fandom: they’re enemies here, but imagine an alternate universe where they led completely different lives in a completely different time period, met under different circumstances and had a healthy romantic relationship that made them both happy
anti: THAT’S ABUSE, THEY’RE ENEMIES
fandom: ………. tell me where i lost you
everytime
“Your AU isn’t canon!”
“no shit? damn, next you’re gonna tell me my fanfic isn’t the plot of an upcoming episode”
Usually I personally just do a deep cleanse and then I leave a clove of garlic without its skin out all night. Sure its an old practice but they say if it turns brown over just one night there is still energy that needs to be cleansed, black theres a lot of nasty stuff and if it remains white/yellow and just a bit dry looking then you should be okay. I also know that some people test by burning a candle and watching how its blame burns, flickering and dancing means lots of energy in the area, straight burn relates to a cleansed area. But remember candles are affected by drafts and airflow too.
(I’m not posting this less to correct the timeline portrayed in Bohemian Rhapsody, which I mostly really enjoyed, than simply to share a beautiful story that shines light on who Freddie actually was, up to the very end.)
I’m on a good making-things roll at the moment so hopefully I’ll be able to complete and list more of the half-finished things from around my studio soon.
Widow’s Weeds and Weeping Veils: Mourning Rituals in 19th Century America
The Victorian era both in Europe and America saw the rituals of mourning rise above the practical use of providing closure for those left behind. Mourning became an art form through which is not only grief, but also religious feeling, social obligation, and even fashion could be expressed.
Widow’s Weeds and Weeping Veils explores how Victorians viewed death and dying, describing the cultural and social changes that occurred as a result of the historical events of their time. This concise, informative work is ideal for students of the nineteenth-century, American Civil War enthusiasts and anyone interested in Victorian culture.
I had to learn more about this little guy. Turns out this is a voiced over video for comedy. His name is Wilfred Warrior. He’s a Chinchilla Persian from London, and he has an INSTAGRAM.
Although He looks like a sad goblin, He is very loved
Everything below is posted with liberty and credit to Jemima Harrison and the PDE blog, with the sole purpose for this information to spread as far as possible.
• soon to be 10 years since Pedigree Dogs Exposed
• five years since The Advisory Council on the Welfare Issues of Dog
Breeding highlighted the issues linked to head conformation in
brachycephalic breeds
• 18 months since the publication of research (funded by the kennel
club) spelling out the link between stenosis (pinched nostrils) and
respiratory issues, especially in French Bulldogs
• a year since a veterinary petition demanding urgent reform for flat-faced dogs
• almost a year since the Kennel Club set up the Brachcycephalic Breeds Working Group in response to that petition
.. and of course I have highlighted the issue of pinched nostrils endlessly here on this blog.
Endlessly.
And yet… the picture at the top is one the Kennel Club has used as the
ideal depiction of the French Bulldog in its new edition (2017) of its Illustrated Breed Standards.
And it isn’t a one-off. Here’s the one the KC has used for the Boston Terrier standard.
The Bulldog.
And the Pug.
Dogs are as near-as-damn-it obligate nose breathers. And even if they
can supplement by mouth-breathing when they are awake, they are unable
to do so when they are asleep, meaning thousands of these dogs live
lives of interrupted sleep as they have to wake up in order to not
asphyxiate.
Study after study has shown that these dogs pay the price for not being
able to pull in a decent lungful of air and that starts with the
nostrils.
These pictures are all the proof you need that the Kennel Club is not
taking this issue seriously; that at its very core the KC is paying
nothing more than lip-service to the demands for reform by the
veterinary profession and animal welfare campaigners.
At one of the first meetings of the Brachycephalic Breeds Working Group,
then KC Chairman Steve Dean expressly said that he didn’t want
“changing the breed standards” to be at the top of everyone’s list of
actions that could be taken.
And indeed, it hasn’t been.
There have been some new measures. The KC continues to fund brachy research. There is also now a brachy learning resource
available on the KC website, the promise of better education of judges
and a breed club commitment to educate better about the importance of
keeping brachycephalics slim. There are also now health schemes for the
Bulldog, French Bulldog and the Pug which do test for respiratory
issues.
All this is welcome. But, bottom line, the Kennel Club continues to bat
for the breeders who do not want the basic phenotype to change because
it’s the breeders that pay their wages.
Of course the simplest, quickest remedy is to give these dogs
back some muzzle – to help not just with breathing issues, but to help
protect their eyes from trauma and to give their teeth some room in
their overcrowded mouths (a Pug here compared to an Australian
Shepherd).
The problem is that breeders are wedded to flat faces, particularly in
Pugs and Bulldogs. They talk about the perfect “layback” – which
essentially means that the nose should not interrupt the line between
the forehead and tip of the dog’s chin.
In fact, there’s a new book out on the Pug head (yours for only $159)
which reminds everyone that the word Pug comes from the latin for
“fist” and that this is the shape the Pug’s head should be in profile –
i.e. totally flat.
Here’s a reminder from a top UK show breeder of what the Bulldog’s head should look like.
As you can see, a protruding nose or a less severe underbite is considered a fault.
There was a big review of breed standards following Pedigree Dogs Exposed
but it was mostly to add vague qualifiers such as, in the Pug standard,
"relatively" short rather than just short when describing the length
of the muzzle. This gives the breeders way too much wiggle room. We
need proper metrics – a defined minimum skull/head/muzzle ratio and we
need to find more profound ways to change their minds about what
constitutes their breed in their eyes.
Large open nostrils are a requirement in brachy breed standards, but
this is widely ignored because other points of the breed are considered
more important. There would be outrage if a Frenchie with one lop ear
or a Bulldog with a liver-coloured nose won in the show-ring, but dogs
with slits for nostrils continue to be made up to champions.
Meanwhile, on my CRUFFA group,
whenever you post a picture of more moderate examples of the breed,
current of historical, the breeders heap scorn. A few days ago, one
breeder insisted that the dog featured in this famous painting of a Pug
by Carl Reichert, dating from the late 19th century, was a crossbreed.
Same for these ones. Mongrels, the lot of them.
She admitted that the eye-white showing was undesirable but preferred the look of this Crufts dog.
Today, this was posted on a public Facebook page by one French Bulldog
breeder in response to a plea by vets for more moderate dogs.
(My bolding below)
To those who say you cannot rebuild Rome in a day I say… rubbish. There are already more moderate versions of these breeds out there being
bred by breeders more interested in health than the current fashion.
For more than 10 years, I have called for moderation and hoped it would
come from the breeders. But I now know it won’t. If we want anything
more than a wee bit of tweaking round the edges, then we need to demand
it.
It is time to get tough. These dogs suffer – not all of them all the time but too many of them too often.
Brachycephalics live a third less long than non-brachy dogs. Fifty per
cent have significant airway disease. Almost all struggle to cool
themselves. Most Bulldogs still can’t mate or give birth naturally. Pugs
have 19 times the risk of developing corneal ulcers. All suffer from
very low genetic diversity. And so on.
Today, Bulldogs, French Bulldogs and Pugs make up one in five of the
dogs registered with the Kennel Club – up from one in 50 in 2005.
Yesterday, a new petitionwas launched asking for a ban on brachycephalics. Over 20k people signed it in the first 24 hrs.
Have we reached a tipping point? With your help.
I haven’t been able to blog much recently because I am busy finishing
off a television series for BBC2. But I have taken time out to write
this because the new breed standard pictures made me so angry.
So please… Although it’s moderation I want, not a ban, sign the petition. Make your feelings known to the Kennel Club (see here). Complain if brands or media use generic pictures of brachycephalics to sell their wares.
Vets: thank you so much for all that you are now doing, but please keep the pressure on.
And, of course, to everyone out there – please don’t buy that puppy.
It is not safe to buy a Pug, Bulldog or French Bulldog. Not safe for them and not safe for your wallet.
Seriously people. This deserves 6000 notes. It’s not even my text, so it’s not like I’m attention-fishing.
Princess mega post! I absolutely had a blast creating this artwork for the Disney Designer Collection – Premiere Series. Now that the madness has passed, who was your favorite?
To think one day kids may not realize what they missed out on
witty, smart, well-thought character, with a rich background, complex past, and (s)he has lots of interesting quirks and skills…
Tumblr: YEAH, OKAY, BUT IS (S)HE TRANS? HOMOSEXUAL? POC?
Show creator: why does it ma~
Tumblr: BOOOOOOORING!!!!
Show creator: actually yes Tumblr: this is their only defining characteristic and this show is now only for people represented by that quality if they also agree with me on every subject
Show creator: And they have some flaws/ or they’re a villain Tumblr: This show is a homophobic, transphobic, racist, misogynistic pile of crap and all it’s fans are crap too.
Tumblr: *harasses and sends death threats to people over the show*
Show Creator: This is not why I made this show, I wanted to be inclusive and subversive but also make people happy, and this isn’t good, please stop it.
Tumblr: OMG So you like child porn and hate gay people!?!?!?!?!?!?!
The fact that every single one of these has happened exactly like this is really depressing.
teaching children that they are allowed to walk away and cool off if they are feeling overwhelmed might literally save their life as teens/adults
I am a preschool teacher.
This is my “alone zone.”
At any time of the day, if my kids are feeling stressed, they can go here to cool down. There’s stress toys, silly putty, bubbles, sensory bottles…there’s books and headphones to block out the loud noises.
The only thing they have to do is “check in” by putting their picture on which emotion they’re feeling so I know how I can help them when they’re ready.
Kids. Need. Space.
Kids. Need. Coping. Mechanisms.
Not. Time-outs.
And the sooner we as adults teach them that, the better off they’ll be as they grow.
My brother became a teacher because of the ones he had who offered safe spaces and taught him how to calm down when he was struggling hard with ADHD and dyslexia.
You kiddos have no idea how groundbreaking this was. Like there’s a reason THE lesbian website for a billion years was called After Ellen. She changed everything.
The Grandview Cemetery of Johnson County, Texas The Mystery Grave
On 31 May 1867, two strangers rode into Grandview, a young man and his female companion, both believed to have been in their early twenties. The girl was reported to be small and very pretty with long dark hair. She was dressed in an expensive red velvet riding habit with black trim and both she and the young man rode well-groomed thoroughbred horses. When the couple entered the general store to purchase supplies, the owner invited them to spend the night in his home since a storm was approaching. The girl thanked him for his hospitality but said they were prepared for any kind of weather. The next morning the body of the pretty young woman was found in a field outside of town with a bullet through her head and blood staining her red velvet riding habit. Mathias “Uncle Matt” Hale built a crude pine coffin and Mrs. Johnnie Boyd sewed a dress for her to be buried in so she wouldn’t have to wear her “death clothes.” She was buried in an unmarked grave at the foot of an oak tree. Since the only clue to her identity was a dainty handkerchief she had carried with the name “Annie” embroidered on the hem, her red velvet riding habit was hung from a limb on the tree, hoping some passerby might recognize it and come forth to identify “the mystery girl.” Several months had passed when someone, in the dead of night, came to Annie’s grave and placed two large cone-shaped stones, not native to the Grandview area, deep into the ground at the head and foot of her grave. Lettered in red on the headstone was the name “Annie.” In the 1960s a Grandview couple, the Langfords, donated a permanent marker for Annie, a simple granite headstone. But Annie, the person, remains “the mystery girl”.
I was waiting for the night bus at 1am the other night, eating fries, when a dude, high as fuck, tried to harass me. It took several “I don’t want to talk to you, please go away” for him to finally move, but I think it helped that another man was giving him the death stare and clicking his tongue at him. He then checked I was okay and whether I knew the guy or not. Good dude.
Shout out also the man who silently switched places with me on another night bus to be a buffer between me and a guy who had threatened me. Thank you
Men: this here? This here is what you need to be doing as allies. The men who harass and insult women are not likely to take our complaints about it seriously. But you, another man, they will listen to.
I was pumping gas at like 10 PM one night, and these bunch of drunk guys came walking up to the gas station, and one of them yelled over to me if I wanted to see his dick. His friend says to him, “You don’t have anything she wants to see.” and apologized. It was pretty awesome.
this is all we want from men. to recognize the wrongs done by other men, and acknowledge it. not give us shitass defense like, “not all men do that”
Why is apple so obsessed with making very thin things at the expense of power and features
“Yeah my computer doesnt have an hdmi, but at least it’s so thin and fragile that typing too hard could split the computer in half”
The sooner you acknowledge that Apple is a fashion company and not a technology company, everything else makes sense
can’t speak for the newer models but my 2012 pro was run directly over by an SUV, replaced the screen & the hard drive and it works completely fine, if not better since the OS updates suck it
why are all owners of apple products like this
the screen and the hard drive… those are the two parts of a computer
I have worked on both macs and pcs and let me tell you, macs have broken down more on us than any other of the computers. The school’s ones did too.
2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.
1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.
Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.
You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.
2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will
congrats OP this is literally the only grinch post i’ll ever reblog
It is not even 10am and we have kicked out 3 people from the hotel. It is bad because in the winter unfortunately a lot of people try to sneak in. And I am not even talking about down on their luck or anything, these are mostly sadly hardcore addicts. Who have posed some danger to guests including children (one of these people not from today but last week tried to grab a child from their parent to run with them). Its really sad because
1- we are in a good part of town. We are in the business district with tons of law offices, bank firms and main corporation buildings around us and we’re only a few blocks away from all of the children’s activities like the interactive museums, children’s centers, activity zones etc. So a lot of families and people on business travel or convention stays.
2- Its winter time so I know a lot of these people sadly don’t have places to stay but Portland has the most number of homeless shelters in the state, ore than most other cities (some of the largest numbers in the country) and sadly most are empty because portland suffers from the issue of a lot of those not wanting job aid or housing aid, many are on drugs which hinders their judgments or bans them from these areas (many of them do not allow substances inside). So I see so many people going about for these shelters trying to assist these people and many refuse the help. Ive watched shelter people and church people in my area offering sandwiches and food to them and getting assaulted instead. It is sad but terrifying because I watched a father of a local church get grabbed by the neck for offering food instead of booze to a guy. But I digress, due to the weather and cold a lot are trying to get into buildings. Issue is hotels aren’t public buildings, and ours is a privately owned one.
3- As previously mentioned a lot of them bring dangerous things in here, often its drugs or dangerous behaviors. One guy brought in a hammer and was threatening people in the lobby with it, this was back when I was first hired last January but it was a scary thing.
4- Police in this city rarely help. If we call the emergency line for someone threatening guests they tell us to call non-emergency. If we call non-emergency they tell us to ask them to leave. That is what we are doing but the person is still trying to grab people or are still doing drugs. Our security is only legally allowed to do so much.
All in all, winter time gets scary in this city. I feel bad because being homeless and possibly mentally ill is hard. I know it is not easy but I have also seen sadly how many don’t realize they need help, aren’t in a healthy state for help or just don’t want it. I don’t know I am just writing this because it is an exhausting thing. We have a liability to help and protect our guests and its hard to when police won’t come and at least help us when we do get dangerous people.
Honestly I’m rambling I guess >_>
Update: Kicked out a 4th though this guy is very different. He’s the local shoplifter who tries to get into our property remove all the tags or packaging from things he’s lifted and ditches any old stuff like his clothes he wore to steal these things. He’s also the one who tried to hop the front desk apparently two years ago to go after or GM. Yet again security is kicking him out.
It is not even 10am and we have kicked out 3 people from the hotel. It is bad because in the winter unfortunately a lot of people try to sneak in. And I am not even talking about down on their luck or anything, these are mostly sadly hardcore addicts. Who have posed some danger to guests including children (one of these people not from today but last week tried to grab a child from their parent to run with them). Its really sad because
1- we are in a good part of town. We are in the business district with tons of law offices, bank firms and main corporation buildings around us and we’re only a few blocks away from all of the children’s activities like the interactive museums, children’s centers, activity zones etc. So a lot of families and people on business travel or convention stays.
2- Its winter time so I know a lot of these people sadly don’t have places to stay but Portland has the most number of homeless shelters in the state, ore than most other cities (some of the largest numbers in the country) and sadly most are empty because portland suffers from the issue of a lot of those not wanting job aid or housing aid, many are on drugs which hinders their judgments or bans them from these areas (many of them do not allow substances inside). So I see so many people going about for these shelters trying to assist these people and many refuse the help. Ive watched shelter people and church people in my area offering sandwiches and food to them and getting assaulted instead. It is sad but terrifying because I watched a father of a local church get grabbed by the neck for offering food instead of booze to a guy. But I digress, due to the weather and cold a lot are trying to get into buildings. Issue is hotels aren’t public buildings, and ours is a privately owned one.
3- As previously mentioned a lot of them bring dangerous things in here, often its drugs or dangerous behaviors. One guy brought in a hammer and was threatening people in the lobby with it, this was back when I was first hired last January but it was a scary thing.
4- Police in this city rarely help. If we call the emergency line for someone threatening guests they tell us to call non-emergency. If we call non-emergency they tell us to ask them to leave. That is what we are doing but the person is still trying to grab people or are still doing drugs. Our security is only legally allowed to do so much.
All in all, winter time gets scary in this city. I feel bad because being homeless and possibly mentally ill is hard. I know it is not easy but I have also seen sadly how many don’t realize they need help, aren’t in a healthy state for help or just don’t want it. I don’t know I am just writing this because it is an exhausting thing. We have a liability to help and protect our guests and its hard to when police won’t come and at least help us when we do get dangerous people.
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