Whatever's happening here is undoubtedly somehow my fault.

A Celebration of the 10th anniversary of Lucifer.

Welcome Lucifans, old & new, to our year long celebration of the start of our beloved show!

We have a fun packed schedule, with a variety of events planned.

We'll share more details over the coming week, in the meantime here is the Calendar to get you started.

I will not overcomplicate my plot

4.02 | 5.15

“what are you writing?”

“it’s a….story.”

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“…uh…”

“you have a tumblr? can i follow you?”

“what kind of blog is ur tumblr?”

This is going to be controversial, but I support making that choice.

There’s a lot of rhetoric lately around how it’s evil and unethical to rehome your pet if you don’t “need to.” And what that does is prioritize human ideology over the actual animal’s well-being.

Pets that aren’t a good match for your home or pets that aren’t really wanted anymore frequently have lower welfare! When caring for an animal becomes a burden or is forced, people end up resenting them, and that means the animal often doesn’t get all of its needs fulfilled. Even if you’re still feeding it and providing appropriate vet care, how likely are you to provide affection or enrichment to an animal you’re tired of being stuck with?

Lifestyle and personality really matter to making sure a pet is a good fit for a home. A dog that alert-barks at every leaf that moves is probably a bad fit for someone who has a chronic migraine syndrome, and they might not know that until the dog has been in the home for weeks and started to open up. A really feisty kitten that requires a ton of play might not do best in the home of someone older who wanted a quiet lap cat. And while you can you do your best to plan to find a compatible animal, you won’t always know ahead of time what issues might arise.

“Forever home” rhetoric is really, really popular and I think it’s very unfair to the animals it is supposed to support. It started with the backlash of seeing animals abandoned inappropriately, and has been heavily reinforced in the public mind because it’s so frequently used to drive fundraising and support for legislation. The whole “forever home” concept communicates to people that getting an animal is an immutable commitment and that if you can’t keep an animal, it is a personal moral failing. It frames human priorities (we think people who get rid of animals are Evil and Bad and should be shunned) as more important than actual welfare needs for individual animals (are they getting the care they need where they are).

Obviously, I don’t support people dumping animals or just getting fad pets they’ll discard immediately, but there’s so many alternate situations that can arise. Even if it’s just “they got a pet and didn’t know what caring for it would take and didn’t want to care for it so they brought it back, how awful” like… okay, I’d like the person to have done more research before they got a pet, but isn’t it better that the animal now has a second chance to go to better home? Knowing what a commitment requires theoretically can be very different than having to actually follow through regularly, and I’d rather see someone maturely acknowledge that having an animal isn’t a good fit than keep it anyway!!

I was not in the right place emotionally or physically to get a puppy when I got him, having just lost my first dog 2 months prior. I did not pay attention to some personality warning signs when I went to see the puppy. I had not done enough research on his breeds and didn’t have the hands-on experience with cattle dogs then that I do now. I was going to school and working, and now had a double herding breed mix that was extremely aloof and independent while living in a second story condo.

I made a mistake in getting this dog. He wasn’t a bad dog. He was bad for *me* to have.

While it turned out for the best for him that I made that mistake (hello mystery and non-sensical auto-immune disorder that was VERY EXPENSIVE until we figured it out a little and that most people would have, rightfully, euthanised him for), it was also the best for *me* when I rehomed to someone who lived on a large property and was wanting a running buddy. Kumo was 5 ½ years old at the time.

Hey there! I'm so happy you enjoy the fruit of my demons, thanks for letting me know. 🥰🥰

I do have a chapter of Devil May Care that I wrote 2 months ago that I still need to proofread and post.

For Intended, I don't know yet when I'll be able to resume posting. My job has required us all to return to office, and that has effectively killed all creative energy I once had. I'm job searching, but for now, while I know what happens in the story, I am lacking the words to effectively tell it. 😢 I hate it, and I have a few more chapters of the story from where I left off posting, but I didn't want to leave it on a cliffhanger, so believe me when I say it's far better resting where it is for now.

I'll post here and on Twitter when I can resume posting, and if you haven't subscribed to the story, I'd recommend that so you'll get a notification when the next chapter does post!