#the city that breeds

[vodkaandsnakes]

On this day, May 18, in Type O Negative history:

Type O Negative play The Omni with Ozzy Osbourne and Sepultura in Atlanta, GA (1996)

Type O Negative play Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD (2008)

[ivyithink]

posting this little thing, while I’m neck-deep in iwtv wips…

[rocketbirdie]

chocobo ranchin'

[kabutoden]

sorriez for not posting I am now responsible for SEVEN PUPPIES

SEVEN

PUPPIES

[muyru-iru]

Hound: okay boys, it's ravin' time. Who's up for dropping some nukes down these tunnels? CT-2971(Alias): SIr, tactical droid is employed. Ready to light it up? Hound: BRING IT ON BOYS!!! GET THE LURKERS OUT!!! Ahsoka Tano while on the run: wtf...this is not the front...this is literally Coruscant.What about the citizens???!! HOund: IF war crimes would ever be a thing for us clones... CT-2971 (Alias): luckily we can say: osik.

[ambermaitrejean]

May in Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Commerce City, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

[clever-fox-studios]

I’ve had this gag in my head for like a week—

Jenn has a very consistent delivery record, even with some locations and customers that are notoriously… difficult to find. She’s very good at her job.

She also has a criminal record.

These are not mutually exclusive facts.

Featuring @8um8le ‘s Eclipse trying to remember if he left the window open or if he needs to check the alarm system

[tg-headcanons]

Two thoughts:

Does the ccg use dogs to sniff out ghouls? If they do, i almost imagine they would develope a specific, ghoul hunting breed - one with an excellent sense of smell but, unlike most hunting dogs, with no instinct to bite or attack their prey but rather to just find, follow, surround and hold in place (a bit like a rhodesian ridgeback, perhaps.) After all, the dog trying to attack the ghoul would absolutely not end well at all for the dog

And

I imagine some instruments must be more grating on ghoul ears then others - i.e. a piano, for example, will generally sound nice as long as it's in tune and so i imagine ghouls wouldn't have much of an averse reaction to that instrument, even if its a beginner playing. But say, for example, you have a beginner clarinet whose instrument squeaks and shrieks like a cat that just got its tail shredded — i cant imagine that would pair terribly well with their hearing

GHOUL HUNTING DOGS GHOUL HUNTING DOGS (IVE NEVER CONSIDERED THIS BEFORE BUT MY DOG DAYCARE EMPLOYEE ASS IS GOING WILD)

The practice of using dogs to search for ghouls is a very old one, but despite falling out of practice around the 1960s due to breed health problems and more effective methods being discovered, some of them are still around like other breeds no longer used for their original purpose

Arracht hounds are an old breed that split off from Bloodhounds. They were meant to track and hunt, but some had a behavioral quirk of howling and snarling at their prey rather than attacking, alerting humans of their location but quick to scare off animals and a liability to hunts. They were mostly deemed useless bloodhounds, until a small community in rural Ireland during the Middle Ages had one of their bloodhounds do this alert display at a seemingly normal human who was later discovered to be the monster preying on their village

The breed started to be cultivated for ghoul detection. They eventually ended up as tall, long legged and wrinkly animals bred to shriek and follow their marks, and trained to seek the smell of ghouls. Before the invention of better methods, these dogs were revolutionary and often the best detection system anyone could get. They were trained to stay out of a ghoul’s grasp to keep making as much noise as possible for as long as possible until humans could show up, and their wrinkly, loose skin made it easy for them to escape, better to lose a handful of skin than be killed

This obviously wasn’t a perfect system. A lot of those dogs, even the best bred and trained, didn’t survive their encounters. Others would find false positives and cause their attending humans to attack and kill other humans. Still, back then, an imperfect alarm was better than nothing. Many places in Europe became very dangerous for ghouls, and as those dogs spread through the world it only got worse for them

Eventually the dogs fell out of use. With better methods such as rc testing discovered they were no longer the most reliable source, and both human rights organizations citing the amount of innocent humans they got killed and animal rights groups citing how many of the dogs get killed, there was less and less reason to keep them on. The final straw was just how bad the breed got. Over time the breed developed issues the same as any other, but this one had a tendency to lose hearing and eyesight early and get neurotic and dangerous when working around ghouls for too long, so most ghoul extermination organizations retired the Arracht Hounds

Most of them are now housepets, some are trying to retrain them into guard or hunting dogs, and a few rural ghoul hunting organizations still use them, but for the most part they don’t work anymore. Every once and awhile there’s a headline of a ghoul getting caught when a family’s Arracht hound went wild over an inconspicuous neighbor, but that’s as far as it goes. People in cities are advised against getting them. They shriek very loud and maybe it’s all false positives, but you really don’t want to know just how many ghoul are around you

And as for the instruments: the ghoul hatred of squeaky clarinets and trumpets is visceral. They will actively avoid middle schools and music shops where kids are learning to play them

[arthurgalgo]

you know you’re a dog nerd when you inadvertently guess the city someone lives in over 4000 miles away based on the dog breed they own

[abirddogmoment]

perpetually pingponging between having competitive dog ambitions and wanting nothing to do with the dog community ever again 🏓

[helenofblackthorns]

I was flipping through city of lost souls the other day & came across this quote. and now it lives rent free in my head like?? hello??

[spirk-trek]

guys :')

[iftitah]

there was a buffalo that was about to die soon but we were not allowed to tell it to the owner

[reasonsforhope]

“The state of New York passed a law Thursday prohibiting the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in pet stores. The move is an attempt to halt the puppy-mill-to-pet-store pipeline and stop abusive breeders.

“Dogs, cats and rabbits across New York deserve loving homes and humane treatment,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul says in a statement. “I'm proud to sign this legislation, which will make meaningful steps to cut down on harsh treatment and protect the welfare of animals across the state.”

Puppy mills—or large-scale dog breeding facilities—are often unregulated. At these sites, the dogs’ welfare is compromised in favor of maximizing profits, per the Humane Society of the United States, but most puppy mills remain legal...

Animal rights activists have praised the new law, saying it will help diminish animal cruelty and encourage people to adopt some of the 6.3 million shelter animals in need of a home annually...

The new law, which goes into effect in 2024, will allow pet stores to rent out their space to shelters for adoption events. Under the law, customers may still buy animals directly from breeders, which proponents say will make them more aware of where their pets are coming from, writes Maysoon Khan for the Associated Press (AP).

“If a consumer went to a mill and saw the awful conditions, they wouldn’t buy these animals,” New York State Senator Michael Gianaris tells the AP. “Dealing with a breeder allows people to see where their dog comes from, and it cuts off the middlemen that serve as a way to wash off the awful activities that take place at the mill.”” -via Smithsonian Magazine, 12/16/22

[vrieseasees]

Hatojosetou micronation rise up! ..???

[dark-elf-writes]

I really really want Cloud to lean into the whole “raised in the middle of nowhere” thing.

Give me a Cloud who is very much “these mother fuckers don’t even have wolves”. A Cloud that knows how to do a bit of everything because there’s so few people where he’s from and if they wanted something fixed him and his Ma had to do it themselves. A Cloud in a Midgar winter in shorts and a T-shirt because this am isn’t even cold what is everyone complaining about. A Cloud who can do unholy things with a roll of tape, ball of twine, and a broken boot knife that traumatizes his fellow troopers. A Cloud that is like “but have you seen [something untranslatable but incredibly terrifying sounding]”. A Cloud that kind of shrugs after a run in with a monster where everyone is scraped ups bf bleeding and vaguely traumatized like “it’s no dragon”.

A Cloud that has been running feral and free in mountains far less hospitable than fucking midgar of all places and is always bitching about these city people who don’t know what cold is and all of their alcohol (that he’s not technically old enough to drink for all that he’s been old enough back home) is watery and useless and how no one can hem a pair of fucking pants without taking them to a damn tailor.