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oh I never told this story, on here, I don’t think– well.

tw animal harm, but it’s largely a funny story, but it’s got, well, the inevitable fates of some of nature’s most underpowered brains, which are the spring’s usual bumper crop of baby rabbits.

There are so many fucking baby rabbits in the yards of my little suburan neighborhood.

Anyway. Chita the cat committed a Baby Bunny Crime, which is said inevitable fate– they are so stupid, and so defenseless, and cats, well– even an agéd cat who only goes outside to Disapprove of the Neighbors and Pee in the Yard can find and capture a Baby Bunny, which is tragic and upsetting and also incredibly noisy.

So after this Crime, she was shut up in the house, and was no longer allowed to go outside and Disapprove of the Neighbors. (She also normally gets Yelled At By Starlings, I forgot that’s her other favorite-not-favorite pastime. She committed a Baby Starling Crime some twelve years ago and the starlings have Not Forgotten.) (That one didn’t even end in bloodshed, they chased her off and she dropped the poor thing which went on to have exponential starling babies of its own.)

Poor Chita gets very bored when not allowed her Yard Panther Activities.

She took to entertaining herself by fishing out every one of the balled-up pairs of socks from the clean laundry I left sitting on the guest bed since I was just going to pack it back up into the Go To The Farm suitcase. She would then proceed to “kill” the socks, and carry them around the house and make her excited Caught Prey trilling noise at us, at like, four in the morning.

This was annoying as fuck, but also really cute. And it went on for a long time, because after the three-day Baby Bunny Crimes exile was up, she immediately committed another one and was on house lockdown for another three days, and anyway

well the punchline

the punchline is that I’m back at the farm and have no fucking socks because she murdered them all and carried them off and I couldn’t find them. So if it warms up I’ll be all right in flip-flops but if it doesn’t I am going to have a very bad time here. (Your picture was not posted)

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i am tired, the thing with having been at work so much the last 2 weeks at the office job is that there’s no moving at the office job so i am at this point so atrophied i’m like a brain in a jar and now i am at the farm trying to use my human body to do things on this physical plane and it’s some bullshit is what it is, brains in jars aren’t good at scrubbing things.

also for some reason most of the skin sloughed off my fingertips like a shedding snake? like– it’s not gross, it’s not painful, there was like, perfectly fine good skin underneath? but like? why? did my fingers? do that??? this is not normally how I exfoliate. I almost wrote defenestrate there. Not the same word, B.

but on the upside, it was chilly last night and oh my gosh I got Such Good Sleep?? I did not expect that. I zonked out at like 10:30 and then I woke up like, Ready For Action, at 5:45. Even though I’m dimly aware there were some cat shenanigans in there somewhere, I just did not care and it didn’t matter and seems to have resolved itself.

So– re having no socks, it warmed up so I could be in flip-flops today. That’s one day, saved. Tomorrow I do have one pair of socks I can wear, for slaughter day, so that’ll be okay. Beyond that it’ll have to be played by ear. I appreciate everyone’s sympathy, but do feel free to laugh about it.

Woop Farmkid is Done Watching TV and it is Time For Child Shenanigans, laterz! (Your picture was not posted)

beyondthisdarkhouse:So Uprooted’s BIGGEST missed o

better, and this would've done that, uprooted

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So Uprooted’s BIGGEST missed opportunity is Agnieszka/Kasia, no doubt no doubt, BUT

Its SECOND-biggest missed opportunity is when Agnieska has to go to Kralia and try to reason with the King, and she has absolutely no allies to help her–even when she says in the very beginning of the book that most of the Dragon’s girls go to the Kralia

Many of them attend University and become scholars, and then there’s the fine old lady Jadwiga Bach, who was the mistress of several members of the nobility.

Now I’m dying for a version of the story where Agnieska takes on the Court with the help of a middle-aged archivist and an 80-year-old former courtesan. (Your picture was not posted)