Congratulations on your kitten! A few (a lot) bits of advice from someone who raised 4 kittens:

Watch your step. It's very easy to accidentally squish them. My kitten used to hide in a pillowcase and she was so small that you wouldn't even notice. Pat down everything before you sit.

Kittens are small enough to hide in EVERYTHING. I thought two of mine were lost. They were just sleeping under a closet.

Kittens usually will try to escape the room as soon as possible. Be careful when opening doors so they don't get out.

Cats will meow a lot to get your attention so you'll open the door.

Don't run around them. They get scared.

Cats will try their best to get food. They will break dishes to get anything with dairy (they push them off the counter). They can open pizza boxes, take off covers. I wish I was joking. They also love to claw open flour bags and dump flour everywhere. Keep your food somewhere they can't open.

Cats love plants. Keep them out of reach or your cat will eat them.

Cats will eat everything. I mean everything. Do not leave food out.

Do not let the kitten get somewhere high. They can get up. But getting down is another story. (usually this is rectified once the cat gets older).

There is a very high chance the cat will sleep on you if you go to sleep.

Cats CAN open doors. Kittens can't, but older cats can.

Cats think strings are toys. Which means if you wear those pants with strings at the waist to tighten them they will attack you

Cats like to eat hair for some reason.

They will try to drink out of the toilet.

Some cats like to knead you. It's painful bc they use claws. Wear thick pants if they're on you.

It is VERY hard to pick up a sleeping kitten when they're on you. Even if you need to go somewhere.

Thank you!! :D

I kinda hate the term "trauma dumping" because it always makes me feel guilty for just talking about my life and feel like I should be avoiding or lying about stuff that happened to me but like. When you have a life largely shaped by big traumatic events how are you even supposed to talk about yourself at all without talking about that

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tfw for some reason you find an immense amount of comfort in simply being near someone

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more alive shannon today! I wanted to have some Buck finally, and Shannon and Buck meeting, but I didn't have time to write everything I wanted today lol so next time, hopefully haha

for now here's a bit of Shannon and Eddie talking <3 it's literally just written and not exactly what I had in mind but that's what editing is for haha

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“Do you think we can ever go back to how it was before? Honestly?” he asks, sounding so small and vulnerable, still not looking up. Her heart breaks for what feels like a millionth time just this week.

“Honestly? I’m skeptical.” she admits, and he just nods, as if he suspected that answer, as if he agrees. She knows him, though, she knows that even if he does, he doesn’t want to agree. He’s a fighter, and if it was just up to him, he’d fight to hell to save the crumbling remnants of what’s left of this relationship. She just wants to spare them both pain, not convinced he’d manage, not even with his infuriating stubbornness. Then she adds, a hint of amusement lacing her words: “But hey, maybe in some alternate universe, where nothing ever got screwed up, we’re living happily ever after with a bunch of kids?” she chuckles softly. Eddie finally looks up, his eyes still so warm and inviting, even after everything. “We’re still in Texas, close to your family, who maybe don't hate me.” she adds with a wistful smile. Eddie opens his mouth to protest, and she just rolls her eyes. “Eddie, come on, I know they despise me. At least your parents do. It’s- it’s fine, at this point.” she sighs. “But just maybe, in some other universe, it all works out.” She likes that thought. Even if it’s not realistic, just the thought that some version of her out there somewhere is as happy as she could be, as happy as she thought she’d be – that she got what this Shannon wanted a long time ago – it’s almost a comforting thought.

“Alternate universes.” Eddie just scoffs, shaking his head, leaning back against the armchair, finally relaxing a bit, tension easing out of his shoulders. “You’d get along with Buck.” he says quietly, almost a murmur, tone amused. Shannon’s lips shift into a grin. Perfect opening.

“Speaking of, when am I gonna meet him?”

“Uh, didn’t you? I’m sure you did.” he frowns, licking his lips nervously. Shan tilts her head curiously. 

“I mean, I saw him. In pictures and when I came to the station.” she clears her throat, feeling embarrassed for causing a scene at his place of work. “But I haven’t met him.”

“Uh, do you want to?”

“Obviously.” Shannon chuckles incredulously. “The way Christopher talks about him, he must be pretty special.” she smiles softly.

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James got Jamie drunk and got him raped. He forced Jamie to have sex with an adult when Jamie was (and probably the day he turned) 14. James has been beating Jamie for years. James has been abusing Jamie mentally as well, being the cause of Jamie's depression, self-consciousness and many other issues. James has probably been beating up Georgie, too, until she had the means to get out.

There's a huge difference between recognizing your bad behavior (being a jerk and a bully for funsies—which isn't great, too, but it's redeemable, especially since Jamie was basically abused into this behavior) and changing for the better and throwing an abused kid back into his abuser's arms that gave him such severe PTSD that some encounters give him very painful flashbacks. He doesn't even remember his first sexual encounter bc it was so bad that he blocked it out, but he for sure will be triggered again if something like the auction in s1 happens again. Jamie was raped, and by an adult at that, when he was just a teen.

Even if James changes for the better in the future, he already ruined Jamie's life in the ways that Jamie will never be able to fix. Never, no matter how hard he tries and works on himself and goes to therapy. It's the horror that will always stay with him. It's the things that will haunt him in nightmares on his worst days and stop him from falling back asleep.

It doesn't matter if James becomes dad of the year (unironically) and finds a wife that he'll genuinely love and cherish and never show any toxic behavior for the rest of his life (which probably won't happen, I can almost guarantee you that). He will always be a wife beater and child abuser. So when you go on a rant about protecting James and how he's only human, at least remember and admit what he did.

Jamie deserves BETTER and I'll stay on this hill. 'It's been a while'? It should stay that way. Ted never should have told him to forgive him and Jamie should have never reached out to his abuser, let alone visit him in rehab and act like it's all fine and at least 21 years of the abuse didn't happen.

Because it absolutely did.

y'all.......somebody straight up attempted to grab and abduct me this evening on my walk back from the library. I've never experienced fear like that before?? the way he approached me and lunged and grabbed me and tried to put his hand over my mouth keeps repeating in my brain. And I'm so mad that this happened like a block away from my apartment so now I'm going to be paranoid every time I walk outside!! Cops came and calmed me down and made the report and everything and I hope they get him before he's actually successful in what I'm pretty sure he was trying to do. This is legit the only time in my life I've been happy I'm fat (not to mention I strength train at the gym 3 times a week) because that motherfucker was NOT expecting to be shoved off that hard, and I doubt he was big or strong enough to get a really good grip on me. god I'm just so fucking relieved my life didn't turn into an episode of Dateline tonight

why is everything (showing other people respect. being patient and kind. not flying off the handle about stupid things. emotional regulation and self-control. et cetera.) so easy when I'm not around my parents and so so so so hard when I AM around them?

imagine if they eventually show shauna's mother after people making up headcanons for years where they already decided her name and her being a nurse and treating jackie like a second daughter and then she comes on screen and she's a bitch

richard's relationship with money is so interesting to me despite/because of how vague and nonspecific it is in canon. which only makes sense because the show isn't interested in richard's backstory at ALL and, it being an audio medium, it can't exactly give many context clues like wardrobe/style or what his apartment/house looks like. but it's like......... he doesn't have interests, he dabbles in money-making activities. i am practically forced to assume that his mention of being good at pool also = a side hustle. his estranged dad up and left him a house and a paid ride to college. at this point he's way better off than he's ever been -- after 18 years of living with two separate conmen and a mother who doesn't care about him in mediocre apartments, he's suddenly on his own with his future out in front of him, and....... he STILL takes very risky grade-changing jobs for money? like he bypasses getting a regular college job and goes straight to petty crime? and apparently "far worse" crimes??? it's such an interesting balance between craving the security of Having Money and being pathologically unable to get it in a "normal" "safe" way. he doesn't even do anything with it in canon, he just GETS it. he isn't even buying lucy's drinks himself!!!! obviously even richard has bills to pay (which is. very funny to me. sorry that i think 19-year-old college era richard is the funniest person to ever exist, gremlin who's only ever lived in an apartment with his mother, sister, and mother's rotating cast of boyfriends, suddenly has a whole ass house dumped in his lap on his 18th birthday in exchange for his whole ass father's wholesale abandonment of him, has to figure out how to pay utility bills on his own, maybe thinks about getting a barista job or whatever kids did in the 80s, record shop clerk job?? and then nopes past it and picks "exploiting a child genius" as a career path instead. what a fucking legend. i also think he murdered people for money a couple times but that's just me) sorry i've lost the plot of this post thinking about campbell county community college computers richard. imagine being the people at the 5 Cs in charge of hiring STUDENT COUNSELORS and seeing richard maxwell strut into his interview and thinking "yes this 18-year-old suspiciously home-owning kid who talks like a john hughes movie antagonist and is currently his kid sister's very much illegal guardian is the perfect fit for our emotionally and socially fragile 11-year-old resident genius. what could go wrong" and then they have to pay for nicholas adamsworth's therapy sessions for the next 5 years because richard maxwell was what could go wrong. fuck. "waylaid in the windy city" maybe be my personal favorite richard but pre- and mid-"eugene's dilemma" richard is definitely the weirdest and funniest

maooo

Happy STS Elli!

What inspires you to write? Are there things that you know that you can get inspiration from or does it just come randomly?

Happy STS!

For me, inspiration doesn't mean "to write".

There are, and always have been, a lot of stories floating around in my mind - ideas, scenes, vibes, outlines. I get inspiration from literally everywhere, from talking to my friends, and video games, and scrolling past images or prompts, and reading books, and spending too much time on reddit, and…

Many remain daydreams, or character backstories, eventually lost to time.

Now for actually being able to sit my ass down and get words on the page? I don't know. It comes and goes as it pleases. Having a beehive where a brain should be does NOT help, let me tell you that.

I just. Can't focus on shit lately. Can barely make it through a chapter when reading. Every day is just suddenly over, and I got nothing done, and I am so tired. I have a completely outlined short thing I have been trying to write since Nov, and it's like pulling teeth.

I could do with several months off work while everyone leaves me the fuck alone. How would that be.

It continues to give me the warm fuzzies that basically every person at work has said they'll miss me. And it's not really utility, even if I'm useful; I am not in a critical position. There are many people who can do the things I do, even if the majority are less experienced. I'm not management, or a lynchpin, just a long-time worker bee.

But people like me, and I just handled a Crisis Situation well enough that the AD took the time to personally thank me, and my manager was like 'not only am I willing to be a reference you can use my personal phone number if that's easier' and even some of the newest additions said they're going to miss me on desk, and I just.

I love my job and my coworkers and it's really nice that the people there know it and love me back.

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Was so proud of myself yesterday because I didn't have a panic attack for the first day in easily a month to immediately have one as soon as I got back to the place today... When will this end?

not me and my manager trauma bonding over mommy issues 💀💕 i love her aksksk oof i had to go smoke and Think after this one

i love when our one on ones are basically like lol i don't have much 2 talk about this wk and we get like 40m to hang n talk after getting work stuff out the way. she is such a sweetie and so fun (❁´◡`❁)