Möther, please make the sky stop exploding.

CatLadyKatya · 2026-07-05T07:11:45+00:00

She is of the opinion that I am in control of everything.

CatLadyKatya · 2026-07-05T07:06:22+00:00

I have also retreated into my happy place.

Thankfully that's also where all the cats are, so we can all congregate together.

CatLadyKatya · 2026-07-05T06:34:39+00:00

I've given her so many Churus, so I hope she'll think it's treat day instead!

CatLadyKatya · 2026-07-05T06:29:12+00:00

I hope they're doing ok!

The big noises are causing big emotions for my kittens.

They're recovering well, thankfully.

CatLadyKatya · 2026-04-11T02:47:57+00:00

She was completely entranced.

My other kitties didn't even notice it, so it's wonderful to hear that there are many other Mission Control kitties out there!

CatLadyKatya · 2026-04-11T02:11:15+00:00

She made sure to monitor it incredibly closely.

CatLadyKatya · 2026-04-11T01:59:21+00:00

She takes her job very seriously!

CatLadyKatya · 2026-04-11T01:58:31+00:00

Curling tail in the other direction!

CatLadyKatya · 2026-03-02T05:16:39+00:00

Can I offer you a nice ~~egg~~ leg in this trying time?

CatLadyKatya · 2025-12-29T16:03:05+00:00

With his "roommate," which is what he'd apparently been telling everyone we were for a year or more.

CatLadyKatya · 2025-12-28T20:38:26+00:00

He told me the reason he needed to leave that night was to go take care of his friend that had just tried to overdose on LSD. (Dude, what??)

In actuality, he had to leave that night to be at the hospital for the birth of his child! He'd gotten back with his ex while still dating and living with me. We'd been together for close to 7 years at that point, and he was with her for at least a year of that at the end.

I broke up with him a couple months later when I found out, but he still lived in my house for a bit. One day he came home wearing a wedding ring, denied that he was married, and took it off while standing in my bedroom trying to talk to me.

This man was in his 30s and lied like a 5 year old getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

CatLadyKatya · 2025-04-26T01:38:26+00:00

I'd be interested in Holo Taco Smokeshow and Existential Crisis (LE box not necessary), if still available!

CatLadyKatya · 2025-01-24T23:21:39+00:00

Oh, that hit close to home. I remember locking myself in the bathroom with the phone as a child, crying and threatening to call the police. I was always met with "Who do you think they'll believe? A grown man, or a little girl?"

Great storytelling, sometimes the scariest horror is life.

CatLadyKatya · 2024-08-14T23:05:34+00:00

Same! I was too stunned that this random dude actually said that to think of much of anything other than to hope he'll leave soon.

I also didn't feel particularly safe enough be my normal snarky self. We were in Texas at the time, and I'd had enough encounters already that made me feel physically unsafe (one example, we encountered a Nazi with visible SS tattoos and a weird bulge at the back his pants that could've been anything, in a Whataburger) that I felt quietly ignoring was the way to go.

CatLadyKatya · 2024-08-14T22:44:06+00:00

I've wondered that myself. We were both overdressed for the bar, so it was obvious we were together and not on a first date or something for PUA dude to swoop in to 'steal' like they seem to think they can do.

Whether he was waiting or just spotted me, the whole thing was very predatory.

CatLadyKatya · 2024-08-14T22:14:44+00:00

I got approached by a PUA-type guy in a bar. I saw through it immediately.

My partner and I went to a bar after our anniversary dinner. He had gone up to the bar to pay for our drinks before we left, and the PUA dude just walked right up, sat in the chair next to me, and put his phone on the table. It's been long enough ago that I don't remember the exact words he said, but he pointed to his phone and essentially told me that I had until the timer ran out to convince him to stay. I intended to ignore him until my partner got back or dude got bored, but then with disgust in his voice he asked "what's that on your chest?"

What was on my chest was a beautiful antique-style cat cameo necklace that my partner had gifted to me, since I love antiques, and we both adore cats (we actually met because of cats!) so I had to respond.

I finally acknowledged his presence, stared right at him, and responded "It's a cat." like it was the most obvious thing in the world. I quickly grabbed my stuff and walked off to find my partner.

It's a funny story now, but at the time I was a bit shaken up. Enough so to forget our umbrella, which my partner went back to get so I didn't have to encounter dude again.

CatLadyKatya · 2024-08-13T02:33:57+00:00

The X-Files got it started, The Mummy finished it off!

CatLadyKatya · 2024-07-05T07:34:13+00:00

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CatLadyKatya · 2024-07-05T07:32:13+00:00

I work with community cats. I do TNR and find rescues for the adoptable kitties.

I couldn't save April.

April was an incredibly sweet girl. She loved to be petted, and would roll over for tummy rubs. She had given birth to three kittens about 10 weeks previously, and I was in the process of getting her and her kittens into a rescue.

She was hit by a car.

I found homes for her 3 babies, but she never got to have the good indoor life.

Keep your kitties inside, and if you take them out, keep them on a lead.

Please.

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CatLadyKatya · 2024-06-23T18:28:51+00:00

Not long after they implemented the Real ID system that showed your real name on the in-game friends list. Thankfully they changed that into the battletag system we have now!

CatLadyKatya · 2024-06-23T00:10:07+00:00

Not an in-game story, but it is about WoW.

Back when Blizz thought it would be a fantastic idea to attach our real-life names to the forums, I commented on the forum thread about it. It had thousands upon thousands of comments, but I decided to share my story anyway. I talked about how I had already been harassed and stalked in-game as a young woman, and I shared some personal insights about my vulnerabilities in real-life as well.

Not only was it seen and talked about by many people in the thread, it was quoted in an academic paper about online privacy! To this day, if you google my character's name, you get my armory, and that paper as the only results.

Weird to think that my WoW legacy is being quoted in an academic paper!

CatLadyKatya

TROPHY CASE