#last reply I promise

[yank-a-ton]

[emberglowfox]

Also love how u draw teba. Like to think he could give relationship advice to Sidon and yoga too, while link is hanging with tulin!

YEAHHH TEBA i think hes fun

[zaryathelaika]

Just to drive the point home Coppinger doesn't talk to anyone outside his social circle: here's a description of Amur Laikas from 2006 including husbandry, feeding and training. The text relies a lot on older descriptions. The following (below the break) is just a description of one type of dog kept by several groups of people. There are many more descriptions of husbandry practice from different groups around the world from South Africa to Ghana to the Sahara as well as Mongolia and Tibet. Yet Coppinger is like "Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, none of the ethnographic accounts matter. We must only focus on contemporary village dogs and street dogs" without taking into account the effect of colonialism, industrialization, developmentalism, globalization etc. Note the authors acknowledge the effects of industrialization and developmentalism. And they generally acknowledge in the taiga region away from the coastal areas, dogs are kept for companionship and as hunting assistants instead of for hauling. CW: subsistence fishing, commercial or industrial hunting, fur trade, beasts of burden (dog-sledding) Traunched the text below since it's a series of quotes as screenshots. Click "keep reading" to see more.

Housing:

Feeding:

Training (and division of labour):

Effects of developmentalism:

— Kuzina, Marina G. "Amur Laikas: Its Past, Present and Future" [PDF, 644kb]. Journal of the International Society for Preservation of Primitive Aboriginal Dogs 9 (2006): 8 - 16. Retrieved July 7, 2023. Archived from the original on January 19, 2023 via Wayback Machine.

There's more stuff you can read like:

Abe, Yoshiko. “Hunting and Butchery Patterns of the Evenki in Northern Transbaikalia, Russia” [PDF, 26.7 MB]. Stony Brook University (2005): 1 — 555. Retrieved February 2, 2023. Archived from the original on June 15, 2022 via Wayback Machine.

Samar, A.P. "Traditional Dog Breeding of the Nanai People" [PDF, 2.96 MB]. Journal of the International Society for Preservation of Primitive Aboriginal Dogs 34 (June 2013): 19 - 51. Retrieved July 7, 2023. Archived from the original on January 19, 2023 via Wayback Machine.

Popov, Aleksander V. “Hunting Laikas” [PDF, 1.91 MB]. Journal of the International Society for Preservation of Primitive Aboriginal Dogs 31 (2012): 21 – 42. Retrieved January 19, 2023. Archived from the original on March 18, 2015 via Wayback Machine. (including this one here because it makes the sense of the snarky tags)

The document from Samar noted the different conditions for hauling dogs and hunting dogs utilized by the same people. This is all stuff Coppinger has at his disposal when he proposed his hypothesis in 2001, but for some reason doesn't take his observational biases being impacted by events over the last 200 to 300 years into consideration.

So, yeah, I'm more inclined to believe some of the historical accounts from European settlers about how easy it is to lure curious wolves prior to introduction of livestock as well as ethnographical accounts of different groups of people keeping random animals as pets instead of some self-domestication dumpster-diving hypothesis. CW: commercial trapping There was one fellow up in Hay River, Northwest Territories (links to archived copy because account is terminated) who spared a weasel and kept them as a pet in his cabin during the winter. He fed them stuff he picked up from his daily checks of the traplines. He just kept that critter as a pet because he was bored and lonely during the long nights. Everyone who winter-hikes or winter-camps knows half the battle is keeping yourself entertained when it is dark outside.

And if you know anything about ferrets [archived], let alone other weasels, those only scavenge fresh kills. And mustelids are not very likely to self-domesticate like a wild cat would. So far, no one has actually successfully domesticated a mustelid other than the ferret. But people still kept them as pets regardless. Wouldn't be too difficult to imagine people doing the same thing with wolf pups during those long winter nights trying to pass the time. The oldest ceramics, pottery and sewing needles date back to around the same time period as the estimated dates for dog domestication long before agriculture. And all of the above require plenty of free time.

I am not a scientist (duh) but I don't see why the dog domestication argument is always between hunter vs scavenger. It always comes down to these two options (I've read a lot of dog books).

Seems more likely to me that it would have come about from deliberate feeding rather than scavenging or hunting food. Like, humans across the world and across cultures all do this really specific thing with animals: feed them. Seems likely to me that feeding the wolf was just the first step in the domestication process.

I agree with Derr that scavenging seems unlikely given that plenty of animals scavenge from humans and haven't become domesticated so far. I also see Wynne's point that the hunting story seems a little too romanticised to be based in reality. But what's the best way to make an animal tolerate you, if not like you? Give it something to eat.

[yeonbam]

I was giggling about how joke was STARVING. said that "yes" to "will you be my boyfriend" already halfway through that kiss like OK GODDAMNNN.

but then I made myself sad thinking about just how much he probably thought, at many points throughout that very day, that this moment wouldn't happen, that he wouldn't get to see Jack again, or ask him who he likes. like he was ready to throw away his whole life into stealing Jack's freedom and that was ALL he wanted, not daring to dream of anything more, not thinking of himself worth, not believing his feelings were returned to that extent.

the light way he said "I almost died today" at the end of the day was dismissed as a joke (another disguise) but the weight of truth within those words was SO LOUD. A confession is literally woven into the unsaid bit— "I almost died today...(for you)" because he truly did almost die for jack. Something could've happened the Very First moment when he was spying on the house, something worse could've happened inside that ice box, something even worse could've happened in that dinner room full of powerful big names, and in the end, without Nang, there's no saying if he would make it alive. he let all his friends out early, even prepared his last wish and said it to hoy, he was READY to die but returned from its gates, victorious.

of course he couldn't wait. he never thought that moment would come and now that it did, he couldn't let it slip away lest it is Another dream he loses grip on.

[nysus-temple]

Persephone: Don't accidentally kill someone.

Dionysus:

Persephone:

Dionysus: I'm not a fucking idiot, I know how to do it on purpose.

[plusultraetc]

oh how the poor sleeping habits tables have turned

[suntuusita]

People disappear. People leave without a word. Mirèlha just vanished into thin air, without a word or message to any soul on earth. When asked, no one knew where she went.

It was noticeable at the monthly meetings. One month, her seat was empty. The second month, it was empty again. By the third month, someone had taken it.

This month, however, there was a familiar figure sitting in it. She was always early to these meetings, but something was changed about her. It may have been that her once simple appearance had altered. Her straightened red hair, was now a wild tangle of curls that barely held together with a claw clip. Her once plain gray dress suit was replaced with tweed pants and a frilled blouse. Her former 'porcelain skin' was now speckled with freckles, and her only makeup was a dash of red lipstick.

Even her demeanor had shifted. When it was her turn to speak, she had always practiced her English at these meetings, where her voice was humble and quiet. This time around she spoke passionately in French, relying on a translator to get her words across. But her voice was strong and assertive, a contrast to her former passive self. One can even see the passion in her face as she talked, her voice rising and interrupting others when they interrupt her.

When it finally came time to a recess, Mer left her belongings and joined a group of Francophone nations, smoking a cigarette and engaging in lively conversation. Her laughter was loud and carefree, her smile wide and genuine. There was something different about her.

After her chatter, she excused herself to finish her smoke by sitting on a railing, smoking and observing passerby.

open - soft reset ♡

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[jynjackets]

aw man, sol should’ve drugged and kidnapped osha instead. everyone would’ve loved him

[prince-liest]

I am haunting your asks

oooo-OOOOOO-ooooo…

…do you have any Alastor-centered whump fics brewing?

HAHA, not currently! Or... kind of? I have a Mimzy & Alastor fic I'm contemplating, but it's not really whump so much as it is several ill-advised decisions made in the pursuit of friendship and compulsory heterosexuality/amatonormativity that end up making him deeply uncomfortable.

Once I got past my knee-jerk SHE RUINED THE SONG! reflexes (and honestly, even then, I had to admit she put her entire LUNGS into that solo), I really began to love Mimzy as a character. I think her presence in Alastor's life and the ways they interact with each other are really telling and I want to excavate their relationship more. Also she's charming as fuck and I love her.

ETA: ANON, I LIED, BIRD REMINDED ME THAT I THINK THE NEXT 666 (#6) PROBABLY COUNTS AS ALASTOR WHUMP.

[tsururoach]

you showed up on my tumblr i used to follow u on twt and i just wanted to say that one time i said smthn mean abt ur art to your fucking face and you probably already forgot it cause it was over 4 years ago but i never got over the fact that i did that and i am so fucking sorry dude omg

Please I woke up to this and laughed please I wanna know what you could've possibly said.

BC I feel like i should remember this so it probably went over my head you ever did it at all. I WANT TO KNOW SO BADLY... PLEASE...

[moregraceful]

Fic 1 q 4

Is there a part of your WIP that Twitter would try to cancel you for?

oh the entire story. the ENTIRE story. if the question i asked and attempted to answer in fragments was "what does a culture that has normalized the winner's room look like", the question in this one is "what does a culture that has normalized sexual assault look like broadly and for one man in particular who has had repeated harm done to him since he was 19, and how does that interact with the no sex before marriage religion he grew up with". i fear twitter would not enjoy thinking of winner's room in this way....like we really call a spade a spade in this imagine. ALSO i think for a certain kind of terminally online gay person, the top-bottom discourse would go insane...the sport values switch hitters!!!!

[panopticon fic wip ask meme]

[blitzbuckz]

℧ :: starter with / @pinklocksoflove

【𐂃】 ❝ Kick ass outfit, tacky heels though. ❞ undertone banter, that's all it was. He didn't meant any of it, simply begrudging the rockstar for having an attire that he wanted for himself.

[ow1et]

do you care her based solely on pin boards?

[luckycharmer]

Around when do you think applications are going out for the zine (not rushing, I’m just wondering)

Hi, thank you so much for your interest! and worry not, the other mods and I are getting everything set up before the applications are open. The application itself is pretty much ready, but there were other details we needed to hammer out before much else could happen. Today I started setting up the sideblog for it, which is where I will post the application, and also hold all the vital info one might need before signing up, like timeline etc. I really want it to be well equipped before its live!

I think maybe it’ll be ready in a few days? Hopefully I can get a lot done tomorrow

[kuratm]

damn, the semester has just begun this week and I'm already feeling fucking drained and exhausted.

rip pluto, we hardly knew ya.