Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Austin_Dern @MadestMadness

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god dammit and our dealer is supposedly finally gonna come through for us tonight -- i'm gonna have to get high in a different room, last thing the newbs need is smoke or chemical exposure right now...

luckily our neighbors don't give a shit and it's warm out so "hitting the bong naked on the back patio" is both an available and appealing alternative XD

Oh.

*looks over at box in the middle of well-lit bedroom*

Huh.

*tears well up a little*

Okay.

We love you too, Sugarfoot. ;_;

random selection on unattended youtube autoplay:

"David Bowie - Cat People - Putting Out Fires"

not funny, eris >___<

@Oneironott

sugarfoot, right now: ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY, KID

poor thing

;) <3

yeah i am definitely giving up on working a full work week this week

*sigh*

@Oneironott assuming nothin' turns tragic or anything expect lots of pics as soon as mama is willing to get out of the way for any length of time

now because i am an asshole i am going to play Blank Banshee's "Teen Pregnancy" at sugarfoot, albeit at a gentle low volume 'cause she's got enough stress without humans being sarcastic at her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQxDM2K-hd0

yeah this account will basically be un-cwed feline maternity ward for the foreseeable future, let me know if that's a big problem

two healthy lookin little grey-black lumps so far, definitely alive and squirming and peeping

they are adorable as fuck and i teared up a bunch as i said welcome to our world guys

i did venture a tiny little pet to the back of sugarfoot's neck just to reassure her and she didn't seem to mind at all -- i kept my stupid paw WELL away from the babies

@Soreth luckily my first reaction was "let's give her a few minutes to recover from the first kitten... and then let's very gently move this box to MY room where the floor is linoleum and can be rendered completely devoid of competing physical objects esp. porous ones D:

brace yrselves, if things do get veterinarily complicated there will almost certainly need to be a gofundme because we were already getting close to flat broke

thank god my boss still loves me

we will do what we can for you sugarfoot, we even decided if there's a complication, yeah, we will find a 24 hr vet and go into debt for you

no greater love hath dragon and tiger for stupid horny minipanther and her... two so far... adorable thrashing gremlin lumps

i just really hope your mom isn't in similar straits, though i guess we do have another box and sacrificable blanket 🙀​

no time for a kitty alert

holy fuck shadow has already dropped two kittens in the box we were preparing for her just in case our hunch she was preggers was right

it was so very right 🙀​

so far looks like the conventional wisdom is "just give her food, litter, water, and a nesting box and LEAVE HER THE FUCK ALONE" but if you have any other advice we are not in a position to turn it away

especially about just how much poop i should expect to clean off my floor in the next 6-8 weeks 🙀​🙀​🙀​

@001zlnv this is just the best story

i have never identified so thoroughly with a comedy bang bang character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFEWGJZkTmw [cw: arguably fatphobic but i'm sorry it's still funny as shit; also TERRIBLE raccoon-grade food combinations]

The good: looks like the storm's gonna give us a miss and hit Lafayette instead, only minimal impacts in this area; also our dealer promised he'd come by today n.n;

The bad: Aww, christ, I think we missed our deadline for getting a vet consultation and getting the gals snipped. Shadow is [1] uber-affectionate [2] feeling a little lumpy in the belly area if it's not my imagination [3] very very loud. I think we might have another friggin' batch of kittens on the way. Also, yeah, Penny and Peebs have definitely wandered off.

I know they're Not Our Cats and we're doing more for them than most semiferals get, but even amid the spoonlessness of COVID and our global pay cut at work, I'd really hoped to do more for all of them. It would have been nice to find them all proper homes.

Still, Umbra and Moe (Larry? we literally could not tell the three tabby Stooges apart though we're pretty sure Shemp was Curly) didn't have any trouble finding cushy homes. NOLA is an egregiously good city for cats; there are water dishes and food bowls on almost every block.

I just really wish I could have saved them all personally forever and ever. And I don't think we can offer Shadow indoor space like our neighbor used to, if she is preggers. The best we can do is provide food and maybe a nice box with some blankets out in our (laughably permable to cats) bike shed.

C'est les chats. 🤷​

This is the single silliest song that consistently makes me cry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VOFuf8uEhU

@Phorm LOTS. Oh no. :)

Arthur ran away and hid under the bed for 10 minutes because a piece of food fell off of my pizza and dropped right in front of her nose.

Let me make sure I got that across: Arthur was defeated by a piece of bacon.

I think this is the first serious Failure To Cat Correctly I've ever seen out of what is normally a very skilled catter.

Thank you all for the good wishes. I think we'll be OK, and after a 20-minute Arthur-pettin' session my biggest anxiety is that the little shit will finally succeed in eating one of my toes. =^_^;=