I like big Bats & I cannot lie

The great critic Barbara McClay has written about the "politics creep" in every corner of human life, though really of bourgeois Anglophone human life, where every act from reading a novel to lighting a scented candle can be justified - and in fact, self-consciously needs to be justified in advance - as a bold act of resistance. Pretending that self-care is a brave political act detracts from actual political acts, and it sucks the life out of life itself: turning every moment into a performance for an audience, for an imagined crowd of other people on social media. This is other people not as fellow complicated human beings, but as fearful object, whose inner lives are imaginable only insofar as they might be watching and comparing and judging us for whether we've done enough, whether we're wasting our time. And books and movies and TV shows and every other form of fiction will always be, to some extent, a waste of time, as having friends will be a waste of time, as being in love is a waste of time, as every possible action or thought you may have could be considered a waste of time if every second of your life has to prove its value, and has to get a job.

Me two minutes ago: “cry with joy? an animation of cats playing instruments made someone cry with joy?”

ALWAYS reblog Cat Parade! 💕💕💕

GIVE YOURSELF A 2 MINUTE PRESENT.

Mildly annoyed that this isn’t actually the full video, so here it is:

#i vaguely that there was a sequel to this that was HD

#i vaguely

Truly believe that 15% of all Key's problems could be fix if Rae just gave him a dog collar to wear.