Brainy is the new sexy

Primarily stuff that makes me laugh, Sherlock, Cute Animals, Doctor Who, and books.

[symbrock]

i'm losing my shit at this the delivery is absolutely flawless

[catchymemes]

[kyloren]

LNC of Star Wars: BEN SOLO | KYLO REN

[thisisartbylexie]

Lexie’s Follower Celebration: @mizjoely requested Sherlolly snuggling under blankets in front of the fire with cups of tea. :)

[korra-of-the-watertribe]

Wonderful Women of Color Meme: 1/10 Characters in a Movie: Valkyrie (Thor Ragnarok)

[one-true-houselight]

[image description: an edit of the ‘is this a pigeon’ meme. Eliot from Leverage is gesturing at a text box that reads ‘Any object’, and is asking, ‘Is this a weapon?’

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[kyloren]

Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain answer the web’s most searched questions

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[lapetitelapinecoquine]

[melt-into-the-night]

Reblogging this for the reblogs, for those people in the comments that didn’t bother to do their research and jumped to the conclusion that she’s begging her poor fans to donate their own money when she quite literally already pointed out that the show is just something for people to enjoy, not a telethon because the money has already been donated by wealthy companies. She FaceTimed the CEO of Apple in front of viewers on The Tonight Show just to confirm his ten million dollar donation 🤷🏾‍♂️

[quasi-authentic]

[edwardsvirginity]

I would just like to take a second to thank every single fanfiction writer who’s ever published a fic. In the last 3 weeks, I’ve read over 890,000 words of fanfiction while in quarantine. I know legally, fanfiction writers are not considered “essential” but let me tell you: they are essential to me. Essential to my sanity, my wellbeing, my happiness. Fic gives me so much joy and such a love for the world and the people in it, and fic writers don’t ask for anything in return, except occasional engagement. So from the bottom of my heart: thank you fic writers. Thank you for keeping me company during this time of isolation. Thank you for writing stories that give me hope and take my mind off of my anxiety. Thank you for making me laugh even when I don’t think it’s possible. Thank you for giving me something to be excited about when it feels like the world is falling apart around me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 

[onesassyvessel]

I love how Shane is just so chaotic and fearless on unsolved:

Compared to him going on a roller-coaster:

[shakespork]

i know i wouldnt survive in an austen novel because someone would be britishly, discretely rude to me and i would be completely unable to restrain myself from calling them a cunt to their face

[shakespork]

my detested rival: why, madam, you look so drawn and pale today! does the small size of your estate not give you enough freedom to take in the sun?

me: listen you waxy, lemon-faced bitch,,

[my-insanity-is-an-artform]

Rich, eccentric, elderly widow Lady peering over at the conversation: That one. That one shall be my heir.

[yomamapussystink]

follow your dreams

[forestwildflower-deactivated202]

Holy shite

[cyrodiil-burns]

No he didn’t

[f1ukemeister24]

You won’t regret unmuting this.

[echo-five-whiskey]

OH my god

[deathtokillian]

[sonofashepherd12576]

This makes that so much funnier because it can be hard to laugh when someone could die

[whitepeopletwitter]

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Sleeping Beauty concept art

[memorian]

Zendayapaying tribute to Joan of Arc at the Met Gala

[doggiedrawings]

In January this year, I attended Dr. Amy Cook’s PLAY WAY seminar at Pasadena Humane Society.

The seminar was about “social play” as a tool for rehabilitating reactive/stressed/fearful dogs. “Social Play” has been defined as something different from playing with toys (tug, fetch, etc) It is literally “goofing around” with your dog in a way that they like that makes them happy. Body language responsiveness, movement and timing is everything.

Not only did we get to see some inspiring and entertaining video footage of Amy Cook playing with her dogs, some attendees had also brought their own dogs to play with, while Amy offered coaching.  

It was an amazing and delightful experience and I couldn’t wait to get home to play with my 15 year old Boogie who hasn’t been interested in Tug or Fetch in over a year due to his vision loss.

The Play Way class was like learning a new language, a new vocabulary. You had to be there.

As far as I know, there is no other information out there on how to play with your dog without using toys, and until this seminar, I had no idea that dogs LAUGH. (I don’t think Boogie has ever laughed)

This infographic cannot possibly do justice to all the material covered in the Play Way seminar, which also focused on play as “therapy”. For now, I hope this is enough to pique everyone’s interest in the subject. This is another way to be mindful and respectful of our dog’s body language and of our own body language. I still have a lot to learn!

- Lili

LINKS:

Download Poster here in high-res (shareable without modifications, and with attribution)

Amy Cook’s online Play Way class 

Doggie Language - my new forthcoming book will have more art on dog body language. 

[talesfromtreatment]

This is fascinating to see, because this is all stuff I have done with my own dogs, and that I do with receptive shelter dogs too. Alyssum loves to play ‘bitey face!’ with my hands and I will often use a low energy play bow with a shy dog at work as a way to show that I do not intend to be a threat.