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niqaeli torres, child of disaster
@niq.aeli.net
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herein you will find: a plexiglass 4th wall, whining, cats, fannishness, occasional intersectional social commentary. she/they. blocks for bad vibes and fuckshittery. 0.00000015% of a Hugo Award Winner.
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timeline cleanse courtesy Cinnamon the foster kitten
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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wait for it…
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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before you say to yourself “yes, I will foster kittens,” ask if you are at peace with your hands looking like this

this is actually really minor, btw, this is just from handling the current foster kittens to weigh and socialise them—it is much, MUCH worse with bottle babies, even cooperative ones!
the back of white person’s right hand, covered in a scattering of small, scabbed over scratches
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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this week has been absolutely fucking shit, but the baby fosters are fucking adorable
a pile of four kittens with an orange tabby at the bottom visibly being used as a pillow a closeup of four different coloured kittens curled up in a cuddle pile
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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also, also:

happy anniversary to meeee (and Spouse! but he's not on bsky so I can't tag him)

we cleaned up real good.
a man in a formal tux jacket is looking up in delight at and holding the hand of a woman sitting up on a boulder slightly above him and wearing a green and black renfaire outfit who is also smiling widely at the camera. the out-of-focus backdrop behind them is that of northern arizona trees in autumn.
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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it is glorious out here today at chez @jmtorres.bsky.social
a view of a wooden deck looking out onto a gloriously sunny yard in the san jacinto mountains a screenshot of iOS weather app for an area with the specific location blacked out. the current temp shown for saturday 10/18 is 68F, with the rest of the week predicted for 69F (nice), 70F, 70F, and 70F
October 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I met a very sweet, somewhat itchy girl at the humane society today, while waiting for Autumn’s cytology to be done!
a pit bull in a pink hoodie with very short hair
October 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I do not have dogs, but I do have tiny kittens?
a pile of kittens, all different colours
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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well, a few SOMEONES are interested in the noises it makes, lol
a grey tabby cat looking up very alert and intently, with a black cat in the background, and blurred and out of focus in the foreground a sparkly fidget toy
October 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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@mostlybree.kitrocha.com the galaxy glitter is just as gloriously, chaotically bisexual as I could have hoped!! and I am a little sad it’s not quiet enough when fidgeted with for me to use at work meetings, but it’s still an amazing fidget toy for other circumstances!!
a small glittery pink, blue, and purple 3d printed fidget toy made of linked rectangles that you can manipulate into various shapes held in a person’s left hand
October 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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#DragonAge #Veilguard
"And she calls herself *Taliesen*? We all know what a fool the old Arainai Grandmaster was; Caterina has hardly let any of us forget, given how *she* came to be Dellamorte's Grandmaster and First Talon both. The girl's accent is Tevene and I have heard no flaw in it, but I am certain she is our lost Arainai's pet."
October 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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#DCEAUoD
"I cannot believe you have never run across the concept of fandom. The AO3 was founded in 2009; you were, what, ten fucking years old? Was Oliver Queen baby-gating your internet until you turned eighteen?" "…thirteen," Roy says, drily. "I was thirteen in 2009, and my internet access problems in 2009 weren't Ollie's fault."
October 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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#DCEAUoD
"Lex is a big boy," Lois points out, gritting her teeth against the reflexive retort that she's not fucking responsible for what Lex might do in his grief and guilt, because—"*You* are not responsible for him, Bruce." Bruce just looks at her. "Did Lex ever tell you how we met?" he asks and Lois snorts.
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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#DragonAge #Veilguard
"The Divine is working on it through official channels, but you know what the Chantry's like," Adaar says and pauses to consider how young Rook seems to be, the vallaslin, and her accent—which is odd, but distinctly Tevene. "Actually, *do* you know what the Chantry is like?" she asks. "The one down here, not the Tevinter Chantry."
October 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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#DCEAUoD

Tim really has a miserable fucking time recovering from the Tower attack, and it was only about 5% Jason's fault for slitting his throat! (And he has never at any point held a grudge with Jason over the 5% that even is Jason's fault, lol.)
Tim grimly hauls himself out of his bed by the IV stand in order to disable the two fucking video pickups someone—Alfred, probably—had planted while he was asleep. It's a game of whack-a-mole he is deeply not enjoying and for possibly the first time in his life as Robin he really, really wishes his chosen family were a *little* less paranoid and invasive in their expressions of love and concern.
October 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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lookit them ears, they’re trying so hard to stand up!!
a smol grey tabby kitten with bald-open eyes and half-mast ears looking downwards
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I am home from work! Momma has not moved the kittens again while I was out, thank fuck.
a dark tortie with half of a four kitten pile nursing and half of it flopped around, staring at the camera with pupils the size of NICKELS, except she looks very sweet and not like a tweaker
September 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Chai has a cozy.
a tiny tortie kitten with still-closed eyes on her back, head pillowed against her brothers who are nursing. her belly is pudgy with milk, her little paws are tiiiiiny, and her cuteness is off the charts.
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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seriously, though. such a sweetheart. look at those EYES! those are at least 7/10 Victorian Waif eyes.
a dark tortie momma cat laying on her side with her kittens, accepting ear scritchies from the human whose hand is just visible as she looks directly at the camera; her yellow eyes are ENORMOUS anime nonsense.
September 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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our current foster is a momma and her four potats. momma Autumn is such a sweetheart! she hasn’t been defensive at all with us, even as she is doing a great job with the kittens keeping them fed and clean.
a dark tortie momma cat curled up in a cat tree house with her four kittens (orange, grey, black, and tortie)
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Nimbus helpfully demoed the intended purpose of it within thirty seconds of me placing it.
a light pine bookshelf that is stair stepped, in front of a window. there is a smol grey cat sittingon the middle “step”
September 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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mast cells! *jazzhands*
the spaceman gun meme, except the first spaceman is saying "You mean it's all just histamine" and the second spaceman "always has been" has a box of benadryl instead of a gun
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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376, and I am deeply amused that it’s that low because I sure as hell wasn’t involved with or close to the AO3 dev team, the way I was with Dreamwidth.
a cropped screenshot of the AO3, saying: My pseuds: niqaeli I joined on: 2009-11-13 My user ID is: 376
September 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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oh hey, I found a screenshot of the map in Discord! this is well before I found the Edge of the World on , but... yeah, lol.
a map of Emprise du lion, except we have gone far past the usual edges of it.
September 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I AM SUCCESS
September 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM