#botherbug

ID: Two small, fat, and beautiful colorpoint cats mill about on the floor, which is strewn with toys, begging for food with enormous jewel-blue eyes.

The little white and gray female cries piteously, like a young child who is melodramatically but effectively portraying an orphan in a school play.

The white and brown male, with barely a pause for breath, somehow lets forth a tireless wailing louder and more despairing than that of the forsaken souls of the dead who rend their clothes and pound their fists helplessly into the cold and muddy banks of the River of Lamentation.

Jasper and Juniper!

(Jasper is the seal? point boy with the curly ear on the left, and Juniper is the lilac? lynx point girl on the right.)

Do you understand now?

That they are so adorable?

They're littermates and love each other very much.

Jasper doesn't seem to have any original ideas at all, he just kind of does whatever he sees his sister doing, unless it takes effort. Juniper seems to have lots of ideas but they're all very bad and naughty. We appear to have a himbo and a crimebeast. They are Incredibly Friendly and I desperately want to keep them.

Or try to! Things are going pretty well with the slow introduction, Fancy is spending time around them at whatever distance she wants.

But yeah, I just... can't not keep them. I'm already too attached to Jasper, and Juniper is extremely attached to both of us.

There's a lot of love I'm never going to get to give to Sid and Raleigh, who died FAR, FAR too young, or to DPM, who was living on stolen time but who I still didn't have time to love enough. And with a MASSIVE loss like those three in one terrible week, I felt all my mistakes and all my failures so much more keenly. I didn't do enough, love on them enough, work with them enough, play with them enough, teach them enough, post enough pictures of them. I wasn't enough. Nobody ever could be. But I want to do more this time.

So these babies are very much a coping mechanism, giving me an outlet for all that love with nowhere to go, and I'm going to do everything good I can for them and Fancy going forward. And take a thousand thousand pictures and post a hundred hundred of them.

Good morning!

The Jeebers are getting bigger. Look how handsome Jasper is! Look at his little curly ear! Look at Juniper's little pink nose! Look at her ear tufts! How lovely they are. How truly wonderful.