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Author of Burning Away Superwholockian - Sabriel, Bagginshield, Destiel, Johnlock, Stucky, 11/River, E/R, and most other ships shipper =] Writer, vet tech, 30 years old, BA in English/GWS, cucoo4cas on Ff and AO3, nevermore314 on twitter. =D

[cucoo4cas]

Hey, guys! I just wrote and published my very first novel!! It's got magic, romance, danger, adventure, suspense, violence, foul language, and as much lgbt representation as I could fit into one book!!

It's called Burning Away.

Here's the synopsis:

Lyria, a kingdom of people blessed with the knowledge of soulmates and destiny, is also plagued with eternal life until soulmates meet and stay together, only aging when in proximity of each other.

Varra had been hunted her whole life. Just because she’d had the misfortune of being born the Queen’s soulmate.

Queen Cassandra, the Eternal Monarch, had sat on the throne for the last five hundred years. In order to keep her immortality and power, she’d spent her days tracking down and killing each of her soulmates. Varra was no exception.

When Varra sets out on her own, an adventure unfurls, embroiling her and everyone around her in secrets, magic, betrayal, love, and grave peril.

The link above is where you can order my book! If you buy it, I love you! If you share the link without buying, I still love you! If you just read this post and thought "hmm, interesting. Fuck spending money, though." That's totally understandable, AND I STILL FUCKING LOVE YOU!!

Thank you so much for reading this post!!

[liberalsarecool]

White supremacy does not exist without extreme unfair advantages for white men.

[shencomix]

[charlesoberonn]

And possibly the most important one that explains the rest

Happy July 5th

[greelin]

yeah i’m just weird about people i perceive as parental authority figures in my life because i was never held as a child

[greelin]

your boss is not your father. your college professor is not your mother. You have to stop this.

[my-flying-sister]

I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.

[the-dandy-liar]

[homunculus-argument]

character in a movie: Oh no, angry dog, please don’t bite me!

the dog: I’m at work! I’m doing so good at being at work! I’m barking because my handler gave the sign ‘bark’! I am going to get such a good grade in being a dog actor, which is completely possible to achieve, and normal to want! I am doing a great job! I am proud of myself for doing such a great job! I love this, because I’d make it physically impossible to get anything done if I wasn’t enjoying it! I’m barking!

[sindri42]

I love seeing dogs and wolves in movies because they’re acting so vicious but also their tails are wagging so hard unless the post-processing guys specifically edited out the tails (which is slightly less obvious but also hilarious in a different way once you spot it).

[spectral-cervid]

This is why I love the dog in the original casting of The Thing so damn much. I have never seen an acting dog move with such a deliberate, calm intent. It was like every single motion and gesture this animal made was intentional.

Apparently, according to the behind-the-scenes documentation, this dog was just fuckin like that. Almost never, if at all, looked at the camera crews and production teams. Never excitedly wagged his tail on set no matter how much of a good boy he was being. If he did, it was the same… deliberate motions.

His name was Jed, and even though he’s a dog, he deserves an oscar. He was an exceptionally good boy.

[jadewolf-writes]

Jed also played the role of White Fang in the 90s Disney film version!

I honestly can’t imagine a better portrayal of a stoic, aloof White Fang, who gradually softens, than Jed.  Good boy.

[graaaaceeliz]

That dog knows his job, and knows he’s damn good at it, and knows he’s probably better at his job than his coworkers.

[jackdaw-kraai]

That dog was delivering straight up Shakespearean performances, and he probably was saddled with human coworker who had to make use of such unprofessional things as second takes.

My condolences, Jed, my condolences.

[stinkybrowndogs]

How many chihuahuas would it take to run the Iditarod do we think

Like 100?

[appenzellerlouis]

@darkwood-sleddog would you like to humour us

[darkwood-sleddog]

I have been summoned?

(I am chucky in this scenario above)

Chihuahuas are tiny but mighty and I would think their tenacious attitudes would be a net positive. I will address how MANY chihuahuas i think you would need to = the pulling strength of an Iditarod team below but I want to address some other factors a hypothetical chihuahua musher would face with this...unique team makeup:

1.) Chihuahuas need small frequent meals most of the time due to their size while arctic breeds tend to use the same amount of food more efficiently. Obviously we are going to need MORE Chihuahuas than a Alaskan Husky Iditarod team (16 dogs at max capacity), but they will also probably need to eat more food per pound than the huskies not only because of the husky ability to need less food per pound, but also because Chihuahuas are a breed that was developed for warm weather they have much shorter hair and lack the double coats of even Alaskan Huskies so they will also spend more nutrients keeping warm. Iditarod sled dogs consume an average of 12,000 calories per day and the race takes about 10 days more or less to complete at a competitive pace.

2.) Chihuahuas are actually pretty good at pulling stuff and several compete in weight pull, so pulling is a good outlet in a non hypothetical scenario with the right precautions. SOME. VIDEOS .

Adorable.

3.) A dog's ethical "working load" for longer distances can be determined by a % of its body weight and scaled for conditioning and breed size. A larger dog is typically going to be able to pull more weight per pound, but little dogs shouldn't be counted out. For small dogs up to 25 pounds it is typically said that 10-20% of the dog's body weight can be safely pulled (for large dogs it's usually more). In a weight pull scenario like above, which is very short distance, dogs can pull up to 3x their body weight (sometimes more but not often).

Okay let's do math (which i'm bad at, but calculators exist so thank god):

The Chihuahua standard says that dogs must NOT exceed 6 pounds/2.7kg and Alaskan Huskies are often not more than 60 pounds/27.2kg and less than 35 pounds/15.8kg (for reference my smallest Alaskan Malamute is 75 pounds/34kg and my largest is 110 pounds/50kg....)

Loaded with gear an Iditarod sled weighs around 200 pounds/90.7kg.

Most Iditarod dogs are not at the maximum size/weight range, mostly closer to 45 pounds/20kg on average. For the purposes of this exercise I will use 5 pounds/2.2kg for the Chihuahua. I will assume that these Chihuahua's are at their maximum strength and conditioning much like sled dogs and use the 20% metric for the amount of weight they could pull. Because our average Chihuahua is 5 pounds in this scenario it makes the math easy. 20% of 5 is uh.....1.

So to conclude it is likely that you would need a team of 200+ Chihuahuas to pull an Iditarod sled (and omg the amount of food...). That paints QUITE the visual.

Here is Jeff Deeter from Black Spruce Dog Sledding, an Iditarod kennel, running a 29 dog team for reference of what a large amount of dogs in harness might...be like?

anyways whose gonna make a visual of the hypothetical chihuahua team bc i would like to see it

(please note that per Iditarod race rules non-northern breeds are not actually allowed to race in the Iditarod and this scenario is hypothetical).

[xenosaurus]

this may be my age showing but I am a passionate supporter of wires. earbuds? put a leash on those things. wireless keyboard? no, it needs to hold hands with the computer. the ps5 controller I forgot to charge has the staying power of a wealthy nonagenarian with a much younger wife and 14 life insurance policies, but the controller plugged into my pc? that baby will outlive my bloodline. my ethernet cable is like a son to me.

[stars-bean]

Clue (1985) dir. Jonathan Lynn

[ouroborosorder]

”there’s no glory in suffering” and “sometimes the effort is the point” are two ideas that co-exist but god damn if I can ever tell when’s the time for which

[i-point-at-things]

👇👇👇

[kuromi-hoemie]

me when i see an animal that is known for being in my area

[catchymemes]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

it’s almost as if Tolkien knew what he was talking about

[thepieking]

It’s almost as if Tolkien personally witnessed one of the bloodiest wars in human history and then used that to fuel his writing.

[sophie-frm-mars]

The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.

Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence

[sophie-frm-mars]

One immediate step you can take if you're tech literate is try to personally back up as much DIY information from the internet as possible. We need to confront the fact that the internet is American dominated and primarily American-owned and in a larger sense owned and operated by capital primarily. For the informational resources of the internet to benefit human beings we have to deliberately make choices to structure it that way, and in the age of Palantir that largely means thinking about parallel informational infrastructure, setting up another internet or at least other communication systems.

If we want to preserve life saving information, information that aligns with reality over fascism information that is useful, beautiful and true to human beings and ugly and inconvenient to capital, first we have to make backups

[sirferric]

My local book store has preorders for signed and personalized copies of Hopefinder! Plus, when you order through them you can get it for 15% off!

Hopefinder is a fantasy novel about a group of pacifist humanitarians trying to help protect a small town from an oncoming military invasion. It features a non-binary protagonist, and centers on themes around healing from trauma, human resiliency, and unconditional love. It combines influences from The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson, Quaker spirituality, and Internal Family Systems theory.

You can use the link below to preorder through Curious Iguana and support an independent author as well as an independent book store!

Hopefinder by Keir Hudson (Signed + Personalized) - Curious Iguana

Preorder a signed and personalized copy of Hopefinder by Keir Hudson. To be released on August 5, 2026. Please include your personalization

[i-suggest-transing-your-gender]

Shoutout to weird girls who became weird boys and weird boys who became weird girls and weird girls and boys who became both or neither. Let's all be weird and strange together

[id-servals-in-posts]

There are no servals in this post. Directly.

[i-suggest-transing-your-gender]

Shout out to weird girls and weird boys who became servals

[blacktipped-reefshark-finder]

this post has no sharks

[i-suggest-transing-your-gender]

Shout out to weird girls and weird boys who became blacktipped reefsharks

[sleepyjump]

there's this guy who works at the convenience store next to my job and every time i come in he tries to upsell me. i'll get a gatorade and he'll say "that's it...? isn't it snacktime?" i'll get a snack and he'll say "just that? don't you want more?"

one time i got a huge pile of stuff and he STILL said it and i said "dude, you would not be satisfied with all the riches of heaven!!" and he said "i don't even get a commission. i just love doing this."

and then i couldnt come in for a while and then i came in again today for just a charger. and i said "that's it today" with a smile. and he looked at me with a gleam in his eye and said "no it isn't. you'll be back later. you'll have to get thirsty eventually, won't you?" with this conniving smile that made me realize i WAS thirsty. i'm out of my depth here. help

[bonniebugsy]

OP I think that might be the Devil