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第四年第三百三十九天
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guardian_learning部首
弋 yì
式, type/style (pinyin in tags)
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=56
词汇
标志, sign (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/
Guardian:
这也是我们守护大家的一种方式, this is another way we protect everyone
[no 标志]
Me:
她穿中式衣服的时候很漂亮。
你看得清楚那条标志吗？
弋 yì
式, type/style (pinyin in tags)
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=56
词汇
标志, sign (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/
Guardian:
这也是我们守护大家的一种方式, this is another way we protect everyone
[no 标志]
Me:
她穿中式衣服的时候很漂亮。
你看得清楚那条标志吗？
22 Sneaky Pictures of Big-Eared Feline Detectives Eavesdropping on All the Drama
Dec. 13th, 2025 03:00 pmicanhascheezburger_feedCats with big ears always look like they're eavesdropping on every conversation in the house, whether they're invited to it or not. One quiet whisper and those oversized little radars snap to attention like they've just uncovered top-tier gossip. These pointy-eared detectives act like they're monitoring every sound, storing tiny secrets for later… probably so they can give us that classic judgmental stare.
They'll sit across the room pretending to mind their own business, but those ears tell the real story. A single snack wrapper crinkle? Detected instantly. Mention the vet in a whisper softer than a sigh? They heard it, processed it, and are already planning their escape route. Even half-asleep, they somehow stay tuned in, collecting household intel like tiny undercover operatives with fluffier credentials than any spy should have.
These big-eared eavesdroppers aren't just cute. They bring so much purrsonality to every room, adding comedy to even the quietest moments. Whether they're listening for juicy secrets, snack opportunities, or simply keeping tabs on their hoomans, they always seem one step ahead.
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Dec. 13th, 2025 11:49 pmbeccaelizabethI am not a fan of december.
... three tries at the next sentence later I kind of wind up back at 'the dark bit always sucks and it's kind of unsatisfying when feels are fundamentally about the sky orb'.
This too shall pass.
I have been reading fanfic but already I have read all the ones from this new to me throuple and am going again with the filters off, so that's working about as well as it usually does.
There must be really teensy tiny amounts of canon though, none of these resemble the others except for the ending.
Unrelated to the throuple, I keep thinking up plot bunnies that are just the grand confrontation parts, and then not wanting to think up how the confrontation ends up happening. Like obviously it was all a big misunderstanding and the Star gets to be Epic and Misunderstood and then Everyone Says Sorry!
Which is a grand daydream but not a story I let see the light of day.
Got to have some sort of core disagreement
or
got to write a sportslike.
I mean there's no reason not to posit that magic users do duels on the regular, and being really good at duels could be so satisfying, but, I do not read stories like that, I read stories with big epic demon fights etc.
I do have an idea about The Magic Went Away But We Can Bring It Back. Only it keeps veering about not deciding which particular verse it is in or if I need to remix them all.
Also if magic was real here then I think here would end up looking like Golarion. I think Golarion from Pathfinder is a logical end point of it being impossible to take away people's Weapons of Mass Destruction. People there can get upset and just do a Plague Storm and make it everyone's problem. Magic can get fouled up so thoroughly you end up with Mana Wastes. Crashed sky cities can make for problems thousands of years later. That all seems perfectly logical if magic.
So what's the actual up side?
A lot of stories don't want magic, they want to be *the ones with* magic. Like, as soon as the other guy can do the exact same things, that's Hard mode and distinctly less fun. People spend more time dreaming of fireballs than resist or protect from energy spells.
Also the protection spells fail when it is drama, and then there is waking up in hospital, because stakes.
There are so many more stories with magic injuries than magic healing, that I have seen.
Making there be stakes even when there is magic healing seems pretty simples, since it's all the things that do not involve hospital, which is most days.
But then I end up reading a bunch of stories in a row about how magic user abusive relationships can go that wrong, and I'm stuck between, well that is a lot of no fun, and, well if they used the same abilities on each other that we've seen against the bad guys, that is so very not dark enough yet.
Tricky, making something interesting to read once it can go horror story from a standing start.
Memory spells and tracking spells alone make nightmare fuel.
Okay, I shall go think of something else to do.
... three tries at the next sentence later I kind of wind up back at 'the dark bit always sucks and it's kind of unsatisfying when feels are fundamentally about the sky orb'.
This too shall pass.
I have been reading fanfic but already I have read all the ones from this new to me throuple and am going again with the filters off, so that's working about as well as it usually does.
There must be really teensy tiny amounts of canon though, none of these resemble the others except for the ending.
Unrelated to the throuple, I keep thinking up plot bunnies that are just the grand confrontation parts, and then not wanting to think up how the confrontation ends up happening. Like obviously it was all a big misunderstanding and the Star gets to be Epic and Misunderstood and then Everyone Says Sorry!
Which is a grand daydream but not a story I let see the light of day.
Got to have some sort of core disagreement
or
got to write a sportslike.
I mean there's no reason not to posit that magic users do duels on the regular, and being really good at duels could be so satisfying, but, I do not read stories like that, I read stories with big epic demon fights etc.
I do have an idea about The Magic Went Away But We Can Bring It Back. Only it keeps veering about not deciding which particular verse it is in or if I need to remix them all.
Also if magic was real here then I think here would end up looking like Golarion. I think Golarion from Pathfinder is a logical end point of it being impossible to take away people's Weapons of Mass Destruction. People there can get upset and just do a Plague Storm and make it everyone's problem. Magic can get fouled up so thoroughly you end up with Mana Wastes. Crashed sky cities can make for problems thousands of years later. That all seems perfectly logical if magic.
So what's the actual up side?
A lot of stories don't want magic, they want to be *the ones with* magic. Like, as soon as the other guy can do the exact same things, that's Hard mode and distinctly less fun. People spend more time dreaming of fireballs than resist or protect from energy spells.
Also the protection spells fail when it is drama, and then there is waking up in hospital, because stakes.
There are so many more stories with magic injuries than magic healing, that I have seen.
Making there be stakes even when there is magic healing seems pretty simples, since it's all the things that do not involve hospital, which is most days.
But then I end up reading a bunch of stories in a row about how magic user abusive relationships can go that wrong, and I'm stuck between, well that is a lot of no fun, and, well if they used the same abilities on each other that we've seen against the bad guys, that is so very not dark enough yet.
Tricky, making something interesting to read once it can go horror story from a standing start.
Memory spells and tracking spells alone make nightmare fuel.
Okay, I shall go think of something else to do.
Daily Check In.
Dec. 13th, 2025 06:00 pmadafrog posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Poll #33953 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 1
How are you doing?
I am okay
1 (100.0%)
I am not okay, but don't need help right now
0 (0.0%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans are you living with?
I am living single
0 (0.0%)
One other person
0 (0.0%)
More than one other person
1 (100.0%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Farmer's Market -- 13 December 2025 (Reed Plant Day, 23rd of Frost, Year 234)
Dec. 13th, 2025 01:10 pmneotomaThick-slice bacon, a dozen eggs, bacon-gruyere wheel, spinach pastry, lemon tart, rosemary pull-apart rolls, gingerdoodle cookies, a quart of chicken & dumpling soup, a quart of pickled red onions, cranberry chevre, farmhouse goat cheese, apple cider, apples (Nittany, Braeburn, Stayman), shallots, red onions, garlic heads, white turnips, grilled spiced olives, Greek country mixed olives, and a pound of black beans.
I talked briefly with an elderly woman who had just moved into the area and was attending the market for the first time -- she was trying to find organic apples. I don't think you can really grow apples here as a market farm organically. There are just too many critters that love to chomp on apples here, but I hope she finds something she is willing to buy.
I plan to make another apple-shallot pie tomorrow; I'll be working extra to get ready for the quarterly report at work, but I am also likely to be snowed in, since the forecast is snow, 1 to 5 inches.
My fridge failed Monday and it took the housing office until Wednesday (2 maintenance requests, 2 follow up phone calls, and 1 email to the property mananger cc'd to the county councilor's aide for housing issues) to get it replace. I had to throw out everything but hard cheese and vinegar-based condiments, so I shopped a little more aggressively than usual this week.
I talked briefly with an elderly woman who had just moved into the area and was attending the market for the first time -- she was trying to find organic apples. I don't think you can really grow apples here as a market farm organically. There are just too many critters that love to chomp on apples here, but I hope she finds something she is willing to buy.
I plan to make another apple-shallot pie tomorrow; I'll be working extra to get ready for the quarterly report at work, but I am also likely to be snowed in, since the forecast is snow, 1 to 5 inches.
My fridge failed Monday and it took the housing office until Wednesday (2 maintenance requests, 2 follow up phone calls, and 1 email to the property mananger cc'd to the county councilor's aide for housing issues) to get it replace. I had to throw out everything but hard cheese and vinegar-based condiments, so I shopped a little more aggressively than usual this week.
icanhascheezburger_feedCats are the most confusing creatures. The man in this story sees a cat in a tree outside his apartment complex. He's the only one who can approach the cat without her getting scared. Over a week's time, he gains more and more trust from the cat, and even offers her some bologna. She's skeptical, but she follows him into his home. That very night, she's already sleeping on his head, and he's given her the name Amity. Saving cats is basically a Christmas miracle, and this hooman seemed to have worked very hard for Amity.
It's not everyday that someone really goes out of their way with lots of effort to save a cat. We're all familiar with the "cat stuck in the tree" trope, where a fireman has to come in and save the poor thing. But this man isn't even a fireman! No ladder, no uniform, just himself and his kind soul. He lured her in over time. If only men treated women like this in dating. Enjoy the story below, where a man saves a cat from a tree, and the internet applauds his bravery, persistence, and efforts.
26 Cat Memes to Pawnder Over Instead of Wrapping Presents
Dec. 13th, 2025 01:00 pmicanhascheezburger_feedThe holidays are officially creeping up, and with them comes the annual ritual of pretending we're good at wrapping presents. It's never just about finding the purrfect gift — you also have to buy paper, tape, bows, tags, and then somehow perform delicate origami on a cardboard box while the person you're gifting it to waits to tear it apart in under three seconds.
Wrapping feels like a scam. A festive, glitter-covered scam.
Gift bags seem like an easier option, but those come with their own curse. Once someone hands you a bag, you're legally required to store it for the rest of your natural life. You can't throw it away, because what if you need it one day? So now you're hoarding 47 bags in a closet that definitely was not designed for that purpose.
Or, hear me out, you could outsource the whole situation to your cat.
Fic for BendingTheWillow: Bedside Manner
Dec. 13th, 2025 06:29 pmholmesticemods posting in holmesticeTitle: Bedside Manner
Recipient: BendingTheWillow
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/&Watson - intentionally left vague. :)
Rating: T
Warnings: mild descriptions of injury
Summary: "The Illustrious Client" missing scene fic. On a cold morning in September, John Watson tends to a restless patient.
Read on AO3: Bedside Manner
Recipient: BendingTheWillow
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/&Watson - intentionally left vague. :)
Rating: T
Warnings: mild descriptions of injury
Summary: "The Illustrious Client" missing scene fic. On a cold morning in September, John Watson tends to a restless patient.
Read on AO3: Bedside Manner
25 in 2025: 4th quarter part 2
Dec. 13th, 2025 06:01 pmstonepicnicking_okapi1. learn to hem pants
2. go to a new grocery store
3. attend a jhope concert in Brooklyn
4. make an essential oil spray
5. submit an application for a job
6. interview for a job
7. participate in a fic exchange
8. read a manga
9. go to Costco
10. work!
11. eat at a new restaurant
12. explore a trail at a new state park
13. try a new craft
14. play new board games
15. try new recipe
16. play a sport
17. accept a new client
18. try a new bathroom appliance
19. go to someone's house for dinner
20. try a new fruit
21. attend a puzzle swap
22. use a cricut
I thought I was going to default on this (I still may) but I am trying. Thank goodness for libraries. I went to two different events at two different libraries. First, a puzzle swap which was HUGE and second, a class for making a holiday garland using a cricut, a machine I had known about from the aisle at Michael's but never really known what it was.
2. go to a new grocery store
3. attend a jhope concert in Brooklyn
4. make an essential oil spray
5. submit an application for a job
6. interview for a job
7. participate in a fic exchange
8. read a manga
9. go to Costco
10. work!
11. eat at a new restaurant
12. explore a trail at a new state park
13. try a new craft
14. play new board games
15. try new recipe
16. play a sport
17. accept a new client
18. try a new bathroom appliance
19. go to someone's house for dinner
20. try a new fruit
21. attend a puzzle swap
22. use a cricut
I thought I was going to default on this (I still may) but I am trying. Thank goodness for libraries. I went to two different events at two different libraries. First, a puzzle swap which was HUGE and second, a class for making a holiday garland using a cricut, a machine I had known about from the aisle at Michael's but never really known what it was.
full_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Green Hornet (1960’s and 2011 versions), Batman (1960’s), Al Hirt (musician), Bruce Lee
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Britt Reid | Green Hornet, Kato, Bruce Wayne | Batman, Dick Grayson | Robin, cameo by Beatrix Kiddo | The Bride (Kill Bill), Black Beauty is practically a character, right?
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3:03
Content Notes: Rapid flickering image shifts; earworm hazard.
Creator Links: (Instagram)![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
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Dorodigital
Theme: Amnesty, Crossovers & Fusions, FANCAKE IS FIFTEEN, Fandom Classics, Fanvids, Older Fandoms, Underloved Works
Summary: What started out as an attempt to learn flight of the bumble bee on the trumpet evolved into a fascination with the green hornet theme song. Although the show featured one of my favorite Martial Artist ..Bruce lee..the main attraction for me was the frentic trumpet solo performed by another hero of mine Mr. Al hirt. This song was also used in the motor cycle scene in kill bill. I was delighted to learn that they were making a movie version in 2011 starring Seth Rogen and Jay Chou..Alas there could be only one Bruce lee as well as one Al hirt. However I decided to perform this cover in tribute to Al and Bruce...Enjoy
Reccer's Notes: Two great tastes that taste great together: against a montage of thrilling stunts and snappy dialogue, trumpeter Ricardo Dowridge multiplies himself into an orchestra to celebrate his musical and martial heroes.
Fanwork Links:
One Man’s Green Hornet.mpg, by Ricardo Dowridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8UVF7tkdRw
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Britt Reid | Green Hornet, Kato, Bruce Wayne | Batman, Dick Grayson | Robin, cameo by Beatrix Kiddo | The Bride (Kill Bill), Black Beauty is practically a character, right?
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3:03
Content Notes: Rapid flickering image shifts; earworm hazard.
Creator Links: (Instagram)
Dorodigital; (YouTube) Theme: Amnesty, Crossovers & Fusions, FANCAKE IS FIFTEEN, Fandom Classics, Fanvids, Older Fandoms, Underloved Works
Summary: What started out as an attempt to learn flight of the bumble bee on the trumpet evolved into a fascination with the green hornet theme song. Although the show featured one of my favorite Martial Artist ..Bruce lee..the main attraction for me was the frentic trumpet solo performed by another hero of mine Mr. Al hirt. This song was also used in the motor cycle scene in kill bill. I was delighted to learn that they were making a movie version in 2011 starring Seth Rogen and Jay Chou..Alas there could be only one Bruce lee as well as one Al hirt. However I decided to perform this cover in tribute to Al and Bruce...Enjoy
Reccer's Notes: Two great tastes that taste great together: against a montage of thrilling stunts and snappy dialogue, trumpeter Ricardo Dowridge multiplies himself into an orchestra to celebrate his musical and martial heroes.
Fanwork Links:
One Man’s Green Hornet.mpg, by Ricardo Dowridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8UVF7tkdRw
Books: Murderbot, Shadow of the Leviathan
Dec. 13th, 2025 02:37 pmsnickficAll Systems Red (2017) by Martha Wells. A humanoid cyborg created to do wet work jobs finds itself giving a shit about a human research team it's supposed to be protecting on an alien planet.
I can see why people love Murderbot itself; it's a big old angst bucket desperately trying to pretend it isn't one. I've seen people characterize this type as an iron woobie, and it's fandom catnip.
However, I did not connect with any other part of this novella. It's so damn insubstantial. There are other characters, but they're mostly indistinguishable. There's a strong whiff of claustrophobic found family that made me DNF the one Becky Chambers book I tried, with the same element of "the one character who doesn't buy in without question is treated as an antagonist." There's some worldbuilding, but extremely thinly drawn. The prose is conversational, which can work great in a lot of cases but here just feels like one more missed opportunity to give me anything I might be interested in.
I've read a lot of pro SFF novellas over the years, and I genuinely can't think of one that felt less deserving of its length than this one. You can pack a lot of thoughts and ideas into a novella! But this didn't even try. If it'd been a third of the wordcount, I probably would have liked it pretty well.
I've heard the second and third in the series are the best, and I might try them at some point, but tbh I think I'd have better luck with the show, which at least has real actors to lend some weight and complexity to the characters.
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The Tainted Cup (2024) and A Drop of Corruption (2025) by Robert Jackson Bennett. The first two books of his Shadow of the Leviathan series, a Sherlock and Holmes riff (or possibly a Nero Wolfe and Archie riff) about an idiosyncratic middle-aged(?) female savant and her long-suffering young gay assistant solving murders in a fantasy world where basically all technology is organic in some way.
These were great fun. Bennett seems really into both cosmic horror (the "leviathans" of the series are mountain-sized monsters that crawl out of the sea and wreak havoc every wet season) and body horror (more terrible plant-related things happening to bodies than you can shake a stick at). Even when this world is running the way everyone wants, it's still so damn weird (complimentary). Augmentations that turn your skin purple and gray! Immortality treatments that stop aging and cause you to just grow forever, like an iguana! The augurs in the second book who pattern-match to such a degree that they can't handle spoken communication: A++, and they reminded me a bit of parts of Anathem.
Ana Dolabra, the foul-mouthed savant detective is far and away the best part. Her assistant Din Kol, from whose perspective the stories are written, is a real sad sack, both due to circumstances and apparently innate temperament, and sometimes that can be a bit of a drag. I also felt like his renewal of purpose in A Drop of Corruption came way too easily; it almost felt like it happened off screen.
Overall, though, these are just a great time. It sounds like Bennett is on a roll, and I can't wait for the next one.
I can see why people love Murderbot itself; it's a big old angst bucket desperately trying to pretend it isn't one. I've seen people characterize this type as an iron woobie, and it's fandom catnip.
However, I did not connect with any other part of this novella. It's so damn insubstantial. There are other characters, but they're mostly indistinguishable. There's a strong whiff of claustrophobic found family that made me DNF the one Becky Chambers book I tried, with the same element of "the one character who doesn't buy in without question is treated as an antagonist." There's some worldbuilding, but extremely thinly drawn. The prose is conversational, which can work great in a lot of cases but here just feels like one more missed opportunity to give me anything I might be interested in.
I've read a lot of pro SFF novellas over the years, and I genuinely can't think of one that felt less deserving of its length than this one. You can pack a lot of thoughts and ideas into a novella! But this didn't even try. If it'd been a third of the wordcount, I probably would have liked it pretty well.
I've heard the second and third in the series are the best, and I might try them at some point, but tbh I think I'd have better luck with the show, which at least has real actors to lend some weight and complexity to the characters.
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The Tainted Cup (2024) and A Drop of Corruption (2025) by Robert Jackson Bennett. The first two books of his Shadow of the Leviathan series, a Sherlock and Holmes riff (or possibly a Nero Wolfe and Archie riff) about an idiosyncratic middle-aged(?) female savant and her long-suffering young gay assistant solving murders in a fantasy world where basically all technology is organic in some way.
These were great fun. Bennett seems really into both cosmic horror (the "leviathans" of the series are mountain-sized monsters that crawl out of the sea and wreak havoc every wet season) and body horror (more terrible plant-related things happening to bodies than you can shake a stick at). Even when this world is running the way everyone wants, it's still so damn weird (complimentary). Augmentations that turn your skin purple and gray! Immortality treatments that stop aging and cause you to just grow forever, like an iguana! The augurs in the second book who pattern-match to such a degree that they can't handle spoken communication: A++, and they reminded me a bit of parts of Anathem.
Ana Dolabra, the foul-mouthed savant detective is far and away the best part. Her assistant Din Kol, from whose perspective the stories are written, is a real sad sack, both due to circumstances and apparently innate temperament, and sometimes that can be a bit of a drag. I also felt like his renewal of purpose in A Drop of Corruption came way too easily; it almost felt like it happened off screen.
Overall, though, these are just a great time. It sounds like Bennett is on a roll, and I can't wait for the next one.
So, over at /r/Englishlearning there is a weekly "What is this thing" post
Dec. 14th, 2025 01:33 pmconulyThe goal is to herd all the "What do you call this?" posts into the comments there. It never ever works. However, they do occasionally get comments like "Here are the answers to the questions you asked rhetorically as an example" and "Why do you keep posting this and asking the same questions" and "There is no such thing as a pork burger".
Yes, Virginia, there is a pork burger. This is why I have a picture of pork burger patties on my phone, so I can post it every time somebody says that those don't exist, or that they "really" mean a breakfast sandwich or a pulled pork sandwich or a ham sandwich or a BLT.
I always want to ask these people who, I guess, don't get out much why they're so sure that anything they haven't personally heard of before must not exist. It's a big old world, but apparently, not so much for them.
(I suppose I can be forgiven for being a bit snippy this time around, I mean, given everything.)
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Yes, Virginia, there is a pork burger. This is why I have a picture of pork burger patties on my phone, so I can post it every time somebody says that those don't exist, or that they "really" mean a breakfast sandwich or a pulled pork sandwich or a ham sandwich or a BLT.
I always want to ask these people who, I guess, don't get out much why they're so sure that anything they haven't personally heard of before must not exist. It's a big old world, but apparently, not so much for them.
(I suppose I can be forgiven for being a bit snippy this time around, I mean, given everything.)
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Dec. 13th, 2025 10:43 pmgoodbyebirdRec-cember Day 13
Star Trek (2009 movie)
Lunch and Other Obscenities by
When Starfleet Academy's Housing and Accommodation Officer—whose name, according to the sign next to her door, was Diane Maza—arrived at her office the next morning, Nyota was already there, waiting.
"My roommate's a sex-crazed exhibitionist with a food phobia," Nyota told her. "You have got to reassign me."
Maza didn't react. She regarded Nyota for a moment with a coolly appraising gaze that seemed designed to silently communicate that she hadn't just seen everything, she'd seen everything plus some other shit as well, and therefore any attempt to shock a reaction out of her was doomed at the outset.
icanhascheezburger_feedAs all of you cat lovers and owners know, when a cat chooses you there is little you can do about. You have been chosen and so you will keep quiet and let the cat do whatever it wants to and needs to do. Whether that means demanding higher quality food, or demanding to come and live with you even though your wife has a severe allergy to cats. You have no power in the situation and it is upon you to appease the cat, not the other way around. Which is pretty much what happened to one man late one evening when he happened upon a cat who looked to be in not the best shape.
The cat had chosen him and his patio to seek refuge in, and within moments of meeting each other, the feline had coerced the man into bringing him a makeshift home for the night which would, of course, be upgraded the following morning. It is a true story of feline devotion and one that is to be admired and taken as an example of exemplary hooman behavior towards a cat.
28 Cat Pawrent Posts Publicly Naming Their Fur Baby’s Crimes Against the Household
Dec. 13th, 2025 11:00 amicanhascheezburger_feedCats are all too well known for their crimes against, well, everyone and everything. And there is little doubt in our minds that if one day hoomans cease to exist on this planet, the cats will initiate a hostile takeover within mere minutes of realizing that we are all gone. But until then, we are left with a species that lives alongside us but is adamant that they deserve to live above us. Resulting in them being casual menaces who are more than happy to regularly commit certain crimes in the name of getting back at us.
And today we have collected a series of these transgressions as posted by the pawrents of these cat children, who are the victims of their clawminal acts. So sit back, keep a keen eye out for any feline miscreants who might be looking over your shoulder in an attempt to pick up some tips and tricks, and dive in.
Life with two children: Renting realms
Dec. 13th, 2025 08:46 pmandrewduckerAbout a month ago Gideon watched a bunch of videos about Minecraft, asked if he could play it on her tablet, got a few pointers from me to get him going and then dove in and started building stuff. At an impressive rate considering that he can't read any word more than 4 letters long.
Yesterday I mentioned Minecraft to Sophia, and she showed interest, so I set her up on my desktop and she got stuck in. She's asked for more help than Gideon has, but has been happily building herself an underground house. And just now I wanderd into my office to see her on the desktop and Gideon sitting on the floor with his tablet, with the two of them intermittently showing each other cool things that they'd found.
So tonight, after they're asleep, I'm going to set them both up for online play, and rent a realm*, so that they can be in the same world with each other.
*I am totally willing to pay £3.99 per month to not have to maintain my own server.
Yesterday I mentioned Minecraft to Sophia, and she showed interest, so I set her up on my desktop and she got stuck in. She's asked for more help than Gideon has, but has been happily building herself an underground house. And just now I wanderd into my office to see her on the desktop and Gideon sitting on the floor with his tablet, with the two of them intermittently showing each other cool things that they'd found.
So tonight, after they're asleep, I'm going to set them both up for online play, and rent a realm*, so that they can be in the same world with each other.
*I am totally willing to pay £3.99 per month to not have to maintain my own server.
