Welcome To The Lab

the thing is, I have two cats.

and I'm running out of cat food and litter.

I honestly don't even care about myself. I care about making sure I can feed my babies...

thank you, so SO so much. I had just refilled their litter box with the last of the litter I had on hand yesterday when I received the packages with supplies that I had graciously been gifted. I am beyond words, honestly. thank you so much for the generosity, and thank you for helping me when I needed it most.

none of it came with notes, so I can't thank you by name. I can only say thank you like this. rest assured I have enough food and litter to take care of my babies for a while now while I keep job hunting. thank you all for spreading this, and for helping me

here's some cute pics of them as an expression of my gratitude. 🧡

Maia is the tabby, and Atlas is solid black

SO THIS IS A BOT:

so i've noticed a blog in the trafficblr tag "doysq". it is acting like a legit blog but it is actually stealing other people's art and trying to get you to click that "(Read More)", which is most likely taking you to a malicious site (and is not actually a readmore, but taking you off of tumblr.) to repeat: doysq is not a real blog, the art is stolen (likely automatically from the tags it is posting it with), and the Read More is actually a malicious link.

i have in fact already reported this as spam to tumblr and blocked it; you should as well. however, i'm also pulling this up for a second reason: i'm now going through my queue to make sure i didn't get got by this bot or a similar one. frequently when tumblr has a scam bot, it will have a large number of them under different names as the technology proliferates. watch out for both this blog and other similar blogs when scrolling through the tag.

i suspect the most easily noticed hallmark will be the atypical "Read More" link, which doesn't look like a real tumblr readmore! a real tumblr readmore looks like this in the dashboard view:

also, it's reposting art from other, previous tumblr posts, has a default profile picture, and has a username you may not recognize as the person with that artstyle! i point out the Read More link first, however, because it's the first thing you're likely to notice while browsing.

if you got got by this, don't feel bad; this is unusually well-crafted tumblr bot spam that is designed to look like a real post to get you to click the link. phishing is by FAR the most common type of successful cyber attack, and it works off of psychology that can trick anyone--even people who know to look for it. see, i also clicked the link, i just have adblockers and antivirus that stopped me well before i actually folllowed the link, and it made me realize i was likely being phished. i scrolled down further in the tag and saw the original art; there it was, proof this was a bot reposting it maliciously.

also I love your art so much <3 you're one of my biggest inspirations!

-hallowedlaboratory