#petulantworm

[a-mag-a-day]

Thank you for doing this blog! I'm not really a fandom person usually and I love to see all the beautiful fan art I've been missing! Also you made me want to relisten to this awesome podcast. Great work! I appreciate!

Thank you! Very happy to recirculate wonderful art after all this time for new fans to see, and now it's saved according to episode on this blog if anyone wants to find it all again! <3

[the-adventures-of-dave]

Hello! My roommate just adopted a cat and has a strong bond with my cat (resident cat) already. She's feeling a lot of pressure to immediately bond with her new cat. So I wanted to ask: How long did it take you to really love Kep as much as Dave? Can you speak to some of the challenges to bonding with a new animal that right now just feels like a rando in your room? Thank you!

Getting Kep was kind of weird. Dave was my first real pet, and I kind of expected to fall in love with Kep the same way. I also got him when I was in a weird headspace mental-health wise which made connecting with him a bit weird.

All that to say was that I didn’t bond with him immediately like Dave. Dave was, in a sense, a foster fail. I got him because I felt that connection, whereas Kep was given to me because he was what was available that fit the bengal/personality/traits I wanted in a cat— essentially a blank slate. I can’t pinpoint exactly when I started thinking of him as truly a cat I connected with, but it was at least a few months into owning him.

I loved Kep the moment I got him, but more in a way that I love all the cats I see on the street, rather than that deeper connection I felt with Dave, if that makes sense? Even now I love Kep with my whole heart, but I don’t think it’s the same kind of love or connection I have with Dave. It’s not “better” or “worse”, just different.

I don’t think you can rush building a relationship with a new cat in your home, and trying to force it into an ideal in your head might not work out. Just spend time with the cat and get to know them, and in time you’ll start to recognize them as your cat, and not just a cat.

[khaoticdyke]

4! 15! 17!

4. if you could do anything at all today, what would it be? Gosh there's so many options. Im getting decision paralysis. First thought best thought let's get the band back together

15. What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot? PLEASE learn the difference between "i dont like this" and "this is bad". Literally constantly I hear people judging something/someone because it simply doesnt comply with their own aesthetic or lifestyle choices. It is making me feel like everyone is experiencing a mass psychosis

17. do you believe in luck and superstition? Do you carry any lucky items or follow any lucky rules? Not really but I also relate to that post of "just because we know the faeries aren't real doesnt mean we should piss them off"

[khaoticdyke]

OC questions: 27, 17, 3!

You haven't specified which, so I'll just pick a different one for each

3) What song describes your OC?

Laurelei's theme song is God's Gonna Cut You Down by Johnny Cash. She's a Paladin of Selûne and even after becoming an Oathbreaker she still has a strong sense of justice and considers herself a Selûnite.

17) If your OC has kids, are they a good parent? Do they ever feel guilty if they have to leave them?

Gunch gets to be Xan's mommy with Lae'zel! She's very doting. All the githyanki she is spoiling him (she is) but after being abandoned by her own parents she wants to have a good relationship with Xan (even if parent/child relationships aren't common among githyanki). He probably finds it a bit embarrassing as he gets older but she doesn't care. Obviously when you're fighting a war against a lich queen you probably can't bring your kid everywhere and she HATES it. She doesn't want Xan to ever think she won't come back. (Her own parents said they would and never did).

27) What's their spirit tamagotchi? Or an animal you associate them with?

I don't really know any tamagotchi but if Kota was an animal crossing character she would be Boris

[khaoticdyke]

Trick or treat 👻

Have them all!

[werewolf4vampire]

Sending you good vibes! Shopping while fat is the worst I feel your pain

thank you 🥺 hopefully as time goes on, more and more stores will get with the program and start carrying plus size clothes offline (or in some cases, at all lmao)