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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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The poor pull-out couch is ripped up to where metal shards poke out, so towels must give it a second skin. A piece of the mechanism broke, so it doesn’t convert well. One of its rollers rotted off! A sock must cover another leg, or the floor gets dented.

So, yeah, it’s gonna disintegrate some day…
A shot of the pull-out couch/bed in bed mode. Pearl the kitty is the lump under the sheets. You can see all the couch’s fabric is covered after 20+ years of cats wore it down. Pearl’s brother, Pirate, is in the background, and about to use the couch as a vault to leap across the room.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 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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Ok, the post-vax slam seems to be waning. And I am now tempered steel against those viral bastards.

I did one quick sketch to see if I could (which… eh), and now I’m tired. I didn’t start my day until 3pm, and slept on and off until 2pm, but a 10pm bedtime is still ok, right?
A generic pose blue pencil sketch of Rhenna, an anthro fox with wavy hair. Let’s ignore the proportion issues, cuz I was sick fighting that sucker virus from vaccination today,
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 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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White cat showcase. (Sorry, Jasper.)

Moonstone being shy, with Onyx capitalizing, and mother Opal being pestered by little Blanco.
When food was set out, Moonstone joined us again. (To be fair, we spooked Moonstone the first time, cuz medicine was given.) Moonstone is a white cat like their mother and little sibling, but fluffier - mostly in the tail. Don’t worry, they’re about to be given their own food dish. Onyx, the fluffy black littermate of white Moonstone, lifts a paw to play fight with cornered-in-a-cubby Moonstone. When mom at Opal got in my lap, 6-month-old Blanco followed and got into the pile. You can see Opal’s weary-yet-kind eyes. Opal lying on my lap and kneading the air with her paws. There is a phantom white paw in there. It’s not AI, but child Blanco again crawling in to make a kitty pile!
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 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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Aaaand, after I sent an “on my way!” text, a CERTAIN SOMEONE won’t let me leave!
Pearl, a light gray tabby shorthair cat, gives a curious-but-annoyed look at the camera after she had a braid of blue, black and white shoelaces wrapped around her front half.
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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This has been a silly post, but typing out the alt text bought me enough time for my triptan to kick in. Now I can drive to see my mother’s foster kitties!
Three foster cats in my mother’s lap. This is what I’m soon to experience!
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 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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A new foster cat at my mother’s might interest you…
A fluffy black cat, with a foster name of Onyx, who’s about a year old, turns its head while wandering a foster space.
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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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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Btw, the foster kittens my mother was watching have been handed over and replaced with their mother and two older generations.

Three generations of white cats, one black cat, and one gray tabby with white patches. I’ll see them in person on Tuesday.
One of the three generations of white cats in my mother’s foster care. The youngest of the three generations of white cats. This one has a mild eye infection, or it may just be the remnants of precautionary eye meds. In all the shorthair white cats, of course one kitten would be a fluffy black cat! I believe this one is a year old. The other white cat. I’m guessing this is the mother, but don’t hold me to it. Whoever is the mother had so many litters in as short a time frame as medically possible, because Winchester is full of ignorant rednecks who screw things up even when they care. Typical Winchester redneck trash: The cat family was clearly cared for, but the carer never thought to trap and neuter… leading to an asshole overriding the carer and deciding the cats were too much. The cats were put in a box and abandoned on a road. Awful, and/or awfully stupid people in this town.
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 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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Another “no leverage” photo!

I had a (slightly) better one of Dipper, but the sudden head shake ended up being pretty great.

I’m trapped. Lula has moved in to be next in line. Little Stuff is at my feet. I’ll never get to attempt sketching!
Poor Big Dipper, a large fluffy gray cat, caught with a camera flash as he shook his head, with comical results.
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I found a mat in his fur, and that attempt to help got him to scold me and finally leave me alone. But… you need my help, Pirate!

Btw, Pearl, his sister, immediately began yelling at me and took Pirate’s spot. (Pirate is now downstairs yelling at all the ghosts.)
Bad angle attempt to photograph Pearl as she leans against my legs, right where Pirate just was. The third sibling, the older Big Dipper, is in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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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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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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I’m telling ya… meme kitten🥹
Blurry photo of sad kitten eyes, thanks to eye infection meds. Another blurry photo of sad kitten eyes, thanks to eye infection meds. Yet another blurry photo of sad kitten eyes, thanks to eye infection meds. The original meme kitten sad eyes pic - I think? The sad face has been photoshopped onto so many other cat pics, who knows if this was the first or not???
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Realizing now the few in-focus pics I got were all of the sister who has those sad meme kitten eyes! The brother played too hard and often ran away assuming I was gonna steal his toy! (He would walk up to me if I held a toy as offering, but that occupied hand meant I didn’t have my camera ready!)
Holding Memekitten, a black and white shorthair with sad eyes, in my hand, as she looks up with one eye half closed. She got eye medicine to ensure this was only ever gonna be minor and easily fixed. The actually in-focus pic of the two black and white kittens in their pen that I thought I was posting before! Whoops! An out of focus photo of the two kittens playing in a cat tunnel. Both are attacking the toy at the center. The camera decided the spot I wanted to focus on was the tunnel’s seam where two fabric colors met, not the kittens. Thanks, iphone!
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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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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My Aimovig reorder’s indeed overdue. Dang, do I hate how sick I am that I can tell when my body’s EXTRA out of balance. Needing meds to live is terrible, cuz “let’s cut down your treatment and I bet it’ll be fine” is the disabled “just lose weight and all problems are solved!”

Have REJECT sketches?
This Rhenna sketch is a joke to myself. In the story, before she joins the cast (and in the penultimate arc, when she’s gone rogue) she would leave strips of her signature blue dress at inns, with a symbol painted on it letting Aaron know what name to use when asking, “I believe you have a package for me… *sigh* Mr. Smoochy Boi.” I was using a barely-dressed ref of a fox girl to attempt a Rhenna, and when I do I always draw the resulting character in extra clothes for justice. I wanted a result where Rhenna could be either fixing it or tearing off strips. And I focused so much on adding and playing with clothes I botched the anatomy in a thousand ways! Dammit. Some refs just don’t work for me. The green lead is in the pencil I have in my poorly-lit bedroom, with a less-than-perfect drawing space, resulting in very simple sketch of moping Natalia. (In this version, she’s a fluffy brown tabby type with long curly hair.)
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 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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What did humans ever do to you to deserve THIS, nature!

Wait, don’t answer that.

(Bonus pic of Little Stuff rising from slumber, shortly before she would ruin my day.)
Little Stuff, a dark gray shorthair cat, is in the process of standing up after napping on a cat tower. There are two more cat towers in the frame of the photo, showing how much I spoil my kitties. You can even see Lula - the only cat smaller than Little Stuff - standing atop one and trying to feel important back there! That spoiled brat would toss a cricket at me multiple times a little while later. (The cricket was soon thrown outside, before I realized I had to finish porch kitty duties on my porch in the dark, while I was barefoot. I avoided it, but now I’m imagining bugs crawling on my skin constantly! Argh!)
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM