Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs.
So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly – not spazz themselves into miscarrying.
So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!
The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
Oooh, and if you haven’t read any Sarah Waters, you should try her out. Anything of hers except The Little Stranger, which is heterosexual and unsatisfying. Everything else is gay and set between the 19th century and the 1940s.
*slams fist on the table* YOU SEE, I KNEW YOU WOULD COME THROUGH. THIS IS THE KIND OF RECOMMENDATION I LIKE.
i will look all of these up with GREAT enthusiasm, thank you. i am a huge sarah waters fan and love all her books, even (i’m afraid) the little stranger, although it is admittedly very heterosexual. the only one i haven’t read is affinity, which you’ve just reminded me i want to read.
THANK YOU!
p.s. oh my god so i can, i love saying ‘my wife’, every time i say it i get little confused tingles.
Another bonus of the Santa Olivia/Saints Astray duology – most of the characters are people of colour. It’s very relevent given current US/Mexican relations, as it’s set in a fictional near future in a DMZ between the two.
Nightrunner series would definitely get you through a holiday – eight books including the short story collection, eleven if you include the prequel trilogy The Tamir Triad.
When The Moon Was Ours is full of the lushest language. Gorgeous. And The Rules of Magic is the prequel Hoffman wrote to Practical Magic. It’s the aunts, plus their brother, growing up in the 1960s. Art and feminism and sex and illicit dark-ish magic. *grabby hands*
Affinity is full of spiritualism, women’s prisons, confidence trickstering and gaslighting. The first time I read it, I thought it was a bit odd, but I liked it better second time around. ENJOY.
This is the Milky Way Photographed in a Crystal Ball
Photographer and astronomer Juan Carlos Munoz was browsing a flea market in Santiago, Chile, a few days ago when he stumbled across some crystal balls. He bought one for a few dollars and then decided to use it for astrophotography. This “cosmic marble” photo of the Milky Way in a crystal ball is what resulted.
knitting in the dark 