Oh. I forgot how confusing the name is lol. When I read jaguar I think “spotted cat”, Florida panthers are Puma not Panthera.

For what it’s worth, I have seen a melanistic jaguar in Florida at a wildlife refuge

But the elderly people already lose so many toy dogs to alligators, how can they be expected to deal with big cats?? /j

We still had Florida panthers when I was a kid, but there were a lot of people killing them for trophies. Damn, wiki says there’s only ~200 left :(

I looked up names with meanings that spoke to me, then when I had a few I asked my bestie to help me narrow them down. She also made a gender neutral nickname out of my first name, which is what I usually go by. I love that I get to use a name she picked!

You might like my middle name, it means “island goddess”, but most English speaking people have no idea how to pronounce it lol

Second opinions matter if you can swing them

Had a doc tell me I have a “mystery disease” four months before another at a larger specialty clinic gave me a tentative dx.

It sucks needing to travel for many reasons, but at least she has seen this issue before

My neighbor looks a little bit worse for wear and is just a couple years older than him. My neighbor is a raging alcoholic though.

Some people age faster than others, but for sure alcohol and no sunscreen will age us faster

Where the Red Fern Grows

I was a very sad child and that book gave me lots of excuses to be crying all the time xD

Uhhh… that thing where people glue little strands of hair to their forehead in an arc

Do you mean styling baby hairs?

I am going to ask a really silly question: Have you tried using a panty liner? (yes, the period product!) They tend to make panties a little more structured while still allowing for natural movement, and I assume it will help with a gaff too

There’s an instance called literature.cafe that has a lot of writing related communities. I see writing prompts somewhat often while browsing all. It’s not the largest of instances, but it might be a good place to start

I have a Braun Silk-Epile that I really like because there’s so many interchangeable tops. You can use it to trim hair down before you epilate, and it also has nice little massage heads to help exfoliate and prevent ingrown hairs. They also have a decent replacement policy, I lost my charger during a move and they sent me a new one very fast.

I also really like how easy it is to clean. I tried another brand before that had a complicated mechanism for opening the housing to remove the hair. Not fun spending as much time cleaning as you do removing hair lol

(also, for transparency: I’m an afab nb that was on T and have gone back in the closet because US politics. So I’ve used this mostly on my face and neck)