I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.
- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.
- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.
- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.
Just saw a TikTok complaining about ‘kitten’ as a pet name in fanfiction and while I do agree with their discomfort on that one the comments were FULL of people mentioning all the other common pet names ?? Like honey babe baby sweetheart etc ?? Is your partner just supposed to call you by your name the whole time ????????
For so much of my life, I've considered myself to be a swiftie. Taylor Swift is the reason I started playing guitar. Taylor Swift is the reason I got through many of my interpersonal struggles in middle and high school. Taylor Swift is, in small part, the reason I am the writer and musician and woman I am today.
The first time I stayed up for an album release was Midnights, and it was disappointing. The second time was 1989 TV, and I never liked 1989 to begin with. The third time was last night for TTPD and it was...underwhelming?
Like, everyone online is freaking out about it, swifites are losing their goddamn minds and I just don't understand. She's written better songs instrumentally. She's written better songs lyrically. I think she's become so comfortable in her fame and her fans that she's just stopped trying. Folklore was a hit. Why change the formula?
I don't like her ballads very much. I never have. And this whole album (all both of them) was ballad after ballad after ballad and I simply do not care!!! There is a reason Lover and Speak Now and Fearless are my faves. Why is this woman incapable of being happy? Why is the only upbeat song on the new album about a shitty guy and why does nobody like it????
I think as I've grown and gotten older, I've started listening to people who have better lyrics and instrumentation (The Crane Wives and Madds Buckley come to mind) and Swift just doesn't resonate like she used to. Which is weird since she's gotten older too, and you think her music would reflect that.
This isn't a goodbye to Swift altogether. I will always be excited for a new album even if I suspect I'll be disappointed. I hope the next one comes out five years later and Jack Antonoff has nothing to do with it. I hope it has a new sound. And I hope there's not a single breakup song on it because at 30-whatever, it's lost its charm.
the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight
In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.
Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.
Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.
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