nothing lasts forever, babe, you know it breaks my heart

toni, 41, she/they. i ship all the things. anons always welcome. gif and fic requests closed for now. current obsession: sinners

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Meet the ewok! Evan is a character 🙂💖

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for anybody who might want to share the fundraiser with a lot less story, you can meet all 10 kittens here: the tabbies Mattie and Baz, the torties Min and Demi, the black babies Nova and Freddie, Evan the ewok and Tate the wolf pup, Cal who's already my grey and orange girl, and the munchkin Ebba Lou who stole all our hearts at first sight.

Donate to Sponsor A Kitten, Save Lives, organized by Travingo Family Cat Sanctuary

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soooooo remember how i was back here at the start of the year posting about 7 kittens i was now raising and how much i adored them?

if you remember that, then you might have also noticed the part where i started sharing photos of them, tried to come back to this glorious hellsite where my friends all used to be...and then disappeared again.

i'm not good at making long stories anything shorter than long, but i'll try in this case cuz i need to make midnight grilled cheese and then get some much needed rest.

all other life developments aside, pretty fai morgan who brought her 7 kittens to me got spayed earlier this year, and is very well and happy. but right before spay day, she brought 4 little boys in as one final surprise. they got fixed along with her and are growing up nicely, but definitely added some chaos for a while, and interrupted my return to being here.

now two of the 7 she brought me last year are girls that took a long time to trust me, so they're finally about to get spayed as well, next week. but while we had to wait for that appointment (booked months in advance), weeks ago my house got not one more surprise, but two!

or 10, to get all mathematical about it. because within the same week, one of those girls brought 5 young kittens to my house that she needed help feeding and protecting from the summer heat. and then her sister brought in another 5.

idris seems to have only had one kitten herself, ebba the munchkin, but she helped raise 4 more, including 2 that look exactly like her sister rhee, who we got spayed months ago without knowing she had any surviving kittens at all.

so while spay day for the sisters is next week, and any of the young ones that can also get fixed at that time will be, i've just been desperately trying to keep up with all 10 of them while still taking care of the others we raised.

and when it comes to the basics of caring for so many, in an area where nobody is eager to adopt new cats, trying to stretch my resources has been tough, even with my family's help when they can.

we're working on the legalities of becoming a nonprofit cat sanctuary, but i also started a gofundme back in january when it was still the 7 i was looking after, and then i was so busy with the cats i never actually shared it anywhere!!

so i know things are hard for a lot of people right now, in all the ways, and most of you probably don't have extra money to spare. but if you can afford to help some really adorable kittens, while we try to figure out how many we can afford to keep, please go check out the gofundme. and please share it everywhere you can.

we'd love to keep them all, especially since rhee never got to raise her babies and these will be the last kittens we raise from fai's family. but my fixed income just can't make that happen, so we're going to be making hard choices really soon about who we can keep in the family.

i can't promise lots of updates immediately because i'm barely managing to breathe right now. but i do have tons of photos and videos of all 10 and they have names and i love them and i'll miss every one we can't raise and worry about their chances of getting adopted because i can't know what will happen if they're no longer with us...and i will post more about them soon, when i can.

because preparing to give them up makes me want to cry, but they all deserve a proper introduction here. ebba lou, min and demi, freddie and nova, mattie and baz, and cal and evan and tate are beautiful, playful, sweet fluffballs of joy and i'm very grateful i got to help keep them safe and healthy, for however long it lasts.

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i love the little laundry area! all the small touches, the sink and washer in my color range and decorative flowers...it's just great.

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so many pretty rugs. and the Very Blue light! i enjoy your wish to make me a sim with things like plants that i just would not prioritize as a person. (i do always approve of string lights, though--as you know.)

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the rainbow row of cat dishes makes me happy--and the shelves, looking all off-kilter and mismatched, are perfect! lovely chaos holding order.

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very pretty stove and fridge. i long for that much counter space! ooh a smoothie maker

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ha and then i feel vindicated by the fact that you even went back to the first option again! before finding one you liked best. i enjoy seeing what you think will suit me, or what you know i'll like.

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i love the entryway rug. :) ooh, and i liked both kitchen wallpapers you put up--the first one was very cheery.

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i like the completed landscaping, very cohesive. and 'riotous blooms' is an excellent way to describe it--exactly my idea of the perfect garden :D

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Sunday snapshot: Rhee pausing her busy work of showing love through stabbing in order to take control of her own narrative (aka grab my phone).

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Five Facts Friday: Rhee Enais!!

With the most interesting tortie coloring I've ever seen, she's also got hidden pale fur that's tucked under her chin and down her belly. She strongly resembles Athena, a childhood cat beloved by @actuallylukedanes's twin, who chose Rhee's middle name.

Huge fan of comfort and luxury. Spent a lot of her initial time in the cat bed, then was the first kitten to explore mine. Started napping on my bed long before she trusted me.

Smallest of all the kittens Fai brought last year, she's still tiny for her age. Contains more fierceness than her lil body should have room for, though! Claws always out, even when making biscuits, and has attempted to climb me like a tree (with some success).

Has grown into more elegance these days, but had such a little monkey face as a baby! Visible especially in her wide-eyed early photos, because she always sensed the camera immediately, then froze. Now she holds still by choice, as if regally granting our appreciation of her likeness.

Her theme song is based on Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon," and I fudge the syllables a little to make her middle name fit. She's on the fence about whether she likes music yet, so each time I sing it to her she listens very neutrally--but she enjoys the attention.

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Wildlife Wednesday: As promised last week, here is Roger the raccoon back in December. He snuffled his way in through the cat door and curled up like this, as the kittens watched from various spots in the house.

Then Roger proceeded to have a brief nap, while trying his hardest to convince everyone he was simply the newest Big Weird Cat to join the family. Nothing to see here, just a previously undiscovered breed--don't think too hard about it!

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so everybody's gotten destroyed by the 45 x 45 game (i too was a victim and i await my compensation) but nobody's talking about this daily clue website that helps you learn cryptic crosswords??

i've been the cliche autistic puzzle obsessive my whole life so i'm pretty good at most kinds of them, but i have never been able to make sense of cryptic crosswords, let alone solve them--and i had a great time yesterday working through the tutorials on their site.

nothing comes up for parseword at all when i search here or reddit, so i need people to get hooked on this with me!

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Having moots is great bc you get exposed to the shenanigans of fandoms you're not even a part of. I am currently watching the opera fandom try to kill Timothee Chalamat.

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i've been crying over agatha and charlotte all season but when charlotte says we have such fun together and they're holding hands and holding back tears, that's when i'm sobbing for entirely personal reasons

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the end of this season left me with so many images stuck in my head in a nice way. the water overflowing from the bathtub. the overhead shot of all the dancers. sophie being walked down the aisle. it was just beautiful.