been stuck in reply-mode for a couple of days, but i think i've finally responded to everyone who was expecting a response (and if that isn't the case, please lmk, because i have a terrible memory)! ​ ​ 

... and speaking of my terrible memory, i completely forgor to follow up on my poll from a week ago!! i owe you all some cute doggo photos and the mysterious 5th thing, so here ya go ​ ​ ​ 

#pets #animals #dogs #cats #dogsOfMastodon #catsOfMastodon #mastodogs #catstodon #dog #rescueDog #cat #caturday #adoptDontShop #sillyDoggy #altText

this lil goober goes "honk mimimimi" right next to my bed all night and i wouldn't trade him for the world ​ ​ ​ 

#pets #animals #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #dogstodon #mastoDogs #mastoDog #dog #rescueDog #dogMom #boostsOK #sillyDoggy

​​ 1. doggo had a vet appointment today (just an annual check-up and vaccine refresh) and he did great! he got four separate shots without complaining at all ​ and in the vet's notes that they emailed us afterwards, they wrote that he was a "nervous but super sweet boy" and i thought that was so cute 

​ 2. partner and i then took the doggo for a nice walk downtown. the weather was good, and we got boba and it was super yummy! (i mostly just copy-pasted this one from my previous (and only other) #ThreeGoodThings post )

​ 3. partner made fried rice for dinner! it was amazinggggg, he's such a good cook (and takes such good care of me in general) ​ he's one of my three good things every day tbh (and sometimes he's all three of them ​)!

semi-related thought: idk if this is an #ActuallyAutistic thing or not, but i feel super awkward using names for people/pets that i'm super close to! for example, i always say stuff like "partner" and "doggo" when talking about them in third person, instead of using their names (@jaden (which isn't actually his real name lol) and hiro). and when i'm talking directly to them, i call them "AAAAAAAA" and "#SillyDoggy"! ​ there's more to it than that, but i'm about to fall asleep, so maybe i'll write some more about it some other time if anyone can relate or is otherwise interested~ 

goodnight friends 

He leaves the ball on our walks where he knows I’ll find it and throw it again. Drives him crazy when I pretend not to see it. #labrador #sillydoggy

looks like we're posting adorable pet pics/videos tonight in #CutieCity, so here's one of Hiro (my #SillyDoggy)! ​ ​ 

our local timeline (https://cutie.city/public/local) is always cute, but it's looking *especially* cute right about now! ​ 

#pets #animals #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #dogstodon #mastoDogs #mastoDog #dog #rescueDog #dogMom #boostsOK

Yastodon

This server is home to a small group of cuties whose former server spontaneously combusted. Registrations are currently very limited, as we're still getting situated in our new space. 💖

Yastodon hosted on cutie.city

Hallo! I’m trying to get a bit more social interaction in my life, so here I am writing an #introduction post on #Mastodon

I’m Jaden (though I go by different names in different circles ​). I have a silly potato (@nuz) and a silly sausage (#sillyDoggy). I’m fairly socially awkward, a bit #autistic and very #ADHD​​ Sometimes I say very little and sometimes I say a whole heck of a lot, depending on the topic. I’ll probably be posting random facts or videos that I find particularly cool/amusing~ 

I love science (and have a PhD in #physics, but was it really worth it? ​) and maker videos that try to bring comic books and fiction to life (shoutout to #Hacksmith and #JLazerVideos, amazing folks)! I also really love technology (in particular, I really like #LTT / #LinusTechTips, although I know he can be a bit problematic ​).

I'm also an avid video gamer! ​​ I play a lot of #RPG, #Survival, and #Automation games. Some of the ones that I've really enjoyed and/or played recently are:

​​ #Satisfactory (love Coffee Stain​ Studios!) / #DysonSphereProgram / #Factorio
#Nioh2 / #EldenRing / #WoLongFallenDynasty
#JediFallenOrder / #JediSurvivor (if only it wasn't so laggy ​)
#HorizonZeroDawn / #HorizonForbiddenWest / #BotW / #TotK
​​ #MassEffect / #ScarletNexus / #TalesOfArise / #GodOfWar
#Overwatch / #Overwatch2 / #StarWarsTheOldRepublic / #SWTOR
​​​ #DivinityOriginalSin2 / #MidnightSuns / #BaldursGate

Feel free to say hello, boost, follow, or any combo of the above! I'd love to make new friends on here, but I feel awkward a lot, so I might just end up favoriting your posts if I can't figure out what to say  (but I appreciate you nonetheless! ​)

sliding in with a late, (maybe?) unconventional #MothersDay post! 

early in my adulthood, my mom (like many #Asian parents) would regularly badger me about getting married and having kids, because she wanted grandchildren asap and i'm her only child. 

unluckily for her, i'm like 99% sure i never want any biological children of my own - at the very least, not anytime soon (i'm 29). also, i like taking care of animals *much* more than i like taking care of human children.

so i adopted a #RescueDog. his name is hiro (pronounced like "hero") and he's my baby. (he's actually 8 years old - and we've had each other for 7 of those years - but he'll always be a baby to me.)

now, whenever my mom asks me when i'm planning on having kids, i point to hiro and am all like "i already have one! there's your grandson!"  

and she says something about how he's a dog, not a human... but i don't care. i'm his mom and he's my baby and i love him to bits. the end.  ​ 

#pets #animals #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #dogstodon #mastoDogs #mastoDog #dog #dogMom #sillyDoggy #boostsOK

it's been way too long since i last posted a photo of my #sillyDoggy, so let's make up for it with two photos!! 😊 

i especially love these because in the first one it looks like he's smiling a big smile, and in the second one you can see all of his cute little crooked front teeth 🥺 💜 🥰

#pets #animals #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #dogstodon #mastoDogs #mastoDog #dog #rescueDog #dogMom #boostsOK

[originally posted on january 9th, 2023]