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🐾✨ Surrounded by Cats, Wrapped in Elegance 💃😻

A cozy room, a beautiful vibe, and a heart full of cat love 🐱💖
Sometimes happiness is just dressing up, holding a tiny kitten, and being surrounded by adorable furry friends. ✨🐾
Soft smiles, warm moments, and endless cat energy made this picture feel magical. 😍

Too Glam to Handle, Too Cute to Ignore 😍🐱

Just a gorgeous moment with endless cat vibes 🐾😻
Feeling cute, stylish, and completely surrounded by furry happiness. Sometimes all you need is a beautiful smile, a cozy room, and lots of cats to make the perfect day. 💃🐱💖

i saw this documentary once about how reintroducing wolves to this landscape they'd previously inhabited had all these unexpected knock-on effects that the conservationists running the reintroduction had not predicted. it turns out the wolves were a kind of ecological linchpin, and a number of other things depended on their presence.

eating at least once a day, trading pictures sometimes with my friend, but always checking in about it, has been like this. trying out a recipe of theirs for something in a picture they'd sent, i bought some arugula. and after i was out of tofu for that, i still had like half a bin of arugula left. so, on my way home from the dentist today, only intending to pick up some hummus and pita, i ended up remembering the arugula, and thinking, i could make a salad of what's left, just add two or three things and some dressing.

and then i thought, well i'll run out of arugula before i run out of these salad plug-ins, so, i bought some more arugula, and now i've entered some sort of polyrhythmic math metal loop where i'll be eating salad until everything happens to all run out at the same time. and who knows when that'll be.

i remembered how i love olives with hummus and pita. i got some donuts. cottage cheese? the real point is, i bought much more than i went in there intending to buy, and most of that was produce or perishable.

i'm eating fresh foods regularly. i was gonna say "again" but i do not remember when this has happened? not *reg*ularly. and sure tbf it's been like a week or something, but. idk this feels like some kind of foundation. checking in with my friend about it is nice, but i just like talking with them. it's a magic feather. i don't need it, to fly. it just takes me a minute to feel that out.

the thing is, i'm not really trying that hard. about the fresh foods. my friend is like. terraforming my emotional landscape or something lol. or directing me in some parts of it, maybe. there's a lot around food. i've written about it here before. for my mom, it's a powerful control. which means, for me, ultimately, it's a huge obstacle.

"oh no i'm gonna look like kash patel"

i'm having a lot of like. deeply-rooted purposeful feeling coming through my body lately. it's something like. helping me really feel how all these other paths derive from my music, so, lean into that, and let the rest be what it will, basically. and it's really helping me relax on some very fundamental level that's been all tangled up on itself all my life.

the phishing thing got me going because i was already out and busy, and, as a trans person, i'm very ready to expect this kind of thing 1) is actually happening and 2) is most likely an intentional attack. so, at a glance, i was like, okay, i'll deal with that when i get home, but in the meantime, here's how i feel about facebook lol

and then i got home and started following the instructions to appeal, and at some point my browser was like, uh, this doesn't look right. and i was like, you know. now that you mention it,,, because the appeal instructions were like. bizarrely technical. so i went and looked more closely at the notification, and saw how it was written to appear, at a glance, like a notification from facebook.

before long, i had to click on a couple are you you? buttons, use an authenticator, and all this sort of thing. and now it looks like it's all fine again, and nobody got anything from me, because i stopped short of actually giving it to them.

aside from knowing identifying features of this specific approach, i can be aware that slightly more than half of how they get me going is that i'm tired and distracted and stressed already, so, in the future, if i can't immediately tell something's a fake, i'm gonna get home, have something to eat, maybe take a bath, and suchlike. and then take a look at it.

one of my favorite people got one of my favorite games and now we can play it together and so we did 😎🫱🏼‍🫲🏻😎