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1:59am August 10, 2013
“Sidled”, acrylic on paper, with fingers. [Image description: A crouched white cat looking at a confusing web of strings, on a blue and red background.] “Rhiow stood up and sidled, feeling the familiar slight fizz at ear-tips, whisker-tips, and claws as she stepped sideways into the subset of concrete reality where visible light would no longer bounce off her. Then she and Saash headed south on Lex toward Fifty-third, taking due care and not hurrying. The main problem with being invisible was that other pedestrians, ehhif and houiff particularly, had a tendency to run into or over you; and since they and other concrete things were still fully in the world of visible light, in daytime they hurt to look at. In the "sidled” state, though, you were already well into the realm of strings and other nonconcrete structures, and so your view was littered with them too. The world became a confusing tableau of glaringly bright ehhif and buildings, all tangled about with the more subdued light-strings of matter substrates, weft lines, and the other indicators of forces and structures that held the normally unseen world together. It was not a condition that one stayed in for long if one could help it — certainly not in bright daylight. At night it was easier, but then so was everything else: that was when the People had been made, after all.“ -The Book Of Night With Moon, by Diane Duane I didn’t intend this picture to be about sidling but I realized that’s exactly what this cat is doing. This is probably the most realistic set of cats I’ve ever seen in fiction. The feline wizard books are well worth checking out, they’re some of my favorite books in the world. Part of the Young Wizards universe.

“Sidled”, acrylic on paper, with fingers.

[Image description: A crouched white cat looking at a confusing web of strings, on a blue and red background.]

“Rhiow stood up and sidled, feeling the familiar slight fizz at ear-tips, whisker-tips, and claws as she stepped sideways into the subset of concrete reality where visible light would no longer bounce off her. Then she and Saash headed south on Lex toward Fifty-third, taking due care and not hurrying. The main problem with being invisible was that other pedestrians, ehhif and houiff particularly, had a tendency to run into or over you; and since they and other concrete things were still fully in the world of visible light, in daytime they hurt to look at. In the "sidled” state, though, you were already well into the realm of strings and other nonconcrete structures, and so your view was littered with them too. The world became a confusing tableau of glaringly bright ehhif and buildings, all tangled about with the more subdued light-strings of matter substrates, weft lines, and the other indicators of forces and structures that held the normally unseen world together. It was not a condition that one stayed in for long if one could help it — certainly not in bright daylight. At night it was easier, but then so was everything else: that was when the People had been made, after all.“

-The Book Of Night With Moon, by Diane Duane

I didn’t intend this picture to be about sidling but I realized that’s exactly what this cat is doing.

This is probably the most realistic set of cats I’ve ever seen in fiction. The feline wizard books are well worth checking out, they’re some of my favorite books in the world. Part of the Young Wizards universe.