Sasa, Makku and Hairy

[x_los]

YES it's old lady-core to introduce your cats and YES I am going to do it anyway:

First Cat: Sasa

We adopted him off Gumtree from an Egyptian lawyer who was too busy to devote proper time to him, in his own words--a nice man who came to visit Sasa in his new home. His name (given him by his original owner) is Arabic slang for 'Little Thing'. He is a neurotic tsundere. Very loving, but incredibly weird about it. He enjoys a technical seniority in this house, but is emphatically Not the Alpha.









(Jade did this book cover.)

Cat Two: Makkuro Kurosuke (just Makku or Baby Makku)

We couldn't call her 'susuwatari' because Susu is too close to Sasa. Looks exactly like a soot sprite. Adopted her from Croydon Animal Samaritans with Hairy Sullivan because she'd glommed onto him and wouldn't be separated and the shelter was worried about finding someone who'd take both. From a semi-abandoned cat colony. Youngest cat, eternally tiny, easy to pick up with one hand (all fluff). Incredibly affectionate, but gets too excited about affection to stand still for it. In love with grumpy Sasa (who will never love her back), sometimes forces Hairy to groom her.








Cat Three (final cat): Hairy Sullivan

Named for the ginger classic Doctor Who companion. We got Hairy and Makku when our beloved ginger cat Anton (also from Croydon Animal Samaritans) passed away suddenly due to pre-existing heart complications from his period as a stray. Hairy has a very similar vibe. We got him very quickly after losing Anton to help out the over-burdened, excellent shelter (who I've rescued two stray cats with--one of them twice, weirdly enough) and to address the grief, but have of course with time come to love this affectionate, fighty (with other cats--until he accepts them into his Gang), privately-sulky boy with an earth-shatteringly loud, bizarre purr in his own right.

Comments

[forestofglory]

Kitties! It's nice to have proper introduction to them after seeing you talk about them on Twitter.

[x_los]

Weirdly people keep coming up to me on twitter to announce their Chosen Cat, the cat they stan, like I'm supposed to go tell the cats they have another partisan.

[superborb]

Yes. Makku is my favorite!!! I think because they have such distinct personalities, it makes it easy to say oh so and so is my fav.

[x_los]

Ok i've tried to express this to her and she DID purr so I think that's an acceptance of some form

[ilanala]

What cuties. I'm always here for cat pictures and stories.

[x_los]

A top fact about Makku is that her tail does not physically stick straight up like that, it's just always in that position when she's standing because she's always desperately advertising Friendliness.

[ilanala]

That is just extra adorable. <3

[harinezumiko]

Ahhh they're beautiful~! Tell them I love them!

[x_los]

They are all really lovely AND SIMULTANEOUSLY capable of looking just indescribably ridiculous due to pure facial expression and/or tiny overbite fangs.

[hiddenramen]

Ohhhh my god wait I'm obsessed with how fluffy Makku is. She looks so soft 😭

(And listen man, old lady-core is back in these days. What is cottagecore, if not old lady-core persevering?)

[x_los]

Makku is indeed the softest, while Sasa is the plushest snuggling experience, and Hairy's Purr is both ground-shaking and satisfying. So really each cuddle has its own shit to give, you know?

[solo]

They're the cutest!

Um, I came here from the Untamed friends meme but then I saw there were cats! I have three too, and should probably make a post about them sometime soon.

Hope it's okay if I follow you.

[x_los]

Hi! It's flea medication day, so good to remember them in these calmer, less 'running and hiding because they heard the sound of a plastic tube being taken out' times.