You gotta know where your towel is

the large movement of bdsm kinksters trying to prove that fifty shades of grey is not a representation of what bdsm is in real life and how bdsm is normal and healthy complete with quirky bdsm comics

people making fun of the sexy wife volcano in the lava movie before inside out, which quickly turned into people saying that the volcanos were based off of Hawaiian singer Kamakawiwoʻole and his wife (they weren’t) and that making fun of the volcano designs is racist

art of the clock from dhmis but instead of him being a clock he’s a sexy and dapper human and is shipped with a human version of the notebook

that one comic of the 50s lady eating ribs and being messy

copious amounts of disney vs dreamworks discourse well into 2015 revolving around facial diversity and snow physics in frozen

people arguing the tumblr update that put reblog additions into boxes instead of indenting them to the side made the site look uglier

attack on titan being an unavoidable force of nature

a lot of art and au versions of the purple fucker from five nights at freddies

the persona fandom and kanji/naoto discourse before persona 4 got milked to hell and the game’s regressive writing was acknowledged

“reblog this…..if youre not homophobic!”

christina hoff summers

the coding on the website freaking out whenever anything updated

people making up stories about things that happened to them in the sims or skyrim for notes

discourse on if meghan trainor and by extension nicki minaj’s anaconda was progressive or not

that one month everyone reblogged south park photosets from the pc principal season

crave that mineral

It’s been exactly ten years since…

The Beginning of Problem Sleuth [03/10/08]

And exactly nine years since…

The End of Problem Sleuth [03/10/09]

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

They like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.