Cris & Chessie 🐈‍⬛

@crischalcedony.bsky.social

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Writer, shirker, AuDHD. Cats, chronic illness, fandoms, Muppets. Chessie is the cat! 🚫AI, 🚫aid requests, 🚫politics. https://archiveofourown.org/users/CrisChalcedony

A grumpy tuxedo cat has one forepaw held up by a human's hand; she has a single pink toebean and the rest are black.

Black and white still from The Munsters - Herman Munster stands with a bottle of milk in his hand and a black cat perched on his shoulder

Image made by a human being, not AI. Stock image of a light green background with a sprig of green plant taped to it, a couple of white binder clips, and several pieces of blank white paper. Text has been layered onto the background image in a casual font. Text is a poem by Lee Upton published in 2005. Text reads: "'And though she be but little, she is fierce.'
—A Midsummer Night's Dream

And though her car is old and missing parts,
and though the weeds grow up through her porch,
and though she is acquainted with Revolutionary War
re-enactors,
and though she lapses into bouts of cursing,
her cursing is the songline of canaries.

Said Cleopatra to the asp,
said Napoleon to rocky Elba:
Though she is fierce she is but little.

So the river from an enormous height might seem
the flank of a whippet,
so the bee is more likely to attack us than the whale,
so it's her smallness that gives her
the leaping prowess of a flea.

It's the infant that holds dominion in the nursery.
It's the cutter that intersects the ocean liner.
Like to the ant, the tick, the beetle.
Said the decimal point to the numerals,
You all depend on me.
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
Though she be but little, she takes the lion's part."

Image made by a human being, not AI. Stock image of a retro mint green typewriter with a page of text. Text is a poem from Carl Sandburg published in 1960. Text reads"Little Girl, Be Careful What You Say/
Little girl, be careful what you say/
when you make talk with words, words—/
for words are made of syllables/
and syllables, child, are made of air—/
and air is so thin—air is the breath of God—/
air is finer than fire or mist,/
finer than water or moonlight,/
finer than spider-webs in the moon,/
finer than water-flowers in the morning:/
and words are strong, too,/
stronger than rocks or steel/
stronger than potatoes, corn, fish, cattle,/
and soft, too, soft as little pigeon eggs,/
soft as the music of hummingbird wings./
So, little girl, when you speak greetings,/
when you tell jokes, make wishes or prayers,/
be careful, be careless, be careful,/
be what you wish to be."

Photo of a signpost pointing to the left-hand side reads simply "Lost". Surrounded by autumn colored trees.

Coyote in a tiny patch of urban reclaimed wetland.

Image made by a human being, not AI. Stock image of a retro mint green typewriter with a page of text. Text is a quote from author Agatha Christie (speaking through the character of Ariadne Oliver). It reads: "What we are talking about, Mr. Parker Pyne, is the basis for my being able to sell my 40 books in 20 different languages - that is to say, the conservatism of the generality of mankind.
People like to know where they stand. They read about buried loot, maidens in distress, water rising in the cellar and so on. They're thoroughly familiar with them, so that when they experience these things for themselves, they really know they've had an adventure. Put them through something too unfamiliar and they merely have a disagreeable experience they'd rather forget. No, no - life should imitate fiction wherever possible."

Boober Fraggle (Fraggle Rock)

The girls (cats Blaire and Chessie) edited into a stock background image of a fiesta party table in an outdoor setting surrounded by tropical flowering plants. Made by a human, not AI.

Longhaired black and white tuxedo cat with one green eye

Photo of human feet and a longhaired tortoiseshell cat in matching knitted socks.

Longhaired black and white tuxedo cat with one green eye lounges on an orange patterned blanket while holding a rainbow-shaped cat toy.

Longhaired black and white tuxedo cat with one green eye lies on her side next to a catnip filled banana shaped cat toy

Longhaired black and white tuxedo cat with one green eye lounges on a black and white paw-shaped cushion. A measuring tape is set crosswise along the width of her tail. Most of her fur has been clipped short for summer but her tail fur remains long.

Image made by a human being. Stock image of a retro mint green typewriter with a page of text. Text is a quote from author GK Chesterton, creator of the Father Brown character. It reads: "It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been murdered; an event which is, for some reason, treated as a sort of calamity. This story, I am happy to say, begins with a murdered millionaire; in one sense, indeed, it begins with three murdered millionaires, which some may regard as an embarras de richesse [embarrassment of riches]. GK Chesterton 1925"

London Underground sign that warns: "Level 5 Goose Warning. The goose on Platform 2 is violent and has claimed the platform as his own. Please avoid"