The State of the Cat (Literally, This Time)

Hello, everyone!

Welp, if you follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon or X, you probably already know all this, but if you missed it...my work, of all and any kinds, has been severely curtailed by my child acquiring a movie-monster version of the flu that’s been going on for almost two weeks now. Tried school today and got sent home before noon because poor love is too weak to sit at their desk.

Aaaaaand my cat was sort of scarce over the weekend? Which is hard because he is a massive Maine Coon? So massive msall children have to ask if he IS a cat and not on loan from the zoo? Turned out the magnificent, majestic, and in all ways extraordinary feline Lord Byron, Stormageddon, was hiding and starving himself to death because he has a massive systemic infection that filled his ears with the most grotesque xenomorph pus-blood-foul-ichor fluids I’ve ever known about. Honestly I’m still traumatized from the vampiric theater bukkake of it all (the vet spread the ear open to look at it, the skin split, and pus flew all over her face and across the walls of the room. YEAH.)

In addition to that, my dryer broke, my 17 year old Facebook account was hacked AND YOU CAN GUESS HOW EASY THAT IS TO FIX, you don’t even want to know about my water bill last month because I didn’t know a toilet was running for like five weeks due to SOMEONE who is SIX YEARS OLD but I WOULD NEVER SAY WHO, snapped off an Important Part and didn't know what to do so they hid it), and I’m on a crushing novel deadline…with a sick kid and a sick animal both of whom basically need physical contact with me to continue existing at the moment.

IT’S ALL HAPPENING UP IN HERE. LIKE ALL AT ONCE.

So hold tight, I’ve got good things in store for the month, I just…am under several wailing bodies at the moment.

And, you know, awkward moment, but Lord Byron is in surgery as we speak, and cat surgery (not to mention dryers and apparently the gold-infused water a toilet produces when it is broken) is very not cheap, so if you are a free patron who was hemming and hawing over whether to sign up for a tier, or weren't aware that there's tiers with content you could be getting because Patreon made it so confusing to sign up for no reason, now would be an awesome time to do that.

Just giving you information. Definitely not feeling the cringe in every cell right now.

Anyway! I’ll see you probably tomorrow with the Magical Midnight Mathematician Mermaid scarf I just finished...if everyone/anyone could stop flinging fluids on me for five seconds.

Lord Byron appreciates the support as he journeys through the mad dreams of morphine and wet food post surgery…