Chapter Thirteen

having a cat is honestly way easier than i expected. she shits in the box. if she's had a good diet of wet food that day it doesnt smell. she buries it very thoroughly and politely smells it a few times, adding more sand on top until she cant smell it anymore. when she is feeling rambunctious she finds herself a mouse toy and bats at it or brings it to me to throw. if she wants more interaction she hides behind a corner and then leaps at me cutely with soft paws to ask me to chase her. if she gets too excited and bites me accidentally she licks me immediately in apology. she meows at me if she needs something. she crawls into my lap and kisses me. at bed time she finishes her zoomies and then curls up under the bed. at random moments she comes and sleeps next to me or on me and makes delighted sounds just from being around me. she yells happily and sticks a dainty paw at me when i come home, and is unneurotic about the fact i was busy the last several days. i barely had to do a thing to train this fool

you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you people are next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

It's wonderful how, with no warning and without even trying, we will randomly stumble across new favorite songs, new favorite artists, new favorite books, new favorite movies, new favorite games, new favorite shows, new favorite snacks, new passions, new hobbies, new interests, new favorite blogs and new favorite people. So when things are terrible, hold onto the fact that someday, possibly when you least expect it, you'll suddenly come across something wonderful!

👀👀 not gonna name names but SOME of u are sweet and kind and deserve the world and i am rooting for u

i love winter sso much but trying to think of things to do with friendss during winter is the worst. do you want to come freeze to death outside with me

if you think jk was the first woman author, you don’t actually care about women authors.

Mary Shelley didnt fuck on her parents graves for this level of disrespect

Murasaki Shikibu didn’t invent the novel for this.

Christine de Pizan did not sit down at her desk and write The Book of the City of Ladies, advocating for women’s education and finding value in women of all social classes and backgrounds, in 1405 for this.

🎶SHAHARIZADE HAD A THOUSAND TALES🎶

This……….isn’t even true in 20th century fantasy or childrens books? Pierce, Lackey, Applegate, McCaffrey, Bradley, Butler, whomst?

And do I even need to mention what a badass pioneer Ursula Le Guin was for women author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre?

Not to mention Agatha Christie is literally second only to Shakespeare in terms of works sold – 4 billion compared to JKR’s paltry 500 million 

Mary Shelly did what

Mary.Shelly.Lost.Her.Virginity.On.Her.Parent’s.Grave.

Mary Shelley lost her virginity on her mother’s grave. Her father was still very much alive.

She did what now?

We have female authors who published before Rowling here on Tumblr. @dduane, for example! I read her Star Trek novels from the 80s and 90s as a kid/teen.

Octavia E. Butler wrote probably the most accurate dystopian novel in the form of Parable of the Sower.

I was a book nerd 90s kid who lived in the fantasy/scifi sections of the library and off the top of my head I can think of three male authors I was reading. The child and teens fantasy/scifi author list before Rowling took off was overwhelmingly female.