Yes Potato Cat
1. Based on the Your Book Title Is The Last Text You Sent post, I saidÂ
Mine is YES POTATO CAT. Yes, all in caps.
2. Which was a reference to this photo of Sci’s cat Link, who I have frequently referred to as the world’s fuzziest potato, andÂ
3. To which @dreamwaffles repliedÂ
I dare you to make this a title of a Shivadhverse story.
I feel like there are a couple of directions a book titled Yes Potato Cat could go, including styling it as “Yes. Potato. Cat.” like it’s a series of answers or key words in a quirky spy thriller satire.Â
Could also be a children’s book within the universe, in the vein of Where’s My Cow in the Discworld Watch books, neither of which are any sillier than my favorite book as a tiny child, Panda Cake. I do rather like the idea that Gregory would dig out his old worn copy so that he could read it to his kid(s), and then be shocked and confused that Eddie had never heard of Yes Potato Cat. Gregory, Alanna, and Jerry can all recite it from memory and because he had to read it to them constantly, so can Michaelis. Even Noah knows it because Jes used to read it to him as a baby. Eddie is disturbed by the narrative of a cat who is also a potato, but he can’t really argue because Gregory is equally disturbed by Eddie’s parents mailing him a copy of Zag (a genuinely unsettling book to give a child, thanks My Parents).Â
But if I was going to write it as an actual participatory romance within the world it’d have to be about someone who takes in a stray potato-stealing cat that leads them inexplicably to love. This is almost definitely already a Hallmark movie, and if we think Yes Potato Cat is a weird title, let’s remember one of my favorite awful Hallmark films is literally called A Shoe Addict’s Christmas.Â
