Lielac

@lielac.bsky.social

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She/they | Canadian | Aspiring crazy cat lady | Cheerfully bad at video games | Highly Autistic Person | Won 0.0002% of a Hugo | Gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide | Atheist but Pope Leo XIV is cool

a cat looking very smug while having knives pointed at them from all directions
[screenshot begins in the middle of a skeet, contains one full skeet, and ends with another cut-off skeet. both cuts are indicated with ellipses] [...] you don't spot it, because you know what was in your head at the time. An editor is a neutral third party. 1 reply 6 reskeets 48 likes Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social Follow Al Hater Bluesky Elder So when you "edit" your draft, what you're doing is not in fact "editing" in the sense that a professional editor does it. You're just proofreading, really. Spotting any obvious errors, punching up the wording a little, clarifying stuff that's so unreadable even you can't make sense of it. 4:39 PM - Jul 17. 2026 2 reposts 1 quote 41 likes Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.s... 1h Al Hater Bluesky Elder You wouldn't pay an editor to do that [...]
Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social Follow Al Hater Bluesky Elder So when you "edit" your draft, what you're doing is not in fact "editing" in the sense that a professional editor does it You're iust proofreading, really. Spotting any obvious errors, punching up the wording a little, clarifying stuff that's so unreadable even vou can't make sense of it. 4:39 PM - Jul 17. 2026 [Ed. note: date shown in Eastern Daylight Time] 2 reposts 1 quote 41 likes
Skeet by: Small Robots, smolrobots.bsky.social "You wouldn't pay an editor to do that. That isn't what they're for. An editor is there to break your heart and destroy your confidence. They're there to be ruthless, because someone has to be that person before you reveal it to an audience who will tell you the same things when it's too late to fix." Dated: 4:41 PM, July 17, 2026 (seen in Eastern Daylight Time) 4 quote posts, 37 likes
A standard issue tabby cat curled loosely on a bed. He is mostly on his side, with his legs mostly pointing in sensible directions. One of his front leg joints is tucked next to his chin. His name is Charles and he is very good.
The cozy den of a fluffy white cat tree. The den is occupied by a dark gray shadow, mostly tucked away in the far corner but one paw stretching towards the entrance. If you squint you can just see one eye cracked open and reflecting a glint of light. (Her name is in fact Shadow.)
A sleek, sleepy gray cat sprawled croissant-style on a white and pink floral comforter. She's lying on her side and looks extremely smug about having stolen one of her human's favorite blankets.
Two cats on a bed, separated by a barrier of haphazardly piled blanket. On the left: a very chill blue in a croissant with her fluffy belly exposed. On the right: a standard-issue tabby, part-loafed and chill enough to have his paws curled inward, but not chill enough to be entirely boneless.
dril tweet saying "and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad."
Landscape phone screenshot of the contents of the link in the skeet, 1/2
A blue (gray) cat lies on her back on a rumpled bedsheet, her extremely fluffy belly on display. It is not a trap. Mostly. Those tucked front paws are definitely innocent and not at all eager to play-fight.
Charles, a sleepy standard issue cat stretched out on a rumpled bed. He's using his front paws as a pillow and looks very content.
Fanfic Writer Bad (?) Habit Bingo. Despite ticking off 15 of 25 squares, there is no bingo. Four near-misses, though!
A human with her eyes closed, featuring one entire gray cat butt impinging on her chin and throat.
Charles, a standard-issue tabby cat, doing cat yoga on a bed as seen from above. This one's probably Shrimp pose, he's all curled up except his back legs are stuck out real far.
Guide to Troubled Birds image: a paint of a green and white bird, maybe a songbird, next to the caption: Looking for trouble and if I cannot find it, I will create it.
Charles, a standard-issue tabby, in the middle of stretching after standing from a good bedwarming. He's slightly blurry, somewhat off-center in the frame, and really showing off the flexibility of the feline spine; arched up in the middle of his back, down into the butt, and sharply up and down again for the tail.
Two cats, a large standard-issue tabby (Charles) and an average-sized blue (Shadow), lie loafed on a bed just out of mutual swatting range. Charles looks even bigger because his front legs are stretched out real far, while Shadow only has one front paw peeking out from her loaf.
A long and round tabby, Charles. He is cozy on a bed. His legs are very stretched out; it looks like he's holding his back legs with his front paws. Possibly he's doing cat yoga, it looks like maybe a cat yoga pose.
Shadow, a blue cat, using her human's mouse arm as a pillow and seemingly glowering because her human is taking a picture of her instead of scritching her head. Her ears are perked up, though, so she can't be too mad.
Charlie, a standard-issue cat, loafed on a bed. He's lowering his head again after glancing at the paparazza trying to get a candid shot of him on her bed.
A standard issue black and tan tabby with a white chin lies on a red bed, being pet by a white human's hand. The picture is at an awkward angle where the cat's head is off the bottom right corner, because it's a front-facing phone camera shot.
An extreme closeup of the back of a calico's head (the late Frantic). The cat is blurry, while the pale pink human in the background is in focus despite being obscured by a furry noggin. Boy did this cat love getting between humans and their phones.
A calico cat (the late Frantic) standing crouched on her human's ear, lit by camera flash. The human is just visible as half a pink face, a green blanket pulled up to her nose.
A flash photo of a shiny gray cat having her head scritched by a pale hand.
A blue (gray) cat curled into a circle, one paw over her nose. She's lying on a pile of blankets and looks very cozy.
the same grey cat using a human hand as a pillow. probably. there's an arm stretched out and disappearing under her fuzzy chin, at least.
A gray cat butt in the armpit of a lying-down human.
Neko Atsume: a style with visibly pixelated lines, some of which are wobbly as if hand-drawn.
Neko Atsume 2 default yard, expanded. Three cats, left to right: Helper cat, my Myneko who I've turned into our late calico, and Snowball enjoying the red rubber ball.
Neko Atsume default yard, with Snowball enjoying the red rubber ball and no other cats yet.
A blue cat loafed up on a wrinkled bed. She is facing away from the camera but otherwise a long long loaf. Her tail trails off camera left.
My first Rook, a Qunari with blue hair in twin braids. She's saying, deadpan, "I think I'd prefer to stay in one piece, yeah."
A screenshot of my Steam mobile app. It shows Dragon Age: The Veilguard downloading to my home computer; it has 1 hour, 29 minutes, and 6 seconds left.
A deep blue afternoon sky, heavily patterned with thin white clouds. Puffy clouds, streaky clouds, feathery clouds, with some gray cloud bottoms visible in the lower half of the frame.
Bluesky certificate thing celebrating 10 million users, showing my count as a user, my username and handle, and my join date.
A screenshot of my "Is My Blue Your Blue?" results, showing that if pressed to choose, I'm about population median for sorting green vs blue, with my boundary at hue 174.
NaNoWriMo Zendesk Q&A first paragraph, reading: "Am I allowed to use AI? (posted 1 year ago) "The goal of participating in NaNoWriMo is to motivate yourself to write and give yourself space to develop your creativity. 'Winning' is a personal achievement and has always been based on the honor system! If using AI will assist your creative process, you are welcome to use it." The final sentence has been highlighted: "Using ChatGPT to write your entire novel would defeat the purpose of the challenge, though."
A golden and black tabby boy cat stands boldly on a desk. Behind him are two monitors. That the left monitor shows a video game pause screen and the right monitor shows Discord suggests other sources of writer's block.
Tiny Idiot, a deep blue dragon wearing diamond armor, just about to outgrow being small enough to perch on his Minecraft human's shoulder. His calcite den is starting to look a little small for him.
Tiny Idiot (a tiny blue dragon wearing diamond armor) and blocky human parent in Tiny Idiot's playpen/lair. Tiny Idiot is now large enough that, from his feet on his human's shoulder to the top of his head, he's half again as tall as a Minecraft player character's head. His lair is made of calcite, with a stack of amethyst and Ice & Fire copper behind him and his human.
A tiny, tiny dragon, vividly blue, no more than one block across, smaller even than a Minecraft cat, although his wingspan is wider. He is wearing a full set of tiny, tiny diamond armor and is named "Tiny Idiot". He's fucking adorable.
A shiny gray cat curled on her side on a wrinkled white comforter. Despite being on her side, her neck is twisted so her ears are nearly both underneath her head. Her top front leg is curled so that paw is by her chin, while her bottom front leg is stretched out. Her top back leg is visible, its paw touching the paw of her bottom front leg. Also visible is the fluffy white patch on her belly.
A wobbly digital doodle of a stick figure human lying in bed. Their head is on a large pillow, near one short end. One arm, bent like a V, ends in a blob (supposed to be a phone). The human is covered in a brown blanket from the shoulders down. At the human's back, a gray cat is scribbled on top of the blanket, lying with their back pressed against the human's back. The human and cat's poses almost mirror each other.
A mobile screenshot of the 2024 UK election results. Labour is a solid majority, Tories are the opposition, but the important thing is the Lib Dems have 69 seats.
A golden-brown mackerel tabby boy is very long and flat on a wooden table. He's so long and stretched out.
A phone screenshot of the Twitter/X app, set to the Following tab. An ad for Bluesky is centered, reading, "Join millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again!"
A grey cat curled in the same Bud Light box as last skeet. She is smaller enough to make it clear that the cardboard box contains light purple patterned fabric that she is lying on. She is returning her head to the dormant position after confirming that her human is just pointing a rectangle at her.
A tawny and black mackerel tabby boy sleeps curled up in a Bud Light box. He barely fits, and there is bulging outward of the cardboard that suggests he has been molding the box to fit him. He looks very cozy.
A still from the Dragon Age: The Veilguard reveal trailer posted on June 9th, 2024. Lace Harding is a dwarven woman with heavily freckled skin and red hair mostly tied up in a crown braid, wearing a fur-lined coat with a high collar. She's in a tavern, lit by light streaming from a window in the background to the right of the picture. Lace looks maybe 10 years older than in Dragon Age: Inquisition, probably in her 30s or early 40s, and is turning to look at someone off-screen camera left over one shoulder while having just finished shooting someone with a bow on her other side. She looks very sexy and badass.
The "is this a pigeon" meme, edited to pictorially show a cat asking "Is this USB charging cable a thing-on-a-string cat toy?"
A golden-brown mackerel tabby cat lies bonelessly half-inside a cat tree den. His front legs are stretched in front of him, one crossed over the other. His golden belly is mostly obscured by one corner of the den. His long long back legs are stretched out of the den, his feet hanging off the edge of a ledge. He looks very content.
A blue (gray) cat tucked all cozy in a den in a cat tree upholstered with fluffy white fabric. She is lying on her side with her back against one wall, and fills about half the den. Her fur is lit all silvery by a light from off the left side of the image. She is very cute.
A blurry picture of the aurora borealis over even blurrier trees. Despite the details being blurred out, there's a streamer of green looping just over the trees and streaks of red-purple rising from the green.
A black/brown mackerel tabby cat lying in a large white wicker basket. He nearly fills the entire bottom of the basket, and is using his front paws as a pillow. He looks very cozy and sleepy.
The sky aglow with the aurora borealis, green streaks and purple glow. The Big Dipper and Polaris are faintly visible in the middle of the picture through the aurora. The tips of a tree or two are blurrily visible on the edges of the photo.
The aurora borealis, somewhat blurry, but with visible streaking and a sort of ribbon of green winding through the center. The upper portion is green, and the lower portion is purple.
A brown tabby cat loafing in a white wicker basket. He is large and about as tense as jello.
A close-up of a small, slightly scruffy calico cat standing on her human's ear while the human lies cozily wrapped in a green blanket. The human is affectionately tolerant of this nonsense.
A brown tabby cat, wearing a plaid red-white-blue harness and a hot pink leash, sits alertly on the front steps by a porch. The cat seems perhaps nervous, his ears pricked high but his whiskers pulled back almost flush with his snout.