🍉Grief Bacon

| Nerd | Cat Crazy | Wildlife Enthusiast | Vulture Culturer | Invert & Reptile Keeper | Firmly attached to @Zane_Doggo | PFP: @CaffeineHazard|

[The Menagerie Costumes @TMCfursuits]

Hello all!
Due to my ongoing health struggles I am closed for quotes and orders until further notice.
I will re-evaluate my ability to take on new commissions once my current queue is completed.

[Moth @Mothmire]

That one particular bts picture made me sob. That’s his real father 🥹 #frankenstein #gdt #guillermodeltoro @RealGDT

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

How do we celebrate your heart rate and blood pressure finally coming back down to normal range?

By spiking them again with an obscene amount of caffeine of course!

[aquila @ 🟦☁️ @belllmonts]

#frankenstein

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

After 18 years together and fighting so hard for the last 5 weeks of illness Wijit let me know she was tired and done fighting on Monday.
I'm at peace with making the call but after spending over half my life with her she's left a massive hole in my life.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Requiem for the Christmas Island Shrew

It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voice—a thin, high cry, part bat and part whisper—once filled the forest of Christmas Island. Now the forest is silent. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, has been declared extinct.

Few knew it lived, fewer still that it was Australian. The shrew was a stranger in a land of marsupials, a migrant that arrived tens of thousands of years ago, likely clinging to a raft of vegetation from what is now Indonesia. For millennia, it thrived unseen in the island’s rainforest, feeding on beetles and sheltering beneath roots. When British naturalists arrived in the 1890s, they found the forest alive with its shrill chatter. “Extremely common,” they wrote. Within a generation, it was gone.

The black rats came first, stowaways in bales of hay. With them came a parasite, Trypanosoma lewisi, that swept through the island’s naïve mammals like a plague. Within years, both native rats were extinct, and by 1908, the shrew too was presumed lost. Its name lingered only in museum drawers and footnotes.

Yet it was not quite gone. In 1958, two shrews surfaced as bulldozers cleared forest for mining, seen briefly before being forgotten. Then, in 1984, came a small miracle: a live female, discovered in a clump of fern. For a year she lived in a terrarium, tended by biologists who fed her grasshoppers and hope. Months later, a male was caught—sickly, short-tempered, and dead within weeks. The female lingered alone until she, too, was gone.

No others were ever found. Searches in the decades that followed brought only silence—the kind that deepens until it becomes its own proof. In 2025, the Red List made official what many already knew in their hearts: Crocidura trichura was no more.

To some, the loss of a creature so small may seem inconsequential. Yet its passing adds one more tally to Australia’s unenviable record—the thirty-ninth mammal species lost since colonization. The shrew’s story is a familiar one: an island undone by rats, cats, ants, and the heedless movement of the world.

It asked for little: a patch of soil, a few beetles, a quiet forest. And it leaves behind a silence that, once heard, cannot be forgotten.

💐 Full piece: https://t.co/3Enu6NnJuM

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

This is Randall. He lives in Bruce, my car.
Last night he made a couple scream laugh and take a photo as they passed us on the highway heading in to see Frankenstein

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

Driving an hour each way to see @RealGDT's Frankenstein because the bigger cinema chains aren't showing it

[The Menagerie Costumes @TMCfursuits]

I've found an unopened box of casting foam that I have no use for now that I've moved onto printing TPU bases so I may have some foam feline and canine bases available next week

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

You can though.
I've been considering it but the paperwork is off-putting TBH

[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

At tonight's 'Frankenstein' premiere in NYC, VF caught up with @RealGDT about his post from this past weekend

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

@CaffeineHazard It's one of my favourites.
I plan on taking some cuttings from it this year.
I don't know what I'm going to do with all of them but that's a future me problem.

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

After being neglected and losing a few plants when I was couch bound some of my #nepenthes are springing back to life and producing some nice pitchers now they're getting regular care again

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

What would you do if you came across this big boy in the woods late at night?

#furryart #furryartist #furry #werewolf #Halloween

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

What better way to celebrate my hands being able to hold a stylus for the first time in months that werewolf-ifying my boy King
#WIP

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

@LigrisPrints Beautiful work!

[The Menagerie Costumes @TMCfursuits]

Important updates for TMC

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

Whelp, here goes my first full dose of chemo drugs to try and stop my screwed up immune system from destroying my joints

🤞 Fingers crossed for not crazy side effects

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

@CaffeineHazard I feel like I'd hate it but still kinda wanna try the saunf mithai

[🍉Grief Bacon @Maxx_Chee]

What flavour is your fursona?

I think Maxx would be passionfruit cheesecake.

[Caff @ ArtFight - Team Tragedy✧⋆｡⊹ @CaffeineHazard]

What flavour is your fursona?

Dante would probably be saunf mithai (sugar coated fennel)