It’s hard out here for everybody right now, but if you’re able, consider adopting a pet, or making a donation to @projectmeow.bsky.social or to your local organization. Kindness is what gets us through.

What I’m saying is, adopt adult and/or more independent cats, they deserve good homes too and winning their love is so rewarding. Stevie’s kittens got adopted quickly but she, a sweet treasure of a cat, spent months longer in foster care waiting for a home.

She was a sweet, gentle, and very polite girl. Never a lap cat, she showed her love by staying near me, sleeping near me, following me around, and coming looking for attention after she’d had some quiet time alone. We respected each other’s independence and interests.

She was rescued from the streets of West Philly, then moved to the suburbs, and spent her last year in a house in the country, where she had good window views of squirrels, deer, and so many birds. This city girl came a long way.

We only had three and a half years together, when a whole lifetime would not have been enough. On the other hand, we had three and a half years together, and that is more than some people and cats ever get. I am grateful for the time we had.

Beloved @projectmeow.bsky.social alumna Stevie passed away last Friday, October 3, at the age of 9, and after a little over three and a half years as part of her forever family. She is deeply loved and dearly missed.

bzzt, nope, this is not the approach to take, you are not a serious party. ask yourselves what Gritty would do, and do that instead

Apparently this year at Dragoncon there was a company that would do IV fluids/vitamins/electrolytes, either you’d go to them in one of the hotels or they’d come up to your room for an extra fee (here, have a bad screenshot of their menu on FB)

just gonna park this judgy picture of Stevie here, you can assume it applies to anything that follows