we don’t need to be mutuals for you to send me an ask or message me! just understand that I have an actual job and shit and sometimes forget to message back.
Hey! Go gender my cat for my own research purposes! You get to see 6 pictures of the same cat! I ask for your identity and pronouns, then ask you to pick a gender and pronouns for the cat. There is also three questions at the end: giving the cat a name, a space for compliments towards the cat if you want, and a space for if you also have a theory.
My cat gets gendered differently by different people from picture to picture, and I want to see if the identity of the person or the pose of the cat has anything to do with it.
I’m putting it in the first reblog and pinning it to my blog because apparently links don’t work in the search?
This is a pro MOGAI zone and feel free to give the cat any genders you like.
edit: I DO want cisgender people taking this too! While I am enjoying the trans and nonbinary people’s responses, I want responses from everyone!
This survey was the best decision I have ever made in my life. I dearly love all seven of you so far. We are at 5 trans, 1 nonbinary but not trans, and 1 cis person, and I cannot make a correlation yet because of the sample size. I can say that the cis person generally gage more basic genders and pronouns, but this is not a bad thing as I have not explored my cat’s gender or pronouns until recently and I am nonbinary. I will continue to update this post with any actual findings. I will however go over some notable answers.
One of you has called my cat “God Almighty” as a gender, called them skater boy, given pss/pssts pronouns, and given stre/tchy pronouns. I appreciate you. Another one of you has called them an idiot, gave them foolself pronouns and then named them coward baby. You are correct but at what cost. I am a particular fan of the person that got excited and gave them a name for every single picture. You have absolutely delighted me with this.
I have read every single compliment to them using the name you gave me for them and your pronouns when appropriate, and I have given the requested little forehead kiss and slow blink.
“if you don’t reveal your age, gender, orientation, full ethnic background, and entire list of triggers, that’s sus”
how soon we forget hivliving
for anyone who either has forgotten hivliving or wasn’t on tumblr at the time, this is the short version:
a lot of people are taking issue with me ignoring the fanfic aspect of this, which, true, she also did it to avoid criticism for her Hamilton fanfic, but the fanfic was a drop in the bucket. people who make it entirely about the fanfic ignore the fact that she was big in anti-asexual discourse, routinely led hate mobs against other people on tumblr, and solicited donations on behalf of her sockpuppets. like, there’s a LOT there that wasn’t related to the fanfic.
“I don’t like the Jack Harkness test because it means it’s okay to fuck Scooby Doo”
yes that’s the entire damn point of the Harkness test. The Harkness Test doesn’t exist to say you have to fuck Scooby Doo. The Harkness Test exists to say that it is morally/ethically fine for someone to want to fuck Scooby Doo, because Scooby Doo can give informed consent and communicate as such.
the reason you don’t like it is because none of you are self-aware enough to realize how incredibly fucking puritan all of you are when it comes to fucking
like, let’s be entirely clear here: the harkness test is useful for two incredibly important reasons.
it cements a structure of morality on the topic of monsterfucking, ensuring a ‘baseline’ of whether or not it’s 'okay’ to fuck any given monster by determining if said monster can enthusiastically consent and verbalize as such.
but it also points out the hypocrisy of the “but Scooby Doo” people. because now that no one can claim that monsterfucking is unethical based on your most fundamental argument–which is usually claiming bestiality-related shit–now you can’t use the argument of “it’s bad because consent”. now you just have to admit “i just don’t like it” and can’t hide behind a moralistic puritan bullshit standard to act as though you’ve got an upper ground.
1. The Lady Clare by John William Waterhouse (1900) 2. Windflowers by John William Waterhouse (1903) 3. Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent (1889) 4. Head of a Lady in Medieval Costume by Lucien-Victor Guirand De Scévola (1900)
wow, the Americans are being obnoxious in the notes of that post ”but we don’t send mail elsewhere, we don’t move to different countries”
like are you really this dumb? do you really not know any American expats, or Americans with family abroad? America, the country half inhabited by the disinherited sons of European farmers?
eh, thinking back to the people I met in high school and college, I know exactly one expat, and the only American I know with family abroad is me, because my dad is an immigrant. I genuinely cannot express enough how little most Americans travel on a regular basis, part of that being that travel even within our own country is prohibitively expensive and part of it being that America is so goddamn huge that me saying “oh, I have family in Ohio!” is like a Londoner saying they have family in Zürich. like they’re both part of western Europe but there’s a HUGE physical and cultural distance between them.
My only interesting/ notable talent is that I can make baby alligators RUN to my feet solely by making this annoying sound
i don’t care if you have fuckall going for you otherwise, please marry me
Because this is getting popular and some have voiced safety concerns in the notes (and because I’d hate for you to think me of me ~your future spouse~ as reckless), I hope you won’t mind me derailing this post to talk a bit about alligator behavior and what I’m doing here! The noise that I am emulating in the video is my attempt at the contact call of the juvenile American alligator. I am NOT trying to make a distress call, which is what a baby alligator would use to call mom for help, and is a different sound entirely. Instead, contact calls are typically used in communication between juvenile gator siblings that live together in groups called crèches. While a mother gator will certainly swim towards a hatchling distress call (up to a certain age) to protect her young, the other babies will typically swim away from the sound, meaning a correctly done contact call shouldn’t cause a hostile reaction in a nearby momma gator. That said, everyone with safety concerns is absolutely correct to consider the possible implications for doing contact calls in the wild, and much like performing bird calls in the wild there are ethical considerations that must be taken into account. I’d love to give my three personal rules for performing this call!
1. If your feet are on dirt, grass, or water, do not attempt a contact call. If you watch till the end of my video you’ll see a shadow that shows I am standing on a raised boardwalk with a rail, which is the optimal situation for safely observing gators. This way even if you somehow do make a sound that attracts an aggressive alligator, you are not at risk of a dangerous encounter.
2. If the alligator is less than 2 feet in length, do not attempt a contact call. While I did say “baby” in the original post, a better word for this animal would be juvenile, as their length and head shape indicates they’ve reached at least a year or two in age. You should absolutely never make any kind of noise to intentionally disturb hatchling gators that are small and highly vulnerable to predators! Once a gator has gotten to about 2 feet in length they’re usually around 2-3 years old and have typically left mom at this age.
3. If you are planning on interacting with the alligator in any way, do not attempt a contact call. It is imperative to both our safety and alligator wellbeing that we do not condition them to seek human behavior by feeding them. I once saw a tour guide call over gators using this method so that he could feed them cocktail shrimp for the delight of tourists. Shouldn’t have to say it but don’t do this! Don’t feed them, don’t touch them, and don’t get within 20 feet of them, for everyone’s safety. Wildlife is wild and should stay that way.
I probably should have spelled all that out in my original post so please forgive me the omission! Keep gatoring on everyone 🐊
(Interested readers may refer to my tags for additional information on the contact calls and alligator behavior described here!)
op this is me standing on a boardwalk watching you ethically and responsibly do contact calls to juvenile 2 foot long alligators
this might be because I’m a family law lawyer and also an old crone who remembers when marriage equality wasn’t a thing (as in, marriage equality only became nation-wide two months before I went to law school), but I have Strong Feelings about the right to marry and all the legal benefits that come with it
like I’m all for living in sin until someone says they don’t want to get married because it’s ~too permanent~ and in the same breath start talking about having kids or buying a house with their significant other. then I turn into a 90-year-old passive-aggressive church grandma who keeps pointedly asking when the wedding is. “yes, a divorce is very sad and stressful, but so is BEING HOMELESS BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF MARITAL PROPERTY, CAROLINE!”
“oh, he thinks a piece of paper shouldn’t define your relationship? ASK HIM HOW HE FEELS ABOUT BEING ON YOUR BABY’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE, PATRICIA.”
“oh, sure, it’s all fun and games until your estranged parents are making medical decisions for you and inheriting all your property, TIMOTHY.”
this might be because I’m a family law lawyer and also an old crone who remembers when marriage equality wasn’t a thing (as in, marriage equality only became nation-wide two months before I went to law school), but I have Strong Feelings about the right to marry and all the legal benefits that come with it
like I’m all for living in sin until someone says they don’t want to get married because it’s ~too permanent~ and in the same breath start talking about having kids or buying a house with their significant other. then I turn into a 90-year-old passive-aggressive church grandma who keeps pointedly asking when the wedding is. “yes, a divorce is very sad and stressful, but so is BEING HOMELESS BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF MARITAL PROPERTY, CAROLINE!”
“oh, he thinks a piece of paper shouldn’t define your relationship? ASK HIM HOW HE FEELS ABOUT BEING ON YOUR BABY’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE, PATRICIA.”
i HAVE and it’s so funny - imagine being a real life British spy and, posthumously, your most recognized achievement is playing a gay science magician on children’s television
it’s what he would have wanted
John Pertwee belongs to a very exclusive club for people who were spies in WWII, later became famous for completely unrelated things, and were over 6 feet tall.
The other club members are Christopher Lee, Julia Child, and Roald Dahl.
Historically-dubious action movie where Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee, Julia Child, and Roald Dahl are a team working the same mission when?
I feel like younger folks have misconstrued “listen to rainbow community elders” as, like, their shitty dad or granddad giving that hollow “respect your elders” that they in no way earned, when it’s actually nothing like that at all and more like “oh my god listen to the people who were actually around for this shit before you perpetuate misconceptions and harmful rhetoric that can and in some cases already have set our community’s progress back by decades.”
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