#and tbh i dont really like the orange

[himynameis4]

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[lemongogo]

dungeon lord marcille ft. timelapse

[hanasinbloom]

✖— WE'RE THE GANGREEN GANG! —✖

[abirddogmoment]

We're learning about grouse hunting together!

I was really undecided on whether I wanted to hunt with Rory for realsies because I don't have a shotgun and I don't really care to get a shotgun (I have a gun license from my time up north). I have a small air rifle and a tactical slingshot (both legal for hunting small game in my area) so I've been taking those for walks in hunting areas, along with all my permits and stuff, just to see what we see.

This grouse woods is in the same corner as my swamp, just a different part of the rec area. You can legally hunt small game during the open season with dogs with some restrictions (certain distance from the parking, some trails close for hunting on a rotational basis for maintenance, etc.) but it's not terribly popular so it's a really good area to learn. We are looking for ruffed grouse and rabbit, both of which are super common out here.

With pointing dogs like britts, you generally don't want to shoot any game unless they're pointing steady (*except when doing gun conditioning, but that's a specific training set up) - it makes sense because a shot bird is the ultimate reward and you want to make sure you're reinforcing the behaviour you want, which is usually a safe steady point. Rory isn't pointing steady yet so there's really not much for me to do on these walks besides reinforce good manners (recall, how far she ranges, etc.).

There's a really well known saying in pointing dogs, which is wild birds make bird dogs. Wild birds flush (fly away) much more reliably than farmed birds so the chances of a dog catching a wild bird is really minimal compared to farmed birds. It's super important to get young bird dogs on wild birds as much as possible so they learn all the important skills: how to navigate terrain, what habitat holds birds, what each bird species smells like, how far they can range, and most importantly, that they need a person to actually get a bird.

(Most of these skills can be taught with planted birds in training, but planted birds may be more habituated to people and dogs so they might not flush reliably. Once pointing dogs learn that they can catch birds themselves, it's much harder to foster a strong stop and point. You might see people using these tip ups, which protect the training bird from the dog. You'll often see training dogs on long lines (called check cords) or with a flank collar to reinforce not getting too close to the bird, but you have to phase those out quickly so the dog doesn't become dependent on them. You also have to be really careful with scent trails when setting up planted birds or you might end up with a dog that follows your scent instead of looking for birds organically. And of course, you have to train without birds sometimes so the dog doesn't get discouraged about not finding birds quickly because sometimes there just aren't birds out there. Lots to consider when setting up training!)

Anyway I've been trying to get Rory out on wild birds as much as possible (with the caveat that we don't run wild birds during nesting season) so we're wandering the grouse woods lately. My early recall training is really paying off because she's been super reliable in terms of good manners, it's wonderful to see!

We've been out four times (1-2 hours each) so far since the season opened. The first two times we're mostly just a pleasant walk in the woods, Rory didn't really know what we were doing so she was just vibing (THIS IS TOTALLY FINE, SHE'S NEW TO THIS). We had a couple chance grouse encounters and I could see the wheels turning, I encouraged her to sniff around where the grouse were sitting before they flew off and I watched her start to connect the dots.

(It's important to remember that dogs don't know what they're looking for until you show them. Most bird dogs are naturally birdy, but they don't know which birds are good and which birds are boring! You have to show them which birds you care about - this is easiest if you can run with an experienced hunting dog, but you can do it alone like I am by making a big deal about any interest in the "correct" birds.)

The last time we went out to the grouse woods, she did a couple of really nice whip-arounds when she caught scent she liked and followed scent off the trail I was walking! This is the behaviour I want to see so it was awesome to watch it start to click! She trailed a moose (don't want that, she found some moose pee to roll in so whatever), a pileated woodpecker (again, don't want that but it was cool to see), and two separate grouse. The first was on the wrong side of the fence so I couldn't do anything about it but she held a really nice point (the photo) and I gave her a ton of chicken and praise for it. The second was a quick point but it flushed really far away so there was no finding it again. Both birds weren't visible when she found them, they were true scent points and she was strategically looking for them so that was super cool!

She's still in heat and super sensitive right now so I wouldn't shoot over her anyway, but I'm getting pretty accurate with my slingshot so I'm hoping we can connect on something this fall - both for her pointing steady and me aiming properly. She gets more steady and more sure of herself every time we go out so it's only a matter of time!

[arttsuka]

Guess what movie I watched yesterday (it was 'Chicken run: dawn of the nugget')

Anyway British chicken am I right 🐓 (I know that this is a rooster but I didn't like the chicken emoji)

[floralovebot]

MADE EDITS i couldn't stop thinking about their outfits and like,, the aspects i liked and thought felt very winx and in line with the individual characters and the aspects i Hated and thought sucked dookie SO i made some edits :)

biggest changes are to musa, aisha, and stella! actually changed the clothes there. flora and tecna i just adjusted the colors (in flora's case to further unwhitewash her and saturate her clothing more and in tecna's case to bring back her pink hair and green and cyan).

explanations on changes below!

I'll start with the simpler edits!

For Tecna, I just wanted to play around with her og colors lol I actually LOVE her new look and I would love to see this be the final design!! It's SO tecna and fits in with the rest of the winx i love it soo much :') I do think they should bring back her pinker hair though! And again, would love to see the green and cyan make an appearance. I feel like neon green is just very classy techy character. And while it is cliche, I do love it akjgd plus I think it looks good on her and makes the other colors stand out more imo! (but maybe this new, pinker look will make people like her more idk :') justice for tecna my beloved :'))

For Flora, I darkened her skin more for obvious reasons. And then I added more saturation to the colors and added back the warmer tones they took out. Imo, the darker, desaturated, and cooler toned look for Flora only works in very specific circumstances. Color theory rainbow!! Bring back the brightness! The color!! The warmth!!

Which brings me to Stella ohmygod,,, please,,,, please stop desaturating her she looks so pale and sick and lifeless STOP please :') Anyway lol, obviously brought back the brighter orange! I also took away the random sleeve. It's cute but it just didn't feel very Stella at the time? The tube top look is Very Classic Stella (very much giving s3 casual but in orange). Tbh, I don't love the dress itself, but I do think it looks better once you add more of Stella's colors. I also tanned her skin more and made her hair more yellow + brighter! Just like with Flora, color theory is important for media!! This Stella design just does Not give sunny, optimistic character. It's giving the gap (aka BORING aljdhg)

Aisha's design stumped me for a bit, I won't lie. I couldn't figure out exactly what I didn't like. But I got it!! One, way too symmetrical imo. Yes, Aisha does have some very symmetrical looks, but like 80% of her looks are very asymmetrical. I also didn't love that it didn't incorporate more of Aisha's powers. It really just went for *vaguely sporty* and didn't try to bring anything else to the table. And some people might say that Aisha's og looks were like that too, but I disagree! They told a story! She's a brave adventurer, a dancer, a princess, etcetc!! This tells me "oh yeah this girl might like to do yoga. cool."

Anyway! So I made Aisha's pants baggier because let's be fucking real for a sec. Changed the design on the pants slightly to make it asymmetrical and incorporated a wave design. Took away that bottom shiny fabric of her shirt. I tried to keep it but it just wasn't looking great with the pants changes tbh. Added small waves to the bottom and made it one shoulder! Also added her classic little circle wave design 1. because it's cute and 2. so Musa wouldn't feel so out of place with a design. Tbh, I still don't love the pants... I think maybe that hem could be higher?

For Musa! I've spoken about this before but I do not like the bodysuit. I liked the concept and the vibe it brings, but it looks So uncomfortable and s1 Musa was alllll about being comfortable. It's why so many people think she hates wearing dresses (even though she doesn't). So I kept the vibe, but changed it to the same mesh that's on her right arm! Which like!! I didn't even see that until I started the edit!! It's so,,, unnoticeable which like,, isn't a bad thing? But also? I think the mesh being on her stomach too makes the design as a whole a little more balanced (and it's a nice callback to her og magic winx!). As for the color changes, really just wanted to go back to her reds and dark blues. I don't Hate the color scheme, but I also don't love it. And I think this feels a lot more like Musa yknow? Also darkened her hair cause fuck that dude

Anyway lol it's not the best edit so don't look too hard :') I just wanted to explore what I liked about the designs and what I didn't. We did get to see a little bit of Bloom's casual, but I want to wait until we get a closer look to speak on it/make edits. Also tbh, I don't really love Flora's outfit but I didn't want to completely redesign her and I concede that this is something she would wear (although it feels more like s4 cowgirl time/s5 casual and not s1 new student time but Fine). For now, I'm gonna pretend the trailer showed us my edit of Stella and not what it really showed. I can't get pale pinterest stella out of my head,,, aggghhhh

[waffultaim]

Well I'm not so dumbfounded on Longtail as a character tbh but I think him being the mentor of Bramblepaw instead of Fireheart could have been a good add to his character development.

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Imagine that when Bluestar is about to speak of who will be Bramblepaw mentor, a voice rises in the crowd interrupting the ceremony, surprised Fireheart looks at the origin of the voice just to find that is Longtail the cause of it and not so far away Goldenflower is also there as well, looking at both leader and deputy...

do you see my vision?

[demento-mori]

i keep trying to eat healthier, but its so fucking hard when fresh, healthy, nutritional food is so much more expensive than frozen or premade stuff, and it takes so much more time and effort to prepare, and the ingredients go bad so quickly, and they take up so much fridge space and you only have a single tiny fridge that you share with 6 other people, and you dont even like most of the go-to healthy meals people suggest because of the texture or smell or ingredients, and you feel too nauseous to eat half the time anyways, and-

[waywardsalt]

i have planned to write a pseudo-essay or some kind of detailed look at linebeck in phantom hourglass and how he can be interpreted as autistic but thats not going very well right now so here are some autistic linebeck headcanons

He has low empathy and as such has a hard time responding very well to emotional situations, but he can take advantage of his lower empathy in situations where empathy could make things harder, like tending to wounds or rationally handling emotionally-charged situations

His coat is a comfort object and he made it specifically to act as a very slight accommodation; it’s heavy and barely lets any light through it, and he can keep all kinds of little things in pockets sewn into the inner lining, but larger objects do make it more uncomfortable to wear at times. It’s mostly good to carry around things to fidget or stim with and can be helpful in trying to recover from overwhelming sensory experiences

He doesn’t usually stim in public, but taps his fingers on tables quickly and tends to rhythmically snap his fingers when excited, and on his ship is more vocal and more willing to stim, even if around others. One of his main stims that he’ll do for no particular reason is that he’ll hold his arm or back of his wrist/hand up to his nose and mouth for the smell.

He masks frequently to please people. His default mask is that arrogant and brave front he puts up for islanders and other he may come across. Usually, if that mask doesn’t work, he tends to double-down because it usually works and, in his experience, dropping the mask has usually gone badly (non masking he’s rude and blunt but more outwardly excited about adventure and his ship and all of that, i consider it where overseas in the game is when he usually isn’t masking. this shifts his arc to be about him learning to stop masking and feel comfortable being himself)

His special interests could include stuff related to treasure hunting but it could really range from stuff about adventuring or the ocean or engineering (relating to his ship) to stuff not at all touched in the game like music. He really enjoys music, listening to it, playing it, and writing it. He also enjoys and is fascinated by shellfish.

When busy or otherwise occupied, he doesn't usually notice when he's hungry. He doesn't have as much of a problem noticing thirst or exhaustion, but feeling hunger is a problem for him, and often leads to him going a long time without eating. On the other hand, he doesn't mind eating the same thing repeatedly and is perfectly fine with blander foods, so handling food supplies for when he'll be overseas for a long time is easy for him.

He knows he's autistic, he's known for a pretty long time, and he has books on it; he also knows that Link is autistic, but doesn't say anything about it and instead waits until someone else tells him. Until (and after, I suppose) Link actually learns that he's autistic Linebeck just makes sure to keep note of what accommodations he might need and if there are any textures or tastes or smells he can't stand. He doesn't have much of a problem helping out during sensory overloads, even soon after meeting him. It's more out of understanding how it feels to not have your needs met and a sort of solidarity rather than actual friendship.

[lime1991]

More humans!

[underratedandoverit]

i got you

~1,3k words orangekip (orange cassidy/kip sabian)

soooo @midnightpretenders0 this isnt really a sick fic, but the one i just did not too long ago is so fresh in my mind still its hard to find a way to make this work for me, so i opted out to swap it for a caretaking fic, i hope thats okay ;; i just really like the idea of the exhaustion of the title matches and injuries and everything else finally getting to cassidy. i need that twink to mcfucking break finally so kip is here to help pick up the pieces. also i hope the description of blacking out makes sense, based this on my own experiences since i remember them rather vividly cause i find them very scary oof

@midnightpretenders0 @stormbornpirate

on ao3

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Everything ached. Brushing a hand through his sweaty hair, Cassidy glanced down at the title belt barely hanging on his healthy hand, letting out an exhausted sigh as he pushed the locker room door open. Alongside the cool air hitting him in the face as the door opened, he spotted a familiar face turning into all smiles as soon as the Brit’s eyes landed on him. He had obviously been here waiting for Cassidy to finish his match of the night so they could eventually leave the arena together.

As Cassidy closed the door after him and Kip got up from his seat to meet up with him, his brows furrowed a little as he got closer to the blond.

“Are you okay? You’re so pale, you look terrible.”

Cassidy snorted a little at his carefree bluntness, but just ended up shrugging. Truth to be told, he felt probably as bad as he looked, the exhaustion of these high profile title matches week in and week out was steadily wearing him out, the plentiful of injuries not really helping his case much. No matter what he tried, everything hurt, even thinking at this point often felt like an exhausting activity, but Cassidy just kept pushing through, knowing that he didn’t have much of an option.

“Well, you did great out there tonight,” Kip smiled at him as he walked up to him, pressing a quick kiss on his cheek. “I’m proud of you.”

Cassidy nodded, remaining silent. He didn’t really have anything to say, trying to find proper words for the situation was difficult to him. He just let Kip continue talking, his words barely registering as more than a muddled mess in Cassidy’s ears.

He didn’t resist as Kip took the jacket and the backpack he was carrying, leaving the title in the deserving champions hands. Cassidy watched as Kip walked with them back to the couch he had been sitting on earlier, emptying his hands over there while he kept talking about something Cassidy couldn’t hear anymore.

The more Kip talked, the more his words were turning into high pitched screeches in Cassidy’s ears, until that was all he could hear.

He could feel the cold sweat rolling over him, his hands suddenly shaky as the screeching turned into static in his eyes, blurring his vision before everything went dark.

Shit.

It took Cassidy a moment to feel his body again, slowly the coldness of the hard floor underneath him registering with him as it pressed against his hot skin. He could feel a soft breeze on his face, as his eyes finally slowly fluttered open and his vision focused a little, he was met with a familiar worried face staring back at him, Kip’s hand fanning some air on his face.

“Oh thank god,” Kip sighed, Cassidy barely registering the relief that washed over his face. “How do you feel?”

Cassidy blinked blankly at him a couple of times, trying to process the sudden change of position he found himself in. He was slowly regaining consciousness in his body, finding himself on the floor, head propped slightly up on Kip’s lap. “Wha… What happened?”

“You blacked out. You’re lucky I got you, you could have hit your head really badly.”

As Cassidy stirred, wanting to get back on his feet as soon as possible, he didn’t have the energy in him to fight it as Kip gently but firmly stopped him by grabbing him by the shoulders, pushing him down to keep him in place.

“No, stay there. You’re not moving until I make sure you’re okay.”

Cassidy was annoyed, but let it go, knowing how hard headed Kip could be about all of this. To be honest he didn’t really want to be, sure the hard floor was uncomfortable to lay on, but at the same time the coldness of it was calming to him, helping him ground himself after yet another exhausting bout he had just come back from. Cassidy was so used to being the fighting champion, never taking a day off and never backing down from a challenge, that settling down for a break was really hard for him. The injured hand constantly bugging him and leading to restless nights and constant worry didn’t really help his case, if he was being honest.

Which was probably why he was here right now. He could vaguely remember Kip telling him to slow down a few times, but he didn’t really listen to him, telling both Kip and himself that he could do it, that there was nothing to worry about, that everything was fine.

Well… Turns out on the long run things weren’t really fine, now were they?

After a while Kip carefully helped him up from the floor, walking Cassidy to the couch. He was visibly shaky and barely able to walk on his own, but for once allowed himself to be helped. Cassidy wasn’t one to push his friends away when he needed them obviously, but at the same time he was usually a very proud and independent champion. He was hardheaded, Kip knew that much, but he was glad Cassidy was giving him this chance to actually help him.

Searching through his bag for a while, Kip finally presented him with a water bottle. Cassidy gladly accepted it, barely able to screw the bottle open on his own, but as he finally did, even the lukewarm water felt so good and cooling as he got a few sips of it down.

Kip watched him carefully as he took a seat on the armrest of the couch. Cassidy leaned his head back, closing his eyes as he took in a few deep breaths.

“You should have told me.”

Cassidy didn’t reply to him, but Kip could see him tense up a little at his voice. Kip didn’t try to be accusing or demanding, far from it, but it was obviously the words, not his tone, that got to the champion at that time.

“You should have said you were so tired.”

As the silence lingered on, Kip just sighed as he looked around the empty locker room a little, fidgeting with his hands, but slowly a little smile made its way on his lips again.

“But that’s fine. I know now. And now that I do, I can actually do something about it.”

Cassidy opened his eyes, head tilting slightly to the side as he looked at Kip, whose eyes returned back to him as well, sending Cassidy a smile.

“So you’re going to relax tonight. I’m gonna drive us back to the hotel, take care of food, feed you if I have to, the whole nine yards. Whatever you need, I’m there for you.”

Cassidy chuckled at him dryly, both at Kip’s sudden enthusiasm over the caretaker role that had suddenly pushed onto him, and the thought of him doing all these things. If there was one thing Cassidy for sure knew about Kip, it was that he was all talk and less action. “Everything? Kip, come on…���

“Yes, everything,” Kip stated with a nod as he pushed himself up from the armrest, leaning in closer to Cassidy as he walked by him, pressing a little kiss on his lips. “Just leave it to me. You need the rest.”

As much as Cassidy wanted to argue back on him on that, he was just too exhausted to do so. Remaining quiet, he watched as Kip walked around the locker room, continuing to talk about something Cassidy didn’t really register, while collecting their belongings and clothes for Cassidy to change into from around the room.

Yeah… Maybe this once he could give into Kip’s demands. Maybe this once.

[sylvaridreams]

I'm debating... changing some colors on Eldulis. :hear:

[crossthread]

Hot take? Unpopular take?? Imma try to get somewhere with this point but like. I really think reading fanfiction inherently increased my standards for literature.

Cause for a while now I've only solely read fics in the past few years, like probably finished like two published books a year maybe (even though if I count my fic reads I'd easily be in the 100s from word count alone) and like. Recently got into the YA side of booktok, tried reading several of the most popular ones cause i kinda miss published books, and I just. side eye that shit?? Best example is ACOTAR. Read like 4 books in that series. Kinda get why it's popular cause the overall the main plot points (hot romance and kinda Mary sue protag) are good enough to get you into it but like. I genuinely had to force myself to finish it?? I have no idea why this is so popular.

Cause literally when I hold the ACOTAR up to my top 20 fics. Nothing. Not even my top 50 fics. Cause first off the plot is good enough but it's not something I've never seen before either. Same with characters. The writing style?? Straight up nope. Like. Is this really the standards for a good story?? There's so many good authors that write excellent smut and plot and characterization and just FANTASTIC writing style and overall quality of work and just. I don't get it.

I'm assuming this is a me thing, because I tried going through several YA novels and just. The quality of writing reeeally leaves a lot to be desired. The best thing I can come up with for the reason behind me feeling like this about YA is that the last time I was reading insanely, I was a teen, and now I'm in my early 20s so there's a good possibility that the same things don't intrest me anymore. But I keep circling back to the level of writing cause like. Idk. Just. I feel like while the plot and characters for a lot of these novels are good, what falls short is how it's written??? Like wtf.

[boyfeminism]

guy whose work is letting hir experiment with the challah recipe <3

[jieanette]

when you're a Lenna fan but HOLY SHIT the amount of AI art she has. not to mention she always have big tits, which I don't mind big tits, but why on her?? From the official art her chest is supposedly flatter than a lot of the FF girls. she does not look nice with big tits im so sorry y'all... please bring back amano lenna...

[schoolgirl739]

I miss A$AP Rocky 😔🙏