It’s been a weird and crappy day for cat-related things. The last dream I had this morning before I woke up involved a giant flying shark thing eating my cat. It’s kind of funny because I’ve been making a lot of jokes about that movie “The Meg,” since my cat’s name is Meg and she’s an avid hunter… but in the dream it was definitely not funny. In fact, it was so terrible that I realized it had to be a dream and I woke myself up so that I could see my cat (who sleeps on my bed with me).

Then this evening I couldn’t find my cat for a while and I was afraid she’d somehow gotten out, though I wasn’t sure how. I texted my mom because I’d checked all the usual hiding places and I was starting to get seriously worried. My mom called because she was driving and couldn’t text, and suggested some places to look, and eventually I found her hiding under the bed *and* behind the curtain that hangs down behind the bed (why, cat?).

But then my mom told me that she and my dad were on their way to pick up their cat from the vet, where he had gotten surgery to remove a mass under his tongue. It turned out to be an aggressive cancer, as the vet who found it had suspected. He might be able to get chemotherapy, but that might not even be doing him any favors, and he probably has a few weeks without it. He’s only about 9 years old.

I know it’s stupid, but it kind of feels like the dream was prophetic somehow. I mean, my parents’ cat isn’t my cat – they adopted him after I’d already moved across the country – but I visit often enough that I know him pretty well. I’ve even helped get mats out of his fur.

iamtrashofthetrashiestorder:

theboychosenbythekeyblade-riku:

tyrannosaurus-rex:

mineyoung-churyuu:

hubriscomplex:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

8ddict:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

captainlordauditor:

some iconic dialogue that sounds like its from the great canon of literature but are actually from memes

  1. I will face God and walk backwards into Hell
  2. “I’ll do whatever you want” “then perish”
  3. I have been through hell and come out singing

feel free to add more!

  • There are no gods here
  • Do I look like the kind of man who dies
  • God’s dead and soon we will be too
  • I thought there were no heroes left in this world 

• you kneel before my throne unaware that it was built on lies

  • Impudent of you to assume I will meet a mortal end
  • This is hell’s territory and I am beholden to no gods
  • Bury me shallow, I’ll be back

– take this gift, for the gods surely won’t

  • God wishes he were me
  • One day, you will be face to face with whatever saw fit to let you exist in the universe, and you will have to justify the space you’ve filled

Violence for Violence is the Rule of Beasts

What’s a man to a king? What’s a king to a God? What’s a God to a nonbeliever?

-to become god is the loneliest achievement of all

Maple, cinnamon, and amber if you feel like it ;)

Thanks for the questions! I just did maple, so:

cinnamon – if you had to live in a time period different than the present, which would you choose and where?

Oh, jeez. Can I change my gender in this scenario? If not, can I index it to “whenever and wherever it sucked least to be a woman”? Which might just be when and where I am now… or now, but in Sweden or something. If I could be a man – and also not Jewish – maybe Vienna in the 1890s? Or the Italian Renaissance, I’m kind of feeling that today. I’d have to be noble or middle-class, though. And I’d have to do something about my sense of smell…

amber – share an unpopular opinion that you may have.

Isn’t that basically all I do on this site? An unpopular opinion that I haven’t already shared to death… um. Hawaiian pizza is delicious? Yes, you heard it here, I’m a pineapple on pizza person. OK, that’s probably too bland, as unpopular opinions go. Uh… I don’t know if this is unpopular around here, but it’s probably a little odd: I think the world should be united under a single government that guarantees everyone certain rights, then divided into progressively smaller administrative regions, based on things like natural geographic boundaries and crop-growing conditions, which would decide local matters for themselves. There would be completely free movement across these local boundaries. They wouldn’t divide existing communities, but otherwise they wouldn’t take things like ethnicity into account, except inasmuch as official business would be conducted in the native languages of all groups with a sufficient concentration in the region. Yeah, I’m a secret utopian.