never trust a person who talk to their pets in their normal voice
NOT TRUE before my nephew leaves my home he always looks my dog straight in the eye and says “Delilah. You are a wonderful woman. Have a good day.”
Look we WANT to talk to our dog in a puppy voice but we can’t because he gets so excited that he pees himself so we gotta talk to him like he’s a man so we don’t clean up his piss all day
I talk to my cats as equals because they will probs kill me in my sleep if i dare to infantilize them.
[Image: a triangle on a white background. At the top point is Lemony Snicket from A Series of Unfortunate Events. The caption reads ‘honestly help them’. On the left is Severus Snape, with the caption ‘traumatise them’. On the right is Pearl from Steven Universe, with the caption ‘be traumatised’]
Lesbian film Rafiki has shattered box office records in Kenya – after a government ban was lifted for one week only.
The lesbian love story from director Wanuri Kahiu debuted to international acclaim at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but the film was banned in its home country after state censors took exception to the “homosexual” themes.
Under Academy Awards rules, submissions to the Best Foreign Language
Film category “must be first released in the country submitting it… and
be first publicly exhibited for at least seven consecutive days in a
commercial motion picture theater.”
The film is now again banned in the country, following the end of the
seven-day exemption – but in a final humiliation for state media
censors, it was revealed that the film dominated the country’s box
office in the period it was released.
Rafiki was the top performing film in Kenya for the week it was unbanned, edging out major Hollywood blockbusters The Nun and Night School.
The film grossed more than $33,000 in its week of release, with more than 6,500 tickets sold.
The start of the film was greeted by raucous applause at screenings,
while the crowds “laughed and booed” at the logo of the Kenya Film
Classification Board—the body that suppressed its release.
The re-imposed ban makes it an offence to even own a copy of the film in the country.