#just a super cool photo

[blujayonthewing]

[softly, and with a lot of feeling] holy shit

[abirddogmoment]

I love seeing Rory run in the field!! Bird dog doing bird dog things!! You said in the tags you had different training and priorities with her vs Mav re: offleash running like that. What kinds of things did you do differently with Rory to be comfortable having her offleash at a distance with reliable recall?

I was writing a whole novel but really it boils down to this chart. Under the cut because it's (vertically) long.

In short, it's just as much about what I didn't do with Maverick as what I did do with Aurora.

(Edited to add: I am extremely fortunate to live in the prairies where the kind of visibility I need is easy to find. Use my experience to inspire your own training if you like, but don't use it as a recipe. I have my own goals and my own priorities and those are likely different than yours.)

Maverick:

🔵 Supremely confident from day 1

🔵 Came home in August (extremely good and exciting time for outdoor adventures)

🔵 Prioritized specific sports behaviours over foundational building blocks like engagement and cooperation

🔵 Learned bad habits from my older dog at the time (prey drive > recall)

🔵 Was indiscriminately prey driven. If it moved, he wanted to kill it.

🔵 I phased out treats too fast and didn't want to use an ecollar or long line

🔵 I focused on "social media dog behaviours" (think like walking extremely close to me on trails) and got frustrated when we couldn't meet these rather than meeting my dog where he was at. This created a lot of frustration in our dog adventures.

🔵 I practiced recalls constantly when I didn't have to, making them a tedious behaviour for him. I would recall him 20-50 times a hike for everything from "you're too far away from me" to "I want to take a photo".

Aurora

🟣 Came to me a little insecure and looked to me for reassurance

🟣 Came home in December (a cold and relatively boring time for outdoor adventures)

🟣 I prioritized engagement, cooperation, and name recognition from day 1

🟣 Practiced good habits by walking offleash in the snow either alone or with Pike (amazing recall)

🟣 Is extremely birdy, but is very very focused. She easily calls off deer or people/dogs in the distance because she mostly cares about birds.

🟣 Literally always gets offered a high value snack for recalling or voluntary check ins (I will never phase this out, I will carry chunks of cheese on offleash walks for the rest of her life)

🟣 I never practice recalls if I don't need them. This one is hard to explain, but once Rory understood that long whistle = come back as fast as you can, I don't whistle unless I really need to. I recall her an average of 0-3 times per hike (*based on visibility or wildlife*) and trust her to make good decisions otherwise. I keep my eyeballs on her 100% of the time and choose areas with good visibility, but I don't recall her just for being far away.

🟣 I limit hikes where I have to nag her often (think, in the woods where I dont have a great line of sight and have to remind her to stay close to me) to a few times a month or less so she doesn't start getting frustrated about it.

🟣 I trust the training I put into her and choose to run her in areas with (relatively) reduced risk if she makes the "wrong" choice. I don't nitpick everything she does and I let her make her own choices, within reason.

🟣 I have an interrupter cue to ask her to stop doing something before I call her back (if she's digging a hole and I want her to move on, I use "Rory, enough! Here!") instead of whistling at her.

🟣 I don't force her attention on check ins. If she runs back to me and doesn't want a snack and wants to run straight back out, I let her run back out.

🟣 I have anticipatory cues for the end of a walk so I don't have to recall her when we get to the end of the field.

I want to say that it's nerve wracking to watch my dog sprint at full speed hundreds of yards away from me. I have to fight the impulse to recall her just because she's far away. It's an exercise in trust because I'm always worried about her going over the horizon, or running into a wildlife, or falling into a hole, but it's an important thing to work on if you have a dog that needs that trust to thrive.

Mav and I were a good team, but I never fully trusted him outdoors. I always had my finger on the ecollar buttons ready for him to do an evil and need to be vibrated. It was exhilarating to watch him in the field, but it wasn't really fun or relaxing.

Rory and I built a much stronger foundation of trust (I personally never would have been able to do this if I had more than one dog). She doesn't know any tricks yet, but I'm super confident in her recall and ability to take direction in the field, even when she's sprinting as fast as possible.

[pianokantzart]

Do you headcanon that everyone we saw during the dinner scene in the Mario Movie 2023 lives at that apartment, or that the uncles and aunt and cousin were just visiting that night? My impression was that they live there and I prefer that headcanon, but I've seen some people interpret it the other way- plus, if I recall, we only really see pictures of Mario and Luigi on the walls. Kind of odd to have no pictures of the little cousin if she lives there

I'm pretty sure everyone lives in that apartment. The whole family is gathered at the breakfast table later on in the movie, and since there was no established major holiday or event happening we can only conclude they all live under the same roof.

Also... as easy as it is to miss... there is a picture of Arthur's side of the family (including the little cousin) hanging up on the wall, it was just obscured for most of the scenes.

There's also a lot of pictures on the countertop behind the table, so there's no telling how many other photos we missed.

[mushroominaforest]

cool individual . points at you

I showed my best friend your ask and I thought her response was funny so I drew it lol

She doesn’t seem to think it’s a great idea to tell me I’m cool. (She also said that you’re wrong because I’m a giant nerd)

[fiepige]

A while ago I saw some posts mentioning some possible animals for Hobie to use as his fursona, and I wanted to join the fun and make my own suggestions! Cause I have two animals I feel would fit him very well:

Number 1. Maned Wolf:

Look at those long ass legs and tell me they don't give off Hobie vibes lol

(but fr they also look super majestic and I love how beautiful their colours are too! <3)

They even have a small mane too! Which also leads me to the other animal I'd like to suggest:

Number 2. Striped Hyena:

This might be one of the most punk looking animals out there! (and just like punks, hyenas have also gotten a lot of (unjust) bad rep in the media through time)

I mean come on, they even have a mohawk!

[dizquized]

FOR YOUR OWN SANITY, do not look in the tags, dont do it. its not worth it. a demon possessed me or something, i dont know.

[steakout-05]

currently thinking and obsessing about the fact that my dad very likely went to an Australian version of Chuck E. Cheese called Charlie Cheese back in the early-to-mid 80s when he was a kid and how fucking COOL that is!!!

the fact that were was a whole balcony stage show with a Warblettes animatronic, a Madame Oink AND a Dolli Dimples in my country is absolutely amazing to me and i'm having so many thoughts about it. where are they now? do they still exist? did they have other rotating guest characters or was it just Madame Oink? were there any differences to the showtapes (such as name changes or localisations)? there's also this incredibly rare and adorable Charlie plush and i love him SO MUCH i'm rotating him around in my head right now

i'm kinda surprised that CEC had locations here at all back in the 80s because animatronics aren't really a big thing in Australia, at least not as much as they are in America. we never really had that big animatronic pizza craze over here and animatronic shows are a pretty rare sight here apart from the occasional big amusement park chain (but even then, they're not very common at all). but yeah i think it's fucking awesome that my dad went here as a kid as he recalls quite a lot of details about the show and the animatronics up on stage!! he specifically remembers the Grundy's location, that there was "a giant rat" and the cheese wall maze underneath the animatronics and it's SO COOL to me as someone who has a love for these old retro pizza animatronics!!! no joke one of my biggest dreams is to just see either an 80s cec animatronic or a rockafire animatronic irl one day and the fact that my dad got to see a cec show is amazing!! :D

P.S. here's a video i found of the Charlie Cheese show at Grundy's performing!!! it's at the 38 second mark and there's footage of Dolli Dimples performing too!!

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little "bouquet" of random flowers I found growing wild in a yard

[jisoopremacy]

JENNAISSANTE // VOL. 1

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sorry if you've already mentioned but what (re?)ignited your love of comics/x-men/cherik? curious because there are so many different adaptations of them

i think im gonna speak for a few (or a lot of) people when i say that TL;DR the wolverine x deadpool movie that came out this summer is what pulled me back into comics and i COULD leave it there but i will go into excruciating and unnecessary detail instead because i love an origin story and i love oversharing.

under the cut tho because im nice sometimes (there's also wxdp doodles in here. if you want to see that)

ironically (and probably commonly), growing up i was more of an avengers kid. Kinda. Loosely <- binge watched the cartoons and movies and read copious amounts of comics and fics and i am hoarding fanart in my old dresser as we speak ok 'loosely' is a modest lie.

embarrassingly i remember getting into discus cause of captain america LMAO so yeah needless to say i was a Humble Fan- me joining my school's comic class/club didnt help either (shoutout to my teach from that she was the realest one out there for. A Multitude of reasons). she definitely is was inspires me to even draw still and make comics and i often think bout the tips i learned from her class tbh she was great

back to the movies t and comics tho, i got into em because my brother would offer to take me and that's how we'd hang out (i rarely saw movies in theaters and i even more rarely went anywhere as a teenager. still kinda like that today tbh ooops) and yk. it just snowballed after that.

my brother and i have always liked comics- he just more than me for a while (though he still very much loves comics and As We Know From My Posts we still talk about them whenever i see him To An Exhausting Degree)

durin then i was really into stony and i have a few surviving doodles i made but those are between me and god. and anyone who asks tbh LOL

'snap can you make this related to x-men again this is long' ok so fast forward to This Summer again I Still Don't Really See Movies but my brother offered to take me and this was the first time i'd actually seen an x-men movie in full

as a kid i only remember seeing the 'perfection' scene between erik and raven in first class while i was channel surfing. pretty sure i changed the channel after seeing mystique naked cause i was scared my parents would get mad at me if they caught me watching it LOL

BUT MOVING ON As A Kid i think it's also natural you'll sometimes watch 92 if it's on And I Did though evidently it didn't stick too hard (i do remember really liking beast and gambit though.... still do really): my knowledge of x-men was. INCREDIBLY sparse. like diabolically so so i didnt have too much expectations (aside from the fact i vaguely liked deadpool beforehand).

tbh i dont know why my bro never took me to see any of the x-men movies. it's not like he doesn't Also like x-men (90% sure nightcrawler's his favorite but my brother will be caught dead saying he has absolute favorites like that)- he owns a bitch load of deadpool comics/omnibus sets too (of which ive read over the years and reread this year) but Shrug moving on

Much Like Most Of The Internet i fell down the rabbit hole that way. i have some doodles i made a couple days after seeing WxDP that i now have an excuse to throw at all of you Look And Perceive

and so. As I Do. i got curious and told myself i'd binge watch all the x-men movies the week before i went back to school And Then I Did ft. My Brother Sometimes and then i said i'd binge watch all of '92 and And I Did That ft. My Brother Sometimes But Less So and now we're here. currently watching Evolution...

once i got to school i realized i lived near a comic shop and started getting into the comics that way (the first ones i got since going down this rabbit hole was Magneto Was Right!, The Resurrection of Magneto, and The Trial of Magneto. if you were curious !!!!! clearly i didnt care too much about context i just needed to see My Guy jelvejlkvj i have no regrets and Evidently ive read more since)

i'm pretty sure what dragged me into cherik specifically was the fact i saw a clip of The Famous ending to 92 where erik's aghast at the notion jean even has to question his love for charles. i think that was what officially had me refocus my lens on them: not a single poolverine thought after that LOL (all the cherik posting i saw on twitter definitely helped too but that was the nail in the coffin for any other interests i had: i was locked into cherik and x-men in general now)

that clip specifically, i was surprised at the fact they- frequently even- have the x-men franchise say erik loves charles and vice versa so bluntly. even if it's not meant to be romantic, i fear im just a fan of how casually the word's thrown around with them two and i got tender bout it all. Then Yk. i just live for the drama. the hilarity even. the sincerity .... they make me sick if i think of them too long so im gonna end it here

before i go tho ironically enough, the first x-men issue i owned was This one (story a this is that while stuck in some wacko dimension charles accidentally gets himself trapped in logan's mind while utilizing his astral projection. if you were curious). pretty sure i got it for free with another comic set i got years ago since our old comic shop loved to do that, but it's poetic aint it. maybe ill doodle something referencing it..

i should probably look into finishing this arc someday im Dummy curious to even know how it started and how it ends.....

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

LOOK AT HIS STUPID LITTLE FACE HES LIKE THAT PNE MEME!!!!!!

[crossbackpoke-check]

Dysprosium, Mary Soon Lee

dysprosium, AN 66, is a silvery-white rare earth metal. its name is derived from the greek dysprositos, meaning “hard to get at”, owing to the difficulty in separating and isolating this rare earth element. dysprosium is used to measure neutron flux, to fuel reactors, and to activate phosphors. terfenol-d is a magnetorestrictive alloy, meaning that it changes shape when a magnetic field is applied, and is used to manufacture underwater acoustic systems.

jason “robo” robertson, dallas stars #21 for @simmyfrobby’s nhl periodic table poems <3

[estrangedandwayward]

Never posted this one cause it's not technically fanart, I just thought it was a cool picture but since it's Tom I guess I'll post it anyway

[lilbreed1ngdoll]

why..... why would you send someone youve been sexting pics and vids of other girls youve been with.......

[artastic-friend]

Hell yeah!! I've been told that spiders make little blobs and fill them with eggs as a nest kind of thing. Are there any that make like... Burrows or something? Or egg blobs that don't look like just blobs? Or some that make really funky webs? I'm arachnophobic so I don't have the balls to look it up myself :( Love looking at spider webs though. Some of the places they get built are absurd it's really interesting! And pretty when it rains!

And how are Petunia and Toe? They good?

Oh!! absolutely!

Yeah so the blobs you mentioned are the egg sacs, I could be wrong but I believe all spiders form egg sacs of some kind, either tightly wrapped and bundled to protect their eggs, or just loosely to keep the eggs together.

Now i'm gonna go on a bit of an egg sac tangent here. This example is specifically with web-dwelling spiders like widows or other orb weavers for example, but to make their sacs they start out with making a disc-shaped section of web and then release a fluid-like sac that they release all their eggs into one by one! Once the sac is full, they can wrap it up in many layers of a protective silk to keep the eggs insulated and away from the external elements. A spider can lay hundreds of eggs at a time and with spiders like widows they may lay multiple sacs filled with eggs! In this example of widow spiders they usually keep the sacs in their web to guard them, but other species of spiders may just leave the sac somewhere obscured or hidden so the babies can hatch and grow a bit before leaving to live their own lives.

But this is far from the only way! My favourite are wolf spider mothers! These are land-dwelling spiders that, as you asked, do create burrows for themselves! Quite a lot of the land-dwelling spiders do in various ways! These wolf spiders will actually stay with their egg sacs and will adamantly guard it if a predator approaches. when the babies hatch, they will climb onto the mother's back as she continues to protect them! Such a sweet mother! There are many other arachnids that have a similar situation such as scorpions, whip-scorpions, and vinegaroons! (to name a few) Now! another popular set of burrowing land-spiders are tarantulas! and they will lay their egg sacs in their burrow where the babies will be safe to hatch! which, sidenote i gotta say those little guys are just the most adorable things ever ToT one of my favorite types of baby spider for sure! So fuzzy! And when they just barely hatch they are in an "eggs with legs" stage that is just so precious. Literally what will later become their abdomen is just an orb like the egg they just hatched out of, but they now have a litte teeny underdeveloped cephalothorax and set of legs along with it. they just sorta barely wiggle them it's so adorable (imo). However they need to be careful, a lot of baby spiders do.. as once they hatch and stay a bit too long around the mother as they grow, she may mistake them for a meal sometimes and many do sadly get eaten if they are not careful. In fact! most tarantula owners/breeders will remove the egg sac when their tarantula has one as it is also a possibility for the tarantula to eat their own egg-sac! Not sure of the reason why, but it could be to re-gain nutrients (in the most counter-productive way lol) or for some other unknown reason. I've had chickens do the same thing with their eggs :(

Anyway! But yea! there are tons of land-dwelling spiders, like funnel weavers, tarantulas, trapdoor spiders, velvet spiders, and many more that make burrows for themselves! either by digging one, or forming one solely out of their webbing, or usually a mix of both!

oh! and for jumping spiders! they also will protect their eggs and stay with their babies to protect them until they are old enough to leave on their own! Usually the mothers won't eat around this time which can be concerning from the perspective of a spider ower haha jumping spiders don't really live in webs or burrows, but they make little silk sacs and hammocks or 'hides' for themselves under leaves or in crevices somewhere that it's not too easy to spot them! It's super cool to see really! and if you feel the silk, it's super soft! Like I would genuinely think it to be so cool to be tiny and lay down in the silk because of how soft it is! My jumping spiders make these curtain-like sheets of silk inside their hides (in my spiders' case, acorn shells or little hollow round silk structures for them to feel safe and hidden) and it just looks so cool! Hold on I could probably show a picture! (no spiders in sight)

they made these specifically while they were molting, to feel safe and protected while they are exposed and vulnerable! but I have found abandoned sacs like this before and gosh they are so extremely soft! Looks so cozy!

ANYWAY! XD

Petunia, my widow, and Toe, one of my jumpers, are doing great! I would add a photo of them but since you mentioned being arachnophobic I best not haha! /lh They are doing well though! and my other spiders are too! Muffin recently molted again, so did Toe, but neither of them ejected their old exoskeletons from their hides so I can't collect their little hats :(

but that's ok!

I am just glad that they both molted safely!

I finally named my Habronattus tarsalis as well, (i got him a while back!) His name is Wilbur!

On a bit of a sad note, I was originally going to make a post about it but I really didn't wanna bum anybody out.. Persphone, my female barn funnel weaver, passed away about two weeks ago now... Her passing hurt me greatly.. especially since I was not even sure of what might have caused it.. But Whatever happened.. I just hope she's in a better place now.

Brometheus, my male barn funnel weaver, on the other had is still doing great! Better than ever I think! He seems super healthy right now and I am so glad!

Fred, my male black widow is also doing well!

But yeah! I currently have 6 spiders! And I love them all deeply! Petunia, my female black widow, was my first one and she resides in her enclosure right next to my bed haha 😁

(my family thinks I'm insane💀)

OH MY GOSH I JUST NOTICED HOW LONG THIS POST IS it is currently 6am as I am writing this and I haven't slept yet, so my apologies on if there are any typos or errors! (I have a tendency to just sorta spew my thoughts out all at once with very minor editing 💀) But I hope this helped a bit! And so sorry it's so long and convoluted too ToT

[wpmz]

btw does anyone wanna see my eclipse photos

also pretty sure the little dots are jupiter and venus :D