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The Handmaiden, Ram Han

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Working dogs. Canadian Parade Readers: Work Book for Young Explorers. 1947

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Source

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Every day of my life

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Track art for my Wonderland Round One cover, dedicated to the mysterious red robe.

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ATLA 30 Day Challenge: Day 1 Favorite Episode: The Beach

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"Okay I know how to take meat away from a dog. How do I take a dog away from meat. This is not, unfortunately, a joke. They're inside of it. They crawled inside, and now I have a giant incredibly heavy piece of carcass in my yard, with 2 dogs inside of it, and they are NOT getting bored of it and coming out. One of them is snoring."

A first-hand account (originally from a Salon.com message board circa 1999) of a woman whose two primitive-type dogs – a Basenji and a New Guinea Singing Dog – found an elk carcass, holed up inside it, and refused to leave it.

An assorted list of my favorite excerpts:

“It’s way too primal in my yard right now.”

“If ever they come out, catching them and returning them to a condition where they can be considered house pets is not going to be, shall we say, pleasant.”

“What if you stand the ribcage on end, wait for them to look out, grab them when they do and pull?” “They wedge their toes between the ribs. And scream.”

“Sometimes, sleep is a mistake, no matter how tired you are. And especially if you are very very tired, and some of your dogs are outside, inside some elks.”

in a follow-up story about a basenji who got his head stuck inside a Thanksgiving turkey, while his two basenji friends gnawed on the outside. “I sent it in to one of the dog magazines but they did not print it, they said it was ‘too contrived.’ Obviously they did not know anything about basenjis.’

“My mother has gotten multiple copies [of this story] from friends, asking if my dogs are *really* that out of control.”

It’s brilliant, and I am so glad it exists on the internet. 

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@why-animals-do-the-thing please tell me I can laugh at this

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Yes, yes you can. Sometimes living with dogs is not graceful - this is a great example. 

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»no (second version)« by louise bourgeois (1973)

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i think it’s really interesting how probably any feeling i– or you–have ever experienced would be relatable to some people, but a lot of them might be completely, totally unrelatable to other people, maybe even to most people

like apparently my roommates don’t understand that feeling that sits at the juncture of “secondhand embarrassment”, “exasperated”, and “turned on” 9_9

which i admit is kind of a weird one

but also i’ve met people who have difficulty understanding, for example, the idea of being really happy and really sad at the same time??, or the idea that there’s a kind of sad you could like being, or the idea that you could really love something or someone and also make fun of it/them (partly as an expression of affection, not a contradiction or attempt to mask affection or anything), or the idea of, like….making something happen on purpose so you don’t have to be afraid that it’s going to happen anymore? or the idea of being aggressively dismissive of or flippant about something because it frightens you terribly, which is related. or the point of light thing, the thing where nearly everyone else is living like a ray of light, going in some direction, and you’re just this point, this dot on the wall, that’s your whole existence, and as long as you don’t look to any side of you that’s just fine; there’s nothing to any side of you but rays of light streaking by on their way to whatever, and you can’t worry about certain things or really invest much care or thought or understanding in them at all because they just don’t exist on your dot, they’re far off and elsewhere, but there’s this overpowering constant sense of i guess yearning or saudade too, wanting to go to those places you can’t even really visit. the happiness of being at the bottom of a well.

but then there are certain types of anxiety i don’t understand, certain types of anger, certain types of optimism, certain types of wanting. certain types of lots and lots and lots of other feelings. common ones, even. it’s funny how much miscommunication probably happens not even just because people misinterpret one another’s emotions, or because they incorrectly assume that since they’d be “angry” or “happy” or “sad” in the other person’s position then that must be what the other person’s currently feeling, but because they have significantly different emotional palettes in the first place

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My late great grandmother kept a box of melted nails from her house as a memento from the Great Chicago Fire

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this is a Artifact if there ever was any

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Abandonment issues, Sebastien Ernest

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