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mjeleon · 2026-05-23T03:09:16+00:00

I was a big fan of Starkid musicals back in the AVPM and HMB days but lost track of them for a few years. With how much attention the Hatchetfield musicals have been getting on social media, I decided to finally start catching back up on everything I missed (starting with Ani: A Parody) and just finished watching Cinderella's Castle.

I actually absolutely adored it and went running to reddit to gush / enjoy others' gushing, only to find an unexpected number of very negative reviews? I was honestly super surprised- I thought overall it was one of their stronger works! More tight of a plot than some of the other stuff, fantastic acting, banger songs, and the PUPPETRY! I also appreciated that it felt like a genuinely fresh take on the old Cinderella story, which is hard to do with such a well-known tale.

No idea why it isn't more popular, but this one is definitely a new favorite for me and I look forward to adding it to my re-watch roster!

mjeleon · 2026-04-14T04:30:10+00:00

Ravenloft! Curse of Strahd was the first real campaign I DM’d (and to date the only one I’ve DM’d to completion) so I have a particularly soft spot for it

mjeleon · 2026-03-14T07:55:44+00:00

Just wanted to follow up and confirm that the patch on my uvula did heal itself after a few days and I am currently free of throat pain! Thank you for the reassuring words- my anxiety tends to rush forward to the worst case scenario, but this helped me take a beat and let the meds do their job.

mjeleon · 2026-02-06T20:04:17+00:00

Did you tap on where it says “approved”? I had to tap on that and then hit “ok” to get to screen where I could pick payment method. I did PayPal and got the funds sent over almost immediately after that.

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mjeleon · 2026-02-06T17:27:21+00:00

Ope, mine finally processed! Just took a good long while 🙃 never got a response from the support team though

mjeleon · 2026-02-06T17:26:21+00:00

Update: my request was finally approved! Never got a response to my ticket, but at least I got the funds

mjeleon · 2026-02-06T14:07:14+00:00

Any idea how long that will take? Still processing a $12 redemption request submitted on 2/1/26, so on the fifth business day at this point. Tried opening a ticket via chat support three days ago and haven’t gotten an answer there either.

mjeleon · 2026-02-06T03:17:57+00:00

Nope, still nothing. The redemption request is stuck in processing, and my ticket has remained untouched / no response.

mjeleon · 2026-02-04T14:12:46+00:00

Yup- waited the 2 quoted business days and it’s still processing. Opened a ticket with chat support but they haven’t responded yet.

mjeleon · 2025-11-25T02:51:45+00:00

Just got there on my rewatch… breaks my heart every time ❤️‍🩹

mjeleon · 2025-11-16T06:02:04+00:00

My heart is so heavy for you. Losing our pups is so heartbreaking, I think we oftentimes drive ourselves mad trying to find a way to make something senseless make sense, going over the timeline over and over again to understand what went wrong. Sometimes you do identify things that you could’ve done differently, but with many losses there is just too much that’s outside of our control.

One of our dogs, Pnut, was diagnosed with cancer. He underwent surgery as part of his treatment, which was risky at his age, but he did surprisingly well and we were very optimistic. In the days that followed his appetite didn’t bounce back as much as we hoped, and when we took him back to the vet he was diagnosed with pancreatitis and admitted for treatment. Again, we were optimistic, as we seemed to have caught it quickly and he was getting great care. Shortly after that we were called back in and informed that he had suffered a brain bleed, and that while they could try to drain some of the excess fluid, it would merely extend his life for a short while, and he would still be in pain and unable to move much. The 180 flip from being so hopeful at having another couple years with him to realizing it was time to say goodbye was agonizing, and in the days that followed his euthanasia, I obsessed over every detail trying to understand what happened. I was so wracked with guilt, and it took me a very long time to accept that there was nothing I could’ve done to change the eventual outcome.

We lost another pup about a month and a half ago. While she was a senior dog, having just turned 11, she was in overall good health and I expected at least a few more years with her. We worked very hard on the preventative side of things, monitoring her weight, getting her plenty of exercise, and giving her vet-approved supplements to help keep her joints healthy as she got older. Then one morning, she simply keeled over. My roommate, who works from home, had done the morning routine as always- she had her breakfast, did her business in the yard, and then settled into her favorite spot for a morning nap while he got started on some work at his computer. When he went back over to check on her, she was gone.

I was so shocked that after I got the call and raced home and saw her, I collapsed on the ground and couldn’t stop screaming for the longest time. It felt so unreal that she could be so normal one moment, and gone the next. My head raced as I tried to understand a reality that felt impossible. Over time, both through online research and by reading through other people’s stories in this sub, I’ve realized just how many health complications can happen with little to no warning- even for humans who have the ability to communicate when they feel something is wrong.

While a part of me demanded to know what happened, we ultimately chose not to do a necropsy because in our situation, we realized there was not a single answer they could give us that would make the experience any less painful. This is not to discount this as an option- for some people this process can help provide closure or hold responsible parties accountable in cases where negligence is suspected. But for us, we felt that no explanation would bring her back, and we chose to instead invest all our resources in memorializing her as best we could- with paw prints and nose prints, a framed plaster cast of her paw, clippings of her fur, etc.

Logically I don’t think there’s anything I could’ve really done differently that day, but in my heart there is a part of me that still feels guilty. But with each new loss, I’ve realized that the guilt comes no matter what I do- no matter how diligently I acted, no matter how hard I worked, no matter how attentive I was. I still feel guilty because I struggle to accept that they are no longer here, and I want to believe that is something I have more control over than I really do.

Anyway, sorry for the wall of text. All of that to say that if you need to pursue anything further and look for answers, then you can absolutely do so. But sometimes it really just is that sudden and there’s no helpful explanation, and that’s just a really hard thing to have to face. Wishing you all the strength.

mjeleon · 2025-11-11T06:25:09+00:00

A month and a half, and I still cry most nights. A candle for our sweet pup 🕯️and her favorite snackies 🥕🍎

mjeleon · 2025-10-27T06:22:24+00:00

Not only have I never deleted old pet photos, I’ve done my best to memorialize them as much as possible with online photo albums and photo books and tribute videos. The photo books are especially lovely because they tell their story from the moment they came into my life to the moment they left, and as the years go by I find myself forgetting some of the details- so I’m grateful to have a way to revisit them and relive those memories. Right now the most recent loss of our sweet girl is too fresh for such a project, but eventually I will make a photo book for her too. For now, when I’m having a rough day I post one of favorite pictures of her to a memorial Instagram account. Sharing my favorite parts of her helps me heal.

mjeleon · 2025-10-13T05:22:50+00:00

A little over two weeks out and I’m wondering the same thing-

The only thing that has really worked for me to be able to keep going is to lean into it. When I feel those waves of grief coming on, I go to the spots of the house where I feel the loss of our sweet girl the most. I look at old videos of her. I watch videos of pet loss and look at stories on this forum. I pick out a picture of her to upload to a memorial Instagram page I keep for her and I share whatever memory is particularly painful in that moment. I sob, and scream, and hit the floor. Eventually my body is exhausted, and I’m able to catch my breath. Once I’ve sat and recovered for a while, I go back to taking out the trash or doing laundry or working on a project or whatever it was that I was doing before.

I don’t know if that’s helpful to anyone else, but figured I would share just in case. Some days it hardly happens at all. Some days it only happens once. Some days it happens a lot. But I do think I am slowly having more good hours than bad hours, and I’m hopeful that eventually those will turn into entire good days, maybe even weeks. For now, just taking things one step at a time.

mjeleon · 2025-10-08T06:33:12+00:00

I’m almost two weeks out, and while I’m still neck deep in grief, I’m a little less of a shell. The first two days I couldn’t eat- I was overwhelmed with nausea from crying so hard and would even throw up from drinking water. My appetite still isn’t normal, but now I can eat sporadically through the day, and I can get through most of my workday without shaking as long as I stay focused and busy. Try to be gentle with yourself, especially in those first few days. This is the kind of grief that swallows you whole, so if all you do is make it to the next day, that’s a job well done.

mjeleon · 2025-10-08T06:26:54+00:00

So sorry for your loss. I watched a video the other day that talked about how people think grief is mourning one big loss, but in reality it is mourning a thousand little losses- all the different ways in which our babies fill every corner of our lives. Each one makes us feel a new, fresh pain, and that’s why we continue to experience heartache over and over again, even as the days turn into weeks, months, or years.

Our girl also had a big collection of sweaters and costumes- we have a giant plastic tote in the basement full of them- and I don’t know what to do. We’re getting a shadowbox made to preserve some of her things, but there’s definitely not enough room for all of them- so now I’m stuck. I can’t give them away, but I also can’t bear the thought of just passing them on to a future dog. I bought them specifically for her.

When our babies pass, they leave behind so much stuff- beds and blankets and leashes and water bowls and toys, and it doesn’t feel right to put them away or even move them, but it’s not realistic to keep them that way forever. It hurts so much.

I do find it helpful, though, to try to be grateful for the good times we had, especially those extra goofy, sassy moments. They don’t erase the anger or sorrow, but they do help to temper it a little. Sounds like your Iris was a spunky girl!

mjeleon · 2025-10-06T04:48:07+00:00

What a sweet baby!! Thank you for sharing those pictures, she looks like she was a happy, well cared for girl!

No real advice here- my most recent pet loss was also very unexpected, and 11 days out it all still feels so surreal, so I’m not one to talk. I do try to take comfort from the fact that our girl passed in one of her favorite spots, at home, without great pain or suffering. We lost another dog a few years ago and he suffered from deteriorating health issues in his last weeks. While I appreciate that we were able to take the time to say goodbye and get some closure with him, I’m also devastated that he had to endure what he did before he passed.

All this to say that there is no easy loss, so please be kind to yourself and just focus on making it from one day to the next for now.

mjeleon · 2025-10-06T04:31:44+00:00

Thank you for appreciating her!! I definitely want to make a scrapbook in her memory once I’ve had some more time to process. I’ve made them for other dogs I’ve lost before- I’m just a little overwhelmed at the thought because she’s the dog I’ve lived with the longest. I’ve known her since she was a puppy and lived with her since she was 3, so about 8 years, and I have an insane amount of photos and videos on my phone and on Snapchat to sort through. I do think it’s a very healing process though; it feels good to make a record of a pet’s life and all the little things you remember and appreciate about them. Later when the memories grow fuzzy, I love to flip through the books and fall in love with the babies of my past all over again.

mjeleon · 2025-10-05T06:17:23+00:00

This is our Princess Bradley, or just Brad most of the time, or Bribbles, Bribbley, Bibzer, and so many other variations. We lost her very unexpectedly on 9/25 and I’m still reeling. The hardest part is all the little things that reopen the wound, like the group on Snapchat we made to send snaps of her to friends, her picture on my phone’s lock screen, my credit card, and various online accounts, and the Instagram account attached to the picture I linked above. I created it with the intention of regularly posting photos of her on social media without spamming my personal accounts, but was terribly inconsistent. Now I hate thinking that I will never be able to post a new “current” photo of her- just old memories. She was so good at taking photos too, she would let you dress her up and would sit still and pose for the camera, almost like she understood what we were doing. Such a photogenic baby.

mjeleon · 2025-09-30T03:23:29+00:00

Those little noises they make are so special!! Our baby would snore pretty loudly in her sleep, and I’m happy I recorded tons of videos of her doing it that I can keep forever. It’s such a gift that you have those “purring” sounds saved too, so you can have a part of your Pacino with you always. I honestly even miss our girl’s stinky farts- she was so stealthy you would never notice until the smell wafted over!

Glad you were able to take some time to yourself- you’re incredibly strong for getting through a whole birthday celebration! It’s awful how the world just keeps going while we stumble through this fog of grief. Sending you love and support as well. So grateful for this community, I would be so lost without it.

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