#not cats

[the-adventures-of-dave]

This is completely unrelated to cats but I have a question ✨for science✨

Does a beach need to be by the ocean? Can lakes have beaches? Rivers?

This has been an ongoing debate between some friends for a while and we want to outsource.

#as someone in a landlocked province I think lakes and rivers can have beaches #not cats #beaches #idk what to tag this as lol

[kittymeiga]

This is far, far from this blog's theme, but as a 30+ year old with ADHD, I have a few words for the kiddos:

It's gonna be fine.

Right now everything probably feels overwhelming and like the world is going way too fast, tumbling around, and you can't keep up. Everything is so big, so much all the time. and the future looks scary.

But it will be fine. Time will pass. You'll grow, and learn your strengths and limitations. You'll develop strategies to work around your memory lapses and concentration issues. You'll learn how to manage the chaos in your brain. You'll get used to compromise with yourself and not feel guilty for it.

You'll surround yourself with people that accept you and leave behind the ones that don't. (YES, even the parents. It doesn't have to be the scary cutting of all ties, but even moving two towns away can do miracles for your relationship with them).

You'll endure bad jobs and exhausting work enviroinments, and carreers where your nd holds you back. But eventurally, you'll find a path that works for you and doesn't make you miserable or sick.

Trust me. You'll be just fine. Just give it time and work on yourself bit by bit. For yourself. Set phone reminders for everything. Take hot showers. Drink sparkling water. It'll be fine.

#actually adhd #adhd adult #adhd advice #adhd tips #neurodiversity #not cats #personal

[starswirly]

Requests you say ?

>:]

Killer

plus a kitty cat! ....ignore how goofy said cat looks

Killer -> rahafwabas

#Star's Scribbles #UTMV #Killer Sans #Request #mutuals!!! #listen I have practice drawing skeletons #not cats #Answered Ask #:3

[owl-paints-art]

silly little not-cat YCH

#art #digital art #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint #furry art #furry sfw #sfw furry #not cats #feral furry #feral oc #feral art #feline furry #feline #sfw furry art #cat #cat furry #safe fur work #gif #pixel cats end #2024

[ejunkiet]

tumblr once again talking about implementing algorithms and just. please. at least make it opt out. let me be able to see the posts of the people I like in chronological order. and maybe fix the tags. you want users to be able to find content easily on the website? fix the tags.

instagram is unusable, because I can no longer see the people I actually follow. none of the accounts I follow are in my feed. it's just cats. literally. just cats. I follow 200+ people, and all I see are cats.

tumblr trying to kill the last platform that lets you see posts from people you actually follow 😭😭😭

#look i like the cats on ig but I followed PEOPLE #NOT CATS #😭😭😭😭

[per-the-jellicle-magician]

I hate the new discord layout so fucking much

If I wanted to use another clone of Messenger/Instagram I would just fucking use those

#it just looks so wrong #i dont use servers why the fuck would i need another fucking tab for them #why every app i use just gets shittier and shittier and more and more similar to all the other ones #discord #discord update #not cats

[happyhealthycats]

My grandmother passed at the height of the pandemic. We were able to rehome her two remaining cats - even transitioned one into an indoor cat! But while she was in hospice we were struggling on who could care for her yellow-naped Amazon, Saki.

This bird is older than me by a few years, and my childhood is chock full of memories of Saki yelling at the top of his lungs, snapping at people, and attempting to escape his cage. My grandmother loved the fact that she was the only one who he wouldn't maul if she had food for him. He stayed in a cage 24/7 and only got out if he was able to figure out the latch on the thing. Lil dude sent me to the hospital as a kid for a finger-bite that almost left me down a thumb wrestling opportunity.

As an adult, and after several convos with a vet who specialized in birds, I realized Saki was only as well behaved as his situation allowed for.

But we were able to find someone who rescued birds. They paid for Saki to see a vet for the first time in his life, and I'm so happy to still see his progress.

Here he is chilling out with his New Lady, holding hands like a lil Romeo. I would never EVER believe that this was the same bird that almost made me a permanent "thumbs up 7-up" sideline benchwarmer for life. (Lil man almost took my finger)

Sometimes we aren't the ideal home for an animal for whatever reason. My family, seeing me as the "animal lady" thought that I would take the bird once my grandmother passed (despite me not being the best-suited carer for him). I'm so glad we found a home that loves him for who he is, gives him amazing care, and will most likely be the home where he lives out the rest of his days.

His new mom takes him on walks in a carrier-stroller sometimes when the weather is nice and that's the only time I've seen Saki in a cage since moving.

I'm glad you can laugh like the Golden Girl soundtrack while enjoying your freedom, bud. And thanks for not cutting my piano-career short.

#happy healthy cats #not cats #for the birds

[aprilofsnow]

apparently dragons were not enough for me I am now also on the cat website aka Pixel Cat’s End please enjoy my immediate decision to put make the cats long and give a bunch of them wings I am definetly not going to just make them fluffy dragons I swear im on this site to get cats well not-cats actually but ya kno

#pixel cats end #not cats #not cat #cat #creature design #doodles #sketches #why do i make them long i dont kno they were meant to be and people seem to agrre because they keep giving me their cats #dont trust me with your children #i will make your children long and give them misterios backstories

[realreulbbrband]

!BARBIE MOVIE SPOILERS!

I don't see anyone talking about the pink pantheress song "Angel" , well more specifically how the song is used in the film.

The song was what I was most interested about when the soundtrack came out. Being my favorite song, I thought it would take place when Barbie and Ken got separated in the real world.

However, the chorus of the song is utilized when we first meet Sasha, and my interpretation is that this is how Barbie views Sasha.

Long post below.

'(s)he could be the one to make me never freeze again,'

Sasha chose her from the shelves and took he out of the box, she played with her and gave her a story. Barbie loves Sasha, she's her girl, and at least to Barbie, I believe she'll always see Sasha as the little girl she needs to inspire the most.

'Cause one day, One day, my baby just went away My angel, You're what haunts me now that you're away'

while Sasha grows out of playing with Barbie, this doesn't diminish Barbie's feelings towards her, especially when she first arrives in the real world. Sasha can be seen as Barbie's angel, someone who bestowed purpose and life upon her when she was just a doll. The part about haunting her could easily be applied to the start of Barbie's existential crisis she has in the film. She and Sasha are connected, but that connection was lost when Sasha grew out of her Barbie phase. as often happens when young girls begin distancing themselves from traditionally girly things intentionally. Barbie's attachment to Sasha echoes the sentiments felt by many parents, such as Gloria, who experience a bittersweet mix of pride and nostalgia as their children grow and change. Barbie's emotions mirror what Gloria goes through when her daughter starts distancing herself from her previous interests.

'You won't check your phone so you can't tell me you're okay, because Jo̶h̶n̶n̶y̶, my baby, did it always have to end this way? '

We know Barbie went to the real world because of Sasha and believing she's going through something, but when they're meet up doesn't go well and Sasha calls Barbie a fascist. Barbie already thinks she's failed. It's why when Barbie is talking with Sasha she keeps going over what she's supposed to represent and how she's supposed to make Sasha happy and powerful.

When Sasha berates her, Barbie doesn't snap back. she tries to laugh it off but she's hurting inside and she asks to be excused. She cries and then she leaves Sasha, she leaves with the Mattel people because she doesn't believe she can change Sasha's view on her. (at least not right now)and she's convinced girls hate her. Going to Mattel is more like going to a place of comfort and possible reassurance after feeling like she's failed. That things are destined to end this way with her and Sasha. But Sasha does learn to appreciate Barbie after getting to know her better and going to Barbieland. Barbie is her doll at the end of the day and that's why even supposedly when she's about to leave she asks what Barbie's ending is. Even outright refusing the one she doesn't see as *her* ending. So no it didn't have to end that way and it didn't.

Anyways I think they're underappreciated and I love them <3

(source)

#wow me posting something that isn't cats #But yea I just wanted to talk about Sasha and Barbie's relationship a lil cause I have uncurable loving them disease #barbie movie 2023 #sasha barbie #barbie #Gloria barbie #yes I tweaked it cause PP describes a male in the song #not used to posting this kinda stuff since sdjida #not cats #mainly some lyric deep dive and how I think it's applied to them

[muuuumin]

OH GOD I'M TOO FAR DEEP WITH BATFAM CONTENT I SAW MY TWO CATS STARING AT ME FROM OUTSIDE MY ROOM AND I ASKED MY SISTER

"Why are the bats just looking at me."

BATS.

B A T S.

THEY ARE CATS!

#batfam #officially obsessed #do i need therapy for this #batman #not cats #CATS

[the-adventures-of-dave]

if anyone was wondering how daveclan is doing, we’re now 260 cats and going strong

#i had to leave out 20 daves because they didn't fit #clangen #not cats

[dididems]

TODAY I BRING YOU

art from a musical I have loved since I was five years old and saw live again yesterday and now I have to draw these bois

TOMORROW? who knows...

#de drie biggetjes #de 3 biggetjes #de 3 biggetjes willy #de 3 biggetjes waldo #de 3 biggetjes wuppert #look they are wolves and kinda look like cats. ergo. on this blog they go #i do not control the hyperfixation #dididems-art #not cats

[carrieleblancart]

A little bit of animation practice

#animation #practice #digital art #not cats

[white-cat-of-doom]

Do you have any hobbies other than Cats? That's all you talk about lol

A valid question Anon, but this is my CATS blog after all.

I had a short lived music blog that was meant to be a sort of listening journal during the pandemic, but that stopped once I was told by someone that nobody cared.

That being said, I do occasionally mention that I am a record collector. I started buying vinyl in 2008, meaning that I have been collecting for more than half my life, which is interesting to note. Record collecting was (and still can be considered) my main hobby, but at this point it may be tied with CATS. I have over 3000 items in my collection, with quite a few rarer and valuable pieces, which is coincidentally much like my CATS collection :).

If you wanted a recommendation, a great one for Valentine's Day to boot (in my opinion), I just finished listening to Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for the The Royal Ballet Gala Performances, a tremendous piece of Romantic classical music released in 1959. My copy is a 5LP boxset cut at 45 rpm for the best audio fidelity (and it does sound fantastic) that was initially reissued in 2019, but was out of print for years until they finally repressed it last year. It has recordings of pieces from ballets such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Coppélia, and more.

#Not CATS #Music has always been my main passion in life #And I am so far behind or not knowledgeable in basically any other media like TV or movies #The White Cat Speaks

[borageclan]

hi there!

thanks everyone for following and supporting my comic! this was intended to be a weekly updated thing but it sort of got away from me because of work and wisdom teeth surgery and getting a real life kitty cat, so id like to thank you all for your patience as well! i have thumbnailed a few more pages and im planning on hopefully posting them some time this week since im mostly bedridden and recovering from tooth removal anyway. hope youve been having a good feburary!!!

edit: heres the cat in question, my lovely boy chicory paprika lovage :>

#not cats

[thatmysticaltuxedocat-rp]

// I've missed this place so much where people are so friendly and are happy when friends are around. I really need good friends and kind people right now. Literally never felt more welcomed than here. 🥺

(Under cut is the reason why I came back so randomly and why I needed a place with friends. It's long and kinda upsetting. But I really need to vent.)

So I wasn't pulled back into the Cats fandom really. I was heavy into another fandom and had a tumblr to mess about there, much like here. A stranger started interacting with my characters in a way that I wasn't comfortable with. It had major bullying vibes, just having a go, invading my threads to have a go. So I set up some boundaries in a post, no names mentioned, absolutely nobody tagged and yet not only did this person PM me demanding I take my post down but accused me of bullying. Going even further to create another account to keep harassing me, constantly saying "my friend" (it was the same individual) and referencing a discord group where they were screenshotting and talking about my blog. Not sure how true that is as they seemed to be behaving as two different people to give the impression several people were going for me.

I want to make it so clear my original post explained if I feel harassed or like my characters are getting bullied, I will not interact. That's all. I explained I can do in character arguments and drama but chiming in and saying hurtful things that are unrelated I'll just stop responding to. In no way did it demand anyone take anything down or change how someone RPs just I have a personal boundary and if you find I'm not reaponding suddenly, that's why. Nobody is forced to RP with me anymore than I am with them. It was carefully written and checked to make sure no individual was referenced.

And when I didn't immediately reply to the PM the individual "went public" because I "refused to reply". I have a life, I have dogs that need attention and I was carefully crafting a reply that explained my point. I didn't want to argue. This led to them posting a post directly aimed at me about how much of a bully I am and I refused to apologise. What I said was in response to their " everyone apologises" was does that too mean they apologise? This is me refusing.

I know it's ridiculous in the gramd scheme of things, it's a barely known silly place for me to mess around with Alex in character as but as someone who really was heavily bullied throughout childhood and teens (all through school basically) this really messed with me. The way they attempted to manipulate me with claims of how "their friend" (them) was now crying and their Sunday was ruined and Alex says gaslight me, accuse me of twisting things against them (even though nobody was mentioned it was a generic post) and starting some kind of public attack because I didn't immediately roll over and do what they wanted.

I also understand the irony of them complaining I was bullying them into what they can post while they were attempting to bully me into dictating what I can post. I also understand this person could be suffering or on the spectrum. I really try to be accomedating and inclusive but I was unable to properly follow threads and felt whatever I put they would have a go and make my experience bad. And finally yeah I know it says more about them that they got so upset about a generic boundary post not directly aimed at them. The point of a generic public post was to protect them and give a little nudge without a direct attack, private or otherwise. I cannot stand confrontation of any kind.

I just got so shaken and upset by it all, it ruined the fandom for a moment for me and I actually felt unwell for the evening. It got to a point where I feel I was in the wrong for putting up a boundary.

(Also I did not take the post down, it's still up.)

#ooc #not cats #Tashas rambling #I was really upset by the whole thing