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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 19/09/2026

Your #Caturday this week has to be Monster, because she's barely moved her butt from my hip since we got home on Thursday after two whole nights away. Clearly I'm not allowed to leave the house ever again.

A calico kitty curled up asleep on a pillow.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Of course the main point of the Nottingham trip was this. Getting to hang out a little with Miss @gailcarriger.bsky.social and other readers was lovely. I don't get many photos of me (seriously I look like someone stuck a football on top of a tube 😆) but I think I'll keep this one 😁

A photo of two smiling people in front of a white wall hung with photos of Nottingham. On the left is a woman with a headscarf, cats eye style glasses, and red lipstick, wearing a patterned dress and white lace gloves. On the right a bearded person with a Trans Rights Are Human Rights baseball cap, blue glasses, a navy and white polo shirt and a purple walking stick.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Travelling home. Doofus dog has decided my scooter is a pillow now because why not?

A long-legged staffie wearing blue harness am& leash and a red collar lies on the floor of a train carriage, with her head resting on a blue mobility scooter

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 13/09/2026

This week's #Caturday is a rare decent photo of the beautiful but camera-shy Squeak. Enjoy!

A grey tuxedo cat sat atop a pillow, front paws angled down the edge like a hinge, looking down and to the left of the camera

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 02/09/2026

So Doofus dog's skin is getting thin in her old age, and we're trying to stop her scratching because she keeps just very slightly nicking herself. We were out for like 3hrs today, and she's now dotted with tiny scabs all down the length of her sides. Which means her new nickname is Perforated Pup

A long-legged staffie, black vut turning very grey especially around her face, stares dolefully at the camera because she only has one expression and it's that one.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 30/08/2026

It's a Menace #Caturday! She fell asleep in my nighttime leg pillow, using her paw to prop herself up on my daytime leg pillow. This house is just death by a thousand cutes, tbh

A sleeping white cat with black patches on her ears, mid back, and left haunch, lies in a blue pillow. She is propping her head up with a law, which rests on a larger white pillow

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 23/08/2026

This week for #Caturday we haaaaave... Menace doing her best impression of a femme fatale.

A white cat with black patches around her ears and in her back looks at the camera, her lower face slightly in shadow, green eyes slightly closed

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 18/08/2026

Cuddles made me an origami dragon, and...I guess my noodles are now its Hoard? I didn't even get chance to cook them, and now they're gone 😢

A green origami western-style dragon sat atop a bunch of uncooked noodles in large red mug

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 08/08/2026

Your #Caturday this week is Queen Squeak looking like she doesn't at all appreciate the crown Cuddles made her She's not a fan of having her photo taken; this is the best one she let me get 😆 She did let me write her a song though ⤵️

A grey tuxie cat wearing a white origami crown and looking displeased about it

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 01/08/2026

Your #Caturday this week is Menace somehow being even cuter than usual

A white cat with black patches sleepily cuddling a pink stuffed axlotl

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 23/07/2026

Poor Doofus dog is having some minor issues atm. Her skin seems to be thinning as she gets a bit older, so we're in constant alert for scabs to keep an eye on, but she's also started being super itchy down her sides. If we stroke her there she immediately starts scratching, and she does it a lot-

Photo of a black and white long-legged staffie, sat with her front legs stretched out and her laws crossed.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/07/2026

It's Cuddles' bday today, so she's spent it doing origami (cos she mentioned a couple of months back she wants to do some again), and hanging these. I had an artist draw the furballs from photos then got them printed on canvas, so now they decorate the landing 😁 They are so pretty! #cats #dogs

A drawing of a grey tuxedo cat, with one white paw out, looking ahead. Squeak is written above, and the artist sig is down to the right.

Drawing of a white and black long-legged staffie, with a blue sweater on, her face lying on a pillow, looking ahead. Text above reads Doofus, and the artist sig is in the top right

A drawing of a Calico looking alertly ahead, with both front paws out. She had a white chest and socks, pale orange across two thirds of her face, a black soul psth, nose, and head with black and orange flashes down her body. Above reads Monster, the artist sig is sideways on the top left.

Drawing of a cowcat, looking ahead with a smug smile, slightly closed eyes, and black patches around her ears. Above reads Menace, the artist sig is on the bottom right

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 18/07/2026

Double #Caturday! Leopold the leopard and Squeak the tuxie. Squeak loves Leopold, she even sleeps on top of it (somehow), but this identical pose was too cute.

A large stuffed leopard lies on a brown leather office chair, with a small grey tudexo cat lying tucked up into it. Both are posed with their back legs tucked in and front legs stretched out.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 07/07/2026

Some days I write well. Some days I write badly. Many days I can't write through brain fog. Most days I kinda just want to die. But those moments when I write well & the fear of never knowing how my stories end; are often how I make it to the next day. I've kept this poem close for decades.

When I Have Fears - John Keats

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 24/05/2026

😆 The dog was sleeping, the fans are on, and I just made a very slight noise putting my phone down It woke the dog, who decided that the end of the world was coming and tried to woof the house down, at 1am Sorry neighbours...our Doofus is, well, a doofus 🤷

A long legged staffie, black with a mostly white face, stares lovingly up at the human behind camera

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/05/2026

I feel exceedingly complimented 🤣 #writing

I always know – and I mean this in a good way – that I’ll get something wild, imaginative and just a teensy bit disturbing, served with an extra-large side order of romantic sentiment with a Lee Hulme story. As usual, I wasn’t disappointed.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 16/05/2026

Happy #Caturday! Oh. Uh. I'm sure there was a cat here a second ago... Where'd she go? 👀

Close up of a calico kitty, lying on her side, on my chest, with one paw over her face, another curled up by her white stomach, and one back paw showing by a tail. All paws are white-socked, and her stimach is mostly white. You can also see black, orange and brown patches

The fur on her stomach is spiky because she's a punk and that's where she keeps her mohawk

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 02/05/2026

Happy #Caturday! Our old girl Squeak got a new bow tie 💜

A grey tuxedo cat wearing a turquoise bow tie looks up and to the left of the camera, with light shining from the right side of her face

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 21/04/2026

What the Cuddleses are up to this evening: We've not actually come to see our local AmDram group before, but we have been very excited. Cuddles is a HUGE Agatha Christie fan so we had to come see this 😁

A hand holding a programme for the play Murder of the Nile.

The background is black, with a shaded golden pyramid.

Text reads:
A registered charity (number)
The St Joseph's Players presents
Murder on the Nile
Tuesday 21st - Saturday 25th April
Written by Agathe Christie
Directed by Donna Wood
This amateur production of 'Murder. On the Nike' is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Agatha Christie Ltd.

[Social media links]

A photo of a red velvet curtain with gold siding

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 31/03/2026

This is a #TransDayofVisibility/#TDoV thing Cuddles made for me a few years back (based on the original self-esteem Shark).

On a blue watery background, a shark says:
You are not a disappointment
You are super great
And if anyone gets down on you for not being perfect all the time then...
Bite their faces off!
You are super great
And terfs are high in protein
Super. Great.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 30/03/2026

Monster cat decided to climb over my head with her claws out, and now I have a 3 inch slash across my forehead. I know she looks cute and innocent but there's a reason she's called Monster...

A tortie with looooooong whiskers is curled up in her human's stomach, looking cute and sleepy

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 27/03/2026

The art was done by Cuddles, and is awesome. This game has spent forever in my head, going through tests and rewrites. I love it, and I hope you do too. Especially if you're LGBTQ, this whole thing is an invitation for you to come on in and play!

A hand, with colours shifting between purple, yellow and red

Against a blank musical notation sheet, a small purple blast covered by a strip of horizontal musical notation and

A Japanese kabuki Kitsune mask, in white, yellow and red, with four tails

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 24/03/2026

Doofus dog is out of her cone today, and we're keeping an eye on her but so far she's fine. Told her if she can go all night without scratching her ear back into scabs, she can have her new bandanna. First thing to happen when she got her cone off: Menace came and gave her loooooots of cuddles

A long legged staffie, black with a white snout and greying face & eyebrows, looks lovingly up into the camera, with a very boopable snout

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 24/03/2026

Specifically: all the words are in the doc, I just need to add images and get Cuddles to do a final proof for me. Mostly I have to remake the fillable character sheet, and then slot in the premades. So a few more hours work, then package it up, and it'll be done! 🥳 For now, here's some art:

A flame-style hand, in colours shifting between purple, orange, and yellow

A small blast of purple, covered over by horizontal winding musical notation, with a blank notation sheet in the background

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 24/03/2026

If you're on the hunt for a contemporary dark fantasy #ttrpg with magic and interdimensional dragons and kitsune and werewolves and the most badass bard class you'll ever meet (and lots more), I've got you covered! Void Shifted is coming on Friday!

A blast of purple and black, topped by a stretching hand, with a purple eye in the centre. Text below reads Void Shifted

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 18/03/2026

Last night Doofus dog managed to slide her cone underneath her food bowl. So when she tried to move away it came with her, she panicked, and we wound up with dry food launched across the entire room... ...which she proceeded to chase down and eat, as Cuddles and I tried not to die laughing 🤭

A long legged staffie, black with a mostly white snout and face, sleeps with her head in a cone of shame

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 16/03/2026

Doofus dog is very sad. She's managed to cut her ear, and keeps scratching it and crying, so we've had to cone her and she is very, very tragic. We are trying not to laugh too hard but...we are failing.

A long-legged staffie, black with a white snout and eyes, looks very sad in a cone of shame

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 16/03/2026

Reform think they can lie us into voting for them 🤣

A pile of torn up paper on a green blanket

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/02/2026

Plus I got extra Karma for writing up the background of the cult leader I befriended into not sacrificing us last time - presented here if you fancy a quick read.

Vince grew up in the Wasted World, like most folk these days. The last of the long timers who remembered the old days died before he was born. His parents tried to instill a sense of... something into him. Pride. Education. Community.

After their commune was ripped apart by raiders when he was 13, Vince was sent by his parents to escape via one of their tunnels. He wandered until, starving, dehydrated, close to death, he stumbled into a compound led by a preacher man. A compound full of people who took him in. A people who cared for him, brought him back to health and showed him how to be part of their community.

He did well. And any moment not spent in work, he spent learning from the preacher man, Oswald.

Oswald taught him from the tattered remains of a holy book. Held together by string and tape, the book was convoluted, contradictory, and clearly

both missing large chunks and made up of more than one belief system. But Oswald coached him to an understanding that rather than literal truth, he could read the holy book as lessons to apply to life.

Vince was loved so much by the people that when Oswald sickened and died, they looked only to him to be their new leader.

The stresses of leadership at such a young age, from those who looked for him to be just like his predecessor, quickly began to chafe and Vince started sneaking out of the compound in the early mornings, just for some time alone. He would walk the Wasteland and often return with some thought or tidbit or relic to show and discuss. His people began to respect this, and Vince, for his way of talking about what he saw, the things he found.

Until the day he found the skull.

He was walking along a section of the Wasteland he hadn't explored in a while, and tripped over something sticking from the dirt. When he dug it out, it was the skull of some creature he couldn't place. Humanoid, but larger. As he turned it over, brushing dirt away, an image flashed in his mind's eye.

A figure. Tall. Stretched skin over rattling bones. Fingers reaching. Bending closer. Eyes smoldering like coals.

"Feed. Me."

It said.

Vince dropped the skull and scuttled backwards. But the vision refused to leave.

"Feed. Me. Feed! Me! FEED! ME!"

"F-feed you what?" Vince stammered.

"Unbelievers," the voice ground out.

His head suddenly clear, Vince picked the skull back up and tucked it under one arm, heading back to the compound.

In his talk that evening, the first thing he did was take the Holy Book, and burn it.

At the cries of shock he smiled. "I have found God. And it isn't in any of these pages. My friends. It is The Bone Collector!"

He raised the skull high in both hands, a sickly green glow sweeping the congregation.

"Join us. Or be sacrificed."

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 06/02/2026

We got woken up today by the dog vomiting all over us. Felt something wet and, still half asleep, went "What dis?" and put my hand in a puddle 🤢 0/10, do not recommend.

Close up of the face of a long-legged staffie covered in a grey blanket. She is black with a largely white face and snout.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 01/02/2026

I have spent my #Caturday as I spend most days: being slept on by my Monster.

A photo of a torty cat, curled up on my torso, looking sleepily at the camera with her stomach fur all tufty

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 24/01/2026

Happy #Caturday! This is what happens every night close to bedtime. Two of the cats (Monster & Menace) arrive to try and intimidate/cute-ify me into giving them their bedtime treats early. It has never worked even once, but they live in hope...

A photo of a torty (left) with a red collar, and a cowcat (right) with a black bandana looking at the camera, held by the human who controls the treats.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 21/01/2026

Here's a few recent things she's done for player Shifted Traits. In order: Kitsune Empath Dragon Demonic It's by faaaaaaaar my most ambitious ttrpg, and I just hope someone, somewhere, will love it like I have.

A fox drawn in the style of Japanese Kabuki masks, white with red and yellow markings, and four tails along the bottom

On a purple background, a pair of brown hands set against a white explosion, holding a heart between them

A green dragon, with yellow scale markings and a lick of red fire coming from its mouth. Roughly in the style of a Chinese dragon.

On a white background, a black and red face, spiky with evil-looking eyes, mouth and horns.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 18/01/2026

Happy #Caturday from our Pirate Queen, Menace. Keeping the seas (house) safe from marauders so she can steal all the treasure (hugs) and hoard it for herself.

A left-side-on photo of a white cat with black markings, wearing a black bandanna with white skull and crossbones, looking away from the camera

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 06/01/2026

Timeline cleanse? We caved and bought the Doofus #dog her own blanket. Here she is between Cuddles (blue blanket) and me (green blanket) where she spent the entire afternoon and evening. She moved long enough to go out, have supper & bedtime cuddles, and is now back in that exact spot again.

A long legged staffie, black with white peppering and a mostly silver/grey face & eyebrows, fast asleep under a grey blanket, tucked between two humans under their own own blankets, looking very cosy and happy.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 25/12/2025

Cuddles gave me this as my Christmas Eve present... They are skull ice cube molds. So I'm expecting to get fancy alcohol tomorrow, because she ordered me to fill and freeze them tonight 😁 (I gave her a pencil sharpener with Die Pencil! engraved on it 🤭)

A close up of a hand holding a black silicon mold, showing four skull heads, two pointing up and two pointing down.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 25/12/2025

Happy Holidays y'all - however you do it (or if you don't at all), have a good day. Here's our Christmas Decoration this year: Squeak, our old lady cat, who moves so gracefully that the bells hardly ever even jingle.

A grey and white tuxedo cat, wearing a purple velvet bow tie and a holly decoration on her collar

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 18/12/2025

So, whoever peeled off our small Pride sticker from the front window now gets to look at this fully-inclusive entire FLAG whenever they go past our house. (You can still see the #trans flag sticker bottom left, the other one was about the same size) #LGBTQ people right here, and staying, tyvm.

A trans & disability-inclusive Progress Pride flag hangs on the inside of the downstairs front window of a house

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 19/11/2025

Our poor Doofus dog has been throwing up eeeeeeverywhere. She's been doing it off and on for a couple of weeks now, but she occasionally gets a sensitive stomach (usually because she got into something she shouldn't but sometimes just randomly).

Close up of the squished face of a long-legged staffie. Her fur is black, with lots of old lady white and grey.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 05/11/2025

Did a whooooole bunch o' work on my #ttrpg today. Cuddles also did a bunch o' work on the art, and now I can show you this. Void Shifted. A dark, contemporary fantasy game with everything from mages to werewolves to kitsune to demons to dragons to terrifying bards (yes, really). Coming Q1, 2026.

On a white background, a hand reaches out with a purple eye coming from the palm. Behind the hand is a circle of black and purple lightning. Beneath the image are the words Void Shifted in a blocky, slightly uneven font.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 02/11/2025

Happy #Caturday! Went to visit CuddleDad today (as we do every fortnight), and this is what happened when I got home. Pinned under a blanket, with my Monster staring creepily/adoringly up at me. She didn't even bother to pretend she was mad at me today, I didn't get 5 minutes before she was here 😆

A tortie cat lying stretched out on a blanket, under which her favourite human lies, leaning on the human's arm and looking adoringly up into the camera which is directly in front of the human's face.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 23/10/2025

It's International Snow Leopard day! Here's our small cat version, we call her Menace. She's only endangered because she has no common sense. But the real ones are fascinating creatures too: thenaturenetwork.co.uk/internationa...

A white cat with black patches lies, using one front paw as a pillow, looking sleepy.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 20/10/2025

The sky was interesting today. Sometimes you just have to stop and take a couple of photos. #Photography is just an occasional hobby and I'm not particularly good at it, plus I can't bring my fancy camera everywhere, but I enjoy it, and I always ensure my phone has a good camera for stuff like this

A photograph of a sky with dark clouds, and some dark blue surrounding. In the centre, a shard of golden sunlight thrusts through the clouds as if coming from another dimension.

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