Ivan Mulkeen
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Ivan Mulkeen
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Game Dev, Writer, Cat person, Tall, Social Justice Assassin.
(Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Thief, Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade)

#Bengals, #BlueJays, #Montreal
Then there's me... When I was small, white stripe of grandma's Nivea across my face, with, for some reason, an empty hot water bottle strapped to my chest. #PrinceCharming
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Lost this year -- the two prior were both 16 though, and died from expected age-related conditions; but I've been spoiled with cat karma and had them usually live into the early or mid 20s.

Below I've attached my eulogy to Kaylee, it's my favourite picture I ever took of her:
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We decided that our beautiful 9 year old sisters should be together, and we kept them that way, I just couldn't justify letting River starve to death and go into organ failure because the decision was going to be "hard".

I miss them both, more than I thought possible, and this makes 4 cats we've
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
To acknowledge she was ill. She kept doing her rituals, acting like nothing was wrong, even while the cancer consumed her from the inside. Her nose turned white (from pink), the insides of her ears were yellow, and she was skin and bones from tip to tail. She'd also stopped growing back fur.
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Her battle with Squamish cell carcinoma was horrific, brutal, and cruel, but we had 6 more months with her than we'd first expected, even if the last few were with her blissed out.

Her sister, River, lost her own battle -- but with lymphoma. The hardest part about her illness was that she refused
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
All the necrotizing skin came off, and it was clear that the opiates were the only thing keeping her half sanguine.

I swallowed my heart and my soul and we took her for a "quality of life" assessment at our Vet, but I knew full well what the answer was going to be.
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
But on Wednesday something changed -- either she had a stroke, or the cancer intruded and pushed against her optics nerves. She went blind, at least partially, and at least for a while, and then the cancerous wounds on her chin and jaw just hemorrhaged.
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What you need, when making a list of the most influential Gen X albums, is albums from when Gen X were in their formative teenage years, so 1978-1995.

So what I'm going to do is post 1 entry from the list at a time, and fill the list out as it grows.
April 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The list you'll typically get are albums from the 1965-1980 years that encompass Gen X, which isn't accurate at all, because for the majority of those years the list they'd give you would be while Gen X were infants or small children.
April 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM