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definitely 😭💙

Petition to stop rearranging clock time, but also to make sure we don't cut International Women's Day short again

Duplin County, in the southeast. I need to do more research but it seems like there was really just one main wave of white settlers in that part of the county, and it's pretty isolated so more of the 18th c. dialect stuck around than in most areas.

Oh, wow! There was a pocket of eastern NC that used dreckly (the county my mom's family is from had a dialect that is very similar to that of parts of Appalachia, presumably due to similar settlement patterns)

TRUTH

YUP

So cool!!!

Ok. So. If you are angry and sad about everything rn (like me), you should seriously come on one of these ⬇️ walking tours. I literally wrote them as a response to this feeling I am feeling rn

A true gift from the cat distribution system! (Which had to offer her a few times before I was told to take the hint 😂😻💙💙💙)

Such a good explorer! 😻💙💙💙

She didn't know what exactly was going on with this white stuff, but she knew it was safe (or I'd have made her stay inside) so she was going to Explore! 😻💙💙💙

I will tell her hello from you! (I do tell her sometimes about how the internet and some specific friends think she's great) 😻💙💙💙

It's what caught my attention when she started hanging out! Her back was mostly beige at that time, but her face always had the brown markings she later developed elsewhere; I could be very sure this was one cat and not a couple of similar-looking ones 😻💙💙💙

I will give her some Churu from you! 😻💙💙💙

I know these things happened decades apart and I know SO MUCH has changed but sometimes it's very emotional whiplash to go from being part of a group of fans that were mocked on one of the hugest shows in the country to reading books that are truly love letters to fandom

Star Shipped! Came out a couple of weeks ago 💙

Thank you! I think we are both astonished at our good fortune 😻💙💙💙

When we were first getting to know each other, and I'd sit still outside for a while every day so she could get used to me, I just talked and sang to her; perhaps unsurprisingly she has turned into a talkative cat (relative to the other ones we've had) 😻💙💙💙

She needed to make sure her house was okay!!! (She spends most of her outdoor time these days curled up in our old igloo dog house, which has a lot of blankets and towels in it for coziness) 😻

She just continues to be wonderful in almost all the ways 😻💙💙💙

To be fair I didn't post about her for the first six months, until my mom decided we needed to start feeding this cat, when she'd reappeared after not being seen for a couple of months! So only 3.5 years 😂 (I did name her like the third or fourth time I saw her the yard, all within a few days) 💙

It is very good! It's also possible I identify with one of the characters a bit too much 💙💙💙

Reading Cat Sebastian's latest and I think the first half has opened, like, three cases of fizzy drinks worth of feelings, and taken all three of those cases and shaken them up for maximum chaos when opened

Boo 💙💙💙

A tan, brown, and white cat walks through a cat-sized tunnel in snow that is deeper than she is tall (her human cleared several paths for her later, but patience is NOT one of the Sasha cat's personality features). There is a light teal bench behind her; the snow comes up to the seat of the bench, except toward the front where an offscreen planter sheltered it.

And, as one who believes in taxation, here's my cat tax payment

When we had the snow, she was stressed by being forced to stay inside, but once I let her outside and she knew it wasn't a trap, she decided that inside was WAY better than the snow and was inside by choice until it melted

3 years after she first decided to see what happened if one human touched her, she has recently discovered that constant motion is NOT required -- you can curl up like a loaf and be petted! Sometimes by two people at once!!!

I have failed to keep everyone apprised of the reality that Sasha continues to be an excellent cat!!! We recently celebrated her birthday (she started hanging out in our yard 4 years ago), and she enjoyed the extra Churu and new toys