big gay cat

"Wait, I thought they liked each other??"

"She likes him but he's already with Arwen."

"So?? He could just be with both??"

Anyway enjoy this meme I found about it

…and the vet was like, “You know the thing with geriatric cats is—” and I was like, “What do you mean, geriatric?! It’s a little baby, look at her!" Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025)

I am reading Tim Curry’s 2025 memoir, Vagabond

and in it, he not only devotes a chapter to Muppet Treasure Island, but also references this very post

so, to recap

no, Tim Curry is absolutely NOT a Muppet; however

The dissertation (which anyone can read for themselves through the above link) is really focused on Japan and Japanese culture, pointing out that the 1990s were the first time there was a publicly visible lesbian scene there. The writer connects her finding her own queer sexuality in the 1980s to the bishounen manga she read in the 1970s, the only place she found queer rep in fiction. She talks about yaoi being the first genre in Japanese fiction that really catered to women’s desires, and also about the financial support given by women to other women in purchasing their yaoi fiction/manga. There’s a lot about, as usual for academic explorations on this subject, women being able to “engage female sexuality and desire without being oppressed and censored”. Fascinatingly, she uses the concept of “virtual lesbians” to highlight the fact that female yaoi fans, by sharing and explicitly discussing porn with each other, are kind of sexually engaging with each other at a remove. It’s from 2008 and I think it’s a bit dated in its assumptions about the straightness of yaoi fans who don’t actively identify as lesbians (and there doesn’t appear to be any exploration of trans fans, either), but that’s what I’d expect for 2008.

This is very much about Japanese yaoi culture specifically, but it has a resonance for western slash fandom. My social networks centered on m/m are incredibly affirming on a personal level, with some of the best friends I’ve ever made online and socializing that goes well beyond obsessing over fictional couples. We care about each other and we care for each other.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/498987

Traditional mirror mazes are dark and creepy. This one is brightly lit, and colorful.

The triangular grid makes it that much more disorienting.

The pillars help to obscure the difference between the mirrors and the openings -- so it doesn't NEED to be dark.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"