shouldn't I be elsewhere?

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3 months ago, a cat found us, a month after my grandma died, he came into our garden, he was so skinny and scared of everything, but he was also so cute and friendly and looking for love

I’d sit with him for hours, just outside our house, my parents wouldn’t let him inside, they’d never let me keep a pet, not once my entire life, but i didn’t care. I named him anyway, I fed him, I brushed him, I cared for him, I protected him from the other neighbor cats and eventually, incredibly, we won them over. Gingerino finally had a home to call his own.

Today my beloved Gingerino was run over by a car, he barely made it inside our garden before he left us, I tried to reanimate him but there was nothing to be done.

I can’t explain how wrong It felt, to see his eyes go wide and body fall slack, to not feel him reacting to my touch, to not recoil at his feet being touched

I love him, my first cat. I loved him with everything I had, I bought every single toy, scratch post, feeding puzzle and catnip thing I could without draining my funds, I wanted to give him everything. I thought him tricks, he loved treats so much, and he was so smart, he learned so many.

Our family loved him, he was part of our family, and now he’s gone, and we’re lesser because of it.

I’ll miss him, so much. I’m not okay, I’m not gonna be okay anytime soon.

Please grandma, take care of him, I know you’ll love him as I do, he likes scratches under the chin, company and food, all food, but especially chicken.

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[cubedmango]

hey @staff what the fresh fuck is this

[cubedmango]

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Curious Zelda

[catchymemes]

https://twitter.com/curiouszelda

https://www.instagram.com/curiouszelda/

[wonderlace19]

She does looks like she would speak in rhyme then disappear into the woods

[broken-seal]

[teratomarty]

These live rent-free in my head.

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Why West Mexico?

[tlatollotl]

Online, offline, word of mouth. People know me because of my passion for West Mexican archaeology. It’s a running joke, but a joke rooted in the truth. A friend of mine that does research in Oaxaca once teased me and said he felt like he could easily switch focus to West Mexico from all the things that I’ve told him (while pointing out that I have failed to learn relatively little about Oaxaca from him).

“So, why West Mexico?”

I get asked that often by fellow students, colleagues, and other researchers that work in other parts of Mesoamerica. I don’t have a simple answer. I have a long, winding story of how I ended up focusing my research on West Mexico. Originally, I contemplated doing something with Aztec warfare but it was nothing very specific. I then considered the Maya, but honed in on the Postclassic Maya rather than the more researched Classic Maya. And I think that’s the start of an answer.

There’s something about the neglected, the forgotten, the cast aside that I am drawn to. That might stem from my own life of feeling those very same things. Of never fitting in or being accepted. There’s safety and comfort among the outcasts. You don’t need to elbow your way in or fight to be heard like you would amongst other groups. You’re allowed to be who you are and are accepted for that.

The competition among other research groups in Mesoamerica is fierce. It is a constant struggle of having the right people in your network, schmoozing with particular people to join their project or work on their paper, of just trying to fit in with everyone else and not rock the boat. It’s exhausting, demoralizing, and completely unappealing.

“So, why West Mexico?”

Because I see value in the region where none do. Because it offers perspective and understanding that others ignore. Because I can be me. And there’s very few people to tell me otherwise.

[tlatollotl]

I can’t imagine how much worse Egyptology must have been for you. I’m sorry people are awful and you experienced that.

I would gladly welcome you or anyone else to West Mexico and help you get a foothold.

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[wintercorrybriea]

shejtano

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[vespertineflora]

[audio transcript]

Woman: He’s fine. He misses you.

Man: Give him my love.

Woman: Will do. 

[woman looks at ridiculous oversized bird]

Woman: SQUAWK

Bird: SQUAWK

THE END

[stability]

Good to know shitposting has been around since the inception of cinema

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[lestatslestits]

I see Hollywood is now very into the idea of buying something once and then owning it forever and being able to make infinite copies. Which. Isn’t quite the message they imparted upon me in my childhood. In the spirit of their own long-held stance:

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[flowergrenades]

*through gritted teeth* you are not a child taking a test with the purpose of getting the highest score, you are an adult trying new things and finding ways to enjoy your life, make mistakes, be a beginner, be mediocre, be where you need to be, be unlikeable, just. be.

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[thoodleoo]

we all love ea-nasir on here but i'd like to give a special shoutout to hegestratos, a greek merchant in the 4th century bc who tried to commit insurance fraud using his ship and fucked it up so bad he drowned

[izzybeth]

way to go bud that's the worst anyone's ever done it

[earhartsease]

early adopter of the sunk cost fallacy

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[janemorris]

more people need to consume media how dedicated comics fans consume their media of choice

[janemorris]

go up to any comics fan and ask them which writers house they would mail pipe bombs to and they’ll list of at the bare minimum 5 different people. ask them their favorite character and you’ll be greeted with an answer followed by why every comic ever featuring that character has been literally the worst and they refuse to read it again. truly i don’t think there’s another group of people so invested in something that they truly despise to such a great degree.

[fuffy2002moved]

to people who keep saying that this applies to their respective fandom: you will never experience this

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[buttpoems]