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[atreuspelopides]

i just think ben affleck should've played penelope

[sabelmouse]

This fake yarn is supposedly better for sheep.

Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.

So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.

You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall.

Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed.

Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use.

Don’t be fooled. Wool is a sustainable material, one we should make more and better use of.

[scrimblobimblobadimbo-deactivat]

Any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.

This is very important.

[godesssiri]

And you need to wash acrylic wool garment more often than natural wool. They get stinky way more easily.

[ruusverd]

In my almost-decade of owning sheep, there have been exactly two(2) bad shearers try to start up in the area. Know what happened? The first farm they went to called every other shepherd in the area and said “This guy cut one of my sheep and didn’t think it was a big deal, don’t hire him.” And neither of them ever did business in the area again.

Some farmers are less conscientious than they should be about taking care of their stock, and the occasional tiny nick will happen, but no one is going to hire a shearer who is a) incompetent enough and b) uncaring enough to actually injure the animals to the point of bleeding, let alone the kind of horrors the internet claims.

Also, most breeds of sheep will literally die if they go too long without being sheared. PETA (and let’s face it, most of this anti-wool stuff can be traced back to deliberate misinformation from PETA) doesn’t care if sheep die, they have openly stated that they would prefer every domestic species that can no longer survive without humans go extinct rather than live in “"slavery.”“

Humans and sheep have lived together for over ten thousand years, they’ve been domesticated longer than dogs! Their lives consist of doing whatever the heck they want (for the most part they only want to walk, eat, sleep, play, and make lambs) while being fed and cared for, for the low price of having their hair cut once a year. Why would anyone boycott this natural, biodegradable fiber humans have been using for so long to the benefit of both species, in favor of plastics that are killing the planet??

[underthehedge]

Also loving the “the sheep will be snuggly warm tonight” like… You shear sheep in the spring, when the weather warms up and they no longer need it, and they grow it back for next winter.

[goat-heirop]

Also, you literaly NEED to shear sheep multible times a Year or they fucking Overheat and die in their own wool

[petermorwood]

Twee, deliberate mislabelling which appeals to kind-hearted people who know nothing about how the real thing is produced.

On the funnier side, ignorance about anything closer to nature than a supermarket shelf can result in gems like this one:

Regular yogurt for me.  Thanks.

(As for ignorance, this post is epic and getting more so every time I see it.)

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Back on topic.

Shearing’s not skinning and it’s not painful, unless some guy getting busy with a manscaping clipper means he’s flaying himself alive.

Shearing is an all-over haircut, call it sheepscaping if need be though expect some odd looks, and good shearers - as @ruusverd​ said, bad shearers earn a bad rep and soon earn no more money - will leave less nicks on an entire sheep than I might inflict on my face if I forget to change my razor-blade. 

That’s pretty impressive when dealing with a notoriously dimwit animal that doesn’t understand “now just sit still for a minute” and finds “see that open gate, go through it” a difficult concept. (Going through an unexpected hole in the hedge, however, is something sheep do with great ease and willingness, especially if there’s a soon-to-be-ex herb garden on the far side…)

“All warm and snuggly in their woolly jumpers…” Oh puh-leeze. A jumper is a garment which can be taken off and put on as required. A sheep’s fleece is nothing of the sort. Ireland’s just had a heatwave, so which of these two would have been more comfortable the other day when it was 30°C / 90°F in the shade?

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But look at the blood! goes the outcry about sheep with red stains. Here’s what that “blood” is. Unless the outcriers believe the front half is royal and bleeds blue, it’s just dye.

Why dye? There are various reasons: to show who owns which sheep in a mixed flock of the same breed, or to indicate if one has been dosed with something, or to mark if a ewe has mated with a ram.

The ram wears a harness - AFAIK not black leather with chrome studs, at least not on any farm near here - which holds a dye-pad on his chest. After he’s done his business, the hopefully-preggers ewe will have a patch of that dye on her rump as in the photo.

Different colours let the farmer know which ram’s been busy if there’s more than one, or with one ram, on what day the mating occurred so they can calculate when to expect lambs. That kit suggests rams get one day a week off…

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Besides shearing sheep to stop them overheating, if the weather is rainy rather than sunny they’ll still need sheared to stop them getting waterlogged.

A waterlogged sheep is a top-heavy sheep, and since rainy weather will have made the ground slippery, a top-heavy sheep can all too easily become a sheep on its back - a broad, flat back that won’t roll - unable to get upright.

Sheep internal organs aren’t meant to be upside down and inversion will eventually kill them, if they’re not gutted by a fox first. Crows will have had their eyes long before then.

Forget deceitful propaganda about fake wool, here’s some REAL advice about how to do a sheep a (literal) good turn.

I’ve done it myself, and though she’d already lost one eye - hoodie crows don’t miss a chance - that ewe survived and next spring produced what I was told were two fine lambs. I felt pretty good about that.

I still do.

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This is what shearing really looks like, and that’s not the behaviour of an animal in distress or pain. Baffled, maybe, but any human whose haircut started with a judo throw would be baffled too..

The end result is a 12lb / 5.5kg load of insulation which the sheep no longer has to carry about. How’d you like being stuck inside that lot on a hot day?

The “shearing is cruel” fruitloops rely on deliberate lies, gullibility and lack of knowledge. Be aware.

 Or maybe…

[kuutamosonaatti]

Phenomena (1985) | dir. Dario Argento

[zombooyah]

Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

[misselesava]

your soul is mine, alexander.

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x12 - “Tome-wan”

[princess-of-thebes-bc]

[lovestereo]

Visit Original Link

[notmorbid]

discontent.

dialogue prompts from discontent by beatriz serrano.

i only go to work to lower my air conditioning bill.

work is just a role, and i've mastered it perfectly.

the truth is, i don't know how to do anything.

i don't know how i got here.

my job is to be nice and sell snake oil.

i'm good at selling ideas.

i've mastered the art of working as little as possible.

offices are like hunting: the more you move, the less chance you have of being shot.

i'd give you the rest of my life, if you asked me to.

that's anxiety. you know that, right?

i think everyone deserves a patch of sky.

everything's easy with you.

i wish we could fall in love with each other.

are you feeling sick?

you look pretty, but your face is like death warmed over.

are you sleeping well? are you eating well?

i know you won't disappoint me.

you seem vexed.

i have complete faith in you.

everyone believes singers are singing about them.

when was the last time you really talked to ____?

you never know what's going on with people.

if you were a fabric, you'd be a _____.

i feel like you're going to psychoanalyze me.

would you like a tangerine?

age is a question of attitude.

whenever i talk to you, i feel like a contestant on a game show.

everything's going well here, you know.

i'm not sure how to talk to ____, or what about.

i really don't have anything to say about my life.

i just want you to be happy.

happiness? what does that even mean?

are you going to come up? soon?

i hate thinking about work outside of work.

i don't know where i'll go, but i won't be here.

i work all the fucking time.

step up, or step aside.

you were my friend. my best friend.

you're unreal. like someone on a magazine cover.

you made me remember who i used to be.

i thought about you a lot. i thought about calling you.

my whole life is a performance.

most of the time, i have no regrets.

the body is just a tool. like a painter's canvas, or a sculptor's block of marble.

we're all condemned to play the role we've been assigned.

if you won the lottery, would you be going to work the next day?

i'm afraid of everyone forgetting about me.

you get to an age where getting wasted isn't fun, it's an open portal to hell on earth.

the hangover's a problem for future me.

what happened? can i do anything?

maybe that's the secret to happiness: lowering your expectations. settling.

maybe i'm the problem.

nothing going on around me makes any sense.

i don't think i'm doing okay.

don't worry. i'm going to call for help.

you want a joint?

the world smiles on people like you.

do i seem fun? hip? cool?

fake it til you make it. or until people leave you alone.

you can't change the world. you can only try to keep the world from changing you.

you were always a bit odd.

we're a family. a strange family.

[biconickyoshi]

Zuko’s concerned face when Aang’s letter says to come immediately vs 2 seconds later when Aang says to bring snacks

That man simultaneously endears and vexes him

[dashiellfaireborn]

Flameo Hotman, how's ruling the Fire Nation? I hope the boring Chamberlain you mention in your letters isn't still annoying you. Anyhoo, to cut to the chase, I need your help. Can you please come immediately? Oh, and don't forget to bring some firecracker buns.

AVATAR AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER (2026)

[atreuspelopides]

fic authors self rec! when you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. let’s spread the self-love 💖 (no pressure!)

HELLO MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND KAT!!

in the dollhouse — the outsiders x the forbidden game. it's one of my favorite fics ever because i get to marry two canons i love dearly into a really fun genre blend-y fic. it has everything: pregnant pony! dallas having to deal with his parent issues! two-bit focus! a shepard swap!

in most splendid light — i'm in love with this fic. it's about dallas being scooped up by the snake cult while fleeing nyc and him falling in love with pony, leaving him, and then coming back. truly a fic i adore. (i honestly am gonna rec the entire series, mariolatry. it's a series i've poured a lot of love into and continue to.)

this is your heart (can you feel it?) — soc au my beloved 💖💖💖 i was shocked at how easily i wrote this one.

the lonely — some of the best writing i've ever done has been for this twilight zone au, taking the episode from the show and turning it into a heart wrenching situation for dallas and pony.

what else should i be? all apologies — in which i answer and don't answer the question of who sandy's baby daddy is and i get to make the teen version of me happy. i wrote a version of this fic and got jumped on when i was younger and this was me getting that piece of me back. and taking it a bit further.

[atreuspelopides]

david arquette as keith "two-bit" mathews. (this is a little bit of a cheat. he was the two bit for the universally panned television show, but it's not a well known fandom fact. i also think his performance in roadracers is a good look into what it would've been like if the project had been better.)

alternate castings for the outsiders

[feralsorcerer]

I keep seeing people saying that peter and frank have a "father/son dynamic" or a "uncle/nephew dynamic" but you are all wrong. They have the dynamic of the older coworker that you are way to close with when you're in your 20s. We've all had that coworker. Thats your best friend kinda. But it only works in a work setting

[atreuspelopides]

that was then, this is now (1971), by s. e. hinton + across the universe (2007) dir. julie taymor

[atreuspelopides]

evan rachel wood as cherry valance

alternate castings for the outsiders

[talesfromthecrypts]

But if we do get to summon up the big daddy with the horns and the tail, he gets to bring his own liquor, his own bird and his own pot.

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) dir. Alan Gibson