*tucking into my sleeping bag*

Ant Who Has Been Judging Me All Day: "Well I see you have finally decided to grow up and start pulling your own weight around here. Hmph. Good!"

@michaelgemar @futurebird Let me put in a good word for cicadas. Two years ago, we had a cicada in our front tree that kept chirping long after the other cicadas had given up or died.

We named him Boris and enjoyed him for a wildly long time as we sat out on our front stoop.

I have a tee shirt with a memorial image on it. It says “RIP Boris, 2007-2024”. (Not the actual Boris. Stock art.)

@marick @michaelgemar @futurebird Previous cat Kobaïa once brought me a wounded Cicada in the middle of the night. Woke up quite suddenly when it decided we needed to hear the song of its people...

(But then I got a nice photo out of it, so fair's fair.)