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Please check my FAQ (mobile version linked on my blog)! Asexual Australian. SHe/Her or He/Him but nothing in between please! I'm a nerd who likes nerd things.

[alloverthegaf]

Hi friends,

Long time followers and friends will know Watson, my first baby, my little wrinkly man, my cute evil overlord. I don't live with him anymore, in fact I live 9 hours away, but I still get updates from my parents, and he still holds a very large chunk of my heart.

Mum told me today he's terminal. It could be anywhere from 6 to 18 months, and here's hoping for closer to the latter. She says for now he's fine, still full of love and spite and purring. But I wanted to say something here, where so many of you watched me fall in love with him, and then post about him daily, complete with non-stop photos. Pretty sure I have a special tag for him, if I can remember or find it.

I'll probably say more when the time comes. For now, I just wanted y'all to know, and remember him for a moment, and feel a little love his way. He was my rock at times, and at times he was my reason for living, and always he will be my evil little goblin.

I'm hoping to be able to see him again before he goes. If I do, I will make sure to spam your dash with photos.

I'm okay. I'm lucky enough to have Ron, and Ned, my second baby. But I'm sad, and when he goes it will be so hard. But I will still be okay.

Love and miss y'all <3

[alloverthegaf]

Hey everyone, I'm sorry I'm not around much anymore. There's no reason to worry - I unfortunately am just not as online as I used to be - but I do and always will miss the special community I always had on here.

This is an update to let everyone know Watson will likely be gone in the next 12 hours.

I still live 7 hours away - new highway - and I haven't gotten the chance to be with him and cuddle him in his final days. He has apparently remained true to character to the end and destroyed his hospital cage, and upended everything in it.

Truly the grumpy old man to the end.

Like I said, I'm not online much anymore, something I find to be a part of life and also very upsetting. But as I said when we first got Watson's diagnosis - nearly two years ago now, with supposedly 6 months to 1 1/2 years to live - long term followers were there when we got Watson. You watched me fall in love with him. You watched him become my whole world. As I suffered through the failure of uni, came home to loneliness and depression, suffered through trauma I couldn't tell my family about, found myself ready to let everything go... I had Watson. My grumpy wrinkly gremlin boy who would curl up in my arms every night. Complain loudly if I spent too much time talking to my parents before settling into bed where he could join me. Would ignore me a for a government day whenever I retuned from house sitting for too long.

He was also there when I met Ron. The first time Ron visited - a man (he hates my dad), in HIS bed, with HIS HUMAN??? We had to stop the dogs exploring the second half of the house because he was so territorial. But of course he loved Ron straight away. Mum gently placed Watson on my bed and he walked towards Ron instead of me, the bastard.

He's my grumpy, crinkly, beautiful baby. He's so precious to me. He's also lived about the best and longest life he could. Which is not long enough or good enough for what he means to me.

I'm going to miss him so fucking much. And if it's not a big deal to anyone else, if it doesnt matter to anyone else, that's fair enough. I just remember a time when Watson's photos were the highlight of the day for some people. Another reason he was precious to me.

My baby boy.

[alloverthegaf]

like it doesn’t matter how old the show is or how old you are Stargate opens up an entirely new world - a new galaxy for you to discover and explore and honestly I just find it so incredible that a show literally older than I am could have such a dramatic and exciting effect on me. Stargate was the kind of open-eyed-wonder, belief-in-humanity show we could all do with today, complete with dedicated science and a determination to discover new, amazing worlds that is so impossible to imagine these days. It is such a beautiful combination of serviceman loyalty and distinct belief in humanity, with the perfect side-order of humour and action, that can give anyone not only a break from the ridiculous bullshit we have to put up with these days but the absolute pessimism that comes from any modern day sci-fi. However old we all get and whatever year we find ourselves in, I cannot recommend Stargate enough, because that show not only provides you with a whole new way of looking at things, but shows you the amazing possibilities we once as a species entertained, and it does it all with total human bluster and hope.

The woman who introduced me to the show, an old friend of the family, once told me that this show was her way of getting through really tough, depressing times, because it was exciting and interesting but also managed to make her laugh, when nothing else seemed to be able to, and I completely understand it. Stargate keeps you intrigued, and excited, and makes you smile when in most ways you just can’t really see that happening.

Basically this show is just absolutely incredible and on those days when you’re feeling bleakest can give you the humour and more-so the energy to keep going, and I really could not recommend it enough.

[alloverthegaf]

Netflix just LET ME TAKE SCREENSHOTS

Anyways Kim’s Convenience is great, big recommend

[alloverthegaf]

I've talked before about how The Dollop guys have said many times, Australia is always a few years behind America. They have been clear enough and educated enough from the first time they said it, that with my own context, I have always believed them.

If you didn't believe this concept before, you need to now.

tell me the difference in these videos and those out of Minneapolis. those out of America five years ago. ten years ago.

all of us, at least from my own privileged white perspective (and calling myself out on this before anyone else) have skated for years on thinking our country was so much better than the terrifying fascism growing in America.

We're not. We're clearly not. We have our own two party system, with our own lesser of two evils. And I'm ashamed to admit I, to an extent, admired what Albo was doing.

Then he invited the president of Israel. He capitulated due to monetary pressure. He allowed the NSW premier, and the NSW police, to brutalise peaceful protestors, whose only goal has ever been to stop a genocide.

QLD is looking at bringing in new 'hate speech' laws that prevents you from saying "from the river to the sea".

NSW police commissioner decided the protestors were "inciting violence".

We ARE a few years behind America. If we're lucky. Speak up. Tell your politicians they work for YOU. Tell them what is in store if they continue to capitulate to Israel's genocidal rhetoric. Tell them what cowards they are.

Show the world we are not just another fascistically vulnerable state.

And if you want excellent consistent coverage of Australian news and politics without the Murdoch bullshit, I highly recommend Michael West media - literature here and videos here.

[aceoffangirls]

Imagine stating that you are “not going to throw them (police) under the bus” or that you can’t judge the actions based on a 10 second clip when their are multiple videos and multiple incidents of police brutality against protesters

Shame on you Chris Minns. Shame on our Goverment for inviting a war criminal into our country and ignoring our duty to the international community by not arresting and investigating someone implicated for the genocide in Gaza

[alloverthegaf]

shame on Chris Minns and Albonese for allowing this war criminal to come to our country and to allow any kind of punishment to those protesting his WAR CRIMES

[lenreli]

Cops are bastards, no-one is surprised.

[alloverthegaf]

I've talked before about how The Dollop guys have said many times, Australia is always a few years behind America. They have been clear enough and educated enough from the first time they said it, that with my own context, I have always believed them.

If you didn't believe this concept before, you need to now.

tell me the difference in these videos and those out of Minneapolis. those out of America five years ago. ten years ago.

all of us, at least from my own privileged white perspective (and calling myself out on this before anyone else) have skated for years on thinking our country was so much better than the terrifying fascism growing in America.

We're not. We're clearly not. We have our own two party system, with our own lesser of two evils. And I'm ashamed to admit I, to an extent, admired what Albo was doing.

Then he invited the president of Israel. He capitulated due to monetary pressure. He allowed the NSW premier, and the NSW police, to brutalise peaceful protestors, whose only goal has ever been to stop a genocide.

QLD is looking at bringing in new 'hate speech' laws that prevents you from saying "from the river to the sea".

NSW police commissioner decided the protestors were "inciting violence".

We ARE a few years behind America. If we're lucky. Speak up. Tell your politicians they work for YOU. Tell them what is in store if they continue to capitulate to Israel's genocidal rhetoric. Tell them what cowards they are.

Show the world we are not just another fascistically vulnerable state.

And if you want excellent consistent coverage of Australian news and politics without the Murdoch bullshit, I highly recommend Michael West media - literature here and videos here.

[guerrillatech]

[alloverthegaf]

y'all omg Markus EMT and Connar the genius Emergency resident AU

[alloverthegaf]

I constantly forget about the whole ‘termite infestation’ problem we’re finally getting fixed until I walk into the bathroom and am confronted with The Void

[alloverthegaf]

[alloverthegaf]

this is not what I intended for you to focus on

[alloverthegaf]

come on it’s not even functional

[alloverthegaf]

oh like all of you have perfectly normal bathrooms

[alloverthegaf]

AM I BEING PRANKED

[alloverthegaf]

just so you all know I showed my friend The Void and she found it appropriately interesting and creepy

[alloverthegaf]

no one’s using the void it would be a waste of electricity

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

is no one going to mention the abundance of clocks on the fireplace

[alloverthegaf]

buddy you should have seen how many clocks there were before one of the walls was ripped down

[alloverthegaf]

no none of them work

[safitheartist]

This reads like a frustrated chaos demigod posted it.

[alloverthegaf]

I miss the good old days when Dean called Sam 'Sammy' and I wasn't concerned about whether climate change or nuclear war would take us out first

[alloverthegaf]

Another auspol update. Our government is capitulating left and right to fucking lobbying and astroturfing. For the sake of those committing a genocide.

Our politicians need to hear that we see what's happening and we will not accept it.

[alloverthegaf]

FYI Aussies

This and the new AUKUS Command that was quietly implemented to crack down on any protests that "interfere" with US and UK interests are massive red flags no one is talking about. Do not look at current day America and think it can't happen here.

Speak up, spread the word. Michael West Media is a great independent source for this kind of news, look them up.

[wtv-i-feel-like-saying-atm]

the day that ppl finally understand and accept that there are more relationship dynamics in the world then just, “friends”, “romantic partners”, and “siblings” is the day i finally fucking rest.

[moonybamboony-deactivated202508]

you guys gotta stop deactivating your blogs cause you're making it harder for me to go back in a reblog chain to remove the annoying additions

[arlo-maintenanceman]

I reblogged this specifically for the prev tag because it made me feel like I was having a stroke

[tonyalmeida]

[focksincrocks]

[thehikingastronomer]

This guy alone just filled my "live your life with passion" quota for the year.

[mercurymusing]

Funniest thing is the quick "settle down mate" and the dip into the Australian accent as he gushes over how pretty it is.

[quill-of-thoth]

Knowing herpetologists: literally every one of them under 40 was influenced by Steve Irwin. The Austrailian accent and repetition of Irwinesque phrases (what a beauty, look at the size of this fella) is involuntary but an important part of the snake catching ritual.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4034:

write one word. write one goddamn word on that page. i beg of you. just one word. please