if i look back, i am lost
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Cropping out their logo because fuck giving them free advertising, but this random ad was still too funny. You can do anything, fulfill your wildest dreams, like being literally just some guy.
NOW WITH MUSHROOM !
made a transparent version if anyone desires such a thing
but but.. what if I wanna be a beautiful orc?
Easily the most annoying kind of vampire in the world are the ones where you finally corner the fuckers and when you're going in with the stake they start spouting off sociology 101 bullshit to try and weasel out of it. "Oh, no ethical consumption under capitalism," "oh, the rich are the real vampires if you think about it-" yeah, yeah, you ate like fifty homeless people, asshole. Hold still
Okay but if you aren't a vegetarian your case against vampires is actually pretty weak.
I SAID HOLD STILL
I mean.. look at it this way. Sure, they ate 50 homeless people... that's doing more than the government is to get homeless people off the streets... Sure it isn't the ideal solution and I don't advocate for it, but are we sure those specific homeless people weren't evil? Now. If they were to eat 50 homeowners who were actually evil bastards, and thus house those 50 homeless people instead, I'd maybe actually be advocating for the vampires.
hey would you like to see a normal house for sale in ontario ? :) :)
most concerning tags on this are people in the toronto area saying 'pretty reasonable price tbh'
hey wtf
welp, I for one do not want this house. Even for a lot less money. Why? 1. That garden is massive. Do you all have any idea how much work and effort goes into maintaining a garden of that size? Hell, the owner, who has the time to furnish the place lavishly (we'll get into this in a moment), has not been able to sort that garden out. 2. While it's beautiful inside, the random dolls (which knowing my luck have a shared ownership with this house), make you wonder how many people have died in this house and subsequently inhabit the dolls. 3. Those furnishings fit the house perfectly. It sure seems like anything bigger wouldn't go as nicely... This is great until you realise that some of these dolls dwarf the chairs in the living room. Dolls. Dudes... yes, you get big dolls but my fat ass isn't fitting into any chairs that even a doll ass can't fit into. I would be forever stuck in a house that I was unable to sit down in unless I wanted to overcrowd my living room by buying bigger chairs... 4. That doll on the bath... looks just about ready to fall in, is this how that specific death occurred? They look far too cheerful about it. Great. Now I'm not just worried about haunted dolls, but I'm no concerned about haunted dolls that actively want to drown me. 5. There is no doll in that house that looks like it would be a good fit for me. If I die in this house, I'm not even going to get a doll to inhabit and haunt the next person with. I'm just getting buried in that massive overgrowth of a garden.. 6. Ok. Maybe that's why the gardens never been sorted. All the bodies are buried in there, digging them up would be admitting liability or potentially being an accessory. Not only do I get to spend 900k on it, but I don't even get to live in it as the local police have to label it uninhabitable due to having to search the entire premises for bodies.... and with a garden that size... it's gonna take a while. To whoever does buy it. Good luck, I hope you're thinner than me and I hope you find a doll that fits your personality just right... also, be prepared to buy a second house to live in... you know.. just in case.
ohhhh i didnt have notifications on, my bad.
see you got a meme... from mid july.
so i personally find Shorty a delight. hes funny and nice and honestly its hard to beat that in a person.
i will say he appears to have some low self-esteem or at least is quick to negate instead of accept compliments, but at least he accepts that other people find good qualities in him even if he doesn't see it for himself.
honestly glad to be getting to know him
Pfftt nah, there's never any race where any 'f our lot s'concerned m'guy. 'fter all, s'not like we're th' fastest creatures in th' world either. Welp... 've got s'm speed, but not when it comes ter things like this I guess haha! 'm gonna let th' admin speak here 'cos.. heh... m'heads big enough already, ain't need ter be acceptin' nor tryin' ter deny compliments like this... Will say it's fun speakin' t'you 'n all tho' Yer chill bud.
I mean.. you're not wrong. He's.. working on the self esteem thing. It's slow going though, with a lot of events that pushed him into the lower scale still, but with his friends and partners he's starting to learn both about their worths and his worth and it's a battle he's starting to think is worth fighting. He's still quick to jump onto the self deprecating humour, but at least it's starting to be just that. Humour. Rather than him believing it with all his soul.
A crafty little smile slinks into view on the glitched scientist's maw. "Pledge your loyalty to me. I won't take complete advantage, I assure you." Ether is amused by this prospect.
"mhm. 'course yer won't." *He's amused though, that Ether would do that like this proves how little the scientist knows about him.* "Fine. I pledge m'loyalty to yer Eths. Let's see what that thinkin' thing 'f yers c'n c'm up with."
The first to send in "Pledge your loyalty to me." Gets to control my muse for a week.
They are your pet. Your servant. Yours to control.
eternally confused by people like this who seem to think shelters intentionally label dogs in a way specifically designed to deter you from adopting them instead of just like… reporting the behaviors they’ve witnessed during the dogs stay at the shelter because that is literally all they have to go off of
thinking about this post again after having semi-recently adopted a dog.
when we went to meet Pallando, the only things we knew about him were that he was a malnourished Great Dane who needed an emergency foster/adopter. he took up a lot of space and needed a lot of resources that the rescue wasn’t super equipped to accommodate, and they really wanted to find him a placement. it was only when we got there that they gave us the rundown of what they had observed during his short stay with them. he was a resource guarder, he wasn’t house trained, and he didn’t walk well on a leash. this was not done in an attempt to deter us. this was not done in an attempt to make him look like a bad dog. they specifically wanted him to be out of their facility as soon as ethically possible, and they had no reason to try and ‘scare off’ potential adopters. they were simply giving us the information they had so that we could make an informed decision on whether or not we’d be a good fit. given that none of these things were dealbreakers, we decided to adopt him
in the past ~4 months of living with us, he hasn’t displayed a single one of these behaviors. he asks to go out and do his business, he walks exceptionally well on a leash (even sits at crosswalks!), and i’ve grabbed a stolen chicken bone right out of his mouth without an ounce of protest (risky on my part, but i still have all 10 fingers so it’s fine)
despite this, i fully believe that the rescue was 100% telling the truth and sharing it with his best interest in mind. he probably did resource guard, eliminate on the floor, and drag people around on the leash while he was with them, and i’m glad that they let us know instead of just crossing their fingers and hoping it was all stress related. we fully lucked out in the ‘oops, all stress!’ department. these things could have just as easily transferred to life in a new home, and it was a responsible decision on the rescue’s part to place him with people ready to handle them.
this is long and rambly but just. yeah. i hate this idea that shelters/rescues are transparent about observed behavioral issues because they want to make the dogs look bad or whatever. a shelter’s main goal is to have less dogs, i promise you they are not holding onto certain dogs just for the hell of it. they’re just trying to make sure that adopters are informed to the best of their ability so that the dogs are less likely to be put in a bad situations and returned
Adding to the above as a former dog trainer, shelters do not always have the resources to test a dog in EVERY conceivable scenario in a less intense environment. They are adding these notes so you dont see a dog like in the og image and go "Wowwie! I'm gonna take him home and turn him loose in my house that already has an established dog who owns the space!"
Some dogs that are reactive are only reactive in certain scenarios. Some are reactive only to certain dogs. Some are reactive only in certain spaces.
For instance, my dog is a collie/cattledog mix I've had since she was a puppy. She grew up around other dogs and never had problems with them until she got attacked by a Shepherd mix because some idiot was letting his dog run loose because he was too lazy to hook her up to a leash to have her go to the bathroom even though there's a leash law and she was CLEARLY dog aggressive, standing up and charging from sighting mine from about 50ft away (i do not and will never blame a dog for bad behavior, I will blame the owner though). After that, she became reactive to shepherds/Shepherd mixes and would start to bark at them if any got within sight distance of her. I had to work with some larger non-reactive dogs to get her to be less reactive and more just leery but I still watch and i still try to get information about other dogs that might want to visit and play with her before agreeing to let her meet them. Yet I would classify her as dog friendly, because she is 99% of the time. It's just the one scenario with the one type of dog that makes her not.
She also is not a resource guarder-- EXCEPT if we are opening presents and another dog comes in to see what's going on. You see, Penelope loves to assist by gently tearing the wrapping paper off the present while you hold it. But if another dog comes up to inspect, she's snap and growl at them. This is a dog who sits pitifully while another dog shoves in and eats her food, or who comes to tell me she's sad because another dog took her favorite bone or toy, because she doesn't fight back. Heck, my parakeet used to fly down and land on her toys and this 70lb dog would just sit at look at her like "My touys..... :((((" and cry while Watson pecked and walked all over them.
Now take these stories and flip them. In a shelter, where there's a lot of noise and stress and smell, a dog may be resource guarding 99% of the time. A dog might be skittish and unable to be relaxed enough to not be reactive to other dogs or while on leash (unable to escape of their own free will). But you take them home and make the proper steps to introduce this dog to a new household? Maybe that changes. Maybe your established dog is just the right personality to not make the reactive dog react (dogs that do the "-sniff- .....neat. -ignores other dog-" behavior when encountering a new dog are great for practicing socialization with for more hyperactive/reactive dogs because they just Don't Care, for instance). Maybe the quiet and smell of your house unwinds the typically stressed out dog enough for them to be receptive to change. Maybe the new routine and increased attention helps shift that dog's personality and behaviors to the positive.
But what if it doesn't? THIS is why shelters and rescues warn you about behaviors they've seen. It's not to dissuade you from adopting, it's so you can look and say "OK it says he's not good with other dogs. I have a dog at home, maybe we can arrange a home visit to try them out?" Or "Oh it says he's not house trained. I have some time off work I can take, I should do that so I can work on getting him house trained and on a schedule when he first gets home with me.". It's so you dont just get a dog, turn it loose at your place and then potentially get this dog put on a list or, worse, euthanized if it bites your established dog or child or etc because you weren't informed. It's so that during the interview staff can ask you about your home and your previous experience with dogs and see if you'd be a good fit.
It's all for the good of the dog. They WANT someone to take them to their forever home and they would LOVE for notes like that to be proven wrong with the test of time and patience and love. What they're trying to avoid is that dog becoming just another statistic.
yes to all of this. Also want to add in that, another thing they are trying to deter is people returning their pets over and over because "we didn't realise they were going to be exhibiting X/Y/Z behaviours" Which if it happens enough (this can be any amount of times from 1 and upwards depending on the pet), can also create worse behaviours due to the constant moves also being stressful and lead to less likely to be adopted as people start to wonder why the animal was returned and not giving the benefit of the doubt. Shelters will also sometimes give strange notes on an animal they are holding if the animals was handed to them with those notes from the previous owners/handlers who, being human, sometimes are telling the truth and simply saw those behaviours because of specific situations and even worse... sometimes make up said behaviours because they want to seem like they're "not bad people" for giving up Sir Fluffsalot once they have graduated from cute adorable baby to kid/teen/adult that actually requires real work to become a loyal lovable well trained pet.
is the other 25% raw sex appeal ooooor?
Pffttt I mean.. sure? Why not? 'f yer inter that. 'f not.. y'can call it anythin' y'like.
im joining the war on gross disgusting pornographic content on the side of gross disgusting pornographic content
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Tom Lehrer is also on the side of gross disgusting pornographic content.
huh.. guess Oscar Wilde was using Chat GPT before Chat GPT was cool... Who knew Oscar Wilde was a hipster?
would you kindly admit that you are absolutely gorgeous.
Oh he's grumbling at you so damn much right now! "tch....f-fine...." the meek stammer slipped out. Humiliating. How dare they take advantage like this! "I admit, I'm absolutely gorgeous- but it hardly compares to how adorable ya are when all huffy," he curves right back at Shorty. He did the order. They couldn't claim he didn't.
heh heh heh.. I'll take that compliment, if only because I got to hear you admit it with yer own words.
Reblog if your muse has scars.
ta mun person. I needed a way ter get him ter do that heh heh heh
fergot how much ketchup affected me.. 'nd how good it fuckin' feels. Like.. Damn...
“That I shall. Listen closely, for there won’t be any repeats.
Return to where many have fallen, where a fragment of hope lays hidden near the cluster of life that were kept in protection. Bring it to the man you’ve grown a pupil’s connection. Once done, you’ll bring more than a bond…
Best of luck to you in your hunt. Unlike your partner, I am certain you’ll be unaffected by the land’s toxins.”
Huh... mk. I know what yer talkin' about. Fascinatin'. Makes me wanna know who y'are now.. but... heh.. guess I gotta go back -there- huh? A fragment 'f hope huh... not sure what that'd look like but... hopefully it'll be more obvs when I see it.
“Not well has connections been held. Many liars exist in the world. Trust is hard to become unfurled. But I’d still like to play a game, one with no gripes nor conditions. Would you be interested?” -to shorty-
hmm.. I mean... yer not wrong. A game huh? welp... tell me more? 'm always interested in havin' somethin' ter do.
