as small as a world and as large as alone, youneedacat: katisconfused drew this for me...

10:12am June 25, 2014

youneedacat:

katisconfused drew this for me today when I was feeling down. It’s beautiful. Is sie supposed to be me, as a cat? Sie seems to have my clothing and glasses. I love hir either way! Thank you so much.
YAY sie IS me as a cat! Very happy now and so flattered that anyone would take the time to do this, I love it! Thank you so much.

I just want to thank katisconfused again.
Because this is what I love about tumblr.
I love the way when one of us is having a bad day, someone else will try and cheer us up in some way.
I love the way there’s these amazingly talented artists who think that something like this is ‘just a doodle’.
I love that someone gave me something so wonderful and personalized without my even asking, and now I’ll have this forever, and it’s so beautiful and so perfect and so right and I’d never have even thought to ask for me-as-a-cat. But sie totally looks like me, and I always thought I’d be a brown cat or a brown tabby, with a wide face. I love that sie’s fat and floofy too.
I just… I love all of this.
But mostly I love how whether it’s just clicking 'like’ or even just thinking of clicking 'like’ (for people who can’t even bring themselves to click 'like’), or leaving messages, or doing things like this, there are people here who care about each other.
And caring about each other is a lot.
When you lose caring about each other, you lose something vital. I’ve seen people and communities lose that. I’ve seen them get ripped apart, sometimes deliberately by predators, but at any rate by cynicism and distrust. And then the magic is gone, and the love is gone, and everything that made the community worthwhile is gone, because when people don’t care, what’s left?
Thank you so much for giving me this cat art. And thank you so much to the people who leave nice messages in my ask box (including anon love), or in reblogs. Or who hit “like”, or who just think about hitting “like” but never actually do it for a variety of reasons. Every single one of those things has been so helpful while all this bad stuff in my life is going on, and I’m just incredibly grateful to know all these people who care enough to do these things, or to think about doing them. (And to me, intent totally matters, so even the thought means just as much as anything else, even if I don’t know that you’ve done it. I know that someone does that, because I do it, and I can’t be alone there.) It means everything to me, all of this.

katisconfused drew this for me today when I was feeling down. It’s beautiful. Is sie supposed to be me, as a cat? Sie seems to have my clothing and glasses. I love hir either way! Thank you so much.

YAY sie IS me as a cat! Very happy now and so flattered that anyone would take the time to do this, I love it! Thank you so much.

I just want to thank katisconfused again.

Because this is what I love about tumblr.

I love the way when one of us is having a bad day, someone else will try and cheer us up in some way.

I love the way there’s these amazingly talented artists who think that something like this is ‘just a doodle’.

I love that someone gave me something so wonderful and personalized without my even asking, and now I’ll have this forever, and it’s so beautiful and so perfect and so right and I’d never have even thought to ask for me-as-a-cat. But sie totally looks like me, and I always thought I’d be a brown cat or a brown tabby, with a wide face. I love that sie’s fat and floofy too.

I just… I love all of this.

But mostly I love how whether it’s just clicking 'like’ or even just thinking of clicking 'like’ (for people who can’t even bring themselves to click 'like’), or leaving messages, or doing things like this, there are people here who care about each other.

And caring about each other is a lot.

When you lose caring about each other, you lose something vital. I’ve seen people and communities lose that. I’ve seen them get ripped apart, sometimes deliberately by predators, but at any rate by cynicism and distrust. And then the magic is gone, and the love is gone, and everything that made the community worthwhile is gone, because when people don’t care, what’s left?

Thank you so much for giving me this cat art. And thank you so much to the people who leave nice messages in my ask box (including anon love), or in reblogs. Or who hit “like”, or who just think about hitting “like” but never actually do it for a variety of reasons. Every single one of those things has been so helpful while all this bad stuff in my life is going on, and I’m just incredibly grateful to know all these people who care enough to do these things, or to think about doing them. (And to me, intent totally matters, so even the thought means just as much as anything else, even if I don’t know that you’ve done it. I know that someone does that, because I do it, and I can’t be alone there.) It means everything to me, all of this.