Regretfully, I am up to my bullshit again on this site, or try to be at least. Also this is now like 90% a cat-boy appreciation channel. No, I will not be taking questions at this time.
I’m sorry I might sound like a madwoman for going on a rant about this but man, it’s… I don’t know how to express it but just the thought of some person, 120 years ago, taking a photo of their cat, which back then wasn’t easy – they didn’t have phones with cameras, each photo required a lot of time and dedication, so not only the person “wasted” a whole photo on their cat, they also did their fricking best to save this photo and carefully put it into an envelope to preserve it so that people in the future will know that there was this cat and it looked like this and it’s owner thought the cat looked lovely that day so much that they decided to take a photo of it and then they loved the photo so much that they went out of their way to preserve it for future generations like “hello people from the future! this is what my cat loos like!” because they loved their cat so much they wanted people from the future to know about it is… crazy to me… and here we are, 120 years later, long after the cat and it’s owners passed away, looking at an old photo of a cat and gushing about it. The cat died so long ago and wouldn’t even know it existed if not for the owner that loved their cat so much that they decided this photo was worth preserving and put it into a time capsule. and seeing now how people dedicate whole blogs to their cats and take countless pictures of them just to show to other people really hits because you realize that in the end, people from today aren’t that much different from people that were 120 years ago. We all just love our cats and want people to look at them.
I bet this woman was imagining the photo may be seen by like… a family some day. But no. It survived till the age of the internet. It has now transcended the original media. It is now being seen by far more eyes in far more places than the media she chose would normally allow.
I hope the taker of this 120 year old photo is PROUD.
The youtube video has a closeup of the negative, so I processed it digitally and:
This is cropped for a reason. It predates its Nazi-allied origin and has been used by refugee communities, and Diaspora groups since. It’s a common greeting in Ukraine, and even the official football phrase. Russia has attempted to discredit if before.
Today on “Important Context Was Left Out”…
The other posters are more or leads saying this, but it’s not been said directly, so I am going to say it.
The person who posted the cropped photo wasn’t just “leaving out context” they were, to put it simply, lying.
They were engaging in one of the most popular and prevalent forms of lies: the one where you give someone a true fact but leave out other facts in order to lead that person to a logical but incorrect conclusion.
In other words, the cropped photo was intentionally attempting to mislead you. There is no logical way you could take that page, and JUST SO HAPPEN to include that part and leave out the other parts that provide the full context that would lead to the true conclusion. You were only given certain information on purpose.
When people do this, they are lying, full stop, and they are trying to misinform you. When you notice people providing incomplete information like this, you should assume other information provided from them is likely to misinform you as well, because sources that mislead on one thing will tend to lie about others. In other words, sources that mislead like this are not credible and should be treated as such.
ive always hated when a vampire story is trying to distance itself from traditional lore or common perception and the vampire turns up their nose and says “and no. I don’t turn into a bat” like they’re so offended that you’d even suggest that they could do something so cool. well congratulations you’re uncool and boring goodbye
“Can you turn into a bat?”
“God, no, I wish,” sighed the vampire. “That’d be fucking badass.”
im tired of pretending that im not exhausted by how inhospitable online spaces are for people who expereince psychosis. im so goddamn tired and miserable and terrified to enter any online spaces/talk to ppl i don’t already have an near unbreakable trust in. which isn’t all that many so my social life is just stomped all over by the HOSTILITY towards psychotic ppl in most areas of ye internet. a subtle, but ever so fucking horrifyingexample of this is the commonness of memes and “jokey phrases” containing dereality or in the worse case, which is also the most common, deliberately paranoia inducing dereality going around without warning, near unavoidable by psychotic people. it is isolating. it makes so many spaces severely unsafe forpsychotic ppl. and yet non-psychotics treat it like its no big deal at all. and its beyond frustrating.
we deserve a safe space too, like everyone else. i’m tired of our voices being ignored or our concerns shot down as “it’s not even that bad, its not a big deal, its just a joke”. it may be a joke to YOU, but to us it often has severe consequences even if you dont mean it or wasnt targeting us in specific.
[non psychotic people ENCOURAGED to rb, but don’t say anything stupid.]
