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Christopher Paulsen
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Creator of the webcomic Precocious. Currently force-hiatused and disabled thanks to good ol' malpractice. Still trying to get back to creating.
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Many, MANY cat photos shall be shared, including foster kittens!
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A petunia seed that invaded a pot of clover has been trying to bloom even as cold snaps keep taking it out. Had I been more stable, I would have documented the whole process of blooms trying and dying, with the next one coming. Alas!

So I’ll toss in the unattended rose bush circle of life-ing too.
A pot of clover with a petunia plant growing out of it. There is a fresh bloom facing forward, and waning bloom behind it. Below are what’s left of frozen/dried/wilted older blooms. There is also fresh clover growth over a large group of freeze-killed clover that hands down the side of the pot. A close-up of all the fallen clover leaves by the pot the plant’s in, as the plant tries to push through despite winter attempting to murder it. A winter view of two rose bush branches. One has a new bud trying to bloom, and one has old and fallen blooms, and a rose hip growing. Circle of life. A shot from the side of the rose bush. So now the bud and the rose hip branches are joined with rose blooms that took a freezing night and are rather shriveled while remaining vibrant crimson.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The loose chair cover that Pearl normally sleeps under got tucked in by a friendly helper who didn’t know, and I forgot to undo it.

So Pearl had to find another cover to get under for a cold night! Aww!

(The nefarious tucker wants me to toss the ancient pull-out bed, but…cats are so cute with it!)
A chair covered in a loose blanket that itself is covered in a crazy amount of cat hair. Cuz this is the cat chair. My grandmother refurbished this once, turning it from a super soft chair to an ok firm chair, and that slight downgrade took the chair out of sacred status, so enjoy, kitties! When the blanket is loose, my cat Pearl (sometimes with her brother, Dipper) sleeps under it at night. When a helper came by to clean the floors and windows, cuz that’s something I can’t do with my disability, they also tidied up a bit, and that included ticking the cover into the chair. Pearl lost her spot! The fold-out couch/bed has a lump under its sheets! Pearl needed a sheet to get under and this was the loose one! I lifted up the sheets to snap a photo of hidden kitten Pearl, who wasn’t too happy sharing her blanket realm with me.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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It is good to get one’s Covid booster… but, jeebus, the side-effects might kill on their own!

I had to call my mommy to feed the porch cat this morning, cuz if I tried leaving bed I’d puke. And if there is nothing left to puke, the body starts selection organs to attempt to eject. NOT FUN.
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Why is my power going out over and over just cuz it’s raining? It’s raining at length but not super hard. If infrastructure can’t hold up here…oh no.

This is the future, you jerks. Everything is streaming. Even if the outage is a second, you force me to sit around helpless while the modem reboots!
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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And now a “we have cats at home” post, with Dipper in the “hammock” and Pearl underneath. Somehow dual playing with shoelaces ended up in attacking each other through the blanket roof. (That I am glad didn’t collapse.)
The kitty cat fort has a blanket suspended over the extension made with chairs, and Big Dipper the fluffy monster is using it as a hammock. Below him, his little sister, Pearl, is laying down. Pearl is looking at their brother, Pirate, as he runs by on the floor. Pearl the light gray tabby shorthair cat briefly pausing as she spins around while playing with a shoelace. She is inside the kitty couch fort. You can see the bulge in the roof above her, which is her big brother using the roof as a hammock. A close of up Big Dipper, a fluffy dark gray cat, using the kitty couch fort roof as a hammock. He looks so pleased with himself. Pearl on her back, smacking the lump in the “ceiling” that is her brother Dipper playing atop the blanket that’s suspended like a hammock.
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Some pics from today’s visit to the new foster cats.

Opal the Momcat, and her two litters. The big ones, Onyx and Moonstone, in the small cubby are girls, and the two little brats, Jasper and Blanco, are boys. (We hope, cuz we scheduled neutering that way.)
Momcat Opal posing, with her two all-white clone children poking into frame. The year-old pair, Onxy and Moonstone (Onyx is all-black and fluffy and Moonstone is all-white and medium hair), despite being the biggest (who was these two gals’ dad???), are both crammed into one cat cubby space. Paws are reaching out the entrance towards a cat toy. Momcat Opal (all-white) and the two six-month-olds, gray tabby and white Jasper and all-white Blanco, congregate at the door to the catio, because their fosterer is sitting on the other side, the kittens started meowing, “Why wall?!!!?!?!?” and the meows got Opal to come and check on the whiny babies.
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The new fosters. They’re very friendly for non-kittens, which means we’re guessing they were likely taken care of by a kind, if stupid for not neutering anyone, wife… and boxed up and abandoned to die by a garbage husband. Standard Winchester trash, sadly.
An all-white shorthair cat, Opal, licks her lips while eating next to her six month old kittens, the also all-white Blanco and the gray tabby and white Jasper. Both kittens are shorthair. The two year-old children of Opal both have fluff to them. It feels like a law that a small shorthair white cat MUST have a child who is a large black longhair! Meet Onyx! We think Onyx is a she, but we’re gonna let a pro rescuer tell us cuz who can guess with all that poofiness? Here, Onyx looks out from inside the cat cubby. One of the six month old kittens, the gray tabby and white shorthair Jasper, is on his back in my lap. He’s winking and waving! Jasper is the energetic troublemaker of the young ones. (Blanco is wacky too, but prefers to be wild up next to mother Opal! “Look, mom! Mom! MOM! Looooook!!!!”) The year-old children, Onyx and Moonstone. Onyx, the super fluffy black cat, is a sweet cuddler. Moonstone is the only shy one of the four generations of cats we got. Moonstone can still be held, and will purr when receiving pats, but they mostly hide inside a kitty cubby they claimed.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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A migraine delayed a foster cat visit, so I’m posting old junk from my Momentum folder.

The theme is “going through it in blue/green lead vs feeling a bit better after,” featuring Tijo’s cursed mind (plus Aaron scanning him) and Nate doing a “neuron activates” story via unintended doubled pose.
Tijo, who’s a lanky and awkward anthro maned wolf in the “Precociousverse cartoon” version of Momentum, is standing up while looking very nervous. In this “unrelated sketches making a narrative” post, he’s ashamed of how messed up his brain proved to be, and how dependent he is on Nate and Aaron to keep him even half-steady. (Weird twist of fate the people with the exact skills needed to settle him ended up on the same quest, huh?) A blue lead sketch from years ago, from when I tried to interpret what it’d look like (to Aaron, who happens to be in a spot where he can perceive the ethereal ties between all life and matter) when Tijo got his cursed brain checked out using Aaron’s indigo/empathy magic. It’s… chaotic. And maybe fantasy slop, but who cares cuz Momentum the story is infinitely flexible and a theoretical creative training ground anyway. Considering I came up with the plot at 14, I was actually pretty ahead of where I should have been! Tijo, with an ethereal curse being visualized as mana dealies exploding from his head, is an anthro maned wolf in this version of Momentum. Aaron, the indigo mage, is appropriately anthro’d as a Russian blue cat. A recent sketch made in low light, so it was simple and shaky, of a grumpy Natalie sitting on the ground. Nate is a longhair brown tabby in this version of Momentum. Guess I could upgrade her to Maine coon if this Precociousverse cartoon wants to make each character a special type. An older sketch made of Nate, an anthro fluffy tabby in this version of Momentum, where she’s in a similar pose to the green lead sketch, but her face has lit up after she turned her head to… maybe see someone she likes? Aaron??!? It makes for an accidental two-panel story if you ignore her clothing being totally different in each sketch, since it’s just a coincidence the pose is close.
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Wait wait wait… are y’all being sarcastic or is there actually a twisted Republican version of #MeToo going on where men keep admitting to preying on children?
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Disability post on today’s “big” task:

-Empty dishwasher
-Load dishwasher
-Clean non-dishwasher stuff in sink
-Run dishwasher
-Prep food
-Cook food
-Eat food
-Put dishes in sink
-Repeat all prior entries for dinner

How does anyone fit anything else into their day???? I wore down by step 4!
Cat tax. I believe this foster cat, a year-old shorthair white cat, got the display name of Moonstone. Moonstone is resting inside a cat cubby inside my mother’s “catio” foster space.
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
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The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Had a surprise guest visit today. (Drove me to get my migraine meds when I was so shaky I was THREE HOURS behind schedule!) Told him my meds expired at 8pm and I’d turn into a pumpkin, and at 7:45 my body sent the “Kerplunk! You’re FUCKED!” signal!

Now I’m nodding off as cats passive-aggressive me.
I was so out of it this morning, I was three hours behind schedule! I only had appeared briefly at 10am to give cats morning meals, with Pearl, my light gray tabby shorthair cat, only getting a momentary pet through the blanket she was under. When I got the surprise visit, Pearl hadn’t seen me yet. Normally she’d hide all day, but today, with no early attention, she spent almost all day in the kitty couch fort, so I could pet her while chatting with my visitor. Good girl! When the visitor left, there was a crash downstairs, as Pearl was surprised we’d walk down where she’d moved. This is a photo of her mad at me for catching her hiding under a desk after she got surprised. Poor girl.
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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A new Rhenna attempt and the Meret I had forgotten to photograph from before. With heavy photo editing to save me from nasty left-handed skew.
A blue lead sketch of Rhenna, who’s an anthro fox in this “cartoon in the Precociousverse” incarnation of my scratch paper story, Momentum. Rhenna, a status mage, is readying to drop an electric stun on a victim. She is wearing a cowl neck dress with a bow around the waist and has wavy thick hair clipped back, which flares out in a fan shape around her shoulders. I have four versions of this sketch edited, all resulting in slightly different proportions and anatomy with her. My brain melted trying to figure out which was best. I have no idea what this looks like anymore. A quick blue lead sketch of young Meret from Momentum. This teen is an anthro Siamese cat in this version. She is wearing a plaid shirt and slacks, and has long braids draped down her front, with two loose strands of hair on her right side. Her left arm is raised up as she’s scratching her head in concern.
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Can’t express enough how messed up my week became just cuz of bad PT luck ending with a bruise atop one of my most spasm-y muscles. It’s near impossible to focus on anything with a glitched autonomic response panicking about injury, as my annoyed rational mind assures my bod it’s a temporary bruise!
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Every time I have picked up a pencil to sketch today, a certain someone has immediately ruined it by running into me and yelling for attention.

But if you pick him up and hold him like the baby he is, he cries even more!

Now he’s in my lap, scolding me if my petting isn’t perfect. Cats are jerks.
A close up of Pirate, a very fluffy and large brown tabby, glaring at me while he’s cradled on my arm. His fluff is sometimes uneven because he throws fits about being brushed, so sometimes I rip out incipient fur mats before they become issues, knowing he won’t let me brush them clear.
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Once more: I avoid following accounts that would only make me and my fragile body angry, so any dumbass/monster of the day news gets to me via third wave of backlash subposting, and many times I will never learn about the original post/article/news item that caused it.
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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There is a Disney adult in the replies going insane over this.

…or a troll willing to post 1000 times about loving Iger and the live-action remakes, in a Kaufman-esque long form performance piece.

Art takes many forms!
A Disney adult weirdo, who makes up like two-thirds of replies to a post where Dana Terrace advised canceling Disney Plus, mourning, “Why is BlueSky like this? Aren’t we all Disney fans here on this platform?”
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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One day only special: Foster kittens!

My mother will soon be switching out with this pair’s older siblings and mother. The little social sweeties will go on the fast track to adoption. Mom gets the potential tougher cases!
Two black and white foster kittens bouncing around a kitten enclosure. The one in the foreground, with the “just got eye medicine” sad-eyed memecat face is a girl, and we think the larger one with the black triangle on the nose is a boy.
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Been struggling with migraines, and I either forgot it was Aimovig refill time or I should accept the flexibility of mental forgiveness with blue lead is countered by how brittle it became as it aged.

All I’ve “finished” is this 2/3 of a Meret and a Rhenna I forgot to photograph. (We’ll see.)
Meret, the Siamese cat teen in the Precociousverse version of my in-my-head test project Momentum. I really, really gotta redo her outfit, as the practical version that’d make sense for her is a hell of tangents unless her long braids are blowing perfectly in the wind. Oh well! (Yes, you can laugh at how all my character designs are instantly defeated when the characters - who are walking across a continent and back MOSTLY ON FOOT - are drawn carrying their standard luggage accessories! This is why Momentum isn’t a *real* story!)
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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No one in human history has ever said, “I want a camel cricket surprise!”

CATS, however, have an alternate opinion.

I see who nature listens to!
Photo one of a cat playing with a camel cricket, the moment before she turned from batting it away from me to aiming that monstrous thing directly at my face when she scooped and tossed it. Photo two - meaning she did this TWICE - of a cat playing with a camel cricket, the moment before she turned from batting it away from me to aiming that monstrous thing directly at my face when she scooped and tossed it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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My solution for the “male loneliness epidemic” is for all those unlikable bros to read about Nepal v GenZ and have a thought about being jerks in possibly helpful ways for once.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Alternate pic, featuring all three siblings! Dipper’s all, “Huh?!?!?” while Pearl keeps going 😺 and Pirate keeps going 😾.

At one point Pearl was jumping around the support to attack from another side. You can see multiple other conquered shoelace toys at her feet. So greedy…
A wider shot of my cat, Pearl, from inside the kitty couch fort, attacking a leather shoelace that was held up by her brother, Pirate, who’s atop the fort. Off to the side is the two’s big brother, Big Dipper, who was just laying down on the cat fort’s porch! Why did he have to get dragged into this???!?
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Pearl: Thanks for holding that for me, bro!

Pirate: 🤨
The kitty couch fort, featuring kitties Pirate on top and Pearl inside. Pirate is a large fluffy brown tabby, who has a leather shoelace current wrapped around his head. Pearl is a medium-size light gray tabby shorthair, and she’s happily swatting at the part of the shoelace that drapes down.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM