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11:44pm June 1, 2012
feliscorvus: [You know you’re a cat lover when…you wear cat ears everywhere] Well, not EVERYWHERE. Though I have several crocheted/knitted hats with ears that I wear a lot in the winter, and a headband thingy with cat ears I put on every so often just for the heck of it (usually because I’ve lost it in the house for a while and then found it, and whenever I find it I stick it on my head and promptly forget it’s there.) All that said, I don’t actually have any really awesome or realistic cat ears, but you can bet I would wear them if I did. :P Mainly because I think it would be seriously cool to be able to communicate with my cats via ear movements. I always feel kind of bad when Brodie (who has incredibly mobile, expressive ears) is doing his rapid-fire hyperdirectional flicky things in my direction and I can’t do anything like it back! I really wish I had cat ears that actually worked. As in, through nerve impulses or something. Because humans have the same basic muscles, they’re just configured totally differently – when I feel my ears “flick back”, my actual ears just scoot back a little. You can see it in my glasses as they pull towards my face, even when you can’t see my ears through all the hair. I think if I had a working set of ears, whiskers, and tail, I could communicate emotions much better, in a way that feels more natural to me than standard expressions. And if the whiskers worked in the sensory direction too, I could use them to compensate for my shitty visual perception through a sense I find much more reliable than vision or hearing. All these things would be wonderful. As it is, I just wear my fuzzy grey kitty hat. I wish I still had my old childhood sets of whiskers, ears, and tails, but I think they got thrown out a long time ago. (I used to go around wearing those whenever I could. To the point where when I was in a children’s acting program, they actually made up cat roles for me when we did plays of non-cat-oriented fairy tales. Although even when I don’t wear things like that or meow or anything, people have often spontaneously compared me to a cat, since… basically forever. My ex’s favorite nickname for me was ‘Koshka’. But… still want ears badly.)

feliscorvus:

[You know you’re a cat lover when…you wear cat ears everywhere]

Well, not EVERYWHERE. Though I have several crocheted/knitted hats with ears that I wear a lot in the winter, and a headband thingy with cat ears I put on every so often just for the heck of it (usually because I’ve lost it in the house for a while and then found it, and whenever I find it I stick it on my head and promptly forget it’s there.) All that said, I don’t actually have any really awesome or realistic cat ears, but you can bet I would wear them if I did. :P Mainly because I think it would be seriously cool to be able to communicate with my cats via ear movements. I always feel kind of bad when Brodie (who has incredibly mobile, expressive ears) is doing his rapid-fire hyperdirectional flicky things in my direction and I can’t do anything like it back!

I really wish I had cat ears that actually worked. As in, through nerve impulses or something. Because humans have the same basic muscles, they’re just configured totally differently – when I feel my ears “flick back”, my actual ears just scoot back a little. You can see it in my glasses as they pull towards my face, even when you can’t see my ears through all the hair.

I think if I had a working set of ears, whiskers, and tail, I could communicate emotions much better, in a way that feels more natural to me than standard expressions. And if the whiskers worked in the sensory direction too, I could use them to compensate for my shitty visual perception through a sense I find much more reliable than vision or hearing. All these things would be wonderful.

As it is, I just wear my fuzzy grey kitty hat. I wish I still had my old childhood sets of whiskers, ears, and tails, but I think they got thrown out a long time ago. (I used to go around wearing those whenever I could. To the point where when I was in a children’s acting program, they actually made up cat roles for me when we did plays of non-cat-oriented fairy tales. Although even when I don’t wear things like that or meow or anything, people have often spontaneously compared me to a cat, since… basically forever. My ex’s favorite nickname for me was ‘Koshka’. But… still want ears badly.)