暇を持て余していたのでちょい足ししてきました

"we will meet again in another life when we are both cats" back uppercase text above graffitti artwork of a black cat silhouette on a pearl-white painted brick wall - artist unknown

this lives forever rent-free in my head

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

Happy 34th anniversary to the original Sailor Moon anime!

#SailorMoon
#セーラームーン

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

Shirtless in cosplay: A big moment for some trans and non-binary cosplayers.

Like many trans masculine people, after I had top surgery I was STOKED to cosplay a shirtless character for the first time. Unfortunately, my initial experiences were filled with transphobia, harassment that caused truly life-long body image issues. To hear that this is still happening to trans masculine people 15 years after my experiences is deeply concerning. So let’s talk about it.

I’ve thought long and hard about making this post but after seeing posts they have echoed my experience over the years as well as reading responses from the ‘Experiences of Trans Cosplayers Survey’ I decided I wanted to share this.

#cosplay #transgender #trans #cosplayer #topsurgery

What a beauty - I'm so sorry for your loss.

Tumblr post screen capture by nocryptographer about how to tell AI slop from a story that was created by a human being.

If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.

Two human-sized figures in colorful traditional Hinamatsuri doll wear--but they both have dinosaur heads and hands.

Hinamatsuri, brought to you by the Fukui Dinosaur Museum.

검사님검사님

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

I have multiple friends whom I met 25+ years ago on random message boards. Some I have never met in person.

The Offspring - Kristy, Are You Doing Okay? YouTube video by OffspringVEVO

For some reason I have an Offspring song stuck in my head - m.youtube.com/watch?v=c-IK...

be bad at your new hobby who cares

[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur. Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

It’s super fun-you should study it!

new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

Tabby cat Squeaks sits on my Korean textbook, notebook, and pen

So helpful, especially when I’m trying to study

happy 20th anniversary to My Immortal. flip off a prep

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

ひにゃまつり🌸

Color photograph. A short haired tan and black tabby cat sits up straight and looks adorably at the camera with complete innocence. She is hiding behind computer and is surrounded by computer cables. What you should know is that those cables are frequently victims to her whims.

“I have no idea what happened to these cables. These allegations are baseless. I am but a humble IT professional. If the cords are tasty, that sounds like a manufacturer issue.”

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

I don't want to read a book written by AI.
I don't want to read a book half written by AI.
I don't want to read a book narrated by AI.
I don't want to read a book with an AI cover.
I don't want to read a book written by somebody who supports AI.

I was just admiring this in the store today! It's going to look so good when you're done

Oh my yes please!

Sounds like a perfect (early) birthday present to me!

I don't need a romantic partner, I need a friend to run away from civilization with, build a cottage in the forest, have chickens, bake bread, draw smut.

Need a smile? Here’s one of our barn cats yesterday reacting to seeing two feet of snow for the first time in her life. Enjoy! 🐈 ❄️

#cats #barncat #snow