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cimorenespikedluvicanhascheezburger_feedWhat started as a simple promise turned into a big, emotional win for a very patient seven-year-old. After a brave visit at the doctor and a rough stretch of disappointment, a tiny kitten from the local humane society finally made his way home. His shelter name is Frankie, though his forever name is still under serious consideration, which feels appropriate given how important this moment is.
The road to this adoption wasn't exactly smooth. Just before the holidays, the daughter had picked out another kitten, only to lose out when someone else's application went through first. For a kid who already lives between two homes filled with cats, the loss still hit hard. In her words, she had "been waiting her whole life," which at seven years old is both heartbreaking and a little impressive. Thankfully, this time worked out exactly as hoped.
Frankie has settled in with the confidence of a kitten who knows he's landed somewhere good. He's sweet, curious, and clearly ready to be someone's whole world. The resident cats are less enthusiastic, at least for now. The two older females have seen this routine before and will tolerate it. The younger male, however, is not thrilled and will need some time to process this major change to his kingdom.
For now, though, the important part is that the promise was kept, the heartbreak healed, and a little boy-cat found his place. Frankie may still be nameless, but he's already family, and that's what counts.
icanhascheezburger_feedAnyone who likes cats can call themselves a "cat person", but it takes years of love and expurrience to call yourself a "feline fanatic".
This is a love letter to all of you committed cat caretakers, or as we like to call ourselves, "feline fanatics". You've been caring for cats since before you can remember. You've made room in your homes for cats in need, even if you don't have room for another. You know all your cats' cute quirks and hilarious habits, and can befriend even the grumpiest tomcat who doesn't like hoomans. You have patience, compassion, and a love for all things feline.
To you feline fanatics out there, we see you, and we want to thank you with these 40 hissterical and heartwarming cat memes that will purrfectly sum up your entire relationship with the feline species. Your phones have more pictures of cats than people, your vacuums are full of cat hair, and your hearts are full of love, just like these fluffy feline funnies! They'll make you giggle, tear up, and pawssibly fall in love with cats all over again (although, that's not very hard, now is it?).
Some people look down on us for having "too many cats", but for us, it makes our house feel like a home. We would rather add another cat to our family than let it tough it out on the streets, and if that makes us crazy, then consider us insane. Enjoy these 40 cat memes for all of us over 40 and know that cats are the true center of our universe.
icanhascheezburger_feed2026 has just started, but some habits from the past will forever follow us.
In some ways, it feels like 2020 was yesterday. It is a time that we don't think any of us are going to forget in our lifetimes. That is a period of time that we are going to talk to our great-grandkids about. And it has changed things in the world - not just for us but for everyone. For the better and for the worse. But today, we are going to focus on the better. One of the things that 2020 brought with it is working from home with our cats.
We found out, back then, that it is just as weird for our cats as it is for us to be at home all the time. We always wonder what our cats do when we're not home, and although we didn't find that out, we did find out that our cats need their space to do shenanigans just as much as we do. And of course, Zoom calls. That has become something that is inseparable from our daily lives - it started then, and it's going strong to this day.
Some people may like Zoom calls, some may not, but one thing is for sure, our cats love Zoom calls. We think the part that they enjoyed the most while we were working from home was breaking into our Zoom calls and becoming the center of attention. And the center of attention they were. The second a cat is on screen, no one can look away. No one can think about anything else. Introductions begin, everyone smiles, the day just turns… a little brighter, really.
We loved it. It was one of our favorite things too. It doesn' matter what our cats were doing before said Zoom call started, the second the heard it go off, they were right there, in our faces, turning the whole thing about themselves. We loved it, our cats loved it, but some people couldn't quite figure it out. And as a little throwback, we decided to remind you of this iconic moment from 2020, when a judge accidentally logged onto a Zoom call with a cat filter on and did not know what to do. The filter was stuck, the meeting was hilarious, it went viral faster than we have seen many things go viral at the time, and it still makes us laugh to this day. And it will make you all laugh too, that's a promise.
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I sat in the corner and gazed through red throbbing eyes at the lurid pageant: drunks and punks and pimps and ponces; young farmers and old farmers; pool-hall hustlers and pick pockets; Vimto louts, card sharps and shove ha’penny sharps; sailors and lobster fisherman and hookers from the putting green; the one-armed man from the all-night sweet shop, dandies and dish-washers and drunken school teachers; fire-walkers and whelk-eaters, high priests and low priests; footpads and cut-throats; waifs, strays, vanilla thieves and peat stealers; the clerk from the library, the engineer from the Great Little Train of Wales … it rolled on without end. [p. 31]
Wales is independent, and has fought a colonial war in Patagonia: the veterans haunt Aberystwyth and its environs. The town is pretty much owned and run by the Druids, as corrupt and wicked a crew as any mob. Private detective Louie Knight is engaged by local chanteuse Myfanwy Montez to investigate the disappearance of a schoolboy -- the first of several to vanish without trace. Louie, with his teenaged sidekick 'Calamity' Jane, unravels a heinous plot involving an ark, an antique Lancaster bomber and a forensic knitting expert.
I'm not sure why this didn't work for me. ( Read more... )
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scans_dailyalisxPeople watching and this grandparent-core Boomer couple walk past, walking their little dog, totally normie except for the fact that dude is wearing a freaking Slipknot t-shirt???
Like I dunno what the story is there but I am sure it is fascinating.
vriddyWhere am I at with all the projects? Definitely nowhere I thought I'd be in early December. Let's have a look at the "vague current plan" back then:
...Actually that's it I did nothing else on that list, and half the rest will have to change. In fairness, I knew all the sequel-related stuff would have to be temporarily shelved about a week later: I was deep in the kn8 edits, and could tell it would take longer than anticipated. I wanted the time away from the witch so my subconscious could ✨ work its magic ✨ about the remaining problems, but once most of the story left my "active" memory, outlining or planning a sequel felt nearly impossible.
Then K-9 happened. Lol. I mean, this was and continues to be fun, and I'm surfing that delightful fandom wave for as long as I can. 🏄 Did I mention our fandom tag was canonised? Teeheehee.
I'm writing a lot of short fics in too many fandoms and I think that's doing me good for now. Mostly because I want to keep myself distracted away from *waves wildly*. It means I'm rereading manga chapters here and there, rewatching episodes bits. I'm still reading a lot of new manga at the moment, and unfortunately feeling fannish about more and more of the tiniest, non-existent fandoms. It's just!! There's so much awesome polyship potential everywhere!!!! They just huh write themselves, or should!!!!! Or I wish someone else did so I could just read it... XD At least, a few of them have English translations out there so maybe some readers will have the same vision and eventually find the fic, but there's also a BL horror manga (the true monster isn't really the creature...) that doesn't, despite calling my name and whispering OT3 into my head louder and louder....... Ah well. Fan does as fan must.
But anyway! Writing short is doing me good, I think, and writing varied too. But I still have plans for the big original projects:
But I'd really like to have this round of Cursed Witch edits feel like they're a better shape, with chapters properly broken down and cliffhangerised. Also I hope to keep writing ficlets as a pressure valve for launching myself into yet another MASSIVE EDITING/BIG LENGTH round.
That's the current plan! Let's see in a month how it totally didn't work out that way!! XD
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