Please Don’t Fall For This…

Thank you!

They’re quite sweet too!

As @dania-sharling-answers

I have four Oriental Shorthair cats

And a sentient cat who can choose to look like an Oriental Shorthair

Nightfisher the Kitty Cerberus

Rizzo the rainbow Rascal

Dreamkeeper the black and white

Thistlechaser the brown and white

Steel knight the grey and white.

Wow, they are beautiful.

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

send me    ‘ SMOOCHES! ‘    for my muse to grab yours and cover their face with lots of little kisses!

send   ‘ SMOOCHES? ‘   for your muse to do it, instead!

Reminder to drink water.

Even if flavor water, still water at end of day.

Yay! 😀

One more chapter to type up and then all my backlog is gone and To Be Damned is up to date! IM ALMOST THERE, LADS

But sometimes you need to take care of yourself first before you can help others!

Should I go sleep? Hm…

alexandra daddario gif meme: the attic (2007)

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