Hope is a Four Letter Word

Ron. 30's. Dog trainer, amateur writer, hopeless Trekkie. 🐕 TenSoon. UROM U-Ch AKC-Ptd. Fayek's Night Prowler BH-VT CD PCDX BN RE RC2 CGCA CGCU TKP DDB WAC. Multi-sport adventure dog, constant shadow, fetch maniac, born 6/19/18. 🐕 Valkyrie Cain. U-RBPIS Themiscyra's Rise of the Valkyrie BH-VT CSAU CD BN RM CGCA CGCU TKA DDS DDBE ATT WAC VGM. Head of the household and of leaping before looking. Promising mondio prospect and reliable right hand dog, born 5/6/2023. 🦈 Mister Tumnus. Rehome Marshall ferret. Old soul and living beanie baby. 9/23/23 🐕 Fiver. Accolade Thunder Roars Adventure. Terrific Toy Terrier and Tiny Sport Terror. Smallest disc dog on the field and helper dog in training, born 9/25/24.

[parliamentrook]

you must keep going because you haven't met all the dogs you are supposed to meet

[scutellatebooted]

want to meet mine?

He loves you!

[dorothygale]

pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.

[a-startup-of-ferrets]

Blep

[homunculus-argument]

On tumblr, you can say "don't stick a fork in that electric outlet in the wall, getting electrocuted that way is really bad for you", and people will reply with "but what if I use a knife? Is that dangerous too or am I allowed to do that?" And another one is like "op is lying it's actually 100% safe fun and cute uwu" because they live in a house with the electricity cut off. A third one goes "oh my god I had no idea I've been risking my life every single time I poke a fork at the wall. I just like the way the wallpaper feels when I puncture it. No wonder mom yells at me every time I do it! D:"

And then it explodes into an argument concerning whether or not getting electrocuted is inherently, ontologically bad for you or not, because someone shared their story of how getting electroconvulsive therapy cured their depression and saved their life, and therefore OP is wrong for implying that going out of your way to get electrocuted is always wrong and bad in every situation.

[maddonasarts]

Seeking the light in the shadows✝️✨

Kurt Wganer aka Nightclawer 💙

[freebroccoli]

Me, accumulating worldly possessions: this is awesome!

Me, moving worldly possessions: this blows!

[carnelianfoxx]

certified hashtag TRUE

[pngblog]

[theborzoiarebackintown]

Rudely awoken from her beauty sleep

[destinationpearlstreet]

Atelier Vime

[doomspaniels]

There was a bunny! There was a BUNNY! It was here somewhere! Somewhere! Oh, the sniffs are intoxicating!

Tristan hasn't yet learned Yvaine's half-closed eyes, relaxed, almost mesmerized sniff-trailing method. Head down, lifting nose every few steps to check... something, possibly the wind or if there's a fresher scent on the air somewhere. He looks like he is having fun, though.

[oh-good]

Please reblog this picture of my beautiful son.

[uncahier]

[pippindot]

Birthday model

[galileosballs]

Something that gets really lost in a lot of discourse is that what we would now call 'going low-contact' or 'going no-contact' with your family used to be so completely within the normal range of familial contact that there wasn't even a term for it. Sure, in the pre-IM pre-social media days some people were calling their parents daily, but I'd wager the vast majority of people were not. Long distance calling used to be quite expensive, after all. If your kid went to the big city to seek their fortune you might hear from them every few weeks, or every month, or once a year, and that wasn't particularly odd. This was even more the case before telephones were common, of course - people would send letters, but definitely not more than once a week and probably a lot less. It was just a normal, accepted fact that you'd hear from some family members who lived nearby often, and some who lived farther away very rarely.

The minimum amount of contact with family that is expected of people in the groupchat-facetime-instagram era is so much higher than at any previous point in history. The ceiling is about the same, since then and now multiple generations often live under the same roof, but the floor is higher by orders of magnitude.

How many adult children who are 'no-contact' or 'low-contact' now would also have been the ones who moved to the city and sent a letter every three months then? Is family estrangement an actual current problem, or is it just an illusion caused by smartphones?

[hyperlexichypatia]

When I complain about increased surveillance, control, and infantilization of older kids and young adults, it's often a level of surveillance and control that wouldn't have been possible, or at least practical, in previous generations. At minimum, it would've been escapable.

[fjordfolk]

BFFs (big fern fans)

[redbone-hellhound]

Still blows my mind how fuckin TINY she was when i got her

[kodainhisnaturalhabitat]

The gang