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I wish I could filter my ao3 reading list because I'm hunting hi and low for a buddie fic I read years ago. One where Eddie finds out about all the people Buck saved in the tsunami (they maybe have a fb group?) And Buck never talks about it, so Eddie is looking for ways to commemorate Buck's heroics.
EDIT: I found it in my emails. It's Left Unsaid by Clockwork-mockingbird, and it's GONE. If anyone has a download please please please send it to me?!?!?
So that sound you keep hearing in the middle of the night that your lovely doggo wants to fight... it might be a wild boar? Is that a possibility where you live? I kinda hope not cus those things will FUCK YOUR SHIT DO NOT LET CHARLIE NEAR THEM
No, we don’t have feral pigs in durango (too much compettion with the bears and coyotes) and we only have Javelinas in summer when they follow the river up out of the Arizona Heat Death, and then only on the very south end of town in like, July. This thing shows up around November and I usually stop hearing it in March, so it’s not the bears (they’re sleepin’) and unfortunately disease ran through our Fox population and I’ve seen TWO in both years I’ve lived in Durango.
The Noise is LOUD compared to even the coyotes and owls and cats, the rancher doesn’t have a donkey. Got cows and a really dumb horse but I know what Dennis sounds like already.
I’m leaning toward cougar or some kind of bird becuase it’s fucking CLOSE and I can spot the coyotes and bears pretty reliably (it’s a big open field with very little cover, and I’ve got good night vision. Also the coyotes here don’t give a shit and walk right down the sidewalk even when I’ve got the dog with me). I wouldn’t bet my luck on spotting a cougar or anything smaller than a coyote though.
We get Great horned Owls in the summer and they go HOO-HOO, and they tend to hand out closer in becuase the mice and toads like the garbage and night lights. We don’t USUALLY get barn owls, but again, They could be somewhere warmer with better pickings.
I’ll take my phone and try to get a recording next time. But it’s a really LOUD wheezing sort of noise. Three to four calls, rising inflection individually, but in the same range overall.
Just rural area things: running over a snake den with a lawnmower and cursing while you flee from copperheads
OH NOOOOOOO!!
When I was a wee thing of about 10, we went to visit m Ohio family at their “campground” which was really more of a trailer park surrounding a reptile, bug and angry swan-infested sump, but baby Gallus thought this was AWESOME. Spent the whole trip catching frogs and turtles and a Wolf Spider the size of my palm which damn near gave Aunt Mickey a heart attack. Sorry.
However, I had grown up in the relatively venomous snake-free cradle of the CA coast, so I had no natural aversion to reptiles, much less knowledge of what the eastern ones looked like.
So you can see how I thought that the dark gray and kind of dusty-looking snake coiled up perfectly still outside Mrs. Bolghet’s trailer was an unusually realistic-looking lawn ornament, and I leaned down to get a better look at the detailing.
Cousin Jay Jay remembers watching me “Do A Fuckin’ Ninja Flip” to Back The Fuck Up as the Cottonmouth, in a perfectly reasonable response to having some freaky-ass mammal in it’s face, lunged at me. I remember thinking “huh, their mouths really are white’ as it rustled it’s ass back into the lake and I waited for my heart to start beating again.
Jay Jay, realizing that there were some gaps in my outdoor knowledge, spent the rest of the afternoon with me, marching about the woods and identifying various plants and bugs and SNAKES out of his Boy Scout handbook until he was reasonably satisfied that I wasn’t going to die in the woods, and cajoled the turtle-hunting secrets out of me.
(The secret is to look for the tiny triangle-shapes their noses make when they poke out of the water, and you have to spot them a good 30 feet off or they’ll see you first and run off. Then, you move extra slow. Ever see a heron standing on one leg as it takes literally 10 minutes to put the other foot down? like that. once you’re close enough, lower hands to the SIDE of the turtle, so you’re going to have a good grip it can’t kick out of, then grab it with your jedi-like reflexes and lift UP immediately.
Then you can carry the snapper back to the campsite and wake up your uncle by using the turtle to bite his beer can in half and make him scream like Fay Wray while you and your cousin howl like gibbons on nitrous oxide.
You will be grounded but it is totally worth it.)
What's something you'd like invented/to invent? Personally I'd love a litter box that stops litter from escaping over the sides. No more litter all over the floor!!!
mmmm... i think you’d have to redesign the cat to make that work.
I’d like to invent a little robot that follows you around and FUCKIGNG REMEMBERS THINGS. Phone apps are getting close, but they’re not quite proactive enough- I forget to enter dates into calendar apps or to even set alarms.
Skeetz. I need Skeetz.
clockwork-mockingbird replied to your post: At first I was like yeah sket boarding in the dead...
shoot for like 11am and look appropriately tired. apologize for just dropping by at a weird time but tyler kept me up by being loud and throwing beer bottles at me *show video* was wondering if maybe you could convince him to not do that at 4am? *walk away slowly enough to hear angry parent yelling*
Nah, gonna go over and lay out all the receipts (I’ve got two other videos of this punk, only found out which house was his recently) and recommend that Tyler do some volunteering this summer.
Tyler’s an older kid of a large family, did is a trucker or smth becuase he’s almost never home, so mom is over-worked and Tyler just needs a few more adults to raise him. That way I get rid of my problem AND improve society.
What's your favorite old school guilty cartoon pleasure that you watch due to nostalgia? (Mine is gargoyles and powerpuff girls)
I’m not sure if it;s a “guilty” pleasure, but I’m a huge fan of the Batman: The Animated Series. It’s wonderfully composed and beautifully animated for something on such a small budget and the nuances of morality was incredible for a Saturday morning cartoon.
PEOPLE ALWAYS LOOK AT ME WEIRD WHEN I SAY I'M ALLERGIC TO MOST METALS I'VE NEVER MET ANYONE ELSE WITH THIS ALLERGY I CAN LITERALLY ONLY WEAR TITANIUM AND PURE STERLING SILVER
Whaaaa..? Most earrings are made of nickel or gold because so many people have bad reactions to silver? it’s normally just a little rash if I wear a silver chain or rings for a few hours.
There’s a medical theory under investigation that silver has some kind of autoimmune properties- the rates of infection are lower and healing times faster when silver IV needles are used over flexible plastic ones. WHY is not particularly clear, but I’m willing to bet that there’s a reason that silver’s always been thought of as magical.
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO TALL??? STOP BEING SO TALL.
