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Been a While

I’m not dead! The following shit has happened in the couple of years since I’ve really been active here:

A student from the club I advised was hit by a reckless driver on Valentine’s Day. He passed away two days later.

My school shut down on March 13th, with everyone saying we’d be back at the beginning of April, after Spring Break. The same shit show that happened everywhere proceeded to happen to all of us.

My cat, Panda, had to be euthanized due to congestive heart failure on February 27, 2021.

I get a new kitten (Gidget, who was perfect in every way and still is 2 years later).

Burned a lot of bridges because people are shitty sometimes.

Met Mhiron, started dating them, proposed to them on May 25, 2022. I’m in the process of moving to live with them starting on June 3rd.

Applying for jobs in the new city. There’s a teacher shortage, but they’re taking their sweet time hiring anyone. Seems sus.

And now I’m back here! Not dead, yay!

#I'm baaaaaaack

eruriholic

stuff that feels rewarding as a fanfic author:

when your work inspires fanart/comics

when people point out a scene/particular line(s) that tugged at their heartstrings

when people ask for your meta of your work that they enjoyed so much

when someone comments on a fic you wrote 982783113502 years ago

getting recc’d

just the small happiness in knowing you made someone out there smile on their way to work/home or at school, in knowing you warmed someone’s heart somehow

hils79

Getting yelled at for making someone cry

themarydragon

Getting called Satan

hhhhhotleafjuice-deactivated202

once this girl commented “this is the cutest thing ever 😭😭😭” (yeah, I remember) on something i wrote and i literally think about it every day

crusty-the-snowman

Every time someone comments on my stories ten years get added onto my life

anxietyproblem

talesfromtreatment

So I know how you feel about euthanasia in shelters, but what about pets? Both of the cats that I've owned that have died during my lifetime died at home after a few days of refusing food. We might have gotten a traveling vet to euthanize them if they seemed to be in a lot of pain, but we wanted them to live out the rest of their lives in a place that they were familiar with, with the family that they loved.

The one that died the most recently, about a month ago, had some sort of cancer, we think. The vet we brought her to wasn't exactly sure what it was, but said that she wouldn't live longer than a couple of months after that visit. She stopped purring when we pet her maybe a week or so before she died, and stopped eating much of anything, and I wonder whether we should have gotten her euthanized. I hope that our bias of wanting to stay by her side as long as possible didn't put her through more suffering than what was necessary, but I didn't want her last moments to be stressful...

You are, unfortunately, not going to like my answer.

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pangur-and-grim

I felt an enormous amount of guilt euthanizing my former rabbit Wheat Thick, because I did it before the worst symptoms of her fatal conditions set in. the opioids were effective, and she was still active with a good appetite when she died, and quite aggressive about running up to us to badger for pets!

my guilt ended after I received her cleaned skeleton, and saw the damage done to the bones of her face. she had a foreign object lodged in her naval cavity that would have moved deeper until it suffocated her, and in the interim the infection had been attacking the sorounding area and turning the thinner edges of her skull to lace.

even when you think you’re euthanizing too early, you’re probably underestimating how bad the animal is actually feeling because (especially in stoic animals like rabbits and birds) hiding pain is so instinctual.

euthanasia is something that hurts the owner while delivering a peaceful end to the pet, and it’s a pain we should be willing to bear for them.

findyouranchorpoint

Panda stopped eating as much the week leading up to the vet appointment on Saturday, February 27. I knew something was desperately wrong with her, but I had hopes that she might be okay. Saturday morning, she refused to eat until I gave her some wet food. She ate some, but only a few bites. She would scarf that stuff down before...so when I took her to the vet’s, I knew that would be the day. I got a call two hours later that her lungs were full of fluid, and while they could drain them, it was extremely likely to occur again. I made the heartbreaking decision to euthanize her that day. As much as I wish I still had my beloved Pandemonium by my side, she would have been scared, she would have been struggling to breathe, and eventually her death would have been her drowning from the fluid buildup. I REFUSE to let any animal of mine suffer for longer than it takes to fix the problem...even if that ‘fix’ is euthanasia because there’s no other solution.

jheselbraum

I want to be rich enough to leave $100 tips

jheselbraum

I want to be rich enough to solve my friends life problems.

“Money doesn’t fix everything” but it can pay off my coworkers car so she can leave her abusive husband. It can buy gas money and bus tickets and pay rent and cover medical expenses and just.

It wouldn’t fix everything but it would provide a great first step and it’s so frustrating when the solution is so plain to see but completely unattainable and maybe I’m being naive but that’s just the mood for today lads.

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moonkitty

i hate people who hate hairless cats

moonkitty

like!!! bitch!!! hes fucking pink!!! what more could you possibly want!!!

theoppositeofadults

❤️

isohelle

I SMASHED REBLOG SO HARD

thestormwitches-deactivated2020

THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING

changeinenthalpy

GENIUS

the-lady-razorsharp

THIS

crimson-chains

I am so excited for more seasons of TDP!!! I really hope to see these two reunited soon <3

gay-irl

trans_irl

xanderwithanx

The DREAM

nikniknikin

I distinctly remember the first time my dad called me my right name. I was sixteen, I’d gotten my driver’s license not too long ago, and now that I was driving, my dad gave me a credit card so I could get gas, or food if I was staying late at school due to marching band. He was very clear, this card was for food and gas only. Only gas and food. Just those two categories of product. He would be checking the bill. I had no desire to buy anything else with this card.

However. Often when getting food after marching practice, or on our scant breaks, I’d drive my friends to burger king or little ceasers or starbucks or whatever, and sometimes not all of my friends could afford the food they wanted. And well…food is food. I have a big appetite, and as long as I didn’t go crazy overboard and order catering for the whole band, a few extra burgers and shakes wouldn’t stand out on a monthly bill. So I bought my friends food.

I did this for several months, and sometime during that came out to my parents. They both thought it was a phase, and that I would grow out of it. Since they’re not terrible people their approach to me having ‘a boy phase’ was to let me do my thing and wait for me to change my mind. I didn’t change my mind, and eventually they understood that, but that’s a whole other post. The point is my dad didn’t discourage me from transitioning, but avoided talking about it with me. He stopped calling me his daughter, but replaced it with child rather than son, that kind of thing.

But back to the credit card. Eventually I started feeling guilty. TECHNICALLY I was obeying the rule ‘food and gas only’, but I knew I was bending it. I nervously admitted to him one day that sometimes…on occasion…once in a while… I’d buy a friend food. I waited solemnly for his judgement. He walked over to me, put his hands on my shoulders, looked into my eyes sternly and said,

“Zackary, we are Italian. If you let your friends go hungry….” (and here he decided to shake me just for a little emphasis) “I will disown you.”

And that’s when I knew he’d come around. Trans? Fine okay sure, give it a shot. Stingy? Get the fuck out.

micdotcom

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ofmindandmagic

HOLY SHIT. This is amazing

jamie-writes-things-deactivated

Hell yeah! Go Chris

24ozsteak

thinking about that WoW epidemic

24ozsteak

swampgallows

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.