☆*゜ﾟキラキラ ゜ﾟ*☆

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors, and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors, all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

ID: A youtube comment with 11 likes by Niceone, it says "I've lived 46 years without knowing this. How nice of life to save some of the best bites for later." End ID.

diegetic narrator: It was her fuckinfg period.

me: hey.

diegetic narrator: oh sorry my bad forgot I was diegetic

HE'S HEREEEEE

He does talk too much so its gonna take soooo long to translate, but its okay because its him

My pretty boyyyy

nouns:

鬼子（おにご） = wild child, badly-behaved child; child which does not resemble its parents, changeling

心境（しんきょう） = mental state, state of mind

言霊（ことだま） = mystical power inherent in words, spirit of language

上目（うわめ）遣い（づかい） = looking up at someone (with upturned eyes), glancing upwards

駆け引き（かけひき） = tactics, strategy, maneuvering

verbs:

すがる = to cling to, hang onto; to rely on, depend on

キメる = to dress to kill, dress to the nines

盗み見る（ぬすみみる） = to steal a glance at, look furtively at

うねる = to wind (e.g., road, river, etc.), to meander; to surge, swell, roll

adjectives:

アリな = alright, acceptable, passable

過保護（かほご）な = overprotective, excessive care

adverbs/onomatopoeiae:

いずれ = in due course, eventually, one of these days

ただでさえ = even at the best of times, under normal circumstances, as it is

十中八九（じっちゅうはっく） = in eight or nine cases out of ten, in all probability

expressions:

取り付く（とりつく）島（しま）もない = left utterly helpless, having no one to turn to

〜一方（いっぽう） = keep on being ~, continuously doing ~

けしからん = outrageous, scandalous, disgraceful

虫（むし）の知らせ（しらせ） = feeling in one's bones, foreboding, premonition, gut instinct

他人（たにん）の空似（そらに） = accidental resemblance (to someone else)

それはそれで = in that case, if that's the case