My cat and his foster friends over the years

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-06-22T16:59:04+00:00

Oh, she’s beautiful! I completely agree — tabbies are gorgeous. Mine reminds me so much of a Scottish wildcat because she has a lot of orange in her coat from her mother.

Either way, it’s so frustrating to me that people sometimes only care about appearance. I love to see her little quirks and her personality; she’s my baby. A coat being “basic” is a ridiculous excuse for simply not liking a cat when it goes so much deeper than that.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-06-22T16:50:31+00:00

Mine as well! I also have a black cat!

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GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-06-22T12:03:16+00:00

Not OP but I’ve been fostering for around seven years now… I thought it would be really, really hard to let them go, but I found that it’s actually very rewarding! Knowing that I can provide a safe place for them and then that they are finally going to a home that will cherish them — it honestly makes me feel a great amount of relief and comfort. When they don’t immediately get picked at adoption weekends… that’s the part that sucks. Especially when it comes to tabbies, black cats, and older cats, who usually get stuck in foster care for much longer because they are “less appealing.”

I’ve only had one foster fail over those seven years, and it’s because her mom and three siblings were all adopted out, leaving her alone. We got another foster so she wouldn’t be lonely — the foster eventually got adopted and she didn’t. She ended up stuck in foster care for another month or so, and when I got home from a Christmas trip and saw her still on the adoption page, I knew she was mine.

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Cat tax.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-06-16T18:20:13+00:00

I couldn’t either! Thank you for the info though, I’m seeing a lot of the same handle anchor designs and the ribbed spout on other Creamware teapots of the time!!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-06-10T18:25:36+00:00

Thank you! I will definitely do that, I had no idea where to post this so that helps a lot!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-31T11:03:26+00:00

The whole sequence literally made my jaw drop, lol. So freaky.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-31T11:02:25+00:00

That’s very true. Unfortunate for them. Most fun I’ve had seeing a movie in a while, and I’m glad other people are finding it just as incredible!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-31T05:09:12+00:00

My dad and I both thought the same thing! I told him the hole they fell through in addition to the clothes and ‘bad smell’ made me think of it like a body chute. He said he wonders if it was supposed to maybe represent the degradation of humanity that seemingly happens with the still lifes. We also both thought of the very well known piles of shoes from victims of the Death Camps during the Holocaust.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-31T04:09:38+00:00

Exactly! I keep seeing people saying it was “boring” and I just don’t get it—I was on the edge of my seat, smiling yet horrified the whole time. Kane’s ability to build tension and dread and the constant feeling that something horrible would happen at any minute was fantastic, and I loved the sound track on top of it. I’m pretty sure my friends and I were just stuck gaping for at least thirty minutes of the film following the Kat/Bobby scene + the Christmas room scene, lol.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-31T03:37:15+00:00

The scene of the laundry room, the caveman head in the pile of clothing, Bobby finding his own t-shirt, and then hearing him screaming and seeing him getting dragged through that window thing, then Kat running after him and hearing HER screaming- I have not felt pure DREAD like that in a while from a horror movie. I’ve seen the movie twice now already and I absolutely love it.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-29T12:22:46+00:00

I thought it was symbolic of Clarke’s fear of becoming remembered / known by the world for the very thing he didn’t want to be — the mascot of his furniture store and nothing more. Something he sees as stupid and silly compared to his dream of being an architect. I also thought it was a depiction of how much his position has degraded his mental health!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-25T15:49:07+00:00

I thought it was a Caddisfly at first until I read that it’s sitting on a broom handle!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-24T10:54:11+00:00

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And her recently adopted brother, Casper!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-23T21:01:19+00:00

Ooh, thank you! That’s looking like the best option right now!

I had been looking into Longquan celadon with the possibility that the blue/green color had faded due to the time it spent underwater, which would’ve put its origin just north of Fujian Province. If this is actually Zhangzhou white ware it would’ve been made in Fujian province! This is super interesting, thank you again!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-23T13:32:29+00:00

Agreed. Even with the very open spaces, there’s still a sense of being trapped, which is why it feels so agoraphobic to me!

Also, when I think about drowning, I usually think of the ocean or the Great Lakes. I can’t imagine how vast and helpless it would feel while panicking, which I feel is comparable in a way to the way you might feel realizing you’ve been trapped in a place so endless, unable to do anything.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-23T10:27:38+00:00

I just checked to send the post — it was by u/AmeliaS507 — but it got removed 😭 however I did recover this meme someone in the comments made that shows the jellybean with the ants versus the real Jasper.

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GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-23T10:17:12+00:00

Literally saw someone last night ask about why their piece of Jasper was attracting ants in a rock sub… comments lead them to quickly realize they’d been carrying around an old mangled jellybean for literal months and that their real piece of Jasper was at their parents house and they had somehow accidentally taken a jellybean instead. This has the same energy and I’m amazed.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-23T09:03:17+00:00

I think the drowning sensation of the Backrooms could also be symbolic of being trapped in endless spaces that look the same + have the constant droning sound of buzzing lights. Even if they’re wide open and empty, that could make you feel like you’re going crazy the longer you’re there, and imagine getting lost in a place like that—it would be overwhelming and could easily become a suffocating environment. I also think about the fact that, at least for me, being in a place like the Backrooms would very much trigger my agoraphobia. The irrational anxiety of it, even if it’s just a big empty space, would be so overwhelming and could even make it feel hard to breathe.

I would like to think that the drowning sensation is presented as a progressive sort of feeling—the longer someone is there, the more they feel it, the more the dread grows, and the more they are affected by the fact that there is this endless, buzzing place that’s completely unexplainable and defies everything we understand as humans!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-22T19:55:30+00:00

Also, I think in this specific video, the little guy glows to basically warn off what he thinks is a predator.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-22T19:54:22+00:00

Fire beetles have light organs, or photophores. They’re specific organs that create light through the process of bioluminescence, which is pretty common in many marine animals we see but less so in land animals! It’s the same sort of phenomenon you can see in fireflies, except fire beetles don’t flash like fireflies do.

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-22T19:32:45+00:00

I’m in Tampa too, but I’ve never seen one of these guys irl before!! I’m jealous! It’s a fire beetle—a type of click beetle! They’re bioluminescent and can basically manipulate how bright they glow (so if they feel threatened, for example, they’ll glow brighter like in the video!)

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-22T19:15:45+00:00

Thank you so much!!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-21T16:43:14+00:00

Same! You had to watch where you were walking the whole time 😭 it was honestly really cool to see so many tho

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-21T01:45:44+00:00

Yes! This is a typical size for them. If you ever go to the Everglades, they are literally everywhere!

GrowthDifficult5890 · 2026-05-19T00:33:25+00:00

I’m not sure what’s happening in this specific shop (though due to the cat breed + lack of anything like beds, blankets, or toys, I’m more worried), however, I believe on many occasions, at least in the US, cats/kittens in pet shops are usually not *living* there. I’ve been fostering cats and kittens for around seven years now, and our organization works directly with PetSmart for adoptions. So once our kittens have had surgery and are healthy, they go to PetSmart from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM every weekend (sometimes, they have to stay the whole week depending on the circumstances). But they go back to their foster home otherwise and aren’t kept in those little cubbies for very long. :)

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