The Scrap Bag

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.

I have an autistic coworker who used to say really uncomfortable things to museum guests while making small talk. like bringing up active, controversial revolutions in their countries if they were international, and such. finally, after a group of Hawaiian guys got visibly angry when he asked if they were "in the military or just rich" to be able to live there- meant to be a cost of living joke -I said, "hey, personally, I try not to talk politics with guests. sometimes it may upset them and we don't get paid enough to deal with that"

he looked thoughtful and said, "oh, I never considered it that way." turns out he was just a geopolitics nerd and didn't realize people might react emotionally to what he saw as a purely intellectual discussion

Like, I have ADHD, not austism (not that's diagnosed, at least), but I can be very direct/blunt. Some of it's not realizing how I'm coming off at times, some of it's from having bumped into so many miscommunication issues over the years (due to lots of things) that I like to be very clear. And like... I know I'm like this. You can tell, because I'm telling you now. So it's something I actively work to keep an eye on when I'm interacting with other people, so I can catch and correct myself then apologize before it causes problems.

It's also something I tell new coworkers when I meet them. "Hi, I'm Green, pleased to meet you! Heads-up, I can be too blunt sometimes. I do my best to catch myself when this happens, but I'm not perfect, so sometimes I miss that I've done that. If I say or do anything to upset you, please let me know immediately so I can apologize and correct my behaviour." Responsible self-regulation, with a small request for a little wiggle room in case of mistakes.

Only then we actually work together for awhile, I inevitably mess up at some point or another... and people get mad at me for being a jerk or I get told off by the boss for being rude. Only, 95% of the time, it was a genuine mistake that I feel horrible about. One moment that stands out in my memory is my boss asking me to count inventory for a product we had dozens of. I'm not good at that sort of task, numbers start jumbling in my brain if I've been counting too long, and I warned her of this, but I did it when she told me to. Partway through, I got the idea of marking down every ten I'd counted, then did that for the rest of them, tallied up the total at the end, and proudly gave my boss the info, announcing that I'd figured out a way to do it right.

To this day, from the vibes she gave me, I'm certain that she believed I was being lazy and trying to get out of doing the task because I just didn't want to do it. In actuality, I was just really afraid I'd get the count wrong, mess up the store's inventory logs, and create a situation that snowballed into a big problem later down the line.

Wakes up from hypnosis where he was about to marry a woman he’s never seen before with his mystery girl’s voice, the instant he wakes up then the cute girl he’s actually fallen in love with now has that voice. Then she drops to the floor and has a fish tail, and then the first girl is suddenly cackling “too late!” and bursting out of her skin. So it turns out she’s actually an octopus woman who drags herself over to the real mystery girl - who’s a mermaid?! They’re real?! - and taking her back into the ocean. And Eric has no idea what’s going on here but okay, one of these women is clearly evil and he needs to go after his mystery girl.

And all of this happens/he realizes what he has to do within like, a single minute.

Prior to this he was just living out a sweet romance after having a Meet Cute with a shipwrecked girl, but okay, guess he’s involved in whatever the fuck this is. Acting first, questioning later.

I JUST

KATIE TRIED TO SEND US COOKIES OUTTA THE GOODNESS OF HER HEART AND JUST

“OHHHH THESE COOKIES WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO NEW JERSEY, PHIL? I THOUGHT YOU SAID

THE COOKIES ARE FINALLY ON THEIR WAY TO NEW JERSEY

GO COOKIES GO

@phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper​ @homebeccer GET READY

@phantomrose96 @homebeccer @cupcakecreeper

holy fuCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

THE THRILLING CONCLUSION

also as a bonus visual here’s a rough approximation of these cookies’ journey

AND 

IT’S

IT’S

IT’S NOT AN OPTION IT’S NOT AN OPTION I CAN’T I-

No one said “hey let’s stop missending things to Nepal” they just said “let’s make a stamp for this” and called it a day.

⚔️ BWOOM

👽

⚔️ BWOOM

Bert: Bert and I

Ernie: Bert and I, we've been best friends forever, but we're also something else too!

Stop telling people to just orphan their fics.

Orphaning a fic means giving up any and all ownership over it. No way to claim it back, edit it or delete it. Yes it's an archive but an author should still have the right to delete their work if they feel like they don't want it to be up anymore.

Readers always scream for authors to orphan their fics instead of deleting because they feel like they have a right to the fanworks that is shared with them for free. If it's so important to you to not lose a fic, download it. Also comment and encourage the authors, instead of telling them to give up all ownership to their work.

To authors, if you think about deleting your fics, there are other options you should employ first. If you don't want it connected to your name, put it into an anonymous collection. As long as it's in there, noone can see you wrote it, you still can edit ot or delete it and moderate comments on it. You can even move it to anther account, just create another one, add it as co author and then take your main account off. Then you can still edit it from your second account but it's no longer connected to your account.

If you don't want it to show anymore put it in a unrevealed collection, that way, the fic won't show up but it's still there, you can still see it, read comments and make it public again.

If you feel the urge to delete your fic, try one of these options first and see how you feel about it after a while, you can still delete or orphan afterwards, but this hopefully makes your decision easier.