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How many chihuahuas would it take to run the Iditarod do we think
Like 100?
@darkwood-sleddog would you like to humour us
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).
Me and my 200+chihuahuas getting turned away at the Iditarod starting line even though we practiced so much and they are all perfectly conditioned and can each pull exactly one (1) pound
Lines of thought that seem Normal but are actually rooted in extreme puritanism:
-Seeing the nude human body is inherently traumatic -Sex scenes in art are pointless -Wearing kink-related clothing in public is the similar to performing a sex scene in front of unwilling participants -Depicting female characters expressing sexuality is always degrading -People's sexual fantasies are always an endorsement of the behavior they want to see in real life -Sex work is more traumatic and coercive than other types of work The goal is to treat sex as just another thing people do. That is a much healthier attitude than hiding it! It's not uniquely traumatic, it's not weird to talk about it or include it in society.
it disturbs me that a significant number of people think that the issue with sexual violence, gendered violence, and misogyny is sexual desire rather than dehumanization, so they are relentlessly suspicious of others' (and their own) desires while simultaneously never at all interrogating others' (and their own) dehumanizing beliefs about other people, both within and outside of sexual contexts
#and at the root you'll find the misunderstanding of sexual violence as a violent extension of sex. #when in reality sexual violence is a sexual extension of violence. and the distinction is important.
so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for
Happy black cat day!!
Here are some black cats I've drawn through the years
I love all the runners who broke their rhythm to do this very seriously as if yes, hopscotch and a little dance was an expected part of their exercise routine for the day.
She's doing the lord's work.
tiktoks with vine energy
collecting posts of this type
literally my favourite genre of post
Even more!!!
Gem Cities by Neave Bozorgi
17 years ago today.. the biggest rockstar move in history.
The look of satisfaction says everything
There are a lot of photos that were purposefully edited or shot in a way that made it look just absolutely abysmal, but in reality? It was a damn good look.
Should also be noted, this wasn't an entirely spur of the moment thing as everyone tried to make it seem. She had actually scheduled and sat down at her stylists/hair dressers office, and told them she wanted them to shave her head — but they wouldn't do it, tried to convince her not to do it, and so Britney ended up doing it herself, which is why the original photos were rather horrible — she was shaving her head for the first time, not using the proper tools, and didn't get every spot, or anywhere close to even.
I've been shaving my head for ten years now, and it took me a good two years to do it properly, and I still mess up fairly often.
She talked about it in 2008 by saying:
“I was going through so much artificial stuff with my kids and Kevin at the time [her ex-husband had just taken her kids from her]. He’d just left me and I was devastated... People thought that it was me going crazy and stuff like that, but people shave their heads all the time. I was going through a lot, but it was just kind of like me going through a little bit of rebellion, or feeling free, or shedding stuff that had happened, you know?”
I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all
Humans keeping cats and dogs as family members is like three prodigy assassins being introduced in the back of a shady nightclub and 45 minutes later they’re 6 crunchwrap supremes deep passing a blunt in the back of a shag carpeted Volkswagen microbus rating Oreo varietals by fuckability
IT’S BEEN ONE HOUR
This made my brain go brr, therefore it’ll make your brain go brr too if you’re following me <3
Fuck I scrolled on but this is going to be living in my head so fucking much why did you have to show this to me I will never be free
a lot of life can be persevered thru by secretly playing pretend in your mind the whole time
lotta comments along the lines of "but watch out" "this ruined my life" "this is literally maladaptive daydreaming disorder" fuckinnn pretend to be someone who can wield their imagination better and play knights with me while we walk to the post office
this is literally just being a writer, what is this "maladaptive daydreaming" nonsense? did some shrink come up with a way to vilify people with imaginations because they lacked one?
go make up a story to get through the day. you don't have to write it down, it's most for you when it is most in your head. is good for brain, is good for body, is good for heart.
"A society that separates its lore masters from its horny posters will have its headcanons written by prudes and its erotic fanfic by fools."
I had a colleague ask a few days ago about how I felt living in the US and being trans considering all of everything - and I had to explain that right now has been the weirdest time to be transfem because so many people in my personal and day-to-day life are so much more educated on trans issues, and are active and good allies of trans people, than I have ever seen before. My bible-belt grandma can handle the singular 'they' now, which she wasn't for the six years I was out as an enby. Strangers in public compliment my hair and my makeup even when I'm not at all passing. Politicians are becoming much more actively hostile while even the rural areas I grew up in are growing kinder to trans folks.
It's such an intensely strange feeling. And it wasn't one I was able to effectively communicate to my colleague. I don't know that this change will be enough or quick enough. But there is a change happening in the communities I live in.
your dark fantasy novel doesn't need a logic-based magic system it needs a bear with a human face
the human-faced bear principle of storytelling: the amount of people who will remember the exposition about the rules of magic or the history of elf culture inherently pales in comparison to the amount of people who will remember the scene where someone gets mauled by a bear with a human face
this isn't a call to necessarily include a literal bear with a human face (though you should at least consider it. obviously.) but pointing out that, while a lot of sf/f writing advice places heavy emphasis on fleshing out the small details of a fictional world as much as possible, there's often little attention given to the value of including effective "bear attack scenes", for lack of a better term; tense, scary, shocking, weird, or otherwise visceral scenes or concepts (the pale man, the chestburster, the sunken place, the raptors in the kitchen, artax in the swamp, the annihilation bear, the basement in parasite, the blood test in the thing, etc) despite those having a significantly higher hit rate of making a story striking and memorable to people
#okay but those things are only striking and memorable BECAUSE of the well fleshed out laws of the narrative#we understand the world we’re inhabiting in those texts so when the weird stuff happens it doesn’t break suspension of disbelief#i agree that without the weird and wacky sf/f can be pretty boring and lame#but you need the weird and wacky to be grounded in the world you’ve created#otherwise it’s just either tacky or makes readers confused and angry
I'm sorry i just don't think people remember the horse drowning in the neverending story because of the fleshed out narrative laws around it