JonathanHemlock

One of the hardest things about Onyx being gone is coming home from the bar on Saturday night and he's not here waiting on hugs and kisses.

My best friend, the sweetest kitty in the world, died today. When I moved here my parents came with me to help get moved in. We'd gotten in late at night, and the next day I was bringing boxes in when a big black cat stood up on the screen door. I opened it and he ran right in. We found out he'd been left behind by the woman who'd lived in the apartment before me, and learned from the neighbors upstairs and across the street that his name was Onyx. A few different neighbors knew he'd been abandoned, and were feeding him on their porches, but no one had taken him in. One neighbor that had indoor dogs felt bad for him and took him to the vet to get his shots a couple of months before I got there, and the vet estimated he was 1.5 years old. And he was with me for 16 years since then. In all that time, we spent no more than 10 days apart. I will always miss him.

A note about the pieces I've done lately using Photoshop's Generative AI: if you aren't familiar with it, these pieces aren't created with just a simple search term. I start with a stock image of a person, and each element is created separately, often with hundreds of runs before I decide on a final shirt, necklace, hat, etc. Then there is usually a little masking or clone stamping required to correct minor imperfections.