Cactus Cat Creations

[yokaidetectiveagency]

#newyear2026

Good morning and Happy New Year's Eve from the Cactus Crew! 🎉

We're here with a celebration post to highlight our time in 2025:

~ Total show downloads reached 30K, hitting our internal goal before year end!

~ Nominated for TWO awards!!

-- The People's Choice Podcast Awards - Fiction

-- Discover Pods Awards - Fiction

~ Attended fewer in-person shows, but gauging different shows that fit our niche. 🎟️

~ Activated paid ads through our RSS Feed for passive income. 💵

~ Completed final scripts for Season 2 of YDA ✍️

~ Hired an artist for official character artwork for YDA 🎨

Overall, we've had a slower year, but are making strides behind the scenes and will work hard to share more with you soon.

We have even bigger and better things in the works for 2026 that we can't wait to share with you!

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[cuntpunkop-ed]

catheters

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

[seraph1c-mo0n]

- canes

- service animals

- noise cancelling headphones/ear defenders

- wheelchair attachments

- fidgets

IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH YALL

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY DISABLED AND TAKE UP ALL THE SPACE AND TIME YOU NEED!!!!!

[green-is-gay]

i dont WANT pride months to be over,

on the other hand...

[tainted-mouseboy]

[imagine description: the disability pride month flag with text edited on to say what each color stripe represents. Black stripe "mourns disabled people who have died from negligence, suicide, illness & eugenics" Green stripe "sensory disabilities" blue stripe "psychiatric disabilities" white stripe "non-visible and undiagnosed disabilities" yellow stripe "cognitive & intellectual disabilities" red stripe "physical disabilities" there's also another black stripe at the other side with text that reads "July is disability pride month" :end of imagine description]

[cannabisbutch]

Happy disability pride month especially to disabled people who shouldn't be working full time/at all but haven't been able to access any aid to stop working, or support other ppl who also can't work. You deserve a break, proper support, and you are worth so so so much more than your productivity

[ovur]

I won't ever get over the removal of headphone jacks, or micro sd slots, or cd drives. I won't. Fuck everyone and everything

[joleneghoul]

i think censoring subtitles is actually ableism

[betsmusings]

As Pride Month comes to an end, I just want to remind you that July is Disability Pride Month and there's a flag and everything!

Charcoal Grey: Mourning for people who have died due to ableist violence, abuse, suicide, and illness

Red Stripe: Physical disabilities

Gold Stripe: Neurodiversity

Blue Stripe: Emotional and psychiatric disabilities

Green Stripe: Sensory disabilities

White Stripe: Undiagnosed and invisible disabilities

[yokaidetectiveagency]

Character Art - Drezz Deckard

Art and character bio under cut.

Minor nudity warning

Series: Yokai Detective Agency

Creator: @tragedy-fayes-world

Artwork: @yaboi_candraw - IG

VA: Pontus Danielsson

Straight from the YDA's Personnel Files in Darkness Falls, the spotlight is on Drezz Deckard!

Biography

Name: Drezz Deckard

Species: Keeper - Given name Yoru

Age: Late 20s?

Birthday: Estimated 600 BCE

Astrological Signs: Pisces / Rabbit

Hair: Auburn

Eyes: Green

Height: 5 ft 11 in ~ 180.34

Weight: 150 lbs ~ 66 kgs

Familial Relations:

Tragedy Deckard (wife)

Philip Deckard (twin brother) 

Uri Sasaki (half-brother)

Employer: Yokai Detective Agency

Role: Missing Persons Department -- Alchemist, Artificer, Technomancer

Agent No.: 69

Quotables:

"Welcome to the crazy train we call Darkness Falls." - to Hiro, S1E2

"Make sure you teach him some manners before I see him next." - To Philip, regarding Uri, S1E6

[yokaidetectiveagency]

Ren Black - Official Artwork

Meet our leading man of the Yokai Detective Agency.

Character created by Tragedy Faye

Artwork by @yaboi_candraw - IG

VA: @dodosarthouse - IG

Biography

Name: Ren Black

Species: Yokai - Kitsune

Age: ???

Birthday: March 20, 1958 (according to his personnel file)

Hair: Blue Black

Eyes: Blue

Residence: Darkness Falls - Currently occupies an apartment above a local restaurant.

Employer: Yokai Detective Agency

Agent No.: 42

Role: Lead Homicide Detective

Quotables:

"Mate, I need coffee to function."

"I'm sure Victor's waiting for me - patient as Death."

Concepts are more available on our Patreon.

[cactuscatcreationsblog]

[aialaau]

Overly Sarcastic Productions' most recent Trope Talk about Filler Arcs has given me a delightful image that I think perfectly captures what most writers do to their characters.

Thank you, @comicaurora, for this amazing image.

[comicaurora]

guilty as charged

[james-spooky]

i hate what podcast has become synonymous with because please i’m not listening to alpha male gym bros deny climate change i’m listening to my gay blorbos go through the horrors there’s a big difference

[yokaidetectiveagency]

Happy Monday! #audiodrama SHOW: Yokai Detective Agency

CHARACTERS: Hiro Akashi and Ren Black

Show Creator: @tragedy-fayes-world Character Art: @yaboi_candraw - IG & Threads

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

your comment means so much to the author!! don’t be shy about letting your favorite authors know you love their works.

if their fic makes your day, your comment makes their day too

[animentality]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

WRONG. talk about it. shout about it. yell about it. scream about it. so what if it’s a fanfic? it’s done with love and passion. it’s art created by a fellow human being who, despite life and lord knows what battle they may or may not be going through, probably stayed up all night writing it before they shared it with the world for free. they’d probably spent months or years writing it. it’s as much a piece of art and literature as any other art and literature that aren’t fanfics. and unlike artists who make profit off their works, fanfic writers truly write for free, because they are that passionate about their stories. the least we can do is show them our love and appreciation.

[solarsthoughts]

idk who needs to hear this, but low engagement does not mean your writing is bad.

engagement doesn’t solely depend on the quality of the work. whilst it can play a role, other things such as fandom, ship, tags, tropes and posting at the right time of the day/week play a SIGNIFICANT role.

so keep writing what you love. keep writing what makes your heart happy. your work is amazing. the fact that you’re even putting words out there is amazing.

do not let numbers define you or your work.