Found at Goodwill - is it an original or decor?
I checked Google lens and got a little info but idk. Is this factory decor? Or an original? I can never tell
u/roarofthecrowd — 10 hours ago
▲ 750 r/cats
Tribute to Bink - everything is 'after' now
I put my 16 year old tuxedo kitty to sleep exactly 2 weeks ago. She was my soul cat. My companion. My one constant for the last 16 years...
Life is a series of 'firsts' now that shes gone. First June without her. First week without her. First time coming home and shes not here. First time going out without her.
Is this how grief goes? Living in the after?
I just miss her.
u/roarofthecrowd — 1 month ago
▲ 19 r/tattooadvice
What are your thoughts on this face shading?
I posted my recently done cat the other day and ive grown to love it, but i wanted more opinions, specifically the face shading.
What are your thoughts on the face shading? Will it even out as the tattoo heals?
Edit - i dont know why my brain is so back and forth on this. I do love it. I know its been done well. Im trying to stop overanalyzing it. Does anyone else overanalyze their tattoos?
u/roarofthecrowd — 1 month ago
My companion for the last 16 years is gone.
I got Bink in 2010. I was 19, freshly moved out of my parents house and looking for a little kitty companion. She's been with me ever since. All my moves, to and from apartments, a duplex, two houses. Weve moved to different states and back she was there when i got married. We literally grew up together.
But over the course of the last two years shes been degrading. Getting older, losing weight, losing her eyesight and her hearing. And I think a part of me just didnt want to accept that my little friend was getting old. Sure I took her to the vet, got medicine, made accommodations, literally rearranged my schedule and my house to make it more convenient for her as she aged.
But still, nothing prepared me for when 3 days ago when she was so mentally gone. So checked out. I finally made the call to have her put to sleep. She wasn't herself and I couldn't watch her suffer for one minute like that. Putting her down was the worst thing Ive ever experienced. I haven't stopped crying in 3 days.
Im so immensely sad. It genuinely feels like I lost a friend.
To anyone whos had to do this. Im so so sorry. I feel like I should've done more. I should've loved her more. Or done more. Or spent more time with her. Im so frustrated with myself because I can barely remember the times when she was fully healthy. I can still hear her loud meows in my house. She was sooo meowy. She meowed day and night for 16 years and now its silent in my house
Im just fucking sad.
u/roarofthecrowd — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/PubTips
My third attempt at this one...Thank you for all your help so far! It's been very eye opening.
Dear Agent,
Starving health and wellness influencer, Nova Santos, will do whatever it takes to cook up sponsors and cement her status in the influencer industry. After witnessing a kidnapping at the hands of Kindred Harvest’s own VP of Marketing, the biggest and most profitable grocery store chain in the country, Nova leverages what she saw to her advantage. In exchange for her silence, she lands a delicious brand deal and an exclusive shoot inside the company’s flagship store.
But once she’s inside, she notices something isn’t right. The store is void of customers, employees, and most disturbingly—she can’t get out. Then she finds the others: five strangers, including Leon, the man she saw kidnapped and searching for his friend, all trapped inside with ties to Kindred Harvest. As a shifting darkness with teeth begins eating them one by one, erasing them so completely it’s as if they never existed, Nova and Leon grow close as they uncover Kindred Harvest has been sending people to their deaths for decades. Their connection grows deeper as they search for a way out, but Nova knows it’s built on a lie. She didn’t just witness his abduction, she used it. And when the truth surfaces, it may cost her the only person she has left.
As the darkness closes in, Nova and Leon realize the store feeds on deprivation. And the more they cling to control, the worse it becomes. To escape, Nova must finally confront the hunger she’s spent years denying, Leon must accept the guilt of his friend’s fate, and the two of them will have to willingly crawl through the belly of what’s hunting them.
Complete at 90,000 words, EVERYTHING MUST GO will appeal to fans of Julie Chan Is Dead by Lianne Zhang for its exploration of influencer culture, and Hide by Kiersten White for its high-stakes survival horror. This story blends retail horror, haunted liminal spaces, and a slow-burn romance.
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u/roarofthecrowd — 2 months ago