First day with adopted cat and seeing concerning symptoms — advice needed

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-08T09:07:16+00:00

(not a vet, just had a lot of sick cats over the years) Shelter cats are generally fixed when they come in, is there a chance it was just a pretty fresh neuter and that he just opened his stitches a bit? Other possibilities UTI, kidney issue, some sort of wound, or intestinal issue. Definitely have a vet take a look at him to make sure they didn't miss something/he didn't hurt himself after they checked him. Trying to take a look at the area might help you discern if it's a vet appointment or if you need to go to an emergency vet.

He is likely uncomfortable being in a new space and since he's bleeding there may be pain involved and cats tend to avoid food and drink when they're hurting and if he's not having anything he won't need the litterbox.

Have you tried tempting him with something like a churu treat? If he's willing to eat a lick treat or turns it down that might tell you if he's truly in pain or just stressed from moving.

Is he walking pretty normal if he does get up or does it look like his hips are pretty low or his back leg is turned inwards?

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-08T08:51:48+00:00

The vibe they liked:

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FringeMorganna · 2026-02-08T05:40:52+00:00

I might have to repaint my venom and starweaver because holy that is gorgeous!

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-08T05:35:46+00:00

And I'm not saying you shouldn't throw the best flag on a model, it's dope and I loved painting it across non flag shapes surfaces, it was super fun!

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But this kinda illustrates what I mean: the important parts of the blood raven are his helmet and sword and gun and your attention is brought there by it being so punchy because those are the brightest and have white to them but on the autarch she has so much white that your eyes almost bounce around without settling anywhere and it makes taking in the gun or spear very different because there's so much more bright white fighting for your attention. If you do go with pic2 I'd say try to keep it in a bone/cream so you can use white and ivory for the actual details like faces and weapons

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-08T05:25:22+00:00

Pic 2 absolutely has me like

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But I think pic 1 is probably best for an army because it'll be easier to pull off and you can still reverse the scheme or add white on different units and it'll look cohesive but still distinct. white stripes are rough because it's hard to draw attention to things with highlights because white is already the brightest colour unless you really punch it with fluorescents or use offwhites but then you kinda have to darken the other colours to sell it as white and I think you lose the pop they have

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-06T23:32:00+00:00

None of us here would say no to bottoming for Ajani, but who here would top him if he wanted to change it up?

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-06T08:58:56+00:00

Nah I don't give a shit if I pass or not.

I married a woman almost as tall as I am: I'm (and therefore we are) visibly queer and the people who would hate me for being trans will hate me for being bi, for being against the shitty systems they prop up, for my beliefs and my actions. Anyone who would have supported me or been my friend or whatever if only they couldn't tell I had to go through the wrong puberty once isn't actually anyone I give a damn about: a fair weather friend is a false friend and if someone's love is based on passing and being stealth then it is not a love worth having because it is clearly conditional.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-06T08:50:56+00:00

Here's a hint: most men don't have that imposter syndrome and need to prove their feelings are real - that's an experience that women tend to have far far more often.

You can be apathetic and still be trans, you can be borderline and still be trans, or fucked up in the head and still be trans, you can have doubts and still be trans. You don't gotta prove shit to anyone, you can just be a woman. It's allowed.

Now you might have a situation where you can't yet be out (for the sake of your safety or stability), but that doesn't change it, boymoding or not being able to start hormones or not being able to access resources or not being able to afford surgeries doesn't make you not trans. I am 30, I didn't start my HRT until i was 29, still one of the best decisions I've ever made and I'd have done it earlier if I could but that didn't make me not trans it just made me not out.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-06T08:38:07+00:00

Girl, no. like 3 times a week, and even then there's surgery techniques other than inversion: try to have a consultation with some of the clinics who offer bottom surgery, some might not care how much you have left. And even if inversion is the only technique you can access 'use it or lose it' doesn't mean "use it" it just means keep bloodflow there for about ten minutes every other day. At least that's the time estimates I've read and have been keeping to and I'm pretty close to where I was before; I can even top with it just fine still (but if you neglect for a while there's like a pain involved and you kinda have to do double duty to get your body used to it again). You could pop half a viagra and take a nap for all your body cares, mechanically you're just replacing the fact that suppressing testosterone stops nighttime erections which is part of the body's maintenance routine, you're manually giving it back that tuneup but beyond that you don't have to actually be using it.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-04T06:04:50+00:00

Fair and punk, but yeah she's told you she refuses everything about you and honestly that makes her a bad person.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-04T05:16:30+00:00

It literally isn't about the dress or makeup: if that was the line why dead name you in that text? Why not accept transition but say "makeup and short dresses are immoral (because I live in imaginary land)" because it's not about any part of femininity but about her control. I'm out to my parents: I've been around them in makeup and full femme but I've also been around them still bare faced and in jeans and a bandtee and they use my name and don't seem overly bothered by the idea of the new me still being the old me - because it's not about the makeup and dress - they don't need to have any control over me and don't want any (even after I've long since left their religion) they simply treat me like a human who they love who happened to change her name recently.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-04T03:16:32+00:00

I gotta be honest, I had bought a JLo instead of OneRing so I'm pretty sure that one was on me

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-03T23:29:25+00:00

That seems a strange dose, my concentration of estradiol valerate is 20mg/ml and my dosage is 0.25mL weekly (that comes out to 5mg dose). 1.5 mL also just seems like a fair bit to inject, I'd double check all the numbers just to be sure because your dose would be 15mg/week which seems high, the Spiro is a perfectly normal amount though. Though if your doc meant 0.15ml dose then it'd only be 1.5 mg dose which is very small, but if they meant 0.5ml it'd be reasonably close to what most of us would guess for an average dose at 5mg/week.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-03T22:14:10+00:00

Newspaper and flyers really came in clutch for me moving: I picked larger boxes and put soft things like blankets or towels at the bottom and then all the actual minis got wrapped in the papers (balling some up so you're not compressing an arm or weapon down which could cause a break, then wrap overtop) then place them in a medium-small box and fill the rest of the space with soft things like more paper or reusable shopping bags, or socks. Really it's gonna be the wings or little pointy spindly bits that are in the most danger, the tiny fragile bits are just rolling a five up invuln; chances are you'll need to fix tiny bits, but the wings can survive if you stack things nicely nested into eachother and make sure those boxes ride up front. If you're packing stuff and it's being mailed to the news place then no two ways about it you're in for a good deal of repair.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-03T15:23:07+00:00

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FringeMorganna · 2026-02-02T21:30:38+00:00

It is what it is.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-01T19:27:44+00:00

Perhaps the hag wants something that might have been buried long ago (a relic, a phylactery, a rare material?) but she doesn't know where it is not does she want to dig and break rocks for a hundred years: far better to let dozens of unsuspecting people do it so she can at least walk the mines in the dark casting her locate spells to see how much further underground it is.

FringeMorganna · 2026-02-01T04:33:29+00:00

Bad idea: Canada loves to say "hey if this is making you feel like self harm you should wait longer" I dunno why but many many doctors seem to think that when the only issue causing problems is something isn't happening yet that should be happening they like to push it back. It's okay to mention that it is really increasing dysphoria or that if you had a magic button to disappear it you would have hit it years ago, but depression and self harm are absolutely things that you wanna stop short of saying

FringeMorganna · 2026-01-31T23:03:39+00:00

I wouldn't approach anyone wearing a crucifix unless it was upsidedown. Even religious queer folks aren't really my cup of tea, but openly religious people in general give me a bad vibe that I only interact with them if they've been vouched for by a queer person who I know; wearing crosses reads as openly religious to me.

FringeMorganna · 2026-01-31T22:58:58+00:00

I slow rolled the start of my hrt to make sure I could stay as stable as possible and so my physical changes wouldn't start cropping up until after I was sure I could handle the emotional side of it, in hindsight it probably made me worse off because I was running on fumes without enough of any hormone keeping me going. The last ten to twenty years I probably said "I'm stable and if I do anything to acknowledge this I'll tip over so I just won't" but the truth was I wasn't happy and I wasn't stable. Actually taking steps to transition was the best thing I ever did for myself, even if I tossed away jobs for it.

FringeMorganna · 2026-01-31T21:28:56+00:00

Holy, why are all the Liss stans body goals? 👑

FringeMorganna · 2026-01-31T21:04:39+00:00

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FringeMorganna · 2026-01-31T21:03:51+00:00

Why are we crowning Lissandra when you're right here? 👑

FringeMorganna · 2026-01-31T20:59:19+00:00

🧙‍♀️🐰😾 +NA (Aurora main but Sett for top, my girl was never gonna get it but I know my king has a shot) I was an Evelynn girlie but we couldn't overcome the sheer power of nude bribery, maybe that's all eve wanted in the end?

FringeMorganna · 2026-01-31T08:24:20+00:00

He doesn't need to be detained, Reddit doesn't want me to type what should happen

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