minoanmiss | Refuge Post of Beautiful Things

I decided I would create a small post of lovely things and invite people to rest with me for a few moments. Please feel absolutely free to add lovely things to this.

Here is the first (ETA and second, and third), if I did it correctly.

ahahhahaha I could not get it to embed but hopefully this is a link. Definitely listen to Mr. Lucas' narration.

https://www.tiktok.com/foryou?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=6973698311878429958&web_id=6976856460341593605#/@thesweetimpact/video/6973698311878429958

one more creative TikTok video, because the young artist charmed me:

https://www.tiktok.com/@sparkysprays/video/7111472773226171654?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7113040695229548074

OKay, a properly embedded video: a flythrough of the Lagoon nebula

Watch on YouTube

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minoanmiss

Two pictures of guinea pigs

by freshprinceofsouthpark on tumblr

and

by patronuspig on tumblr

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ex_flameandsong751

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CUTE BABIES

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lb_lee

Oh! They're so cylindrical! <3_<3

--Sneak

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ex_flameandsong751

THANK YOU for this.

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minoanmiss

eee your icon

You're welcome. I just... I donated, I wrote letters, and then I had to do something entirely different or collapse.

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dine

this is definitely a day which calls for beauty and gentleness - thank you for this idea
multi-coloured pansies

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minoanmiss

eee thank you! I want to roll in that meadow

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china_shop

Those TikTok links were awesome! *hearts*

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minoanmiss

*beams*

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minoanmiss

I would love to give her this necklace (Etruscan, 2500 BP)

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minoanmiss

so a friend told me this and gave me permission to post it. All writing skill is my friend's.

My relative has a new little guinea pig, and I'm pig-sitting for them while she's out of town for a week or so. Little miss Penelope is teeny, bright-eyed, and feisty and obviously doted on. However: i made the enormous and tragic mistake of holding her on my lap at the same time as my little naked pig Bert. To say that the two of them were immediately lust-addled would be profound understatement. They're smitten. Overcome with hormones. Out of their rodenty little minds with passion. I have her in a whole separate pen in a whole separate room, and the *call to each other.* She wheeks. He wheeks. They both zoom around in frustrated love mania. He chatters at me in absolute rage every time I walk by. I actually put padding down outside his pen in case he somehow manages to leap out of the enclosure trying to get to her.

Meanwhile James, my distinguished senior gentleman pig and Bert's roommate, wants nothing more than for these two ludicrous teenagers to get off his lawn.

So that's the news from guinea pig land. So much squeaking and zooming. I'm a cold-hearted monster for keeping them separated in the face of such feelings, but we do what we must. When I texted Penelope's owner the news I told them, "He is fascinated by this beautiful lady! She is desperate to know more
about this mysterious bald stranger!"

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minoanmiss

Rhapsody in Blue with images of New York City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSq_nwoG43s

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minoanmiss

Cat pictures, please.

Edited Date: 2022-06-25 08:44 am (UTC)

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stranger

Here's a link to live feed of 6-week kittens (and their mother) being adorably cute. It's in real time, so they all sleep at some point, but they're at the very, very active zoom-around stage right now.
KITTENS

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minoanmiss

Kittens!

And I found another cat picture which had to go here

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stranger

Hee. A cat is a cat!

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minoanmiss

Ignore the cigarette, it's for atmosphere only (prop for the character he's playing in this shot)

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cmcmck

Guineas!

Eeeee! :o)

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minoanmiss

They are so amazingly cute.

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sabotabby

I'm sure you've seen the saga of the Middle Aged Lesbians, the Tempermental Chucklefucks, and the Vitamix box, but the Dodo has a really cute video about it.

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minoanmiss

I actually haven't! I'm looking forward to this!

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sabotabby

Oooh! It's a whole saga. If you google "Vitamix standoff" you'll find all kinds of good things. I watched the entire thing play out over Facebook, where "did the lesbians get their smoothies yet?" became a big of a meme but now that it's over, you can find some good summaries. The video is the best though because it has footage of the standoff.

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lilysea

I just watched the animated series Dead End: Paranormal Park on Netflix and I loved it SO MUCH.

Barney is a young teenage trans man, and he wants a job at the Dead End theme park so he can move out of home and get away from Friday family dinners with his transphobic grandmother (the show never says any transphobic dialogue, it just talks about how the grandmother is unsupportive/critical of his transition. The grandmother never gets any dialogue, just facial expressions/body language)

Norma is an Indian American teenager with Anxiety, and she's a fan who knows almost everything there is to know about the Dead End theme park, so she wants to work there

Meanwhile, there are snarky demons and also ghosts.

Shenanigans, found family, friendships, and M/M romance ensue!

Barney, the teenage trans man, is voiced by Zach Barack, an actor who is a young trans man

Alan Cumming is one of the voice actors for one episode!

MJ Rodriguez (Blanca Rodriguez from Pose) is one of the voices! ^_^

There's also a musical episode! ^_^

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minoanmiss

Oh my goodness what a delightful show!

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lb_lee

Mac: ALAN CUMMING! :D

Rogan: Wait, there's a kid's show with a trans lead? Is it completed? Might need to rec it to my friendly neighborhood cartoon night...

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lilysea

The first season is completed. ^_^

They've left a set up for a second season, but it's not a cliff hanger.

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lb_lee

Hmmm, cartoon night waits until a show is for real completed (though we've had surprises like Samurai Jack before, but who would've thought it got finished over a decade later?) but I'll keep an eye on it.

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amberdreams

Good idea - I'm too rage-filled and need a break.
Have a couple of squirrels chasing each other

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minoanmiss

Why are squirrels so cute? ANd yet they are.

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amberdreams

it's a mystery... 😁

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readera

I don't have anything to share atm but thanks for sharing & the reminder to step back. I'm planing on doing housechores & listening to old podcasts today.

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minoanmiss

*hugs you a lot*

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readera

*hugs back*

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julian

Baby Great Blue Herons. Or, well, juvenile ones.

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minoanmiss

They aere fluffy and adorbs. :D

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lb_lee

OH MY GOD WHAT RIDICULOUS CREATURES. I have never seen a baby blue heron before!

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julian

I hadn't before this either! Their adult there kept backing up further on the branch as they got more and more rambunctious, and then flew off with metaphorical sweat beads dropping off it.

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lb_lee

Who wouldn't, with all those mouths to feed?

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julian

Also, my 1.3 year old niece.

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minoanmiss

OMG look at her! She's so beautiful!

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julian

She is! And *very focused*.

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corylea

Do you know about the Awww subreddit? It's a place where people mostly post cute pictures or short videos of cats and dogs, with the occasional human baby and a smattering of other animals. It's at https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/.