screams into the abyss

Thanks, Anon!

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

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.

Thanks, Anon!

"Very rarely" could include anything that you only take off when you need to clean it, have to have medical imaging, want to keep it safe during an atypical activity, etc.

If any part of the jewelry remains on or in your body all/almost all the time (e.g. a stud that stays in and you swap out interchangeable ends), count that.

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“Mid-twenties effect” is defined here as like, your moods and mental health leveling out and somewhat stabilizing. Not mental illness disappearing but a general decrease in mood turbulence and that feeling that everything is the end of the world mostly disappearing. And this usually happening around age 25 though anywhere like 24-27 would also count it you had to place an exact time where it “flipped”.