#purrs

[thingdom]

uhm… horsies :)

[meowing-bun]

bootblacking but the dom is wearing stompy goth boots and if they don't like how you service them they do a lil stomp. on your face🥰

[glittery]

Bonding over interests

[pepprs]

hi everybody! i hope you’re all doing as ok as it is possible to be right now. im hopping on here super quickly to say that i FINALLY bit the bullet and h*cked my DS the other day and it has unironically been one of the most serotonin-producing decisions ive ever made LOL. i got pretendo earlier today and i would love to exchange my pretendo friend code with ppl on here in case anyone wants to add me!! i don’t have any games w online functionality rn but i would love to do some streetpassing and swapnoting… and once acnl is available on pretendo i would LOOOOVE to visit everybody’s towns :”~D i may not respond right away / add everyone (it’s nothing personal at all i just get overwhelmed LOL) but if ur interested please dm me! bonus pic of my mii (on the pretendo site)… this is my true physical form btw <3

[pabuthefirecat]

Thanks Giving 🦃🇨🇦

[oceanmojis]

A very happy cat stimboard, based around 'purring', for Albi.

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[her-one-true-love]

Hello cat loving friends!!

Just wanting to reach out to everyone who sees this and loves cats and wants to help a wonderful small business in New Zealand out. Whether you can donate or even if you can’t, a share would mean the world!

Purrs & Beans is a social enterprise - meaning all profits go back into the cafe to look after the cats and keep it running. Run by two wonderful humans, Shane and Faith-Ashleigh.

Purrs & Beans have been running for almost a decade in Auckland. They first started out in the Auckland cbd as Barista Cats. Then made the move across the bay to Birkenhead where they found a wonderful new space and rebranded as Purrs & Beans.

Sadly due to a drop in patronage they’ve hit a little bit of a rough patch, and need a bit of a leg up. The reality of having a cat cafe is there’s bills. Vet bills and other bills. Purrs & Beans cats are all a little older bar a couple of newly adopted by the cafe cats. And some have additional needs or were deemed harder to adopt.

I have been lucky enough to visit the cafe when I have visited Auckland and the cats are so well cared for and loved. Have many spaces to relax in, including an enclosed balcony area so they can go outside. Plus they can retreat to a space where visitors can’t access if they want to be left alone.

Purrs & Beans is truly a wonderful place run by wonderful people who I’ve also met when I have visited. They really want to keep the business running especially given they’re so close to hitting 10yrs. And they want to keep spreading the message of adopting cats from shelters - they also foster cats and kittens from some rescues around Auckland to help the cats get socialised and meet people!

So again, if you are able to donate please do click the link above and you can even leave a message on your donation. - or make it anonymously. Please do note that the donation will be charged in NZD (New Zealand dollars) and when you pledge you won’t be charged right away. Your card only gets charged if the campaign reaches its goal on the 30th of April at 11pm NZST (I believe the pledge me site charges within a couple of days of the goal being met if it’s met so you might not be charged until a couple of days into May)

This campaign is an all or nothing campaign and they only will get the money if the goal is met. So please. If you’re in a place to donate I know Shane and Faith-Ashleigh, along with their gorgeous cafe kitties, would greatly appreciate it. If you can’t, then please please share this far and wide so others may be able to help!

[dixieandherbabies]

Dixie and her babies.

Purrs… you’re welcome

[gwyngraves]

sound on for purrs! Scratchy loves the desk chair cuddles with his mom @novabeansvip / @avinanova

streaming some MegaMan Battle Network 3 White very soon!

[pagoddess]

Angel kitty

[inkblotstar]

Hello this is my au where dream and nightmare share custody of Ink. Also ink is basifally lobotomizef but not like an actual lobotomy

[thingdom]

old art from 2016-2020 :~D

[glittery]

URL change !! Tigr -> Glittery I would love it if you could like if you see this, but if you can't or don't want to there is no pressure !

[pepprs]

hi, everyone. i hope you all are doing well. i’ve been meaning and wanting to check in here for many months but i have also been too afraid to. but i want to do it now because im potentially at a turning point and i want you all (especially close friends and mutuals who i haven’t talked to in a long time) to know what’s going on because unfortunately i do not have the strength to reach out individually right now, as much as i desperately want to.

when i left this place a year ago my depression was extremely bad. i didn’t know how long i was going to be gone or whether i was leaving for good, but i knew i needed to make some changes in my life before i could be here healthily again. well… 2024 has been a year of IMMENSE change for me! a lot of it has been for the good. i made some progress in my life by moving out, and i’ve had a lot of joy and healing in (very slowly) building a home for myself and figuring out what kind of life i want to live and how i want to live it. (im learning how to drive! i have string lights and stuffed animals and a wii! i am capable of solo travel!)

but… a lot of the changes that have happened this year have been for the worse. in almost every respect 2024 has been one of the most difficult and painful years of my life (and that is saying something!). this year a couple of traumatic things have happened to me and around me, and it has been extremely hard to live my life despite and beyond them. i have been dealing with physical and mental health issues that have greatly impacted my quality of life and make it unbearably difficult for me to get through every day. i am constantly running on negative spoons. one of the most damaging outcomes of this is that i have almost completely withdrawn from society both online and off and that is not an exaggeration. ive stopped talking to all of my friends and family except for people i see every day at work. i impulsively isolate myself when im in pain / distress despite knowing both emotionally and logically that it makes literally everything worse and i don’t know how to (and often can’t muster the mental strength to) work through the shame and grief and anxiety to seek connection and support. and im struggling to take care of myself including physically and its having severe consequences in every aspect of my life and in the lives of people who care about me. i live alone and i still think that was the good and right choice for me to make, but i am profoundly and agonizingly lonely. my depression was extremely bad when i left here, but i think despite everything it might be even worse now.

all of this is to say: this week i finally decided i can’t suffer like this anymore, and i began the process of seeking a formal diagnosis for my depression and other mental health issues and exploring additional treatment beyond talk therapy (most likely meds but there may be other things too / instead; still at the very beginning stages of figuring it all out). i am extremely anxious about many dimensions of this but also hopeful that it will help me hurt less because when i tell you at this point my brain and heart physically ache from depression like 85% of every day…. lol. im really hoping that once i get my mental / emotional pain under control i’ll be able to start tending to the parts of my life that have withered while ive suffered and repair the damage of my neglect as best i can. (which is to say… if you’re my friend and you’re reading this please know i love you and i miss you terribly and i am so sorry we haven’t spoken and i am so sorry im telling you this in a tumblr post you may not even read instead of a reply or a call back. i still love you and i want you to know it is not you specifically i am ghosting, its everyone. i am trying to build the strength and im scared i can’t but i hope i can.)

that said… i have decided i am not going to be coming back to this blog. i miss this place and the community i felt connected to here, but the way i was using this website as a public diary was extremely unhealthy, and as much as i miss it and still crave the instant comfort/validation i see clearly now with months of distance how damaging it was. (i truly cannot believe i was oversharing like that lol i am so private now (yes due largely to mental illness but still!)) i am so grateful to everyone who reassured me when i was struggling and celebrated my successes. this was the first place, online or off, where i (misguidedly but it’s true!) could actually be honest and candid about things happening in my life and my reactions to them instead of communicating it all through metaphors in my art and poetry, and it truly mattered that i had that experience here so that i could seek out more spaces like it in my offline life. i know i already said thank you in a previous update but really… thank you. 💗🫂

im not planning on deleting this blog. i may come back here and share updates like this one from time to time, but otherwise i will leave it as it is. but… i do want to get back to using a few of my fandom-centered sideblogs because looking at and compiling art of things i like is a low-energy thing that makes me happy! so you may see activity there every once in a while (tbh during this hiatus i have opened tumblr from time to time to look at art and save a bunch of posts that i wanted to reblog eventually lol). but… if i notice myself slipping back into bad habits i may private the sideblogs or abandon them completely.

i don’t know how to end this post. actually wait yes i do. one of my all time favorite artists is anna-laura sullivan (@/annalaura_art on instagram) and this is one of my all time favorite drawings of hers (so much so that i made it my lock screen so i can look at it every day!). this saying has brought me a lot of comfort and i hope it (and her other art) will bring you comfort too if you’re also in a dark place.

one more thing: not to be kind of a freak but in writing this post i discovered a longer version of my goodbye post from last year in my drafts. i don’t remember why i didn’t post it and obviously it’s outdated now but i want to share the draft because i went into more detail about tumblr having been helpful for me specifically when it comes to my mutuals + info / disclaimers about how to reach me and i want you guys to hear that in my past self’s voice lol! i put it under the cut if you want to read it!

2023 tess said it best: i hope you know how much it’s meant to me to be in your company. thank you for sharing and thank you for listening. i love you. happy [almost] new year. be well. good luck. shine bright. until we meet again ☕️🐈🫂💗

[beauleifu]

Oh I forgot to post:]

First pic is a gift, the ocs name is Xihe!! She was so pretty n fun to draw