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he is pretty scared so I built him a couple forts

I’m off Bluesky mostly but lil life update: someone found a kitten weaving in and out of traffic outside my office so I am fostering Diesel Mechanic aka Deezy until Sunday when he will go to his forever home 🖤

me wearing a cheerleading skirt and red sum 41 crop top with white thigh high socks and a vintage 70s coat

dressed up for my friend’s double feature of bring it on & but I’m a cheerleader

What’s life without a little grief? Content warning: loss of cats mentioned

I wrote about grief, depression, and how love comes with fear (and also, my cats)

open.substack.com/pub/checkel/...

anyway it’s fun to get older and find myself having very strong opinions about public transportation and city planning! driving half a mile down the busy ass street just to get to another recommended vintage store is super annoying!

like even if Tennessee went straight blue all the way through tomorrow how do you begin to contend with the fact that East Nashville is just a series of strip malls strung together (I say this coming from NJ where our small towns have similar issues!)

ok my main report from going to Nashville is wow republican city planning (or, lack thereof) really ruins shit for everyone huh

one experience that feels almost universally true despite the players, despite the season I’m watching, is that everyone looks so fucking weird when they first appear “cleaned up” after leaving the island on survivor. like… kinda no one looks better? lmao

sorry not to get too political in my traitors shitposting but it’s soooo funny that a British aristocrat just said “good triumphs evil every time”

The artist formerly known as… Casey? Spurred by some excellent threads on Bluesky, sparked by writer Niko Stratis, I started trying to write about transness and joy, and the way I’ve experienced gender in community and being a nonbinary ...

maybe the first real thing I’ve written since… 2016? A tiptoe into gender and identity, and what’s in a name, through the lens of a ten-year-old

open.substack.com/pub/checkel/...

this season of love is blind is excruciating to a degree I didn’t even think was possible

congrats!!!!

icymi I am super sick again which is why I must complain about absolutely inconsequential but annoying tech decisions that are ruining my every episode of survivor binge

every time I open paramount plus I curse the preview autoplay (the audio is toggled off but it still plays, and there’s no other options to turn it off) which always includes like a huge spoiler?? WHY

what awful thing do you have to do for 40+ hours to get that?

It is truly fucking wild how the introductory thesis of this argument is, "As we all know, men will find any loophole they can to be sex criminals and degenerates. My primary source on this is me, a degenerate."

A man says "there's so much hate in my heart." He picks up a Flying V and says "my only instinct is to write incredibly hostile riffs." Another man comes in and says "I'd like to listen." They both have a wonderful time.

corner of blue bedroom with riso prints and posters and pink lighting so the posters “glow” 😎

a neon pink shelf w futurama vinyl toys, a print, and a shadow box painting of a flower in pink lighting with a blue background

few things I enjoy more in this life than hanging weird shit on my walls

he’s beautiful

I think this is the single best news for me since 2016 (aside from my crush liking me back and becoming my emergency contact)

is that place good

I feel like my friends and I say this all the time as a bit but it’s nice to be truly on topic when I say GO BIRDS

an important thing to help you make sense of dream theater is that every single one of them used to be absolutely smoking hot

can I just say I missed you and your cat posts

Small back cat with spicy eyes sits on a vintage 70s armchair

Closeup of small black cat with spicy eyes

small black cat stretching on chair with snowshoe kitten looking out the window next to her

two kittens, black & snowshoe, on a chair staring at the camera

my insane demon daughter and roly poly bowling ball son

starting to see all my old twitter friends on here whose names I never rly knew but admired nonetheless, nature is healing

thank you for alerting me holy shit did not have enjoying new dream theater on my 2025 bingo card

I’ve been sick for almost two weeks (finally tested neg), what’s going on today

for future splurges I recommend milk for blush/highlighter if you like the sticks, and melt has longtime been one of my fav brands for everything. their lipsticks and eyeshadows are really nice 🖤

not today :( but she’s getting so so faint ugh