ExplosiveCoffee In reply to penguinpyro [2015-08-07 03:01:23 +0000 UTC]

Like the ceiling cat, only less fluffy and likely to steal your wallets and valuables.

Thanks for that! That seriously made my day. I do agree with you, while I have nothing against having bios, sometimes putting them in descriptions do distract people from the work itself.

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to oshirockingham [2015-08-04 03:11:09 +0000 UTC]

Haha, can't say that wasn't a helpful inspiration And thank you!

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oshirockingham In reply to ExplosiveCoffee [2015-08-04 03:52:54 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome!

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to InkyRose [2015-07-30 01:08:08 +0000 UTC]

Naww, thank you

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to Oly-RRR [2015-07-27 01:39:39 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I was dizzy constantly flipping and rotating the canvas when I was drawing this. Glad I'm not the only one with the headache. 

Good luck trying to get her down, or finding her in the first place for that matter. Unless you try coax her out with something. 

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Oly-RRR In reply to ExplosiveCoffee [2015-07-28 02:24:56 +0000 UTC]

I'll be here then, setting out traps with- er- coffee and muffins?

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to Oly-RRR [2015-07-30 01:08:29 +0000 UTC]

Lol, anything sweet and/or junk food's a decent trap. Can't imagine how'd she be on a caffeine rush. Good luck?

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to Sleyf [2015-07-24 10:04:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks~ She's probably the only one in these sort of poses, cause she's the only one who can do it. But she's adorakable, I don't know I feel that she's got more of that innocent glee to things. 

Well I've done a bit of rock climbing before, so I have a decent idea about harnesses (and helping other people climb). Though that harness is probably attached to something in the ceiling of their base (office? hangout? whatever). There's enough places for her to channel her inner bat. If there were vents, she'd probably hide in there too.

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Sleyf In reply to ExplosiveCoffee [2015-07-24 20:52:32 +0000 UTC]

I bet she's more comfy upside down suspended from the ceiling than on the ground upright - that is a boastworthy skill though! And she does always seem so energetic and fun (I mean aside from burning things...not so fun!)

Personally they always looked kind of painful to me lol - maybe she has little hooks on the ceiling that she clips on to - like those vertical climbing walls only she has them horizontal *crawls across the ceiling* if she had some kind of boot with hooks attached that would be so much easier to achieve.
If there were vents she could probably get anywhere and spy on anyone - and go missing for days up in them with enough food and water

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to Sleyf [2015-07-25 12:59:46 +0000 UTC]

Possibly so, actually. Or at least more comfortable than most people, I'd throw up after having my head upside down like that for so long. Probably energetic and fun in ways that some people won't want to enjoy, especially if you're afraid of heights.

It does take some getting used to, and the right kind of pants. I remember someone once wore those tiny shorts to scale down a waterfall, it ended with a few sores There's probably some sort of clips up there somewhere, no one's yet to check. But she'd probably never come down if those suction boots exist. Imagine when she's angry she'd just walk up to the ceiling instead of another room. 

She actually does that too. Back when she was going through foster homes, she often hides up in vents or similar places to avoid the people. When she has her moods, she needs to be coaxed out of there.

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Sleyf In reply to ExplosiveCoffee [2015-07-26 09:00:18 +0000 UTC]

I hate the way being upside down makes your head ache, so I'd never be able to do that, plus it'd hurt my neck.  Err...ok...um...yeah I'm fine with heights but would not enjoy dangling from say...a building.

Ouch, I can imagine an epic wedgie as well as the chafing - that person probably regretted it afterwards, not to mention all the scrapes I bet you would get from scaling a rocky object, regardless of water!
They'd probably look up and wonder when she put those up and how come they never noticed...
Lol "I can still see you you know,  you're in the same room!" *tries to throw eraser at her* - it'd be great though if one day she decided to super-glue everything to the ceiling for a laugh (not that I think it's possible without really heavy duty glue)

Like a cat!  I hate when they hide and you have to coax them out, it's probably worse with a person!  What happened to her parents?

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to Sleyf [2015-07-27 02:13:15 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, those aches and how disorientating you'd feel when you have to get back up. I've got low blood pressure issues (occasionally) so even sitting down and getting up gives me a bit of trouble.

Over time they'd just get used to it, even the odd times when little things just drop from the ceiling. But that'd be an amazing prank though. Definitely one way to throw everybody off, to walk in and smack into the 'ceiling fan' or trip over the couch. Though unlike cats, people won't try to bite/scratch your fingers off trying to get them out. One of my cats like to stuff herself in the weirdest and physically impossible places (for a human). It's a pain as is. 

Her parents were serving out a prison sentence when she was young. She's run away from several houses due to less-than caring characters and since then no one could find her. 

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Sleyf In reply to ExplosiveCoffee [2015-07-27 09:27:29 +0000 UTC]

Ugh, yeah and then your head feels like it's momentarily exploding (poor you, I know people who have that issue - my mum is one of them) - I don't have that excuse when it comes to getting up, I'm just a lazy slob lol

Oh my god lol..."things dropping from the ceiling" - at least they know it's from her and not say, a lizard plopping off (because they do!).  That would be so strange though, walking into a room and finding people on the floor and ceiling.
Depends on the person some might bite and scratch! Personally I hate it when cats do that, especially if you're in a hurry and trying to get them say, in their carry case, or into a room or something - they choose that exact moment to be asses.  I think they like to see you crawling about trying to squeeze in (or upturning furniture in rage) - my rabbit does that, it makes me feral (but it's hilarious) because I KNOW he's doing it on purpose, and worst is that he stamps at me and then kicks his back feet while running (in rabbit language that action is basically an F-you) and he doesn't just do it once, he does it like three times in succession lol.
When we had a cat, my sister once tried coaxing her out by laying treats all the way down the stairs...needless to say it didn't work.

Wow, do they like hanging upside down like her?  Or did she get her arsonist tendencies from them?  Do they end up finding her if they get out of prison? (I can imagine being in foster care is not nice, you're basically living with a stranger)

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to Sleyf [2015-07-30 01:07:42 +0000 UTC]

I've had lizards falling on me a few times, that was disgusting. I'd always somehow expect that having three cats would curb that, but nooo, they're too busy colonising couches and being weirdos.

Pets, what can you do? They're technically the boss of you and can throw unbelievable tantrums (sometimes for no apparent reason) and still get away with it. But I didn't know about the rabbit thing. I've seen a video of an over-pampered rabbit who throws tantrums when not being pet, but kicking their feet like that's new to me. 

Lol, unlike her, they were just involved out of desperation (needed the money and whatnot). The one person who ended up taking care of her (that she didn't hate) was a former master thief, and that was by coincidence. Her pyromania is probably something that came from the last foster home (which she 'accidentally' burnt down), he tried to help her with it, but substituting burning things for stealing things. Parenting 101 eh?

Think there's always the good and bad in foster care, there'll be those who really go to a better place than before or not. They do eventually, but how they get to that point I've yet to figure out. But I do love the irony of her job profession.

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Sleyf In reply to ExplosiveCoffee [2015-08-09 09:44:58 +0000 UTC]

one fell on the table, and one fell on my mum, thankfully none have fallen on me but I've seen one drop off the ceiling, I felt quite bad for it considering it got flattened by like, three shoes once it hit the ground.
You expect the true rulers of this world to lower themselves to "hunt" for your benefit, they would laugh at you if they could be bothered to waste the energy on doing so
One of our cats used to bite the heads of cockroaches...we'd come home to find corpses...needless to say, she got a bad case of worms that we quickly treated, it was the most disgusting thing

I know it's really sad how they can control our emotions like that (I know all the reasons Bear throws tantrums 1)if people are in the kitchen and he's being ignored in his cage and not let out 2)if the newspaper in his cage is the shiny type 3)if he's just had his nails clipped, this can last for days 4)if you rearrange his "house" - mess with his hay - or move his red bunny dumbbell) Cats I think are more complex to figure out.
Yeah they have quite advanced body language as they're social animals lol, like they will turn their back on you if they're really annoyed - and if you do that to them they'll come over to "apologise", I've done it before, it works, but I didn't know any of that until I got my rabbit, then I started to notice such things and looked on the internet (as one does when one has nothing better to do than research rabbit language).  He's never thrown a tantrum over not being petted though...trashed his cage over the above reasons, but never that one.  My first rabbit never did the kicking thing at me, but then again he also hardly ever binkied either (when they skip in the air while running, it means they're happy), I guess it just depends on the rabbit how they express themselves, this one I have now also grunts and growls a lot, and tooth-grinds when happy, he also licks in affection, my first rabbit didn't do any of that, he only growled once when my cousin was chasing after him and made him mad, but Bear growls at everything (especially if you touch his hay)
Sorry for the long ream of rabbit-talk

It's a shame then that they got caught when they really needed not to.  Well I guess he had the right idea in substituting something for it but er...probably chose the wrong (or right you could argue) thing!  Well no one is perfect!  At least she didn't turn out..worse, like becoming a sociopath or something

I think most of the time you just hear so many potential horror stories of foster care that we end up ignoring or overlooking the good stories.  it's like adoption too, I mean there was this girl and her brother at school with me who were adopted and you'd never have known until she said, I know it sounds weird, i mean no one looks like an orphan, you just don't expect to hear it and see them happy as all we've ever hear or seen in media is them having a hard time so it's like we don't expect them to have anything else.

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ExplosiveCoffee In reply to Sleyf [2015-08-11 03:46:05 +0000 UTC]

I actually do feel bad when they do fall off, especially if you can hear the splat they make. I mean they don't deserve to be road kill straight after something like that.

Ew, cockroaches I draw the line. I actually have greater tolerance if my cats go after anything BUT insects (for reasons like what you had to deal with)…or snakes, one brought a snake home and I don't want to handle another one again.

But it's actually quite a fun thing to learn about how animals express themselves. Especially how mushy it gets when you learn what they do to express affection and whatnot. Then there's the weird stuff, I once heard a story about how someone didn't know one of those noise emitting rodent repellents was left on in the house and it drove their new pet rabbit insane into violent behaviour and fits. They didnt know until a long while after the rabbit died and was cleaning the house. No worries about the rabbit talk I'm used to hearing people describe their pets/ other animal behaviours, I take it as interesting fun facts.

Though luckily they got out relatively alright, set themselves straight and whatnot. You're right though, it could've been worse if she didn't have somebody looking out for her. Everybody's convinced Niko's a sociopath, don't think they can handle one more.

True that. Think that happens with everything, the ugly side of things are always more apparent because it's more interesting to talk about. Though that's not denying that bad things do happen.

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Sleyf In reply to ExplosiveCoffee [2015-08-17 09:54:48 +0000 UTC]

Lol well at the time it was hidden behind a mirror for about an hour with everyone gathered around waiting for it to emerge (I know, we're like savages) but my sister was refusing to just leave it to emerge on its own, she HAD to get it then and there so as soon as it shot out and ran up the wall - then fell in distress, it was eradicated - I do feel bad, I mean it must be a horrible way to die and they don't really deserve it. 

I hate cockroaches but even flattening them makes me feel bad...there must be something wrong with me!  Though having said that, I have siliconed one up in the wall alive so that's far worse. Luckily no snakes have ever crossed my path, we get beetles though, but they're cute and I take the time to catch those and put them outside, they're all scratchy when they walk on you.  And once we had this massive rat in the garden that was eventually murdered with a spade - it was the size of the spade head by the way, I'm not exaggerating.  That's also not mentioning the amazing phantom mouse we once had that we never caught but it vanished...

Awww that's so awful!  That poor rabbit was probably going insane!
I sometimes feel it's like when people talk about their kids, you're forced to listen and responde even if you wish they'd just stop lol

Well that's good to hear!  I guess people make mistakes when they're desperate enough (and when they're not!).  I'm sure it could have!  Somehow I don't think Niko tries to correct them with that (unless of course she doesn't know and would be mightily displeased to hear)

That's far too true, we always want to hear about other people's suffering and the more morbid things, I guess it's just part of our nature, but then again if we don't get books or movies with happy endings we get all grumpy and start demanding them

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