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"The year of Luigi"

Sticker spotted in Toronto, Canada

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hits the bong and immediately becomes aware of the narrative

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Koklass Pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, northern India

photograph by Dalip Kaul

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i know most people following me dont care about the weather, but i really need to share this because im genuinely gonna throw the fuck up dying of laughter over whoever runs this national weather service account on twitter fighting for their lives

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You mentioned you have a working line North-European Woodsman. Pardon if I understood this incorrectly, but what's the difference between a work line and show line woodsman?

You can usually tell by the grooming and behaviour. Generally there's a lot of overlap and obviously crossbreeding between the two, but you can make educated guesses based on looking at the big picture instead of fixating on individual features.

Clothing is a less reliable thing to go on than many people think - having more brightly-coloured, brand-new or even fashionable hiking/hunting gear clothing doesn't necessarily indicate a show line man, and many of the dressier show line outfits are actually deliberately groomed to look more muted and worn - if there's just one feature to pay attention to, it's the beard.

Many show line NEWs have had their distinct beards grown, brushed, oiled and refined to the point of being a downright hinderance in traditional hunting and foraging use. Waxed, upwards-curling moustache ends are even considered a flaw by some show judges. Many working line NEW-owners clip the beard short or even shave it off completely for the sake of convenience.

As for behaviour, I don't know if show line NEW:s have been mixed with other breeds, but of what I've heard they've been bred to have downright uncharacteristic friendliness towards strangers - besides hunting and foraging, North-European Woodsman is also definitely a guarding breed, and they are out of necessity wary of strangers, and not fond of crowded or unfamiliar places.

Also the official breed standard has no height limits, and anyone telling you otherwise is just full of shit. The type of people who want one just for show tend to seek the largest one they can find, but being over 180 cm in height has absolutely zero impact on hunting or foraging abilities, and only a negligible benefit for home security. Having a strong prey drive, urge to roam and a strong desire to be unbothered at home is more important for that.

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having a king bed sounds scary what if you try to put the fitted sheet on and get lost in there and die like a caver

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I’m planning out my bedroom when i live on my own next year

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Among the reasons why Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the best Star Trek is that the outfits look like they were designed by a competent costume designer who had been given a pile of the world's most miscellaneous fabrics and told that if they didn't use it all up by sunrise, Rumpelstiltskin would take their firstborn child.

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One of the worst feelings in the world: when you are just desperate, like claw-your-own-skin-off desperate, to create, but the only thing that even vaguely appeals to you to work on is a nebulous half-feeling that might be dreamily related to some half-formed notion of a concept. I must! Make! No thing! Only make!

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able bodied people will freak out when they see an ambulatory mobility aid user not using their aids but won't question it when a hiker only uses a walking stick or trekking poles when they're hiking. they're the same thing.

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I want to see a work of fiction that reverses the "vampires are snobby upper class, werewolves are brutish lower class" stereotypes

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John Brosio (American, 1967) - Dinosaurs Eating CEO (2013)