Heart warming.😄

I like doing cute and nice things even with macro stuff.

Just be careful someone didn't sneak catnip in there.

Heh. Considering the effects of catnip on some cats, that might get NSFW.

Or it ends up totally safe for work, so long as work is not in the area of a cat convinced the monorail is a snake which needs chasing.

I know not all of the drawings you've commissioned are of yourself IC or one of your particular Starcat Bullpen Group, Jenora, but may I ask if this particular gentlecat has a set name or identity per your description, assuming these two goodbeans have a narrative beyond the present single plate?

I admit in seeing this, I am not adverse to thinking in analogue of not a few of the meetings in good fun you and I've shared in the past, both in convivial, mutual relations and relative difference in size, my starcat.

-2Paw.

I have no set name or identity for the characters here, nor planned plot: the theme of this book was basically just 'draw a fun picture involving a giant'.

Shenanigan may have had particular characters in mind, but not to my knowledge.

Entirely fair, good cat (and thank you for being all right with the three-year necroposting). You know what, as you put your post that way: if I were to draw this lovely gentlecat- looks to be binary female or female-presenting, and definitely a feline; perhaps an ocelot by the build, or an abstracted leopard, lynx or cheetah from the spots? Or perhaps another variety of domestic cat like your own stock species, I believe, but with different, novel markings- would you object if I called her the nomen or nickname Shenanigan or Shenanigans, or a play on phonetics to that pursuit, along with your permission to doodle and draught her as my heart and conspiratory inspiration desires?

Perhaps for her given and surname Annie/Ann, or Anne/Slaione Flanagan, or Farnham (shades of Future Heinlein Freeholds!). I mean, this is brilliant fun to throw derivative verbosity out but first I would ask your permission to take a bit of creative, novel charge of your lovely bigfeline in the present draught first, and we'll go on from there.

Good to see you, my starcat, and if we're not in touch 'til later please have a good day today at work. My Monday and Tuesday night WCC Writing Workshop on Zoom from 7:00-9:00pm EST for the former and last night's latter from 8:00-9:00pm went thoroughly well, and I had a whole lot of good creative and group fun.

-2Paw.

I have no problem with that, and Flanagan is a good name... the cat doesn't look to be one of Shenanigan's regular characters either, so presumably she was done up just for this picture. Not sure what particular breed of feline she is, but ocelot would seem to work. So go for it, and I'm interested in seeing what you come up with.

Glad to hear the writing workshop is going well, too! A little group fun always helps to keep one going.

Oh, my afternoon is set to sunshine, as you so often profess by me and into me from your kind heart and kinder orison, Jenora. I will set my tablet and my pencil- perhaps both, to match the right number of her enormous bare, plantigrade feet- to professing some good and might Shenanigans...oh, I just came up with. Shilaighlie.

> The name shillelagh is the Hiberno-English corruption of the Irish (Gaelic) form sail éille, where sail means "willow" or "cudgel" and éille is genitive for all meaning "thong", "strap", "leash", and "string", among others.

> Shillelaghs are traditionally made from blackthorn (sloe) wood (Prunus spinosa) or oak.

> Sheila (alternatively spelled Shelagh and Sheelagh) is a common feminine given name, derived from the Irish name Síle, which is believed to be a Gaelic form of the Latin name Caelia, the feminine form of the Roman clan name Caelius, meaning 'heavenly'.

Jenora, you will know Shelagh-Willow 'Blackthorn' Flanagan, known informally as Slough-Shillelagh when my drawings are done, and there'll be more than that to come, yes. If you are a Sun-Titaness Cat, I will make for you an Earth-Patroness Gato. <3

And yes, the writing workshops twice a week are doing me wonderfully good. I won't send you the transcripts I've made from my Commonplace book written freehand into Word DOCs and PDFs until you feel ready to reckon a read, but I will definitely be keeping them all safe. By the way, if we don't speak later tonight and not until late tomorrow night, would you like me to let you know when I put in my preregistration for FE 2024 upon my return home tomorrow afternoon?

-2Paw

Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier, it's been a heck of a day/night/whatever.

Anyhow, I fully approve of looking up the meanings of names to get something appropriate like this. I've done it often enough, see Finley the unicorn knight for an example (Finley being essentially a version of Fionnlagh, 'fair warrior'). Hardly the only case, just one of the few where I have art of the character here.

Anyhow, let me know, yes. I should be around tonight, at least.