#Do your research guys! Please!

[storm-does-some-stuff]

I've had two in my life and I love them dearly. I'm no vet expert, I'm not going to sit here and claim I know a lot about genetics, but I can give my experience as a Tibbie owner. Going to be typing this as a general thing and not just as a response to OP. Also, please take with a grain of salt, this is anecdotal. :)

My first girl sadly had a stroke in her spine when she was about 4 years old. Got to be really careful about their spines. She grew pretty big for a Tibbie as well, so the theory is that there was too much pressure on her back. She lived a good life, but unfortunately passed away at the age of 7.

The boy I have now on the other hand? Healthy as can be, tbh. He's only ever been to the vets for big health things to have an abscess removed, and because he was attacked while on leash by two off-leash GSDs. He's fussy about what he eats, and pretty lazy but genuinely no big health issues. And we get all our pets checked for common breed health issues. He does have a tiny underbite as well, but it's nothing major.

I have met a Tibbie before from a poor breeder. This poor dog's eyes were bulging a lot, but that's the only time I've ever seen anything alarming.

I have heard that my first girl's littermates all lived long lives, so my girl drew the short straw.

Like with all dogs, it comes down to how well bred the puppies are. Finding a reputable breeder who health tests is so incredibly important. But, hey, that's for same with all dogs. Reputable breeders aren't bad. It's backyard breeders and puppy mills that are. Breed specific rescues are also an amazing option if you want to give an older Tibbie a good home!

I do recommend finding some Tibbie forums and the like if you're interested in owning one. They're great dogs if you want a sentient cushion and can be really lazy (my dad loves his fluffy boy so much he carries him in a backpack when he gets tired). Wouldn't recommend them if you want an active breed.

tl;dr: Tibbies have health problems, just like all breeds. Make sure to do research and find a reputable breeder or go through a breed specific rescue if you want a pure bred dog. :)

Here's some pet tax as well. Say hi to Gizzy!

is there anything wrong with Tibetan Spaniels? they're so cute

[bowandbrush]

it’s honestly scary being a fan of usagi miyamoto/yuichi whilst being in the rise fandom and not shipping leosagi,,,because it feels like everyone and their grandma likes it. like I’m sorry!! Don’t kill me please

[hellinhawkins]

people need to stop spreading misinformation if I see one more mileven go into a comment section with a screenshot of a post from reddit or quora saying “the duffers confirmed byler won’t be endgame” I’m going to lose my mind

[genericpuff]

Intresting how its only trivializing and mocking green myths when non-greek white people do it, but not when non-greek poc do it. Its almost if you dont actually care

lmao bro what

i literally have zero clue what you're arguing here, "stop criticizing rachel for writing her greek myth retelling from a predominantly whitewashed westernized and christian-washed point view" ?? yeah okay lol

[feniksido]

For some reason my post about the Heist in the Hells has been getting some traction recently so I thought maybe it's time to talk about my actual thoughts on what I would like to see in the hypothetical Heist in the Hells DLC (my personal hell)

I was trying to figure out a whole bunch of stuff about Mephistopheles and the 8th layer of the hells! First, the vaults are in Mephistar, a citadel on top of a Glacier named Nargus, which is piloted by Mephisto all over Cania constantly on the move. Mephisto has his slowly melting throne at the very center of the glacier, and the rest of the city is like a mini-hell with 3 terraced levels where the lowest level is with “lowly least devils” and mid tier for mid devils i guess and then hellfire masters and nobles and the wizards on the third higher levels. It’s heated on the inside of Mephistar! It has baths and scented fires (not sure what they smell like but I assume something other than fire?)

The rest of Cania is just like barren wasteland full of just the weirdest left over arcane energy cus of Mephisto’s experimentation, its cold as fuck and it has constant surveillance against spies, mostly spies sent by Dispater, mr THE Arms Dealer of all the planes, so you know that motherfucker mephistopheles is very used to these types of people showing up and trying to go into the vaults and such

NOW Helsik very specifically used the words “I punched a portal into the Archdevil’s dusty vaults”, so I assume it was directly into the vaults that they fell into. I'm not sure how this is even possible but i'm not one to ask questions that i will never understand the answers to (lying, im seething) 

However, regardless of the fact that I don't know how Helsik the queen that she is did that, she did do it. I imagine the vaults are huge and incredibly elaborate and probably several stories? Layers? Deep. The items and scrolls and information must all be neatly cataloged and kept track of in the most particular way because Mephistopheles is nothing if not obsessively controlling of all his knowledge and information

However the whereabouts of the actual physical objects must be like.. Constantly changing or magically protected so that those with no authorization cannot find their way through the vaults

Mephistopheles’s filing system is… insane but i do think he would keep track. Or make someone else keep track. He’s very busy. He typically hands down experiments he ran out of time to deal with in his busy schedule to his lessers so I wouldn't put it past him to have someone else also take care of the cataloging. The Crown of Karsus is NOT high on his priority list so i understand how this was potentially feasible to Gortash and The Dark Urge

Actually Talking about the heist itself now: 

I imagine that if a whole heist dlc (don't think we’re getting one but a man can dream) did happen it would start with a bit of exposition. Probably explaining a little bit of the Letters between Durge and Gortash. Specifically these ones:

Then we cut to a scene where they’re already at Helsik’s place. They’ve discussed the plans in depth, they’ve been doing test runs for this in the House of Hope and now it’s time for the real deal. 

Helsik “punches” the portal into the Vaults and they jump in. The portal closes behind them, Helsik will not allow herself to be implicated in anything. They take in their surroundings; they have to be quick, although it is heated inside of Mephistar the frigidness of Cania cuts deeper than anything Baldur’s Gate could ever manage. I imagine that they, having never been here before, look for something that can help them navigate/orient themselves in the vaults. Perhaps that whole cataloging system I talked about earlier. You can choose to ignore it and just go straight forwards checking every room making it substantially harder and less efficient which makes Gortash a little pissy at you for not taking his advice and helping him look for that or you can look around for one but the actual system for cataloging is encrypted 

Maybe a mini puzzle game can take place here, like the one with the brain in Moonrise Towers 

The thingy would then lead deeper into vaults where they would fight Gelugons (the main residents of the 8th layer also known as ice devils) and other assorted devils including pit fiends and pain devils. Maybe a couple dire polar bears also who knows who Mephisto but on his security team

At one point i want to come across an ice devil that much like Yurgir in the house of hope in act 3, can be convinced to side with you and become a temporary ally (perhaps it holds resentment towards Hutijin, mephistopheles’ second in command, and just got sick and tired of the monotony and wants to stick it to the man, i just want a devil in my party even for a second) 

If you manage to successfully persuade this devil to join you, Gortash might be impressed and tell you about how tricking a devil is no easy feat, you can ask him to elaborate on that and he might tell you a bit about his time in the house of hope as Raphael’s unwilling guest Who knows

Moving on, I’d like several more puzzles to delve deeper into the vaults, some that lead nowhere some that lead exactly where you need to go, if you did the earlier puzzle Gortash will be able to guide you and say which ones lead nowhere and which ones are the ones you need to do 

Eventually I want a mechanically engineered door to be the next hurdle which Gortash takes upon himself to solve on his own since he’s more well suited towards this kind of thing, during this, rounds and rounds of incoming security swarm around you both, and Durge has to defend Gortash while he works on getting the door open. Much like the quest for Halsin looking for Thaniel in the Shadowfell, you gotta keep the portal open but instead of “keep the portal open” its “keep Gortash alive and not distracted”

When the rounds of enemies are done you get a little cutscene where you see Durge being overwhelmed by the many devils and it cuts to Gortash who has just opened the door and he takes less than a second’s pause before he decides that instead of going through the door and escaping to relative safety on his own, leaving durge to die he helps durge and they are both able to get through the door sealing it behind them, now in relative safety, they both take a second to breathe 

You as durge now can talk to Gortash and have the dialogue options to say Thank you, scold him for dragging you away from the bloody slaughter, or question his decision to come back for you

I THINK IN MY MIND that the response for all these options would basically be the same, because Gortash is a well practiced speaker and knows exactly what to say but his body language would sort of give him away for the way he’s feeling about the option you choose 

Thanking him would lead to a more defensive “pushing away” way of saying “I still require your assistance, we’re not done. Don’t expect it to happen again.” tsundere ass but like imagine that but better written 

Scolding him would get a sorta like “I cant fucking believe this” as if he expected durge to be a little more practical about things and not lose focus in the madness that was that slaughter and rampage, like i said still the same but just “Argh! I still require your assistance! We are NOT done. DO NOT expect it to happen again if you intend to act this way.” He needs you to focus, not lose yourself in blood

Questioning and challenging his decision but not outright saying you disapprove would probably be playing right into the whole “equals who challenge each other” thing that he likes to do so it’d probably make him slow down, talk slower, make him really think about why he did it and do the thing where while talking he can't look at Durge in the eyes so he looks off to the side or down at the floor “I still need your help. We’re nowhere near done. Let’s not expect this to happen again, yes?” Like acknowledging that yes that was in fact weakness that neither of their masters tolerate (because obviously the correct thing a baneite would have done is let the bhaalspawn die so that he alone already so close to the crown could take it for himself) and almost regretful that he didn't have a better excuse

You continue forward and finally come into the room with the Crown of Karsus and the portfolio labeled “Accelerated Grand Design”, there they encounter a boss fight, probably not mephisto himself cus they’d be dead tbh but maybe a simulacrum or something idk here things get a bit dicey for me cus what the fuck! How do they get out? I thought maybe they do the fight and once they grab everything they need or want they maybe have an enhanced cloak of dimension door or maybe a scroll of teleportation or something to get them out of the deep deep VAULTS themselves and into a place where they can “safely” create another circle on this side with the components and specific instructions Helsik gave them 

They’d arrive home back in Baldur’s Gate and celebrate their victory briefly and bada bing bada boom the dlc is over. If i had it my way at the end right there those two idiot geniuses would get so horny from the powerrush and bloodlust they just experienced that they end the dlc with durgetash fucking nasty 

[quixtrix]

tired of people being like "yall dont talk about dolph" "yall dont talk about sarah" the answer is right there look at both of them

[lesbianjackies]

me when people refer to laura lee as catholic

[unproduciblesmackdown]

has happened plenty around iconis goings on but what an all-timer

[asteria7fics]

i’m in a deep blue state but i don’t even feel 100% safe and confident that that will mean anything. it’s scary. i scheduled an appointment out of panic to get an 8 year iud in a couple days just in case he steamrolls our state laws. if they wanna take away my right to choose they can physically pry it from my cold dead uterus. sometimes i feel like i’m overreacting but then i don’t??? like so much is unknown right now and it’s terrifying. my heart breaks even more for vulnerable people in the red states. we really failed so many marginalized americans last night. horrible.

This feels like an appropriate time to tell you goobers a little story. Strap in, it gets a little personal.

When Roe v. Wade was overturned it felt like the final nail in the coffin for me. I had been on the pill for over a decade at that point, and while it helped a ton with managing my periods I also knew I didn’t want to be on the thing forever. I had also known since I was a teenager that I absolutely did not want to have children of my own.

So I did research, talked to my ob/gyn and got an appointment with a surgeon that I knew would be willing to perform a tubal ligation on someone my age (27 at the time). I found their name via this resource, and asked for them specifically.

So… yeah, I got sterilized.

Now I’m not going to sit here and say that this is the right choice for everyone. Though I’d looked into it for years prior, I knew the likelihood of being able to get this elective surgery was low if I attempted to before I turned 25. I’d heard so many stories of women being stonewalled by their doctors because they didn’t have children and “might change their minds”. I was extremely fortunate to have very good doctors.

I was scared shitless of going down for surgery, but I was even more scared of the possibility of not having a choice in becoming a parent.

But everything went fine. It was laparoscopic, so I only have two tiny scars and some really cool, high def pictures of my insides. The first week of recovery was uncomfortable, but the second week was fine. I actually started watching South Park during that second week, and… well, here we are.

I live in a state that, as it currently stands, has decently progressive abortion rights. That could change though. All I have to do is drive down the road to see how many people in my area voted against my rights and will likely do so again.

All of this to say, do what you feel is right while you have the choice to do so. An IUD isn’t permanent, so if you think you may ever change your mind and decide to have children I say go for it, panic response or not. I have zero regrets about my choice, and I would do it all over again if I had to without a second thought.

There is absolutely no shame in doing what you feel you need to in order to protect your lifestyle. Grandma Teri fully supports you, my dear anon.

[riverstories7]

Can I rant for a minute? Authors, if one of your characters is an academic, do some basic research. Your adjunct professor will not suddenly get tenure if they publish their magnum opus. Your associate professor probably already has tenure and isn't at risk of being fired unless they commit misconduct—in which case their rank doesn't really matter. Job titles vary from country to country: professor means something very different in the US and the UK. I've been thrown WAY out of immersion in at least two books this year by stupid errors that might have been fixed if ANYONE involved in the writing or editing had done a Google search or talked to an academic.

[formerheroeswhoquittoolate]

LEARNED TODAY THAT ST JUDE IS THE PATRON SAINT OF LOST CAUSES CAUSE HIS NAME IS SO CLOSE TO JUDAS THAT HE GOT PRAYED TO EXTREMELY RARELY (I.E. ONLY WHEN PEOPLE WERE DESPERATE) AND I. you know how I just made that post where I compared matt murdock to (saint) peter? I think now I have to give all my favorite daredevil characters thematic saints because I think that's one of the most elektra nachtios things I've ever heard

[franks-unholy-confessional]

jumping on the hand bandwagon :

my god i think about his strong tatted hands choking the shit outta me too often. pulling my hair, sucking on them, making my back arch as he hits it from behind. ONE CHANCE PLEASEEEE

Oh my fucking god anon please. Actively trying to kill me. Get out of my brain. Let me just add a little extra twist to that though.

Frank bending you over the bathroom vanity, kicking your legs wide, dropping to his knees and burying his face between your legs. Just relentlessly licking into you, sucking bruises into your thighs and your ass. Getting you wound up so tight that you can barely beg him to fuck you.

And then finally he presses himself so tightly against you and finally gets his gorgeous cock in you. Fucking you so hard you’ll have bruises on your hips from the edge of the counter. Maybe Frank would wind his fingers into your hair and make you watch yourself lose it as fucks into you relentlessly. Make you watch as he wraps a gorgeous hand around your throat. Watching, feeling, his perfect fucking tattooed fingers slowly start squeezing the sides of your neck. Pulling ragged breaths in, unable to even moan or whimper or cry out as he starts going harder and faster and it’s fucking delicious. Feeling that fuzzyness creep in and being so fucking ready to come that when he lets go of your neck and the blood and oxygen rushes back to your head, you just fucking lose it. Coming so hard you almost forget how to breathe. Holding on for dear life as Frank doesn’t let up one bit in the rhythm of his thrusts until he’s coming with a shout and burying his face in your neck.

Fuck, this is something I think about all too often.

~ChronicArsonist🔥

[notetaeker]

Isr*el’s horrible recent actions aren’t a new policy enacted after the oct 7 attacks. In fact they are following the genocide plans they wrote and published (for everyone to see) called “plan dalet”

[avaetin]

I'm excited about your Ananke!Nico fic. Didn't know about the whole mythology aspect before, but it was enjoyable to research.

Hi anon! I'm excited too, and I'm dying to work on it! I do post ideas here and there, but I can't commit to it full time and it's killing me lol.

I'm enjoying the research too! But at the same time, it's a bit difficult due to differences in what I want vs what is already established as canon lol. At this point, I am basically saying "Screw canon, I'm going to make this better, e.g., Nyx". So, what I post might not be 100% on point since there are different variations. But there are some that are true, like Ananke being Chronos' consort. And then there are some that are not accurate, like that one post where I stated that there were 5 of them created by Khaos (it's actually 6, but the sixth one is difficult to dissect since on some texts, they say it's Eros/Cupid, which in PJO is the son of Aphrodite & Ares). And also, Chronos resembling Percy (or rather the other way). That's just a fun idea to throw to make Percy have an identity crisis lol. So yeah... tons of research to be done and trying to make things work to make them actually make sense lol. But it is enjoyable and so, so fun!

P.S. Just a fun info to throw, this au wasn't originally what I've been recently posting about. It actually started from this then it evolved to Chronos! Percy x Ananke! Nico, then to what it is now. Which, to be fair, might be better than the original idea lol.

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[goldeunoias]

upper-class white people genuinely amaze me like the amount of whites I don't know who don't ever use lotion, wash their face, or practice what I consider to be basic hygiene like you wonder why you age like milk