#if i can't feel it

[lesbxdyke]

I could think of no better way to share the news than this!

So when I was 17, my cat went missing and I'd given up hope of ever seeing him again.

Until on Monday, 27th of May, 2024, my friend sent me a FB post asking 'isn't that your mother?' about the person named on the microchip.

Here he is! 16 years old, and found safe, twelve whole years after he went missing!

Yesterday (Tuesday the 28th of May, 2024) I went to the rescue that had him, and I reclaimed my boy, renaming him Artie! (He'd originally been called 'Cat' because my mother and I couldn't decide on a name)

He's home safe with me now, currently inhabiting my bathroom and purring up a storm every time someone goes in there!

I'll be doing slow introductions between him and my current cat to give them the best possible chance of living in harmony!

Here's some pictures of Artie once we let him out of the carrier:

[clarisimart]

tfw you realize the mortal you where planning on using and discarding, is a little unhinged actually, and matches your freak so you scrap that plan and start planning to rule the universe together

AKA bill realizes Ford "is just like him fr"

The page in The book of Bill that started this nonesense

commission info here

Transcript of text from the page of TBOB under the cut

Text reads: "Unfased, F has been making hot cocoa and welding rivets while playing christmas songs on the radio. (These songs make no sense. Why did Rudolph forgive his tormentors for their mockery of his facial deformity? He should have used his red-hot nose to burn his oppressor's workshop to the ground. A lesson to all!)"

[writeouswriter]

[daydreamerwonderkid]

Post patrol family game night goes awry ...

Meme reference under cut

[solidwater05]

Apparently this needs to be said so

Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!

You're not a bad person if you...

forget things quickly

forget people

can't remember entire stages of your life

can't remember important things

can remember some things very well and forget other things all the time

can't remember things (or anything!) about your interests

forget to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc

forget to reply to texts

remember things and immediately forget them again

can't remember birthdays, events, etc

frequently answer 'I forgot' to questions

can't retain new information

forget things you used to know

only remember things when it's too late

have vague, distorted and/or unreliable memories

depend on others to know how an event you were in played out

have other symptoms that are worsened by memory issues and vice versa

... and anything else I might have missed!

[fallingtowers]

dude not to be a bitch but starting my new job and spending every day surrounded by normies is really giving me a good long look at how fucked up the rhetorical landscape surrounding food and fatness is. the other week i overheard a guy confidently saying that the body doesn't actually require sugar and that if it wasn't for our dastardly perfidious taste buds we'd never crave it(???). just now my manager showed me this video of some dude scaremongering about pringles by saying that their ratio of sugar/salt/fat is CALCULATED to TRICK THE BRAIN into WANTING MORE. bitch you mean they made an effort to make their commercially produced snacks taste good? somebody phone the fucking fire department

[notbecauseofvictories]

I don't know how strictly accurate this is, but one of the things I find shocking about watching historical dramas is how many people there are around all the time---according to Madame de... (1953) a well-off French household in the Belle Epoque maintains a workforce of at least 3, and the glittering opera has staff just to open doors. According to Shogun (2024) you can expect a deep bench just to mind your household, and again, people who exist to open doors.

Could people....not open doors in the past? Were doors tricky, before the standardization of hinges? Because otherwise, the wealthy used to pay a whole bunch of people to do it for them in multiple contexts, and I find myself baffled.

[tuherrus]

a kiss

[pencilmint]

Sunset in Shinjuku

[powdermelonkeg]

Fun fact: We know the size of the Pokémon world because Scarlet and Violet has framerate issues

I'm not answering any more questions

[mimilllion]

and i try my best to prove that nothing's out to get you

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[ineed-to-sleep]

Collection of bg3 sketches I've been nibbling at over the month. teehee

[salamander-crimes]

what is it about the least canon-compliant aromantic headcanons that makes them the best. like when a character shows no romantic attraction okay that is pretty awesome. but when romance is a big part of a character/plot? oh now we're fucking cooking

[thesparks]

I'm having a major minor breakdown currently and trying very hard to stop it from becoming a total shit show of a meltdown.

Just me ranting below the break.

My car is actively dying and I do not have the mental wherewithal to deal with this right now. I don't have the money, the time, the fucking brain power, to handle this. Every time I catch up in life something has to find a way to throw me down again.

I just finally got to the point of not having to watch every single cent in my bank account to make sure ends meet and I can afford meals and rent. I finally opened a savings account again for the first time in over five years, and was able to put a couple hundred dollars in it. Yeah I still have thousands in debt, but I finally felt able to put something away while trying to pay everything down. And I just know this is going to wipe me out. Especially if I have to end up getting another car. Not to mention the extra debt that'll put me in, since even used cars are more expensive than my current car was new.

If it were feasible to ride the bus to my work I would. But that'd turn my already long commute into over two hours each way. No one at my job works my schedule or even lives close enough to me to realistically give me a ride. Uber, Lyft, etc are prohibitively expensive.

I feel like I'm going to throw up. I'm already stressed about trying to figure out whether or not I'm moving in July. Because my lovely landlord makes us decide SIX MONTHS in advance, which makes it oh so easy (not) to try to line up another place, I'll tell you that right now. Especially since any places I've seen so far are out of my budget or even worse shit holes than where I'm at now.

Not to even talk about the stress of trying to figure out whatever the fuck is going on with my heart that might be trying to kill me. That's totally not scaring the shit out of me every day.

Can I please just have a break. Just one break from things falling apart, long enough for me to truly get my shit together and maybe, possibly, enjoy my life a little bit again..