Shoggoth!
Yes, we named our kitten after a Lovecraftian horror. But doesn't she look like a terrifying demon? A sleepy, sleepy, terrifying demon?
“It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train, a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down on us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.”
“Still came that eldritch, mocking cry: 'Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!'”
“Shoggoths and their work ought not to be seen by human beings or portrayed by any beings.”
“I had seen those primal sculptures, too, and had shudderingly admired the way the nameless artist had suggested that hideous slime coating found on certain incomplete and prostrate Elder Ones those whom the frightful Shoggoths had characteristically slain and sucked to a ghastly headlessness in the great war of resubjugation”
Yeah, the vet didn't think it was funny, either. But I have a receipt for one vaccinated Shoggoth, which is more than Lovecraft ever had.
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About 3 months ago we acquired Lovelace (grey tabby female) and Babbage (black and white male). They are about 6-7 months old now and adore ping-pong balls in the bath
I need to see photos!
We thought about getting two, too, but I'm kind of glad we didn't. Keeping up with just one shoggoth is a bit exhausting
Cute! And terrifying, of course :)
Oh, so gorgeous! Kitties! I bet Shoggoth thinks the name entirely appropriate - all cats consider themselves mighty and awe-inspiring...
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