galorechallenge | Round 14 is now open!
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galorechallenge is a returning Crossover Fic Challenge from LiveJournal where you would find a crossover, grab a prompt & start writing! NO CLAIMING NESSARY! Post your story to the community (or at least link to it) once you're done. Feel free to grab more than one prompt, and more than one crossover! There are no limits on how much you can write per round. Check out the rules for more information. Also once the round ends, we'll vote on our favorites by fandom & you can get a fancy award. Or if there is only 1 crossover for a particular fandom, it will move on to the next round.
While it is a multi-fandom challenge, and SO MANY fandoms are allowed, there are some restrictions, so check out the fandoms currently allowed.
Round 14 is open until June 30, 2026 @ 11:59 EST.
Rules & FAQ | Prompts | Submit New Prompts/Crossovers |
Finally made some banners/new header/layout for the community & prompt website and used some of my favorite female characters from various fandoms: Mel (Charmed Reboot), Carol Danvers (MCU), Villanelle, Zari Tomaz (Arrowverse), Cara Mason (Legend of the Seeker), Bex Henderson (Hunting Party), Wednesday, and Kate Sharma (Bridgerton). Made mostly in honor of it being Women's Month, but also because I wanted to. Also made the font bigger, 'cause that fit better now that the new header is bigger.
I'm going to try and think of some new crossover prompts for galorechallenge - I feel like there is a lot of gaps, especially with all the new fandoms I've added over the last few months, but that might be slow going depending on inspiration/time, so seriously if anyone have any ideas, please suggest them here.
In other news, I also updated Muse-Insanity.org/Icons with everything I've made this year so far. Hopefully I didn't miss anything.
40daysofdrabbles is still happening! If I happen to have missed a day or two, I will add multiple prompts the same day to "honor" the day(s) I missed.vicious circle?
Mar. 13th, 2026 10:53 pmprimeidealMaybe I'm on the threshold of being able to articulate some new facet of the problem that I haven't been able to express before, or maybe it's all the same noise.
( tldr )
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Post and Jam: Wondering Where the Lions Are by Bruce Cockburn (1979)
Mar. 13th, 2026 01:11 pmdelphiFandom 50 #3
Continuing my list of fifty Canadian songs I love from the past fifty years, 1979's is one that's probably popped into my head at least one morning a week since I was five:
Wondering Where the Lions Are by Bruce Cockburn
Continuing my list of fifty Canadian songs I love from the past fifty years, 1979's is one that's probably popped into my head at least one morning a week since I was five:
Wondering Where the Lions Are by Bruce Cockburn
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Mar. 12th, 2026 04:39 pmdani_meowsI am so freaking tired.
I don't remember what I last updated about the cats.
Jasper Bean the old boy, is refusing to eat much of anything despite appetite stimulants. He will always eat his baby food but I have so many different cans and varieties of food that I shift in between in the hopes that today it'll please him. His next checkup is in April and hopefully his kidney disease hasn't progressed but I suspect with the worsening of his appetite that we'll find out he's in stage 2. But I will keep him alive as long as possible.
He's come so far from the stray we rescued four years ago who bit me so savagely and often at random with no warning from his body language. We have worked with him and his moods and he has come to trust us that he only gives us gentle affectionate nibbles. For the past two years it's been daily cuddles and he takes his aggression out on paper bags. Which he tears into like a goat. It's hilarious.
Mushi Boo is doing better. He finished his meds yesterday and we'll have him retested soon to make sure his liver function has bounced back to where it was in December.
I'm drinking a matcha boba and trying to have a good day. Trying to remember what else I wanted to babble about.
But my head hurts and I'm cranky.
I don't remember what I last updated about the cats.
Jasper Bean the old boy, is refusing to eat much of anything despite appetite stimulants. He will always eat his baby food but I have so many different cans and varieties of food that I shift in between in the hopes that today it'll please him. His next checkup is in April and hopefully his kidney disease hasn't progressed but I suspect with the worsening of his appetite that we'll find out he's in stage 2. But I will keep him alive as long as possible.
He's come so far from the stray we rescued four years ago who bit me so savagely and often at random with no warning from his body language. We have worked with him and his moods and he has come to trust us that he only gives us gentle affectionate nibbles. For the past two years it's been daily cuddles and he takes his aggression out on paper bags. Which he tears into like a goat. It's hilarious.
Mushi Boo is doing better. He finished his meds yesterday and we'll have him retested soon to make sure his liver function has bounced back to where it was in December.
I'm drinking a matcha boba and trying to have a good day. Trying to remember what else I wanted to babble about.
But my head hurts and I'm cranky.
The Importance of Being Earnest - Streaming March 12-18
Mar. 11th, 2026 10:13 amdelphiAnother theatrical streaming plug:
The pro-shot of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Ncuti Gatwa, Sharon D. Clarke, and Hugh Skinner, will be streaming on Youtube from March 12th to 18th!
A bit from the show:
National Theatre at Home has been one of my favourite streaming services for a long time now, with the way it bring UK theatre to someone like me (not in the UK, also not living in a place that gets much in the way of touring shows), and I'm really happy they're releasing this one for free on a bigger platform.
The pro-shot of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Ncuti Gatwa, Sharon D. Clarke, and Hugh Skinner, will be streaming on Youtube from March 12th to 18th!
A bit from the show:
National Theatre at Home has been one of my favourite streaming services for a long time now, with the way it bring UK theatre to someone like me (not in the UK, also not living in a place that gets much in the way of touring shows), and I'm really happy they're releasing this one for free on a bigger platform.
The Joy Who Lived
Mar. 10th, 2026 07:59 pmdelphiIf anyone's interested in checking out some queer comedy theatre with a slate of great trans and gnc performers:
The Joy Who Lived: March 31st to April 12th
You can find a list of shows by date or you can browse by category. Shows are running both in person in Los Angeles and as live streaming events that are also available to view up to two weeks afterwards. I tuned in a while back for their fundraising show, a chaotic live runthrough of the Ocean's 11 script called Gender Heist, and it was a heck of a good time.
The Joy Who Lived: March 31st to April 12th
You can find a list of shows by date or you can browse by category. Shows are running both in person in Los Angeles and as live streaming events that are also available to view up to two weeks afterwards. I tuned in a while back for their fundraising show, a chaotic live runthrough of the Ocean's 11 script called Gender Heist, and it was a heck of a good time.
Dear Author (Sufficiently Advanced 2026)
Mar. 11th, 2026 05:54 pmprimeidealHello, thank you for creating for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms. Treats are enabled.
Note for this particular exchange: I hope to be traveling at the time gifts are revealed, I may not be able to comment promptly. I look forward to savoring my gift when I have time to sit at a computer and read!
General likes
-canon-divergence AUs
-five things
-worldbuilding
-dialogue
-wit and wordplay
-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)
-time travel
-happy endings
-sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama; I'm fine with character death)
DNWs:
-explicit sex (but fade-to-black or innuendo is fine)
-underage characters having sex
-rape/noncon
-moralizing/didactic stories (characters Learning An Important Lesson about the value of tolerance, etc.)
-non-canonical allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics
-themes of cynicism or futility, or that the (canon's) main plotlines "are for nothing"
Anathem
Pre-Contact Mathic Life
The Dictionary After the Second Reconstitution
Pre-Contact Mathic Life:
Pre-Contact Mathic Life:
I love all the weird math monk stuff. Patterns for bells and sleeping arrangements! Clock towers! Labyrinths between the different tiers! Everything the Ita are doing behind the scenes to make it functional! Anything set in the world of the concents would be great. It sounds like Saunt Edhar's is more ascetic than some of the other concents, so something set elsewhere with different traditions could be a neat contrast.
The Dictionary After the Second Reconstitution:
What's going to happen post-canon as people react to new jargon from the Daban Arnud? Weird/nonsensical multilingual puns that make no sense? What languages do people speak with each other on the Daban Arnud? Were there Millennials patiently waiting to add their neologisms and then oops, aliens? Do the avout incorporate any vocabulary from the saeculars, or do they still consider that a corrupting influence?
Paradises Lost
WB: Any
What a fascinating story! The contrasts between how the Zeroes feel that they might be depriving their descendants of something important, and the descendants' awareness of their own good fortune, are powerful. "History must be what we have escaped from. It is what we were, not what we are. History is what we need never do again." Guh. And the commentary about "noble lies" being condescending and potentially as dangerous as fundamentalism was really well done. Anything in this setting would be fascinating, with canon characters and/or OCs.
I'd be interested in any other traditions similar to the way religion develops on the ship--things arising to respond to societal issues, and then over the generations, growing and evolving into something the Zero generation couldn't have predicted.
More about the dynamics of family units, motherchildren versus fatherchildren? What considerations do people take in choosing someone else to reproduce with?
Some of the missing scenes? How do we get from "Luis arguing about religion" to "Luis gets elected council leader" so quickly?
Future communication with earth? Do other ships eventually arrive on the new planet? What traditions have developed by that point?
Project Hail Mary
Steve Hatch
I love Steve and how faith and science complement each other for him. Ryland kind of lampshades "you're the most optimistic guy I've ever met," which is saying something by the standards of an Andy Weir novel. More about his optimism in dark times? He seems very confident in his belief that the Beatles are just objectively the best musicians; more of his unshakable takes? Is he still alive by the time of the Beatle (spaceships)' return, and if so, what does he make of them? How does he incorporate the discovery of Eridians into his worldview?
Remembrance of Earth's Past
Yang Dong
Ye Wenjie
Cheng Xin:
A fix-it where she doesn't miss Yun Tianming at their star? Any kind of outside POV on her and the many different hats she wears: Older men patronizing her during Project Staircase? The humans resenting her in Australia? Luo Ji and the museum? What if she'd stayed on the cylinder worlds near Jupiter where things felt "normal" and 2000s-y? Her relationship with Guan Yifan--is he really a different kind of human for having been to space, or are they more two sides of the same coin?
Yang Dong:
For someone who has very little time "on screen," she casts a long shadow over all of the books. More about her friendship with the programmer from "Death's End," and/or with Luo Ji? What if she'd survived--what would she have made of her mother's betrayal? How would things have gone with Ding Yi?
Ye Wenjie:
Secrets at Red Coast Base? Some more of the "declassified" documents? The early days of the ETO? What did she work out about Dark Forest theory before meeting Luo Ji? What if Yang Dong had talked to her about the documents she'd sneaked a look at? Or if Ye had lived long enough to discover more of Deterrence theory herself?
Steerswoman
WB: Any
Bel & or / Rowan
I was thrilled by the worldbuilding in this series--the depiction of Rowan's scientific inquiry is great, even if our perspective as readers is different from the characters'. And I especially enjoyed the complexity of Outskirter society in "Steerswoman's Road"--the tribes closer to the Inner Lands growing more militaristic and less cultured, the Face People and Efraim's weirdness around women, the naming ceremony and recitation of ancestors, the importance of poetry and lore--that makes them much more than "wilderness raiders."
There are lots of great tropey moments with Bel and Rowan that can be either shippy or gen: huddling for warmth, teaching each other swordplay, taking care of each other when they get dysentery! If you're so inclined, I'd be interested to see a shippy expansion on any of these, or something else along these lines. Another misunderstanding with the courtship gifts outside the tent?
Something more worldbuilding-focused elsewhere in the world would also be neat--documents at the Archives? Steerswomen and wizards' POV on the same events? What does religion look like in a world where Christian symbols and language exist but most people don't remember their homeworld? (I'd prefer no authorial bashing of any specific belief system or lack thereof, but canon-typical disagreements/skepticism on different characters' part is fine and expected!)
Crossover Fandom:
Sazed (Mistborn) & Taravangian (Stormlight Archive)
They both control two Shards now--Sazed's seem like inherent opposites, Taravangian's don't. What happens when they meet? Taravangian tries to talk Sazed into letting Taravangian combine more shards for the greater good? Sazed turns Taravangian's logic against him? Could they meet in some kind of pocket universe/Cognitive Realm nonsense/AU setting where their immense powers don't really come into play and it's just the two guys bickering at each other?
(SFF Bingo): The Bone Ships, by RJ Barker
Mar. 10th, 2026 03:08 pmprimeidealLast bingo square: "Generic Title," title needs to contain one of a handful of cliche words, including "Bone" as an option. After a false start, tracked down this, the first in a trilogy.
Bingo: Generic Title, could also count for Pirates, previous Readalong. Maybe Down with the System?
The world of the Scattered Archipelago is almost all ocean, and there's a lot of seafaring. There's an ongoing war between the Hundred Islands and the Gaunt Islands, with both sides accusing the others of kidnapping children and forcing them into slavery or human sacrifice, but it's been going on so long that the beginning has probably been forgotten. Ships have historically been constructed from the bones of arakeesians (water dragons), but they're almost extinct now, so maybe the war will fizzle out because of lack of weapons?
This was a good example of indirect worldbuilding through language choice. The captain of a ship is generically "shipwife" and the disciplinary officer is "deckmother" (regardless of their actual sex); the default for generic person is always "woman or man" (rather than "man or woman"); ships are referred to as "he," a generic form of bravado is "tits" (where our world might use "balls"), etc. Not tendentious, but a good example of how background language subtly reflects how the characters, and the readers, view society.
There is also some interesting worldbuilding going on around the nonhuman creatures in the world. A ship can get magically-boosted wind speed/direction through the help of its "gullaime," a birdlike creature with magical powers, and the gullaimes seem to be related to the arakeesians in some fashion. But humans' exploitation of the gullaimes is basically slavery plus brutal eye trauma. It's strongly implied that the only reason our protagonists' ship is able to survive when others wouldn't is because they have an especially strong gullaime, or maybe just one that's been mutilated less than typical.
Unfortunately, I wasn't really invested in the POV character. Joron Twiner, nineteen, has been condemned to the "black ships" (crewed by criminals with lingering death sentences) after a miscarriage of justice. A young aristocrat killed his father in, essentially, a drunken vehicular accident (I liked this twist just because it was so mundane and, in a sad way, reflective of our world). Joron got his revenge in a duel, but due to the very hierarchical classist/ableist society, was criminialized anyway via a miscarriage of justice. Before the book begins, he was briefly made shipwife of his own ship, the "Tide Child" just because he wasn't part of any existing faction, and drinks away his days.
Then "Lucky" Meas Gilbryn shows up. A formidable shipwife and daughter of the ruler of the lands, she's been sentenced to the black ships nevertheless, and begins whipping everybody into shape on "Tide Child." Joron is demoted to "deckkeeper" (second-in-command), and basically we're just watching from his point of view as she delivers a bunch of training montages, etc.
I can see how, if Meas is the most active, taking-agency character, you might not want the entire story to be from her POV--she could come off as too overpowered. But Joron is even less interesting. It's not clear why she keeps him as her #2, he's mostly just along for the ride, and sometimes to play good cop to her bad cop. And then there's a Goblin Emperor-esque theme developing of "I can never be friends with these people, just their officer, oh well." Even when he occasionally shows agency, jumping into a fight, he doesn't know why he's doing it: "He almost brought his hand to his mouth upon saying it, he was so shocked by his own words."
At first we're told that Joron resents Meas for "taking" his job, even though he doesn't really do anything with it, and sort of led to believe that his alcoholism will become a problem. But that just fizzles out. There's a lot of one-liner italicized flashbacks to "as my father used to say" or to his father's death, but it doesn't really add anything. And maybe there's supposed to be a plotline around him overcoming cowardice, but I don't feel like his actions are that strange or unusual, everybody has a self-preservation instinct even on a ship of people condemned to death.
Meas does a lot of "who's with me? Are you with me?" "yes we're with you, shipwife" "I can't hear you, are you with me???" "Yes Shipwife!" "Say it louder" "YES SHIPWIFE" "okay, good, let's go." I find this kind of audience-participation thing patronizing, I don't need to see it in fiction.
The text tries to depict the horrors of war via "hurry up and wait" themes and repetition. As realistic as it is, I'm not sure it pays off in prose. Joron felt anxious. And then the enemy ship drew closer. The parrot said some curse words. And then the enemy ship drew closer. Meas adjusted her lucky hat. And then the enemy ship drew closer. We get it.
On a sentence level, it didn't seem to be very well edited, there are various runaway sentences and dangling modifiers:
"It did not take long for Tide Child, carried on the strange magic of the windtalker, which cooed to itself as it worked, for the ship’s lookouts to get a clearer look at the flukeboats."
"Solemn Muffaz nodded to Gavith, who ran to the bell on the rail at the fore of the rump of the ship." There's nothing wrong with this sentence but I feel like five consecutive prepositional phrases (of the exact same word/letter count) is too much.
When it comes to Call A Rabbit a Smeerp, everyone's threshold is different, but the sun, moon, and stars are, respectively, personified as the Eye, Blind Eye, and Bones of Skearith the Godbird. Every time. Characters get "eyeburned" instead of "sunburned." For me, personally, this was unnecessary and distracting.
Meas' backstory was intriguing. Hundred Islands culture places a strong value on childbirth and healthy babies; if a mother survives her first delivery and the baby has no birth defects, it's sacrified to become a magical "ghostlight" for the non-black ships. But Meas survived this ritual because the gods (Maiden, Mother, and Hag instead of Crone) didn't want her, hence the "Lucky" epithet. Meas' mother had twelve more children, which, as the most prolific matriarch on the islands, makes her the ruler. But Meas got sentenced to the black ships anyway. Is that because she's secretly working to end the war once and for all? Or some other kind of treachery?
This and the worldbuilding were compelling, but I'm not sure I'd be interested in seeking out two more books from Joron's POV. There's a lot of "oh well, we will probably all die, but we've been sentenced to death anyway so let's just do our duty," but after a few quick deaths of named characters in the early chapters, most of the book comes and goes without the stakes or tension feeling earned.
Bingo: Generic Title, could also count for Pirates, previous Readalong. Maybe Down with the System?
Post and Jam: Trinque l'amourette by La Bottine Souriante (1978)
Mar. 8th, 2026 08:02 pmdelphiFandom 50 #2
Continuing my list of fifty Canadian songs I love from the past fifty years, here's 1978's:
Trinque l'amourette by La Bottine Souriante
Continuing my list of fifty Canadian songs I love from the past fifty years, here's 1978's:
Trinque l'amourette by La Bottine Souriante
Crossover Galore Challenge is now open!!
Mar. 8th, 2026 02:48 pmflareonfury
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@ mcu100 Submissions for the Bi-Weekly Prompt will be accepted until March 21, 11:59PM EST.
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@ mcu100Submissions for the Monthly Challenges will be accepted until March 31, 11:59PM EST.
Honestly the "Drink" prompt did not come to me because of St. Patrick's day but in the fact that I really wanted a female character as the prompt image in honor of Women's month/day, but then it kinda just felt right using the prompt with both communities especially when I saw that image of Emma. I didn't think through the Monthly Character prompts, otherwise I'd have done female characters there as well.
In other news,
galorechallenge Round 14 is now open! Officially finished uploading all the old prompts. I still need to add new prompts/crossovers since nothing new has appeared, feel free to suggest prompts/crossovers HERE. Still need to make a new promo banner & header but meh, I haven't felt like it honestly.So it's been awhile since I posted anything directly to here, I apologize for that, but February has oddly been busy? Mostly with work but I also wrote a lot more last month (8 fics/drabbles) which I'm so proud of. I also did something to my right foot (not quite sure if it's my ankle, it feels more like the top of my foot) so I've been dealing with that pain off and on since mid-February. Most of the time I forget about it because my full-time job is mostly a sit down job (and it only vaguely hurt while sitting), and I haven't had a lot of scheduled retail shifts last couple weeks (thankfully for my mental health, horrible for my bank account), but I do have to get up and move around at my full-time job - sometimes a lot so that's when it mostly hits me. I did rest it a lot when I got home from work as well and I rested a lot this weekend (although I did get some cleaning done), so I didn't spend a lot of time online thus my oblivious to the world becoming on fire (I listen to audiobooks at work, and usually on the way to & from work, rarely do I put on the radio and when I did nothing mentioned anything at all - all I noticed was the gas prices shot the fuck up and I'm like why? Found out last night. Yeah. Fuck. The world is on fire. Again/Still depending on your viewpoint.)
ANYWAY due to my offline time, my newest obsession:
the Monsterverse (aka Godzilla 2014 & Kong: Skull Island shared universe along with the TV series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters). Caught the trailer for Monarch on Prime and I was like sign me the fuck up. I enjoyed every second of it.
Look I've loved Godzilla since I watched Godzilla (1998) and the animated series based on the film - I know most people shit on that movie but I enjoy it. And it satisfied the need for more dinosaur-type stuff I wanted back when I was a kid and in love with the Jurassic Park trilogy (haha, still am). I think the animated series of Godzilla also kind of synched it for me (I have the DVD set for it) and it's still pretty good - I want to rewatch again thanks to Monarch (they share some similarities that probably only I can see and enjoy but I'll take it). I also really enjoyed Godzilla (2014) film, which people also kinda dislike? I think or at least have mixed feelings about? I enjoyed all the sequels as well, and I appreciated what they were as monster movies, but I think Monarch show really kinda synched my love for the universe. I kinda wish I could have showed the show and the other newer movies to my Nana, she loved the original Godzilla stuff and would watch those, I'd love to know what she'd think of the show. I haven't seen those since I was a little kid and I don't remember actually enjoying them? Maybe it was the graphics, maybe it just didn't hold my attention - not quite sure (might try again). Anyway, as much as I loved Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Elizabeth Olsen in Godzilla (2014), I didn't really go looking for fanfiction or other fanworks (maybe gifs on Tumblr) until Monarch. The cast is just so good, and the characters! Ugh, I love all of them and I ship like everyone (as you can see what I've iconed so far). And the fact that they have Kurt & Wyatt Russell playing the same characters but at different points of time - BRILLIANT. I think my favorite characters are probably the "core" main characters: Cate Randa, Corah "May Olowe-Hewitt" Mateo, Kentaro Randa, Keiko Miura, Bill Randa (did not expect to like that character after Kong: Skull Island!) and obviously Lee Shaw.
Also I obviously noticed back when they did Kong: Skull Island, but a lot of Marvel/MCU actors/actresses appeared in the Monsterverse and all it does is making me want them to do a Godzilla/Marvel crossover movie. They won't do it, but there is at least I think a Godzilla/Marvel comics series I think.
It's a small fandom, so there's that... but at least it exists. Anyway, let me know if you like any of the movies or like Monarch! I'd love to hear what you think or who you ship :)
Post and Jam: We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time) by Trooper [1977]
Mar. 4th, 2026 07:36 pmdelphiFandom 50 #1
I'm trying another March to March round of Fandom 50 (the challenge where you try to make fifty themed posts in a year), and this time around I thought I'd focus on Canadian music. As a bit of extra fun for myself, I'm going to try to find one song I love per year from the past fifty years—and as it happens, 1977 gave us one of my all-time faves.
We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time) by Trooper
I'm trying another March to March round of Fandom 50 (the challenge where you try to make fifty themed posts in a year), and this time around I thought I'd focus on Canadian music. As a bit of extra fun for myself, I'm going to try to find one song I love per year from the past fifty years—and as it happens, 1977 gave us one of my all-time faves.
We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time) by Trooper
A jumble of thoughts.
Mar. 3rd, 2026 01:32 pmdani_meowsI live.
Spent the morning reading about some concerning policies the governor of Florida is trying to pass. including one that would give him his own secret service.
I really wish we'd not bought a house, even though that's why we are doing okay with the higher prices because we have a consistent "rent" aka mortgage that's cheaper than what we were paying in rent five years ago.
Even with our roommate having quit paying rent three years ago and us doing nothing about it because she's also my best friend. But it does frustrate me a little. I wish she'd at least pay something. We pay rent, electric, water.... She pays the internet bill.
I did tell her the other day she needs to talk to Ian to figure out some rent since she got a job two years ago after being laid off. Which is when she quit paying.
Mushi is doing okay. The xray came back and he does not have any tumors or blockages. He hates taking his medicine once a day and is very dramatic about it. But he is feeling better. He's been a very vocal, playful and active 15 year old boy.
We celebrated his gotcha day the day after we rushed him to vet last week. 14 years ago... he just walked into the store Ian worked at. Stayed there all night being looked after by my husband and then when Ian shook a treat bag he walked into our car. No tags. No one ever posted that he was missing. No chip. We were only going to keep him until the pound opened two days later because we already had the two cats we were allowed with Joey and Pywhackett. But by the end of the day he was Mushi. My little sweetie Boo.
To this day he's the cat who caused the most chaos, he once knocked our fan out of the window when we were getting a fresh breeze while cleaning the boxes. We lived on the third floor. He jumped out the window and we had to chase him around the parking lot of our apartment complex in my nightgown and pj pants.
Miso was the one who broke my heart.
Joey was my sweetest.
Pywhackett was the feistiest.
Mushi is the most chaotic.
Bitsy is the kindest.
Jasper is the most confusing survivor.
Nori is the whiniest. He whines if I hold him. He whines if I don't go to the bed when he wants cuddles and lay down and let him lounge on me like he did the first night I got him, he just likes to complain. I've had him since he was 12 weeks old. He's the ultimate brat cat. All my others were strays who had tragic pasts. He's Mr. First World Problems.
My thoughts on the war are chaotic.
I hope peace happens since the government that killed 30k plus people in a matter of days for protesting last month is falling. I hope peace comes. I trust the Iranians that are speaking out more than I trust non Iranians who didn't care about what happened to Iranians before the other day. I also hope that it doesn't become like Afghanistan. When we left the Taliban came back and the lives of women are horrible. They can't speak. They can't sing. They can't learn. I hope the lives of the Iranians goes back to how it was before this regime came into power. According to several posters and videos they had more freedom than Swedish women in the 1970's could vote etc. Before this regime took over and women were forced to hide themselves and were taken away if they were caught with a stray hair falling out of their hijab.
That said. I know Trump and co are almost certainly not doing it for a good reason.
A broken clock is right twice a day and all.
I hope peace comes to the middle east, to Ukraine. But there is so much fear in my heart. So many things seem to be reaching a boiling point.
And I really think those in charge are either cowards who won't act or are people who would watch the whole world burn.
I hate war. I feared war when it was my classmates, class of 2002, that were being sent to Afghanistan and I feared even then things might be worse in the end. And now we are once more in the middle east.
And innocents are going to get hurt.
Some people that are killed are not the innocents. Some were the very people who ordered guns fired into the crowds last month, who committed the atrocities.
But others are just humans who did nothing wrong.
And with that note I'm done blogging my thoughts.
Spent the morning reading about some concerning policies the governor of Florida is trying to pass. including one that would give him his own secret service.
I really wish we'd not bought a house, even though that's why we are doing okay with the higher prices because we have a consistent "rent" aka mortgage that's cheaper than what we were paying in rent five years ago.
Even with our roommate having quit paying rent three years ago and us doing nothing about it because she's also my best friend. But it does frustrate me a little. I wish she'd at least pay something. We pay rent, electric, water.... She pays the internet bill.
I did tell her the other day she needs to talk to Ian to figure out some rent since she got a job two years ago after being laid off. Which is when she quit paying.
Mushi is doing okay. The xray came back and he does not have any tumors or blockages. He hates taking his medicine once a day and is very dramatic about it. But he is feeling better. He's been a very vocal, playful and active 15 year old boy.
We celebrated his gotcha day the day after we rushed him to vet last week. 14 years ago... he just walked into the store Ian worked at. Stayed there all night being looked after by my husband and then when Ian shook a treat bag he walked into our car. No tags. No one ever posted that he was missing. No chip. We were only going to keep him until the pound opened two days later because we already had the two cats we were allowed with Joey and Pywhackett. But by the end of the day he was Mushi. My little sweetie Boo.
To this day he's the cat who caused the most chaos, he once knocked our fan out of the window when we were getting a fresh breeze while cleaning the boxes. We lived on the third floor. He jumped out the window and we had to chase him around the parking lot of our apartment complex in my nightgown and pj pants.
Miso was the one who broke my heart.
Joey was my sweetest.
Pywhackett was the feistiest.
Mushi is the most chaotic.
Bitsy is the kindest.
Jasper is the most confusing survivor.
Nori is the whiniest. He whines if I hold him. He whines if I don't go to the bed when he wants cuddles and lay down and let him lounge on me like he did the first night I got him, he just likes to complain. I've had him since he was 12 weeks old. He's the ultimate brat cat. All my others were strays who had tragic pasts. He's Mr. First World Problems.
My thoughts on the war are chaotic.
I hope peace happens since the government that killed 30k plus people in a matter of days for protesting last month is falling. I hope peace comes. I trust the Iranians that are speaking out more than I trust non Iranians who didn't care about what happened to Iranians before the other day. I also hope that it doesn't become like Afghanistan. When we left the Taliban came back and the lives of women are horrible. They can't speak. They can't sing. They can't learn. I hope the lives of the Iranians goes back to how it was before this regime came into power. According to several posters and videos they had more freedom than Swedish women in the 1970's could vote etc. Before this regime took over and women were forced to hide themselves and were taken away if they were caught with a stray hair falling out of their hijab.
That said. I know Trump and co are almost certainly not doing it for a good reason.
A broken clock is right twice a day and all.
I hope peace comes to the middle east, to Ukraine. But there is so much fear in my heart. So many things seem to be reaching a boiling point.
And I really think those in charge are either cowards who won't act or are people who would watch the whole world burn.
I hate war. I feared war when it was my classmates, class of 2002, that were being sent to Afghanistan and I feared even then things might be worse in the end. And now we are once more in the middle east.
And innocents are going to get hurt.
Some people that are killed are not the innocents. Some were the very people who ordered guns fired into the crowds last month, who committed the atrocities.
But others are just humans who did nothing wrong.
And with that note I'm done blogging my thoughts.
