Interesting fact these two are playing but they are using play behaviors of their own species so they dont really “match up”!
Dog – is “bowing” and using open mouth “bites” as forms of play
“Play fight with me!”
Cat – is giving the little paw bats they use when playing with kittens
“Cute kittens get booped!”
They are both trying to engage the other in a playful way but not understanding the others responce.
The dog is like “you smack so no play? but not hard smack and no bad noise so not angry?”
The cat is like “why you jump around? open mouth but no chomp? no hiss so is okay?”
And then they sort of settle with a kind of communal grooming gesture they both understand!
Dog: no play? okay i lay… we calm now friend!
Cat: sad? no play? is ok i luv u weird kitten!
sdjaslkdjaskldjaskldja this is the most adorable thing
Another thing to note- cat tail-wagging doesn’t necessarily indicate anger or upset. It means the cat is somewhat worked up. In this case, it’s a good sort of excitement, or at least of concentration. Sometimes you’ll see it in cats that are climbing and have to focus intently.
While I’m sure there are people too lazy to spin a fork, keep in mind people like this person who may be suffering from arthritis or a neurological disease or nerve damage or a thousand other conditions that might impair their ability to do things as simple as spin a fork to eat spaghetti.
These are used with people who can’t grip well:
This is for Parkinsons’s:
For people who can’t even bend their joints:
Here’s a product that guides your hand from your plate to your mouth
This one holds a sandwich
Like I get it. I used to see things like the fork and think “that’s fuckin’ lazy” or that product that holds a gallon and you just tip it and pour. But then I started working around the disabled and impaired and found out that these products aren’t meant for lazy people, they’re meant for people who need help.
So maybe next time you see something, instead of thinking “Wow, are people that lazy?” just be grateful that you’re able to do the things you do every day and take for granted, like being able to feed yourself and wipe your own ass because you have enough coordination and bendy joints to do it.
This isn’t specualtion either; the majority of products from commericals that we think are funny or silly are autally MEANT for hte disabled.But they are marketed towards the abled because the disabled aren’t considered a viable enough demographic on their own.
the Snuggie for example? Created for wheelchair users.
This is actually really nifty.
oh my god of course the snuggie was for wheelchair users
The fact that anyone buys these products besides disabled people drastically lowers the price of them. These would normally cost hundreds if not thousands if dollars. Because if spent time and money creating it, the company wants to get more than that back. And they can’t do that if they sell and market these primarily to disabled people for $20-$40 a piece or whatever. They’d lose money on production. If they can sell hundreds of them to everyone, they can lower the price drastically and therefore disabled people don’t die while trying to scrape up the money to buy these things and be a bit more independent.
I never considered that last part and that’s actually genius
Like yeah, a handful of people ARE that lazy.
But those are the people who use these products even though they don’t need them and thus allow the price to be lower for those who DO.
So honestly in this case good bless the lazy and those prone to gimmicks because they are invaluable to the elderly and disabled in this sense.
In addition to all the excellent points above, what business is it of yours if someone likes having a neat fork that does the spinning for them?
I’m gonna be real here for a sec, and I’m sorry for being the one to say it. Every single one of you who is advocating for shows that tried to be inclusive and had hiccups to be voted down and be punished by attempting to lower the ratings and sending messages to the higher ups are playing themselves. You all turned on SU, Korra, Voltron, and will turn on the Dragon Prince and She-Ra as well when those also turn out to be flawed shows and not peak respectability politics as well. There is no such thing as a perfect show, let alone the prefect rep.
Do you really believe execs care about what you’re saying? All that they will see is that people hate shows with reps, and that shows with reps get the most hate and more so than shows that don’t even try, so the message to them is that we shouldn’t try since people will eventually turn on them. All you’re doing is making creators see what these shows go through and go you know what, it’s not worth it. Because the level of outright malice is vicious and horrifying.
Execs don’t care what you’re saying all they see is that you hated the rep so to them it’s better to not have rep. If you think big corporations care about your plight then you are heavily misguided. Creators have to fight and fight to get scraps and there are many internal politics on what goes down and how. They aren’t kidding when they say they fight for it. Shows that try will always be held on a higher standard and when that isn’t met it’s punished for trying and those above the shows will go welp, better never include those nasty queers if they’re gonna hate it. Thats’ the bitter reality of it and it will never change so choose your words and actions carefully.
netflix is literally losing money over regions that prohibit queer representation, you KNOW they will JUMP on the chance to cancel shows with rep to replace them with more hetero (mainstream) shows they can show in all regions! so please don’t be the reason they cancel these shows, and please remember that in the end, it is a cartoon aimed at children, there are a lot of restrictions on them already.
Episode I, Part I: The Beginning of the Beginning:
HAHAHAHA. As much as I would love some more Kenobi Backstory, I kind of love that THIS IS THE FIRST THING WE EVER HEAR OBI-WAN SAY. It’s perfect. RUN OBI-WAN RUN IT’S ONLY GETTING WORSE FROM HERE.
Qui-Gon Jinn, his Hippie-ish Space Dad, remarks that he doesn’t sense anything. LOL AGAIN. Of course you don’t, Jinn. No one in this universe ever really does. (Except Obi-Wan here, I guess, but that’s probably just because he hasn’t met Anakin yet and so he still has a few brain cells available to think about things other than “keep Anakin from accidentally killing himself/others” for the time being.)
(Ten bucks says Anakin stubbed his toe over on Tatooine and Obi-Wan’s just sensing it through the Force.)
…I just love the idea of Obi-Wan being like “something Deep and Dark and Mysterious and Definitely Very Important permeates the Force, Master” and it’s just like, Anakin getting a minor injury or eating some bad snake meat or something. Because in Obi-Wan’s world this probably WOULD be a Seismic Event.
I keep losing my shit at OBI-WAN’S FACE and “It’s not about the mission. It’s something… elsewhere, elusive.” and imagining a smash cut to Anakin stubbing his toe on Tatooine.
But also:
QUI-GON’S FACE. “Not this shit again.”
HE HAS BEEN DEALING WITH THIS FOR NINE YEARS NOW. OBI-WAN PICKING UP “SOMETHING ELUSIVE” IN THE FORCE, NEVER HERE IN THE PRESENT, JUST SOMEWHERE OUT THERE. OBI-WAN JUST KNOWS IT.
NINE.
YEARS.
QUI-GON HAS PUT UP WITH THIS. HE IS SO DONE.
Ok but consider an AU where Qui-Gon gets fed up and decides once and for all that they’re going to work out what is behind these feelings of Obi-Wan’s so he can stop getting distracted on mission. They end up playing a galactic game of “hot or cold” and causing all sorts of mayhem on their way to Tatooine…
Where they find a small child who Obi-Wan’s senses are screaming “this one!” about and Qui-Gon is torn between excitement about a potential Chosen One and dismay because he was rather expecting this whole exercise would prove to Obi-Wan once and for all that he just needed to keep his mind on the present!
And we’re all in agreement that Anakin has, of course, also been sensing Obi-Wan this whole time and goes bolting out of the door of the shop all IM OVER HERE IM OVER HERE ITS YOU ITS YOU when he senses that Obi-Wan is in his immediate vicinity, yes?
Well of course! I mean without whole “Queen in Peril” “Sith following us” drama Anakin’s senses are free to focus on the really important fact that Obi-Wan is RIGHT HERE!
It takes next to no time before the Jedi are dragged to see Shmi because “They’re IMPORTANT Mom!” and neither Anakin nor Obi-Wan have noticed that they’re still holding hands…
Qui-Gon and Shmi share a LOOK that is full of meaning. Predominantly “Oh thank that Force I’m not the only one who has had to put up with this” but more than a little “yeah, we’re not going to be separating them, better start planning” too!
Oh my god, I want to write this soooo Bad!! I’m just in love with The idea of the force just saying: “yup, those two dorks are going to save the universe TOGETHER or it just doesn’t get saved!” and then tying them together with a Nest bow on top
i just walked past the apartment beneath mine and through an open window i could hear my downstairs neighbor crying faintly while the song jolene played in the background and im just like… bitch are you okay…?
I actually ended up going back downstairs to check on her and brought some leftover cookies I baked this afternoon. she’s very sweet and going through a Breakup Mood™️ after being cheated on. she’s coming over to my gf and I’s annual bad movie night on Friday and she even let me pet her cat named Clarence
my gf thinks it’s funny but very fitting that our downstairs neighbor was able to summon a concerned lesbian just by playing jolene while crying about being done dirty by a man
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