Community Lore

Every community has its in-jokes, rituals, and private vocabulary. Here's the (ever-growing) guide to ours.

Autisti-cats: Our community: late-diagnosed autistic folks (and the cat-curious) who hang out on the livestreams and in The Scratching Post. You can officially become one over on Patreon.
Graffiti Cat: Mike's signature artwork: a hand-drawn marker-pen cat that ends up on pretty much anything he signs, from whiteboard stream announcements onwards. If Mike signed it, there's probably a cat on it.
The Scratching Post: The community Discord. Where else would a bunch of autisti-cats gather? Access comes with Patreon membership, along with extra video content.
Stray → Housecat: The two tiers on the Minecraft server. Everyone starts as a Stray (explore in Adventure Mode); earn trust on the streams and you graduate to Housecat, with building privileges.
The Catmageddon Bell: An old-fashioned (and loud) brass school bell, rung whenever a SuperChat (a paid tip) arrives during a livestream, summoning all sixteen cats at once, who are bell-trained (mostly for safety and function). They then eat, messily, on stream. Pure feline chaotic energy. Polly, being deaf, can't hear it, so she gets extra treats instead.
Tea & Tails: The community book club. Every book is signed by the cats, and a random winner gets their copy posted out by lottery draw.
The Afterparty: The exclusive members-only stream that happens over on Discord (in The Scratching Post, naturally) where we often play games together. (Livestreams, Afterparty included, are on hiatus while Mike focuses on the channel's longform videos. It will be back.)
“It's not usually like this” (INULT): Catchphrase, declared frequently mid-game on the streams as things descend into chaos. Said often enough to have earned its own acronym. Draw your own conclusions about how usually it is, in fact, like this.
BEES! (or BEADS!): Born of the Opalite bead from the happiness video (yes, a Swiftie reference): a man-made stone standing for the idea that happiness can be deliberately made rather than waited for. The community promptly shortened "BEADS!" to a full-throated "BEES!!!!", and it has been yelled in chat ever since.
Remember to Hydra-te: The house pun, courtesy of Hydra, and a merch favourite.

This page is a work in progress. More lore incoming.