Video of a kitten at a vet’s office protesting loudly as it’s scooped from the floor. Another kitten turns around the corner and walks up to the camera, also protesting loudly for its friend. From here.

Abbott Elementary, Volunteers (S04E09)

the comments on this banana bread recipe go crazy

so in one of tumblr's list posts, years back, i saw someone complaining about male gaze in writing, "she breasted boobily down the stairs," that sort of thing. and it specifically was copying lines and paragraphs from books that did this sort of thing, and it complained at some length from this line from asoiaf:

When [Danerys] went to the stables, she wore faded sandsilk pants and woven grass sandals. Her small breasts moved freely beneath a painted Dothraki vest.

"why do we need to know about her breasts and lack of chest support?" was the point: this is weird fanservice. dany is underage. grrm is a terrible writer.

let's talk reading comprehension. because grrm absolutely has his faults as a writer, but pov is not one of them.

dany has been in qarth, a decaying, elegant city where everyone is dressed more elaborately and is more wealthy than the last. she needs an army, and her only hope is by courting the merchants and leaders and wealthy of the city to support her. she spends months bribing officials, learning etiquette, dressing the part of a wealthy noble. she has done everything right, and she has failed: no one wants to support her, no one takes her cause seriously. her so-called friends have turned on her; she has run out of time, hospitality, and resources. her only resort is to leave, to try and hire a ship to take her and her people elsewhere.

here is the full scene this line is drawn from:

She was breaking her fast on a bowl of cold shrimp-and-persimmon soup when Irri brought her a Qartheen gown, an airy confection of ivory samite patterned with seed pearls. "Take it away," Dany said. "The docks are no place for lady's finery."

If the Milk Men thought her such a savage, she would dress the part for them. When she went to the stables, she wore faded sandsilk pants and woven grass sandals. Her small breasts moved freely beneath a painted Dothraki vest, and a curved dagger hung from her medallion belt. Jhiqui had braided her hair Dothraki fashion, and fastened a silver bell to the end of the braid. "I have won no victories," she tried telling her handmaid when the bell tinkled softly.

Jhiqui disagreed. "You burned the maegi in their house of dust and sent their souls to hell."

is this: a) weird, pointless male gaze about her breasts, or b) a note about characterization. what does this tell us about dany: that she has breasts, or that she is dressing in a way she knows will make the people of qarth unhappy, a way she knows they will dismiss, a way she feels comfortable because she is no longer up to the task of trying to fit in. is this she breasted boobily, or is this characterization. why does dany feel more comfortable in these clothes? why are her pants "faded?" why is she more comfortable in worn leather than samite and pearls?

i love the never kill your self meme like yeah joy can be found in humble places peace and love on planet earth

Computer game where you're building a tower level by level and the closer you get to heaven the harder it becomes to fight off God.

i CANNOT remember the name of this wild wlw manga where the protagonist comes out to her dad about being a lesbian and her dad is like “phew that’s a load off my mind because your mother was a lesbian too and i’m gay and we just bearded up because we wanted children”

and the protagonist gets a bit sour because it was meant to be her big coming out and she got like one upped

it’s fun that Mormonism is based off pseudo-archeology and Scientology is based off pseudo-psychiatry. By that logic the big American New Religious Movement of the 21st century is gonna be based on… pseudo-computer science?

these are actual diagnoses from my dr appt today

Stemonitopsis gracilis by Eric Cho

Also went to The Warehouse which everyone in Dallas raves about but honestly I thought the collection was pretty subpar with the exception of a few artworks that are gonna slap no matter what. (Lee Ufan carved wood painting one of the best things I've seen in the last year.) The building itself is impressive and is very beautiful - it has that spaceship art-storage air filtration art smell which does provide a really wonderful dopamine hit upon stepping through the door - but after that you just quickly realize that is not in every artist's wheelhouse to make a 20 foot painting. Or a ten foot painting. Or a six foot painting. And this is okay this is actually quite natural. Fragonard labored over the Progress of Love for so long, it was no longer in style when he finished because that scale was not his jush. A big painting is not necessarily exemplary of a painter's skill or mastery but it is exemplary of a collector's ability to buy a $150,000+~ multi panel painting by someone born a decade after the Watergate scandal. It's not so surprising that people would rave about a facility built to raise the profile of a physically large but ultimately flop quality collection of very good artists and conveniently provide some sort of tax offset for the families involved. Art is less the miracle than the capacity of someone to buy it and house it. It is an ecosystem designed to support the artifying of collecting rather than an interest in creating more circumstances for more people to make things unencumbered by daily material worries.

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Craving for attention? Perhaps 😌