Pudacat

Vintage drag performer showing off their gown and cape on a stage.

Drag performers getting ready for their show.

Fashionable, feminine, and a rebellious source of entertainment.

In the Johnson Publishing Company Archive you'll find iconic images of drag ball performers from the 1940s–60s. [🧵1/4]

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

The wizard is snuggled into his bed, reading a poem about petrichor. The little cat is curled up above the covers, by his feet.

Old English Words & Anglo-Saxon Worldviews What can Old English words for fingers, anger, old age and pigs tell us about Anglo-Saxon culture?

Pig is recorded Old English to talk about the young animal (i.e. what we call a piglet) but unclear where that came from. There’s a nice list of the different words Old English had for the animals we call pigs:
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Doctor (title) - Wikipedia

PHD's are the OG Doctors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_...

The wizard casts mage hand and sets it to pulling a feather around on a string for the little cat so he can concentrate on a potion.

Like with most 'get rich quick' schemes, the authors have overlooked the obvious flaw - pigs don't have any money.

Photo of a dark skinned person's hand scritching the chin of a shorthaired white and tabby kitten.

Once upon a time a bunch of farmers in the Middle East came to an agreement allowing some slinky local creatures to do pest control for their crop storage.

Cut to 9,000 years later: Happy International Cat Day! icatcare.org/internationa...

Meme. Colored drawing of premodern-looking people wading knee and hip deep in a stream with nets and traps. There are 10 people in the water, and 2 in a boat pulling up a heavy net. There is some serious fishing going on here; they all look quite intent. It's not explicitly clear that they are fishing for eels; in fact, one of the men is holding a fish in the net that looks like it has a non-eel-like tail. But also, several of them are holding what look like wicker eel traps. So who knows? The best bet is that the artist had no idea. We can imagine that this is a scene from 1483, and that these are villagers catching silver eels during their downstream migration. It's a party, and they are all happy (despite their seriousness). Beyond being delighted over their catch, they are thrilled at a deep level to know that YOU won't have any of their eels. They love to fish, but hate to share. Get your own eels, gentle reader. Meme text reads: "One fish, two fish 75,000 owed to Hugh fish"

It's Friday, & you're wondering: "What were the smallest, & the largest, annual eel-rent in 12th C. England?" Well, I'm here to help!

The smallest was 22 eels, from Hoddeston, for Sir Geoffrey Mandeville.

The largest was 75,000 eels, from Harmston, for Earl Hugh of Chester.
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The manicurist is painting the wizard's nails antique brass with a puce accent.

And it's made out of ceramic, not metal.

The wizard reads a book about stew.

Black-and-white photo of a young light skinned man standing outside wearing an overcoat and he seems to be wearing a suit underneath that. He’s smiling at the camera and holding up a shorthaired tabby cat as if showing it off.

Two stylish pals. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

"why is your d&d group all men" ok firstly I am a shallow homo and I always invite at least 50% eye candy, secondly that one isn't a man it's a chaos entity, and thirdly even if I do try break out of the homosexual circles and invite women it transpires that they were in fact a man waiting to happen

A painting of a bird next to the words "fancy-ass bullshit is still bullshit"

Early twentieth-century, black-and-white photo of two boys, one seated in a wooden chair, the other standing, both wearing bowler hats, and standing before a magnificent fuzzy sheep who is looking directly into the camera.

Absolute unit sighting at hollandmuseum.org in Holland, Michigan -- across the pond from @themerl.bsky.social and worth a visit. 🐑

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Writer: the cu

the cup is

the

Cups had often

When he was a younger man, he'd believed in cups and emptiness, in the potential of filling, in everything. Then his father died.

The cup is plastic

The

*Gets a snack*

People have asked why I have such a punishing appearance schedule this year. When Unbound were significantly late on a payment and then missed the next one with no communication at all, I signed up for every appearance that would have me, to make sure my kids didn't have to drop out of school.

Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.

Black-and-white photo of a beautiful medium haired white cat, who seems to be standing with its front paws inside of a toilet bowl with the high legs up on the seat. It is looking towards the photographer as if caught in the act.

Toilet detective. Photo from my collection, ca. 1960s.

I hope there isn't a second author tangled up in the Unbound/Boundless saga who had 8000+ books go missing. The more I pull on the thread of my underreported book sales, the angrier I am.

A tiny thread:

The ex-paladin and the wizard go for a walk. The wizard picks violets and the ex-paladin carries his basket.

The wizard reads a novel about dragon veterinarians.

etching of a centaur captioned According to Greek mythology, Chiron was a half horse, half human doctor. This made him the Centaur for Disease Control.

I will *never* apologize for a post

Ha, ha, Pittsburgh. Enjoy your Aaron Rodgers. Maybe ESPN will talk about you.

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are in the grocery store, looking at a shelf with a vast array of various toothpaste tubes. Blue: Huh, that's a lot of toothpaste options. Green: Yep. Blue and Green look at each other. Green: So which one do we need? Blue: The usual. As both foxes turn back to study the shelf, Green starts listing the options. Green: Okay so there's mint and cinnamon flavour, whitening, sensitive, insensitive... As Green continues to nonchalantly list the types of toothpaste, Blue looks at him in confusion. Green: Anti-cavity, anti-gravity, wards off evil spirits... Blue: Wait, what?

A painting of a bird next to the words "it's gonna be a long-ass fuckin' day"

It's notable that ex Unbound CEO Dan Kieran, ex Unbound MD Kate Boulton and ex Unbound CEO Wil (one "l") Harris have stayed silent about why Unbound (despite heaps of crowdfunded cash) failed & shat all over its authors. Dan, Kate & Wil: many authors & readers would love to hear your side of things.

The little cat plays with a leaf. The wizard carefully checks that it's not a dangerous reagent, then returns it to the little cat.