How I Sleep Knowing I’ll Never Bring A Child Into This World

I could watch this for hours 🐈🐈

Trying to get big on a budget? Always missing your daily protein goals? Miss the childlike wonder of hide and seek? There are bugs in your house. Eat them.

unknown / ranata suzuki / unknown / i miss you, im sorry by gracie abrams / @/hagims on twitter / mary oliver / louise gluck / @/gaphic / unknown

"forgive me...memory is a rope round my neck"

the African wild cat (from which house cats are descended) looks like a normal house cat but with uncomfortably longer legs

Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst - Anton Seder - 1896 - via Internet Archive

Woodpeckers are insane creatures if you stop to think about it like honestly the aye aye freak finger is conceptually more sane than evolving to smack your head on trees. Glorious animal

So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.

So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize

They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy

Love is scary because what if I give everything in my heart to one person, focus on one person for months or years only for that person to walk away? What if I don't get back what I gave? How can I ever allow myself to be that vulnerable with someone?

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

It must be defeated immediately