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selected backgrounds (1 of 2) from Imaginary Resources (Islands Pt. 4)

art director - Sandra Lee

BG design supervisor - Jacob Winkler

BG designer - Jesse Balmer

BG painters - Ron Russell, Tim Brock, Holly Williams, and Rachel Kim

based on concept art by Michael DeForge

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selected background layouts (part 1) from Come Along with Me

BG design supervisor - Jacob Winkler

BG designers - Jesse Balmer, Ghostshrimp, and Matt Houston

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Embroidery Hoops

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[theoddvet]

I love breed differences where a Labrador can come in with abdominal contents hanging outside of his body, wagging his tail and having the time of his life, yet a Shar Pei can come in with a cut on his face and will try to eat your face while screaming like a dying banshee if you even try to touch him.

[memewhore]

[factualfeminist]

IM FUCKING DYING

[drferox]

Vet Story Time: Colleagues & Fear

Sometimes a veterinarian has a client who is suicidal.

They don’t really ever tell you this directly, but it happens. While our main duty of care is to our animal patients, we can’t discount the need to be there for our clients in a professional setting. You have to look out for them when you can, and in light of those atrocious, guilt-tripping posts going viral about being in the room for euthanasia, I wanted to share this story with you.

No cute pictures or gifs on this one. I’m serious.

As a veterinarian you don’t remember every euthanasia you perform. You hold the recent ones in your heart and mind for a while, but you certainly lose count as the years go by. These moments were intense for the pet owners, but you have to let them wash over you or you end up going mad with the grief and pain. But some you always remember.

My very second euthanasia was a little terrier called Roxie. And Roxie had congestive heart failure.

You can manage congestive heart failure for a while, and we’d been doing so, bu tit’s only managed, not cured. There’s no new heart transplant waiting for that dog, only a controlled death when the time comes.

Roxie’s owner was never… well, there was always something odd about him in those months of her treatment. Something intense that I couldn’t quite explain. A little odd for sure, but I was working in a new town far from home, where everybody seemed a little odd, in their own way. I was a newly graduated veterinarian and pretty green, everything was on the brink of overwhelming all the time and I probably missed warning signs.

But the day finally came when Roxie needed to be put to sleep. She was suffering, and not breathing all that well. And honestly, even with the best medicine available at the time, we’d run out of ways to make her comfortable. She couldn’t have a new heart, all we could offer was a smooth, peaceful death.

We always gave people the option: they could chose to stay for the euthanasia if they wanted to, for as much as they wanted to, or we could take the pet out the back.

He’d already made up his mind.

He chose not to stay with her, to let us take her out the back.

But he sobbed and wailed and assured the little dog, earnestly, that he would “See her soon. I’ll see you soon.”

And it wasn’t until I had already carried her, gasping, out to the back when those words dawned on me.

He wasn’t burying her at home. She wasn’t to be cremated. He hadn’t wanted to see her peaceful body after she passed.

So when exactly was he going to see her again, ‘soon’?

I didn’t know what to do. I was a new vet, still green and wet behind the ears, and vet school hadn’t prepared me very well for what to do if you think your client is going to kill themselves.

So I told the practice manager, because that’s what a new vet does when they’re stuck. I was scared. This little dog needed death, but she was quite possibly the only thing keeping this human alive, and he was not prepared for her death. Or rather, he was potentially prepared in a very wrong way.

I am eternally grateful that the practice manager went and talked to him. Talked about the dog’s life, talked him into cremation instead so he had to wait at least two weeks for her ashes to be returned, talked about making a space for them at home. Talked him into having someone else pick him up from the clinic.

Quite probably talked him into living.

I often regret that I can’t do more for people’s pain. But on my mind right now is the thought, what if he saw those guilt tripping posts. Those awful, mean-spirited, judgemental, cruel digs at someone’s personal grief.

Would he be able to stand it now, all those years removed?

What if someone else in a similar mindset reads them, with the grief still fresh?

I hope with all my heart that those posts don’t cause someone to come to harm, but I am afraid.

[darkartfinds]

Artwork by Flycatcher263

[latenighton]

Does anyone else love bad weather? Like the kind that’s loud and dark and draws attention to its self like pounding rain drops and thunder and lightning that seems just so close. And you can sit near a window and it’s dark outside and maybe you’ve got a candle lit or a lamp and it’s so warm inside and you’re wearing you’re favourite sweater and watching a good show or reading a good book and it’s beautiful outside the rain and the clouds and the sound of it all and you’re just so content and cosy and happy

[dreamblue42]

I’m working on making this my aesthetic. Thank you.

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[im-awkwardly-here]

we need to talk about shrek more

[dreamblue42]

It’s crazy how so many Spanish speakers are criticized in the United States for their accents and for speaking Spanish. But Spanish is one of the main languages we teach in school but then in the end every white kid is afraid of speaking it and actually practicing it! We’re always so afraid of how stupid we’ll sound, NOW IMAGINE EVERYONE THAT SPEAKS SPANISH and how they feel learning and speaking English. I cannot tell you how many times Spanish speakers apologize when they talk to me in English.

[drferox]

How much human medical training do veterinarians get?

The basics, because we are human and want to know how to do a little more than first aid on ourselves, but also further training in zoonotic diseases, because we’re particularly at risk, and how it plays into epidemiology.

We don’t just consider and learn about the health of an individual animal. We also have to learn about the health of the population, and how that population interacts with others, including the human population. This is important for emerging diseases, infectious outbreaks, and the diseases that infect both humans and animals, like rabies.

Beyond that we learn a lot of comparative anatomy. Once you learn about the anatomy of half a dozen species, adding a human to the mix isn’t all that difficult, and figuring out how things move is kind of easier if you can mime those movements out yourself.

We also tend to extrapolate. If something works for every other mammal on the planet, how different is it really going to be for humans?

Of course we don’t dive down into nearly as much detail about human medicine as actual students of that subject, but vet medicine and human medicine share a lot of discoveries and knowledge, after all they kind of like to experiment on our patients first, and we’re not going to just ignore that knowledge.

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[dreamblue42]

How do you find good books?!

I need my tumblr fam to pull through. Is there anything that exists as a Netflix or Hulu or some type of thing for BOOKS!? I would love to put in the books I’ve read and liked and have recommendations.

[pillowcharms]

A word of caution to mentally ill witches

For a lot of us, witchcraft is very useful when it comes to helping us cope with mental illness. However, it cannot be ignored that in many cases it can make things much worse.

I’m not talking about having the wrong crystals in your room or invoking harmful spirits, I’m talking about actual psychological ways that practicing witchcraft can lead to unhealthy thoughts. 

It’s not hard to imagine how someone with obsessive compulsions or paranoia might get negatively influenced by the idea that you must trust your intuition or that they might have the ability to sense evil, and people who experience auditory or visual hallucinations might avoid seeking necessary help because they could believe that the hallucinations are a message from some higher entity. 

Of course I’m not saying witchcraft is bad or not real, but what if you experience delusions? What if it makes you scared of leaving the house? What if you are convinced that you are cursed, or that you have to obsessively perform rituals or cleanse your house to stay safe?

I myself have to take steps to make witchcraft and spirituality have a little less influence on my life because it is having a negative impact on my mental health in this way. An important thing to remind yourself of is that your life doesn’t have to include magic all the time. 

You can decide that, maybe for a day, there is no magic. You don’t have to acknowledge the spiritual properties of any object or anything. A stone can be just a stone, a tree just a tree. It’s okay to detach from that world as long as you like, nothing bad will happen as a direct result from doing so. I swear ♡

[dreamblue42]

Honesty I really needed this.

[levalseduvieux]

Kelsey Smith