Miles asked “What’s a Comic Con?” not because he’s not nerdy enough, but because it’s not called Comic Con in his universe.
(Obviously Peter B’s universe is ours)
Tiny dirty stray kitten hanging out at the bottom of our stairs since yesterday. There are a lot of self-reliant ferals around our apartment, but this little thing was dirty & covered in burrs. We gave it some chicken but couldn’t catch it. I think it may have wandered over from the outdoor cat hoarder colony down the street; that house is awful & we saw kittens there last week.
This morning the downstairs neighbor managed to grab it for us, and I put it on this cozy towel & started combing and picking the burrs & sticks out of its fur. It calmed down immediately and has been chilling here with me in the kitchen ever since. Got a vet appointment in an hour to get my little buddy cleaned up & checked out. I hope it isn’t too sick; I think it might have a cold.
If we can, we are probably going to keep her.
What a difference a day makes! Took this little guy to the vet, got the fleas and dirt washed off him, got some antibiotics for a slight cold, but he is otherwise fine. Kneading and purring up a storm, eating a lot and being heart-crushingly adorable.
We have named this glorious creature Nux.
A little over a month later and Nux is growing into a very long and floppy shoulder cat!
Oh my god!!!!
i’m so happy for this cat i hope nux knows im proud of him
I’m reading If I Was Your Girl, I’ll probably finish it today. I love it so far but I can feel something bad coming and my heart isn’t ready. I have about ~3 hours left in the 7-hour audiobook and I feel like someone’s still hiding something big and idk what it is yet but I have my suspicions.
Oh no don’t do it oh no
BEA I LIKED YOU I TRUSTED YOU!
I was so wrong about what I thought was gonna happen and I’m so hurt
I’m reading If I Was Your Girl, I’ll probably finish it today. I love it so far but I can feel something bad coming and my heart isn’t ready. I have about ~3 hours left in the 7-hour audiobook and I feel like someone’s still hiding something big and idk what it is yet but I have my suspicions.
I’m reading If I Was Your Girl, I’ll probably finish it today. I love it so far but I can feel something bad coming and my heart isn’t ready. I have about ~3 hours left in the 7-hour audiobook and I feel like someone’s still hiding something big and idk what it is yet but I have my suspicions.
Just a reminder that writers are people. Sometimes those people have bad days and bad weeks, and it takes so much effort to try to continue writing.
And some of those bad days, they wakes up to see your comment on one of their stories.
And no matter how well intentioned you thought you were being, your critique of a work in progress that you don’t know the eventual outcome to just because it’s not meeting YOUR expectations does NOT, in fact, make the writer want to change their plans for their story. Oftentimes, it makes them want to dig their heels in and stick closer to their outline.
But even worse… sometimes it makes them want to quit.
Quit writing that story that they aren’t getting paid for. That story that they spend hours on every day, either writing, editing, or trying to plot out what comes next. That story that you read for free. That story that you aren’t being forced to read nor asked to critique.
They want to stop, even if it’s just a passing thought of quitting a thing they love. You briefly made them hate it.
And sometimes not briefly. Sometimes the incessant tiny criticisms and the little complaints and the if I’m being honests and the it’s not long enoughs and the you don’t update fast enoughs and the why aren’t you making this a real story, a full story, a whole story … sometimes those mount up and they finally say, this isn’t fun anymore.
And they quit.
Maybe they quit just that story. Maybe they quit fic altogether.
I’m reading If I Was Your Girl, I’ll probably finish it today. I love it so far but I can feel something bad coming and my heart isn’t ready. I have about ~3 hours left in the 7-hour audiobook and I feel like someone’s still hiding something big and idk what it is yet but I have my suspicions.
