sovay: (Viktor & Mordecai)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-11-02 06:30 pm

We're so fucking gorgeous while we're building our shacks

I have a pounding headache, but I think it is the same pounding headache I had the day before and the day before that. Today has otherwise been marked by conversations about collaboration—the artistic kind—a glimpse of a secret project that brings me much joy, and an instance of conspicuous cuteness on Autolycus's part.



I know the folktale of how the original Siamese cats gained their kinked tails through curling them so protectively around the treasures they guarded, but this is ridiculous.



There had been water in the mug when the little cat arrived. I was afraid to check if the level had gone down.

He is growing up to look curiously like Mishka, the longest-lived of the three cats who were in the house when I was born, the others being his sister Tzythy and their mother Djavvy, who was what is now called an old-style Siamese. Their father was Burmese and a grand champion according to the story, which made them secret royalty, both-ways children like my brother and me. Have some links.

1. Courtesy of [personal profile] handful_ofdust: "A voice from the sea." I really don't know what else that sailor was expecting.

2. Courtesy of [personal profile] selkie: from Cambridge University, a student-updated COVID-19 outbreak response plan. I especially like "Extra Spicy," "Bad," and "Waitrose Parma Ham."

3. I too have been blown away by Xenia Hausner's Nacht der Skorpione (1995) and incidentally I agree with the rest of this post. The one with the paintbrush is a self-portrait. I love it so much.

It is almost impossible to think about anything but the election, but we voted almost a month ago and I have to live through what happens tomorrow no matter what: I am going to attempt to think about movies instead.
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[personal profile] selkie 2020-11-03 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, who else is hiding from the election with secret projects?!

Dude, your house panther is super Burmese looking. Can he do the doorknobs?
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[personal profile] selkie 2020-11-03 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhhhh.

I’m incredibly intelligent, I’ll have you know. Probably not as smart as your cats, but what can one do?
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[personal profile] selkie 2020-11-03 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs*
I don’t get drunk well, and I’m not supposed to get drunk, but I am endeavoring to engineer a state of drunk.

My other pandemic-brain choices are maudlin or enraged or cold-sweat worry.

Did you know, did you know I last saw you AND the ocean at the same time and we didn’t take a single picture of all three together? That sucks.
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[personal profile] selkie 2020-11-03 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if I follow your plan I top out at tipsy. So... I’ll try it!

Yeah, I think you’re right: we just don’t operate in that mode. But you wore an ascot! And shoulder-elbow-hip-fenced my mother away with heroic frequency! I am thankful the ascot at least was photographed.
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[personal profile] troisoiseaux 2020-11-03 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
I was obsessed with Siamese cats as a kid, for reasons I cannot now remember. (Because they're cool, I guess?)

Hope your headache improves.
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2020-11-03 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
*posts with our lady Bast to send you headache-ameliorating vibes*

What a lovely kitty. I could feel my heart rate go down upon viewing.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2020-11-03 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
That is some industrial strength cuteness on the part of Autolycus.

I had never heard of Xenia Hausner. What amazing portraits.
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[personal profile] rmc28 2020-11-03 07:23 am (UTC)(link)

I've seen the glorious student-updated plan via 4 different people now and I love it so much. If no-one has shared it on the work social channel when I get there, I'm going to.

(I'm a former student and current employee.)

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[personal profile] rmc28 2020-11-03 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)

Work colleagues received it with much amusement. Happiness shared!

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[personal profile] asakiyume 2020-11-03 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
WHAT AN ADORABLE TREASURE-PROTECTING MECHANISM! What a sweetie!

In the Cambridge University response plan, I liked "Evensong extended to Allnightsong"
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[personal profile] shewhomust 2020-11-03 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the outbreak response plan; I have forwarded it to the appropriate working group of Durham University ...
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[personal profile] brigdh 2020-11-04 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
What an absolutely adorable cat! No coffee mugs are safe when cat tails are nearby.

Best of luck with your headache, and best of luck for us all with the election.