a ghost of my former self

i changed my mind, this is just too horrifying not to share

@scumrunner do you have any cursed facts about hawsers to share ?

Ohhohohoho DO I EVER. Meet the “snapback zone,” not an area with cool hats, but instead the unintuitive range at which a hawser can kill you if it breaks under tension.

I don’t think you guys understand how much force this is, a tow rope used to move a 20 foot boat snaps under tension with enough force to dent metal, shatter glass and seriously injure anyone in its way. A Hawser on the other hand… Well I’ve seen a concrete pier with a chuck the size of a sedan ripped out of it by a line failure, and anecdotally, I’ve heard of a 2 ton heavy cargo forklift being skidded sideways, then knocked over. These lines snap with enough force to noticably dent the hull armor of navy ships.

I’m once again reminded of its much smaller cousin, the haywire.

I am learning multiple things today

Okay but tbh I can’t get over the semi-feral kitty (more feral than semi) who voluntarily initiated stepping into my lap today. He’s coming SO far a lot more quickly than I expected, and I’m really proud of him. He’s putting some real trust in me which is such a beautiful experience.

I stand corrected, this cat was fully feral before arriving.

Today he came and sat in my lap (all four paws! Sitting down on my leg!) AND let me pet him while doing that without hissing or tapping to correct me. He kept returning to my lap and coming right up to my face, peering at me intently. It took every ounce of self control to not pet him nor smile with my teeth when he did this. My face was within easy scratching distance if he felt compelled to bop me so I let him peer away without moving. He has started putting his front paws on my stomach and chest to get up closer to me. Just, making himself at home in my personal bubble :’D

Baby boy loves neck scritches/massages it turns out.

Okay but tbh I can’t get over the semi-feral kitty (more feral than semi) who voluntarily initiated stepping into my lap today. He’s coming SO far a lot more quickly than I expected, and I’m really proud of him. He’s putting some real trust in me which is such a beautiful experience.

I stand corrected, this cat was fully feral before arriving.

Today he came and sat in my lap (all four paws! Sitting down on my leg!) AND let me pet him while doing that without hissing or tapping to correct me. He kept returning to my lap and coming right up to my face, peering at me intently. It took every ounce of self control to not pet him nor smile with my teeth when he did this. My face was within easy scratching distance if he felt compelled to bop me so I let him peer away without moving. He has started putting his front paws on my stomach and chest to get up closer to me. Just, making himself at home in my personal bubble :’D

Okay but tbh I can’t get over the semi-feral kitty (more feral than semi) who voluntarily initiated stepping into my lap today. He’s coming SO far a lot more quickly than I expected, and I’m really proud of him. He’s putting some real trust in me which is such a beautiful experience.

I stand corrected, this cat was fully feral before arriving.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/maid-mental-disorder-committee-report-government-9.7238589

caramel frappe PLEASE

#this art is so evocative. it feels like a goya painting 

OP did a lovely job with this piece. The pose they picked is a difficult one to do correctly and dynamically- the doubling over is hard to illustrate without making it look weird or poorly drawn, the low seat of the “pelvis” making the figure dip down lower (to emphasize the clutching motion of the hands) is a hard perspective to imagine without a reference. I liked the way OP chose to draw the shoulders, evoking both the hunching of shoulders that would be present in a fleshier painting and drawing out the strong, dynamic curve of the body.

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”