...And This Is My House

my name's cougar but my friends call me mountain lion and my mama calls me puma and today's my first day at big cat high. i'm so nervous i hope they don't realize i'm not panthera >ܫ<

emo cheetah jughead smoking behind the school: it's hopeless, catamount. they'll never see us as 'real' big cats... us outcats gotta stick together -ﻌ•

goth clouded leopard girl is the one who wears cookie monster PJ pants to PE, fights the teachers, and who all the other kids are intimidated by and the teachers are convinced is a delinquent ready to burn the school down. She's actually really nice if you're nice to her though. She just doesn't respect authority.

shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

“I chose to forgive this when it was the worst thing you’d done. Now it’s not.”

zebra shark massively underrated, whale shark is top 5 but undeserving of number one.

I began to learn this black Atlantic when I was studying relationships between women in Suriname and delved into the etymology of the word mati. This is the word Creole women use for their female lovers: figuratively mi mati is “my girl,” but literally it means mate, as in shipmate — she who survived the Middle Passage with me. Sedimented layers of experience lodge in this small word. During the Middle Passage, as colonial chronicles, oral tradition, and anthropological studies tell us, captive African women created erotic bonds with other women in the sex-segregated holds, and captive African men created bonds with other men. In so doing, they resisted the commodification of their bought and sold bodies by feeling and feeling for their co-occupants on these ships. [...] Sally and Richard Price’s research on Saramacca maroons documents mati as “a highly charged volitional relationship . . . that dates back to the Middle Passage — matis were originally ‘shipmates,’ those who had survived the journey out from Africa together . . . those who had experienced the trauma of enslavement and transport together.” Colonial chronicles suggest that shipmate relationships were prominent in other parts of the Caribbean as well. Médéric Moreau de Saint-Méry reports mati-like partnerships between enslaved women in prerevolutionary Haiti in his Description. . . de l’Isle Saint Domingue (1797), and in The History . . . of the British West-Indies (1794) Bryan Edwards remarks: “This is a striking circumstance; the term shipmate is understood among [West Indian slaves] as signifying a relationship of the most endearing nature; perhaps as recalling the time when the sufferers were cut off together from their common country and kindred, and awakening reciprocal sympathy from the remembrance of mutual affliction.” Expanding these observations, the anthropologist Gloria Wekker notes the significance of bonds between shipmates throughout the Afro-Atlantic: In different parts of the Diaspora the relationship between people who came over to the “New” World on the same ship remained a peculiarity of this experience. The Brazilian “malungo,” the Trinidadian “malongue,” the Haitian “batiment” and the Surinamese “sippi” and “mati” are all examples of this special, non-biological bond between two people of the same sex.

one day, i hope to be moved from your downloads folder into somewhere more deliberate

First of all, how dare you.

At the end of the day, no matter how you phrase it, "cis men aren't oppressed for being cis men so trans men can't be oppressed for being trans men" is the single dumbest bit of theory ever written down

Happy 10 year anniversary to this post!

Which Tingleverse book is this?