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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids

@kikidoodle.bsky.social

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Professional artist and cornish rex cat owner. Created Purrmaids (purrmaids.com) and makes a lot of art (KikiDoodle.com) I have many cats and post a lot of cat pics and educational cat content. I go by Kiki! She/her [email protected] for inquiries

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 1h

You are lovely 💕

KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 4h

I was told buying things for the cats didn't count!

KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 4h

I forgot how to just have fun with art!!! worried less about what's good, more about what's good for the brain.

KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 4h

Okay, another. I will promise no schedule, but I want to give myself permission to just keep drawing weird cats as self care.
#artpost
#catdoodle

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 4h

Yeaaaah. Apparently recovery from burnout can't happen if you don't ever do self care?

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 4h

I love this, conceptually!

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 4h

I love gestural brush work! So I like to hear this.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 4h

Telling myself "Why not." and I'll try and keep doing and posting experimental cat art.

#artpost

A gestural sketch of a weird looking cat. It's back is arched and it's looking back towards the viewer with chartreuse eyes.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. V sells and buys from marketplace all the time and I get to hear all the ways people are obnoxious about wanting an even better deal on something we are selling at a huge discount already.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 9h

💕💕💕 I forgot that was how we met! Social media has really made our lives much richer!

KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry. May you be in a much better place in the near future

KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 1d

It's weird to be thankful that they just took a bunch of cash and left, because it forced me to confront how thoroughly unhappy I had become.

Its so easy to just accept all the little (and big) things that make you unhappy, because you've already invested 15 years into it.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 1d

It's great to see posts like this, because they recontextualize parts of my life. I LOVE language and even made up a fake language as a teen. I didn't understand why I lost all desire to learn the language of the person I loved, and it just clicked that it wasn't me.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 1d

Being in a very healthy relationship has been extremely weird, because completely average days will happen, and it'll just click that so many things I just accepted as normal were really NOT.

It's unfortunate that winding up in a serious relationship young meant there was no blueprint for normal.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 1d

I have so much respect for people who learn other languages so it didn't even occur to me that they could be sabotaging my efforts!

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday was such a grief day. It really hit me out of nowhere and knocked me out for 24 hours. Everything made me cry.

And I think today I feel much better because of of it. Grief is hard, but also natural.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 1d

My ex partner was always super weird at me when I attempted learning his language, and would criticize my pronunciations so harshly, I wound up not learning. But in retrospect, I think they didn't want me to learn, so made learning a miserable journey.

But not wanting to even try? I don't get it.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 2d

She is, because she clearly didn't even run an ultrasound to confirm pregnancy. Ive seen people post their "pregnant" dogs who just have uterine infections causing them to swell up. 😬

KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 3d

It also had a potential double merle/ extreme white head in the litter and they never responded to me about health testing the baby. Education requires people listening and this person didn't want to listen.

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 3d

They were non registered "pure breds" aka, no real proof that was what they were. And they were charging for "rare colors" 😅

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 3d

Which isn't something I want anyone to go through!

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 3d

My mom once accidentally called the Lascaux caves the Lacroix caves and now they are linked up in my brain forever

KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 3d

A modern cave lioness in her LaCroix cave

Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 3d

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 3d

If your ever want to be talked out of having "just one" litter with your cat or dog, reach out to me and I can tell you horror stories, so at the very least if you do go through with it you're more likely to have a positive outcome WHEN things go south. A lot of it is "have 10k in emergency funds."

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 3d

I've really been missing kittens, so I'm looking up kitten posts on all the groups I follow because most of them are horror stories so I don't feel the need to rush my girls. (We are waiting for next year, so everyone has a full year of recovery time.)

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