#until at LEAST july.

[nicollekidman]

drafting then deleting tens of earnest political posts because i spend a lot of my fucking time thinking about this shit only to publish “i’ve always wanted to fuck stephen colbert”

[naamahdarling]

Edit: Thank you all so, so much. I am incredibly moved and incredibly grateful for everything you all have done. Donations, signal boosts, kind words. We can cover their food for at least one month. Anything sent from here out is most welcome and will go towards their needs, but the food crisis is past for now!

The extra will be held until Raleigh sees the specialist on the 11th and either put towards vet bills or used to get him more of his stinky wet food.

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Guys, we REALLY need help paying for cat food. This is not normally an issue, they come first, but a lot of bad shit happened this month and it has literally taken everything we had. I have tried my hardest to stretch their food to the end of the month but the boys, all three, are out of scrip food TOMORROW.

I'm so sorry. I don't want to be doing this.

It isn't helped by the fact that their food has shot up in price so much I can't believe it.

Please if you can help we would be so grateful. Just five bucks. My boyfriend's PayPal is theothershea@gmail.com.

We need a total refill on Dried Pickle Man/Sid tummy care kibble, and hopefully a month of wet food for Raleigh, which is around $300 for it all. That sadly isn't an error. That isn't even touching the cost of their vet plans and vet debt, which are another $300, and we are behind by about $100 on the vet plans. But all we really need is most of that $300 for food.

The boys can't be off their scrip food. Sid becomes violently ill (I had to buy hospital biohazard spill absorber for when he throws up) with even a little regular food, and Dried Pickle Man eats the same food he does. For Raleigh, well, he's dying. He needs to be kept comfortable for what time he has left and without this food he develops extremely painful and very dangerous urinary crystals very fast and without wet food he can't eat without severe pain in his mouth. We are trying to fix his teeth but need clearance from a specialist which we cannot get until July. He has already been off his scrip food for a couple of days.

We have gotten along this far via Patreon every month, which pays for a lot of the cat stuff, but PayPal and Patreon are holding over $700 of our money due to some sort of technical issue and I don't know when that can be resolved. Without it, we will have nothing in either bank account by the end of the month. Like. Nothing.

We need help. Badly.

Again, my boyfriend's PayPal is theothershea@gmail.com.

All money will go to him to get food for the cats and pay for their monthly plans and medical debt.

This is Raleigh, who will take your fingers and kiss them if you hold your hand out. Please at least help us get wet food for him so he can eat without pain while he is still here to hold my hand.

(If Raleigh does pass before his food runs out, we can easily return the remaining cans and put that money toward the cost of the euthanasia.)

(Reference, reference. These foods cost the same everywhere I can find, and have gone up in price a lot because greedflation, which is a big part of why paying is suddenly more of an issue.)

[rottmnt-residuum]

How's the move going?

*shaky thumbs up*

[assassinsmusical]

can’t believe charles guiteau saw james garfield and james blaine walking arm in arm and decided that garfield had to die during pride month

[interestinglittlerelationship]

Has anyone else considered that the boys unfinished business might have just been living their lives?

I mean, they were seven-fucking-teen years old when they died. There was so much they wanted to do.

They deserved a chance to grow up and fall in love and have all their dreams come true.

[zhouszishu]

will be on indefinite hiatus again because the last semester of law school (and my anxiety about the bar) is kicking my butt

manifesting that the next time i log back onto this hellsite that i'll be doing it as an official baby attorney :)

[orcelito]

he's honestly unfairly pretty when he cries

[english-history-trip]

[bakaramia]

*Flicking lightswitch on and off* Welcome to Hell! Welcome to Hell! Welcome to Hell!!

[asterouslyaesthetic]

In my head, Ogerpon is an RPG protagonist with:

a "fantasy-forbidding" single mother who was the hero of her own story, during which Ogerpon was adopted, and refuses to let Ogerpon on the battlefield,

older siblings who nudge her towards her dreams, even if it means disobeying their mother, and younger siblings who offer battle experience via actual battles,

an absent father she's only ever met like three times, but whose presence is felt in how her mother's treatment of her is informed by his absence, who left mostly because he got mind-controlled by the big bad, and

a nemesis who was responsible for the death of her first family and the separation of her second family, whom she ends up fighting with the power of love and family and The Cudgel

And this is what keeps Toxic Chain Kieran on the table for me

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

going to see The Boy and the Heron in about 45 min!!!

[nordicbananas]

alexis I blame you for this (pt. 2)

[confluencechimera]

i wanna buy a cute outfit off the buildabear shop for my plushie of Ace... i do get paid thursday (maybe early tho bc of the holiday)..... augh.......

[maybe-arts]

thank you so much for commissioning me, @2balt!! absolutely loved working on this, hope these two are happy vibing together :D

[woolandcoffee]

Finally really internalizing that I have been doing Way Too Much and need to start saying "no" way more. It's a little tricky with my work because technically, we provide a public resource and are here to serve the public. But there is only one of me and I am being spread far, far too thin.

I'm at the airport right now to fly to Reno for a work conference. From Reno, I'm taking a red eye to NY for a family wedding. Last week, I went to Memphis for a work conference. The week before that, I went to Illinois to present to their Farm Bureau. The week before that, I busted my ass putting together eight pages of detailed legal analysis in just two days on basically no notice. Tomorrow, while in Reno, I'm taking part in a panel for a different event (genuinely don't even know what the event is lol) over Zoom, and have a call with a woman who I think is angling to get me to take on a project with a deadline (that's me reading between the lines so I could be wrong but still). I have to write an article sometime in the next two days, present for an hour for the conference I'm going to in Reno, and that's not even discussing the legal resources I'm working on developing which, in theory, is supposed to be the focus of my job. Also, did I mention that I hate flying?

In fairness, it's not always like this, and some of this is truly just a one time quirk. The Memphis and Reno trips will not be back-to-back again (my office hosts both of these conferences and it was a scheduling snafu that lead to them being back-to-back which no one wants to replicate), and I obviously have no say in when my cousin schedules her wedding. But this is all too much. I cannot keep running at this speed. I'm run down enough that I've been fighting a sore throat the last few days, and I've barely had much in the way of a social life these last few weeks. This is not sustainable, and for my own sale, I need to be more discerning about what I agree to.

[whitherwanderer]

New character musing...

I don't know who she is or how I'll use her yet and her name is TBD, but I DO know she is a radio host.

Remains to be seen whether she stumbled into a communications major at the Studium and ended up hosting a community radio show or if she's a known entity elsewhere (pending Solution 9 lore??).

Also up for debate is how the hell the radio works. Assuming the Sharlayan route ends up being more feasible, maybe she works with a group that's advancing linkpearl and linkshell technology. I like the idea of her referring to the "aetherwaves".

I just think cool and mysterious pirate radio host who is oddly aware of MSQ events a la Nora Night (Warframe) meets warm and off-putting vibes of community radio host Cecil Palmer (WTNV) would be fun. Maybe a little bit of Dale Cooper talking into his recorder to Diane (Twin Peaks) because it'd be hilarious if she needed a constant captive audience.