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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 13d

I am pretty sure the last time I read a book directly because of a marketing effort on the part of the publisher as opposed to a post from the author or a recommendation from another reader was at a Scholastic Book Fair in grade school.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 13d

Hey, just letting everyone know that this lil guy very probably has a home unless multiple options fall through. Thanks again to everyone who's shared.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 13d

Hey, sorry for the slow response, I've been juggling various things. I have both an adopter and an understudy lined up for him!

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

IDK, he managed to pick the apartment to camp out in front of that would get him vet care out of a couple hundred units so I think he's crafttier than he lets on.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

(To be clear, when I said "waste of time" I didn't mean "wah no one cares" but "I can't target things geographically on bsky", I realized that sounded kinda salty when I came back to add more pics. Thanks so much to everyone who has shared!)

Here's some more pics!

An orange white teenage cat with dark orange eyes sits poised to bat at a dangly toy in the foreground.

An orange white teenage cat with dark orange eyes lays sprawled on the carpet, having captured his dangly foe.

An orange white teenage cat with dark orange eyes draped over a knit red blanket on the back of a couch.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

East Bay!

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

East Bay!

Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

Er, DMs should be open now. >.>

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

Unfortunately, I'm not in their range, and the shelters around here are very strict on their county borders. My local animal shelter considers feral cats 'not their problem' and is the *reason* the adjacent counties have to be so strict about that policy, which is how I ended up with Too Many Cats.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

Sure, DM me with anything you'd like to know!

Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

Couch warmers who will ignore him or little dogs in his weight class? I think they'd be fine properly introduced. My friend's border collie who thinks herding cats is his collie? Stressful.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 20d

Unfortunately, no idea, since I have neither. Kids are almost certainly fine if they're old enough to get a cat's boundaries, he's never once scratched me. Dogs, he's only met people walking them outside, so he'll probably hide, but it likely depends on how big/energetic they are.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 21d

Having scrolled back to see the color of the horf in question, I totally agree that the russet would look sharp matching his mane.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 21d

I was thinking about it from the other direction and wondering if they brought it to the surface because swallowing at super-depth pressures is a bad idea for some reason.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 22d

I cannot keep him in the apartment indefinitely, I am unemployed and already have far too many fosters here that I've had no luck placing. I'm not asking for an adoption fee or any reimbursement for his neuter, I just don't want him to go back outside.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 22d

He's friendly with other cats (he was desperately trying to play with mine through the window before I trapped him) and has rapidly warmed up to humans since he realized being brushed is nice. He's also absurdly comfortable being handled for a cat I thought was feral.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 22d

I know this is a waste of time, but of anyone in the Bay Area can take on a cat, this ~5 month boy I trapped for TNR turned out to be way friendlier than I thought and also has a limp that does not pain him but can't be easily fixed.

An orange and white teenage cat with orange eyes, sitting in the corner of a metal crate.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · Aug 24

Also, "we don’t generally question that." Are you kidding? You've just demonstrated that even a tepid "it's not for me" gets a whole-ass thinkpiece written about how you're a heartless monster for not wanting to deal with other people's screaming toddlers.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · Aug 24

Since even the absolutely inoffensive "kids are okay but I don't want to be around them" is too far for you, I can only assume you're the kind of person who heard "it takes a village" and interpreted it as "everyone in my vicinity is supposed to drop everything to coddle my spoiled children."

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · Aug 24

Nah, you're deliberately missing the point. People who assert they don't like kids aren't doing it to be big meanies, they're doing it because they've been pressured have kids from their own childhood, and many parents seem to see any adult without their own children as "free emergency childcare."

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · Aug 10

It's been my maxim for a long time that if +1 Swords of Freezing are relatively trivial to acquire then the guy making them should be selling several dozen magic refrigerators for every magic sword.

Many D&D players will also get a kick out of an artificer running a magical Best Buy.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · Aug 9

I can't believe the Lord of Lies would be so opaque about his organizational structure.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · Jun 16

Back in the 90's, Cameron Chase and her sister saw a Green Lantern movie starring Mel Gibson as Hal Jordan. Which I'm very curious what kind of movie it was, given it was made just a couple years after the whole Parallax thing.

[A comic panel of crowd of people leaving a theatre under the marquee "IN DARKEST NIGHT: The Green Lantern Story." Two women in the foreground speaking.]
Terry: You are sooo wrong, Cam. Mel Gibson is such a hottie.
Cam: I'm not saying that Mel's not a total stud, Terry.
[Panel 2]
Cam: I'm just saying he was wrong for the part. Green Lantern wasn't anything like that. He wasn't so smooth and polished. He was... I dunno... rougher around the edges than that.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · May 1

Using a hallucination as a reference is worse than useless.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · Apr 27

...Who is NOT going straight for the self checkouts !?

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