Neff
LightNews LightNews
banner
neffectual.bsky.social
Neff
@neffectual.bsky.social
100 followers 100 following 210 posts
Them fatale. Omnivore. Knitter. Married. Disabled. 3 cats, 2 rabbits, 2 snakes. PTSD, c-PTSD, ADHD, ASD, BPD, POTS, CFS, fibromyalgia, migraine etc.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Neffectual

Writer
Singer
Disability/accessibility consultant
Mum friend
Posts Replies Media Videos
neffectual.bsky.social
Oh, and the day I realised @iwriteok.bsky.social and @socialistdogmom.bsky.social had broken me is when we found out the kitten's birthday is April 19th and I went "Oklahoma City bombing. And Waco." and got very odd looks from my spouse.

I did suggest calling her Timmy, but we went with Starbuck.
A small calico kitten lounges on a blue-green pillow next to someone's sleeping head. The kitten is in a classic "draw me like one of your French girls" pose, and is languidly licking her own armpit to show maximum insouciance. She lies next to a Google Nest mini, for scale.
July 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
I love and adore Starbuck, our almost 12 week old kitten, but she sleeps in my hair? And so I just combed my hair, and half of what I combed out was Starbuck fluff.
A white redhead smiles up at the camera from their dimly lit bed. A small calico kitten is wrapped around the top of their head, fast asleep. The lack of sleep this causes is clear on the redhead's face, but so is the love and pride at being chosen as a bed by the kitten.
July 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
In fact, so staggered am I by this that I forgot her age! She is, in fact, ten WEEKS old.
A tiny calico kitten looks sassily up at the camera from a sitting position on a greenish-blue circular footstool, as if to say "yes, and what do you want?"
July 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
My first and my second embroidery pieces. The first, we designed and printed a sticky thing for me to follow, the second is a kit I'm following which is printed on the fabric.
I'm excited to improve and learn more.
Two embroidery pieces in cheap wooden hoops. The top piece is dark blue, with "daddy cool" picked out in satin stitch, with "daddy" in bright turquoise and "cool" in tour de france yellow jersey. The double "o" is shaped into a racing bicycle, with drop handlebars, and the spokes of the wheels and the gear wheel are embroidered in silver. The lower piece is floral and in pinks, yellows, and greens, with the word "Mum" in the centre, with the "m" just being picked out in soft pink, the needle poking out as it's in process of being completed.
June 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with Millie costs. We've managed to cover the bill, and cremation for tomorrow.

The house is so quiet without her screams to have her whims fulfilled. Even when that whim was just "look at me - no, not like that!"

She was a singular beast.
A calico cat curled into a half moon in a white fluffy bed stares up at the camera in a way that says "I don't know why you're here, but please leave." Her nose is black and her little beans are pink and dark spotted.
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
If anyone can, please PayPal.me/neffectual - our darling prawn child is probably dying, and insurance won't cover her heart failure.
A Calico cat A Calico cat
June 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
The amount of soap labelling and stuff I do to @coolzonemedia.bsky.social stuff, I'm eventually going to have to send them some custom soap. Titled, idk... "Machete", "Products and Services", "Robert... Robert, no" and maybe just "Horrors".

Currently labelling restocks for a fair tomorrow.
A number of bars of soap of varying quality. Some are discoloured thanks to botanical embeds that hit hot soap and immediately turned brown, some are lumpy because they touched water while setting up and turned into soap "dough". There are four cream coloured soaps and two black soaps that are in cardboard sleeves and thus labelled, so clearly going to be for sale. You get the feeling that the soap might be fighting back.
May 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
Went out on Monday. On crutches, and am still broken from it, but like... Still fun.
A white femme with their hair tied back smirks into the camera. Their large red cat eye framed glasses cover eyes lined in black eyeliner and red eyeshadow. Their lips are red, and they wear a black spiked collar. The black faux leather top they wear leaves their arms hare and plunges at their cleavage. A white femme looks over their red cat-eye framed glasses into the camera, a faint smile on their red lipsticked mouth. Their long ginger hair is half up half down, and their eyes are lined with black liner and red eyeshadow. They wear a black spiked leather collar, and their faux leather top leaves their arms bare and plunges to their cleavage.
May 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
Goth market today!
White redhead femme looks into the camera, wearing makeup and a black dress. Their dress is low cut and they have a lilac and mint spiked choker on. Their long hair is partially in two space buns, partially loose. Their lipstick is purple and the wall behind them is bright turquoise.
May 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
Plus I've been cleaning the rabbits out to BtB since we got this lot, and I pride myself that Amityville in particular is slightly less of a dangerous psychopath because of it. Slightly. After all, she's still a rabbit.
A small albino rabbit (probably a Britannia Petite) stares into the camera with one beady red eye. She has one ear up and one ear down - the down ear is noticeably red from where she bullied another rabbit to the point that he bit through her ear in self-defence. She seems tiny and cute, but she also looks mad and bizarre.
April 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
This is Pig. She looks like she's having the absolute worst time, but she is in fact making biscuits on me in bed, purring like an engine.
A small black cat in a blue room. The picture is taken with the flash on, and the cat has narrowed eyes as she looks at the camera.
February 4, 2024 at 9:23 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
This year we lost four animals, which was entirely heartbreaking and set the tone for a year I could've done without. To Beebs, Hellbun, Cenobun, and Geralt - you're all missed so much.

Also, the ten year anniversary of our Mat's death, which feels like far too long.
2023 will not be missed.
A small brown bunny, Beebs, flops in a basket of broccolini in the foreground, while a larger white rabbit, Hellbun, flops on a bed in the background. Two rabbits lie side by side. The large white one, Hellraiser, is on the left, and the smaller brown one, Beebs, is on the right. A little grey and brown lionhead lop rabbit, Cenobun, looks into the camera from behind her fringe. A pastel ivory (white) royal python, Geralt, is curled around a white arm with visible scarring on it.
December 31, 2023 at 6:22 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
We got Hellspawn a new girlfriend - trying to decide on a name, maybe Starscream? Scream Queen? Ghoul? Ghostface?

She's very small and very opinionated.
Two white rabbits, one big, one small, cuddling together on some carpet. A large white rabbit stretched out, with a small white red-eyed rabbit lying by his face. A tiny white rabbit in a massive blue litter tray, and a large white rabbit in a tiny silver litter tray Two white rabbits, one large and one small, lying together in a big litter tray
September 23, 2023 at 6:38 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
Lost our beautiful little Cenobite - our Cinnabun - unexpectedly this morning, and we are completely heartbroken. I miss her grumpy face and her little cream-dipped paws.

We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go.
A picture of a white hand stroking a small lionhead lop rabbit, mostly grey and brown, with a streak of very light ginger along her face. She is lying flat, clearly enjoying herself.
September 18, 2023 at 2:16 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
Large pre-work nap assistant is, in fact, baby.

Spooks has really taken to being spooned upside down recently, especially if only one of us is in the bed.

Also this will be my first shift back at work in over three months due to illness. Only an hour but I'm so fucking nervous.
A large white cat on a rainbow bedspread, in dim lighting against a blue wall. He is clearly over-excited as he has trapped the white person's hand that is petting him, and his own back foot obscures his face. A large white cat on a rainbow bedspread, in dim lighting, against a blue wall. His little black nose is visible as he looks at the camera from his space spooned upside down by the white human whose hand is visibly petting him. A large white cat on a rainbow bedspread, in dim lighting, against a blue wall. He is curled around the white hand petting him, so his eyes are just visible over his own front paw. His black tail trails out of the picture in the foreground.
August 9, 2023 at 2:14 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
Look at this big-eared dipshit.
A large white rabbit on a bright green mat, eating Cavolo nero kale. Blurry, because rabbits tend to move
August 7, 2023 at 2:37 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
There is something incredibly pleasing about sitting with rabbits while they eat. And then Cinni came to say hi!
A big white rabbit and a smaller grey-brown rabbit sit by a recently filled food bowl and eat Cavolo nero kale A grey-brown lionhead lop rabbit lies down on a blanket and tarp while a white hand in a pale blue dressing gown sleeve pets her fluffy head
August 6, 2023 at 8:32 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
Rabbits, in their cleaned state. Big white boy is Hellspawn, successor to our late Hellraiser, and little browny-grey girl is Cenobite (Cinnabun), successor to our late Beetlejuice, and Hellraiser's wife for the last months of his life.
The same pen as the previous tweet, viewed lengthwise and much, much cleaner. Peeking out of the side of the wooden hides and blankets can be seen large foam puzzle piece-shaped floor tiles. A large green bed has been added, the big blue litter tray is now piled high with clean hay, and all the colourful stacking cups and other wooden toys are in a neat heap in the middle of the space. Two rabbits lie at the far end, the big white one side on, and the little grey-brown one almost completely hidden behind him.
August 5, 2023 at 1:26 PM
neffectual.bsky.social
Rabbits, in their uncleaned state. I promise there are two rabbits in this pen, they're just real fucking antisocial about it all, because I'm about to mess up their house by cleaning.
A messy fenced in pen inside a house, containing numerous wooden shelters, a big water bowl, colourful plastic stacking cups, and a big blue litter tray full of hay. One rabbit, large and white, can be seen disappearing into a shelter at the bottom left. A smaller grey rabbit can just be seen poking her nose out of the wooden shelter in the upper centre of the picture. There is hay and fluff everywhere.
August 5, 2023 at 11:26 AM
neffectual.bsky.social
Lammas craft I did the other weekend. Quite proud of myself for using the grass we cut from our front garden by hand. Felt a bit smug about it all!
A pentagram handcrafted from dried grass and green ribbon.
August 4, 2023 at 4:26 PM