Inspector George Gently: Fanfiction: There's No Place Like Home
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lucy_romanRating: Teen and up
Summary: John is in London but he misses George. Pre-slash. Set after the episode Gently Through the Mill.
Word Count: 667
( There's No Place Like Home )
June Patreon Panel: This Saturday!
Jun. 16th, 2026 10:43 amduckprintspress
Patreons at the $7/month and higher are invited to join us this Saturday, June 20th, at 9 p.m. Eastern (converter) for our latest panel, about things our editors love to see and their pet peeves! Joining us for this panel are Alex Bauer, Shannon Lippert, MJ Kiwiana, and Shea Sullivan.
Description: What is grammatically correct and what we enjoy reading and editing are circles that make a Venn diagram with broad, but far from universal, overlap. The same can be said for what is incorrect and what we hate. For this panel, we’ve got a group of four editors with whom we’ll be discussing all four of these categories – what is grammatically correct, what is grammatically incorrect, what we enjoy reading and editing, and what we hate reading and editing – and discussing our perceptions of all of the them and how they interrelate and where they overlap (and where they don’t!). We’ll discuss our experiences and learning processes as editors, what makes us go !!! in the best possible way when we open a document to edit, our biggest pet peeves, and related topics.
Already a Patron? Not one yet? Either way, I hope you’ll join us!
TV Tuesday: Keeping It Close
Jun. 16th, 2026 09:53 amyourlibrarian posting in tv_talk
There’s been discussion before here on
tv_talk about U.S. cable networks shrinking away. Now it seems that local broadcast stations are also entering a decline. "The revenue squeeze also comes at a time when TV stations are actually producing more hours of local news than ever before. The major networks are offering fewer hours to their affiliates in daytime. Syndicated shows are going away as they can no longer attract large enough audiences to support them."
Do you watch your local broadcast stations? What programming do you value most from them?
Five Very Different Science Fictional Takes on Space Habitats
Jun. 16th, 2026 10:32 amjames_davis_nicoll
Imagining life among the stars, from space stations in crisis to a planet-sized shopping mall...
Five Very Different Science Fictional Takes on Space Habitats
Kraith Collected is Being Copied to AO3!
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otw_news_feedKraith Collected, a collection of Star Trek zines set in the Kraith universe, is importing a copy of the zines’ fanworks to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).
In this post:
- A bit of background explanation
- What this means for creators who had work(s) in Kraith Collected
- And what to do if you still have questions
Background explanation
Kraith Collected is a series of works in the Kraith universe, a series of Star Trek: The Original Series fanfictions, many originally published in other zines. Each volume contains works by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and other writers whose works went through several rounds of edits to be given a number in the Kraith chronology and become part of the official Kraith universe. There are also two pieces of meta, Kraith Creator’s Manual and Understanding Kraith, which describe the Kraith universe.
The fanzines to be imported are:
- Kraith Collected: Fanlore page and AO3 collection
- Kraith Creator’s Manual: Fanlore page and AO3 collection
- Understanding Kraith: Fanlore page and AO3 collection
The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s AO3 Fanzine Scan Hosting Project (FSHP) is to assist publishers of fanzines to incorporate the fanworks from those fanzines into the Archive of Our Own. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with publishers who want to import their fanzines and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Kraith Collected to import a copy of the fanzines listed above into separate, searchable collections on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the fanzines in their entirety, all art in the fanzines will be hosted on the OTW’s servers and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.
We will begin importing works from Kraith Collected to AO3 after July 2026. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the task. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collections in the meantime.
What does this mean for creators who had work(s) in Kraith Collected?
We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We’ll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.
All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors.
Please contact Open Doors with your creator pseud(s) and email address(es), if:
- You’d like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than the publisher has a record of.
- You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
- You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
- You would NOT like your works copied to AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the fanzine collections.
- You are happy for us to preserve your works on AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
- You have any other questions we can help you with.
Please include the name of the publisher or fanzine in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account the publisher has a record of, please contact Open Doors and we’ll help you out. (If you’ve posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they’re yours, that’s great; if not, we will work with Kraith Collected to confirm your claims.)
Please see the Open Doors website for instructions on:
- importing your works to AO3
- adding your works to the new collections listed above
If you still have questions…
If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.
We’d also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Kraith Collected, Kraith Creator’s Manual, and Understanding Kraith on Fanlore. If you’re new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.
We’re excited to be able to help preserve Kraith Collected!
– The Open Doors team and Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.
Emma Southon: Servus: How Slavery made the Roman Empire
Jun. 16th, 2026 03:56 pmselenakOne name we do know is that of a librarian named Dionysius. He was ineslaved by Cicero and, in 46 CE, his name appeared in several of Cicero's letters because he had fled from his slavery. Dionysius first appears in a letter aaddressed to the governor of Illyricium, which was the area we now call the Balkans (...). In 46 CE, Cicero was one of the most prominent and famous men in the empire but had largely retired from politics in order to marry a teenager who had once been his ward. Thus, his letter was mostly general chit chat, and it ended with a request for a favour: Dionysius, Cicero's librarian, had disappeared. Somehow (Palpatine returned. No, not that), it had been revealed that Dionysius had stolen a large number of books. Whether he did this to sell for profit or for his own library we don't know but, like many enslaved people, he saw someone with a surfeit and skimmed some off the top, and got caught.
Realising a punishment was coming and it might be appalling, Dionysius decided to get out of certian danger. He travelled from either Rome or Tusculum to a port and managed to talk himself onto a boat out of Italy. He crossed the Adriatic Sea and, upon arriving in Narona (in modern-day Croatia), bumped straight into one of Cicero's friends, Marcus Bolanus. Recognising Dionysius, Bolanus got chatting to him. Dionysius held his nerve with extraordinary presence of mind, convinced Bolanus that Cicero had freed him and onctinued on his way. When Cicero found out from Bolanus about the sighting, he immediately wrote the surviving letter to the governor of the province asking him to send soldiers to search for Dionysius and return him to Rome for punishment. Nine months later Cicero was still writing to everyone he knew in Illyricum demanding that they use imperial and military resources to "sourch by land and sea" through the Balkans for his missing librarian. When Caesar sent an army to the province to crush some locals in 45 CE, Cicero added "the affair of Dionysius" onto their mission, offering to allow the commander to lead the librarian in his Triumph as a prisoner of war.
It seems that Dionysius was smarter than Cicero and had got as far away from Illyricum as he could the seocnd he saw Bolanus because he was never caught. I hope he lived a happy life somewhere beyond the reach of Rome.
There is a source problem if you want to focus on slaves in the ancient world, i.e. 99% of the surviving literary texts hail from the rich senatorial class who usually only bother to mention slaves when they have a complaint, and while many graffiti and also enscriptions on tomb stones by freedmen - and freedwomen ensure we also have direct testimony by the enslaved, it still isn't nearly as much compared to the 1%. So you have to be grateful for mentions in someone else's biography (like, say, Caenis the freedwoman in Vespasian's, or Asiaticus in that of Vtellius), while still aware that mammunited slaves successful enough for Roman historians to complain about their influence are very much not the rule of how the majority of enslaved people ended up. Given my recent reading of The Four Emperors quadrology, i.e. four novels which despite the title do not focus on the Emperors themselves in the Year of the Four Emperors but on the staff on the Palatine who kept the Empire running in the year between Nero's death and Vespasian's final victory, I nodded along to the emphasis about how most of the the work in practically every branch, but especially bureaucratic administration, ended up being done by slaves or freedmen, and flinched whenever the book got to the sexual exploitation of slavery (which started at an incredibly early age). On a lighter note, I was amused but not surprised to discover Emma Southon did like Spartacus: Blood and Sand ("That show contains bizarre, over the top aesthetics, but is one of the few Roman-themed TV shows to take the dynamics of slavery seriously.")
As with "A Fatal Thing happened on the way to the Forum", some of the most touching passages do hail from tombstone enscriptions by grieving parents commemorating their children (and thus illustrating, if it needs to be done, that living in an era of high chlid mortality and in an incredibly brutal system does not stop you from loving your child and wanting people to know about its sweetness or cheerful ways). And the constant snark about every Roman celebrity ever never gets old, either. In conclusion: a very dark book, but worth reading. Dionysius the escaped librarian needs his own novel!
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
Jun. 16th, 2026 08:55 amjames_davis_nicoll
A pair of time-travelling researchers investigating Jane Austen explore the consequences of two cardinal sins: getting personally involved with their research subject and getting personally involved with each other.
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
Hellblazer isn't straight
Jun. 16th, 2026 01:08 pmbeccaelizabethand it reminded me how interesting the first Hellblazer omnibus has been about sex.
There are a lot of other stories where the all conquering hero gets the girl. Or where creeps use their power to get the girl. Guys use what they've got to get sex.
John Constantine, interestingly queer antihero from the get go, has thus far used sex or dating to get information, magic, power, and on more than one occasion a place to sleep.
( Read more... )
I've gotten obsessed with (killer) sudoku again...
Jun. 16th, 2026 10:19 pmzavodilaterrariumAlso, shoutout to 9Lana! I love dynamic songs. I also love when singers do uh, I don't know what it's called — but it's a technique I associate with Eastern opera, of oscillating pitch in a specific way that isn't really present in mainstream Westernised music and sounds kinda 'weird' but it's SO good precisely because of that. IIRC Kurahashi Yoeko does it a lot? Very cool, I find it hard to make it sound intentional with my own skills so props to anyone who does it well.
Books read, early June
Jun. 16th, 2026 07:15 ammrissaStephen R. Bown, The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire. Of the three books I bought at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History, this one was the disappointment. It was fine, and it's not so bad when the worst you do is fine. However, it stopped when the HBC was no longer the de facto government of much of Canada, and I thought the transition from that to ordinary company was going to be the most interesting part. It also dropped facts in without context--things like "these two officials went from having Native common-law wives and families to being absolute bigots about other people doing that" without giving much of the larger scope, for example. Mine is a household where we might at some point have need of a book that covers the early history of the Hudson's Bay Company, so I'm shelving and keeping it, but unless you have that specific interest right now, I wouldn't recommend it.
Sarah Rees Brennan, All Hail Chaos. Definitely a middle book. Completely and totally a middle book, do not try starting here, the first one is still widely available and it is where you start to have any of the impact of what's going on here. You can have the outline of what's going on here, because the outline is all Generic Epic Fantasy, it's the emotional content that makes the isekai work as it does. Chaotically. Full of dread portent. Yeah. Still glad it's here, but start with the first one.
Shannon Chakraborty, The Tapestry of Fate. Second of the Amina al-Sirafi books, and I enjoyed it just as much as the first one. Time has passed, consequences have ensued, and this is a very different shape of plot while still doing much of what I enjoyed in the first one. I was a little frustrated by how long it took the characters to figure out their situation, but I was having so much fun I didn't mind too much. More of this please.
Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. I think one of the things that Crabapple does particularly well in this history of a particular thread of Jewish thought is that she doesn't fall into the trap of "if you all had just listened to my relatives, we'd have been fine." She clearly has not only personal history but also personal sympathy with the Jewish Bund, but at no point does she mistake "these are/were my people, and I generally think they were right" with "and therefore they could have fixed everything." It's a period of Jewish history that's going to have very harrowing aspects but still worth knowing about, even/especially for Gentiles like me who frequently need to remind fellow Gentiles that Jewish thought is not all one thing; it's nice to have the footnotes on that.
Matthew Dimmock, Writing Tudor Exploration: Richard Eden and West Africa. Kindle. Small monograph that went, as he describes it, a very different direction than he'd intended. Interesting watching the Spanish influences and local pressures balancing each other out to get to what early Tudor exploration writing actually looked like.
Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard, and Sebastien Malette, Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Metis From the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Across to the Pacific. This is the last of the books I bought at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History, and it was very much better than the HBC history above, more nuance, more detail without getting bogged down, very clear points, good stuff and good to know, especially in the parts where this history has indeed been deliberately suppressed.
Ann Leckie, Radiant Star. The thing that really stuck out for me here is that Ann writes so calmly about such horrifying things. This time a famine! Other times other things! But the eerie calm of the prose tone made me practically climb the back of the couch. Super effective. I also like that she's taking the time for the stories around the edges of the supposedly big stories. The universe has room in it. Yes good.
E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder and Murder in the Mill Race. Kindle. Quite cromulent Golden Age mysteries. I continue to like her and read what I can get of her, mostly from the library although I have a friend who also may be able to help.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Night Owl: Poems. A lot of these poems are fairly ordinary, but turned just so, in the way that poems can do, in the way that they don't have to be about something spectacular to be spectacular. Really enjoyed.
Sophie Pinkham, The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires. This is more a literary history than a natural history, although there are pieces of natural history in it. It starts in Siberia rather than with the Kievan Rus the way most Russian histories do, and the difference in point of view is interesting. Would like more like this.
Johannes Scheffer, The History of Lapland. Kindle. This is from 1670, and it is a wild ride. There's all kinds of stuff the Anglophone audience of the time does not find familiar, or Scheffer thinks they won't, so he explains things like nomadism and skiing. ("Leaping in wooden shoes." Well. You did your best, buddy.) Among the things that were fascinating here: the attempt to corral the Saami peoples to specific territories for grazing rights started in 1600, so this was fairly recent to Scheffer. The things he was outright wrong about were at least as interesting as the things he knew. He was also doing the very 17th century thing of "...uh...I saw this bit with my own eyes and it contradicts Olaus Magnus so...what do I do with that, let's take a minute." I wouldn't recommend this as your first book about this region and people, but once you're generally knowledgeable it's kind of a treasure.
Bogi Takács, Song of Spores. Alien aliens and super-sympathetic future humans and thoughts about spores, hurrah! I really enjoyed this.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Pretenders to the Throne of God. Kindle. The latest in its series, and bringing several things full circle, so I wouldn't start here, I'd start at the beginning, even though it starts out looking like a stand-alone. One of my favorite things he's done.
Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple, Pay the Piper. Reread. This was the first thing I happened to grab when I got the news that Jane died and I wanted to do a bit of memorial rereading. Well, the first full-length thing: I did some dinosaur reading with the toddler across the street. I had fun with the Tam Lin aspects of it particularly, and with watching their two voices play together.
Marlene Zuk, Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us. This book is primarily for people who have not thought a great deal about what, for example, coyotes or raccoons do in an ecosystem (in our ecosystem). If you have, it's not likely to be greatly revelatory, but maybe you'll want to get it as a gift for a loved one who is not hostile to the idea of complex ecosystems but hasn't really spent much time on the topic.
Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking
Jun. 16th, 2026 11:03 ambruce_schneier_feedThere are over a dozen cases around the country where police officers are using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
The Odyssey again
Jun. 16th, 2026 01:53 pmcimoreneAs readers may remember, I'm not an Odyssey fan, exactly. I only read the Odyssey and the Iliad in Emily Wilson's translations a couple of years ago. I did go through a period of being in Greek Mythology fandom as a child, and hence accumulated a store of trivia about them, but I was young and it never occurred to me at that time that one could read translations of original texts. People just kept giving me different books that basically were retelling the same things from the same sources.
After the Iliad and Odyssey, I also read a bunch of Greek tragedies; I was going to read some Roman tragedies too, because one of the books I bought to get a Wilson translation of a Greek tragedy had some of both, but I didn't actually read any of the Roman ones. I'll probably get around to it at some point.
But I have been thinking I wanted to reread the Iliad and Odyssey already in the last few months, even before news of this adaptation, and then the other day I stumbled upon a video on YouTube where the classicist Mary Beard touted her podcast, Instant Classics, and said they were going to be hosting or... doing?... a reading-the-Odyssey series and talking about it soon, and I thought that sounded neat. Maybe I'll look at some of the older podcast episodes as well.
Condiția omului
Jun. 16th, 2026 06:49 amionelvNimeni nu-și "depășește condiția"
Mă tot intersectez cu expresia asta: "și-a depășit condiția". Când mi-a fost adresată, m-am simțit jignită. Eram prea tânără.
Vreau să știu unde e și cum arată "condiția". Ce-i aia "condiția ta"? Bagaj genetic plus mama care, printr-un maternaj îndeajuns de bun, îți creează condițiile formării identității psihice, plus educație timpurie corespunzătoare naturalizată, plus mediu cultural/social, plus școala, plus șansele? Bun. Dar cine poate ideninfica limitele condiției cuiva? Și cum? Îl supune pe om unei evaluări psihiatrice, îi măsoară iq-ul, îl pune să dea examene și îi calculează matematic șansele, apoi postulează : asta e "condiția ta!"?! Cum, așa?
Cine stabilește asta?!
Nimeni nu poate să facă mai mult decât poate să facă, iar dacă a făcut, înseamnă că a putut.
Dacă iese Lomonosov din derevnea lui și pleacă, iarna, pe jos, de la Arhanghelsk la Moscova, ajunge om de știință de mare răsunet, asta nu înseamnă că "și-a depășit condiția". Asta nu înseamnă că era o mașinărie cu 90 de cai putere, dar, prin minune, a mai scos din pălărie, de unde nu era, ca un magician, încă 400 și a ajuns să zboare! În el exista deja "condiția" de a ajunge Lomonosov pe care îl știm azi. În el exista un potențial, chiar dacă unii își închipuie că nu.
Cineva poate ori nu să-și atingă potențialul în viață, dar nu poate face mai mult decât poate face. Însă asta nu se poate stabili decât la sfârșitul vieții. Și nici atunci nu vom ști dacă nu a avut potențial sau dacă un accident l-a împiedicat să și-l atingă.
Afirmația "și-a depășit condiția" este falsă, iar "cutare nu și-a putut depăși condiția" este o aberație.
Uite, o "condiție" clară a omului este că nu poate respira sub apă și că nu poate zbura fâlfâind din aripi. Și nu o va depăși. Icar știe de ce.
CM răspunde:
Aceasta analiză matură și profundă, desființează ideea limitativă de „condiție” ca o grilă fixă de evaluare.
Așezarea oamenilor în cutii prestabilite este reducționistă din punctul meu de vedere.
Se ignoră liberul arbitru, efortul susținut și potențialul individual al fiecăruia dintre noi.
O persoana care reușește în viață nu încalcă legile firii, ci doar își folosește resursele interioare. E meritul lui, fără clișee.
Nimeni nu deține o hartă exactă, o expunere prestabilita a limitelor altcuiva.
Mediul ne influențează dar nu ne dicteaza limitele.
Pentru aprofundare e nevoie de studiat rezilienta emotionala, adaptarea sociala etc. dar asta e o alta discuție.
Eu răspund lui CM:
În țara drobului de sare de pe horn și a lu’ “nu face valuri că mă înec”, sau “să moară și capra vecinului”, depășirea “condiției” este într-adevăr o anomalie.
Star City 1.04
Jun. 16th, 2026 11:39 amselenakStar City 1.04: In which the show keeps surprising me by the rapid pace it puts its intrigues under. ( Spoilers now also include a female Indian scientist among their cast. )
Now who's ready to be baptized into a new era of entertainment?
Jun. 16th, 2026 04:53 ambeansideYesterday was hard. Not just because I had to work, but I had to work away from my kitty.. I did not enjoy not being able to visit with her all day except for a few miutes on break and lunch.
She continues to be a total sweetheart. She's young, so she still gets overwhelmed with love, and will walk away for a few minutes to settle down. The cat has better emotional regulation skills than I do. But when she wants love, she wants love, dammit.
I'm still 100% smitten with this cat. Yesterday, while playing the part of my coworker, it was slow enough that I was able to call the new vet and make her an appt for 6/29. Unfortunately, the PTO schedule was clogged for this week and next, so I wasn't able to take off before then. But again, I'm not worried about her like I was Cece.
She's obviously a healthy cat, so two weeks will give her time to settle in a bit, and then we shall have her spay checked, and get her care established so that if we do need them, we can just call.
She was very good last night, or I was very tired. I didn't hear her yell once, except when I came back from the bathroom. She yelled at me then. How dare I wake up and not immediately pet her!
We did give her gentle playtime before bed, so maybe that helped.
She's a naughty little thing sometimes. I told you that we had to relocate the sock drawer so we had somewhere to put her treats in the drawer, lest she rip them open and eat all of them. She also saw the ribbon dancer toy on the closet door and decided that it was hers anyway. I came in to find her on the bed, smacking the ribbon around. She did not want to let it go and dug her little toenails in. It was frightfully cute.
Lizzy also proved that she's a mighty huntress, stalking and killing two big flies that somehow got into her room. The first, she knocked out of the air, and then pounced and ate it. The second, we got before she could scarf it, though she looked a bit miffed at Jess for taking her prize. A few seconds later she got praise and treats, so she wasn't upset for too long.
Once I got off work, I spent some time with her, and had some snuggles before she decied that it was time to take a nap on Jess' desk. My good kitten, there is a furry cat tree less than 2 feet away and you're going to sleep on the hard desk?
She's been hanging around while Jess is on the computer, which is making them very happy.
We had ordered BBQ for dinner, which was okay, nothing amazing, but solid, and after that, we went in to snuggle her and relax before bed. I knew that I was working from 7:30am-4pm today, so I went to bed a little early. That's so that I can get out in time to take Yoda to his vet appt. (I don't wanna). Adulthood is a pain in the ass lately.
Tomorrow, I shall get paid, and that shall be nice. I don't have a ton of bills for this check, so I'll sock away the rent for next month, and be ready to pay that in a couple of weeks as well as her vet visit.
I'm going to get a bit of OT next pay in covering for everyone else. So that might be nice. And for July third, I get time and a half, so that will be good. And I'm working a couple of Saturdays in July, so that'll be good money. Plus the extra 8 hours of PTO for working July 3.
This week shall pretty mucb be a standard paycheck, sadly. Though it's still more money at one time than I've ever gotten paid, so it's all good.
I was planning on making some baked halibut and brussel sprouts, but we'll see what time we get home from the vet.
I do need to make more of Yoda's food, but Instacart was down yesterday, and today, the Punjab market doesn't seem to have any goat. So, I went to the H Mart, which had everything. He probably won't get food til dinner, but there's kibble if he gets hungry.
I think that's going to be the new habit. Wet food once a day and kibble for the other meal. It'll take some of the pressure off me, and make his meals last longer. He's getting more and more picky about his meals, starting to leave the wet food for a little while before he eats it. Also, he now desires a topper mixed in. It's a seafood topper with krill and other tasty little fish, and he loves it. It souds like the worst thing to me, but whatever makes him happy. The things we do for our pets.
Which brings me back to her little highness. She's definitely getting more bold. Jess just went to the bathroom, and then came hurrying out because Lizzy decided to go on walkabout. She's like a tiny eel. It's very hard to keep her from getting out when she's determined. Fortunately, Yoda sleeps with my sister with the door closed, so she was fine. No awkward introductions yet. I want her healed from the spay surgery before I let them meet for real. We're going to get one of those nets that we can put in the doorway to allow them to see each other through the mesh first. That way they can get used to each other. Yoda hasn't shown any interest in her the couple of times he's seen her. She puffs her tail up and raises her little hackles, which is frankly adorable.
I wonder what naughtiness today shall bring from our little girl. Tomorrow, I'm working til 6pm, so that'll be fun. Actually, depending, I may be working even later if the queue is bad. The person I'm covering for stays until everyone has logged out. I'll at least have a little extra time in the morning with the little girl. Thursday and Friday are normal schedule, and then Rocky Horror! And then Sunday, rest and spend time with the kitty.
I'm seriously questioning how old she is. I know figuring cat's ages are a bit of a guessing game, but she doesn't feel like she's over a year. She feels like a kitten. The youngest she could probably be is 8months, figuring that she got pregnant between 4-6 months. I did still put down her adoption date as her birthday on her microchip registration, though.
I think that's why she's so small--the demands on her body from the kittens may have stunted her growth a bit. I think she's already picked up an ounce or two in the few days she's been with us. We've been feeding her frequently, plus she's eating her kibble as well.
I got her a fountain. She's not quite sure what to do with it. She did drink out of it last night, so that's a small win. And we got a pet-safe air freshener. Her poops are a little less rank on the Tiki cat, but still not pleasant.
We have discovered that the thing she seems to like most is pate food. We gave her Tiki cat with the chunks of sardines in it, and they got left on the plate. Shreds were maybe okay, but not her fave. So, that's what she's going to get. I'll give her more of the petites, but 2-3 at a time.
She doesn't seem horribly fond of the bougie food. I'm going to try her on one of the smooth pate ones either today or tomorrow, but if she doesn't like it, then I'll toss the rest. It was only $25, so if it doesn't work for her, I'm not out much.
I feel kind of bad that we're going to be at the Rocky Horror most of the day on Saturday. I hate to leave her for that long. I do want to see the Rocky Horror, but I want to spend quality time with my kitty, too. And then Sunday I have 2 games, which is going to mean more time not spent with kitty. It's very sad. I know, since Yoda's being boarded, on Saturday my sister will spend lots of time with Lizzy, but it's not the same.
Okay, time for me to go bother a kitty. Everyone have a fabulous Tuesday!
In His Prime
Jun. 16th, 2026 10:18 ampoliphilo
And may be some time
Jun. 16th, 2026 10:03 amoursinOff today to talk about CONDOMS in Warwick.
This involves a rather tiresome journey -
Any journey which starts from Marylebone Station, which is not well-connected to the London transport network, is tiresome from the outset.
And am not madly prepossessed with the prospect of Chiltern Railways' stopping trains but at least there is no change.
I am a bit taken aback to discover, rather late in the day, that the venue in which I am speaking also holds Haunted House Tours.
Am now envisaging the story that MR James, Montague Summers, AC Benson, Algernon Blackwood, etc could not bring themselves to record: 'The Case of the Possessed Baudruche'.