neighborhood. he stays inside all day on his ipad cause there's barely kids his age in our parent's neighborhood but there are so many children always riding their bikes and playing and i feel like he'd like it here

[vitiateoriginator]

Everyone on my dash seems to adopting kittens or finding them. I hope I get to join them in the next couple of months, my datemate and I want to get a kitten so Klaus can finally have a playmate. But we have to wait til we move, which will be soon

[esleep]

i actually do kinda like delivering groceries on the side because it gives me such a unique cross-section of the community. i never know whose groceries im shopping for until i finish the delivery and see them/their home and it's like it adds more detail to the picture of who they are. the baby supplies going to the apartment that i know for a fact is one bedroom (they'll be moving soon - i bet they're apartment hunting, i hope they find a place). the new cat litter box, bowl, and kitten food going to the house covered in "i <3 my dog" paraphernalia (a kitten definitely showed up on the porch recently and made itself at home). the fairly healthy boring grocery order that includes an incongruous tub of candy-filled ice cream going to the home of an elderly woman with toddler toys in the yard (it's clearly for her grandkids, whom she sees often).

shopping for someone else's groceries is a fairly intimate thing. i've bought condoms and pregnancy tests, allergy medicine and nyquil, baby benadryl and teething gel, a huge pile of veggies paired with an equally huge pile of junk food, tampons and shampoo and closet organizers and ant traps and deodorizing shoe inserts and a million other little things that tell a million different stories in their endless combinations. one time someone had me buy one single green bean. i messaged them to confirm that's actually what they wanted, and they said yes - neither of them liked green beans very much, but they had a baby they were introducing to solid foods, and they wanted to let him try one to see if he liked them. another time i had someone request 50 fresh roma tomatoes - not for a restaurant, but for a person in an apartment. the kitchen behind them smelled like basil and garlic when they opened the door. another time i brought groceries to three elderly blind women who share a house. that was one of the few times i have ever broken my rule and gone inside a place i've delivered to, because they asked if i could place the grocery bags in a specific location in the kitchen for them to work on unloading and there was no way i was going to refuse helping.

i gripe about the poor tippers, but people can also be incredibly kind. one time i took shelter from a sudden vicious hailstorm inside an older lady's home in a trailer park, while i was in the middle of delivering her groceries. we both huddled just inside the door, watching in shock as golf-ball-sized hail swept through for about five minutes and then disappeared. she handed me an extra $10 bill on my way out the door.

when covid was at its deadliest, people would leave extra (often lysol-scented) cash tips and thank-you notes for me taped to the door or partially under the mat. i especially loved the clearly kid-drawn thank you notes with marker renderings of blobby people in masks, or trees, or rainbows. in summer of 2020 i delivered to a nice older couple who lived outside of town in the hills, and they insisted i take a huge double handful of extra disposable gloves and masks to wear while shopping - those were hard to find in stores at the time, but they wanted me to have some of their supply and wouldn't take no for an answer.

anyway. all this to say people are mostly good, or at least trying to be, despite my complaints.

[pa-pa-plasma]

"pitbulls are just genetically dangerous" no they're not, you just don't know how statistics works. certain dog breeds (though most pits you see are mixed) are used as guard dogs more often than others, so those breeds are more likely to have a higher rate of injuring & killing people since it's their job. if you don't train a dog to attack people, it won't do that. if you're terrified of pitbulls you should also be terrified of every dog.

[jellicle-chants]

This message is for a scam.

If you ever get a message like this in your inbox, make sure you check the hashtag #pet donation scam (or #donation scam if it's not pet-related) first to see if other people have reported the account or message (they tend to reuse them). While you're in the tag, you can also check to see if your scammer used the same profile picture or bio as another one; this one happened to do both.

If I were to click on this blog, I would see some photos of "their" cat plus "their" vet bills, and then a call to action asking me to send money via Paypal friends and family. While this seems innocuous at first glance, this Paypal method doesn't offer any kind of refund if you find out you got scammed, while sites like GoFundMe do. (This isn't an inherent problem with Paypal, just something to be wary of.)

Also, speaking of GoFundMe, one thing I would always suggest is putting the pet's/owner's name into the GFM search along with their hometown (which is often included on the vet bill document) to see if you can find the real owner. You can also do this with Facebook if you have an account, or you could try using TinEye or similar to reverse-image search (although I find this method the least helpful, even when GFMs exist but are only a few days old). Sometimes scammers like this use a real cat with a real emergency so the vet bills are recent; other ones will use old photos of a pet who has passed, and these ones are easier to search for.

Lastly, make sure you report any scammer accounts to Tumblr using the Report > Something else > Unlawful uses or content > Phishing options. (I've already reported this one, so please don't spam staff with more.) Please do spread this around to your followers and friends — I know it can seem tempting to just see a cat in need and want to help immediately, but it's always wise to check around first and make sure it's legit.