My Dogs Name Is Bravo

She/her I just reblog stuff, post nonsense from my brain, and on rare occasions post my dog. My profile picture and my header are both my dog because I love him sosososo much.

[wizardshark]

hi yeah i know ive been on this medication for 8 years but i need-- yeah. yeah 3 more months please. I'll call you in 3 months to beg for 3 more months, thanks. Bye. Love you.

[prunsel]

if you've ever pet more than a few dogs you'd Know what dog residue is

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[fangirlingatthreeam]

Fun fact! The dog residue is called sebum, which is oil produced by sebaceous glands, and its primary purpose is to maintain coat health, skin health, and waterproofing!

The reason I know this is because my family had hounds like beagles, bassets, coons, bloods, redbones, etc, and then when I met other dogs, I was amazed that they didn't (comparatively) have dog residue! Turns out, hound breeds naturally produce more sebum than other dogs!

Another fun fact, it's actually just like lanolin! Lanolin is also secreted from the sebaceous glands and is the sheep version of sebum. It has a similar chemical makeup to human sebum as well, but instead of fat (in human sebum) lanolin has a heavier wax content.

This is why we prize it above other types of sebaceous secretions commercially, because the wax creates a barrier much like petroleum jelly, but it is similar enough to our own sebum that it actively help moisturizes our skin as well. It is both occlusive and emollient!

We use it in medicinal topical creams, makeup products, moisturizers, and more! It's primary purpose, like all sebaceous secretions, is skin and hair health and protection, and waterproofing!

Anyway, I just wanted to share my weird and niche farm knowledge, but this post is brought to you by the FFA, 4H, and the fact that I spent my entire childhood with my hands covered in Residue.

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I tried drawing random animals from memory in 2 minutes (based on a spilled ink video) but at the elephant I realised I'm really not good at it :'D So I ended up redrawing them with references just to see the difference, and ended up spending way too much time on it.

[occudo]

Part 2!

Went back and finished the video. There were more animals I never saw before (and one where I accidentally drawn a different one :"D ) but it's all done!

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[violetkat77]

Deleted like 20gb worth of shit only for my phone to update and use 15 of them?????

[linguisticparadox]

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

[ri-writing]

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

[linguisticparadox]

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

[wanderingchaos]

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

[athenadark]

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

[the-haiku-bot]

Also don’t think a

book is old because it’s in

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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[elfwreck]

Want audiobooks instead?

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."

[noswordinourlake]

Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.

[stevespookington]

browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30

[rostekhorn]

Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:

And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.

[trambrosia]

And you can Ctrl-F find words in electronic texts.

This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book

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Baby house centipede 🥹

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Recycled tumblr humor

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10k notes

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pun repeated in italics

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“did you just” added

[alleneverafter]

supernatural gif that fits even though the post was nowhere near related to spn

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comment expressing disbelief on how Supernatural has a gif for everything

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Comment expressing their uttermost love for Tumblr

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comment expressing utter hate for posts like these

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Comment that OMG IT’S THE ORIGINAL I’VE ONLY SEEN IT IN SCREENSHOTS

[mittensmorgul]

what was old is apparently new again

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Someone saying this post is a must reblog

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someone mentioning the ops are all deactivated

[analogue-dragon]

The @hellsite-hall-of-fame reblog

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Happy 10 years to this post

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Original poster deactivated 12’th of June 2014

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sentence with the right

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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[violetkat77]

I respect the hell out of meteorologists and I do understand that the weather is one of the most variable things to possibly try to predict. That being said, it is very funny when I check the weather app in the morning and it’s like “ya it’s not gonna get any warmer than 60 at all today” and then I check it again two hours later and it’s like “actually…. It’s already 67 and climbing so like just disregard that other thing we said”. Like what happened in that two hours fam.

[krafterwrites]

I've been crying laughing from this for the last 5 minutes

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[theprimitivesexappeal]

This is how i feel

[violetkat77]

I know I’ve succeeded in being funny when my little brother silently saves whatever I’ve sent him

[wizardarchetypes]

god last night after a longass day i got to my campsite too late to buy firewood anywhere so i had to go into the woods to chop some deadwood myself but then i somehow didn't have my headlamp so after i had my armful of wood i was carrying my flashlight in my mouth and by the time i had the fire going and cooked dinner and got to bed i was too tired to move. i didn't even set up a tent i just got into my sleeping back in the dark and then i woke up an hour later to Little Bird bristling and growling like there were a lion upon us and as i rose out of my haze i heard the telltale "meep" of an american woodcock. truly we were under siege.

[wizardarchetypes]

little bird said quickly! we are under attack!

the attacker:

[wizardarchetypes]

deeply obsessed with these tags

[muppetshow2026]

when you are eating chips you will often be like well how about one more chip? and then you will eat one more chip and be like well how about one more chip? and what do you think happens after that?

[violetkat77]

Not to sponsor a corporate brand but certain V8 energy drink flavors are equal to one cup of green or black tea + they give u half of a serving of both veggies and fruits. So I drink two with my meds and live life to th fullest

[organicmatter]

Being hairy is so awesome #mammal

[violetkat77]

Big sandwich would go hard rn