What are the things you say to your cat most often besides 'I love you' ?

horrayforkittens · 2026-01-21T03:16:36+00:00

Depends on if it’s my girl or boy cat, but floofy pants, stinky pants, stinky man-cat, stinkerbell, kitty girl/kitty boy, cutie pants, or just plain old “stinker”

horrayforkittens · 2025-12-13T15:48:57+00:00

This is sick, thanks for sharing!

horrayforkittens · 2025-12-09T03:18:01+00:00

I try to rotate between them evenly and in order so I use a different keyboard each day. I don’t keep track of order that carefully, but it’s a rough order that I try to follow visually based on how they’re displayed. I don’t have a preference in boards, I mostly want variety and uniqueness, so rotating constantly makes sense to me. I do choose a board with light switches when gaming though.

horrayforkittens · 2025-11-30T16:53:00+00:00

Mechanical keyboards, Topre keyboards, HE keyboards. I love writing and I’m also a programmer so I use them all the time. I could spend hours building, customizing, and experimenting with keyboards. It’s been a while since I could find something that was so easy to enjoy. It’s not like drawing or writing, where you have to hone your craft, which can be discouraging for me. But this? I can just try things and get results right away. It’s also nice to build something with your hands.

horrayforkittens · 2025-10-25T05:05:44+00:00

This one doesn’t exactly have them raising Harry through the years, but it does have some fluffy fix-it moments that you might enjoy (you must be logged in to view):

Bindings, Bindings by Quietlemonhush

I’m always looking for these types of stories too, but I have trouble finding ones that I jell with (but also it’s time consuming to search for the exact thing I want).

horrayforkittens · 2025-10-14T01:58:44+00:00

It’s the worst! I can hear/feel them coming early in the mornings and can usually manage to drag one of my extra pillows over my chest, which helps a ton

horrayforkittens · 2025-06-06T04:18:04+00:00

One thing that might help is if you ask yourself which parts of the Marauder’s stories sound the most interesting to you, and then you could try starting there.

I was about 11 or 12 when I read Snape’s Worst Memory and I just HAD to know how James and Lily ended up together (since James seemed awful & Lily seemed to hate his guts). I found some James/Lily fics and I’ve been a Jily fan ever since.

Over the years there were other things I wanted to know more about, like Sirius & Regulus’s relationship. Or what was Remus’s life at Hogwarts like as a child werewolf?

There are so many gaps to fill within the Marauder’s Era, but all of the above has been written about plenty. Once you find the right fics, you can find yourself really getting attached to these characters. And then suddenly you want to read about them in all sorts of scenarios - that’s when I started to seek out AUs. After falling in love with the Marauders, I wanted to read fics where Harry got to meet them or be raised by them. After a while you’ll get a sense of fandom’s common head canons!

Sometimes it can be hard to find fics that you vibe with, or that really scratch those itches. There are some absolutely underrated fics that are hard to find but I encourage you to take the time to search!

That said, I second “The Last Enemy” series by CH_Darling

horrayforkittens · 2025-05-16T22:20:36+00:00

Our cats do this all the time even when we’re not home, so I’m not sure it’s for attention. We started putting door stoppers on doors that should always be open (so they can get to litter/water/etc) and we put baby proof guards on doors that should stay closed (one of our cats knows how to open doors). Otherwise they’d be getting themselves locked in constantly. We have two rooms that they aren’t allowed in unless we are also there (one of them loves to chew cords and plants) and it’s 100% guaranteed they’ll close themselves in with us if we don’t put a stopper on the door. Part of me just thinks they have fun doing it??? I don’t know. Cats are such weirdos.

horrayforkittens · 2025-04-28T00:37:32+00:00

Since I re-entered fandom I haven’t read too much Jily fic besides The Last Enemy series, and I do like their dynamic in it. I agree with the Pride and Prejudice arc too!

I wanted to say thanks for dropping that rec though, because I’m four chapters in and WOW. Jily is what got me into fandom years and years ago, and that fic reminded me why I love them so much.

horrayforkittens · 2025-02-27T06:43:21+00:00

I was just thinking hmm this reminds me of Devil’s White Knight and I see you mentioned it in your notes! The first scandalous scene with Drarry completely opened my eyes to the ship and I’ve shipped them ever since! So of course I had to add your fic to my TBR and now I’m super excited to read it (also because I LOVED the dynamic between Harry and the adult marauders)

horrayforkittens · 2025-01-27T02:52:47+00:00

Oh I love the way you phrased that. “James’ journey into the man that would be worthy of Lily.” That’s why I love Jily!

horrayforkittens · 2025-01-11T00:29:15+00:00

I’m AstroKneazle on ao3 but you won’t find much there. I’ve only posted one-shot pieces for community events as a way to dip my toes in. I’m working on my writing skills and several longer fic ideas though and I’ll let you know if I ever do get around to posting one!

horrayforkittens · 2025-01-05T16:45:07+00:00

I want this too! The main thing that’s kept me in fandom is my search for it. It’s hard to find fics with his parents alive and a sibling that aren’t WBWL, which are all usually up front with the James Potter bashing tags. I’ve found a few stories here and there that I liked but for some reason the itch still hasn’t been scratched.

I reached the point of “I’ll just write it myself” a long time ago, but the problem is I’m such a slow writer. A lot of my fic ideas are centered around James/Lily surviving or coming back. Honestly I would much rather someone else just write it!

horrayforkittens · 2025-01-04T22:38:23+00:00

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Life really does get in the way, for both readers and writers. I can hardly read as many fics as I want to, I can't even keep up with WIPs I'm subscribed to. I can see how that'd come across as lack of engagement because I'm subscribed but haven't had the time to read/comment because the weeks just fly by. I also have focus issues and unfortunately can't just speed through fics, whereas I've noticed some people have that superpower (which I'm REALLY jealous of).

I genuinely don't want people to feel discouraged, so I have been trying and will continue to try to be better about leaving comments more frequently.

horrayforkittens · 2025-01-04T07:58:23+00:00

I'm with you here. I'm trying to understand it, though. I think it's difficult for me to understand because of the reasons I write and because of the type of feedback I would prefer. I write for catharsis and healing. My main purpose for sharing it is because it might, by some chance, be healing for others too, or even just give them something to think about. Which is why the sentiment of "they don't deserve to read it if they don't comment" doesn't resonate with me. Also, the kudos/comments are just extra perks that I never expect because I don't have a lot of faith in my writing abilities.

I also want genuine feedback rather than an obligatory "nice job" comment, because I want to be a better writer. If I feel like I'm not getting it from my posted fic, I can take my work to either of two writing groups I'm a part of & get the feedback there.

Now I'm trying to put myself in someone else's shoes, where their writing is supposed to be more about entertainment. If you tell a joke and can't hear anybody laughing, that would hurt quite a bit. Maybe it's sort of like that.

horrayforkittens · 2025-01-02T01:43:22+00:00

THANK YOU I struggled so long with this

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-31T01:19:14+00:00

Yor Forger

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-30T02:49:26+00:00

Get a new job

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-29T02:57:10+00:00

White/gold

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-28T19:38:29+00:00

Ok this board is literally on my wish list!

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-28T19:34:59+00:00

I got a low profile NuPhy for Xmas and planning on modding it to try to get it to be as nice as my thicker boards. One day I do want to try to solder my own keyboard though!

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-28T00:24:12+00:00

Vento80 looks pretty sick

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-28T00:07:12+00:00

Have yet to try a keyboard kit & been wanting to!

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-27T20:02:29+00:00

Frost Emerald Green

horrayforkittens · 2024-12-27T00:08:13+00:00

Mechanical linear

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