#need dogversity

[chicohungers24-7]

I have so many black and brown dogs

[lenaslipbite]

I need like, doodle ideas for the Dogverse. Y’all have any requests? 👀

[cherubark]

Have you ever actually watched an episode of Dog with a Blog, out of curiosity?

Never. I'd aged out of the Disney demographic before it was so much as a twinkle in Stark and Kaplan's collective eye. I would be up for trying a drinking game with a handful of episodes as a nice little vertical slice of what the series has to offer if you've got recommendations, though! Pilot and finale are obviously a given, but I need to know what the Fandom Consensus is on best episodes of Dogverse.

[sigmaguidebook]

New Gamma, the Dogverse

After the Great Unification, Gamma was a very popular destination for inter-universal tourists. The wild culture divergences, the small and secluded nature of the villages and town ‘states’, the fantastical Arts...it was all so interesting, to many people from all over Sigma. Then Dog came, and ruined it all.

Dog is the name taken by the ‘daughter’ and acolyte of the High Dark Lord Stephen L. Clawblade, and, while there’s plenty to say about her, she (and her ‘father’) deserve a post of their very own. For now, all that needs to be said is that Dog is someone with grand aspirations. One of which is, simply put, become a god. 

Now, in Dog’s own unstable mind, one of the more basic (relatively speaking, of course) things that a god can do is create a universe! That’s one of the hallmarks of being a deity, right? Lording over your own domain. One that you created. It’s all about creation.

However, Dog didn’t have the ability to just create a universe. And, further compounding her irritation was the reality of the Great Unification, which effectively halted the creation of any more universes that didn’t branch off of the ten chosen universes.

Though this didn’t deter Dog. No, where Dog lacked in actual godliness, she made up for in resourcefulness, as well as an intimate knowledge of metacontext, or how existence worked, thanks to her ‘father’. Instead of creating a universe from scratch, Dog could instead simply trigger a sort of ‘restart’ in a universe, which would allow her to help ‘guide’ the recreation. And all of this could be done, with the help of just a little bit of Cloud energy.

So, in much the same fashion that the Great Unification occurred under, Dog managed to pull off something that resembled her plan. Really, who was going to nitpick over it? 

Through just a random choice, Gamma was the universe picked for the restart, a process that caused the entire universe to convert back into Cloud energy, leaving an empty void behind. The process took about an hour and a half, time enough to allow some people from Gamma to escape, but most of the Gamma humans ended up perishing in the erasure. These people were not even necessarily killed, their entire beings were erased from existence. Billions of humans, and an inconceivable amount of beings that lived elsewhere in the universe, denied an entrance to the Aether. Gone.

However, Dog didn’t care. She was more focused on ‘her’ new universe, and she was giddy with excitement as she planted her own ‘seeds’ into the brand new, empty, blank slate that was soon to restart. But, as the universe bloomed anew, a dawning realization soon overtook Dog.

She was unable to go to her brand new universe. The one she had worked so hard to achieve, the one she had erased an entire universe to create anew. Despite her power, she lacked the ability to teleport between universes, and, due to the erasure of the access points between Gamma and other universes, there was functionally no way to access the new Gamma. After all that work, neither Dog nor anyone else could see what the fruits of her labor looked like.

In this new universe, due to both manual influence from a non-deity and the chaotic process of essentially ‘restarting’ a universe, creation ran amok. Time flowed erratically initially, speeding up and slowing down at different points, and the fabric of space would fragment and stitch itself back together, in a repeating, chaotic process that halted and restarted, over and over again. 

Eventually, though, this mess of a universe hit a period of fragile stability. And that’s where the Dogverse is now. Although there are still problems with how space and time works, it’s more sparse and localized within the universe now. For now, there isn’t the risk of everything just falling apart, at least, immediately.

In the Dogverse, there is an Earth-like planet, though it differs in many ways than the Earths/Earth-likes of the other universes. Dogverse ‘Earth’, which has no one agreed-upon name, is at least twice as large as the other Earths, and possesses two moons, each teeming with life. Something that distinguishes Dogverse Earth from the other nine universes is the excess of sentient, human-level socio-intelligent life forms that cover it and its two moons. So much so, that there isn’t really a ‘dominant’ being on the three, and there aren’t that many of the unum, the humanish of the Dogverse, across the planet.

To the rest of Sigma, new Gamma is completely unknown. With the access points destroyed, there’s no standard, practical, or safe way to access it, and, for the longest time, everyone had just assumed that it had just disappeared in the erasure. It wasn’t until contact was made by someone from new Gamma that people realized that there was still something going on in Gamma. However, while there is interest in making a connection between Gamma and the rest of Sigma, all attempts have been miserable failures, or, in one instance, an attempted invasion by a race living in Gamma. As of now, there still isn’t really any meaningful communication being made between new Gamma and the rest of Sigma.

[nomanono]

This is fine.

OK, so you may have noticed that I didn’t update ADKOC for two weeks. This is basically because, the day after the last update, I had a weird sort of... crisis/breakdown/omg type thing?

Essentially I realized that I probably shouldn’t have put the Great Big Gang Bang (GBGB) as part of the main story. Or rather, not to that level of detail. The beginning and the end deserve to be in the main story, and perhaps a paragraph or two of highlights, but ultimately ADKOC is about our OT4, and more fundamentally than that, it’s about Yuri learning about life and love in his pursuit of becoming Otabek’s boy.

The GBGB is .... almost offtopic? It derails the focus on Otabek and Yuri’s relationship.

And holy smuck, realizing that I’d fucked up the story for y’all made me like... horrified? Really upset? Like I’d let y’all down? And blah blah blah write for yourself whatever fuck that noise I write for myself AND for you and I feel it when I don’t meet my standards and project that disappointment onto y’all.

I assume that you feel it. I assume you’re like “well... this is... meh...” Which is like the worst? Like I’d almost rather you hate it than get meh?

I realized halfway through it that what really should have come next was probably the ending. Because this is it! This is what Yuri’s been waiting for! So I wrote the ending. But then I’d already half-committed to the GBGB and I couldn’t leave THAT unfinished (because unfinished things corrode my soul).

So~ I decided that when the GBGB is finished and after I post the conclusion/epilogue/whatever I’ll actually move the GBGB chapters to the end of the work as sort of “bonus smut”.  And, FWIW, it’d be cool if maybe you could think of them like that now? As sort of a diversion from our story?

It’s the best I can do with what I did.

After that revelation, I gave myself some time off to think about other things. Like #dogverse and Yuuri’s tentacles and that was actually a much needed and blissful break.

And now today I finally felt like I could write ADKOC again. Because fuck, after 137k the fic deserves to be finished, ne?

So let’s do this fucking thing.

[desertwindhounds]

State of the Dogverse

I haven't done one of these in a while, so I'm just going to say this covers the last six months. I can't be arsed to look up the actual dates.

THERE IS A PICTURE OF A DOG SPLEEN AFTER THE CUT. It's not super gross, but if you're squeamy about innards don't click the cut thingie.

Teshies right front leg is healed. She will be ten in September.

Spooky had a not-really-retained retained testicle. Meaning it had a short cord and sat just anterior to his pelvis, I could feel it and push it down into the scrotum, but it wouldn't stay. I had always intended to remove it if he was put under for another reason, but since I could feel and visualize it I wasn't too worried about it, and the opportunity never presented itself. He testicle did finally get enlarged, and we had it removed. Turned out to be a Sertoli cell tumor, a common tumor type for retained testicles. We left the other testicle alone. Radiographs did not show any visible metastasis. Spooky has developed a grade I heart murmur, and his heart was normal looking. MVD is pretty common in older Salukis, Spooky will be eleven in September.

Tiny has developed a subluxated lens in her right eye and has no or very little vision in that eye. It's not currently causing a problem, but if it does we'll remove the eye. Her mother, Poody, had subluxated lenses in both eyes. So far neither of Tinys two remaining siblings show any signs. Tiny will be twelve in September.

Gideons broken right front leg, the one that developed an infection, was still not healing (big ass callus that was not turning to bone,) and a persistent infection was suspected, so we had a biopsy done for a culture. He was given chloramphenicol, a older antibiotic that can cause some severe problems in humans. We were instructed to use gloves to administer it. Our vet scraped out all the infected callus on his leg, and filled the shallow space with a dental putty used to provide a scaffolding for new bone growth in dogs with severe deterioration of the jawbones (there was much consulting with the manufacturer about using the putty for his leg, it was very interesting.) The infection is now gone and his leg seems to be healing. Gideon will be nine in September.

Saddest Gideon ever does not like car rides or very dry weather.

It has been two years since we had a dermal hemangiosarcoma removed from Hubs sheath. No recurrence so far. Hub will be twelve in September.

(I don't know why so many of our dogs were born in September.)

Doobie had a bladder infection, with crystals (crystals were sent to the pathologist, they were just from the infection. Thank you, no special diets needed.) We had him neutered when we took him in for the infection. A month later he started having dark rusty port wine urine (this is really disturbing looking,) and acting generally uncomfortable and fussy, so back to the vet we went. There was a mass on the radiograph, so we had an ultrasound done, which showed a mass in his spleen. General statistics on splenic masses are about 2/3 are malignant, with 2/3 of those being hemangiosarcoma. This is a very common cancer in Salukis. We had the entire spleen removed (dogs usually do fine with no spleen, and since you have to open the dog up anyways there's no point in just doing a biopsy.) Our vet was instructed to euthanize Doobie on the table if there was any evidence of metastasis. HSA tends to kill quickly, and Doobie is a fearful dog, and he would not appreciate repeated trips into town for vet care if he was sick. The mass was sent to the pathologist, and it turned out to be a hematoma, basically a bleed/bruise, which is benign. Because the pathologist doesn't minutely inspect the entire mass, it's done on slices, there is a small chance that the hematoma was started by HSA. We considering Doobie cured until we see evidence to the contrary. He is eight years old. Spleen under the cut.

And there it is. That's a big ass lump.

[webhax-blog1]

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[sigmaguidebook]

Lambda

When talking about Sigma, or saying something like ‘the rest of Sigma’, it’s incorrect to assume that everyone is being represented. While it’s true that representation is key, especially when you’re putting into consideration ten different universes, lumped together into one megaverse, the fact of the matter is, there’s only eight members at the Sigma Representative’s table. One of those absences, of course, is Gamma, due to the Dogverse’s unreachability. The other absence is for Lambda. 

Before the Great Unification, Lambda’s world was locked in a state of diplomatic tension, extremely similar to that of the Cold War. Much like Alpha, there was a period of rapid technological breakthrough, although Lambda’s was one that was much more advanced. Almost every country on the face of Lambda Earth possessed some kind of weapon of mass destruction, be it a conventional (thermo)nuclear weapon, dirty bombs, biological warfare, chemical arms, terraforming weapons, zombie viruses/mutant parasitic fungi, a whole bunch of bats with dynamite strapped to them, you name it.

What also experienced a rapid level of advancement was distrust in your neighbors. As everyone began to stock up on horrific, country-murder-y weapons, everyone began to assume everyone else was planning to use said horrific, country-murder-y weapons on them. This is what led to the pot reaching an almost simmer, a finger on every button and a lack of critical thinking in every brain.

However, where there’s fear, there’s money. Many companies sprouted up over the decades, all promising one thing: the ability to make sure you survive, nay, THRIVE, when those bastards across the border finally pull the trigger. Millions of bunkers, shelters, vaults, silos, and other protective fixtures were built across the planet, in what was dubbed The Concrete Wave, and, with the sheer amount of profit that these companies were making, they were able to make sure that these things lasted. These bunkers could last for DECADES, with everything needed to make sure you could stay down there as long as conceivably possible. 

These protective installations were a form of ‘apocalypse insurance’, ones built and paid for with money tinged with fear, from the north pole to the south. During the height of the tensions, one man, a well-named entrepreneur named Bob Bunkerer, became the richest man in the world.

However, what Bob Bunkerer, and the rest of the apocalypse insurance racket, didn’t expect was for someone to actually hit the big red button.

It’s not clear who began the end of the world, but, truthfully, it doesn’t matter. Everyone ended up contributing, since everyone didn’t want to be the only one who didn’t ‘react’ in some way. However, due to the constant awareness and expectations of death raining from the skies, as well as the bunkers littered everywhere, the people of Lambda wasted no time in taking cover.

There isn’t an exact number of people who survived the Last War, but the estimates are shockingly high. The worldwide exchange didn’t last long, but everyone was already on a hair trigger. Quite a few people even began the day in their bunker, they were that prepared.

The Last War occurred thirty years (give or take a few, converting times between universes is tricky, especially pre-Unification) before the Great Unification. Since then, roughly 99% of the people who went underground when the bombs dropped stayed underground. Part of the reason why Lambda isn’t represented for Sigma is the fact that, simply put, almost everyone within Lambda isn’t even aware of the Great Unification. They’re still either living in their bunkers, or live up top, where news is hard to come by. 

However, it’s not a bad idea to stay underground, with the shape Lambda Earth is in. As you’d expect, getting hammered with giant nuclear bombs can really ruin wherever it hits, but Lambda Earth possessed so much more. Terraforming weapons, which could shatter a continental plate and cause it to buck and splinter. Climate-changing weapons, which could turn a desert into an overwhelming, perpetually wet jungle, and a city into an icy wasteland. Chemical weapons and biological agents, ones that can lay waste to large swaths of life and land. Mutagenic weapons, ones that could mutate and twist whatever lives in ground zero into something completely different. Actual ‘zombie viruses’, that turn those affected into shambling monsters. Lambda Earth is a planet that was hit by ten different apocalypses, all at once.

However, there is always beauty in destruction. Thirty years after the fact, many places teem with life. Partially due to time passing, and partially due to humans not being present anymore. Additionally, landscapes, although twisted, are breath-taking and new, and plenty of plants and animals have changed as well. Through the chaos of the Last War, Lambda Earth was transformed into something new. Something that probably shouldn’t exist, sure, but something that’s new.