#tumblr/memorium

[galleryyuhself]

Galleryyuhself -Former President of Suriname, The Honorable Desi Bouterse - dictator, saviour and always controversial has passed away.

[nomagicartz]

some guys

[miraa606]

[virtie333]

It's Catholic tradition to celebrate the anniversary of death more than birthdays.

I've always remembered the days of my furkid's passing. Today marks nine years since Scrappy died. She is the only cat I've lost to FIP.

Scrappy with her mom Tasha

Tasha with her two kids, Blaze and Scrappy. She outlived them both.

Scrappy with Rodney when he was a kitten. Despite her expression, she did learn to live peacefully with him.

Tasha, Rodney, and Scrappy. All are gone, now, but at least Rodney was still here when two of my current kitties (Stache and Tala) came to live with us.

Scrappy with her siblings when she was still tiny. We adopted her mom, who was already pregnant, back before they could afford to spay/neuter immediately. Three of these kittens were born on my bed with me sitting next to their mom; she refused to leave my side, so I sat with her until I thought she was done. I settled them in a box and went to work. Tasha waited for my mom to come home from her job and promptly had three more kittens! She just needed one of us there!

[shwarmii]

**if** this is related to the Tumblr Reduced Staff nonsense (and i assume it is), @emporium, this is amongst my least favorite parts to say the least. i loved your guys' creativity and the products i got 💔 to everybody who has been interested in shopping here: i hope y'all got your shoelaces, tumblers, tea-lites, and/or other stuff you may have wanted :(

[thisweekinfandomhistory]

Get out your tissues, listeners! (Seriously.) This week, V and Emily split the episode in two parts: first, the very silly attempt to understand how the Forever Knight fandom went to WAR! for the thirteenth time in 2010. Second, a look into the fannish life and ongoing impact of Forever Knight BNF Susan M. Garrett, who seems like she was a completely awesome fangirl, writer, and person. V and Emily both weep like babies in this episode because sometimes, the fans who make history ARE well-behaved, and they rock, and we love to learn about and remember them.

Sources

Fanlore: WAR Thirteen

Susan M. Garrett's homepage

FanDominion.com's Obituary for Susan M. Garrett

Farewell, Dear Fen: In Memorium

FanHistory: Susan M. Garrett

Fanlore: Susan M. Garrett

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[collapsedsquid]

Need to find that Tumblr post of a few years ago about how measuring things is fascist to reblog in belated memorium of James C Scott.

[beautiful-daisy-bell]

WAIT A MINUTE IM A DISCWORLD FAN HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS WAS A THING

I guess that means this and towel day share a holiday then!!! Right under my nose >:(

I’m so sad I wasn’t even wearing Lilac by chance.

Well I won’t complain, both Pratchett and Adams (especially Pratchett) have both been super influential on me and my writing and it fills me with joy that there’s a day to celebrate Discworld and Pratchett’s writing too I’m over the moon. Much less celebrated by the mysterious Tumblr gods. :D

In memorium Terry Pratchett o7

Thursday May 25.

The People's Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May.

It's May 25th, but it's not just any May 25th. It's a particularly glorious one, after all, as it is The People's Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May, as depicted of course in Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld series. It also happens to be Wear the Lilac Day. #gnu terry pratchett—you know what to do, folks.

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But wait—what is Wear the Lilac Day? you once again enquire.

"Wear the Lilac Day was adopted by Discworld fans the world over as a day to commemorate Terry Pratchett's writing, and following his diagnosis in 2007, to support research into Alzheimer's Disease.

On May 25th, certain members of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and a few others around the city, wore a sprig of lilac. The 25th of May was the day that they remembered those who fought and fell for hardboiled eggs, truth, justice, and reasonably priced love, who died, and in Reg Shoe's case rose and kept fighting, in the Glorious Revolution of Treacle Mine Road."

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Happy May 25th, comrades x

[flowerishness]

Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022)

“May she rest in peace.”

[nymika-arts]

my beloved <3

[ratherboringblog]

All the cats i have loved !

Hi friends! You would know that I love cats if you’ve met me IRL, I just can’t shut up about cats haha!

Here is an account for all the cats I have known ever, I hope you enjoy.

Mr. Rusty (Circa. 2007)

When I was about 4 years old we had moved to Navi Mumbai; I have fond memories of my time there, Nani used to take me to the Kid's play area every other morning. The mornings there were quiet and cold, ah! The nostalgia is hitting.

We used to keep our doors open in the evenings to get bread, eggs and if I were lucky, some cake and other sweets from the paavwala.

So I'd stand by the door every evening and take a fair look at what he had to offer, touch the assortment, examine the pictures on the cake labels and annoy him with the "Ye kya hai bhaiya?" like a quality assurance person :P

One evening while waiting for the paavwala to come so I could dig into his basket, a cat came along!

A lovely, all grown rusty tabby cat; The cat was very calm, enough to let a 4 year old touch it.

My dad then picked him up and let me hold him like a baby, his fur was very soft…I had never touched anything like that before and so like any kid who took everything for granted I expected him to come back the next day but he never quite did.

That was my last time meeting him.

The legend of Flash and Iris (circa. 2014)

When I was about 11, my cousin befriended a tabby(the same kind as the one in Navi Mumbai!) and named him "Flash" for he was very agile and my cousin was a fan of the DC show.

We would go feed him milk and leftover fish sometimes and in return he'd let us stroke him; He wasn’t as fluffy as the cat I met in Navi Mumbai but his cute whiskers made up for it.

Acquaintance made, flash would come to our apartment on his own! My mumma and nani weren't particularly cat fans so they didn't let him in, though he slipped in sometimes and I would have to drag him away :(

He once purred all night long in front of our door, Poor cat.

One night while looking for flash to feed him, we discovered a new friend! A white tabby which my cousin named "Iris"(Iris was the Flash's girlfriend in the show, he explained)

We never really got to pet Iris though. She was quite a reserved cat and loosened up only when Flash was around.

Soon after, my cousin returned to his home country and I started getting busy with school work. Flash was doing alright now that he had company. It was around this time my mom told me of her plans of us moving to Ahmedabad which made feel confused, Would this mean saying Flash goodbye? I wouldn’t want him purring outside pointlessly :/

He would come around for strokes and treats every time I was around but our relationship wasn’t as live wire as before, I felt insecure.

A month prior to us leaving, Iris gave birth to nine cute purr-y kittens who roamed around her all the time. Iris would give me the look when I was around her or her kittens so I stayed away :P

Later it was time for us to leave and promised nani to visit her(and Flash) every summer.

The next summer I was out looking for Flash around the building, I checked the coconut garden, the parking lot, the other garden and the common area but I couldn’t find Flash. It was a sad evening by then and on meeting our neighbours I learnt that he was heavily injured in a car accident, they told me that they took him to the vet, got him treated and gave him away to the folks at a cat NGO(also a cat café)

By the time I visited the cat café, Flash had already been adopted by somebody else though I enjoyed my time there as superstars of that cat café Tao and Dominic kept me company.

(They allow adoptions only if that cat seems to like you and if you are capable of taking that kind of responsibility well, so Flash is probably in a happy home now.)

Meet Zoey! (circa 2021)

Her first appearance was funny, it goes something like this

*Cat sneaks inside*

Mom: Aaaaadiiiill! How did this monster come in?

Me: Hey look a baby!

Zoey: Purrr

Mom: Baby? GET HER OFF MY HOUSE NOW!

*Zoey makes her way to the other room, mom chases her and Zoey settles only to scratch the carpet*

Mom: SHE IS SCRATCHING THE CARPET TAKE HER AWAY ALREADY!

Me: On it, Maa *picks Zoey up and puts her outside*

*Zoey looks around, dashes back into the house*

Mom: *sobs* Aadil…

Me: You really like this place don't you? *Puts Zoey outside again but offered her milk this time*

(it works)

After that dialogue, I crouched to watch her drink and stroked her when she was done. She rubbed her head against my pants and moved in eights around them.

Soon after which, a kid came to me who said that the cat is theirs and told me of Zoey's hobbies and shenanigans.

Zoey has a celebrity reputation around here, she gets love and attention from everyone here. I take responsibility of her evening milk and play breaks, I love Zoey.

I have seen her in talks with the older feral cats(absolute killing machines who trust nobody, picture below) but she seems to take their opinion with a pinch of salt; this cat is the most considerate I've ever seen.

Zoey and I are good friends now, she like playing with the toys I bring her and rubs her head on my pants after milk breaks.

[sleepyowlwrites]

Treasures! Full list and reasons for purchase under the cut.

In order of a paragraph:

Ranger's apprentice by John Flanagan books 7 and 11 (I only have books 1 and 2)

Star wars collector's edition (I keep collecting star wars books idk)

House of Flying Daggers, Downton Abbey seasons 1-4 and 6, the North and South miniseries (it's cool, you never know which streaming service is gonna have it, and I could not find this miniseries anywhere)

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare(my second copy! It's a first edition and the inside of the dust jacket has pretty art, okay?)

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (she's part dragon. I collect dragon books)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (see also below Dawn of the Dreadfuls and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I would never have bought then but they were a dollar each so.)

Uglies by Scott Westerfell (I have heard good things.)

Warped by Maurissa Guibord (I read this in hs and the copy had half the book pages upside down, which was funny and also actually added to the effect)

Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini (I'll have them all in one size but I'm keeping my Borders copies)

Spindle by E.K Johnston (it's pretty and a fairytale retelling)

Salt by Hannah Moskowitz (sailing ships? Yes!)

As You Wish by Cary Elwes (it's about the making of the princess bride!)

The Marvels by Brian Selznick (I have no idea what it's about but there are so many intriguing illustrations)

Artemis Fowl books 1 and 2 (why not?)

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (have no idea what happened to my old copy)

Dragonspell by Donita K. Paul (in better shape than my current copy but I might also be giving this away)

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho (I gotta see for myself)

The Elements of Expression by Arthur Plotnik (for my soupy brain)

Constellations, She Who Loves a Garden, Friendship a Bouquet of Quotes (I collect tiny books)

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (it's old and has illustrations)

Ender's Game by Orson Scotr Card (read this in college, don't know how I feel about it. So naturally I bought it for a dollar)

Utopia by Sir Thomas More (Danielle is reading it in Ever After and yeah)

Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet (I'm collecting these specific versions of the plays)

Redwall, Mossflower, Mariel of Redwall, The Bellmaker by Brian Jacques (old editions! I had to)

The Wheel of Time books 1-5 by Robert Jordan (my dad has the whole series but they're huge! I wanted small ones)

Battleship by Peter David (for fun)

You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld (one of our own tumblr celebrities!)

Redwall again for a friend

Old books! I (say it with me now) collect them. I got The Odyssy from 1928, In Memorium from 1902, Blue Guide to London from 1965, Evangeline (no date), and In Varying Moods from 1894)

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (for Botbot)

Not pictured: the two ringworld books for my dad and a book for my grandma.

I paid $74 dollars for all this, btw. A total of 58 items. Not too shabby.

going to a library book sale with friends today! can't wait to see what treasures we can find

[oryxor]

The Late Gary Felipe, 2020

Oil on canvas board + Graphite on stock paper

14 in x 11 in + 7 in x 5 in

Commissions

[internutter]

In honour of the 17th of December 2018...

And the fact that I just got followed by another freaking pornbot blog

[amethwitchartistries]

A piece I did for my aunt who recently lost my uncle to liver/stomach cancer. He loved to hunt and was always super out doorsie so figured this fit perfectly. It's even on a wooden canvas

[jgvfhl]

Doot doot doot tootin my own horn... The Number Lads is my fic (full of OCs) that is slowly fixing everything... I've also written three other Fives Lives AUs on my Ao3 (linked on that Master List above). Pick Up the Pieces, A Wake Up Call, and In Memorium are all Fix Its where fewer people die and Domino Twins are reunited n all.

also I CANNOT recommend highly enough the series called domino by TheTenthSunrise on Ao3 it is FABULOUS and you will cry but it is technically a fix it no one dies okay.

SAME with uhhhhhhh shoot what's it called... Someone to lean on, someone to count on by silvermoongirl10 on Ao3, like it was written for Whump but it does fix things between sobbing sessions.

ALSO by tumblr's own @cacodaemonia their series called Reconstruction Corps AU, that one's super good. Includes both art and writing.

Fives fix-it fic recs

Does anyone have any good Fives fix-it fic recs?

Because I need to forget everything I just watched.

He's totally fine and still alive and everything is ok and the chips are discovered and order 66 doesn't happen and everyone lives and nobody dies and all the clones get to live happy free lives and *sobs*