I took my girls in for a lion shave yesterday (Portia, because she recently had a hairball so large it had to be removed endoscopically, and Puck, to help manage her allergies). And as much as I love them at maximum poof, I also adore them as scrawny plucked chickens! They are impossibly soft and so tiny! Plus, their fur changes colour - their core is mostly white at full growth, but initially comes back in their point colours.

Here’s Puck before, mid-regrowth, and after - truly 90% floof 😂

[Image ID: Three photos of a tortoiseshell Ragdoll cat. In the first, she sits on a windowsill on a spring day, with a full coat of long white hair. In the second, she sleeps in a cardboard box with a short coat of red and brown fur. In the third, she sit on a couch, freshly shaved and staring at the camera with a look of betrayal. /End ID]

Tagging @star-anise in case she needs a pick-me-up and/or a good laugh.

hawkeyedflame:

hawkeyedflame:

touching grass isn’t enough some of y'all need to drive out to the countryside and look at the stars

this post was aimed at the discourse-addled and terminally online, but i’m glad it’s reaching an audience of people who are just excited about stargazing in general

fluoresensitive:

The way he’s so right about Hozier

another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire:

entroponauts:

queer monstrosity classics showdown

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[The Godfather voice] you come into my house on this, the summer of my @re-dracula hyperfixation

farialyton:

Facebook deleted this almost immediately. It’s almost like the ultrawealthy don’t want us knowing or talking about what’s at stake.

indridcolds:

puddeneen:

catchaspark:

timefortigers:

papinianista:

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

sheds a single tear

every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years

#i hope we all celebrated this international feast day accordingly

to think that in two years this video will be twenty years old………….

cutebotcalendar:

thecripchronicals:

hemotrauma:

Girlies with chronic pain rise up

We can’t, it hurts too much

sosuperawesome:

Ribbon Embroidered Hats // Lotus on Etsy

catchymemes:

What an amazing Ginger boys.

mitzo:

king-ofthetrill:

burn-4u:

Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

😬

naiokiara:

roach-works:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

fandomsandfeminism:

geekandmisandry:

vaspider:

doctorguilty:

hater-of-terfs:

jeste-posting:

hater-of-terfs:

jeste-posting:

hater-of-terfs:

If someone tells me they’re queer I believe them. If someone tells me they’re straight I believe them. This isn’t that hard

What so like a cis het allo person can just call themselves queer now?

What problem, exactly, are you so concerned about? I don’t know if you’ve noticed but queerness is still very much marginalized, it’s not as “trendy” as people try to act, and straight people aren’t tripping over themselves to call themselves queer. And if you’re worried about being “tricked” by “infiltrators”, like, you know those people can just say that they’re gay? Like they can lie? They’re not going to try and “sabotage” queer spaces by saying “hey I don’t have any marginalized orientations or identities but I’m still totally queer”, they’d just say “hey I’m super gay, love people of the same gender”

What, concretely, are you worried about happening? What’s the worst thing that could happen due to inclusivity? Because the worst things that can happen due to gatekeeping are very well-known, and I’m much more scared of that

It’s less that it’s trendy and more like, I like having my queer-only spaces. Also queer is a bad word. All our words are bad words. They aren’t oppressed, and for a cishetallo to use a slur as their identity feels a little demeaning to me. Like I dont hate them of course but the A was never for Ally . It’s not queer to be normal

Interacting with them is cool and having them at pride I’m not opposed to but as a person who’s queer it does feel like they’re kinda dressing it up

Im gonna be honest Ive never seen people like that but like, I’m allowed to not like it

I’m not going to distrust and exclude people because of a problem you made up. If someone tells me they’re queer, I believe them

“When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time” is a really popular thing to say on Tumblr when we’re talking about people being assholes or whatever, but people never seem to follow that through to the logical conclusion of actually believing people when they really tell you who they are.

What queer only spaces are hets lying about to get into? Like it is either straight girls being openly straight at gay bars or conservatives dressing up as woman to say “ooooh, if I SAY I’m trans then you have to do whatever I say, right? Call me Princess Lovely Tits! I’m very smart at owning libs!”

Like, I’ve NEVER gone to a queer nerdy event and seen anyone “obviously cis” trying to get in. Why would they?

Also, to the original Anon-

“if you have no criteria for being queer, how can you say anyone isnt?” That’s it! You got it! That’s the fucking point!

If the mythical leagues of cishet allo people out there pretending to be queer did actually exist… good. That’s more boots on the ground at a protest, more votes at the ballot, more public pressure for acceptance and more eyes keeping everyone safe. I wish being queer was trendy and cool and easy and something everyone wanted to be, I wish tons and tons of outsiders were putting on the flags and locking arms with us, that world would be so much fucking easier to live in. Exclusionists out here imagining a vastly better world and going “noooo what if that was real? We’d better put up bullshit barriers and scrutinise everyone and push people out if they don’t bare their soul convince me personally that they can match up to my ever-changing bullshit rules! Otherwise that might happen!”

if someone is so lonely and sad that they’re lying their way into queer spaces to gain access to a community, and instead of just being nice to this one unusual guy, your response is to ramp up being a colossal jerk to everyone else in the community…

why would we kick out the poor liar who just needs some kindness, instead of the unrepentant asshole who refuses to believe in kindness at all?

Yo also let people infiltrate and see that the community isn’t monstrous or dangerous like they’ve been told. That’s one reason people sneak into spaces where they ‘don’t belong’ and it’s a Good Thing

nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we’ll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

hey so, just so there’s no ambiguity about what just happened– this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the “vividness” of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that’s not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it’s literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn’t give permission–i can imagine quite a number of authors didn’t give permission either. (oops, i don’t have to imagine–because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn’t give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to “support authors” yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don’t believe me, here’s a link)

purr-in-ink:

tiktoks-for-tired-tots:

shakespearenews:

Deaf actor Joshua Castille brings a new Romeo to APT

Joshua Castille, making his debut at American Players Theatre this summer, is one of two Deaf actors in this season's "Romeo and Juliet."

The Cap Times

Joshua Castille enters the world of “ Romeo and Juliet” from behind a stand of trees, pushing a low branch from his face as he approaches from the wings. Benvolio greets him with a gesture in American Sign Language — “good morrow, cousin!”

For the next several hours, Romeo won’t speak aloud. Castille, a Chicago-based Deaf actor making his debut at American Players Theatre this summer, doesn’t wear his hearing aids onstage, to fully embody a young character who — like Juliet — is struggling to be heard.