You Are What You Love, Not Who Loves You

Boring fact about me: I don’t eat red meat very often

boring fact: i love horror movies, but i can’t watch anything with a paranormal element to it without having nightmares. yeah i know i’m a grown ass woman 🙃

Boring fact: I’m actually shit with directions 😂😂 I need LANDMARKS. don’t come at me with a “you head east down Elm street” nah honey do I turn right at the Burger King or what?”

When I have to wait in a line, I end up doing ballet positions

I think the main reason why I’m a cat person (who lets their cats outside and all) is because I don’t own cats. And I don’t mean, that their isn’t a cat living in my house on a general basis cause there is. But I do not OWN him. He owns himself.

You see, every other “pet” you have keep in a cage (a bird or a guinea pig), in a tank (fish or reptiles) or always keep them on a thight leash (dogs or horses etc. ) No matter how often you repeat the words “my pet is my friend” it won’t ever be the full truth. Cause first and foremost you are their OWNER. You OWN your fish or dog or bird. You will always be above them, will always keep them trapped in some kind of way and leave them no actual choice.

And that’s what I cannot and will never be able to get behind. I don’t want to own someone I want to befriend someone. And with a cat you can do exactly that. You give them food and places to sleep but you let them outside and they just COME BACK. Of course at first because you give them food regularly but in my expirience, neighbours will do the same even if they shouldn’t. This means they ACTIVLEY CHOOSE TO COME BACK BECAUSE OF YOU AND HOW YOU TREAT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY.

For the vast majority of caged animals, it would be irresponsible at best and neglectful at worst to let them roam free constantly. Parrots explore with their beaks, and are subject to a variety of accidents without supervision. There’s hundreds of horror stories of birds who were left alone and drowned in common household objects like cups, vases or open toilets, birds who electrocuted themselves on an electric cord, etc. The same applies to small rodents and lagomorphs; they will easily chew up cords they shouldn’t and hurt themselves. Smaller rodents like mice can also trap themselves in small places where you can’t find them. Reptiles need to be in their enclosures for some of the time due to having specific temperature requirements (that keeping your whole house at would be unsafe for human residents). Caging all of the time is cruel. Keeping your pet in a large cage furnished properly with lots of toys when you cannot supervise it is absolutely not.

My giveaway is ready and live! 

One winner will receive: a copy of ‘The Resurrectionist’ a mix of prints from my Patreon, three magnets from my Patreon, a set of tentacle pens, and a 4000 word story of your choice. I also add some personal touches based on who wins.

The rules are:

Must be following me. (If you’re a patron on Patreon you’ll get double the entries)

One Reblog only, don’t spam your followers.

This giveaway is open to everyone!

The giveaway ends December 15th.

Once the winner is contacted they have 24 hours to respond. If not, then a new winner will be selected.

You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression. 

We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report. 

The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment. Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now. 

If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content. 

You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.

You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.

You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.

Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!

We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.

And if we’re getting all our content blocked? 

You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.

You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read - simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.

So do whatever you can to help us stop this.

Reblog this.

A discord server for young artists hoping to talk to other young artists!

Art and writing help offered from yours truly (despite the fact that I’m still learning myself), as well as fellow members!