#pug cross

[thesefirstimpressions]

[funsizeart]

My dog, Oliver

[retrogamingblog2]

KK Slider has a new fan

[grison-in-space]

I really want to think deeply at some point about the ethics of breeding for extreme temperament (eg drive, food motivation -> trainability, tendency to hyperfixation, low energy, high defensive aggression) alongside the ethics of breeding for extreme structure.... from the standpoint of both being informed by neuroscience underlying brain variation and also being doubly neurodivergent, firmly anti - eugenics for humans, and firmly pro-deliberately-selective-breeding for dogs.

It's a landmine of a topic, not least because one of the use cases I would want to examine is an unintended side effect from breeding service dogs, but man what a topic to sit with and have first and second and third and fourth thoughts about in exhaustive detail. like an extremely autistic one-person six-opinion argument.

[darkwood-sleddog]

like i can just imagine already the frenchie people that will be bemoaning these crosses because they don't "vibe" with the "temperament" of the frenchie because they are "active" dog breeds. god forbid your frenchie can function as a dog but like....get a pet rock if you're so inclined.

[such-justice-wow]

I'm like the most stressed I've been in my life, I've had heart palpitations solidly for like 5 days and I genuinely passed out for 4 hours the first day because of it. This week may actually kill me.

[percival-p-pups]

Passed. Out.

[madamedoo]

[batstitchnerdycrossstitch]

Finally got the chance to stitch this pattern. I miss this little dog, but his bones will always be here!

If you want to do this pattern too you can follow this link: https://etsy.me/3tnX9Gh

[vampireloverz]

i wanted to watch t/ri/gun bc i keep seeing stuff abt the weirdo freak incest dynamic but the animation and art style. its so unappealing idk

[picsfortheday]

[kvandykemusic]

I made this lo-fi tune to so you could sleep beside this pug.

[fjordfolk]

I used my brain (hold for applause) and looked them up.

There are also pdfs with notes that I've translated below the cut

EB:

Non potruding and no marble round eyes, normal close eye rims (potruding eyes - shallow sockets - increase risk of eye injuries)

Somewhat longer and less wide skull (short, wide skulls are a clear risk factor for ie BOAS)

Well palpable ribs (overweight is a risk factor for ie BOAS)

Somewhat longer back that is straight (short and carp backs are risk factors for back issues and make natural behaviours more difficult)

Craniofacial ratio nearer 0.4, minimum 0.3 (lesser relative snout length clear risk factor for BOAS)

Open nostrils (pinched/stenotic nares is a clear risk factor for BOAS)

Somewhat longer and slimmer neck (wider, shorter neck is a risk factor for BOAS)

Normal-shaped tail (short and corkscrew tails are a risk factor - DVL2)

Unwrinkled skin, lesser amounts of winkles may appear (wrinkled skin can cause irritation and infection. Nose rope can disturb eyes or respiration.)

BT:

Non-potruding and no marble round eyes (potruding eyes - shallow sockets - increase risk of eye injuries)

Craniofacial ratio nearer 0.4, minimum 0.3. Snout without nose rope (BOAS risk factor)

Open nostrils (BOAS risk factor)

Somewhat longer and less wide skull (BOAS risk factor)

Somewhat longer and slimmer neck (BOAS risk factor)

Somewhat longer back - normal shape of spine (back issue risk factor)

Normal tail shape (DVL2)

FB:

Non-potruding and no marble round eyes (potruding eyes - shallow sockets - increase risk of eye injuries)

Craniofacial ratio of more than 0.3 (clear BOAS risk - 0.3 a minimum, not the ideal)

Open nostrils (BOAS risk factor)

Unwrinkled skin, lesser amounts of winkles may appear (wrinkled skin can cause irritation and infection. Nose rope can disturb eyes or respiration.)

Longer and less wide skull (BOAS risk factor)

Somewhat longer and slimmer neck (BOAS risk factor)

Somewhat longer back - normal spine (short and carp backs are risk factors for back issues and make natural behaviours more difficult)

Normal tail (DVL2)

Visible waist (overweight is a risk factor)

Pug:

Craniofacial ratio of more than 0.3 (clear BOAS risk - 0.3 a minimum, not the ideal)

Less width between the eyes (widely set eyes are a clear BOAS risk factor in pugs)

Non-potruding and no marble round eyes (potruding eyes - shallow sockets - increase risk of eye injuries)

Open nostrils (BOAS risk factor)

Somewhat longer and slimmer neck (BOAS risk factor)

Longer and less wide skull (BOAS risk factor)

Visible waist and easily palpable ribs (excessive weight is a BOAS risk factor)

Somewhat longer back, less compact body (risk factors for back issues and make natural behaviours more difficult)

Unwrinkled skin, lesser amounts of winkles may appear (wrinkled skin can cause irritation and infection. Nose rope can disturb eyes or respiration.)

Did you see the new guidline illustrations the swedish kennel club published for pugs, bostons, frenchies and bulldogs so the written standard can't be misinterpreted?

No, I don't think so!

I've seen the judge's compendiums, but was this another thing?

[cedigcrafts]

Last year me and my husband finally tied the knot (thanks Rona!)

As you can imagine I wanted to make a lot of stuff for the big day myself, so I made some.things and so did my In-Laws!

I made the bouquets for me and my bridesmaid, a flower crown for me, and buttonnieres for the guys using flowers I had crocheted, and the handle for my bouquet was a sonic screwdriver.

I also cross stitched little keyrings to give to everyone who joined us on the day, and crocheted the little pouches for them to go in.

And I made necklaces for the best person and my bridesmaid.

My mother-in-law sewed little tuxedo harnesses for our pug-phews, they are my sister in law's boys, but I love them as my own and would have had them with us in the registry office if we could have done!

Mother-in-law also made our wedding cake, and it was topped with our Tardis fig and the two mini figs my husband got of us back when we first started going out, both of whom has their own sonic screwdriver.

Parents-in-law made some Tardis table pieces with fairy lights in them for the tables.

I also crocheted a little cardigan for our human nibling, but she didn't stay still long enough to get a good photo!

[darkwood-sleddog]

interestingly I see a lot of pugs at work (dog salon) who are *chihuahua* crosses

I'm pretty sure chihuahua crosses overall are amongst the most common small breed dogs, especially in North America.

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

These were the Silt Verses.

(closeups/design notes/rambling under the cut, because it took me over a month to make this so I'm going to be a little self-indulgent.)

spoilers for the whole podcast ahead!

Our protagonists! Notes:

Some of these came out more accurate to how I see them than others. Hayward in particular looks much less grimy and haggard than I imagine him. Carpenter, on the other hand, is perfect in my eyes. Shrue is (subconsciously) very much inspired by the wonderful @unbloodiedmartyr's rendition of them (thanks Sacha, your art goes insanely hard!)

Hayward and Paige face away, a nod to their final parting. Carpenter and Faulkner face one another, in deference to their final reunion.

Val and Shrue are both shown at the moment of their deaths.

Paige, the only character confirmed to survive the immediate finale, is the only one with closed eyes.

I'm a blond Faulkner truther. Sorry.

Someone left some really really insane tags on a Valpost I made like a month ago about how Val can alter her appearance as she pleases, but the Last Word can never convince her not to see the actual aftermath of her torture when she looks in the mirror, and it sent me a little crazy, so I was trying to capture that failing self-deceit here. She's meant to look absurdly young, but where the flames overlay her face, you can see the prayer marks and lacerations on her skin.

I had this out on my desk for days and every time a family member dropped by I had to frantically hide the fact I was drawing 'politician gets shot in the head' fanart. RIP.

These are the marks of the Many Below! They look Not Great enlarged, but hey ho. I wanted them to look hidden and incidental, separated in each corner as they are:

'Begin with a balbis on its side. Within the two spaces, a circle marked by a single dot.' Drawn in the silt of the White Gull River.

'Beneath this, a pair of concentric circles. Within the annulus, an ovoid with a slit - a staring eye.' Scrawled across the pug postcard Cross uses to write his idea to scapegoat Shrue.

'Under that, a lemniscate over a heptagram[...]' Made up of the ribbon that binds Mercer and Gage's rifles.

'[...]and three parallel lines beneath.' Faulkner's staff, broken into three pieces.

Interstitial illustrations. There are four sets of these, which (roughly) correspond to more stand-alone episodes & fan favourites. This is my favourite, for my beloved Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust. I had a blast distilling recurring motifs of the episode into one little illustration, and I'm really proud of the result; I think it captures the match of sweet and bitter that the episode in question inspires. The clock points to the eleventh hour.

These are pretty self-explanatory: I couldn't pass up a chance to draw the inciting miracle of the series, and it made sense to pair it with the image of Paige and Hayward sailing downriver at the end of Season 2, an image which has always haunted me.

The hare and the owl are from Chapter 26, a symbol of the Wound Tree's emergence. The lobster and fish are intended as a nod to Faulkner and Rane, a character who I love but couldn't include more overtly. Lobsters are seen as a symbol of devotion and fidelity because, apocryphally, they mate for life, and yet the lobster here is without its pair. The fish was intended to be a remora, which swims beside sharks. (Yes, I'm aware remora are tropical sea-dwelling fish, and humbly beg any marine biologists reading this not to kill me on the spot).

The Killing And Violence Siblings!

These object illustrations were deliberately positioned as parallels and specifically reference Season 2, marking the point of the poem that is made up of that series' titles (an attention to the series chronology that roughly coheres throughout the piece. Very roughly.)

Mercer and Gage's rifles are twisted round with a red ribbon, which bleeds into the White Gull, binding them together and reflecting how they're rarely seen apart. The ribbon's also a deliberate parallel to the banner wrapping Carpenter and Faulkner's hands elsewhere in the art.

Carpenter's axe and Faulkner's sororicidal mirror shard are depicted alongside fish hooks, as though they're separated for much of the season, the Parish draws them back together in the end. Also an echo of Paige's line, 'Love is just a meat hook for you to catch me on.'

There's only blood on one of the rifles, in a nod to Mercer and Gage's uneven dynamic.

Bookend landscapes. The pages were intended to reference the Silt Verses as an in-story document, and represent the themes of truth, myth and record throughout.

The illumination!

It was always going to be a radio-- not a nod specifically to Sid Wright, but really to the use of broadcast, music and sound throughout the show. TSV's sound design is truly one of the things I admire most about it.

The radio is meant to be on Carpenter and Faulkner's dashboard, as they drive along the river in the very first episode, hence its positioning at the start of the poem.

I conceived this as the centre of the piece, and drew the rest around it.

aaaand that was a lot. I didn't cover everything, and I recommend clicking on the final piece to get full quality and see how the details interact with one another-- but if you've read through all these meanderings, thank you, sibling. I started this two weeks after the finale, and managed a full relisten while drawing. It's been a labour of love, and I now hate watercolours more than I have words for.