Hiatus (Patreon)

We’re taking a brief hiatus and returning next week in full force on the 18th. If you weren’t aware, I went to LA for the weekend this past few days to sort of take a break and decompress and hang out with friends because it’s been a very busy and complicated few months trying to figure out setting up our team even if we weren’t ready to show it.

But March was our ready date. After I got back from my break this weekend I was prepared to show you guys our new podcast, some new series, finally reveal our new Patreon tiers and just wow you guys.

However we’re going to be taking a brief hiatus until next Monday the 18th because this weekend I received a frantic call from my sister telling me my kitten had died.

The vet tells us it’s a common heart disease amongst cats and even if we had caught it earlier, there was no cure and this would happen anyway. But it happened fast where her legs stopped working and her heart just stopped within a few hours.

She was still young. Only 7 months old. When I first went to the shelter, I was drawn to her. Then the shelter employee told me that she had initially been adopted but the family returned her after a few weeks because she was “too shy”. Imagine that, a family abandoning her because she wasn’t “fun” enough. And so I adopted her.

The first few months she lived under my bed, ran at the sight of me, scared by her new environment and her new owner. But I gave her her space and patience just making sure she was fed and taken care of.

Then the past week something miraculous happened. She was hanging outside of the bed. She no longer ran at the sight of me and she would let me touch and pet her. Then to even more surprise the last 3 nights before I left she stayed with me in bed and slept next to me. I was so touched and emotional.

The day after I left, she died.

I believe that maybe she knew her time was coming and she spent those last nights with me and finally reached out to spend our last moments together.

But I wasn’t home. She died alone when my sister went out to buy more litter. My sister who moved in with me to work on the channel as an editor called me crying and she had to figure out safely disposing of the body on her own, so you can imagine that she’s a bit traumatized.

And I received word while out with friends and I had to grieve silently and by myself. I’m finally headed home now so I’m going to take the time to grieve because I feel weighed down so much by sadness, make sure my sister and I get our heads on straight, and then return to uploading next Monday. I will also be staying off social media for the week as well. (I am streaming on Friday and Sunday though because I have to)

Thank you for understanding. We’ll be right back.

Her name was Valkyrie.