Month: August 2026

Why Team Chara Cats Doesn’t Need One Niche

Sometimes I wonder if Team Chara Cats is a random project. One day it’s a 10-second Reel of somepawdy doing something silly. Another day it’s a product review. Then suddenly mii (me) is posting about FIV, nutrition, cat shows, or something else mii spent too much time reading about. And every time, the same question comes back. What is this account supposed to be? Educational?Cute cats?Multi-cat household chaos?Reviews? At some point, I realised I was treating “niche” like it meant […]

Maybe Silence Is Just Silence

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I realised something slightly uncomfortable recently. When I don’t reply to someone, I know exactly why. But when someone doesn’t reply to me, suddenly my brain wants an investigation. There is one topic a friend keeps bringing up in our group chat that I simply don’t enjoy engaging with. I still reply to her about other things. I’m not angry with her. I don’t dislike her. I simply stopped replying whenever the conversation goes back to that topic. Then I […]

Most of the time, I’m not fighting reality. I’m fighting the story I made up.

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One thing I’ve been noticing recently is this. Whenever something keeps replaying in my head, it’s rarely because of what happened. It’s because of the story I wrote about what happened. A comment on social media. An interaction at work. A disagreement. Feedback from a cat show judge. They all have one thing in common. The actual event usually takes less than a minute. The replay in my head lasts much longer. For example, I recently found myself getting irritated […]