That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈

@simsarah

Freelance NPC. Recovering stagehand. Museum enthusiast. WoW guild leader. Wonky brained. Handcrafted word things. Always here for your cat pictures! (profile: @meggoart.bsky.social, header: my wits' end)

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That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· 27d

Sometimes the sign that you should bring your work friends doughnuts is quite literal.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· 28d

Here, have a cat. I’m going to bed. May tomorrow be a better day, whatever that means for you.

A small dark calico cat reclining against the baseboard of the screened porch, viewed through some furniture.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jul 10

Bold white text on a dark grey background reads, “Chicago wouldn’t have happened if not for improv”

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jul 9

What better place to celebrate pride than in the kid's wing of my library? No book banning HERE, our librarians want every Azerothian child who visits to find warm welcome and open information here, because Libraries Are For Everyone!

Entrance to a large roundish room in wow player housing. The room is full of short library shelves, and decorated to appeal to younger readers. A mural at the back of the room reads LIBRARIES are for EVERYONE! A circular display of (presumably) queer books is front and center in rainbow book stands.

Closer view of the pride book display and a better view of the back wall mural. To the left a library section is headed up by a spacescape wall, and to the right another section sports a murloc diorama over the shelves. The floor is carpeted in dark blue with large multicolored dots.

Higher vantage view from the right side of the room, a large blue comet with a rainbow tail adorns the wall over a play area with blue blocks, the center of the room is all ready for story time, with cushions around a larger circular rug, and a floating book at hand.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jul 1

You know, I stole this *just this morning* and didn’t anticipate needing it quite so soon…

Extremely grumpy tabby kitten captioned, “and yet, despite the look on my face you are still talking.”

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 29

I came down here so as to NOT be observed, human…

A small dark calico cat scrunched up under the porch sofa looks squinty at the camera. A multi colored striped rug comprises most of the foreground and she is framed by tan furniture and the dark brick wall.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 25

Yeah, when I lived in NYC I was always just baffled by it. I don’t approve in the ‘burbs now either. This, infuriatingly, was my next door neighbors:

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 23

Someone doing page layout at the Times-Dispatch has a well developed sense of irony:

Photo of a print copy of Saturday, June 20th’s Richmond Times-Dispatch (found in my dad’s hospital room) with two headlines in view, one a banner across the top under the masthead reads “Compromise taps data centers for $1.2B” and a second single column under a header “Conservation” on the right reads “Skip the car wash: Va. needs the water”

Context: the VA state budget negotiations have been held up by a push to repeal tax exemptions for proliferating data centers - this article was about a proposed compromise that would leave the existing sales tax exemptions in place but would add a new electricity use tax. Juxtaposition of that with a scold piece about how individuals should curtail their own activities in the face of scarcity is extremely funny to me, since individuals’ choices are so inconsequential in comparison with policy level decisions.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 20

There's been a lot of chatter about the recently datamined tier sets for the next patch in WoW and as usual, I like some and dislike others, but my real question is - what did the priests do to get ANGRY Dhadgar a la Wondrous Wisdomball on their shoulders? Mhadgar, even.

Screenshot of datamined world of warcraft armor set in purple and black with gold-ish metallic trim. On the shoulders a blue circle appears to have a very angry male face in it.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 19

I saw a cute cat I wanted to share with you, but ever since I pointed the phone at her, it’s been nonstop this:

A small dark calico cat sitting on her tail with her back legs splayed wide (little white paws very evident) and cleaning her butt.

It’s a beautiful day on the porch, she’s sitting right up next to the brick wall of the house behind a small plant stand in the corner between the porch screen and the arm of the sofa, a safe hidden spot, as is her preference.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 16

Fine, Bubbles says hi!

A small blue cartoon bird wearing pirate attire on a purple field with a… companion pet that looks like a lopsided, slightly squashed pink snowman. (I genuinely have no idea what that’s supposed to be.)

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 14

To Scottie’s great disgust, I’ve also added a barrier around the foot of the screen to keep her from attempting (successfully) to nap her way through it. She’s cross about not being able to make the porch screen into her personal hammock now.

Scottie, a fluffy black and white cat, sprawled out on the cool concrete floor of the screened porch. The screen has been blocked at the bottom by some deck boarding so she can see over it but cannot lounge IN it.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 13

This Scaffold Party is the first 250th Commemoration activity I'm enjoying!

William Walcutt, “Pulling Down the Statue of George III at Bowling Green”, 1857, oil on canvas.

The painting depicts the destruction of a statue of King George III in lower Manhattan by New Yorkers and George Washington’s troops following a public reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 12

But really, how could I not?

A folded cardboard cat scratcher/box printed to look like a slice of six layer rainbow cake - complete with cardboard fork in the side.

It was $7, and I have no regrets.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 8

The cats and dog are not usually allowed in the guest room (unless the guest chooses to have them, which the housesitter did) so Scottie is now trying to passively defend her recently gained territory.

Scottie, a fluffy black and white cat, lounging indolently on the floor just inside the guest room, - background is a bedroom mid-sheet change, bare bed, pillows piled on furniture. The far side of the room has a long table with a plant and a spare computer monitor, for when the room serves as cat-free workspace.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 3

More accurate view of the beach conditions - that poor second red flag is having a rough day! The actual surf looks much less aggressive than it did yesterday, but the offshore wind is still heading pretty hard in and the rip current risk is very high. No Swimming!

View of the (slightly slipping down) double red flags on the dune crossover and low but persistent waves on the shore.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 3

Too many red flags for the close relationship my niblings want to have with the ocean, but the coffee/deck/sun/wind balance is pretty ideal for me.

A latte in a wide, shallow, kitschy mug (beach house rentals just spawn these naturally, I think) sits on a white high top deck table in the foreground. In the background, the calm appearance of the Atlantic Ocean at the horizon is belied by the double red flags flying from a flag pole. (The lower, no swimming flag has been somewhat collapsed by 24 hours in rough winds, so at a glance and out of focus it appears to only be one red flag.)

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· Jun 2

But I’m ON VACATION! (Here’s Scottie being a good coworker for the house sitter.)

scottie, a fluffy black and white cat, stares at the camera while lying slug-like on the window sill behind a desk lamp and the corner of a computer monitor.

The view out of the window shows clear, blue sky with bright green leaves in the foreground.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· May 28

Yes, little one, this is your fault.

A small dark calico cat investigates a Boswell Big Green carpet cleaner sitting on the edge of a rug in a cluttered corner. In the background, a fluffy black and white cat sits on the stairs and pretends she’s not interested.

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· May 28

Mad about this again... If I drove the ICE version of my car at ~31mpg, I would have burned ~325 gal in a year and paid $52 in gas tax:

Screenshot from my VA DMV car registration renewal shows:

Renewal Fee:
$65.75
Highway Use Fee:
$131.89
Internet Discount:
-$1.00
--------
Total:
$196.64

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· May 25

How do they rise? #Glorious25thOfMay

A watercolor styled illustration of a lilac bloom with text over it reading "Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced Love! ...and a hard-boiled egg."

That Otter Sarah 🏳️‍🌈@simsarah· May 25

I still haven’t been able to play Stray, because no matter where Scottie is when I sit down, she immediately comes to try to rescue the cat trapped in the TV…