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@fairydoctor420 it gets even better, if you get to The Whisperer in Darkness? The whole thing starts off with dramatic flash floods in Vermont/NH in 1928.

I thought that was an invention until I got this book about 2' gauge slate-hauling railroads in Maine. The thing the railroad never recovered from was there were massive flash floods in 1928 which washed away a lot of their bridges.

current mood; watching a clip of probably a shiba inu floating in space, on repeat, while playing Khachaturian's "Adagio" from "Gayaneh."

My dudes, even if I wanted complete strangers’ fucking political opinions while I’m trying to drink coffee and draw, I wouldn’t want them at that volume.

@topaz of course the cognitive distort really shows up if I counter all that with "maybe *I* want to feel I'm okay, and maybe *I* want to keep going and be happy, as reasons enough."

I am not one of the good furries, good Queers or good artists; I'm not from a good age group or a good minority group. I'm getting too old to have a cool sex life, a cool profession or even go to cool places and, somehow, despite all of this, I'm supposed to find myself worthy and keep pushing on.

Another weird thing to come out of reading this book of humorous essays - there’s a story- is wanting to hang out with actual wolves at some point. Since I really like cats, and cats are essentially adults rather than permanent wolf cubs like dogs, I wonder if I’d like whatever “dog but an adult” is.

Really feeling weepy and wishing I could hug a dog (who would probably enthusiastically try to climb my chest and muzzle fence me) or cat (who would probably be nonplussed). Any decision to delete my Bluesky is still up in the air.

The profound irony of a pro police sign, bemoaning, “what happened to our beautiful Seattle?” alongside Aurora

when I was a kid in semi rural Georgia, because I kinda pass as white and straight, people would say the awfullest, shittiest things in front of me about Blacks, Gays (remember we had no concept you could be Queer in any other way) and only very rarely Jews. I assume a brave kid would get them to shut the hell up by punching them. I was not that brave and kept my head down, but this is an experience I really REALLY hate.

@Yotenotes I think "shift more towards warm colors" would be a brilliant idea!

@cuddlemelon@mastodon.social Photos shared earlier.

@cuddlemelon@mastodon.social well should I repost mine?

@CoyoteTraveller Will try to remember. Hope it works out okay.

@frost yeah, that's someone legit either trying to hurt you or scare the hell out of you. I'm really sorry.

@frost Or y'all read as overtly queer, or they hate pedestrians in general or they were just pissed off or something.

@frost Really sorry this was that bad. The usual questions about how all of you are doing about food, water, going to the bathroom etc? as a reminder to do 'em, since that's easy to forget once really REALLY traumatized like that.

@frost imho hold off - that's not much info to go on, and dealing with police is a stress bomb of its own even when they're theoretically on your side.

@frost I'm sorry. Hope you have somewhere close to get away from the road completely and chill out some.

Okay, I finally lost my shit at one of my allies, I told them they did not understand Jewish identity at all and BLOCKED their rich honky ass.

@Oneironott read, acknowledged. I’m sorry today’s being this way.