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how can ppl say cats are heartless tbh
I once stayed at a game reserve in South Africa, and they had three cheetahs – two males and one female. The boys stuck together (they were brothers), but female cheetahs are solitary, save for when they are raising cubs. Which is hard work for cheetahs, because they don’t/can’t den, she’s working constantly to protect/move her cubs, as well as feeding both them and herself.
Now, these cheetahs ARE in a private reserve, but they’re still essentially wild. But they are more or less accustomed to the presence of people. And this cheetah, Ketswiri, got very badly injured in her leg one time, which usually would be fatal to a cheetah. The staff at the reserve helped her. Another time, she was starving, and they provided her a fresh antelope carcass. And she remembered this, because the science officer was telling us how one time he was watching Ketswiri and her cubs, and she wandered over and dumped all her cubs at his feet, and walked off. Like “watch my kids, I need some me time.” And he was panicking like COME BACK I CAN’T BABYSIT YOUR KIDS WTF
Half of the comments are about cats giving birth on top of or next to their owners and I’m not crying at all
it’s so funny though because domesticated cats are aggressively social in raising their young so basically op’s cat was like bitch these are your kids too, where tf you think you’re going???
As a person with cats who has given birth, they are also this way about *your* kids. My cat spent my whole pregnancy snuggled up to me, and then as soon as my daughter was born, he was always where she was. He was super protective of her when new people came over. Whenever we had to take her out for a doctor’s appointment, he waited by the door and sniffed her carseat when we brought her back. Cats are intensely social and it’s so wonderful 🥰
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‘why are actors striking aren’t they all millionaires’ here’s a paywall free link to an article that mentions how most of the cast of one of netflix’s biggest shows had day jobs bc they couldn’t afford rent
remember that actors are usually not well off at all. forget the big screen famous guys, they’re the very few ones. this strike is for all the other ones, that deserve to have a livable paycheck for their job.
And a note to say that, had Orange is the New Black been on a not-streaming network which paid them residuals each time they screened the show the actors would have done fine or better than fine.
At the start of streaming rules were agreed to let these beginning ways of putting out stories over the web succeed and get established, and letting them not pay actors and writers traditional style residuals was part of what was agreed. They got established. They succeeded. The actors and the writers took the hit.
Streaming actors get screwed ten ways to Sunday. I’m still a part of the Union of BC Performers because I did work when I was young, and for a movie I was in when I was FIVE YEARS OLD, for around 30 SECONDS, in a movie that did poorly, I make more money in residuals than any of the leading actors in OITNB do for all of their hard work as adult professionals. It’s sick, quite frankly, and I for one can’t wait for the WGA and SAG to land lucrative contracts. There’s no way in hell I should get more on my quarterly checks than the talent who worked on a show like that. By the way, once my movie hit Netflix in about 2012, my checks got slashed in half.
(via neil-gaiman)
Fresh new sitcom idea: a spinoff of Modern Family but it’s 1536 and the dissolution of the monasteries is in full swing. The patriarch is a secret Catholic and is hiding this from his long suffering wife and children. The guilt is eating him alive but he puts a brave face on things and has a reputation for being a total lad, a real joker, a good-time guy. Spoiler alert: they’re all secretly Catholic but hiding it from the others. The family is tearing itself apart at the seams. Secrecy lurks beneath every punchline. It’s a fun-filled series of heartwarming, wacky japes, set during the reign of terror of Henry VIII.
Me: makes a post which I’m pretty pleased with, solely on a lololol level
@rubiscothegeek: just casually adds the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever read as a reply
nadjathevampire asked:
I’ve noticed in almost all of the GO S2 posters, “The Crow Road” by Iain Banks is on show. Are you able to share the significance of this book?
Yes. It’s a book that was written by Iain Banks. There is a copy of it for sale in Aziraphale’s book shop.
FOR SALE?! In Aziraphale’s bookshop? :D
All the books in Aziraphale’s bookshop are for sale.
Managing to buy one from him is a different thing entirely.
Managing to buy
one from him is a different
thing entirely.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Sam (+Dean) rewriting history
have to add the tags by @adirotynd which are giving me major brainworms: #anyway i just think it’s beautiful that they’ve reached a mutually agreed upon version of their relationship#and refuse to admit it is literally. not real.#anyway they both Need dean to be a more successful head of household than john was and they both mean very different things by that#but they’ve collaborated on a middle ground venn diagram where dean has always protected and supported sam who has always ‘deserved’ it#just beautiful and by beautiful i mean very enjoyable television for me
(via the-gray-ghosty)
forget everything i’ve ever said. season 6 is good actually
sam winchester is told that he was in hell for over a year but also during part of that time he was being tortured in hell his body was on earth being weird and morally dubious. he is told that if he tries to look back on any of these memories they could kill him because the time in hell was that horrific. he doesn’t even care though. he’s like but what if the morally dubious stuff my body was doing was very bad and i need to make it right isn’t that worth risking remembering skinned alive for. isn’t that worth dying for. it’s like they made him for chronically guilty girls with religious trauma
(via the-gray-ghosty)
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Tiny forest for your dash
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wildlife returning to your dash :)
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Look, there’s a small river crossing your dash!
⛰️⛰️🏔️🐏🌲🐐⛰️🌲🦅🏔️⛰️
We’re coming up on a mountain range
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Meadow!
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Slowly reaching the coast!
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Into the sky
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Made it to space!
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i killed you all.
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and yet, life remains
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the fire died out. we’re recovering
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Tiny forest for your dash
(via eidetictelekinetic)