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Today I encountered an especially pathetic Italian greyhound. His owner told me that a gust of wind once blew him into a lake.

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MY LOVE!!!!!!!! Fun fact: whenever I reblog elephants I always hope you’ll hear their siren (trumpet?) song and come see the babies I’ve reblogged for you 🐘💕 I miss you too :( where are you hanging out these days, if anywhere? The fandom diaspora is so annoying, I wanna be where you are! Loooooooove you, miss you 😢 💖👭

I am not hanging out anywhere fannish these days; the most social media I do is Instagram and that’s basically pictures of Ruby being obnoxious. I come check in on tumblr from time to time to see what the children are memeing about but that’s basically it.

I miss you and love you so much 💜💜 I think of you often and hope that you’re well and thriving inasmuch as anyone can thrive in times like these.

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Hi baby girl I missed you

And I’m posting that here

Because love is real

And you are the scully to my milder

THE X-FILES | 6.05

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Babies are babies no matter how big

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cass elliot, 1967.

photographed by jerry schatzberg.

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See also “queerbaiting.”

every time I see the phrase "gay panic" used to mean "aaaaah I don't know what to do with my feelings! ahhhhhhh!" I go on a fucking journey. When I was growing up - well into my adulthood, actually - gay panic was the defense people used when a queer person came on to them and then they would "panic" and kill the queer person. Gay panic defenses worked often enough that the LGBTQ+ Bar has records of the tactic being used as recently as 2018.

I'm glad the meaning is different now, but woof, that is a lot of baggage to get past.

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we are the daughters of parents who should not have had kids

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many things wrong with me. well at least i'm bisexual.

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It's the last day of April

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Why do so many in vet med 'hate' doodles?

Me: Ugh, doodles

askbox: *inundated* WHAT IS WRONG WITH DOODLES?????

Me: Mistakes were made! Mayday, Mayday!

But seriously, there's a lot of factors as to why so many people in vet med have an incredible dislike of doodles. I could probably write a 10 page essay but I'm going to try to keep this short.

1- They are 'trendy', and thus come with all the problems that come along with that. Backyard breeders, unethical breeders, any doodle breeder who calls their doodles either 'purebred', 'akc registered', or uses the phrase "you get the best of both breeds" is a goddamned lying liarface... these dogs are bred purely to make money. There's rarely any health testing, almost never temperament testing. It's 'make a fluffy puppy with a cutesy name' and people are DRAWN to cute. I watched many people adopt *huskies* from the shelter because "They're so cute!" NO. BAD.

2- People are rarely prepared to handle the traits of either/any of the breeds that go into doodles, especially those mixed with working-type dogs. The number of labra- and goldendoodle owners who don't understand why their dog is always eating things is aggravating. It's because they're labs/goldens! They eat shit! It's what those breeds just DO. Most doodle owners do no research into the parent breeds at all. This means they are also unprepared for the health problems that can crop up from the parent breeds.

3- People see breeders calling these "Great family pets" and then ... don't fucking socialize or train them so now, as vet staff, we are faced with sometimes 90+ pound dogs that can't sit on command, are jumping all over us, mouthing us, or pissing themselves in terror and wanting to bite our faces off because they're so afraid of strangers. This is not the dogs' faults but it doesn't make us like them either.

4- This seems to be a bit less of an issue now, or at least less of an issue where I am, but a lot of people don't... groom them? Some breeders even specifically say to not get them seen at the groomer before they're a year old???? And people hear "non-shedding" (potentially A LIE) and then... don't.... brush them? So then they turn into a solid felted mat and they become a groomer's behaviour-nightmare-shear-it-like-a-sheep-"What do you mean you couldn't leave the hair long?!?!?!?"

5- Oh gods, the ENDLESS EAR INFECTIONS AND ALLERGIES AND GI ISSUES

So yeah, that's the quick and dirty on why "ugh, doodles"... at least it's a little shorter than a why "UGH, frenchies" would be

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lol only took me like 10 years or something

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hi! sorry this is random but did you have 2 parts of a patrick/pete/elisa fic up on ao3 a few years back? i’ve been looking for it forever - it was very influential to my own writing and i haven’t been able to get it out of my head lately. is it available anywhere?

(if u are not the author i’m sorry and pls ignore🥲)

We did! It was cowritten with my wife and we took it down to rework into an original novel, which project has been sidelined for life reasons. But if you send me an email address I can send you copies of come ruin or rapture and love and a bit with a dog.

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CHRIS PINE laughing at memes of himself