closet-keys:

Everyone should aspire to a cat’s understanding of healthy relationships

-they are vocal about their emotional as well as physical needs (alerting you when they need affection or entertainment in addition to when they need food), demonstrating an excellent example of self care and open communication

– they can enjoy being in a space with you while you’re each doing your own thing, demonstrating the healthy boundaries and separate interests

– they also like learning about what you’re doing and being involved in your hobbies (e.g. sitting on your laptop, cuddling while you read a book or knit a scarf or play a game) 

-they consistently enforce their boundaries. first with nonverbal communication, then verbal (hissing/growling), then violence (scratching/biting) when needed, demonstrating that it’s 100% appropriate to defend your bodily autonomy by any means necessary, even against those you love and depend on. 

-they demonstrate the importance of ongoing consent by respecting their ability to change their mind during physical affection and stop at any point

in defence of the “useless lesbian”

polyamorouspixie:

Sometimes I see people say, you shouldn’t call yourself useless, it’s demeaning, this sort of thing. I do see their point. The thing is, I think Useless Lesbian as a term is really useful, and you know me, I’m going to explain why. Here are some facts. 

-Women are not socially trained to make the first move
-Women are acutely aware of how gross and threatening it can be when someone hits on you and you don’t feel comfortable saying no so we tend to err on the cautious side of “not being a creep”

These two facts add up to, women really, really struggle to form romantic and sexual relationships with other women. It simply is much harder than male-female and male-male pairings to get off the ground for those reasons. Even when you’re aware of it and try to just do it anyway, it’s so hard. Bisexual and gay women are more likely to suffer from mental health problems like anxiety, too, which makes it worse. 

When you think it’s just you, that every other woman is going out flirting with every maybe-gay they meet, and you can’t do it, and they’re all just not hitting on you for some reason, even though men hit on you (even when you don’t want them to), that can be super isolating and discourages women further from making the first move. 

But when there’s a name for this, that makes such a difference, because now, we’re all in this together, we’re all having this problem and it’s no one’s fault (except maybe men but this isn’t about them). And that, for me at least, makes it easier to try to push past it.

Literally every episode of My Cat from Hell

libertarirynn:

impuretale:

sinningsleepingandshitposting:

flotorshi:

Neatly summarized as: people not knowing how to properly take care of cats

The episodes that don’t conform to this formula are also always the most interesting. These situations include:

1) I Didn’t Know My Cat Had PTSD and Has Gone Blind.

2) Your Cats Fight Because One of Them Doesn’t Know How to Speak Cat, and They’re Both Kinda Mad/Confused About It. 

3) Your Cat Sprays Everywhere? Get Them Fixed. Surprise Twist: They Were Fixed But It Was a Botched Operation.

4) We’re Going to Rescue 50+ Kittens, Take Them to Vegas, and Adopt Them All To Loving Homes.

5) This is Not a Cat. This is a Dog. 

Hang on what was number five?

gay-jesus-probably:

jax2k:

if it wasn’t for obama acting as a physical barrier and silent deterrent i guarantee you someone in that row would have tried to throw down at a funeral, like goddamn hamlet and laertes having a fistfight in ophelia’s grave. it would have been fucking amazing is my point and i wish it actually happened. thanks obama.

my plan for today: telework from home, go see the doctor in the middle of the day. as one does.

then the doctor cancelled on me. then my telework setup didn’t work, so i called my boss like “i’m gonna use a sick day instead”, which is allowed at my work if you’re going to see a doctor, which i was GOING TO DO, so… i’mma be playing civ and petting my cat today while my boss thinks i’m at the doctor’s and the doctor plays hooky or something

… i feel like this has to be against some law or rule or something but also, idgaf.