The Triggered Happy

on ao3 under the same username, i write tf2 fic mostly. ask box is always open kofi - ao3- comic

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commissions,

lost a lot of hours at work over the holiday season (and the world is on fire), picking up commissions! DM me here or send me an email at ‘[email protected]’ — payment will be through paypal or kofi

more recent examples under the cut!

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does anyone else have like the thought in their brain of ‘celebrities’ within their somewhat more niche interests, as a thing that within that niche interest is well known or popular and you can recognize by name on sight that’s really beloved to you, but you can’t express to other people that it’s a celebrity thing to you?

like any of monet’s water lilies works are a celebrity to me. i’ll go “ooh it’s water lilies monet :>” and the reaction is often “how do you know that??” and it feels wack to explain that among people who like paintings it’s pretty basic and famous. it’s day one stuff. but i don’t care that it’s not cutting edge or particularly niche i like water lilies monet. celebrity water lilies monet.

what’s everyone else’s water lilies monet. other water lilies monet that i have include jackalopes, canon in D, and the screentone shading method. you understand

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seeing the push in animal care spaces towards harnesses rather than collars makes me wonder if someday like two hundred years from now a fashion major will have to write about how this common accessory used in alternative fashion originated from things we used to put on our animals and pets to carry identifiers on them and like “the implications/connotations”. unrelated is there any case for fashion saddles like saddles we wear for fashion

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Pepperjack sounds adorable (though chaotic). Glad to see someone else acknowledge that orange cats are often intelligent (I've never actually met a dim orange cat; the brightest cats I've met include one orange, several black cats and a calico, while the daftest were mostly silver-brown tabbies plus one tortie - though famous online cat Maru was a silver-brown tabby and astonishingly clever).

long yap below (i like talking about animal care)

in my experience, a cat demanding to play (especially after they’re past the one-year mark) is very very very very bored. cats will generally keep themselves entertained and stimulated, so going to you for play time means they’re fairly starved of it. i tend to do two things if that comes up a lot; introduce more variety to the space to encourage more self-stimulation (cat tree in the middle of a trafficked space rather than to the side, birdfeeder outside a window, shelves for climbing, boxes for scampering into, scratching and climbing posts), and a regular time or reminder for designated play (some people suggest right before the cat eats dinner, and if not that, then followed by a nightly treat; you can also use this time to teach simple tricks like sit and paw for mental stimulation).

you don’t want the cat to be used to playing with your hands, or too close to your hands. this makes an association between your hand and stimulation rather than affection or comfort, meaning if your cat is stressed out, your hand might in the moment feel like a threat of discomfort rather than soothing. this goes with also not mixing play with affection—you can end play with affection, or give affection then start playing, but pausing to pet then getting back to playing does a similar thing. start with rolling or throwing small toys away from you, using a toy dangling off a stick, or peeking a toy around corners and over the sides of things, because the toy is now associated with stimulation, which the cat can actively seek, or even bring to you to ask for play time. pay attention to what things the cat enjoys; stalking, pouncing, swatting, biting and kicking, smacking things overhead, smacking things around corners—and find ways to incorporate more. those circular ball tracks are meant for sitting and swatting, or chasing in circles. a stalking/hiding/swatting around corners cat might enjoy those tunnel things, with you dangling a toy around the gaps to hunt, for example. and have scratching posts! a lot of stress and play instinct comes out through running around and scratching up posts, not just human contact.

if the cat is food motivated, small treats to sprint after across the room are a consistent way to encourage exercise. if not, then you’ll spend awhile wasting a lot of time finding out what shapes, textures, sounds, and methods the cat likes, where it’ll probably not care much about certain toys. if it’s too late to wean off of hand play and the cat refuses to lock onto the toys rather than the hand even with toys it likes, what i’ve done in the past is had the Wacky Jacket, a jacket with long thick sleeves that the cat can’t pierce through, which i would put on and pull down over my hand. the cat in question quickly learned to recognize the Wacky Jacket and would run to her designated Murder Spot to wait to pounce and attack the arm of the jacket with all her might. she liked and demanded short, fullbody, intense play sessions, once or twice a day. other cats might only want to play properly every few days once you get the backlog out of their system, and they’ll be sure to let you know when they’re bored of it, but be persistent anyways. this is also a good time to figure out what works as a lure! most cats go for wet food or treats, but others might be more interested in their favorite toys.

pepperjack is still big on hunting my feet, i don’t think he knows that they’re attached to me, but he’s at least gotten gentler, and he’s been increasingly independent and interested in playing with toys without my input. he likes things with strings on them and things that bounce or roll easily, but HATES his dangly wiggly lobster toy, bolts when he sees it. and he’s obsessed with tube treat and the new canned kitten food i found.

cats are weird. it’ll take a while to figure out what works. for some particularly neurotic cats i’ve seen, the solution is another cat friend. they’ll play with each other and you won’t often have to. some cats are the opposite, and the other cat stresses them out enough to make them want to play way more often than before. if a cat goes from frequently asking you to play to instead asking you for affection, odds are good that stress has decreased and you found a good balance.

i believe in you! good luck! go forth and be wacky!

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also some friends found a kitten under a truck/trailer and handed it off to me to take care of and he’s pretty small, probably only about four or five weeks, but distressingly smart. things he’s figured out in like four days:

wet food container sound

treat tube

biting the bottle makes more formula come out faster

putting on shoes means leaving

crying when i’m putting on shoes can delay me leaving

putting on sweatpants means bedtime

crying when i put sweatpants on means bedtime faster

climbing. just fully vertical climbing.

falling from certain heights is fine no fall damage too small and light

what the stern tone is and means (stop it)

scampering

hunting small objects

mirrors and screens (sort of)

things yet to be figured out:

walking without falling over

eating normal

drinking water normal

drinking kitten formula normal

meowing normal

do not come find me to bite my face and mouth and nose when bored

feet are attached to me and therefore biting them also hurts

birds (however, progress: he saw a bird today. like looked at it and startled when it flew away from the window. but does not seem to understand that they’re alive)

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pepperjack hammond cheese + 1 twee for scale. he promptly after allowing this photo to be taken launched himself to the ground, rolled hotdog style, and scampered off after being briefly distracted by his tail.

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also some friends found a kitten under a truck/trailer and handed it off to me to take care of and he’s pretty small, probably only about four or five weeks, but distressingly smart. things he’s figured out in like four days:

wet food container sound

treat tube

biting the bottle makes more formula come out faster

putting on shoes means leaving

crying when i’m putting on shoes can delay me leaving

putting on sweatpants means bedtime

crying when i put sweatpants on means bedtime faster

climbing. just fully vertical climbing.

falling from certain heights is fine no fall damage too small and light

what the stern tone is and means (stop it)

scampering

hunting small objects

mirrors and screens (sort of)

things yet to be figured out:

walking without falling over

eating normal

drinking water normal

drinking kitten formula normal

meowing normal

do not come find me to bite my face and mouth and nose when bored

feet are attached to me and therefore biting them also hurts

birds (however, progress: he saw a bird today. like looked at it and startled when it flew away from the window. but does not seem to understand that they’re alive)

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now that it’s out i can post about it—tadc finale good. thank you for your time

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What are your, like, top 5 fandoms/pieces of media?

favorite game - OFF (Mortis Ghost) [the remaster is very very very good also]

favorite game series - the Ace Attorney trilogy

most played game - Slay the Spire probably closely followed by Stardew Valley in terms of playtime

favorite comic - Gloomverse by Crayon Queen (currently unfinished)

favorite fandom - the fandom for the podcast 100% Eat (formerly ‘Facejam’). we are the least annoying fanbase and we are PROUD

honorable mentions:

team fortress 2 (game itself if very fun, the lore and world in the comics and SFM are what make it a favorite of mine, just hard to place or rank)

undertale/deltarune (fun games, excellent soundtracks, interesting histories in terms of the indie game spheres and cultural predecessors and successors, love those!)

music i like (currently listening to Libertines/Babyshambles a lot, but branching out into 90s/00s punk in general a major way. also working through some assorted recommendation like bbno$, tyler the creator, and maneskin (sp?) and having fun)

lackadaisy (FUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

red vs blue (ITS NOT GOOD BUT I LIKE IT AND IT MAKES ME CRAZY. TEX I’D DO ANYTHING PLEASE JUST ONE TIME IM BEGGING YOU—)

i’m realizing i like a lot of stuff.

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Silly question, still make art? Your blog been slightly silent, just asking

not a silly question! short version is yeah, i’m just increasingly trying not to be on social media as it continues becoming a worse and worse place to be.

i feel like creatively i’m reaching new heights and getting better all of the time, but the more that i branch out and have fun, the less i feel the need to update people on it, y’know? i’m letting myself just sort of plug away and do the part i care about (making stuff) without trying to slog through being online about it. fic is still fun for me to write, even if i keep taking departures (and sometimes posting on anon when i don’t feel like talking about it with people). i’m just like. not into the way social media works in 2026. it’s hard to explain to people who weren’t online in like 2013 but the thing i used to have online is gone, the party’s over, so i think im just kinda in the stage of getting my shoes on and picking up my keys.

since i tend to work digitally i don’t know what would have to happen to make me *stop* posting stuff on tumblr or ao3 just for archiving’s sake at least, maybe more of this AI bullshit? as it stands i’m mostly just quiet because im like, outside doing stuff.

i do gotta refill the queue though i can’t have a dead blog im not an animal

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i so badly want to commission you but i'm young, dumb and broke so i can't orz

artfight me then squirt i’m gonna artfight you into the GROUND i’ll artfight you into DUST i’ll artfight you into NEXT WEEK or more specifically SLIGHTLY OVER A MONTH FROM NOW buster

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ever since i learned abt the concept of networking i knew i was going to have to do everything alone and do it the hard way

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i believe i can do everything in this life except feign interest and suck up to people

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Hi, just read the running blind fic and this will sound evil—

I need an angst version where Scout doesn't make it—

hey you posted this on anon so i don’t mind making this the effigy for me being pretty annoyed about something on main

just to be clear, you came into my inbox asking me to write… 60k or so words, based on a different fanfiction i already wrote almost a decade ago, as just sort of a casual ask, phrased as “i need this”. my curiosity is why you don’t, for example—i mean this constructively—go write it, then? chop chop.

i like writing. i do. getting asks in my inbox with requests and ideas and concepts has been fun for me over the years. warms my heart. im really not asking you to suck my dick, here. but i’ve noticed a growing trend that will of course infect older fandoms last, where people will hop into the inbox of someone and just sort of go “hey, can i have xyz?”

can you make a fic of xyz happening?” you just did that yourself. you just wrote a fic in your mind. have you thought about… making it? just. writing it? you can just write it. you have the ability to do that. “it won’t be good—“ arguable. try writing it.

most egregious to me is always for visual artists. “hey can you draw xyz?”, while that person’s commissions stay open, while that person reblogs their friends’ open commission sheets, while people everywhere are running discounted commissions to fundraise out of a bad situation. but, hey, for me, though? free? i don’t want to so why don’t you?

stop it. over the years people have written fics inspired by my stuff (i love you all very much), and some have been so direct as to rip the premise entirely, and i say more power to ‘em! go write an alternate ending and post it on ao3. that’s fun. that’s community. that’s what fandoms are built off of. we’re already doing fanwork, for god’s sake. go make stuff. get out of people’s inboxes asking “when will your comic be done”, “when will your next animatic be up”, “when will there be more content, i want to consume content, give me content”. go make shit. you’re bored. pick the pen up, open the notes app. write directly in your drafts. i don’t care.

“can you write your fanfiction but in the way i’m imagining it?” your chatGPT usage is showing. go write it! go on! i’m encouraging you! go write that!

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brief follow-up no longer using that message as an effigy because the anon sent another ask—

kid, i’m not mad at you. i don’t care. seriously. from the bottom of my heart, i mean this, you seem pretty young and this is not a finger waggle, im taking a knee to get at eye level and putting hands on your shoulders. i am Not Mad At You. It’s Fine. this isn’t an indictment or a dressing down, this is a directive. this is an instruction. go make shit!

you have ideas! you have concepts! rip stuff whole cloth and shuffle in things you like and post them as fanwork saying “hey this other thing was cool and i wrote a thing just like it”. ao3 has that feature! it’s great, it’s fun, it’s flattering! it’s fanwork, go have fun, go play! get out there!

this is a deep cut—im digging deep for this—one of my earlier fics has a series of lines that is quoting word for word from a different fandom’s fanwork because my friends in fandom showed off the fanwork in question and went “hey, what about with these characters instead?”, and i adapted it thusly. the concept of most tropes is to do that exact thing—take the same episode of the sitcom and shuffle in characters of choice. go do that! people do that because it’s fun to do and fun to read!

i’m not mad at you, i’m telling you, go do that! get deep in the paint! write it! and don’t be self deprecating, it can be as boring or as off the wall or as linear and graphical or completely mad libs unhinged as you want, who cares? i’m currently writing as a fun side project an in-universe arts and food review magazine in a setting i’ve made because i thought it would be funny. it is OBJECTIVELY incredibly boring. the point is that it’s fun for me to DO and i’m building muscles as a writer by doing it.

the fic this ask was originally about? i started doing it in the first place to practice writing descriptions without relying on visual cues by having it be limited POV for a character who was newly blind. i didn’t even start posting any of it until some friends of mine read it and talked me into posting it so they could share it more easily than me emailing it or physically gathering around the school computer. this stuff is for fun and for practice and for making your friends laugh or whatever combination of those. rip the whole fic if that’s helpful to you, i posted it for free on the internet! different authors have different opinions, but i don’t think anyone would be rightfully offended if you like their fic so much you base one off of their premise. IT’S FANFICTION WE’RE ALREADY DOING THAT IT’S FINE

also on more of a personal note. kid i don’t know who in your life is making you this nervous and apologetic that you felt like you had to say “sorry” in the ballpark of 8 times and “im stupid” or some variant like three, no idea who it is that makes you feel like that’s how you need to live and exist, but i hope they die 👍 you’re literally out here existing and excited about creative works, it is simply not so serious that you should get like Actually Yelled At. i’m not mad, i’m telling you that you have the agency to solve your own hunger pangs here. just go pick up the pen and get your mind working, dude. i’m hoping it’ll also make you feel a little better. if you have big confidence problems, remember that you can post works anonymously on ao3, too. you gotta go have fun, dude, don’t live like this at the mercy of your feed and algorithm, go make stuff. go exist

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Hi, just read the running blind fic and this will sound evil—

I need an angst version where Scout doesn't make it—

hey you posted this on anon so i don’t mind making this the effigy for me being pretty annoyed about something on main

just to be clear, you came into my inbox asking me to write… 60k or so words, based on a different fanfiction i already wrote almost a decade ago, as just sort of a casual ask, phrased as “i need this”. my curiosity is why you don’t, for example—i mean this constructively—go write it, then? chop chop.

i like writing. i do. getting asks in my inbox with requests and ideas and concepts has been fun for me over the years. warms my heart. im really not asking you to suck my dick, here. but i’ve noticed a growing trend that will of course infect older fandoms last, where people will hop into the inbox of someone and just sort of go “hey, can i have xyz?”

can you make a fic of xyz happening?” you just did that yourself. you just wrote a fic in your mind. have you thought about… making it? just. writing it? you can just write it. you have the ability to do that. “it won’t be good—“ arguable. try writing it.

most egregious to me is always for visual artists. “hey can you draw xyz?”, while that person’s commissions stay open, while that person reblogs their friends’ open commission sheets, while people everywhere are running discounted commissions to fundraise out of a bad situation. but, hey, for me, though? free? i don’t want to so why don’t you?

stop it. over the years people have written fics inspired by my stuff (i love you all very much), and some have been so direct as to rip the premise entirely, and i say more power to ‘em! go write an alternate ending and post it on ao3. that’s fun. that’s community. that’s what fandoms are built off of. we’re already doing fanwork, for god’s sake. go make stuff. get out of people’s inboxes asking “when will your comic be done”, “when will your next animatic be up”, “when will there be more content, i want to consume content, give me content”. go make shit. you’re bored. pick the pen up, open the notes app. write directly in your drafts. i don’t care.

“can you write your fanfiction but in the way i’m imagining it?” your chatGPT usage is showing. go write it! go on! i’m encouraging you! go write that!

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discord is down everybody fucking panic

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caught scheming a grand deception with 25,000 of my closest friends

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no i think it’s just me and you and 71,000 of our closest friends

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discord is down everybody fucking panic

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caught scheming a grand deception with 25,000 of my closest friends

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discord is down everybody fucking panic

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she let me hit because i continue fueling her power fantasies and whispering ambitions into her ear over the course of the first act in my plot to kill the king, becoming the driving force in the narrative’s eventual and unavoidable course of tragedy. anyways why the fuck won’t this blood wash off