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.
Iām sorry I might sound like a madwoman for going on a rant about this but man, itāsā¦ I donāt know how to express it but just the thought of some person, 120 years ago, taking a photo of their cat, which back then wasnāt easy – they didnāt have phones with cameras, each photo required a lot of time and dedication, so not only the person āwastedā 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 itās 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 āhello people from the future! this is what my cat loos like!ā because they loved their cat so much they wanted people from the future to know about it isā¦ crazy to meā¦ and here we are, 120 years later, long after the cat and itās owners passed away, looking at an old photo of a cat and gushing about it. The cat died so long ago and wouldnāt 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 arenāt 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 likeā¦ 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 itās not been said directly, so I am going to say it.
The person who posted the cropped photo wasnāt just āleaving out contextā 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
āCan you turn into a bat?ā
āGod, no, I wish,ā sighed the vampire. āThatād be fucking badass.ā
