#Caturday to be specific

[lefaystrent]

Janus stumbles upon a tiny black kitten.

It's just sitting there, a tiny ball of adorable floof on the sidewalk edge. Janus glances around, as if someone will miraculously appear on the abandoned street to claim ownership. But he's in the mindscape, and honestly the street only goes in a square around Thomas's apartment building. There's only so much real estate you can fit into one man's head. At any rate, the other sides hardly venture out here. This kitten is totes fucked unless Janus does something.

"Oh I couldn't possibly," Janus demures at the narrator. "Besides, it's imaginary. I'm sure it'll be fine on its own."

"Mew," chirps the ball of floof and emerges out of its loafing position to waddle in Janus's direction.

Janus, lord of the lies and all things deception, evil mastermind extradonaire, feels his breath hitch.

Just look at the little paws.

"No!" Janus exclaims, shaking out of his cute-induced stupor. "The last pet I had was Sacagawea the hamster, and we all know what happened to her! Not that I care about teacup sized critters. Begone, little beast."

"Mew," another plaintive meow comes as the kitten reaches his ankles. It swats at him with its stubby claws, trying and failing to climb his pants leg.

"I am a gentleman of standards," Janus tells the cat seriously.

The puny kitten looks up at him imploringly with round-saucer like eyes.

Janus drops to the ground and coos, "Oh no, you're meeting all of my standards!"

The kitten starts up a punitive-engine of a purr as Janus scoops it up in his gloved hands. It chirps intermittently and Janus's ice-cold snake heart melts.

"I'm not keeping you," Janus promises fondly. "This doesn't go beyond a simple scratching. Do I make myself clear?"

"Meeew," the kitten squeaks and Janus nearly falls over himself to bring the kitten's face to his so he can rub their noses together.

The next day the sides are in the midst of filming a video with Thomas in his living room when Logan cuts himself off in the middle of citing his sources to say, "What was that noise?"

"Sorry, I ate burritos earlier," Remus apologizes, not appearing very apologetic.

"No, it sounded like–" Logan cuts himself off again as everyone hears the sound this time.

A muffled mewing.

All eyes fall on Janus in his corner. He stands there, seemingly unaffected, but upon closer inspection with eyeballs, one can see how stiff his posture is.

Patton peers closer with his balls of eyes. "Jan...is this that mewing trend all the kids are doing nowadays?"

"That is not what that means," Roman says, but he's mostly distracted with staring at Janus. "Wanna tell us something, Cat in the Hat?"

The deceitful side bristles. "I haven't the foggiest what you mean."

Janus's hat meows. More than that, there's something shuffling underneath.

Thomas's mouth is slightly agape as he asks, "Janus, did your hat just meow?"

"It did nothing of the sort."

"Kiddo, do you have a kitty cat under there or are you just happy to see us?"

"I– since when do you make jokes like that?"

"Jokes like what?" Patton blinks back.

Janus rolls his eyes and brushes imaginary lint off his imaginary shoulder. "Nevermind. Weren't we discussing Thomas's never-ending cycle of conundrums?"

"Yeeeah," Virgil drags the word out. "You can't just act like we all can't see your hat moving."

"Yes, and we all heard it meowing," Logan muses, ignoring Janus's automatic hissing of, "You heard nothing!"

"But why the hat?" Thomas ponders.

Logan nods, also curious, "Is this a coping mechanism after the loss of Sacagawea the hamster?"

"May she rest in peace, amen," Patton prays while Roman performs a Catholic cross over himself.

Thomas glances at all of them, "You guys know that I never actually owned a pet hamster, right?"

"Dude, too soon," Virgil chides him, and Thomas has the consideration to look abashed.

Janus crosses his arms to look cool. He doesn't. He keeps tipping his head this way and that to keep his hat from toppling over.

"This is a perfectly normal way for me to stand," Janus says.

Roman secretly slides Remus five bucks. Remus dives onto the floor and army crawls behind Janus. Somehow everyone but Janus sees it.

"By all means, do keep staring," Janus says, guarded and on edge and his rolls definitely tootsied. What.

Remus rises up behind him. Off comes the hat.

"Mew!"

"Oh my goodness, that's so precious!!" Patton squeals.

The kitten is belly flopped on top of Janus's head. It's so small that it almost gets lost in the hair, if not for the stark contrast against Janus's lighter color.

"Hey Virgil, it looks just like you!" Roman crows, earning himself a well deserved middle finger.

"Drat, you've uncovered my secret," Janus drones and gives Remus a withering look that promises they will exchange words later. Remus is too wrapped up in giving little chin scritches to the kitty to be bothered.

Thomas also inevitably succumbs to cuteness overload, but he does manage to ask why the heck Janus felt like he needed to keep the cat a secret.

"Because Thomas," Janus throws his arm out to make his cloak flare out. For the drama. Then he flourishes his hand towards the cat on his head. "You weren't ready to meet this new side of yourself, but I guess the cat is out of the bag."

"The cat was under a hat, to clarify."

"LITERALLY NO ONE ASKED YOU, LOGAN!"

"No one ever does, and yet that would solve over half of Thomas's problems."

"When you mean new side, does that mean...?" Thomas asks Janus, his voice filling with wonder. His eyes are getting that crazed glint in his eyes, like he's five seconds away from becoming a Florida Man meme. The background music ramps up into a crescendo at this new epiphany. Thomas knew there were more sides he hadn't met, but to think–!

"No, no, no," Logan says, waving his hands in an X motion. "This is a misunderstanding created from Janus's misleading statement. Don't do this–whatever it is you're doing. Stop it."

Virgil weighs in as well, "Hate to break it to you, but your most animal side is Janus."

"Does this mean Thomas is a furry?" Remus gasps.

"Yesss," Janus hisses out. Then he thinks about it. "I mean no. I mean– what?"

"So what's the baby's name?" Patton asks. He has come close too to join Remus in the giving of scratchies. A noble cause!

"It's a black cat, so why not Catman?" Roman offers. "I am the darkness. I am the night. I am...Catman!"

"Very original," Virgil praises, but it's just subtly sarcastic enough that Roman gives an heartfelt, "Thank you!"

"Can I pet?" Thomas asks, hand reaching out hopefully.

The sides grimace and wince.

"Oooh, yeah, about that..."

"Sorry, man."

"You can't actually..."

"Imaginary, remember?"

"Maybe if you think really hard and imagine touching fur..."

"Don't patronize him. Not with this."

"Yeah, kitty buisness is serious buisness."

"Are we ever going to return to the original topic?"

"Cats take priority. Don't you know that?"

"By what parameters? Any by whom?"

"It's like when a cat falls asleep in your lap. By law, you cannot disturb it. On pain of death."

"A bit overdramatic, but not wrong. It's an actual thing."

"Achoo!"

"Bless you."

"Thank you!"

"Patton, why are you petting a cat when you know you're allergic?"

"You would think that imaginary cats wouldn't agitate allergies."

"Thomas has a really vivid imagination."

"Why does everything innocent sound dirty coming out of your mouth?"

"Speaking of mouths and coming–"

Thomas, Patton, and Roman all shove their hands over their ears and scream, "LA LA LA!"

With everyone distracted (as part of Janus's master plan), Janus uses the moment of ensuing chaos to skeddadle away.

They never do learn the kitty's name, but they do eventually discover a horde of cats in Janus's room at some point, but that's another story.

[its-a-beautful-day]

To celebrate the season, this blog will be hosting its first drawtober featuring Beanie Babies!! Create with what you feel comfortable with or play with new mediums!!!

Below the cut has each weeks graphic complete with photos of each Beanie Baby. I'll also create a post for that weeks prompts. Tag your art with #beaniebabytober as I'll follow it to see all the amazing art that is created with this event!!

[dizzybizz]

How are your cats doing

like this

[an-undercover-bi]

Look upon her amiable countenance and be energized!

[t-underneaththeradardancing]

hard daze - night much sleepless - up early

may he bee always former

everything but the things i dont like i like

a laundry list of infinity or poetry

i guess the morning starts like it do it does - in an unpublished wee writes its caturday but actually frog friday is now and the intention is 2 finish while its still morning or while we're young - royally cuz its two late for t - a kitty good and always even if not specifically - mentioned - and murder - midweek and daily

and the fuckery continues - everywhere all at once but in local news our building may be considered unsafe and a nuisance cuz of construction and possible collusion or obfuscation anyway or maybe plain willful stupidity mixed w greed - its ongoing for years but maybe near end game and need to move if only for our sanity but this city is so fukken expensive and cant even imagine anywhere else

this seems as good a time as any - to finis for today

anyway

hallelujah

[audiotourguide]

Celebrate and appreciate the Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality this May!

Celebrate The Misthome Museum Month of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality this May! Use the tag #mistholme month to share your creations, recommendations, and other contributions to this fan community event. While this event is primarily being celebrated and hosted here on Tumblr, we also invite you to join the Mistholme Museum fan Discord here!

The beginning of this month, May 1st through 13th, will be dedicated to prompts intended to inspire everything including fanfiction, fanart, headcanons, analyses, and other posts from fans that can be shared using the #mistholme month tag. The prompts are as follows:

May 01: Mystery, Morbidity, and/or Mortality 

May 02: Alternatural 

May 03: Perilous 

May 04: Persevere 

May 05: Resonant 

May 06: Embrace 

May 07: Coveted 

May 08: Imperfect 

May 09: Amusing 

May 10: Trustworthy 

May 11: Innocent 

May 12: Omission 

May 13: Nuance

Faves Week will run from May 14th to May 20th, when we encourage Mistholme fans to create work, share something, or post about your favorites! The favorites categories for each day will be:

May 14: Favorite Character 

May 15: Favorite Exhibit 

May 16: Favorite Episode 

May 17: Favorite Creature 

May 18: Favorite Season 

May 19: Favorite Fan-Art* 

May 20: Favorite Fan Fiction

* A note on favorite fan-art: If promoting or sharing artwork created by someone else, particularly work that is on other platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, which you cannot find on Tumblr, please obtain explicit permission from the original poster of that work before creating your own post to promote it here on Tumblr. Thank you!

Community Week, from May 21st to May 27th, is all about aspects of our fan community. 

May 21: Share Mistholme-related headcanons about characters, exhibits, anticipated plot points for Mistholme Museum season 6!

May 22: Do you have Mistholme Museum original characters? If so, we invite you to talk about them! Share art you’ve created for them, create new art, write something up to describe them, talk about where they fit into the ‘Mistholme Museum universe’. If not, this could be your long-awaited excuse to create one!

May 23: Review-writing day! We are challenging everyone participating in Mistholme Month activities to go on Podchaser, Apple Podcasts, or their preferred podcatcher (function-permitting) to write reviews of The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality. Sites/apps like Podchaser.com even allow you to review individual episodes, if you would like to highlight a particular favorite! Show Mistholme the love it deserves on this day by leaving reviews with us.

May 24: Wiki Wednesday! Open up the Mistholme Wiki and find a page, any page, to write, complete, or add to. This is another challenge we are administering to the whole Mistholme Museum fan community as part of this month’s event. No contribution is too small!

May 25: Do you enjoy conceptualizing crossovers for your favorite media? What other works would you combine with Mistholme? What would it look like? Draw fanart, write fanfic, post headcanons, and everything else crossover-related on this day!

May 26: It’s Feedback Friday! Leave comments, kudos, likes, and go forth to reblog, retweet, share, or otherwise promote the fanworks of others in the Mistholme tags on Tumblr, Twitter, Archive of Our Own, and more. Alternatively, fan-artists and fanfic authors are encouraged to welcome critique from fellow creatives on their work via the Discord server.

May 27: Are you a cat-owner? Do you have pictures of cats to share? Participate in our Caturday! It’s fun for the whole fan community. After all. every cat is the Curator’s cat.

Get Silly! The final 4 days of May are dedicated to three specific fan-favorite categories, much looser in structure:

May 28: Stables Sunday is a great day to share more work featuring canonical stables residents such as Bull or the Wil-o-Wisps, headcanon creatures that might additionally be housed by the Museum, or even continue ‘Curator’s Caturday�� by sharing some non-feline creatures from your personal camera roll.

May 29: Man with a Voice Monday is all about The Man with a Voice like Honey and Chocolate and Coffee all at once. Anything additional that happens to be Man with a Voice-related? Share it, post about it, talk about it on this day!

May 30: Audio Tour Guide Tuesday is Guide’s special day. All about the Guide. Much like Man with a Voice Monday, Tour Guide Tuesday is an extra day dedicated to the Audio Tour Guide.

May 31: Wrap-Up Wednesday is a leftover free-space day! Did you happen to miss a day during this month long celebration and you want a chance to post, share, or talk about something from earlier in May? Do it on May 31st! This blog, @audiotourguide will continue sharing anything in the #mistholme month tag up to 2 weeks after the 31st as well, just to keep our celebration and appreciation alive!

[wingedcatgirl]

today's foxgirl friday, tomorrow's caturday

we gotta fill up the rest of the week, though. slimegirl sunday. uhhhh what are some more types of girls that begin with specific letters.

[introvertedghostboy]

Your fav book? x3

Fav time/weekday?

Fav Dish?

Fav place indoors / outdoors?

Hi hi :)

My Favorite Books:

1. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia

2. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

3. Edgar Allen Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems

Favorite Time/Weekday:

I like any time after 5p usually. I get done with work usually before then 😂 Depends though- I work in healthcare. And Weekday- Caturday (Saturday)

Favorite Dish: I’m a foodie for sure but my favorite dish is Anything with Noodles 😂 Specifically- Fettuccine Alfredo.

Fav places:

Indoors- My room. It’s my safe space.

Outdoors- I grew up in NJ and we did a lot of hiking as kids- Stairway to Heaven is one of my favorite trails.

Thank you for the ask! 😄

[aashriapps]

Cat Videos | Cat Videos for Kids | Cat Funny Videos | Cat Pet Videos | C...

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[catluvus]

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[aeide-thea]

an extremely good Nefret Cat Thing is the process of her disappearances under the armchair, where her cat bed lives

there's a long stretch of highly suspicious inspection, as if one of Baby Sister's Hated Cats might somehow be lurking there despite not currently being part of the household, and then finally a lowering of the body and a slow fat wriggle into darkness

like a soldier edging forward on their belly thru enemy territory except the soldier is a fat white cat and the enemy is wholly imaginary

[captain-sassyfrass]

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” - James Herriot

[recently-reanimated]

Cat owner voice: wow I can't imagine having a dog, they're so high maintenance. You have to let them out every now and again. Anyway, I have to drive across state lines to get the only kind food my cat is willing to eat.

[yes-i-am-happyaspie]

can we have more cat content? They're super cute. Do they have a twitter or instagram or anything?

Hahaha! This blog is bit of a hot mess of mixed interests. However, I try to post pictures of my cat and/or cat themed drawings every Saturday. So if you Search this page for #caturday or #cats quite a few things will come up.

I have an Instagram @happyaspie123 that has some of my art and a few cat pics too. I really need to get better about posting there!

If you interested in something a bit more specific, cat content wise, let me know! I'll a what I can do.

[mint-yooxgi]

Caturday - Ten X Reader

Slight Catboy!AU - Part of the Wasn’t On Pawpose Collab

Genre: Fluff, Slight Crack

Pairing: Ten X Reader

Words: 2,732

Summary: Waking up one morning to see a cat where your boyfriend should be can be quite the shock indeed.

A/n: Short and sweet, at least I think so, lol. I mean, he does have a tendency to look a little feline at times, it’s truly amazing. Not edited fully, oops. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this short little update, there’s plenty more where this came from coming soon! As always, feedback is greatly appreciated, I hope you enjoy!

The sound of your keys jangling meets your ears as you unlock the door to your apartment. Once the lock clicks open, you’re pushing open the door, kicking off your shoes while letting out a small breath.

“Ten, I’m home!” You call out, noticing the lights in the living room are still on.

A groan is all you hear in response.

“Ten?” Your brow furrows in worry, for that did not sound like he’s having a good time.

“In here,” he voices shakily, and you step down the hallway to see him curled up on the couch.

“What’s wrong?” Immediately, you’re beside him, crouching down to feel his forehead and noticing he’s a bit warm, as if he’s running a slight temperature.

“Don’t feel well,” he pouts. “Stomachache.”

You pout right back at him, worry still creasing your brows, “was it something you ate?”

“I don’t know,” he groans once more, eyes squeezing shut as a wave of pain travels through his body.

“Come on, let’s get you ready for bed,” you say, helping him off of the couch and towards your shared bedroom. “I’m sure getting some sleep will help; you’ll feel better in the morning.”

He can only manage a groan in response, letting you help him off of the couch and lead him into your shared bedroom. Flicking on the lights, you sit him on the bed before tucking him gently under the covers.

“Try and get some rest, I’ll be back soon,” you say, gently brushing the hair off of his forehead as he pouts at you. “I need to shower first, I promise I’ll be quick.”

He nods, turning onto his side and curling back into a ball as he clutches his stomach. You spare a final glance at him over your shoulder as you retreat to the bathroom, taking a quick shower to wash off the events of the day. Once you’re done, you slip into some comfy pyjamas and make sure to grab Ten a glass of water and some pain medication.

Stepping back into your room, you hear him letting out small whimpers, only increasing your worry.

“Here, take this,” you say, handing him the pills and glass of water.

“Thanks,” he whispers, taking a swig of the water before placing it carefully on the bedside table.

You move quickly around the room, shutting off the lights as you crawl into bed beside him. He curls into your side, head resting on your chest as you gently stroke his back in comfort. You just hope the medicine kicks in soon, for his small whimpers of pain have returned, and he feels warmer than he did the first time you checked his forehead.

It takes about twenty minutes for his whimpers to die down and his breathing to even out, letting you know that he’s finally fallen asleep. You breathe a small sigh of relief, allowing your own eyes to fall shut as you swallow the rest of your worry. He should feel better in the morning.

***

The faint warmth of sunlight streaming in from the open blinds warms your face as you drift back into consciousness. With your eyes remaining closed, you can feel a solid warmth on your stomach, letting you know that Ten has shifted in his sleep during the night so that his head is now resting there. It’s one of his favourite positions of his to lay in, with his head on your stomach as you lazily run your fingers through his hair, which is exactly what you are doing right now.

Except, his hair feels different.

Instead of the soft, medium black strands you’re used to, his hair is not only shorter in length, but it feels slightly courser even though it’s still soft to the touch. Another thing you’re missing is the warmth of his body pressed against your side, with his arms around your torso. In fact, it feels as if the warmth is centred on your stomach; a small ball.

Your eyes fling open. Glancing down reveals a solid black cat curled up on your stomach in place of your boyfriend’s head. Your hand freezes as you inhale sharply in shock.

Ever so slowly, the cat’s eyes blink open, a large yawn escaping its mouth as it looks at you expectantly. 

“Uh, Ten?” You call out, hoping he’s just making breakfast down the hallway in the kitchen and will come to explain the black cat now laying on top of you.

The cat blinks at you expectantly.

“Ten, what’s going on?” You call out again, hearing no movement in your apartment.

Sitting up quickly, the cat rolls off of you, complaining loudly with a yip. Throwing the covers off of yourself, you stand up, feet padding through the apartment in search of your boyfriend.

“Ten?” There’s worry lacing your voice now since you know he didn’t have plans for today.

An annoyed meow is your only response, hearing the thunk of the cat hitting the floor as it follows you down the hallway.

“Babe? This isn’t funny anymore,” you say, checking both the living room and kitchen but finding nothing, not even a note.

The cat huffs, and you turn to look at it.

“Now, where did you come from?” You ask, more to yourself than anything, but the cat just stares at you, almost expectantly. Its eyes narrow slightly, and your breathing stops. You’d know that look, those eyes anywhere. “Ten?”

A loud meow in response, as if he’s saying ‘what’?

“Ten, you’re a-“ you let out a snort of disbelief, “you’re a cat.”

His tail flicks in annoyance as if to say he’s gathered that much already, and you laugh once more in disbelief.

“How the fuck did this happen? I must be dreaming,” you mumble, shaking your head as you walk into the kitchen to grab a glass of water. Not even a minute later, you see Ten trot into the kitchen, a loud mrow escaping him. 

“This has to be a dream,” you sigh, rubbing at your temples as you place your now empty glass of water on the counter.

You look down in time to see Ten preparing to jump on the counter, only for him to misjudge the distance and smack his face right on the edge. You burst out laughing, all the while he glares at you and complains loudly.

“Not used to a cat’s body, huh?” You chuckle. “You know, despite all those times I thought you looked like a cat I never thought you’d actually become one.” A loud huff in response. “Aw, does someone want up on the counter?”

He glares at you, and his tail flicks in annoyance. You shake your head amusedly as you bend down to pick him up to place him on the counter.

“Now, how the fuck do I fix this?” You grumble, frown back on your face as you stare at him. He simply sits there, head tilted slightly as he stares back. “Well, it’s not like I can call anyone,” at this point, you’re talking to yourself, but you can tell by the way he follows you with his head, Ten is listening to your every word. “Like they would believe me anyways. ‘Yeah, hey, Lucas, you’ll never believe what happened to Ten.’” You roll your eyes as Ten growls. “Exactly, that would just make him think we’re trying to prank him if we told him.”

Bracing your hands on the edge of the counter, you let out a groan. Surprisingly, you’re taking this much better than you thought you normally would. Granted, you don’t think something like this has every happened before, and you still don’t understand exactly how it happened. Either way, the sound of your stomach growling manages to pull you out of your thoughts.

“No point in trying to think on an empty stomach,” you mutter, searching the kitchen for something to eat. Your eyes light up as you find a coffee cake in the cupboard, one slice having already been eaten.

A hiss escapes Ten as you place the container beside him on the counter, causing your brow to furrow in confusion, “relax, it’s just coffee cake.”

However, just as you go to open the container Ten swats your hand away, putting his newly formed cat body between you and the cake, “hey! What was that for?”

Another hiss is all you receive as Ten glares at the cake.

“Is this what gave you such an upset stomach last night?” You question, and immediately Ten meets your gaze, head nodding once ever so slightly you almost miss it. He turns back to the container and starts nudging it towards the trash can at the end of the counter. “Alright, alright, I’ll throw it out.”

Releasing another sigh, you scoop the container up and check the freshness date as you walk over to the garbage to throw it out. Your nose scrunches in distaste as you see the cake is way passed its freshness date. No wonder it upset his stomach; you wonder who even thought it was a good idea to sell this product still, all things considered.

Opening the trashcan with your foot, you’re about to drop the cake in when you stare at it intently, holding it at eye level. Your brow furrows as you look between the cake and your now feline boyfriend, then back at the cake. Shaking your head at the thought, you drop the cake in the trash. There’s no way that this was the cause of your boyfriend turning into a small, fluffy animal, right?

Once you grab some actual food that isn’t expired, you grab your laptop and sit at the kitchen counter. Ten hops up beside you, tail swishing slowly as he watches you look up potential reasons as to how and why this has happened as you eat. So far, you haven’t found much other than some weird websites that only tell you how to curse someone into turning into an animal, which you’re not even sure is actually real.

Finally, after about an hour and a half of searching, you find this forum where people have shared their outrageous experiences, some of which seem to fall under similar lines to what has happened to your boyfriend. Most of the posts you find say that it lasts for about a day, always after eating a specific coffee cake from a bakery that mysteriously seems to disappear when they go back to check it out again.

“Alright,” you sigh, causing Ten to raise his head from his front paws. He had curled up into a ball on the counter as he watched you work, and you’re pretty sure he had a cat nap, too. “It looks like whatever this is should only last until tomorrow, so you’ll be a biped once more once the sun rises in the morning. Until then, the best we can do is wait it out.”

He simply stares at you as you shut your laptop, leaning back in your chair to rub at your eyes. You meet his gaze and he sits up once more.

“I’m sorry, boo, I don’t know what to do,” your expression falls. You just hope that this isn’t permanent, who knows how many times this weird instance has gone wrong, and how many are still trapped in an animal’s body.

You watch him as he jumps down from the counter, stumbling a little once he reaches the floor. You hear him mrow at you once more, making his way to the living room. When he sees you not following, he stops to glance at you from over his shoulder, tail poised in the air as he calls to you once more.

“You want me to follow you?” You ask, receiving a positive response from him. Chuckling slightly, you slid out of your seat, “okay then.”

He leads you over to the couch, where he jumps up and turns to you expectantly. Quirking a brow, you sit with him on the couch, tossing your feet up while you’re at it. Almost immediately, he starts crawling towards you, and onto your lap, doing his best to keep his balance as he starts to nuzzle your chin and neck.

“Someone’s affectionate today,” you giggle, hand pausing just above his head as you go to pet him, but you’re unsure whether that would be appropriate. However, once his head nudges your open palm, you decide to hell with it, and start petting him.

You never thought your boyfriend could purr until now, but you swear he sounds like a tiny motorboat as he continues to nuzzle his face into your neck. You smile faintly as you see him lay down, front paw on either side of your neck as his tail swishes back and forth contently. He gives you a sleepy eyed blink before resting his head right at your neck, and you nearly jump once you feel him give you a small lick.

“Ten, that tickles,” you huff, amused.

You just catch the devilish gleam in his eyes before he’s moved forwards slightly and is now littering your face with kisses.

“Okay, okay,” you laugh, “I love you, too.”

You manage to surprise him by placing a swift kiss to the top of his head and he looks at you, stunned. 

“Payback,” you grin as he settles down on your chest once more.

Not even a minute later, a yawn is escaping your lips, already noticing how Ten lays with his eyes closed, tail still flicking in content over your stomach, as if he’s petting you right back. He has yet to stop purring.

Your eyes start to droop, and you can feel sleep calling out to you to have a nap in the warm afternoon sun. Before you know it, the two of you have drifted off to sleep.

A few hours later, you wake up, feeling a mildly heavy weight resting on your chest, hair tickling the underside of your chin. You let out a small groan, bringing your hand up to push the object down, only to be greeted with a small chuckle as you push slightly, yet the object doesn’t seem to want to yield.

“Ow,” a voice huffs, and your eyes fling open.

“Ten?” Your eyes lock with his familiar ones, a grin pulling at his lips as you see him laying half on top of you.

“Good morning, sunshine,” he greets, “or should I say afternoon?”

You sit up immediately, taking him with you as you cup his face in your hands, “you’re here! You’re alive, and-“ you let out a sigh of relief, “and you’re not a cat!”

“Not anymore, looks like it,” he agrees, “though I definitely don’t want that to happen again any time soon.”

You nearly squeeze the air out of him, “I was so worried.”

“I could tell,” he chuckles, hugging you back tightly. “I never thought I’d have an actual tail before.”

“I didn’t think you’d be, well, you again until tomorrow morning,” you breathe and he smiles slightly as he pulls away to look at your face.

“Same here,” he tells you. “I’m just glad everything is back to normal.”

“Me too,” you reply, just as a teasing smile tugs at your lips. “Though I was staring to like you as a cat, the peace and quiet…”

“Oh, haha, real funny,” he deadpans. “Maybe I’ll just stay that way next time.”

“Gosh no!” You shake your head instantly. “I’m just glad to have you back to normal.”

You pull him into another embrace, cradling his head into your neck, grateful to feel his arms wrap themselves around you.

“It’s good to be back to normal,” he says, taking a deep breath. “Though I have to say, you still smell amazing.”

You can feel the grin on his lips against your skin as you whine slightly in embarrassment. He simply chuckles once more in response, and you can’t help but to smile right along with him. No matter what, you’re just glad to have your boyfriend back in his own body.

“Now, what is there to eat?” He pulls away, standing from the couch as he heads towards the kitchen. He turns to wink at you from over his shoulder as he says, “I’m starving.”

[keeptheotherone]

Mecation: Day 3

Caturday

Monroe (left) and Wilson (right)

I keep dreaming about cats. My next long-term goal is to travel the US in a tiny house, so I’ve been road-tripping with my cats for two or three years now to help them adapt. It’s been more than a year since I stayed in a hotel without them, and I miss them. 

The first night I dreamed the housekeeping staff brought me kittens to take care of. Last night I dreamed we were home, at the house I grew up in, and I was searching through my mother’s kitchen cabinets (because of course nothing was stored the way it actually was in real life--#dreamworld) for bowls to put their food in; specifically wide, shallow bowls that wouldn’t give them whisker fatigue. 

I get up in the middle of the night and think, “Careful, don’t step on the cat” because Monroe likes to sleep on the bathroom mat right in front of the door, and I have stepped on or kicked him more than once (bless his heart). I left a skirt lying on the bed, then thought “no, they’ll get cat hair all over it” and turned around to hang it up before remembering there weren’t any cats here to shed on it. I can actually stretch my legs out in any direction in bed without the restriction of an 11-pound lump.

Gah, I’m making myself homesick. Anyway, enjoy the pics of my furballs, which were taken by the petsitter yesterday.

Today’s plan: I realized yesterday I was planning to eat dinner in the fancy hotel restaurant as a special treat without considering if I actually wanted to eat there.  I looked at the menu again, decided I didn’t (truffles *shudder*), and switched that to brunch, so now I have to decide between french toast, pancakes, and an omelet. And of course Bacon! Some writing/chill time, then shower, get dressed, and makeup ‘cause I want to be ready to go out when I go downstairs for my spa appointments. I’ve decided to have dinner at The Cheesecake Factory (cheesecake is probably my very favorite dessert), and it turns out it’s at the nicest mall in town. I’ve been to this one before and wasn’t going to go this trip (it’s so fancy it would be just window-shopping for me--not a fan), but since I was going to be there anyway, I skimmed the directory and was like, “ohhh” “oooo” “ahhh” so an evening of shopping is in my future. But I need to pack and don’t want to be up too late, so an early dinner right after my appointments it is.

I’m kind of sad to go home tomorrow but am not gonna let that overshadow my last full day. I’ve written a lot and will probably put together some snippets to share with y’all :D