#Veo

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: Veo

Description: On the Indonesian island of Rinca, there are tales of a massive pangolin that can grow to 8 feet tall. Such an animal did exist once, on another Indonesian island, Java, called the Asian Giant Pangolin. Though its extinction is still a mystery, bones of the creature were carbon dated to 42,000 to 47,000 years ago.

[towerofglass]

[zarlev]

revisiting an old oc

[leregirenga]

Esta mañana, al caminar y sentir el fresco beso del frío, me di cuenta de algo maravilloso: el amor está en todas partes. Desde el trajín de la gente y el canto de los pájaros hasta la forma de un corazón en un árbol, la vida nos regala constantes recordatorios de su belleza. Veo el mundo con nuevos ojos y entiendo que la vida es un regalo. Reconozco la importancia de los cambios internos, de aceptarnos y amarnos a nosotros mismos. Que estos pensamientos nos inspiren a abrazar el amor, el respeto y la bondad hacia todo lo que nos rodea . Frank Ruiz Gambino

[grumpy-bat-central]

Hey! I saw a post you made in late-2024 about VEOs and would love if you could just info dump about the breed. They have been my special interest for a few years now, but it is hard to find accurate info in English. I take any opportunity to learn more about them. <3

Hey! First of all sorry for taking so long to answer this. Neurodivergent brain go brrrrr.

So the story of the breed is kind of a bit different depending on who you ask and when. The main reason for that is that for decades these dogs were just the Russian/USSR version of the German Shepherd. Nobody really thought much of the fact that they had been crossed with other dogs or the fact that they had very different goals and ideals in breeding, resulting in different dogs. When looking through VEO pedigrees you'll notice that most of them only start being labeled as VEO in the 90s or even later, even though the breed type and look was quite consistent for a long time before that.

There's two main founding myths of VEOs and at this point there's no way to verify how much of either is true.

The first one is the origin story. We do know that VEO had their start as a breed when working GSDs were brought to Russia in the 1920s. As the story goes, Russia was severely lacking in working dogs for police and military use after WWI and requested Germany send them some of theirs. Germany agreed on paper, but when the dogs arrived it turned out that those pesky Germans sent not their *working* dogs and breeding stock, but rejects from their own breeding program. That was the reason why the dogs had to be crossed with local breeds to get them to where they could be of any use to armed forces. There's no definitive proof of any of this as far as I can tell and the alternative story is that outcrossing was a deliberate decision made to adapt GSDs to their new home - the harsher climate and larger territory meant that the most valuable working dogs were larger, stockier and fluffier than German police dogs, mainly to protect from the weather (both cold and heat).

The second important story concerns how the VEO split from GSD in the early 90s. After decades of isolation the dog breeders of the (now former) USSR were ready to finally compete on the global scene once more, and their pride and joy were the wonderful working dogs they'd nurtured. Thus a huge dog show focused on GSDs was organized and all the big important people from the breed's home country were invited to gaze in wonder at the Russian GSD. They set up a stage and paraded their dogs in front of the (pesky;) ) Germans... only for all those GSD breeders and experts to react not with amazement but disgust. What were those creatures? Several sizes too large, with their fur so pale and their butts so high up??? Gross!! Outraged by this reception the Russian GSD breeders instantly announced they were done playing with the Germans and renamed their dogs to VEO to start their own breed, with blackjack and hookers. Again, this is kind of just a story. A delightful one, but still. I can't see myself being able to find it again, but there is a recording of that fateful dog show where GSDs first met with VEOs and I regret to inform you that there wasn't any booing or tomatoes thrown in the footage. It could be (and is very likely) that the shit-talking of Russian dogs was done behind closed doors/later, of course, and either way we know for a fact that it was after this show that the efforts to separate VEO as a breed really picked up momentum (even though they'd been going on and off since the breed was released to the public)

Speaking of release to the public, VEO were originally only the domain of state-run working dog breeding facilities. It was much later that the dogs were given out to the general public and, with time, the civilian breeders started really calling the shots.

Quick bonus! The most famous VEO was Lyutar Vargun, who played Mukhtar in a TV series (that theoretically is a sequel to a very old Russian movie but in practice is the Russian version of the series Rex, essentially). Here's the wiki page for the show

This is getting stupid long so I'll stop here, but feel free to give me more questions.

I'll also be posting more about the current state of the breed/how to get one soon.

[darymont28]

Soy una persona muy observadora. Así que si crees que no me di cuenta, lo hice.

Solo decidí quedarme callado.

[b0rroso]

[floofyghost]

IT'S BEEN 2 YEARS SINCE I LAST POSTED. Anyways, have two new references of Miyuki, my Sonic OC, and a new OC for Undertale named Veo! Information about both will be on my blog page under the OC Info link.

[cwispyshwimp]

the QV agenda is alive and well (they are boyfriends for life) (veo [right] belongs to cirquecarte)

[samuxel]

Veo Veo

Juguemos al veo veo, empiezo yo-.

Veo veo a una persona que me pide que no exagere que no es para tanto que se "equivoquen" con mi nombre o que "olviden" mis pronombres.

Oh allá esta sentado rodeado de sus privilegios, claro porque no se le cuestiona su identidad.

Mmmh veo veo a un chique que le piden que escoja un bando al cual tirar o gusta de chicos o de chicas que no hay mas.

Oh le encontré llorando en su habitación preguntándole a Dios cuando podrá ser un poco normal.

Veo veo a muchos opinando sobre mi identidad, de mi orientación o en general sobre mi persona.

Oh sorpresa estan sentados en la mesa en la reunión familiar.

Este juego no me gusta mucho, no recordaba que fuera de esta manera, pero bueno las cosas cambian las reglas los puntos y demas.

Creo que simplemente lo deja de jugar.

[towerofglass]

[trion-revolutionary]

Evening the Score, page 376

[leregirenga]

Me miro al espejo y me veo joven, agradable y en forma, como si tuviera veinte años. Mañana compraré el mismo vino.

Reno Eusapia

[grumpy-bat-central]

Kind of realized I should introduce you guys to my darling girl. This is Gala, she's about two and a half years old, and she's the absolute sweetest creature on the planet.

She's a VEO aka East European Shepherd. A wonderful breed that's not fully recognized by the FCI despite being almost as old as the german shepherd it's based on.

If anyone's interested I can post more about VEO, it's pretty fascinating stuff and a wonderful, healthy breed that preserves many of the features GSDs used to be famous for.

[travichughes]

You're literally so cool. Love this blog. I wanna hear about your Vic and Travis thoughts all day. How are the storyline for them in season 6 compared to the others, in your own opinion?

first of all, thank you!! i always think this fandom needs more travic stans hahah. but sorry this is going to be a long ass post because i have so much to talk about. also spoilers for the season finale

honestly, i dont have very nice things to say about travic together in season 6. i mean, they barely had anything, right? 6x01-6x03 were honestly their best episodes. vic being there for his anxiety, the humour, the soft, and then it all went downhill when eli showed up.

i think they really missed an opportunity when travis leaked the crisis one call to have them fight. vic had just told she could take over crisis one and the breach of HIPAA could have meant crisis one would have shut down, so that would have been a good storyline to navigate. i really thought they were going to fight and it was going to be rough, bit instead, we got not even a full episode of vic being slightly bad at him.

and now 6x08. the worst episode in the season for me. i spent that entire week spiralling about travis getting injured and then travic actually talking about what happened, but instead, vic and theo talked it out and then we got that god-awful trio hug which was the only travic hug we got this season!?!?!!? i was left so disappointed by that episode. it was the start of them diminishing travic and making it look like vic didn't need travis as long as she had theo. and that really hurt lmao. honestly i could go on a whole separate rant about 6x08 so i will restrain myself and move on.

everything was just meh until 6x12, a few cute soft moments dotted around (as usual) and finally, they got their first full scene since 6x06 where travis woke up from a nightmare and vic rushed into the room. instead of leaving like she could have, she came in and talked to him to make sure he was okay. let me also add this was the first time we had seen their house since season 5 so it was so glorious. i loved that scene and i just wish they gave us more relating to that. i would have loved to see travis have another nightmare and it be revealed that it was his third or something that week, and have vic just stay in his room for the rest of his night? apparently that was too much to ask LMAO

6x13... well i'm headcanoning that vic was calling travis to rant about the argument she and theo had had... and travis was uh, doing it with eli. my eyes still hurt from that

and then 6x14... what a glorious episode. i think it was the best episode of the season for them as a friendship, tied with 6x01 and 6x03. they were chaotic together, but when travis needed it, vic gave a pep-talk, and it was glorious. vc always knows exactly what to say to travis which is just so great because they they know each other more than anyone else. I'm glad it was vic talking to travis about this and not someone else.

6x15 as a whole doesnt exist to me ad the end scene of travis pushing vic aside to go say hi to cHaOs KaTe simply doesnt exist <3

6x16 and 6x17 were honestly just frustrating. vic and theo were clearly having issues, and they weren't having them in secret! you could have cut the tension in 6x15 with a knife but noooo, travis was just blind, apparently. the end of 6x17 with vic crying in her car outside of beckett's house broke my heart because she was losing theo, and she was probably just feeling really lonely and realising that she could turn into beckett and have no one to notice that she was gone, or that she was hurting. i would have paid good money for a travic scene there - travis pulling himself away from the celebrations to check where vic was and then them having a long convo about what was happening, etc...

for 6x18 i once again convinced myself that travis was gonna get injured and vic was going to have a whole crisis over the fact that she was breaking up with theo and quite possibly losing her best friend - which would have been a good callback to 6x08. instead, they were fine (thank god, but also... not?) i was honestly left a little disappointed as we didn't get any of our soft moments like we did in the finale, but yeah, thank god they're both fine. travis is gonna kill theo when he finds out that he made out with cHaOs KaTe.

also... how they kind of just made travic seem one-sided? how vic was unmistakably there EVERY SINGLE TIME when he needed support for his anxiety or whatever else, but when vic needed someone, and when she was visibly struggling, travis wasn't there? i know this show and i know that they probably had convos off screen, but the lack of support from travis to vic on screen really gave the impression to me that they weren't talking. so it showed us vic cared, but travis didn't. that's why this season to me has been my least favourite travic season, but as a whole it still beats season 5 because that was a godawful season.

individually, didnt care for the mayor storyline really after vic stopped being his campaign manager. i still hate eli so i wish they would break up and travic can just live together forever. next season, since travis probably thinks he's responsible for the death of dixon, and how he kept saying that jack saved his life, i'd lose to see him struggling with survivor's guilt - something that vic also probably struggled with post-pipeline explosion. travis is overdue for a mental health storyline so it would be the perfect time for one.

i'm also a little disappointed they didnt go down the route of travis being triggered about theo being his captain. there was so much opportunity there for feelings about theo leading him, vic and the team after he was responsible for michael's death, but no. travis was literally one of the only people to be happy that he was captain and even supported him! yikes

and for vic, she didnt really get anything until 6x06, but i loved how in 6x05 they kinda dabbled into her self-doubt because she really didn't think dixon would do something as low as leak travis's past arrest. i'm also annoyed that it took them until 6x11 again to even talk about vic taking over crisis one and what he was doing to do that.

as for her relationship with theo, thank god that's over. i swear they were doing a slowburn breakup LMAOOOO yeah, theo turned into someone vic didn't recognise and thank god she finally realised that it want good for her, but as i touched on earlier, travis not noticing the pain he was putting her through angered me beyond words. next season for her i would love to see her have a proper mental health storyline and i would love to see her adventures with leading crisis one

well, there's probably a lot more but that's all i have to say currently. i would love to discuss with you as well, feel free to dm me on here or on twitter/insta (travichughes on both) and thanks for reading this long ass rant. i really love travic and i hope they get what they deserve next season.

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i made pipi the cookies. she didnt like them unfortunately :(