Ditch Dogs

Parker/Hound Enthusiast/Gremlin Owner/Anarchist Farmer/Kitchen Witch

[marked-by-moonlight]

About Me

Socialist/Anarchist, Witchcraft content, I rarely post about dog content, but that might change soon maybe.

Ao3: marked_by_moonlight

Before You Follow: this blog will have discussion of animals used as meat, and being treated as livestock. If you feel uncomfortable with that, block me.

Also, I have fandom opinions about characters people like to fight about. I’m willing to discuss, but if you call me a slur or send me threats then I’m blocking you.

Tumblr tags:

a song of ink and blood (the relevant asoiaf meta I’ve drawn together from various sources to use in my long running time travel fix it fic).

meat rabbits (tag for my rabbitry in general, and my non Rex rabbit related stuff)

chicken keeping (chicken tag)

adventures in farming (tag for farm stuff)

Current Dogs

Whatever Floats Your Boat “Lake”

2.5 year old Pyr/Hound mix

Loves his chickens, Sweetest Boy, sdit

A Story Retold “Bran”

2 year old Beagle mix

Loudest Boy, Why Are His Legs So Long?

Mila

Eight year old JRT/Chi mix

Terrible gremlin, bane of my existence

Past Dogs

Little Red Bird “Nina”

2.5 year old Pyr/Hound mix

1/6/2023-6/24/2025

Crimson Gemstone “Ruby”

Beagle/Mountain Cur/Sheltie mix

Light and Love of my life

2015-2023

[rickyapologist]

you can honestly be having the worst day of your life, open tumblr and there's your long time mutual who has recently gotten really into toy story yaoi just posting away

[nerdygaymormon]

[maemaybe]

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.

[wordfather]

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

[wordfather]

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

[wordfather]

THIRTY TWO??????

[phillyphillyphilly]

Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.

May I present the best apple:

[wordfather]

the world is so big and beautiful

[madtechnomage]

Look! Look! You have to understand! Apples have CRAZY genetics! You’ll never plant a seed and get the same type of apples!

All these apple varieties have to be graphed. They have universities trying to find the “perfect” apple varieties.

AND this doesn’t even account for things like cider apples, which you do NOT want to eat.

[solrin]

We tried to warn you about the "adult content" bans. Now Kickstarter is starting that shit

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

"It must have serious value!"

Staight up sounds like obscenity law/Miller Test-type crap.

[asaflowerblossoms]

"Fetishized imagery intended to arouse" well it's a good thing oppressed and vulnerable communities are never fetishized.

[aelia-likes-monsters]

found your monster romance book recs and was very excited until i found that they looked all pretty hetero. know of any good books for us lesbos (or other combinations of queer?) the only one I've found myself is @natalieironside 's "In The Court Of The Nameless Queen"

Hi Anon! It's taken me a while to get back to you and answer this because I needed to do some research and it took longer than I should have. (Also thank you for the rec!) There's True Love Bites by Joy Demorra (@thebibliosphere) which is a polyamorous Vampire/Werewolf romance.

Metal Heart by Michelle Frost which appears to be a Shifter fated mates M/M romance.

Spitfire by Maya Kern (@mayakern) which is about a Prince, the Dragon shifter who is bound to him, and their future Queen who are all super queer and spend a lot of time sorting out their feelings for each other. It's more polyamory, and the bits I've read have all been delightful.

Saved by an Orc by Carrie Wilde is more of a novella but it's a good W/W orc romance. (Carrie Wilde seems to have a lot of queer romance in her library, so if you enjoy this one it may be worth digging further.)

AITA? by Cassie Alexander appears to be a rather cute (but steamy?) "sapphic romcom" featuring a demon and a human finding themselves.

I wish I could find more but a lot of the stuff that comes up is either "dark" and angsty and I hesitate to rec it because I'm not sure it's even a happy ever after (a firm requirement for a book I recommend) or it's stuff that I don't know enough about to feel confident recommending it. If any of the folks who read this have more suggestions, please, please feel free to chime in and help anon out.

[imonlyheretofollowyou]

I’ll second “In the Court of the Nameless Queen” as well as “Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites” and add a couple from my library:

“Our Bloody Pearl” by D.N. Bryn is a romance between a monster mermaid (non-binary siren, to be precise) and the ace pirate who rescued them from captivity under a much less friendly pirate. Hurt/Comfort and learning to trust in kindness abounds. Some nice action and worldbuilding. 

“Beast Charming” by Jennifer Wardell is a fairy-tale retelling in a world where Fairy Godmothers are incorporated, dragons sometimes run temp agencies. Beauty is on assignment from the agency, and wants it made clear that she is NOT available for fairy-tale endings, and the Beast has no interest in his curse being broken thank-you-very-much. It’s fun, with snappy dialogue.

“Bonnie and the Beast” by Alexa Black is another retelling of Beauty and the Beast, this time a steamy W/W romance novella. The setting is “a long time ago in the future”, but it plays a lot closer to the source story than the previous one. Except for y’know, the monster sex.

“The Queen of Ieflaria” by Effie Calvin veers away from the brief here slightly; it’s not pure monster romance. Instead we have romance AROUND monsters, an arranged marriage between two countries, one being invaded by dragons, and the other having magic capable of defeating dragons. But Oh No! The heir died unexpectedly, and now his delinquent sister has to woo the mage princess to secure the alliance and save her country. How will the rough and tumble Adale manage to impress the elegant and reserved Esofi? And will she be able to escape the memory of her perfect brother’s shadow and become the leader her country needs? Oh yeah, and DRAGONS?!  

If it wasn’t obvious, I absolutely love that last one, and all the other books in the “Tales of Inthya” series. Later books have more monster romance, with shapeshifters, gods and other supernatural entities. They’re still pretty much all W/W though.

[autumnhobbit]

queen shit (and she was right)

[sin0fempathy]

seems like tumblr finally realized the bad optics of not having the trans colors represented anywhere in their little performative pride like animation.

anyways transfems are still being banned en masse from this website for “any reason or no reason at all” and having their accounts taken down again and again when they attempt to remake. this includes accounts that had originally been around for over a decade, after they did nothing but get a bit too loud about being transfem. don’t shut up about it.

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[whitsantos-twinism-truther]

[thomtrebond]

you've got a fucking hospital of people begging to swaddle you, man. you just gotta ask.

[martyreddie]

it's literally the evilest thing in the world to finally have time to write but then be tired. like wow you're telling me these two hours before going to bed are completely free but my brain is just Not Feeling It? fuck off

[jewblog]

did you know that when a character has a Trauma and you choose to think about it you may inadvertently think also about your own similar Trauma. this can really happen