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[freyalorelei]

I grew up with a Whippet and still love sighthounds! I've also had a Pekingese and would consider another, although the coat is a pain to maintain. Our current dog is a Pit/Boston Terrier/gremlin mix, but I'd love to get a Silken Windhound some day.

Im curious about something so if you grew up with dogs please answer

I grew up with a black labrador/weimeraner mix and now labs are simply everything to me.

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Holy shit, y'all, stop profiting off fan fic.

There was a time, twenty or so years ago, when fic authors were getting sued left and right and everyone had to put up disclaimers in their fics to the tune of "These are not my characters, this are the property of [Famous Author/Major Corporation], I am poor and own nothing uwu" and maybe, MAYBE, if the author/corporation was particularly benevolent, they would overlook the fan pages and 'zines and allow everyone to frolic beneath the shadow of their ever-present boot. Then came the shining light of A03, with its army of lawyers to fight for the free speech of fen, and fic was exchanged openly, the shadow forgotten as though it had never been.

Clearly we have grown complacent.

And no, 50 Shades and the parade of Reylo knockoffs are NOT fan fic. Filing the serial numbers off is legal. You can have "original" characters who look and act like the BBC versions of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, and sure, if you had them solving crimes in modern London, that would be a problem. If they're instead, say, competitive surfers in the 1970s, that's an original concept and not fan fic.

(The book is The Sea Ain't Mine Alone, BTW.)

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

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i covered the questionable parts with waves, so ihope it is fine for tumblr rules

[freyalorelei]

@cottoncandiescupcakes It's more than just Trump.

The Senate, House, Congress, and Supreme Court are all stacked with Republicans. Normally there's a mix of Republicans and Democrats controlling these offices, to provide what's historically known as "checks and balances," to make sure one party doesn't dominate and get to make all the laws that control the country. When Trump takes office on January 6, NONE of those safety measures will be in place. In the next four years, a wholly Republican-controlled government will have the ability to set up what is essentially a theocratic dictatorship, which Trump has promised as part of his campaign, in a document called "Project 2025." They can and will create and pass any laws that they want to control and punish their political enemies (e.g., women, people of color, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community), and nobody will be able to stop it.

The US is basically reliving 1932 Germany right now.

I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

[freyalorelei]

I'm just so very tired.

[freyalorelei]

I think @cottoncandiescupcakes made the original comparison between Stede and the 18th century beauty ideal, but I can't find the post.

Personally, I think Rhys is attractive in a not-hot way. From an objective viewpoint, he's a solidly built, middle-aged man with a big nose, thin lips, muddy hazel eyes, crooked teeth, and no neck. He isn't Hollywood-hot, but his personality is so charming and endearing and just plain cute that he's more than the sum of his parts. He also has perfect hair, pretty hands, a disarming smile, and of course Those Legs. While he isn't super jacked, he isn't a waif, and for a career stand-up, he's in amazing shape.

So yeah, he's a goofball weirdo. Which is great, because that's totally my type. :D

Fandom Pet Peeve!

I do feel that sometimes we treat Stede as a "hot girl in glasses" circa 2002. (As in he's written to be objectively hot but we explain it away to support his characterization.) Like, we need him to be self conscious and outcast, but we can't fathom Ed being into him if he isn't peak DILF. So he's always hot AF but Too [insert whatever].

But I think being a little funny looking makes you interesting! And tbh I think Ed would think so too. I like that he and Stede are into each other because they find the other interesting, not just because they're hot.

What I'm saying is, let Stede be a little funny looking, as a treat. He's got a bit of a weird nose! And that's fine! He's still attractive. But he's also, objectively, a goofball weirdo.

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Okay, this is actually not great hamster husbandry.

For starters, the travel cage, while fine for briefly transporting to the vet or whatever, is not suitable for keeping a hamster. It's like living in a dark closet with no stimulation. Hamsters need much more room than that, even for only five days. I'm glad that her mom could provide more space to free-roam, but that clearly wasn't the original intention.

Secondly, while fresh or cooked vegetables are great for humans, hamsters eat a diet of seeds, grains, grasses, and insects. Too many fresh vegetables are actually really bad for them and can trigger proliferative ileitus, aka wet tail, a form of fatal diarrhea. The commercial lab blocks and seed mixes seem bland, but they're formulated as a balanced, species-appropriate diet. I sincerely hope there weren't onions or garlic seasoning in that veggie mix, as those are highly toxic for hamsters.

Overall, if you're pet-sitting, don't randomly feed the animal foods that the owner hasn't approved. I'm sure the mom meant well, but this could have ended badly.

By 小景有很多鼠鼠

[freyalorelei]

This is literally my dog, but with a lightbulb.

No, I don't know how.

i am.. still reeling from this experience :/

[freyalorelei]

doctors keep telling me my dna is identical to that of a hamster & I shouldn’t be human shaped or even alive but whatever

[freyalorelei]

How'd he get a DUI in 1717? Get drunk on a horse?

*adds 'grand theft appaloosa' to the crime list*

ed: god stede is too good for me. hes so good and he cares so much, hes so innocent and sweet and could do no wrong. i hope he doesnt realize how awful i am

stede writing his to do list in glitter pen: assault theft fraud DUI breaking and entering solicitation armed robbery shoplifting aggravated assault on a police officer and more

[freyalorelei]

Teacup wishes all y'all a happy Hamsterween!

[freyalorelei]

The silly geese are loose, I repeat,

THE SILLY GEESE ARE LOOSE!

[freyalorelei]

pls tell me what ur great grandparents did for a living in the tags if u know... mine were dairy farmers, bakery workers and a security guard lol

[freyalorelei]

I was at an SCA event this weekend, and while it mostly sucked because I got heat exhaustion and also ✨️drama✨️, there was also a sheep-shearing demonstration.

Her name is Bambi and I love her.

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oh no

it me

literally more or less how my coming out actually went

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Edward Teach, married on a beach🌅

[freyalorelei]

When I was 23, I was hospitalized over Christmas for a bowel obstruction and the nurses all wore Santa hats.

My condition was extremely painful, but (spoiler alert) I lived, so at the time I just thought it was funny. I guess it would hit different to get your terminal diagnosis from a medical professional wearing light-up antlers and an ugly jingle bell sweater.

I’ve told this story ten thousand times and I will tell it for the ten thousandth and first: whenever I think about wearing a costume to work on Halloween, I remember the time I saw a doctor breaking what must have been devastating news to a sobbing patient while the doc was dressed as a ketchup bottle.