#jtkchu's landing party

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some more kitties for you @moldy-junk 💜

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Noticing a fair amount of ka'athyra / Vulcan harp discussion going around, so here's the working model I got to see back in Feb. 2020 at a very brief K/S gallery show in Chicago. (And no... I did not get to play it, much as I wanted to.) 💙✨️🎵 One of the staff at the gallery did turn it on (it has an electronic tone generator and amplifier built into it) and pluck a few strings to demonstrate the sound; it was perfectly eerie-but-beautiful.

(back view)

(proof that I was really there... in the pre-Kirk-'do times)

(ps - there are step by step instructions with schematics online for building/wiring one yourself, but you didn't hear that from me)

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Star Trek IV fabric??!? 🐳🐳

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Novelty Friends Central Perk LEGO playset: $60

Being awoken at 5am by said playset crashing to the floor into its zillion constituent pieces by a hobbit cat trying to jump onto a shelf he doesn't fit on: priceless

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uh oh

transporter malfunction!!!

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Ensign Kittycat says, "Look both ways before beaming back up to your ship"

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happy Halloween from a three-black-cat household 🎃👻🥳

🧡🐈‍⬛️🧡🐈‍⬛️🧡🐈‍⬛️🧡

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nobody:

the gas station where I get my Polar Pops: here have a Cookie Monster trying to eat the bakery display

(I've checked multiple times, he has no price tag/bar code, he is NOT for sale he seriously just there to be funny as hell)

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32 years old and just had my first experience with a literal bat flying around the house 😬😳🦇

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I'm going to blithely assume this bit of lighting during Cherub Rock was a deliberate salute to the LGBTQIA+ demographic whether it actually was or not 🏳️‍🌈 🎸🎙🎧🎵🎃 🌈

(5 Nov 2022 — Smashing Pumpkins — Spirits On Fire Tour — United Center — Chicago, IL)

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Ensign Kittycat on Mars!

(nasa photobooth link)

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re: The Bat, my family's house is extremely old and we have hundreds of bats in our attic. sometimes they journey to the realm of the mortals (us). sometimes they do this every day for weeks on end. my mom's old method was to open all the doors and wait for them to decide to fly outside (better than house of screaming people). unfortunately once we did this during a blizzard and 1) cold. it was so cold. 2) THE BAT DIDN'T LEAVE BECAUSE THERE WAS A BLIZZARD

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope y'all are safe with so many bat friends!!!!!! 😳👀🤯😬 (I would absolutely be one of the screaming people, if my early morning encounter was any indicator 😂) At the same time... can't blame them for not wanting to fly out into a blizzard, I never want to be outside in the snow either lmao!! 😅😅

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I hope the bat is gone! One summer we had some roost in the eaves of the house. The animal control guy informed me about the no killing thing. So he put in this door, they could fly out, but not back in. Oh no I said, where will they go? He said, lady, I've been chasing this same colony around your neighborhood for 5 years!

Ooo, I like the sound of the one-way door, that's great! Our friend is definitely out of the house proper now, might still be in the garage but I can't imagine him not making his way out where we left it partway open to go find food. We're going to have to check around the house for the next few days to see if we can figure out how the little guy got inside in the first place... but apparently they can squeeze themselves through cracks or crevices as small as 1/4 inch, so we'll probably end up having to get our monthly pest control guy to check around for us since he has a more practiced eye.

But omg that story!! 😅😅😅 Your neighborhood must be a haven!! Sounds like almost every house around you probably has one of those doors by now, lmao 🥳 According to what I've read in the last 12ish hours, it's actually a very good sign if there are lots of bats in your area; I guess it indicates that there's a healthy balance of insects in the ecosystem, and bats are a huge defense for us against weird diseases carried by mosquitoes and other bugs. So I'm glad we both got them out of our homes, but I'm also glad we both got the chance to see them! Such a weird little adventure! 😂🥳🦇

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plates, cups, and bowls for the Starfleet party (including not just captain's green but also short-sleeve-sickbay-scrubs sky blue!)

When you’re at the grocery store and the paper goods aisle is all, “Wanna throw a party with cheap original series Starfleet-colored napkins and utensils? We can make that happen.”

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Not-quite-full moon from early yesterday morning, as promised 🌜 (and an attempt at a semi-artistic/semi-spooky side-by-side through the neighbors' oak tree)

(8 Sep. 2022)

Cassiopeia (upside-down), half each of Perseus and Taurus/Auriga (featuring Mars), the back end of Cygnus, and a decent-ish zoom of the Pleiades. [These look best if you view them individually and with brightness turned up pretty far.]

(Moon pics later, once I've transferred them off the DSLR... aka some non-5am time)

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Well, y'all aren't gonna believe this, but apparently our batty buddy was Still in the house, must have hung out minding its own business all day today... About 9pm, one of our new cats jolted awake and sat just Staring intensely™ into the kitchen. Sure enough, it was the bat flying around again!!

My parents and I finally managed to successfully guide him into the garage, and we've left the big door about a foot up from the ground; hopefully by now he's figured out how to get back to the great outdoors where his friends and all the yummy bugs are. He must be hongry after spending the day in the house, right? 😅

Anyway... cross your fingers (...wings?) that this is the end of our bat saga. 😂🦇🙃

(our fuzzy little buddy roosting above the door to the garage 🥰)

32 years old and just had my first experience with a literal bat flying around the house 😬😳🦇