It’s that time of year again–time to bust out my favorite outfit!
Why yes, it is quite warm. Thank you for asking!
What’s your favorite cold-weather accessory?
Cats Can Swear Now
Look, I get why the official scientific jury is still out on “do animals, like, reaaally have thoughts and feelings and stuff, or is it all just mimicry and operant conditioning, maaan?” Science is all about repeatability and rigor and proof beyond unreasonable doubt and it takes a lot of work and studies and evidence to elevate a hypothesis to the level of Theory, let alone Consensus.
BUT.
There are tons of people who don’t give a crap about scientific rigor, as well as scientists just voicing personal opinion, who are still on the fence even after seeing sh*t like this:
I mean, come on! You’re telling me you’ve seen all this stuff about cats swearing and bonobos making up new words and dogs saying “oops” and talking about their dreams and you’re still going “but is that, like, reaaaaly thoughts and emotions and a complex inner life”??
What in the name of Love are you waiting for? A dissertation written by a squid???
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Just to Be Clear
You? A procrastinator? Please–you’re an amateur crastinator at best.
I’m the pro, here.
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Revealed Preferences
The other day I walked past a candy bowl at the office and just grabbed the first things that looked good. When I took them back to my desk, I noticed–well, here, I’ll just show you:
I mean, I knew I liked peanuts and chocolate, but I didn’t know I liked them this much…
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What Are You up To?
Me? Oh, not much, just my normal, healthy coping mechanism of avoiding some minor task because I’m scared I won’t be able to do it well or complete it in time and I’ll fail everyone because I’m an awful person and then I avoid thinking about it because I feel guilty for avoiding it and that makes me even more terrified of doing it and then I avoid talking about it and put off the people who need me to get it done because I’m avoiding thinking about it and that makes me afraid of them and then I end up in a depression spiral because I’ve failed everyone and I’m an awful person and then the depression makes everything worse.
How about you?
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There Should Be a Word for “Fanfic Written by the Original Author”
Overall, this is a pretty awful time to be alive. But! There is at least one bright light in the universe right now, and it is this: two of my favorite webcomics are running non-canon side stories where the authors are literally just writing slashfic of their own characters and IT. IS. GLORIOUS.
I’ve mentioned El Goonish Shive before; right now, the author’s “newspaper-style” side comics are running a retelling of the classic fairytale Cinderella, with all the major characters played by the cast of the main comic. The mood is–well, here’s how it was introduced:
It is utterly enchanting (pun intended). Just look at these two!
Meanwhile, the genius, illustrious, sorcerous, sinuous, absolute SMOKESHOW author of Dresden Codak has been alternating her main story comics with silly little minis, the latest of which are an anime-style AU high school romance!
It’s just…so PURE, you know? I just adore the whole “AU High School Romance” genre (probably more than I should), so getting to see it in one of the internet’s all-time greatest webcomics literally feels like a dream come true.
…Nobody pinch me, okay? Just in case.
Some Days You Wake up and Choose Violence
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Boy, I Sure Love Hearing This First Thing in the Morning
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In Search of Secrets 
Why Am I Like This, pt. XI
Me: “I’m not going to leave a comment, I’ll just end up obsessing over other people’s replies and how to respond to them all day. I’ll just drop a ‘like’ and move on.”
Also me: *spends the rest of the day obsessing over hypothetical replies to the comment I didn’t leave and how I would have responded to them*
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