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petra

I am going through my traditional "How many fests and challenges can I imagine in a week?"

I don't think I'm doing Psychic Wolves this year.

On the other hand, Té suggested a fest of blorbos touching the Rockstar Lestat and now I want it.

hannah points out that, if we want to know what Tom Cruise's Rockstar Lestat would have looked like, we have but to consult this video of Cruise in a jukebox musical singing "Pour Some Sugar On Me."

...it's been a really long time since I was sexually attracted to Tom Cruise, but apparently

hannah has the secret sauce.

Also, I now want vampires:

+ the New Burbage Festival (OMG DARREN NICHOLS) (Slings & Arrows)

+ on G-ERTI (they can only fly at night) (Cabin Pressure)

+ working for Oracle (Birds of Prey and a half)

+ visiting Chicago in the era of the Mountie (experimental hair for all who will) (due South)

+ what-ho'ing Bertram Wilberforce Wooster

+ in the world of the Five Gods (hello, is this The Bastard, I have your king shit devoté on hold) (Chalion)

+ dealing with the Light and the Dark, and falling somewhere between (Dark is Rising)

~~+ eating hockey players~~

+ being in the future and baffling Aral Vorkosigan with being a) not soldiers and b) hot AT THE SAME TIME (Vorkosigan Saga)

+ and Muppets (Lestat as lone "human"?)

+ in Narnia (Aslan would shit a lit. brick)

+ becoming Black Ribboners (time for a sing-song around the harmonium! NOT LIKE THAT, LESTAT) (Discworld)

+ in Night Vale (it's Tuesday)

+ mad, in a coma, AND back in time -- the Life on Mars trifecta -- let's see Lestat trying to eat Gene Hunt

+ calling Car Talk

+ hiring Neal Caffrey to do a spot of forgery (White Collar)

+ with war horses who correspond with Copenhagen and Marengo, gaily (Warhorses of Letters)

+ fit as a fiddle and ready for love (would they love or loathe Lockwood and Lamont?) (Singin' in the Rain)

+ come on Darth Vader gold glitter looks Great on you

+ choosing the lesser of two weevils (Aubreyad)

+ ...okay i just died a little over quentin coldwater fanboying the vampire lestat (The Magicians)

+ side-eyeing and being side-eyed by Magneto (X-Men)

+ and I had a good belly laugh at Lestat meeting Felix Harrowgate: battle of the asshole first-person narrators who think they are special

+ Zaphod! Beeblebrox! would so get it on with Lestat! (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

+ How do you reckon vampires get on with thalergy? Let's Find Out (The Locked Tomb)

+ How do you reckon vampires get on with constructs? Send Lestat to Preservation! (Murderbot)

+ okay hear me out Grantaire is weak for opinionated blonds but what if he met The Wrong One (Les Misérables)

+ it's already a doctor who episode innit but let's get some harkness up in this joint

+ Awful Sykes has a crush and so does Torquil (Archer's Goon)

+ RIVERS OF LONDON which body of water can we blame everyone on

+ Last Week Tonight: Our main story concerns The "Vampire" Lestat (of course John does quote fingers)

+ Jacky Faber met our hero at some point in her meanderings. I bet they shared a stage.

+ James Flint. BWAHAHAHA. WOULD HIT THAT. (Black Sails)

+ Falsettos: writes. itself. Louis IS the gay plague.

+ did you ever want to see Lestat fuck a muppet wearing leather? I DO I DO (Farscape)

+ truly Julian Bashir needs his not-boyfriend to run interference or he's gonna get eaten (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

+ and then I hit Battlestar Galactica (reboot) which seems like a Terrible place to be a vampire but they'd have fun eating Gaius

+ Pern! is in the future! it can have Vampires if it wants 'em! Weirdest Harper Ever.

+ What happens with MCU? I couldn't begin to tell you. But there must be a clever answer.

+ Community: the study group goes to a concert and they all crush, each in their own way. Annie gets... scary.

+ I very much want Ray Person singing The Vampire Lestat across Iraq, but given the givens it makes me want to cry right now. (Generation: Kill, RIP James Ransone)

+ Scott & Bailey -- the teenage girls and Aunt Rachel bond over their crushes

+ Pamela Dean's Tam Lin has immortals. I want to see them emoting at Rice's.

+ And our wailing wonder, Lestat de Lioncourt. // Why, thank you, Sandi. (QI, the other guests are Phill Jupitus and Sue Perkins, because it's a Musical Episode)

+ ST: TOS -- Chekov and Sulu both have posters.

+ Does Venom want one? And how!

Current Mood: inspired
Current Music: In the name of love

susandennis

Hazel has come into my apartment 3 times this week to ask me to fix her tablet. Three times I have said that I would all she has to do is bring it to me. No tablet yet. She downloads shit and then gets warnings from malware. I think if I ever see the tablet again, I'll find her solitaire games that she can play offline and then turn off her wifi access.

But, the big news is she said that John (her husband who can't turn on his computer) has ordered her a big cellphone. Probably a large size, off brand smart phone. "he got the big one so I can see the numbers". Hazel cannot work a traditional handset because she forgets how. There is no way in the world she will be able to operate a cellphone. She will be in here every time she tries to turn it on. John does not know how to operate a smart phone. He can barely manage his feature flip phone. This is going to get ugly fast. I think my game plan is to show her to to call our IT guys here at Timber Ridge.

Elbow Coffee was not as bad as it has been and not as good. But, it is over for another week.

I'm just tired of old people.

I did my Safeway run and it is really cold out. I have no reason to test it further. I might puzzle a bit and then settle in with some TV and knitting.

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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

https://cheezburger.com/43784965/32-pawsitively-precious-cat-memes-for-purrtrovers-looking-for-the-coziest-corner-on-caturday

Caturday has arrived, dear purrtroverts - our sacred day of soft blankets, silent plans, and exactly zero social obligations (unless you count the tiny, whiskered roommate who lives rent-free in your heart and apartment). There's something meowgical about weekends when the world finally quiets down and it's just you, your favorite cozy corner, and a cat who fully supports your decision to stay inside forever.

Cats get it. They, too, believe in personal space… right up until they decide to drape themselves across your laptop, chest, or soul. And honestly? That's the only exception we'll allow. Together you form the ultimate introvert duo: you read, they loaf; you sip something warm, they purr like a tiny tractor; you both agree that this is peak existence and there is no need to leave the house ever again.

And we can't think of a better way to celebrate that quiet, heartwarming joy of sharing your life (and your best nap spots) with a feline companion - than with some pawsitively precious cat memes. They can wrap you up in wholesome weekend vibes - soft smiles, slow blinks, and the gentle soundtrack of purr-therapy. This is your cozy little universe, and only the chosen floof may enter.

https://cheezburger.com/43784965/32-pawsitively-precious-cat-memes-for-purrtrovers-looking-for-the-coziest-corner-on-caturday

tinny

Mount TBR 2025 Book #09 The Village Teacher

The Village Teacher by Liu Cixin [Graphic Novel by Zhang Xiaoyu]

Li Laoshi spends his whole life teaching and protecting the youth in a remote Chinese village. What for?

I read the German edition of the graphic novel version of Liu Cixin's novella. Same as last year, I needed to add a graphic novel to gain time for my challenge. It's cheating in a way, but just like last year, this graphic novel was a Christmas present that I would not otherwise have read, so it's predestined to be used for the Mount TBR challenge, and I don't feel very bad about it. (Not to mention that no amount of cheating will make me reach my goal of 12 books this year.)

some thoughts, spoilery

* The graphics style is very detailed and the aliens and starscapes especially are beautiful. The humans are a little ugly in comparison - but that's the point, I think.

* The whole point of the book is to show how much good teachers are worth. They'll save Earth from destruction.

* That the Earth is saved by a few youngsters spouting physical formulas (Kepler's laws) without understanding them is hilariously Chinese. (And maybe also the point.)

* The two things that stuck in my mind from this book:

** the idea that anyone could at any time be chosen by an alien race as a representative for Earth's population. This would not go well. (But hey, even choosing Chinese students from a backwater village seems to have been enough. Is there hope? :) )

** the fact that even with government support, the teacher wasn't able to pay for his cancer treatment

* It's, from what I've now seen, a pretty typical book for Liu Cixin. He puts his finger on systemic failures of Chinese society, and he invents fantastical alien races. Two for two.

* The moral of the story isn't even bad, knowledge is important, teachers are important. It's okay for a short story.

* I read the whole thing in under an hour, so I'm not surprised that the moral didn't leave a huge impression. It didn't have enough time to develop.

3 stars - very detailed artwork, the human faces a bit too (intentionally) ugly in places to really draw me in, but the novella plot was good

1 - 5 stars - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Final Architecture #1 [DW link]
2 - 2 stars - Miss Merkel: Mord auf dem Friedhof by David Safier Miss Merkel #2 [DW link]
3 - 4 stars - Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire Toby Daye #10 [DW link]
4 - 1 star - Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin [DW link]
5 - 5 stars - Murderbot Diaries 1-4 by Martha Wells [DW link]
6 - 4 stars - Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur/We Have Been Harmonized by Kai Strittmatter [DW link]
7 - tbd
8 - 3 stars - Der Markisenmann by Jan Weiler [DW link]
9 - 3 stars - The Village Teacher by Liu Cixin [Graphic Novel by Zhang Xiaoyu] [DW link]

china_shop

(Feel free to snag and/or adapt for other fandoms! Also, being me, I made rules ("pick one", "favourite") and then immediately broken them. *g*)

1. A fanwork you've read/looked at more than three times
- [Vid] Open Ocean by

sakana17 (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan - so gorgeous)
- [Vid] Lost It All by

salamandras (Zhao Xinci & Zhao Yunlan - a vexercise! I particularly love the first version)
- [Art] Getting Comfortable [Explicit] by

facethestrange (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan art, a glorious gift for me, did I mention explicit?)
ETA:
- [Vid] Hallucinogenics by Jill, Kathy, Kay - Zhao Yunlaaaaaan!!

2. A resource you've used lately (or "lately")
- Dramatis Personae (with cast list) by

extrapenguin
- SID Timeline by

rheasilvia
- Guardian timeline by

extrapenguin

3. A rarepair you would read
I'm fairly easy for trying out rarepairs. There are some characters I generally avoid "/" pairings for (in particular, Da Qing, Zhu Jiu, and Ye Zun come to mind), but I did read some delightful Lin Jing/Ye Zun fics over

guardian_wishlist, so clearly even that isn't a hard line. (Da Qing might be, though.)

A rarepair that I'd actively like to read more of is Chu Shuzhi &/ Zhao Xinci.

nnozomi wrote me one delightful fic for them [Mature], and it only whetted my appetite. *g*

( Continued behind the cut. )

Guardian meme 1. A fanwork you've read/looked at more than three times 2. A resource you've used lately (or "lately") 3. A rarepair you would read 4. The rarest pair you've written/created for (gut feel is fine; no need to check numbers) 5. Novel vs drama, if you had to choose 6. The first fic you read in the fandom (if you can't remember, one of the first is fine) 7. Ye Zun ships - yay or nay? 8. The most recent Guardian fanart you looked at 9. Did you participate in any Guardian-specific events in 2025? Which ones? 10. Opening credits vs closing credits death match: which do you choose? 11. Are you into any Guardian-adjacent fandoms? 12. Did you make any Guardian fanworks in 2025? How many? What was your favourite? 13. List three of your favourites of your own Guardian works (or other people's, if you'd prefer). 14. Pick a screencap

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https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/33951

International Volunteer Day

On December 5, people all over the world observed International Volunteer Day (IVD) to acknowledge the work of volunteer workers everywhere, and their efforts, dedication, and passion. Since its conception in 1985, IVD has invited us to recognize the ways in which volunteers contribute to communities and are at the forefront of many people-led initiatives.

Here at the Organisation of Transformative Works (OTW) we depend entirely on that drive, as our organization is 100% volunteer-run! Our volunteers handle our strategic planning, administration, infrastructure, development, any day-to-day tasks required in running a non-profit organization, and so on. Volunteers aren't just the backbone of the OTW, they are its whole skeleton!

Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of an OTW volunteer looks like? The answer is: It's hard to say! Depending on where in the OTW they are active, their tasks and responsibilities can look very different from those of the next volunteer. Volunteers also work a very wide range of weekly hours, depending on their position(s) and availability: anything from one hour to over twenty hours a week!

For this IVD, we wanted to give you a chance to get to know those volunteers behind the scenes of the OTW and its projects. That is why we sent out a call across our social media for you to send us your most burning questions.

Here are some of those questions with answers from our volunteers!

Questions for Specific Committees

Question for the Policy & Abuse committee:
How often do you deal with people who want to censor something on AO3? Is it a common complaint?
Committee Answer:
AO3 frequently receives complaints about "offensive content", which includes suggesting that we should remove or censor content that is allowed on AO3. In the past five years, complaints about offensive content have consistently been one of the top three types of Policy & Abuse tickets, albeit not the largest. The Policy & Abuse committee regularly publishes a breakdown of the previous year's tickets, which for 2024 can be found here. Information about 2025's tickets will be available in a newsletter early next year.
Question for the Volunteers & Recruiting committee:
What types of things can be done by volunteers? I say this as someone who'd love to volunteer at some point in the future, but have no idea if I have any skill that would actually be helpful.
Committee answer:
The skill sets required from our volunteers depend a lot on the role: There are roles that require some kind of formal education or in-depth knowledge of a specific topic, such as being a lawyer or a financial analyst. Other roles, however, are teaching all required skills during the training period, so for those roles it mostly depends on being the "type" for the role. For us in VolCom (Volunteers & Recruiting Committee), it's more of the latter than the former; for example, our volunteers need to enjoy documentation work and ticking off tasks from to-do lists while being able to do work autonomously. There are many roles in the OTW that look for a specific type of person more than a person with a specific set of skills, or the skills are very transferable: Skills such as project management, navigating tricky interpersonal situations, dividing big-picture goals into actionable items, etc. If you keep an eye on our socials and the news posts, you will see us recruiting regularly. Each role comes with a position description that explains both what the volunteers in this role do, and what is required of applicants, so just watch out for a role that matches your skills and interests!

General Questions across Committees

How many hours a week do you spend on your OTW volunteer work?
For myself on Systems, it varies. I usually spend at least an hour a day between checking in on alerts, tickets, and responding to any inquiries from other committees internally. It usually ends up being more, as some of those requests are more involved than others. Any time there's an outage or issue, the number of hours usually goes much higher. (FrostTheFox, Systems committee chair)
How do you manage your volunteer time, and do you do the same thing every day like with a day job?
What I do each day varies based on what events are coming up for Board and the OTW! We may be working on research projects, preparing for a public Board meeting, replying to questions from the public, or many other things. The variety is a huge part of why I enjoy what I do honestly. I wouldn't enjoy it as much if it was the same every day. Volunteering for the OTW is nice because by and large, you get to pick what ours and schedule you'd like to have. I personally try and block out sections of my time to work on OTW-related tasks and do occasional checking in outside of this time. (therealmorticia, Board Assistants Team committee chair)
What's your favorite part about volunteering at the OTW?
Assisting AO3 users, most notably Vietnamese and Chinese users, in my capacity as Support volunteer. Some weeks when the stress from my other OTW roles catches up to me, doing Support work and answering Support tickets remind me of the reason why I started this whole endeavour in the first place: I want to give back to fandom and help AO3 users navigate the Archive a little bit easier. (Anh Pham, Support committee)
What's the aspect of volunteer work with the OTW that you most wish more people knew about?
Sometimes the things you think will be simplest are the hardest, and vice versa. Personally, I've had to nix features I really wanted myself because they just wouldn't be practical given our volume of users and current resources. (Accessibility, Design, & Technology committee volunteer)
What does a typical day as an OTW volunteer looks like for you?
I volunteer as an Open Doors Administrative Volunteer and as an Open Doors Chair Assistant. Both are project management-oriented roles: I help manage archive imports and the committee itself! I start my volunteering time by checking on the status of my archives, answering questions as they arise, making sure archive import tasks are progressing along - it's always something different! I also work on various projects for committee management, such as documenting workflows and new procedures or running weekly working meetings. (Kayla, Open Doors committee)
What is your favorite animal? Alternatively, do you have a favorite breed of cat/dog?
Aside from cats & dogs, my favorite animal is a sloth. They’re mood and they sound really funny (look it up on youtube!). Favorite dog breed is airedale terrier, because my boyfriend has one and she’s hilarious. She lives with his mom now that he’s studying/working in my city, and I’ve only seen her a few times, so I’m convinced she thinks I’m some sort of weird extension of my bf that just randomly appears every 6 months or so. (kati, Translation committee)
Do you enjoy reading fanfic? If so, what's your favorite work on AO3?
I do! Finding a favorite was the hardest thing I've ever done and I had to dig through my bookmarks, anything by author hanville would make the cut, to be honest, but my absolute favorite is mosaic broken hearts with this is me trying as a really, really close second. (Camila Lopez, Tag Wrangling committee)
Do you write any fanfic yourself? What do you enjoy about it?
I write so many fics. @.@ It's a lot of fun to explore favourite characters in new ways, and to get to expand the worlds in which they live. I'm also cursed to have very few fandoms in which my favourite characters or ships have a lot of content, so I end up having to make it all myself. (Fun fact: I actually found my partner due to a rare pair!) (C, AO3 Documentation committee)
What fandoms are you (currently) in?
Well, Heated Rivalry obviously. I'm also really into Fallout, The Pitt, and Formula 1 RPF. (I'm not even a sports person. I don't know how I ended up in sports RPF, yet here I am.) (Whatsit, Policy & Abuse committee)
Do you feel glad or proud to see fanfiction in your mother tongue? I grew up in German fandom, and I owe some German fandom writers a lot when it comes to my own existence in fandom. I very much stay away from it now lmao. I can't handle anything remotely smutty written in German, and some peculiarities of fanfiction that I can tolerate in English are a dealbreaker in German, as well as grammar and punctuation. I do love that it exists - fanfiction and fandom in general is an amazing space that should not be limited by the language one speaks. (corr, Volunteers & Recruiting committee)

(For more answers from our volunteers, check out this work on AO3, where we'll post additional replies to each question!)

We are exceedingly grateful to all volunteers who have taken time out of their day to compose answers, and for the amazing work they do at the OTW on a daily basis! They are the lifeblood of the OTW, AO3, and our other projects!

If you too want to become part of the OTW and help out as a volunteer, keep an eye on our recruitment posts! And if you're afraid of missing a post, no worries: You can subscribe to our monthly OTW News by Email service for a neat summary of what's currently happening at the OTW!

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karanguni

In a rather cursed year, Yuletide has been a nice end of season bright spot. I received a delightful Bedlam Stacks fic – The Question of the Chicken and the Egg - that dives into Merrick and Keita's relationship over time. It's perhaps my favourite thing about Bedlam/Watchmaker, and the fic covers some very beautiful moments between these two amoral Company boys.

Some other recs from my limited readthrough:

The Way of the Househusband is striking it out of the park this year, with both delightful loyalty porn ("as you are") alongside :fire: burning hot three-way porn ("I Want to Be With You Night and Day "), with Tatsu watching from the side included :eyes:

Antique Bakery is back in Yuletide, my friends, and this fic serves up Ono and Tachibana off on a trip to Hokkaido ("Obscura")

Wimbledon: Peter is too idiotic to realise his best friend is into him, because of course ("The Best Part of 1996"

Cthulhu Mythos/Dream Cycle: Randolph Carter is going to bring all the horrors to the yard ("Onwards the rite "), and damn right, he's a better dreamer than yours

Then, a now-perennial Yuletide classic, Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence crossed over with Rivers of London. You know where this one is going, and you know you're going to click on this fic.

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rachelmanija

Here are some Yuletide recs, sorted for your reading pleasure by whether or not you need to know the canon.

Do Not Need to Know Canon

Chalion/World of the Five Gods - Lois McMaster Bujold

a knock at your front door. I think all you need to know to read this story is that there are five Gods - the Mother, the Father, the Son, the Daughter, and the Bastard - who are definitely real but rarely interfere in human affairs. They can, however, make people saints - able to do limited miracles - if they need to. This story deals with the Father, the God least-explored in canon, and is set in modern-day Chalion. It's got a clever look at what modern Chalion might be like, a very likable main character, and some beautiful writing.

FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns

If you've never read the canon, I've linked it above. It's extremely short and you will be glad you did. There are other "Snake Fight" stories and they're all fun.

Snake Logistics for Spring Defenses. Some students are just begging for a black mamba.

Need to Know Canon

Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey

find the true. Mirrim and F'lar have a chat at a Gather. I enjoyed this conversation between two characters who I don't think ever exchange words in canon. Good characterization, good atmosphere.

Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin

to be useful, if not free. My gift! A backstory/canon diverge AU for Serret, the enchantress in A Wizard of Earthsea. Beautifully written, beautifully structured.

The Long Walk - Stephen King

There's No Discharge in the War. Stebbins in a time loop. Long, intense, often horrifying, sometimes very moving, and cleverly constructed story about Stebbins and the other Walkers.

"The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson; New Yorker RPF

Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death. Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." If you've never heard of him, he's a journalist who's very good at letting people hang themselves with their own words. The story is dead-on, hilarious, and chilling.

Lyra series/Caught in Crystal - Patricia Wrede

Three Things That Might Have Happened to Kayl Larrinar. My treat! A very satisfyingly bittersweet canon divergence AU for Kayl's Star Cluster, full of camaraderie and atmosphere.

Mushishi

I want to taste the shadows, too. A lovely little casefic/character study about Adashino, the guy who collects mushi-related stuff. It really feels like an episode of the anime, especially the final portion.

Some Like It Hot

Anchors Away. A short and very sweet post-movie coda.

Watership Down - Richard Adams

There is no bargain. Five encounters with The Black Rabbit of Inlé. An exploration of how the Black Rabbit is different things to different rabbits in different circumstances, very well-done, sometimes moving, sometimes chilling. The Black Rabbit is Death, so warning for rabbit death.

What have you enjoyed in the collection?

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Posted by Ben Weiss

https://cheezburger.com/43698181/college-student-confronts-partner-on-group-project-after-discovering-much-of-his-portion-was

This student's group project debacle is only further proof that blindly trusting your classmates to do their fair share of the work is never a good idea.

Of course, in an ideal world, you shouldn't have to worry about your partner's ability to do their bit. You should be able to focus on your own responsibilities, and that should be enough. However, if you were a high achiever growing up, you probably learned early on that instilling your trust in a classmate with whom you were randomly paired by your teacher for a group project is a gamble.

Sure, they might impress you. They might even knock it out of the park. But if you don't check in on them throughout the process, then you might show up on the day the assignment is due with no way to repair or correct that partner's shoddy work.

This college student had the unfortunate experience of learning in the middle of the night right before the due date that his partner's portion was partially plagiarized. But wait, it gets worse. The other portion wasn't original material either; it was fully generated by ChatGPT. Somehow, this guy thought their professor would not use the plagiarism checkers she literally told the whole class she would use.

https://cheezburger.com/43698181/college-student-confronts-partner-on-group-project-after-discovering-much-of-his-portion-was

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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

https://cheezburger.com/43781893/caturday-medley-20-most-meowrvelous-weekly-cat-memes-collected-by-your-cheezburger-expawrts

Welcome back to Caturday Medley - the "post-holiday exhale" edition. The wrapping paper has finally settled, the leftovers are stacked in the fridge like culinary Tetris, and the festive chaos has gently padded away on soft little paws. Now it's time for what truly matters: collapsing on the couch with your cat and remembering how to breathe again.

Our feline overlords, of course, handled the holidays in their own signature style - helping "unwrap" gifts, supervising the cooking (aka staring with intent), and performing deep scientific studies on the structural integrity of Christmas trees. But now that the sparkles and jingles are over, our cats are slipping into maximum cozy mode: loafing, purring, slow-blinking, and doubling as fluffy emotional support heaters.

This weekend is about rest. About peace. About letting a purring floofie nap on your chest while you scroll through the internet's finest cat nonsense. And that's why we're here with your weekly Caturday Medley - a wholesome, hilarious collection of the very best cat memes to soothe your holiday-tired soul. It's packed with fluffy feline joy, gentle cat chaos, and pure serotonin in whiskered form - the perfect way to unwind after the holidays.

https://cheezburger.com/43781893/caturday-medley-20-most-meowrvelous-weekly-cat-memes-collected-by-your-cheezburger-expawrts

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Posted by Blake Seidel

https://cheezburger.com/43787781/burly-biker-rescues-itty-bitty-kitten-from-the-road-and-turns-him-into-the-cutest-co-pilot-only-4-5

This kitten is tougher than we'll ever be, and he's got the bike to prove it!

Imagine being less than a month old and trying to figure out the world on your own. We're approaching 35 and still have no idea what we're doing. But not only that, you're dumped in a place you don't know, surrounded by fast-moving machines you don't understand, and giant hairless monkeys that you don't know if they're good or bad. It sounds terrifying. Luckily, this kitten, now named "Lug Nut" (AKA Pongo), was found by one of the good ones.

While taking his new motorcycle out for a ride, this burly biker found the kitten hiding under a car. He coaxed the cute kitty out, spent some time looking for any siblings or a mom, but when none of them showed up, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He stuffed the kitty in his pocket and drove them back home to safety. Lug Nut had quite a lot to say about being stuffed into a pocket, but he forgave his hooman after he got home and was fed.

The kitten is staying with a coworker of his, but he plans on bringing Lug Nut back and turning him into a biker kitty, which sounds pretty cool if you ask us. Scroll through more about Lug Nut and his rescue below!

https://cheezburger.com/43787781/burly-biker-rescues-itty-bitty-kitten-from-the-road-and-turns-him-into-the-cutest-co-pilot-only-4-5

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Posted by Etai Eshet

https://cheezburger.com/43751173/learned-just-now-that-coworkers-are-not-your-friends-veteran-8-year-employee-summoned-to-an-after

The thing that makes me love reading and writing about these stories is how I can almost always find some underlying philosophical concepts hidden in or behind them. Which is probably the thing I do the most, like, in honestly, it's a thing I can't stop doing, and I don't blame people in my life who have had enough of it or think it's annoying. I just love how, when an idea or concept written anytime between decades to millennials ago, if it's good and smart, it just stays relevant

And in this story, like most, there are a bunch of those in it. I'm only going to focus on one. But I'll get to that later in this post.

What I'd like to begin with is a genuine, warm congratulations to our guy, who, by some magical power, was able to avoid this pretty well-known truth about the nature of most people. I know that sounds cynical, but I'm actually being sincere. If anything, the fact that it took this man 8 years, 8 years of being in a pure, naive state of life, where work is a place you don't have to look over your shoulder in, is beautiful.

The problem is, and this is something we've all experienced at some point in our lives, it's better to rip the band-aid quickly, and the earlier the better.

https://cheezburger.com/43751173/learned-just-now-that-coworkers-are-not-your-friends-veteran-8-year-employee-summoned-to-an-after

petra

The reason I got a tumblr in 2013 was hockey RPF.

I have been watching my entire dashboard lose its collective mind over Heated Rivalry.

I tried to read this fic, which has in-universe fandom, one of my favorite tropes, and has a retrospective slant on what the development of hockey RPF in-universe would be like. Petra-nip.

I got as far as an in-universe primer for one of the characters, and was swamped with the combined nostalgia/trauma.

They're fictional! They can't possibly be sekrit racists or abetting rapists or not-so-sekritly shaking hands with Putin! They're not real!

And I can't do it.

I hope you are all having a wonderful time with your sinless imaginary hockey bros. I just keep thinking, "But if they were Real, they'd have Secrets that would make me Hate them."

I guess I will continue not engaging, because if I can't read an imaginary primer about an imaginary hockey player, I would be completely pants at watching the show. Primers are how I learned about real hockey players! It's a great starting place!

But not for me.

Current Mood: traumatized
Current Music: Which eliminates B and which leaves us with A

missdiane

I made a very niche video of ASMR brewing coffee here and am trying out capcut for editing since for one, the sound wasn't as nice as I wanted. There's more crunky noises rather than burbly noises from the coffee maker's real life noise. I also was splicing together four different videos and was having difficulty figuring out how to do transitions and stuff. But working on it. I can't figure out how to get the chirpy noises out yet.

In other people's video goings on, TikTok is putting lots of people on my For You page trying to dance or lipsync Raye's "Where Is My Husband?" Love that song

Watch on YouTube

lessonsinescapology

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icanhascheezburger_feed

Posted by Blake Seidel

https://cheezburger.com/43787269/a-caturday-catnip-compilation-of-typical-feline-behaviors-from-the-silly-species-felis-flooficus

The "Felis Flooficus Peculiaris" is often found causing mischief and chaos when not sawing logs in honk-shoo land.

If you didn't read that first part in David Attenborough's voice, go back and do it again, but with his voice. On today's episode of "cats being cats", we present to you some raw, unfiltered pictures we captured of a creature living in your house right now. This beautiful, yet derpy creature, "Felis Flooficus Peculiaris", sleeps for most of the day, but when it's not sleeping, it's up to something. Did you know that while you're at work or asleep, your kitty explores uncharted territories (climbs literally everything), marks its territory (knocks everything over), and leaves no curiosity left unchecked?

It's hard to document "Felis Flooficus Peculiaris" because it is active most in the early mornings or evenings. You can never tell when it will awake from its slumber and choose to leave a wake of chaos in its wake, but that's what we're here for. We followed them around for days, nay, weeks, nay, years, to get this purrfectly unique footage for you, so you can see their true nature.

What is their true nature, you ask? Well, they're pawsitively adorable, purrfectly silly, and 100% recommended as cute companions. Just feed them on time and prepare to follow their every whim and desire for many years to come. If you can follow those two simple rules, you and "Felis Flooficus Peculiaris" will get along just fine.

https://cheezburger.com/43787269/a-caturday-catnip-compilation-of-typical-feline-behaviors-from-the-silly-species-felis-flooficus

susandennis

We only had 4 people turn out for volleyball so we only played an hour and it was not very vigorous and then I swam laps for about 20 minutes. There is a problem with the pool - both the water and the air are a few degrees cooler than they should be. And it's the weekend. Assuming no one gets to it, it should be icicles by Monday. I told the front desk but the guy on duty is famous for not doing shit so...

The big headline news is that this morning there was no blood in Biggie's pee!!! It looked just like Julio's pee!!! Yep, I'm very excited to report the findings made in comparing my cats' urine. Turns out that one of the big pluses about tofu litter is the ability to see the color of pee easily. (Biggie and Julio use different litter box real estate. Biggie pees in the back of the box and Julio's partial to the front left side. This has been very helpful in tracking them.)

I finished up a very good book a few days ago (The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham) and have had a really hard time latching onto a new one but I think I might have found the one... Playing Dead by Elizabeth Greenwood. It's non fiction about people and reasons and methods for faking your own death. I'm just at the beginning but the prolong is really interesting.

I'm at the beginning of Season 6 (of 10) of Shetland.

I am seriously considering a quick to Safeway. I want fried chicken and cake.

But right now, I need to go to Elbow Coffee.