#Running with your dog

[doggozila]

(via Running with Your Dog: How to Get Started and Build a Routine - Doggozila)

[asteroidtroglodyte]

5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

[petdogs]

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[wheatcak3]

I had a weird dream about a Danny Phantom episode where Danny discovers he can take off his head and is doing teenage gremlin shenanigans with it when so and so occurs and the head ends up on a plane flying to who knows where. The rest of the episode is just getting the head back 😞

[sableeira]

And Dazai is like: omg how did he figure it out?!?!?!?

[n4rval]

BUT YES.

family history.

[cowpokezuko]

World's Worst Service Animal

[shyravenns]

Members of Chimera side eyeing the fuck out of Nik at the 141/Chimera meeting when he follows Price's orders to a T as if he wouldn't bite the head off of anyone who asked him to get them a glass of water

[vigilskeep]

huge fan of one of my rooks whose only distinguishing features are his face (beloved) and my overwhelming inexplicable certainty that he was found somewhere with visible autopsy scars and complete amnesia a couple years ago by whatever faction leader i feel like handing him to, and approaches everything with zero thoughts and a kind of golden retriever “just happy to be here!” mentality

[redtalics]

love how dogman is just a normal-ass guy 95% of the time and then 5% of the time he passionately spills out an UNGODLY amount of lore, story, and character personality that he did NOT need to give. this man is an admirer of his own work and i think that's pretty cool

[jetkast]

Arcane S01E04

I'm sure this has been mentioned -- this clip made me think about how Heimerdinger's long life experience is contrasted against Viktor's shortened life expectancy. This conversation/framing must have made Viktor feel undervalued. I don't know if the professor's species difference means he can't identify the clear deterioration his health has undergone, or if he's just too jaded by the shorter lifespans of humans, or what, but saying a decade will pass "in the blink of an eye" is brutal to say to someone in Viktor's position.

On top of that, on this rewatch and knowing what happens later, what is at stake, the microexpressions between Viktor and Jayce masterfully reference entire conversations that have happened off screen in the time skip. The animation style is able to capture that so well. Jayce's silent concern for Viktor, bracketed with getting swept away in the council and performance of it all, can be so easy to miss.

Comparing Heimerdinger's engagement with Viktor when he's known him longer with presumably significant positive regard... To Jayce's... It's just interesting to me.

[musicalmoritz]

Most people’s “how can anyone hate this?” ships are like super fluffy pairings that can do no wrong but unfortunately mine are always massively toxic to where I understand WHY they aren’t for everyone but I simply cannot imagine passing up that much conflict

[casebasket]

banking on your daughter to make a different choice

also the slightly shaky cam in the last scene as he watches havers wave and fade away i didn't even notice until i made the gif but it adds SO MUCH to his emotions at this moment. like taking a shaky breath. him still grieving over it, but learning to suppress that emotion from a life+death time of experience, so it only comes out as a shiver. ben wilbond truly put so much thought into this character; the captain is the Most Character to ever Character

edit: also just another parallel I noticed but his face is lit up similarly??? half light/half dark tenebrism that subtextually calls back to this scene of choice??? kitty in the shadows because she chose selfishly, the cap in the end a mix of both to reflect the nuance and complexity in his decision??? one shadowed by sunlight the other by the moon, present and memory, action and reflection, how one is affected by another, etc etc

[pawsitivevibe]

Are you out in public with your dog? Will your dog come back to you when you call it, 100% of the time, under all circumstances?

No?

Okay let me introduce you to something you may have never seen before:

And then you just:

Oh and this part is important too:

[3liza]

here is a free dog tip: when you get your dog a name tag with emergency info on it, include the microchip number on the tag. microchips can sometimes shift around and get lost or stop working and having redundant ways to look it up is helpful. i got custom dog tags (the military kind) stamped for my dog because they fit a lot of information. there are two phone numbers to contact me, my address, and his microchip number on the actual tag. having your dog's name on the tag is irrelevant, you can skip that part

also, next time you take your pet to a vet appt, ask the vet to please scan the chip to see if the chip is still working. like I said, chips are little and can shift around or stop working. if your chip breaks and your pet gets lost, it will be harder to find them. you should check to see if it works (it just takes a second) and if not, get a new chip asap

[slarkzin]

I hope FNAF 2 movie has the most random and badshit insane scenes imaginable like we are watching 2015 fnaf sfm animations with too much budget yet it still shows overly edgy and angsty moments with withered animatronics being spiteful towards toys, so the entire movie will literally feel like this