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HIT LIST, CHAPTER THIRTY SIX
Oct. 29th, 2013 04:41 pm- I took my little rat Sam to the vet to check out the lump that I mentioned under her armpit awhile ago, since it's grown. Diagnosis is that it may or may not be cancerous, and if it is, she'll need surgery we can't afford, so basically we just have to hope that it's not. (Also, the vet apparently raved to the manager about what good care I take of my rats. I have never felt prouder in my life.)
I honestly feel a little guilty/embarrassed about this, since I believe in not keeping animals I can't afford (including emergencies) but I'd never had a vet estimate a cost of more than a few hundred dollars for me when it came to rodents. Then again, I'd never even had surgery offered to me as an option before, since so few vets will do that on small animals because of the risk, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised surgery is more pricey than what I've always had to be prepared for instead. Really hoping she does okay, though, especially since she's a young, healthy, very active rat who is only halfway through her life, and her cagemate is devoted to her! Seriously, Miss Blatz would just be so sad. My dad says that if Sam died, Miss Blatz would "look for her until she died too" and I just about bawled because of how sadly true that it.
- Apparently there is some kind of stock called an "abandoned baby" and I guess it must be good because my dad keeps talking about them and how he's looking for one to buy. He's not trying to be funny because of their name, he just honestly wants to buy an abandoned baby!
"It'll show you the abandoned baby!" That's great, Dad
"There it is! There's the abandoned baby!" This is just so perfect for Boo jokes
Now Mom has overheard him and she's like WUT
- I've come to the conclusion that the St. Louis wererats are the nicest group in the city and have the best leader.
On the nicest people angle, every other group has two or more people who are rapists, killers, or killer rapists, barring the swans who just had one person (Kaspar) who was a killer (and not a rapist) and the hyenas who had just one person (Narcissus) who is a rapist (supposedly; I actually think JC faked those memories to get Richard and Anita on his side against Narci at a crucial moment). The rats? Have none of that. The rapist wererat Fernando wasn't one of the St.Louis lot, and there was a blond wererat in the first book who *threatened* rape against Anita before Rafael intervened and saved her, but we never saw him again (I think Rafael killed or at least banished him...and I really hate the irony that he saved her and yet she repays him books later by raping all his people)
As far as best leaders go...Rafael sacrificed himself to the doomcrotch because he believed it would keep his people safe (with no idea what she'd do instead) and, as Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper says, " out of ALL the were-whatevers not only is Rafael the only one not dragged into Anita's shit on a regular basis, forced to fuck OR participate in Jean Claude's nonsense more than once in a blue moon, his leadership ability is completely unthreatened and Anita and CO. count him as a friend. He's not on the radar AT ALL. Rafael is like, political GOD. Bet your sweet shit the dude knows what he's hiding from. Good form, Mr. Rat King. Good form. "
Donovan is not, I don't think, as good a leader just on the basis he leaves the swanmanes in St. Louis. The duty of the Swan King is to travel the nation/world and check in on his people. There are only three swans in St.Louis since Kaspar was killed. They could be re-located to a less dangerous location. The rats can't be, there's too many and Rafael has no connections outside St. Louis, but Donovan is the nation-wide leader of swans, he has connections to every flock in the states, he could get someone to take them and probably get their relocation collectively funded.
( HIT LIST, CHAPTER THIRTY SIX )
I honestly feel a little guilty/embarrassed about this, since I believe in not keeping animals I can't afford (including emergencies) but I'd never had a vet estimate a cost of more than a few hundred dollars for me when it came to rodents. Then again, I'd never even had surgery offered to me as an option before, since so few vets will do that on small animals because of the risk, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised surgery is more pricey than what I've always had to be prepared for instead. Really hoping she does okay, though, especially since she's a young, healthy, very active rat who is only halfway through her life, and her cagemate is devoted to her! Seriously, Miss Blatz would just be so sad. My dad says that if Sam died, Miss Blatz would "look for her until she died too" and I just about bawled because of how sadly true that it.
- Apparently there is some kind of stock called an "abandoned baby" and I guess it must be good because my dad keeps talking about them and how he's looking for one to buy. He's not trying to be funny because of their name, he just honestly wants to buy an abandoned baby!
"It'll show you the abandoned baby!" That's great, Dad
"There it is! There's the abandoned baby!" This is just so perfect for Boo jokes
Now Mom has overheard him and she's like WUT
- I've come to the conclusion that the St. Louis wererats are the nicest group in the city and have the best leader.
On the nicest people angle, every other group has two or more people who are rapists, killers, or killer rapists, barring the swans who just had one person (Kaspar) who was a killer (and not a rapist) and the hyenas who had just one person (Narcissus) who is a rapist (supposedly; I actually think JC faked those memories to get Richard and Anita on his side against Narci at a crucial moment). The rats? Have none of that. The rapist wererat Fernando wasn't one of the St.Louis lot, and there was a blond wererat in the first book who *threatened* rape against Anita before Rafael intervened and saved her, but we never saw him again (I think Rafael killed or at least banished him...and I really hate the irony that he saved her and yet she repays him books later by raping all his people)
As far as best leaders go...Rafael sacrificed himself to the doomcrotch because he believed it would keep his people safe (with no idea what she'd do instead) and, as Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper says, " out of ALL the were-whatevers not only is Rafael the only one not dragged into Anita's shit on a regular basis, forced to fuck OR participate in Jean Claude's nonsense more than once in a blue moon, his leadership ability is completely unthreatened and Anita and CO. count him as a friend. He's not on the radar AT ALL. Rafael is like, political GOD. Bet your sweet shit the dude knows what he's hiding from. Good form, Mr. Rat King. Good form. "
Donovan is not, I don't think, as good a leader just on the basis he leaves the swanmanes in St. Louis. The duty of the Swan King is to travel the nation/world and check in on his people. There are only three swans in St.Louis since Kaspar was killed. They could be re-located to a less dangerous location. The rats can't be, there's too many and Rafael has no connections outside St. Louis, but Donovan is the nation-wide leader of swans, he has connections to every flock in the states, he could get someone to take them and probably get their relocation collectively funded.
( HIT LIST, CHAPTER THIRTY SIX )
