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robocops-a-christ-allegory · 7 months ago
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Ok Suicide Squad Isekai thoughts for real now genuinely I think this is a good little suicide squad thing AS WELL as really good Peacemaker content. I was right about him just being Kupperberg Peacemaker I dont know what the fuck happened but I was right and he was wearing that bag for the first three episodes
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Im so happy its unreal
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vaguely-humanoid-form · 3 days ago
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maybe I haven't been looking at the sky
post-sonic 3 fic about stone. stobotnik too. oh yeah baby it's time for some pain.
word count is a bit under 3.6k
featuring: grief like so much grief, lots of hurt, a smidgen of comfort, second-person narration, so many goddamn timestamps, did I mention hurt, acknowledgement of shadow the hedgehog being like an actual teenager, shadow the hedgehog being kind of like a weird cat, the smallest hint of sonadow, and, of course, hurt.
have fun! >:3
p.s.: the title is from Maud Gone by Car Seat Headrest because I like that song and it fits too well
June 24, 2024, 3:26 AM
You wake up.
You don't immediately open your eyes, though, because if you stay in the darkness, you can pretend that everything is alright. You can pretend that nothing's changed.
You can pretend he's still here.
You open your eyes.
It's still dark, and you can only just barely make out the hotel room ceiling above you.
You can hear the soft pitter-patter of the London rain against the window.
You spare a glance at the clock on the bedside table.
You know you won't be able to fall asleep.
Four hours of rest is enough, anyway.
You get up.
You take a shower.
Your reflection in the mirror seems to bore holes through your skull.
You brush your teeth, and you get dressed.
You work, because you have nothing else to do.
You go to get shitty hotel coffee and breakfast.
On instinct, you grab two cups.
You decide you don't want coffee anymore.
June 24, 2024, 12:58 PM
Your lunch is tasteless, and not just because it's British.
You think you would've laughed at that only 24 hours ago.
You don't think about if he would've.
You don't have much to work on.
Your hands itch. Everything feels so still. So static.
You try not to think about it. You try to think about anything else.
You think about how cold it is for a summer day.
You think about the smell of rain on the sidewalk.
You don't look at the sky.
You count your steps to fill your mind with something, anything.
It takes you precisely 673 steps to get back to your hotel from the lunch spot.
You don't think about how odd it feels to walk so slowly.
You don't think about how lonely you are.
You don't think about the Crab sunk in the Thames.
You don't think about him.
June 24, 2024, 7:31 PM
It's been 24 hours since it happened.
You feel empty.
You feel empty and sweaty and gross despite the wind chill and you shower again.
Your reflection stares at you again. It accuses you, blames you. It says it's your fault.
In its eyes, you can almost see something like him.
You cover the mirror.
You get yourself ready for bed, and you lay there under the hotel duvet, air conditioner blasting, and you shiver, but you don't get up to change it.
The Doctor prefers it cold, so–
You stare at the ceiling. It looks blurrier than usual.
You don't fall asleep for another few hours.
June 30, 2024, 1:08 PM
Montana is certainly better than London. At least, you'd say so.
It was a good idea to keep paying the lease on the Mean Bean. It's something you know.
You can't decide whether the familiarity makes you feel better or worse.
At least G.U.N. doesn't want anything to do with you, which you are more than welcome to.
Your “house,” if it can even be called that, what with its studio apartment style, in the back of the Mean Bean feels foreign to you, but the warmth feels nice.
The café stays cold.
You say it's to save money on the heating bill.
You were always good at pretending.
July 23, 2024, 4:23 PM
It's been exactly one month.
The hedgehog visits you today.
You know you should be plotting against him. You should be planning your revenge. You should be scheming to get rid of him once and for all–
But you're just so tired.
And in the end, he didn't want what happened, either.
He smiles at you as he orders a hot chocolate, but you can see the tightness in his face.
You bring up the other hedgehog, Shadow, and he falters for a moment.
You don't smile, not really, but your face softens as you come to an understanding.
You can't talk about him, but listening to Sonic talk about Shadow helps to dull the pain for a moment.
Before he leaves, Sonic gives you a sad smile, and tells you he's sorry about the Doctor.
Your throat closes up.
You stand still as the door opens and closes.
Your hands are shaking as you close.
August 16, 2024, 1:15 PM
Ever since he visited you the first time, Sonic has come back every other day for a hot chocolate and a chat.
The kid seems to always have something to say. You suppose he's hyperactive in many ways.
He's nice to you, and a part of you hates it, but you can't get yourself to get rid of the kid. Even if he says he stops by to check on how you're doing, you know it's helpful for him, too.
Deep down, you feel guilty for commiserating with the enemy. The guilt is something you opt to push down, though, because it makes you think of him.
You're interrupted when Sonic walks through the door with his human quasi-father in tow. Tom, you think his name is.
If you're honest, he looks like shit. His arm is in a cast and he's walking with a slight limp. The bags under his eyes are nothing to scoff at, either, but he gives you a soft smile.
He only orders a water, and drinks it slowly as Sonic chatters at his side about the shop.
You know he's been worried about Tom, and you're glad to see he's alright, but a twinge of resentment bites at you.
Why couldn't have you gotten a happy ending, too?
August 27, 2024, 1:00 PM
He's back again, and he brought his friends: the fox and the echidna.
You freeze for a moment when you see the fox. The conversation you had with him plays in the back of your mind and you relentlessly shoo it away.
The echidna is still annoying, but it's funny to see him order a shot of espresso and then immediately choke when he takes one sip.
When you're not trying to fight each other, they're good kids. You appreciate the effort they're making, at the very least.
It's nice to have noise to fill up the air. Helps quiet the thoughts a little bit, especially when the shop doesn't get much traffic these days.
Chatting with the alien children gives you something to do, too, since you can't do latte art anymore.
Your hands start shaking the moment you try.
So, you listen to them talk: teasing each other, making bad jokes, ranting about this or that.
When they leave, they all say goodbye, and while the silence is still suffocating, you're finding it slightly easier to breathe.
September 10, 2024, 8:01 AM
It's his birthday today, and you can't get yourself out of bed.
You can't even properly cry. Quiet tears roll down your face and stain your pillow.
You can't get back to sleep, either. You don't know if you would even want to. You don't know if you could bear to see his face in your dreams.
You stare at the brick wall, bare of photos or posters or plans, and you can't get yourself to look away.
September 10, 2024, 1:30 PM
The door to your “house” opens and you jump from your bed.
Team Sonic broke into your house.
You would be angry. You should be angry. But you can't muster up the energy.
Sonic says something that you don't register, and Knuckles proudly holds out a messily-made cupcake in front of him.
When you get a closer look…
Oh.
It's for the Doctor.
When you look up, Sonic is giving you that same sad smile he did the first time he came to the cafe. He says he knows how you've been going through a hard time, and that since today is the Doctor’s birthday, he wanted to do something special.
It takes everything in your being to not burst out sobbing in front of the kids.
You all sit around the cupcake and sing to it.
You falter on the name. They don't seem to mind.
You can't bear to eat any of the cupcake, so you stick it in the fridge.
The second those kids are out the door, you cry so hard you can barely stand.
September 12, 2024, 1:12 PM
Tails bursts through the shop door, startling you and the single customer sitting at a table in the corner.
He starts talking, so fast you can only make out a few words.
Before you can tell him to slow down, Sonic runs in after him, smiling brighter than the sun and presenting to you…
…Shadow?
You nearly short-circuit.
How is he alive?
You ask as much, and they all shrug their shoulders, minus Shadow who stands there staring at you without expression.
Apparently, Shadow has some sort of minor amnesia. He can't remember much immediately before…
Well.
But, still, he's alive.
And that sparks something deep in your chest.
You wouldn't dare to believe anything. You know he's… gone.
But a tiny, near molecular voice in the back of your head says what if?
And you can't give into it, but the voice, small as it is, nestles itself in between your cerebrum and cerebellum.
Back to reality, the alien children have decided that Shadow will stay with you.
Their home doesn't have the room for yet another anthropomorphic hedgehog in it, apparently.
You don't seem to have a say in the matter.
You can't say you mind too much.
September 12, 2024, 4:25 PM
You take him in and set up a futon in a clear area of your house.
You give him a tour, which really isn't much considering there are only two actual rooms.
He follows you around, nodding or shaking his head slightly whenever you ask him a question. He's quiet. Shy, even.
You make a simple dinner in silence, and he mumbles a thank you when you hand him his plate.
He falls asleep while you're working, and when you get a closer look at him…
…Did he always look that young?
Minus the 50 years he spent in stasis, he couldn't have been more than 15. Maybe 16, if you're being generous.
His brows furrow in his slumber, painfully familiar, and you're suddenly reminded of the fact that he is, in a way, a Robotnik.
You draw in a sharp breath and blink away the stinging in your eyes.
Maybe you'll sleep early.
September 23, 2024, 1:08 PM
Three months.
It's been three months since it happened, and the pain has only barely dulled.
You're starting to wonder if the coping mechanism of bottling everything up as much as you possibly can isn't working as well as you thought it would.
Shadow has opened up more, at least. He's still quiet and sometimes stares at you, wide-eyed and expressionless, but you've had a good few conversations with him.
You've shown him how to operate some of the coffee machines, even if he isn't quite tall enough to reach them very well on his own.
Every day you spend with him, the more it sets in just how young he is.
For the first week or two after… what happened, you resented him for being a part of it all. But now?
You just see a scared kid.
Team Sonic has been back to the Mean Bean a few times since Shadow arrived. He's incredibly socially awkward and is not one for idle chit-chat, but you've seen a hint of a smile on his face a couple times, and that's enough for you.
His memories have been returning slowly. Despite the voice screaming at you at every waking moment, you don't want to hold out hope. You don't want to be crushed again when the inevitable reality hits you that he is really gone.
You remember when it happened, when three months ago, you watched the Doctor dedicate his last words to you.
You remember going through every stage of grief and then some all at once.
You remember thinking you were done with that process, then, after it hit you like a freight train in all of 20 seconds.
You checked into a hotel, perfectly calm. You went up the elevator, fine. You unlocked the door to your room, ok.
Then you shut the door behind you and realized you'd accidentally gotten a room with two beds.
You remember the taste of bile at the back of your throat.
You blink and you're back where you were, alien children conversing at the counter in your coffee shop. You realize you've been holding the same empty mug and towel for a while.
When you set them down, your palm is indented from the fabric.
October 12, 2024, 2:00 PM
Shadow has warmed up to everything a lot more since he arrived last month.
You've seen him shoot back straight espresso like it was water, which drove Knuckles insane, and, for whatever reason, made you glow with pride.
He's slowly started asking for things directly: meals, things to do, what have you. You finally got to make that revenge guac for you both. It was great.
You had to try to not choke on it.
He's insanely excited for Halloween. It's refreshing to see him like this. He's usually a pretty doom-and-gloom type of guy, and there's a pain within him that you resonate with. But right now, he looks so happy, asking if you can decorate the cafe for the holiday. Of course, you do.
His memory is almost fully restored, too. You're happy about it, but it also instills an intense anxiety in you.
You aren't sure which situation it is that's making you feel like this.
Maybe both.
It'll be 4 months in a little under a week.
You don't think it's stopped hurting.
When you get a moment to be alone, it all comes rushing back at you, and suddenly you feel like you did when it first happened.
But the hurting isn't that bad all the time. Not anymore.
It settles in your chest when you're distracted by something, knocking on your ribs when you're reminded of it.
It's constant, like a bruise that just won't go away.
But it's manageable.
What is less manageable, however, is the voice.
Every day that passes, the voice gets louder, crawling further into your brain and making itself known.
Hell, it's even shown up in your dreams.
As annoying as it is, though, it makes you think about your grief beyond what you had been.
Whenever you have one of the dreams, you wake up and shower, and sit in the water and think.
Mostly, your brain has focused on his absence. The fact that he's… gone.
But, then you start to wonder.
Would this have happened if you'd told him? Would he be gone if he knew how you felt?
Would that have even changed anything?
You have to stop before you spiral too far. Asking questions is dangerous.
You convince yourself that it's just the shower water running down your cheeks, even if your eyes burn.
October 23, 2024, 1:02 AM
You wake up.
You don't immediately open your eyes, though, because if you stay in the darkness, you can pretend that everything is alright. You can pretend that nothing's changed.
You can pretend he's still here.
You open your eyes.
The room is not silent. Faraway thunder rumbles in the sky and Shadow lightly snores from where he sleeps.
It's four months now, and you've suddenly forgotten how to feel numb.
Your hypothesis about emotional suppression seems to be correct.
You sit up.
You stare at your hands.
You can't breathe.
At first, you think someone is trying to kill you. That's the obvious answer.
But then you feel the tear drop down to the tip of your nose.
And then you break.
You lose all sense of time as your vision is flooded. You hiccup between sobs and you know you've always been an ugly crier.
What makes it worse is when you feel a hesitant hand on your shoulder, and look over to see Shadow looking at you with so much concern and understanding.
You don't want to cry in front of him. You're meant to be strong for him, for this kid that you've grown closer to, for this kid that you want to take care of.
But when he reaches up to hug you, all you can do is fall apart on his shoulder. And you feel so bad, because no kid should ever have to be the one to comfort an adult, but the tears keep coming and you can't make them stop.
You don't know how long you sat there, weeping on him, when it seems the well has run dry.
You try to mutter an apology to him, but he gets up and walks away. You stare at nothing in front of you and curse yourself for making this child have to support you, but he comes back with a glass of water, averting his eyes nervously.
You think back to the first week he was here.
He'd had a nightmare and woke up screaming and crying. When you'd gone to comfort him, you brought him a glass of water.
You had awkwardly stuttered about how crying can be dehydrating in a sad attempt to make him feel better, social skills be damned, and it had worked.
That was the first time he'd really smiled at you.
And now he's doing the same for you.
He says something similar about water and dehydration and you can't entirely understand what he's saying, but you smile as best you can through the tears in your eyes and take the glass with a choked thank you.
He lights up at the affirmation, and you feel a warmth bloom in your chest as you realize that you are to Shadow as Tom is to Sonic.
You gently ruffle the top of Shadow's head, the corner of your mouth quirking up. He flusters at the action and tilts his head, almost like a cat, you think, sporting a ghost of a smirk.
You tell him you're alright now and to go back to bed, and you yourself fall asleep with the knowledge that you are this weird alien hedgehog’s weird quasi-father, and you don't mind it one bit.
October 31, 2024, 5:30 PM
Turns out Tom and Maddie made a costume for Shadow. Sonic had apparently told them about something Shadow said about it after one of his trips to the Mean Bean, and they'd decided to surprise him. Needless to say, he was ecstatic. Others may not have registered the level of happiness he was at, but you know Shadow.
You know your boy.
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails somehow convinced Shadow to go trick-or-treating with them. You encouraged him, too. He seemed a bit nervous, and even sort of embarrassed, but he ultimately agreed, smiling as he waved goodbye to you.
This was the first time in a while that you've been really alone. The pain starts to catch up to you and for a moment, you feel incredibly empty. Your throat begins to tighten.
You take a deep breath as the grief curls up once more, resting for the moment. It makes you cold.
You make yourself a simple latte and draw a little jack-o'-lantern on the top. Your hands still shake, but it's not too much to deal with.
You doubt anyone else will come into the shop. You already planned to close early for Halloween, and the sign at the front tells as much to any prospective customers.
You turn to begin dealing with the back counter, cleaning the machines and putting things back to where they belong. You've grown fond of the routine.
Then you hear the door open, and turn around to see Shadow running into the shop. His eyes are bright, brighter than you've ever seen them.
He tells you that he remembers everything now. He says, excited—God, it makes you happy to see him excited—that his memory is back and he can tell you what happened to–
The door opens again.
You look up.
He's there.
He's alive.
You stand there for a moment, completely still, completely silent.
You almost scream.
You leap over the counter, running and tackling him in the tightest hug you've ever given anyone.
He smells horrible. Like smoke and sulfur and dirt and grime and he's alive and he's holding onto you just as strong as you are and the voice is cheering and exploding into fireworks in your brain and the pain squeezes your heart in its hands and he's alive.
You don't even notice when the tears begin to fall. You only notice his pulse, alive, his breath, alive, his arms around you, alive, alive, alive.
When you finally pull back after what feels like both an eternity and a millisecond, you get a look at his face, and you put it in your hands and holy shit he is alive.
He looks absolutely disheveled and it's possibly the most beautiful thing you've ever seen, and then he smiles, wide, genuine, warm, so rare, so real, and then he leans forward and kisses you and you can't think anymore.
He tastes awful and you've never loved him more than you do now.
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moeblob · 2 months ago
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OC !
#my characters#i missed her so much wowee#her name is katale and thats what she goes by EXCEPT her best friend (and ex boyfriend and boss) who gets to call her kitty#hes just like the all around best guy in her life and she loves him a whole lot#and even though they broke up they have a very loving friendship and shes like#oh i would absolutely kill for him and in fact i am VERY good at killing im honing my skills :3#and her family is actually just a bunch of criminals and the only reason the other guy gets involved#is bc he needs fast money to help his mom with hospital bills and so hes like hey my mom doesnt need to know how shes alive#and then he somehow becomes head honcho and is a rumored to be ruthless man#but hes just incredibly level headed and able to think his way up (and kills a few unpleasant family members for kitty)#and if shes running out and about you can even hear him say shit like#my wife left me i miss my wife#and everyone knows he means katale but no one knows how to react bc its clearly a joke (???) since they broke up#but no one is telling their boss to elaborate the wife situation#kitty however is the entire reason that she gets this lil puppy of an agent to not kill rudyard her dear boss#and somehow they adopt this grown man and also his really weird mentor who faked their death#but they love their puppy son boy agent man#and kitty is super happy to dote on the agent but even she has her lines like WHY DID YOU JUST HAND HIM A GUN#RUDYARD HE TRIED TO KILL YOU LIKE LAST MONTH WHAT ARE YOU DOING#and rudyard is just ??? can i NOT shove a gun into his hands now? what is that? a crime? really? gonna tell on me? a criminal? for crimes?#but genuinely it stresses her out bc she loves her adopted son but loves her best friend and eventually she realizes#ok puppy agent man is loyal to them but not a criminal thats ok#while rudyard is like ... passing him guns to try out as a bonding thing#but also he is fascinated with how good the agents aim is like hey kitty you should watch how far he can shoot perfectly#hey kitty remember all those dead underlings and how precise their kills were to make them not suffer this guy is really good#also for what its worth ruds mom is still alive! shes just in a nursing home now and he goes to visit her#kitty and rudyard have such a fun dynamic to me and both are murderers but its okay (its not)#also kitty likes anime and she has forced rud to watch anime with her and he just accepts his fate#bc it makes kitty happy to share so he will watch to make her happy even if he doesnt understand all the appeal
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taxlthomas · 7 days ago
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Pretty cool news as of today ive been drawing looney tunes for a whole year (yay yippee!) and have gotten prettyyy good if i do say so myself in just that time, but also bad news today water doesn’t work for anyone in the area and allegedly isn’t going to for days AND im still sick and everything is terrible
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skunkes · 4 months ago
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ok ok i have another way to word my thots about the movies thus far:
i think Art is pretty iconic design wise. Im not against gory slashers I think we should have more of those and I like that a series so "shocking" is doing so well...its more like.
The franchise establishes pretty immediately that it's not Serious...as mentioned the first movie has a naked woman sawed in half from crotch down so idk how you'd even make it to the 3rd one without knowing How It Is. But with how the first one barely has any plot, and the second one has A Bit More but drags on and on...its like... SO FAR (because I haven't seen the 3rd one) these movies aren't Fun to watch ykwim.
I know Saw isn't a good comparison bc its a different genre within horror but the franchise really is like a telenovela... its so stupid (good) and it has lots to complain about and pick at in the FUN way, like poking fun at peepaw and his warehouses and home depot purchases, going "are you kidding me thats so dumb" at that scene where hoffman manages to be snuck into the station in a body bag to start killing people. Varuous moments of stupid ass dialogue writing. Im not saying it cant be boring or unliked but i think it has a good balance of everything (eyerolling moments, plot, "lighthearted" and humorous moments, intentional or not) even if its not a masterpiece in the writing department.
And that's just within the series, I usually avoid bringing up fandom bc that's obviously a different beast I rarely even touch but its more about how its fandom actually has that foundation to go off of. Like you know enough about peepaw's backstory and such to springboard off of, regardless of it being good or not
Here it's like man there's a hot cool clown, lots of gore, really corny and cornily acted out writing, and its not even FUN? 😭 2 movies (again I haven't made it to the 3rd) and I wouldn't watch them again, not because of the gore but because despite not being serious, reinforced by that very drawn out over the top kill in the second one, it's not even fun... you cant even attach to the silly dialogue because the whole rest of the movie is a drag. Does this make sense? It's like. Everything combined to make it Not Fun. Whereas at least with Saw you can start joking about how someone just wasn't trying hard enough to win peepaw's foundationally silly ass "you tried to kill yourself now you're in the try not to kill yourself" trap.
It's at odds with itself. I've seen like one Halloween movie and can barely even remember it but I know all the jokes about outrunning Michael Myers (and that cat and mouse is also Fun)...theres also like 50 of those movies I KNOW theyre probably also fun to watch and complain about the absurdity... I think the issue here might also be the straightforwardness and point A point B of it all. There's not really much anyone can do against Art, which is fine, some saw traps are literally unwinnable after all. But Terrifier doesn't even give you the chance to, like, boast about how you definitely could have survived the Silence Circle trap because you're not an idiot... it's just not Fun. To me.
I think Art himself is fun and the corny dialogue are fun. I'll even go ahead and say the gore is fun because again like come on the clown literally rips a guys cock off its Absurd... but they seem to be trapped in movie(s) that so far aren't fun
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abirddogmoment · 9 months ago
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A little bit about CKC pointing field trials (puppy stakes) in general for those who are interested in how they run.
CKC has its hunting dog events broken out pretty specifically. CKC is restrictive in which breeds can run which events (e.g., only CKC registered approved pointing breeds can run pointing tests, other breeds are excluded even if they technically could complete the exercises. Rory can only run pointing events, she couldn't do a retriever test or a spaniel test).
We also have a distinction in trials vs tests, as most other venues do.
Trials - you are competing against other people and being judged against a standard. You run in pairs. Top 4 dogs get placements, once you get enough points you get a field championship.
Tests - you are running alone and being judged against a standard for a qualifying/non-qualifying runs. 3 qualifying runs gets you a title.
We are currently running CKC pointing field trials.
CKC pointing trials have two main distinctions within them - puppy stakes and senior stakes. You can enter whichever stake you're ready for, with some exceptions (like age) - you don't have to run puppy stakes before running senior stakes.
Puppy stakes are a little lower pressure because they judge puppies' potential. Within puppy stakes, there are two main types of runs.
Open puppy stakes: any puppy *of eligible breed* between 6 and 18 months old. No birds hidden in the field, no gunshots on the course, 15-20 minutes running.
Derby stakes: any puppy of eligible breed between 6 and 27 months old. At least two birds hidden in the field, puppy needs to point birds if encountered, gunshots, 20-30 minutes.
We run open puppy for now. Here's how this goes:
We are randomly paired with another puppy and handler (this pairing is called a brace, the other handler and dog are our bracemates). We walk up to the start line together (usually the entrance to a big pasture) with our puppies on leash. Two judges (on ATV or horseback) give us a quick overview of the course we have to walk. The course is usually through a big open field with medium cover (think knee high grasses and shrubs, some wetlands, some hills but no forest) and typically avoids fencelines or roads. They tell us to release our dogs at the same time, so we let the dogs off leash and start walking (very fast, and I'm a fast walker to begin with). The course is usually huge, much bigger than we could possibly walk in 20 mins.
Usually the puppies play a little bit and then get to work. The judges are looking for puppies who can ignore the other dog and handler, judges, ATV, horses, and spectators, hunt independently, cover lots of ground (move fast and steady across the terrain while still sniffing), use the wind to follow scent, and respond to their handlers' directions. If the puppies want to play too much, the judges will ask the handlers to split up a little bit to encourage the puppies to work independently. Usually you stick within about 10m (25ft) of your bracemate. Puppies can range anywhere as long as they stay visible and ahead of their handlers. (Puppies are often about several hundred metres/yards away from their handlers depending on breed. Rory ranges about 50-100m in real life and about 75-300m in field trials. It is an exhilarating exercise in trust in my training.)
The judges follow behind us and then spectators can follow behind the judges, if they want. We have to keep up a very fast pace to encourage the puppies to cover as much ground as possible, not at a jog but pretty close.
In puppy stakes, you want to keep as quiet as you can. The judges are looking for instinct and basic potential, so you don't want to ruin that by giving your dog tons of directions. If your puppy follows directions, that suggests they need directions to function. If your dog ignores directions, that's unresponsive and also bad. Ideally you shouldn't say much during your run unless there's danger (if a deer runs out, you would recall your puppy) or evils (if your puppy is eating poop, you could recall or redirect). You are allowed to chat with your bracemate but you have to hustle fast so it's usually friendly but minimal.
One important piece of open puppy stakes is that there are no planted birds in the field! There may be wild birds, but it's unlikely. Many people "over train" their bird dog puppies on live birds, and then the puppies get really frustrated that there are no birds in the field after they search so hard. This causes puppies to slow down or give up entirely during their run, so this is something that judges look for. In real life hunting, there's no guarantee of birds so it's important that puppies can work through frustration without losing enthusiasm.
The judges kind of shout directions (go left, head for those trees) from behind to keep us on course. In the best courses, the judges make you walk a loop, but sometimes your time ends in the middle of a field. When your time is up, the judges will thank you and tell you to leash your dog. We recall our puppies and put them on leash and walk them back to our cars for water and snacks.
That's the whole run for open puppy! It's very low pressure. The puppies basically just follow their hearts and do what they were made to do.
Derby is extremely similar, except there are birds planted in the field. The puppies don't HAVE to find birds but obviously its preferable that they do. If they find birds, they must point (stop moving and stand still staring at the bird). They don't have to be steady to flush or shot (they can chase when the bird flies or when the gun goes off), and only blanks are shot in derby. The course is a little longer but everything else is the same.
In open puppy and derby stakes, the judges are just looking for potential. They want to know if your dog would be competitive in the senior stakes, so they're looking for lots of independence, lots of bird drive, lots of stamina, things like that. Because they're judging potential, younger puppies may be judged a little easier than older puppies.
I think that's the gist of puppy stakes in CKC pointing field trials! Send me a message if you have questions about our experience so far!
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milkbreadtoast · 1 year ago
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random but i resolved to post abt it every time i find a webtoon that I enjoy... and lately I've been having fun reading this one...
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*rubs nose* heh... I do dabble in het from time to time... no but seriously it's a p straightforward lighthearted enemies to lovers romcom, not groundbreaking or anything yet im over here kicking my feet and giggling the main couple is SO cute to me... i luv them... I actually couldnt wait to find out what happens next so ive been slowly reading ahead in the kor whenever i have time and they're sooo cute😭😭 I also like the art style and costume design a lot!! it gives me like. a nostalgic 90s shoujo anime vibe tbh... w the puffy hair and babyfaces...
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shibusawaz · 1 year ago
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am i the only one who finds tiktok hate on tumblr a little like. excessive.
let's be real here. tiktok is, by majority i'd say, teenagers. yes, those teenagers sometimes do and say stupid things. but a lot of you guys here are in your twenties, or older. and like, as a teenager who also does and says stupid things, not cool! it's not cool to be an adult making fun of teenagers doing things you know DAMN WELL you'd be doing too if you were our age.
you guys wanna preach and preach your live and let live lifestyle until oh! people on tiktok do something that copies you, and do it differently. oh no! oh my god! it's the end of the world!!! shut up
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skitskatdacat63 · 1 year ago
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This is my personal crossover event of the century
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#one of my favorite actors and one of my favorite drivers interacting??? what???#alright whos gonna be the brave soldier and write the matt damon × mark webber rpf fic-#(i read a fic w james bond/seb so imo it really wouldnt be too far off to write Linus Caldwell/Mark LMAO)#ive known abt this event practically since i got into f1 but i feel like my thoughts abt it keep developing every time i look at them again#first time: huh okay wow brad pitt & matt damon taking w mark thats really wild. f1 drivers really do be meeting w high level celebs#after i watched fight club: wow wow!! i cant believe theres pics of brad pitt with mark thats crazy!#after i watched oceans 11: omg wait oh yeah! when mark was in jaguar he was sponsored by oceans 12!!! thats sick!!!#and then recently w my increasing love for Matt Damon: WAIT OH MY GOD MARK HAS INTERACTED WITH MATT!!!! (two worlds colliding feel ig)#but i was watching some interview w matt where they referenced this happening so its relevant in my brain again so i had to post abt it#but of course in the vid the specific pic on screen was him and mark interacting and i died. like seriously i can never escape f1 and mark#mostly im freaking out bcs its truly the crossover event of all time concerning my interests specifically#but the lore behind this is genuinely really really interesting#the fact that theyre promoting a heist movie specifically and then they put a $300k diamond in the nose of the Jaguar#and then the Jaguar crashed during the race and the diamond disappeared?????? cmon literally itself could be the plot to an Oceans movie#RBR/teams sponsored by RB were so much fun back in the day!!#they had several back to back movie promotions which all were pretty fun! just a shame neither team was good back then#it was Oceans 12->SW:ROTS->Superman right? i can't remember if there was another#such a shame that neither mark nor seb were in RBR in 2005 when RBR was promoting ROTS#i think i actually wouldve exploded if there were pics of them w hayden or ewan(my prev fandom haha)#f1#formula 1#formula one#mark webber#matt damon
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itsalwaysdark · 5 months ago
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i like overthink everything now it makes me feel so dumb. i used 2 be able to just talk 2 ppl but nowadays every single thing im like Is that actually going to make them hate me. Yes probably. and then i just dont respond which makes ppl hate me. this is how it is
#ive been overthinking 1 light and casual mildly funny response to something but im worried itll come off as disrespectful and dismissive And#make me seem stupid and uncaring all at the same time. and also be seen as insulting. but like idt itd be insulting right like. im not#saying what it is so ig for all you guys know im like I mean if i say All your shit suck ball and i hateit kys. <- thats not the thing i was#going to say#like it doesnt matter now the window for response is closed now but i feel stupid bc i shouldve just said it it was light and casual. im so#bad at keeping convos gojng im convinced im not going to survive. In like a light and casual way like in a He will not make it through the#winter joke way. dw. im not going to do anything bc i had One failed interaction. if i was going to do anythjng itd be bc of the 8000000#other failed interactions. But im not. anyways. it just makes me feel so useless 😭 like i want to respond i want to talk to ppl so bad but#i feel like i mess things up Irreparably every time i speak OR i take too LONG overthinking my response and then i just cant respond bc its#been too long and then its been 3 years and the only messages ive ever sent r my intro message and 1 message 2 years ago that nobody#responded to at all. or the conversation stopped immediately after. and like i used to be better at this i was lkke. talkative in a couple#muts servers like. i talked 2 ppl daily in those servers and i had fun and like. I was an important part of the group and i felt like it#but i just feel like such an outsider for Everything and its literally my fault bc i cant just like. Talk. The explosion. bc im always like#im gonna try im gonna do it this time im gonna get it back im going to finally be Good connor and im going to fix it all and make a Good#solid friend group and ill find HEALTHY LOVE and i wont selfsabotage and ill move out and have a job and ill balance it well and ill start#all my hobbies and ill have a great routine and be so loveable and on top of it and not stressed and content and happy and roll with the#punches and then theres a single hiccup and im like Well fuckinf whatever im going to be an unemployed hermit forever and im going to die b4#im 25 anyways so Who cares and also im digging a little hole for myself. and its like. AUGHH ik i just have to persevere and overcome but#even saying that feels so stupid its not fucking hard its Talking to ppl. like. i literally if ive ever said a word to you i had to think#avt it and strategize how to respond right even for like. like. it makes it sound like its not genuine it is#like for example i want to say hey i love your art! but then i freak out and im like thats not normal thats like a rly generic comment they#hear that all the time theyll thjnk im being polite and my brains like hrmmm rewrite Your art changed my life. It shaped me. Ill never be#the same. Nad im like ok too far overcorrected go back and the sentence generator is like Your art has colors 💯 like. GOD. WHY IS IT SO#difficult. and then usually i either just dont say anythinf and feel awful abt it 4ever OR i send it on anon and then i spend like 15#minutes ibsessively slightly tweaking the apelling and capitalization and punctuation to make sure it doesnt seem like its me just in case#it Is the worst possible thing to say but then i see the response and itll be like AWWW TYSM :] THIS MEANS A LOT or whathaveyou and i feel#stupid bc i couldve just Told them this to their face and it wouldve been a good positive interaction we had. but instead i had 2 hide and#tyoe entirely differently so they couldnt sniff me from my typing style. and it soesnt even feel like the thanks is actually 4 me bc i#tweaked the message sm. and it still makes me happy that the oersons hapoy but its like. that couldve been a nice mutual interaction#like not that i need a personal ty i compliment ppl when i Want to compliment ppl and when its genuine yk. i dont do it so i get mutualpoint
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hiddenbeks · 2 months ago
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obsessed with liah and alek's dynamic btw......
#oc: liah#thinking abt them on this fine monday evening. also im back home from hospital again yay#anyway revan & alek/malak's relationship... it's something i need to study under a microscope#to me liah and alek r like theeee toxic worsties... always trying to one up each other... but also idk like#they make a perfect team they know each other so well. they hate each other they dont trust each other at all#no one understands them the way they understand each other!!!!#like they used to be actually genuinely good & supportive friends right?????? but there was always a teeny bit of rivalry#they were both so ambitious. and proud. and then the uhhh mandalorian wars began and so did their descent to the dark side...#and at first it's like... they're still besties... but gradually their relationship becomes a power struggle...#like the tension that always was there but only surfaced as playful banter or during sparring becomes full-blown hatred. and its nastyyy#and like on the surface they keep things professional and cooperative. however all the warmth of their friendship is gone#and beneath the surface they're like playing 5D chess#malak plotting his betrayal... liah trying to stay one step ahead and ensure that malak stays as number two...#and like??? maybe alek always knew he was second to liah... but back then he was ok with it...#but then the dark side took this feeling of inferiority and turned it into spiteful jealousy...#and maybe liah always knew she was the stronger jedi... and the dark side fed her pride and she grew obsessed with keeping it this way...#i still havent finished kotor btw. so this is all based on the vibes i've gathered so far... with my own embellishments.. etc#also the other day i learned that alek/malak is canonically 2 meters tall#and i lowkey wanna make liah shorter. to make the difference bigger#short queen and her tall sidekick (reluctant)... a fun juxtaposition...#but also i like 178 cm liah. hm#maybe if i make her like 173. still tallish but also noticeably shorter than the 2 meter guy standing menacingly behind her#anyway i need to listen to absolution again. u dont understand. it's The revan/malak/kotor album!!!!#i associate it with revan and kotor so strongly i can't think abt them without one of the songs starting to play in my head!!!!
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the-kipsabian · 1 year ago
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1/2, please bear with me cause this thing needs to be viewed as a whole and tumblr doesnt let me post the entire 11+ minute clip even if its well within the size limits
part 2 here
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pigeonliker420 · 9 months ago
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whatevers wrong with this man i like it
#i didnt expect to like touchstarved from what id seen from its fandom but when i finally tried the demo i was pleasantly surprised#i looked at the meta first cos i do things backwards and. man. what a good reminder that the most vocal fans also are the most stupid#girl you are misinterpreting The Text so badly that what you consider the subtext is suspicious#i felt bad for the leaps i was making from a single prologue but i see you people are jumping straight off the cliff with nothing so nvm#anyway leander do you want to fuck all your friends. do you want to fuck all your friends that hate you leander#i fear them making a green character associated with flowers snakes ouroboros masks and 8s was specifically an attack against me.#if only i hadn't found this like a year before official release. got dam#i could and would go on but the nurse has arrived with my sedative#its actually genuinely hard to pick a favourite they all have aspects i really like so far#at first kuras' subdued personality kind of washed off me but then his ending to the prologue was v fun and put him in a different light#wtf a vn with characters that are all hits for me. unfair#i love that u can ask them all about each other at the end there. love how its modelling its characters social fumbles#in particular given everything the promo material says about leander and vere and how they talk about each other#u can get a picture of a very fumbled situation there lmaooo between leanders savior complex and veres inability to set down real boundarie#butttt you know them all for less than a day... i wanna know what happened there
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sabrirene · 1 month ago
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i fear the 'surely someone's gonna save me' in sunshine baby has an incredible chokehold on me
#this Can't be the energy going into 2025 sighs#sabs speaks#lowkey had like four different meltdowns today over plans being changed and its like. can we be normal#and then my brain had the audacity to be like ur lying.#like girl what the fuck?? in what world are we doing this for fun#and then do u guys know the horror story of like vampire slumbering just have my headphones on genuinely vampire like and out of NOWHERE my#sister is just above me like Hi.#can u fix this dress for me#like in what world do u wake me up like that girl#i fixed the dress but still like. let me live#times like these im considering dropping out truly having that moment over u need to chill out before the stress kills you before the thing#that's supposed to has a chance#if this all seems disconjointed its because it is and is not hope this helps <3#i also want nothing more than to write about my blorbos but i saw people being wrong about them and now im like shit. maybe im wrong about#them#so i cant do it without feeling insane for that reason and for the second reason that i have other obligations#i think it should be illegal for education to give u things to do over the holidays they dont understand how much guilt i will feel not#getting things done and instead feeling horrific and not resting#i also think learning too much about my health has caused me to spiral a lot like the dr's being so chill about it whilst im in debilitatin#pain is not good for me actually. and has triggered the disability grief all over again#having my pmdd and my menstruation at the same time genuinely i felt like female hysteria and im scared for the next one#its a wonder i did Not do It#a little morbid i guess but i have Morbid hormone disorder shrugs#anyways. 2025 be better i hope#so scared to pull my cards for the year#less actually scared and more like. i dont knowww how much i have it in me to be brave anymore#congrats if u made it this far but mostly sorry to my scorpio rising
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arolesbianism · 4 months ago
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Sometimes I just look at Isabeau and just know that if isat came out and I got into it when I was like 16 he would be my favorite character and I would've gone absolutely buck wild over this man and feel like he was laser targeting me. But alas Odile has a grip of steel on me rn due to her virtue of being a middle aged woman
#rat rambles#stars posting#I feel like the biggest change in my taste in characters as the years have gone by is Im now far more biased towards old ppl lol#although tbf I was also the one person in 2016 who actually liked asgore so maybe Ive always liked parhetic old ppl#but yeah the reason isa is past me bait is because hes an exploration and subversion of the sort of tropes I Hated as a kid#and I still dont like them so isa still appeals to me its just not as much as he would have to a younger me#I do genuinely love all the party very dearly tho theyre all soooo good#I think my favorite part of isabeau is how like. of everyone we get to see the least facets of him but like in a very good way#this is a man who hides and bottles shit hes so fun to rotate#his self image is so carefully controlled compared to everyone else which makes him an incredibly interesting character to analyze#and I love that despite him seeming like the most emotionally stable person here on the surface he still clearly has like. hashtag issues.#like he's in that beautiful zone where its so so fun imagining what it would look like to truly break him#<- normal things that normal ppl say. like me.#I may have my very light beef with alt looping aus as a concept but hes probably the most interesting alternate looper to me#also my light beef exclusively relates to king quest stuff which is why Im a big fan of duo looper aus with sif#but honestly. isa might be the only one that I genuinely think works better as a solo looper even with taking king quest into account#although bonnie comes close. I <3 looper bonnie I <3 seeing fictional children go through the horrors#I think theres a lot of fun to be had with any alt looper au tho I just am a huge king quest fan so I like it when my favorite elements of#it dont have to be handwaved#but yeah the real question is how would younger me feel about mirabelle#because on the one hand: acearo character#but on the other hand: I have always been a little hater abt romance so idk if younger me would rly be able to follow her character well#I wasnt exactly good at character analysis back then lol#except for the instances in which I was but I dont have that sort of faith in my younger self#yknow Im thinking abt my history of favorite characters now and I think me being one of few 2016 alphys enjoyers might have been a prophecy#she was my quote unquote third favorite but in reality she was second#I think she chara and peridot su teamed up to define my taste in fictional characters for the next several years#and somehow that lead to olivia becoming one of my favorite fictional characters of all time#I say somehow as if that isnt a very natural conclusion
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autumnalfallingleaves · 7 months ago
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Btw I really can't overstate how "kicking my feet and twirling my hair" I am about the fact that The Search for WondLa, my favorite book series as a kid (and my first real hyperfixation, let's be real) has a show now, and, even though I'm not even halfway through yet, it's actually pretty good so far, bar the occasional change. I am living for this shit.
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