that was a long as fuck post
it was one of those cats that wander the neighborhood. you know the ones, every neighborhood has them. SOMEBODY owns that cat, it even has a collar, but they don’t pay much mind to letting it wander the secure and slow suburban streets. it probably goes home to eat from the kitty bowl with its name on it when it isnt devouring raw local birdlife.
don’t worry, i know. cats go on roofs all the time. but the trouble is getting them down. sure, a cat can climb up a straight palm tree with its claws, but its sure can’t descend that way. my house doesn’t have its share of trees around it.
i watched the thing latch on to the palm tree in our back yard, climb its way up, stop once to nibble on the tree’s natural spines that SHOULD BE THERE TO DETER THINGS LIKE THIS, and then make its way to the patio cover.
“oh, it’s just up there,” i didn’t say or think at this point, but might have in another life, “as long as it doesnt go on th—it went on the roof”
somebody else’s cat was on our roof.
no we weren’t going to call the fire department. “mom,” i told my mom who had been watching the cat too (i live with my mom), “break out the ladder.”
normally i’d like to think i’d ignore a cat on my roof. or at least shrug it off with a wow that’ll come down eventually. and it probably would have come down eventually.
but there’s a deep natural sadness involved in watching a cat stand at the ledge of the roof, look over to the ground below, and meow softly. and it wandered the roof for over an hour doing this at various points all while we tried to retrieve the poor thing.
that was actually kind of frustrating because every time the cat came near me, perched atop the ladder pressed against one area of the house or another, it preferred to stay up than be grabbed by my grubby human paws.
we also tried the “pop out the window screen on the second floor and reach for it” method, to no avail.
finally, at one point i had lured it back to the patio cover (which is lower in elevation that the roof). there i was, standing on the ladder, calling out “here kitty kitty” because the animal had avoidance issues and wouldn’t let me see its collar to get its name—not that cats are known for answering to their names, or “kitty”, or anything really.
and the cat fell. it lost its footing and fell right off into the grass.
my heart stopped a moment.
it landed on its feet. nobody act surprised. but it started limping away and even stopped to lick at its back foot.
i was kinda freaked out. injury was exactly what i was trying to avoid. luckily, it got on its feet and started walking normally again, so i think it is okay. we just took it to the front of the house and let it go. i think the cat is fine in the neighborhood as long as it doesnt climb on top of inescapable roofs.
the collar said Milo, by the way.
i wish id taken a picture because i like cats and also because pictures attract peoples attention more.
when i browse the internet, i often find myself thinking “well, this is fun. but wouldn’t it be more fun if i could unveil it on my TV with a curtain?”
ipgd:
I’M DYING OH MY GOD
amazing
there are people who dont know about this
really
“I possess some one of the sharpest senses of humor you will ever encounter”
my sides already
OK so k4ll0’s awesome tali model (and maybe a little ‘talizora actual cannibal’ incident) made me wanna draw up some quarians and do the whole design rationale thing too lol. I drew a tali design a long time ago so it’s still based a little on that.
k4ll0 had a really good point in that quarians probably don’t have hair or sweat, being from a very hot desert planet. I did add in some vent type holes or whatever, in some natural fossils of the body, and the little tendril things on top could also help vent heat if they had the right kinna blood vessels in them. I like to think they used to get pretty long (everyone knows head tentacles are hot, even protheans) but since they started suit life they started tying them together and docking them so they never really go any farther than the bottom of their neck.
I do like bald quarian designs but I had always seen them as having some kind of stuff up top, mainly because 1. their suits include hoods, which.. i dunno I thought it might have been for holding hair-type stuff, or just to mimic having it, otherwise why have that at all? and 2. give them more resemblance to the mechanical aspects of the geth like wiring, a long with the hooded-arch appearance. Same reason their ears would effectively be molded into their heads, just creating more arched lines (and reverse-engineering from the fact that their suits don’t look like they have ear room like k4ll0 said). And their skin would be kinna rough on their backs AND they would have big cute eyelashes like camels do because: desert. And uh they have pointyish noses rather than flat noses just because eh I mean you can see in the mask enough to tell they do.
TEETH ok so Rannoch dosen’t have insects right? So they probably don’t have small animals that eat insects or plants that like.. only reproduce through fruits and stuff because there’s no pollenation?? So like.. I guess I picture the planet only having largeish animals, and large tough desert plants. I know in their suits quarians only eat paste or whatever but they’ve only been in suits for like 300 years, not nearly long enough to really evolve anything different as far as bones goes. So on the planet they would have to have evolved teeth for ripping and shredding and chewing really tough plants and animals (there’s no way a species shaped like they are on a DESERT planet ate mostly plants). Plus I think big pointy teeth are rly cute and you can justify basically anything with ‘sexual selection’ HEH
Also my rational behind the horrible in game picture is Tali bad facebook style shooped it and Shepard was just like “tali.. i’ve seen your face, this dosen’t look anything like you.. did you photoshop this” and she’s like UHH
jueny replied to your post: why can’t the whole internet praise me for…
i know you’re like the best person in existence!
at least you get it, jueny.
Hold both shift keys down, and try to type “THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.”
THKBNFJS THLAY DG.holy shit
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HE QUIK BROWN FO JUPS OER HE LA DOG
THE QUICK BROWN FO JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
TEQUICKBRONOXUMSOVERTEAZYOG
oh no
THEQUICKROWFOXJUMPSOVERTHELZYDOG
oh….
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HE QUIK BRON FO JUPS OER HE LA DOG
almost sounds like english
why can’t the whole internet praise me for everything i do
