#and she always plays nicely with other whippets...

[whippetcrimes]

There's been like. One puppy update a week the past few weeks and I'm kinda sad about it. We can't make it to the puppy meet and greet this weekend (mostly because it's a 3 day round trip drive) and I feel like I have no concept of their personalities at alllll. We should be picking early next week and I just. Don't know. Don't have any feelings about either of them either way

[final-bae-stination]

A Whole World Away (Bondi Rescue)

Pairing: Chase Hardaker X Girlfriend! Fem! OC

Tags: Falling In Love; Crushing; Long-Distance Relationship; Reuniting Together; Coming Home.

Requested: No.

Third Person POV

Chase had liked her from the start, and for a while, she liked him, too, but pretended not to. She was a surfer, so she was always in the water, catching waves. She was from Brazil, and she was fluent in English, Portuguese, and French. She could also say at least five swear words in Russian, which often made Chase laugh.

He met her on the surf. It was six in the morning, and he was scheduled at eight, so he figured he’d catch some waves first. She’d come paddling up beside him and smiled. “Pretty, isn’t it?” She asked, sitting on her board and watching the sunrise. “Yeah. I’m Chase,” He smiled. “Aline.” She smiled. “Nice to meet you.” “You as well.”

They kept talking, and Chase found himself doing sunrise/sunset surfing with her, just to spend more time with her. She was due to leave in a week, and it made him sad. She was beautiful, but lived a whole world away. They went to different parts of Sydney, Chase playing tour guide.

Now, the lifeguards saw this, clearly. They saw Chase mooning over this girl, totally infatuated with her, and her with him, after a while. At first, she thought it was cute that he liked her like that, but then she started falling as well. But they knew how easily Chase fell, and how easily he was hurt, and were a little worried, considering she was from Brazil. But they trusted Chase, because he was a kid. He was learning about heartbreak, and though it hurt to see, they knew it was a part of growing up. And then she’d left. 

Chase went to the airport with her, seeing her off. He’d been hanging out at the beach with the guys in the Tower, joking around and laughing, when Aline showed up, bags at her side, and Chase knew. “You’re leaving.” He said, and she nodded, not looking at him. The lifeguards shared looks, and Deano touched his arm. “Go see your girl off,” He said, and Chase went. Will and Luke Faddy went as support.

“I’m gonna miss you,” She whispered, standing in front of the gate. Chase smiled sadly. “Nah, I think I’ll miss you more, you know?” She laughed, and he pushed her hair behind her ear. “Chase?” She asked softly as her plane was called. “Yeah?” “Can I kiss you?” “Yeah.” And she did. They kissed for a long moment, and then she was gone with one final look. He didn’t go back to the beach after her plane had left. Will and Luke dropped him off, feeling sad, watching Chase slump inside before returning to work.

The others found him, after work, at his house, sitting on his couch. “Stupid, isn’t it?” He said when they walked in. “That I’m so depressed for a girl?” He shook his head. “No.” Jake said. “Your only problem is falling too hard too fast, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.” “You love her, that’s understandable.” Whippet put in.

He was distant at work, Aline always on his mind, but never once failed at a rescue or a job, determined to not be so mopey over her. They still called each other.

She’d even asked if they could try being together, so they were dating, but long-distance. It was hard. They couldn’t see each other but over video chat, and he missed her terribly, because the only time he could really call her was his few days off and after work, at night, when she’d be. 

He didn’t expect her to come back, because she was still in college. But he was at work one day when Will came in amid the team, hiding a shit-eating grin. “I have something for you,” Will said to Chase, making everyone stare. And then Aline poked her head in. “Hi, Chase!” Chase leapt from his seat, nearly knocking it over, and hugged her, hearing her laugh. “What the hell are you doing here?!” He asked, bewildered. She shrugged. “I’m an official Aussie.” She grinned. “I figured I could finish my schooling here, because…because you were here.” She added softly. Chase blinked. “Really? That’s awesome!” He smiled, and caught a glimpse of Whippet grinning fondly at them. “Um…do you want to meet the others?” He asked softly, and she nodded, “I’d love to.” The team was pleased to meet her, and her and Lachie had become friends almost instantly because of their shared humor. But Chase was just glad his girlfriend was home. When the sun set, he turned to her. “Hey.” She turned, eyes curious. “We haven’t gone out there in a while.” She looked at the ocean, colored red from the sunset. She smiled. “C’mon.” They grabbed their boards, heading to the water, and just sat there, watching the sun sink. 

In the Tower, the team smiled, watching them.

“Hey.” Aline said. Chase turned, and she kissed him. It was perfect.

[jeysbvck]

tagged by @likedovesinthewnd oh wifey its always a pleasure seeing you in my activity feed🫶🏻💖

❤︎ are you named after anyone?

i am not! although my nan did want this to be my name bc its an irish name (shes irish), she just didn't tell anyone bc she didn't want to interfer, so she was very happy! & my mum liked the meaning of my middle name & felt it was fitting, so here we are!!

❤︎ when was the last time you cried?

if you're talking cried with laughter, about an hour or so ago. if you're talking crying crying, then...monday.

❤︎ do you have kids?

no.

❤︎ do you play/have you played any sports?

we had to play netball, tennis, hockey, rounders & do athletics (running, high jump, long jump) in high school & i hated them all bar athletics. im taller than average for a woman, so i was pretty good at athletics (until i fucked my knee). when i was in year 4 (8/9 years old) i won a running competition, & in high school up until year 10 (2nd to last school year) i was the 2nd fastest girl in my year (i just didn't do any of the competitons). ive also played football with my partner & some old friends we had, but i was never any good😂

❤︎ do you like sarcasm?

my partner & family say im one of the most sarcastic people they've ever met soooo you tell me.

❤︎ what do you notice about people when you meet them?

hmm, i guess their demeanor, & how they talk to me/other people.

❤︎ what’s your eye color?

i got those bambi brown eyes (bambi was my childhood nickname bc my eyes were huuuuge!)

❤︎ scary movies or happy endings?

i wish i could say scary movies so bad, but im such a wimp😭😭 (whose to say scary movies can't have happy endings anyway?)

❤︎ any talents?

overthinking, feeling bad about myself & binging? no, but if im supposed to be nice about myself (and i genuinely believing my binging is a talent i could binge anything if i wanted) then i guess writing? ive been told im a good writer, and people seem to really enjoy what i post here, so...writing?

❤︎ where were you born?

london, and that's all ur gonna get.

❤︎ what are your hobbies?

binging tv shows, ive gotten back into reading this year too, writing fanfic. (idk i don't have many hobbies at all)

❤︎ any pets?

i have a jack russell x whippet called jake & a black cat called evie and they are my world 🥰

❤︎ how tall are you?

5 foot 8, im a tall girlie

❤︎ what are your favourite school subjects?

i liked history, until i took it for my GCSEs 😭 and i liked english too

❤︎ what’s your dream job?

im tired of pretending i have a dream job. (i did have one, but got rejected three times so yeah)

no pressure tags; @rishlurh @nightmare-viper @wrestlezaynia @maplesyrizzup

[dogtiber]

Tiber had some really nice dog interactions this morning!

we met another whippet and I let him off lead in the public park for the first time!

Tiber was going absolutely berserk about having a friendly sighthound running circles around him and play bowing. I didn’t have his harness on him this morning, only his collar, and I couldn’t get him to calm down all the way and was worried he’d choke himself. he’s been getting to a good place with his recall lately and we’ve been discussing trying him off lead in the smaller quieter park anyway, and the other whippet seemed really well trained and responsive to her owner so I figured if I let him off he’d want to stick close to play with her.

he did really well! got some nice zoomies out and was really good about coming back to me. I usually ask him to tap his nose on my hand for recall and he was a little too distracted to follow through completely with that, but he was very very good about running by me to check in and reorienting towards me when called. I think we have a little more work to do, but I’m very proud of him!

I kept it short and got him back on leash once they were done running their circles.

a little later on our walk we ran into a very old lurcher. they both wanted to greet each other very badly, and Tiber was being very polite about it, so I walked him over. she was 14! he was very gentle with her, but was also play bouncing a lot lol just giving her some extra space when he did so. she bounced around back at him a little, but I think she was too old and wobbly to really go for it. but it was very cute watching them bounce at each other. her owners were very sweet and we chatted a bit and that was very nice.

and then we had a nice passing by greeting with a little daschund on the way home. as always with daschunds he was entirely enamored with her. they had a little cute happy sniff session.

those were the big exciting ones today, but he’s been doing better about dogs on our walks in general lately too! I’m very proud of him. I am thinking tho that I want to try to find some more opportunities to give him outlets for his dog friend excitement.

the other day, he was very good about waiting for the ok to go greet a little terrier-thing while we asked his owner if they could say hi. and he was being so self-disciplined but ALSO soooo excited. he literally plonked his ass down and just sat there vibrating in place until he could go up.

it was very funny and cute to witness and he’s being so good and trying so hard. but I’m worried he’s getting amped up too much trying to hold back and worried about him going over threshold? Idk I gotta see if I can find any info on excited reactivity I guess.

here he is passed out on the couch after exciting walk^^

[bietjie]

15 questions for 15 mutuals

And here I was thinking I would get away with never being tagged. I don’t typically join in on this sort of thing yet from all the ones I’ve seen, people seem to be enjoying reading them so maybe I should thank @zoeoe-sims and join in with the community more.  ​ Are you named after anyone? No, however my mother and her friend were pregnant at the same time neither knew the gender of their baby. The friend liked the name my mother chose and asked if she had a girl could she also use that name? my mother said yes but asked they spell it differently as there are 2 common spellings for the name. So I have a childhood friend who is older than me yet named after me in a way. She has an additional e in her name which I guess is the more common spelling where I live now as I have spent most of my life correcting people.  When was the last time you cried? I think I cried during a k-drama yesterday. Do you have kids? yes, I have 4 beautiful boys. Aged 10, 9, 7 and 2. Do you use sarcasm a lot? Not particularly. What sports do you play/have you played? I’ve never really been one for sports. And this was more a hobby than a sport as I never raced but in my teen years I did motorcross.  What’s the first thing you notice about other people? I don’t get out much but I’d say I notice if they have children or not. Scary movies or happy endings? I enjoy both and I used to be really into scary movies but now days if I needed to pick something to watch it would probably be something with a happy endings.  Any special talents? Not that I can think of. Where were you born? Hollywood

What are your hobbies? Other than creating for the sims 3 I like to draw, mainly Celtic knotwork. I developed my own personal style. I also like to do origami and I cross stitch Christmas decorations every year for my children, nieces and nephews. Do you have any pets? yes, 2 dogs. Our 4 year old girl is a staffie x whippet and our 2 year old boy is a border collie. They both compete in dog agility.  How tall are you? 170cm or 5′ 7" depending on where you’re from.  Fave subject in school? Graphics (technical drawing) was my favorite subject followed by math.  Dream job? I always wanted to be a mother of 4 so I guess I’m doing it now as a stay at home mum however it would be nice to get paid for it.  Eye color? Hazel. You notice the green in them more if I’m wearing green. 

I know I should tag others but as this isn’t typically something I would do it’s just too much to ask of me to tag others. So If you haven’t been tagged but would like to join in feel free to use me as your excuse/reason to do so. 

[feralnumberfive]

The Rewatch Academy: Episode 4 of Season 1

“Man on the Moon”

I am in no way a good analyst so my little analysis and speculations probably sound a bit goofy or pretty wild and probably mean nothing at all. Everything I put into this post about each episode is purely what I noticed or thought, whether it’s funny or serious. I will be making jokes, so please just leave it at that (in no way am I trying to make fun of an actor and or character!) I am also in no way saying I noticed this stuff first. This is just what I noticed while rewatching these episodes

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1x01 | 1x02 | 1x03 |

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☂ So at that point Luther had already been alone for about five years (due to his siblings leaving when they were 18 or even 17 according to Diego), and by alone I mean he did’t have his siblings with him. I’m not counting Reginald, Grace, or Pogo because I’d imagine they weren’t the best company. There was a two year gap between Luther getting the serum and then being sent to the moon. He had already been “alone” for five years before he was sent away to be completely alone for four years. He hasn’t had really any social/outside interaction besides going on missions for almost ten years, which means Luther is an awkward dude and he hasn’t been a true leader because he hasn’t had anyone to lead. I don’t think people really realize this and I think that’s where some of the hate towards him comes from 

☂ We see that Luther looks into Allison’s and Klaus’s bedrooms as he makes his way down the hall, and I’m willing to bet he did that for all of his siblings. Makes me wonder how many times the siblings went to Five’s room to visit it or to even check with hope that he had come back  

☂ I wish I could ride my bike around my house and chug a gallon of milk :[

☂ I can’t believe that Reginald still made him wear that leather battle suit 💀

☂ Why are there posters of animal anatomy in the infirmary?

☂ Apparently it takes between two to four months to grow a full beard, so that’s  about how long Luther had been lying there

☂ *suffers through the Allison and Luther scene*

☂ “HoPe I wAsN’t BeInG tOo LoUd”

☂ Vanya and Leonard were really sweet in the beginning. Screw you Leonard

☂ It’s really sad that not one his siblings notice that Klaus is gone. Not. One. 

☂ Are you telling me that Klaus and Five are certified freaks? At least I’m sure that’s who Cha Cha is referring to, or maybe it’s Luther

☂ I tried looking up tortures in Trinidad to see if Cha Cha was referring to any specific event, but I think it’s just a random thing in the show

☂ It’s only when Diego mutters “The boy” that it reminds him either of Five’s superhero name “The Boy” or his new appearance as a teen again so it finally clicks in his head that that’s who the mystery kid is

☂ Diego admitting that he doesn’t really know how to process his feelings!

☂ He’s very protective of his family and that’s something that I love about Diego. He doesn’t know who Hazel and Cha Cha are but all he knows is that they are searching for Five for some reason and that his siblings almost got killed last night

☂ Five doesn't realize the suffering that he’s putting his family through at this point since he’s only focused on finding who’s responsible for the end of the world. It’s ironic that he’s doing all of this to keep them alive and safe and yet him not being with them almost got them killed. Five buddy, you should have included all of your siblings from the start no matter how much they annoy you

☂ Also where has Five been this entire time? He left the van at night and now it’s the next morning. He’s been following the guy but why did it take him so long to corner him?

☂ Ope, and there’s a continuation error! When Luther takes his arm out of Five’s dresser, he takes part of the wood panel with him. When it cuts back to Diego talking there’s just a fist size hole

☂ “We barely got out with our lives.” Okay but where were you, Pogo?

☂ It’s funny how quickly they revert to child-like shame when Pogo scolds them. At least they still respect him I guess

☂ Is Hazel eating potato chips with ketchup? 

☂ I think one reason why nobody notices that Klaus is gone is because none of them saw him that night during the attack. They possibly assumed he already had left the Academy??

☂ Looooove the “Shingaling” scene. They are straight up vibing

☂ I don’t know why Luther was frustrated with the van door being locked. It’s not like he could rip the door off or anything.......

☂ I have a two questions here:

Why did Diego know where to find Five based off of the book? Sure he saw that it came from the library, but that doesn’t mean that he’ll be there

Wouldn’t Luther and Diego have seen the smoke coming from the Meritech building? Unless they left immediately and weren’t able to see the smoke even though they probably were still in the vicinity when it began to burn

☂ Five is holding the man’s arm to make sure that he doesn’t get away (hard to tell in the pic below though). He needs that sense of security that this lead isn’t going to escape his grasp, but I’m sure that if he were to run he wouldn’t get far when you can just teleport after him

☂ I got a nice pic of Five (also the dude on the bike that was riding behind Five as he runs up in this shot just does not care that this building is on fire) 

☂ When it shows Five on the ground, it at first starts off with light and slightly comedic music before it quickly switches over to something dramatic. I always thought it was funny that they play the light stuff as we see Five just laying there 💀

☂ You can see just how quickly Five’s face changes from shock to disbelief and disappointment as his only lead is literally blown away from him look, you can pinpoint the exact moment his heart breaks. Also Five definitely would have had hearing issues since we can see that the windows on the building behind him were shattered. He’s staring into your soul....

☂ There’s nothing really significant about this at all, but Whippets are racing dogs and in the comics Five goes to watch a dog race at one point

☂ “I hate sprinkles.” Hey, me too!

☂ I love that Griddy’s is still open despite the damage that was done to it

☂ Diego left home at 17 (which is illegal so I wonder if he was emancipated or maybe Diego ran away and Reginald didn’t care to look for him) so I wonder if the others left when they were 17 too or if they waited until they were 18 

☂ Luther I don’t really think you’re one to talk about being “grown up” my guy. In fairness none of the Umbrellas know how to be fully functioning adults, not even Five who’s about twice the age of his siblings and is almost a senior citizen

☂ “I stayed because the world needed me.” Hey that was basically Five’s reason too, but more so for getting to see his family again. Anyways, like brother, like, uh, brother! 

☂ "And things are never gonna go back to the way they used to be.” You sir just predicted the next week(s) (and technically years in the 60s) of your life and the lives of your siblings! This also applies for what happens after those weeks/years, but we haven’t gotten there yet but it’s certainly not the way things used to be!  

☂ How was Luther upset enough that he wanted Diego to stop talking after he said something genuine and a bit sad?

☂ This whole relationship talk isn’t exactly relatable......

☂ He’s just chillin’

☂ Reginald can ✨perish✨ Oh wait, he already did 

☂ Here I am taking any little scrap and running with it, but when Five says he’s going through puberty twice does that mean that he didn’t get his aging altered by The Commission? In the comics, Temps Aeternalis/Commission stopped Five’s aging but here it sounds like that didn’t happen. Since we haven’t heard anything about Five’s DNA in the tv show we don’t really know much about his aging alteration either. I think that they really do have to leave that part out due to Aidan himself, who is a growing teen, and for the fact that they would need to come up with an excuse for Five’s aging (Aidan already looks different in S2 and he’s taller too). I wish they would bring this stuff up in the show!

☂ Five deflects answering the question of what he’s the best at most likely just because he’s just distracted but also possibly because he doesn’t want his brothers to know at this point

☂ First the feral chimp smile and now this

☂ Five actually sounded serious when he was talking about how many people he has killed and how he’s the ”Four frickin’ Horsemen” which is more so an exaggeration but it still shows us that he views himself as dangerous and powerful. He revealed this to them while he was drunk, even though they don’t really understand, but I wonder if Five ever actually planned on telling his siblings what he did and how much blood he has on his hands. I feel like he would have told them after he had saved the world from the apocalypse, but yet again I could also see him brushing off questions in relation to what he just said to Luther and Diego to hide his past from his family

☂ ✨”Little Psycho”✨

☂ As eerie as all of those ghosts are, it’s a really neat scene

☂ It’s not really meant to be funny, but Klaus denying the duct tape just reminds me of a little kid refusing to go into timeout 

☂ I guess Cha Cha got out through the door next to the bathroom when Klaus was banging his head on the table?

☂ It’s a shame that Patch died right away, I really liked her

☂ Klaus, where you’re going really isn’t any better 

☂ It’s sweet that Diego puts Delores down gently and doesn’t just toss her somewhere. Even though she’s a mannequin, Diego knows that she means something to Five

☂ Well Luther I think it’s pretty self-explanatory what he meant. You just need more context 

☂ Diego: *signaling that someone, possibly a threat, is approaching and to be alert*

Luther: 🕴👁`👄’👁

☂ Even if they did think that Klaus had left the Academy before Hazel and Cha Cha attacked it, it’s sad that it took them this long to think about him

☂ Luther patting Delores is so cute

☂ Say it with me kids, “Patch deserved so much better!”

☂ My heart breaks to see Diego so heartbroken and upset, especially when he says “I gotta go, okay? I can’t be here when they come, okay?” Ugh, that gets me

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Feel free to comment or reblog with things you have noticed too!

[lothiriel84]

Proud three-time winner of the Syd Little Award for ‘Also Being There’

“It’s not all whippets and mining up the North, darling.” 

You know that song that goes, 'Cause I've had the time of my life / And I owe it all to you (x)? Well, I think it sums up quite nicely how I feel about this whole experience - minus the clichéd romantic undertones, of course. The ‘you’ in question would obviously be the wonderful @finneganoriordan, who created this project and worked ever so hard for it to become a reality against all odds. 

Some days, I can’t quite believe I was there as the bulk of the filming was being done, and even got to spend time with the cast and crew - such brilliant and talented people, every single one of them, and absolutely lovely on top of that. I had such an incredible time, even on those days when I was so tired I could barely function at all (mostly out of lack of sleep, go figure), and I can but hope I didn’t end up being too much in the way of things actually getting done. 

So, yes, the filming. As someone with no experience whatsoever in this field, it was extremely interesting to get to see ‘how it’s done’; and as luck would have it, our sound recordist somehow decided to let me have a go at booming - as in, holding the boom while struggling to follow his directions, which I didn’t always entirely succeed at. At least it gave me something to do other than just standing there feeling entirely out of place, or weirding everyone out by taking hundreds of random shots that invariably turned up blurry or underexposed. 

(Incidentally, I had no idea there were so many things that could interfere with sound recording, from ticking clocks to plugged in fridges, to birds, and planes. Thomas and Diana, in particular, had plenty of ‘fun’ with several retakes as a series aircrafts kept circling over one of the locations, though they still managed to get the scene done in the end.)

Lots of fun was had in between takes, as well as while Amanda (our wonderful director of photography) was driving us to the various locations in her van. York is a particularly beautiful city to shoot in, though it probably didn’t have to go that hard at giving us such a miserable start of the 5th of February - complete with fog and rime ice (or whatever it’s properly called), which turned my short walk to the pickup spot into a bit of a nightmare. Still, the weather perked up soon enough, and later on we had the pleasure to listen to Tom and Simon discussing such things as philosophy, identity, and perception over our Chinese lunch. Fab.

(It’s kinda funny that after trudging on icy pavements for days, I ended up very nearly spraining my ankle one frostless evening as I was exploring the York city walls by myself. Thank goodness neither me nor my phone were seriously injured in the fall, so I was able to keep on being useless on the set, and having way more fun than I was probably supposed to.)

Another memorable moment was when someone asked Amanda whether she could see a massive clock on the wall in the shot, and her reply went something like, "I was going to say, ‘big time’.” I still think about it sometimes, and I’m pretty sure Roy Steel for one would definitely drink to that. That was on my last day on the set, and boy, but I did keep missing filming for days afterwards, even after going down to London for the final leg of my trip. 

(Well, and the people, too. If someone had told me a year ago that I would get the chance to work - or, more accurately, be there as they did their thing - with this amazing cast and crew, I would probably have laughed right in their face. And yet, here we are - or were. Sigh.)

As proof that it wasn’t all just a particularly vivid dream that I had, here’s photographic evidence of me ‘also being there’. The owner of one of the locations wanted a picture of us to keep as a souvenir, which is very convenient as I now get to keep those same pictures as well.

I don’t think I have ever been less enthusiastic to head over to London as I did when the time came for me to leave York. But leave York I did, and I even got to see Margaret Cabourn-Smith that very evening in a play she was in - both her and Anna Crilly’s performance were absolutely great, though I find that I’m still having a bit of a hard time whenever someone unexpectedly drops that particular bombshell. (Which I can’t mention, because spoilers. Oh, well.)

The JFSP try-outs were, as you might expect, as enjoyable as ever. Pity that Lawry wasn’t there, but the rest of them were, and it’s always such a treat to get to see ‘the cast's silly voices come out of equally silly faces’, as I believe John himself put it in one of his most recent blog entries.

(I’m terribly sorry that I ended up doing my usual spot of loitering around and making everyone uncomfortable, afterwards, but I wanted to tell Margaret and Carrie than I had enjoyed The Half and Agendum, respectively - and I swear one day I will learn how I’m supposed to behave in this kind of situation, or quite possibly simply not to wait around for people after their shows, I don’t know.)

Oh, and I got the chance to wander around Vauxhall a bit, too. (You know, for reasons.) Other than that, I would probably recommend spending an afternoon at Alexandra Park - it’s quite lovely out there. 

(You may find some of the pictures I took in York and London here, if you’re interested.)

[dontdowhatisayandnobodygetshurt]

Since you've done all odd numbers.. even numbers?

OH DEAR GOD OKAY THAT’S GREAT!!! Thank you so so much for asking, amazing Anon!!!!! :’D Here we gone, it’s gonna be long again, so it’s below the cut!! Click read more to learn more randomness about me!!! X’D [questions from here]

2.have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?

Not exactly like me, no. That’s the good thing about art; nothing is the same! :D

4.would you have sex with the last person you text messaged?

LMAO NO

6.how many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?

Not many. I tend to distrust men more with physical harm and I distrust women more with emotional harm. I have… trust issues. I trust my frens and some of my family members and that’s about it. oof. ^__^”

8.who would you like to see in concert?

If I’m gonna be risking sensory overlord… Coldplay! <3

10.would you ever want to swim with sharks?

HELL TO THE YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDD <3 <3 <3 <3

12.what was the last thing that made you laugh?

My Dad just brushed Ria our German Shepherd and came in COVERED in fur X’D X’D

14.have any pets?

YES!! Three dogs (Ria the German Shepherd, Granger the whippet, and Maude the mutt/Pomeranian-ish), three chickens (Haymitch, Cinna, and Effie) and two ducks (Peeta and Katniss). Don’t worry, we named the poultry after Hunger Games characters to be ironic, since we have no plans to kill them and they’re spoiled AF. X’D <3

16.do you have piercings? How many?

I don’t! I wanted some, but… eh we’ll see. XD

18.what are you craving right now?

Intimacy. :’)

20.have you ever been cheated on?

No. And if I ever am it will absolutely destroy me. So yeah, if my future partner is reading this, please just… don’t. Break up with me first, at least.

22.do you believe in true love?

Meh. Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know. I hope it exists though! <3

24.do you like the snow?

I’ve never seen snow!! I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT AND JUST FACE-PLANT INTO IT!!!!!!! :’D XD <3 <3

26.is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby?

Kinda depends on the circumstances??? but it’s usually it is pretty cute! ^-^ <3

28.go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is!

Six million pounds of space dust settles on the earth every year.

ummmm…. thanks, I hate it? XD

30.what color do you really want to dye your hair?

BRIGHT FUCKIN YELLOW. PIKA PIKA MOTHERFUCKER!!! >:D X’D <3

32.talk about your favorite bag, the one that’s been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces.

I have this one bag that’s been with me since I was 8. It’s basically a glorified sack that creases every bit of clothing you put in it to hell and it has straps and rope ties and it’s navy blue and I love it!! :D X’D

34. what’s the weirdest place you’ve ever broken into?

My own goddamn house. Had to bust a window and everything. X’D

36.what is your opinion of socks? do you like wearing weird socks? do you sleep with socks? do you confine yourself to white sock hell? really, just talk about socks.

Okay so my Mum exclusively buys black socks. Just…. black socks that you can’t even tell apart, but I can’t wait till I can buy the most RIDICULOUSLY CUTE HECKING SOCKS ON THE PLANET. I do like wearing socks, I do not sleep with socks on, but I think they’re great!! :D XD <3

38.do you have a favorite coffee shop? describe it!

It’s p small and it has lots of art I can actually appreciate on the walls and it’s got a low ceiling and kind of a comforting, dark-but-still-sunny den kind of vibe. The booths are actually comfortable. A lot of wood and smokey colours. There’s a slate fireplace crackling somewhere. It smells strongly of coffee and vaguely of liquorice. There’s a spot at the back that’s mostly hidden from site, the perfect place to curl up and read a book while picking on a muffin that was reasonably cheap but the size of your whole hand. Closest place to heaven on earth. <3

40.what was your biggest fear as a kid? is it the same today?

Not being able to breathe. Pretty much, ya.

42.think of a person. what song do you associate with them?

Sam aka myriadimagines. And this song, idk why, it just reminds me of her. <3 And it’s a bit sad and I know she’s a bit sad atm but I hope she feels better soon bc she’s so so so unbelievably nice and wonderful. <3 <3 <3

44.do you like poetry? what are some of your faves?

ASDFGHJKL ACTUALLY THIS THING THAT SAM HERSELF WROTE IS MY FAVE. I read it like a 2 years ago now and it still stuck with me and it’s so beautifully poignant I want to SCREAM. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 hello yes why are my friends so talented are they even REAL??????????

46.what are some of your worst habits?

I forget to eat and generally forget to take care of myself, I deny myself things I like for absolutely no reason??? I procrastinate everything, I bite my fingernails super low and also the skin around them bc I’m fuckin constantly anxious and can’t sit still, I overthink everything, I stay up way too late… honestly I could keep going, you get the point. XD

48.tell us about your pets!

OKAY SO. Ria is absolutely OBSESSED with her ball, and I mean OBSESSED to the point where she has no idea what to do with herself if you take it away and gets all anxious and whines and paces till you give it back. She constantly sheds and she does this sUpER CuTe thing where she wraps her front paw around your leg while you’re trying to walk and trips you. :))) Granger is either made of metal or a deflated pool toy and there’s no in between. She eats literally anything, including ants nests bc you know they must taste GREAT. She’s super stubborn. She gets smile wrinkles if you rub her neck. Maudie was rescue we got as a really small puppy. We only knew her mum but her dad must have been a Pomeranian bc she looks almost exactly like one. She has this thing where she bites you when you surprise her but really she’s a sweetheart. She’s mostly blind and deaf and has no idea where she is most of the time, I don’t think. XD The chickens are all idiots, the ducks are scared of me but still eat out of my hand when I offer them grapes. Haymitch likes to jump up on my back, Effie likes falling asleep on my lap, and Cinna pecks me a lot and leaves bruises but she lets me stroke her at night when she’s dozing off. :’) <3 I love them all sO MUCH GUYS. <3 <3 <3

50.are you in the minion hateclub or fanclub?

I think they can be funny… in small amounts. :/// Their laughs are pretty infectious, you gotta admit. XD

52.describe one of your friend’s eyes using the most abstract imagery you can think of.

Wariness and weariness and beauty and a fierce want to be loved.

54.are you planning on getting tattoos? which ones?

YEEEEESSSSSSS. An Ouroboros (either sealed or pulling away idk), a blank line of my arm so I can write how many days I’ve been without a relapse bc I need to be held accountable for my actions, a black square with colours bursting out, I also really love blackout tattoos???? I want a bird on my middle finger. :)))) And maybe a smiley face near my collar bone. The quote “what a marvel life is.” I also want the word “promise” on me somewhere, idk where. Maybe a feather somewhere too??? AHHHH SO MANY MY DUDE!!!!!! :DDDDDDDD <3 maybe even a Southern cross but I don’t want to be one of those wankers y’know XD

56.what are some movies you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives?

Star Wars, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Mulan, Into The Spiderverse. Basically just my favourites lmao. XD

58.if you were presented with two buttons, one that allows you to go 5 years into the past, the other 5 years into the future, which one would you press? why?

Neither, eesh. Maybe the past….?? Maybe…? I guess it’d be pretty funny to grab “I’m a girl!!!” Matt and shake some sense into his thick skull. X’D

60.what are some things you do when you can’t sleep?

Oh boy. Throw a ball at the wall and catch it, try to write, have a panic attack bc I should be sleeping, read, play Pokemon, listen to music, pat my dogs, possibly cry… world’s my oyster. XD

62.who is the last person you told a secret to?

My Mum.

64.what’s your favorite food?

🍕 !!!!!!!! :DDDDDD

66.three songs you were recently obsessed with.

this one - this one - this one <3

68. three favourite old songs

this - this - this

70.worst possible time to get horny:

lmao when both my parents are home and I have no time to deal with ittttt… occasions like that are the only times I’m sort of grateful I can’t get a boner and give myself away. XD 

72.do you believe in soulmates?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t believe any relationship is “perfect”, though. There’s always gonna be difficulties.

74.who was the last person you cried in front of?

Dad. Oof.

76.is it easier to forgive or forget?

Neither. :))))))) Forget… I guess?? But really. Neither. :)

78.do you have trust issues? 

*inhale*

Y E S

80.would you go back in time if you were given the chance?

Nopeity nope nope. XD

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING, ANON!!! <3 <3 <3 ^____^

[henclair]

give us bev and jenny hcs

bless i was hoping someone would ask (warning there’s some stozier and a lot of stan and jenny friendship bc !!!!)- ok so jenny and stan have been friends since birth bc jewish families stay close

- they never dated bc they both knew they were SO gay

- so stan and jenny are like, both desperately looking for a nice jewish boy or girl

- good thing richie is non practicing but still jewish and bev is willing to convert ;;;;;)))

- once bev comes out stans like 👀👀

- “i got a girl for you.” and bev flips

- she’s super exited to meet another gay girl bc a gal needs a gf!! tf!!

- stan talks jenny up to bev and bev is all heart eyes

- so when they’re like 17 they all go to a house party after finals

- bev is running to find stan bc stan said the girl was at a party

- and literally runs into jenny

- almost breaks the girls wrist

- jenny is super nice and all “it’s ok!” and bev’s like “oof i’m a big lesbian”

- so jenny and bev chat the entire night and stan feels like a proud older brother figure

- they officially get together later tho :/

- jenny always wears her star of david necklace

- her bracelet too, it says the name of a girl who died in the holocaust

- jenny goes to their school but her classes are harder so she can’t see bev at school :(

- so they don’t see each other after the party for a few weeks bc they can only pass in the hallways and quickly say hi

- they get together when bev bikes to jenny’s house and sneaks her out ala max and lucas in st

- they go to the quarry bc bev has no ideas but whoops! another groups already on a date

- it’s really awkward to run into ur basically brother on a date when ur with the girl he set u up with

- so instead they hit up a small ice cream place

- bev kisses jenny over their shakes

- they’re the cutest couple!!

- jenny likes to sit in bev’s lap

- bev likes to get piggyback rides from jenny

- bev’s aunt thinks that jenny is really sweet and such a blessing to have around

- jenny’s parents would literally steal bev from her aunt if they could

- jenny has a secret love for star wars and they both see all the movies

- couples halloween costumes!!

- they go as han and leia, bev as leia and jenny as han bc she’s kinda snarky and a bit cocky around ppl she likes

- jenny gets a scholarship to bev’s arts college by playing trombone, but decides to major in character design !!

- they move to cali together !!!

- fun fact: jenny is based on the song 8675309 by tommy tutone and that’s her and bev’s song :”)

- when bev goes back to fight it jenny stays because she was never told about it

- bev comes back, tired and sad she has to break it to her girlfriend that her oldest friend is dead

- they keep touch with the rest of the losers, richie visiting occasionally bc he was the closest with stan, besides jenny

- they get an unmarked package with all of stan’s kippot and prayer books, and his tallis and jenny cries

- don’t have kids but they do have a dog!!! her name is sandy and she’s a whippet mix

- when gay marriage is legalized they get married with handmade dresses and peach pink decorations in the summer

- they’re the one couple in their neighborhood that always buys girl scout cookies and they sometimes sit outside when it’s warm, waving to the neighbors and playing music

- they move on from the sadness of the last confrontation with it and over time jenny stars wearing kippot again, but they’re all stan’s

- BEV CONVERTS TO JUDAISM

- it’s not just for jenny, she felt a real happiness with the idea and jenny is like “wow this is the loml”

- anyways they’re big ol california jewish lesbians !!

[imagine-wannaone]

It Cold™

I’m back at it again with the creative titles and this fic is v apt to me as I woke up to  Fricken load of snow outside. This was a realistic au request which honestly had me shook because I could do honestly anything but I hope this suits???

 • Okay so you attend one of those fancy as hell schools where you can board because people from around county attend and can’t easily go home every day,  • Lucky for you it’s only a 20 minute walk away from your house,  • 20 minutes too long because winter is a bitch to you and walking home in the rain is torture,  • Sometimes you WISH you boarded, like most of your friends,  • But life goes on I guess?  • So because of school the work is full on and stressful; there’s a lot of extra clubs,  • Which is where you first encounter Huang Justin, all the way from China but living in the next city over when not boarding,  • Seeing as you spend most of your time sat at a desk, the athletics teams practically calls your name,  • Or maybe that’s the lack of sleep from stress,  • Too relatable? I’ll stop,  • But you sign straight up and find yourself to be an all rounder with a specialty in sprinting?  • Fast as a whippet,  • But Huang Justin also happens to be on the team, a star in the jumping sports, whether it be long or high jump,  • But he often finds himself on the relay team as well because why not honestly this boy is an icon,

 • The teams sweetie honestly will stay through the WHOLE track meet to cheer every single person on from the team,  • And will always offer the best advice he can,  • And will always partner up with someone for warmups if they don’t want to be alone,  • Basically that one dude that’s sporty and nice so basically everyone loves them?  • Yeah that’s Huang Justin,  • And  you also think he’s honestly the best person in the continent,  • Justin and you usually hang out at athletics and chat a lot, You’re an iconic duo, although at school you hardly see each other,  • You talk often at practices and make banners for each other,  • Mutual support wow I love it,  • And you find Justin has a soft spot in your heart,  • But winter rolls around so the Christmas/winter holidays approach at the speed of light and before you know it the last class of school has ended,  • But you know when teachers just really seem to hate life and everything involved and decide homework for the holidays is a gr8 idea?  • Well yeah that happens,  • And you know when the teachers don’t even print out material for you?  • We yeah that also happens,  • So when the last bell of the term goes you find yourself sat in the school library printing off homework sheets,  • And by the time you finally drag yourself out of the library a small scale storm has started?  • You’re shook™  • Why were you not informed??? It’d just been freezing cold when school had finished but apparently mother nature has mood swings and you were at her nasty mercy,  • Honestly she needs to pull herself together,

 • And you’re about to start shuffling through the building snow, stinging and biting at your bare skin,  • But as you waddle past the bus stop, getting ready to battle your way to your house, a figure huddled against the bus stop calls your name over the wind,  • You spin, catch yourself from slipping and slide over the figure quickly, not wanting to spend any extra time in the wicked temperature,  • You can make out the figure of Huang Justin, travel bag over his shoulder, and a thick coat wrapping him but still visibly shivering,  • This is when I literally want to wrap people up and give them hot drinks,  • “Y/N, You live around here right?”  • You nod quickly, the scarf wrapped around your face would muffle your words Anyway,  • “I know we’re not the closest but the storm stopped all the buses, do you think I could stay over?”  • It takes less than a second to think over your answer,

 • You could never leave someone in a storm with nowhere to go,  • And the fact this is Justin makes the choice even easier,  • So that’s how you find yourself making your way home in a small scale snow storm, battling the elements together,  • You wrap your extra long scarf around both of your necks because when you get water down your neck it’s the Actual worse,  • You bump into each other a little bit and you really try not to accidentally strangle him with it but it’s efficient enough,  • And you’re walking in relative silence, trying to ignore the sting of the snow and the ice in your bones, when a warm hand closes around yours and brings it into Justin’s coat pocket,  • And you let your eyes float to his face, you don’t know whether it’s red from the cold or the weather but you smile a little at the action and carry on,  • Hands thawing out and a happy heart 10/10,  • And like it’d be weird and way too fast with anyone else,  • But it’s Justin, a fluffy bean who has everyone best interests at heart, and he’s not exactly a stranger,  • And you’re kinda disappointed when you have to take your hand away to unlock the door, your parents not home for the weekend (on a weekend break) and your brother, Jinyoung, still has a few more days of university before returning home,  • You both tumbled through the door and into the warmth and you wanted to cry because CENTRAL HEATING,  • But you stay strong and show Justin upstairs, lending him some of your brother’s warm baggy clothes used especially for doing nothing,  • Doing nothing - your special skill,  • Everyone knows the second step to getting warm is hot drinks,  • And really, hot chocolate is the perfect answer to everything right?  • Justin definitely agrees, when you push the mug towards him across the counter a smile stretches across his face and his eyes light at the steam,  •  Never have you seen someone so excited for hot chocolate,  • You sneak glance at him as he chugs the hot drink, graceful as ever,  • His damp hair is drying leaving patches looking extremely soft, and his cheeks are still slightly red and your brother’s clothes fit him nicely,  • You seriously hope he warms up soon because you don’t want him freezing in your house nOpe,  • So you turn the heating up even higher,  • Like you defo tryna make the whole house a sauna,  • And you grab all of the blankets your house has to offer before hurding the boy to the sofa,

 • Before you can throw approximately half of the world’s blankets over you, he grabs your wrist, pulling you down as well,  • His laughter rings in your ears as your body comes crashing down into the sofa as well, completely unprepared for such a situation

 • You swear you hear him murmur CUTE,

 • It makes your heart double honestly how adorable could he be,

 • He leans down to grab a few of the abandoned blankets before throwing an arm over your shoulder, making your cheeks flush,  • You’re definitely going to play it off as still being cold,  • But you know Justin won’t fall for that he damn smart,  • “Come on, Y/N, you’re letting me stay, let me look after you as well,”  • Wow where was this Justin in the relay races?  • He’s way too much,  • So you put on a film and hide under the blankets,  • And then you realise you still have to eat, but you can’t order anything in this weather but you’re not too great at cooking,  • You nearly made Jinyoung sick in year 8 from a curry you made rip,  • But then, if you thought Justin couldn’t get any better, he really pulls it out the bag and pulls a couple of packets of ramyeon out of his bag???  • “Justin what the hell do you pack for your journeys???”

 • “Essentials”  • You stare at his bag of mysteries essentials, as he directs himself around your kitchen with a relaxed ease,

 • Justin obviously had a very different view of essentials to you as you peek inside the bag to see 6 pairs of earphones and 4 cans of hairspray,

 • Maybe you needed to change your ideas of essential,  • You sit opposite each other in the kitchen to eat, caught in an intense competition to see who would laugh first,

  • You’re bored nerds okay what else are you supposed to do?    • But then you decide to stoop low indeed and tickle the boy opposite you,  • He can’t take it, bursting out laughing and spraying you in noodles, causing you to fall off of your chair in shock, which only increased his laughter,  • He rounds the side and offers you a hand up, a beautiful smile gracing his flawless face and you swear he has a glowing aura,  • Lmao it’s just the kitchen lights but no one tells you so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  • But he doesn’t expect you to spring up so fast, you feel like you’re flying and when you land on your feet you’re damn close to Huang Justin himself,  • The soft smile stays on his face as you look up at him, feeling the heat radiate off this chest, soft hands steadying you,  • So you step away to wash the plates because that is way too much for your weak heart it seems,  • But he’s quick to pick up a tea towel, jumps into the kitchen counter and starts to dry for you, starting an easy conversation about who on the sprint team could be in the next relay team,  • Wow a domestic soon to be couple,  • And then it’s back to the sofa and under the blankets,  • Sleeping is a whole different argument,  • Justin doesn’t want to use any of your families beds, because that might be a bit weird,  • And you agree - sleeping in a stranger bed? No thanks,

 • But you want him to sleep in your bed, you can’t have a guest sleep on the sofa,  • But he insists he’s fine on the sofa, that you should sleep in your own bed,  • So you meet in the middle and both sleep on the sofa, it’s honestly easier tbh,  • And you had one of those soft, swallow-you-whole material sofas, so that was comfy as hell Anyway,  • And boy were there enough blankets for a small army,  • But you wake up with Justin’s arm wrapped around your waist with his warmth radiating towards your side,  • You turn your face to the side, nearly jumping when his sleeping eyes appear right in-front of yours,  • He looks so peaceful and vulnerable and you have to admit he seems to be the cutest you’ve ever seen him, hair tousled and face unhindered by any expression,  • You can’t help but stare I mean who can blame you, you have Huang Justin sleeping literally right next to you, using you as a teddy bear,

 • You contemplate what to do, get up? Pretend to sleep till he wakes up? Keep on staring?  • You slowly close your eyes and try to calm your heartbeat, that had unhelpfully started to quicken,  • You’re 99% sure Justin would be able to feel your heartbeat when he woke up and you don’t want him thinking you’re having a heart attack,  • “Pretending to sleep, huh Y/N?”  • Well done, you played yourself,  • “And you weren’t?”  • “Touché, y/n, touché”  • You open your eyes to find his brown ones, soft and beautiful, looking directly at yours,  • And in the warmth of layers of blankets, with snow built high outside and the sun rising through the window, the two of you lean in to share your first, wonderful, dizzying kiss,

[pokeywhippets]

Piper came home on August 8th, seemingly perfectly healthy, looks can be and are deceiving and I accept that, I saw her picture and wanted her out of the litter. I got the puppy that I wanted and that was that.

Barely into our second week, Piper shows signs of skin problems. Veterinarian finds ringworm near the injection site where some random person vaccinated her. We treat her for that with bathing. Then she develops bumps, so we stop bathing. That spot eventually clears up.

Soon Piper begins losing her fur. After a skin scraping, we find that it was demodectic mange and we begin treatment.

September 26th, I meet with the director of where Piper came from. I present the veterinary documents, explain everything that is going on, the $250+ in veterinary bills piling up, etc. I was asked if I was looking to return Piper, I replied that of course not, I love this puppy and I will continue to pay whatever it takes to get her healthy again. He was nice enough to refund the $200 that was paid for Piper, to help pay for further veterinary bills.

I did not ask for that but am very thankful. What I specifically requested was that they contact the families that Piper’s littermates went to, but the response I got was, “well we haven’t heard anything from them... so...”

Before leaving, another staff member who was also in that meeting, hugged me and thanked me for “giving the puppy such a great home” and “being such a good dog owner”, or something like that, “because most people would just return her and want their money back.”

September 27th, Piper dies.

Today, October 5, I finally compose myself enough to call the place I got Piper from. Reception answers, I requested to speak with the same director/manager I previously met with concerning this matter, but he is out of the building, “so you can speak to another director instead if that is okay?” Reception, or whatever, also asked what this was concerning, so I explained. I am put on hold, told that so-and-so is doing paperwork but will get on as soon as they can. I get transferred to a veterinary technician, do not know if they were a director or manager.

This person could not have possibly been more apathetic, dismissive, or cold, and in such few words, it was amazing. All the while I am sobbing and can barely speak at moments or gather my thoughts. (It was incredibly painful having to explain everything that transpired, twice, having to relive it, it hurt.)

“Well, losing a pet is very hard.”

Oh, I had no idea, this is the first time I have experienced death, so thank you for telling me that. I am glad people like you are there to tell people like me that death is not easy.

“What do you want from me?” “What is it that you want us to do?”

I don’t fucking know. Maybe have a little compassion? Maybe not speak to me in monotone? As if you’re just watching the clock, waiting for this phone call to be over with? Like you’re making hand motions signalling to others your hurried desire for me to wrap this up so you can go back to doing your paperwork? Maybe be a human? You work for an organization that supposedly “saves animals”, or whatever your stupid mission statement is, and you have nothing to say to me other than “Losing a pet is hard.” Maybe rethink your career choice?

Twice, I requested, please contact the owners of my puppy’s littermates. Just make sure their puppies are okay.

“Well, mange isn’t transferable. And we haven’t heard anything from them.”

So the fuck what? I am asking that you contact the owners just to make sure their puppies are healthy, and at the very least, alive. You asked me what I wanted, and I told you. Why is making this one single and simple request like pulling fucking teeth with you people?

What if Piper had parvo? Would you wait to hear from the owners or would you take the responsibility and call them up yourself to make sure those puppies are okay? I know the answer to that, because I know what kind of organization you work for.

(And don’t the other owners have the right to know about their puppies’ previously sick and now dead littermate?)

And because I was refunded the $200, I imagine you’d like to avoid, at all costs, the possibility of having to offer the same thing to even just one of the owners of her littermates should it be ill for any reason. Oh, I know, I really do.

“Okay so you’re just calling to tell us the puppy is dead?”

Oh my fucking god.

Anyway, I guess the person I spoke with is going to “leave a message” with the director/manager I requested to speak to in the first place, but I don’t believe I’ll be receiving a call back or anything.

I have had numerous bad experiences with this place in the past, so it only makes sense that the one puppy I pick out gets sick and dies. I guess I should not have expected any less than that with their history, so that one is on me, lol!

I had been looking at Chihuahuas and Chi mixes for two years, then I come across Piper’s picture, I meet her, I take her home, I am not at all in the least unsatisfied with anything about her. She was very timid at first, but almost instantly bonded with me while at the facility. Piper became a velcro-puppy, she followed me everywhere, climbed at my legs begging to be held or carried. At first she was terrified of the other dogs, nipped at them when they got too nosy, but it didn’t take long for her to love her new brothers, especially Watson. Piper loved playing with Watson, she would pester him for his bully sticks or pig ears, so I’d often have to trade hers for his, going back and forth, playing musical munchies. Piper loved climbing all over Bandit. She loved everyone she met and all the other animals, she kissed the faces of all people and the other animals. Watson loved her, he chased the cats away from her, posed as her body guard while outside to keep the Whippets away, he snuggled with her, licked/groomed her head and face, he was always so gentle with her, never once played too rough. I knew Watson would be fine with another small dog in the house but I never expected him to show so much affection, when he is hardly an affectionate dog. They made a great pair, but Piper always preferred me over Watson, which made me feel so special.

Piper was a lot of fun while she was well, she was silly and hyper like any other puppy, sweet and loving, very smart and already knew sit, down and spin. She was such a good puppy.

I loved everything about Piper. She was perfect.

Piper was the first puppy I picked out of a litter since Sasha, eleven years ago. And both ended in tragedy for me.

I wanted her to be my little road dog, to come along with us to dog shows.

I wanted to do agility with her, I bought a small agility tunnel just for her but never got to use it.

I bought her a Halloween sweater, she never got to wear it.

I have more than half a bag of puppy food left over, and a tiny empty crate.

But I gotta remember, “Losing a pet is hard.” I would have never known that had no one told me over and over again on the phone today. Thanks!

Yeah. Fuck it. I am done now.

[thegloober]

The Other Side of the Wind

In Jean-Luc Godard’s 1968 film “La Chinoise,” one of the characters, Kirilov, announces, “L’art ne pas le reflet du réel, mais le reel de ce reflet.” Which translates as “Art is not the reflection of reality, it’s the reality of the reflection.” In “The Other Side of the Wind,” a film shot in the years between 1970 and 1976 and later (only partially) edited by Orson Welles, a character named Mr. Pister, a very young, whippet thin and presumably callow square of a film critic—played, not coincidentally, by Joseph McBride, who would go on to become, besides a fine critic and scholar in general, one of the key voices keeping Welles’ often misunderstood legacy alive—asks its bete noire-legendary director figure, Jake Hannaford, “Is the camera eye a reflection of reality or is reality a reflection of the camera eye?”

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This citation of Godard sounds more like a piss-take when Pister continues “or is the camera merely a phallus?” This is meant to sound ridiculous, and it does, and yet the more you reflect on what’s actually in “The Other Side of the Wind,” the more the idea of that camera as phallus — or at least as impotent phallus desperate to achieve tumescence and usurp the passive voyeur status of the eye/lens —gains currency. Among other things, this picture from the director of “Citizen Kane,” “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “Touch of Evil” and several other masterpieces both mainstream and hermetic, increases the sex-and-nudity quotient of the Welles filmography not by a percentage but by a power.

The story, such as it is, concerns the 70th birthday party of Jake Hannaford, portrayed with vanity-free abandon and lemon-sucking bitterness by John Huston, who looks like he’s been dragged through hell and spat back up onto earth because hell found him too hard to digest. To this party have been invited dozens of friends, enemies, well-wishers, and chroniclers. Journalists, academics, TMZ-avant-la-lettre footage collectors, documentarians, and out-and-out spies. The other thread of the story is of the movie Hannaford is trying to complete, a trippy, arty, uncomfortable, almost dialogue-free chronicle of a woman (Oja Kodar, Welles’ lover and a credited co-writer of the movie) walking nearly naked through the world and happening on all manner of orgiastic activity while pursuing a male biker whom she seduces in a moving car in a sequence that’s virtuosic, dreamlike, and squirm-inducing all at once.

The Hannaford party is an assemblage of the footage shot by the invitees. In a narrated prologue, conceived and executed well outside of Welles’ purview, Peter Bogdanovich’s character explains the rationale behind the document. An extra-diegetic text before the film proper begins explains that this cut of Welles’ unfinished film is an attempt to “honor and complete” Welles’ vision.

What vision it finally presents is a continually paradoxical one. It is a curse on cinema and a blessing of it. Its explorations of sexuality near explicitness, but its musings on the subject have to do with nothing but secrets. A sniping critic/historian played by Susan Strasberg harps on Hannaford’s camera fixating on his movies’ leading men. She recalls that Hannaford had affairs with all the wives of his movies’ lead males, and theorizes that this was his way of sublimating his desire for the men. Certainly Hannaford’s fixation on John Dale (Bob Random), the hippie-curled leading man of the new project, is not healthy. Dale came into Hannaford’s life while the latter was vacationing. The older man believes he saved the younger when he was trying to drown himself. A drama teacher brought to Jake’s party has a different story about Dale’s own ambition. Repressed homosexuality is not especially emphasized here as a betrayal of one’s self, but “Wind” is a movie in which everyone is selling everyone out, or at least is susceptible to doing so. Its web of relationships is vertigo-inducing, and the breakneck cutting, constantly shifting film stock, and seesawing aspect ratios don’t construct the easiest through-line by which to track them.

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“The Other Side of the Wind” is a very rich film and a very difficult one. I’ve seen it nearly three times now and what I intuit about the aspects of it that “work,” and those where the seams just show too nakedly shift all the time. Cameron Mitchell’s fired makeup artist, with his ridiculous straw hat and bathetic vaudevillian bearing, seems to have dropped in from an entirely different film, and I still can’t be sure that’s not entirely the point. Some of the compositions — an early shot on the studio lot, a low-angle into which move Mercedes McCambridge and a couple of other figures to make a nice Eisenstein-like three-figure composition that Welles expanded upon with just the right dolly-in camera movement — are vintage Welles, including uncomfortable closeups like those of Glenn Anders in “The Lady From Shanghai,” all of the  tricks and trills pushed to their limits like a circus act gone mad. While the film-within-a-film, with its empty spaces and forced-perspective winks, is parodying Antonioni and other art-film directors, there’s also a self-critique or homage in the visual references to Welles’ own “The Trial.” In “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead,” the fascinating documentary about the making of this film that’s also an excellent companion piece to it, Simon Callow, the actor, director, and Welles biographer says “I have a feeling, for which I have no evidence, that Welles didn’t want to finish ‘The Other Side of the Wind.’” This is followed by denials, some indignant, of the idea that Welles would not WANT to finish a film. Of course he wanted to finish; he was merely denied the opportunity.

As it happens, I agree with Callow, and I think there is evidence: it’s the movie itself. As a vessel for Welles’ self-loathing, which by this point in his life was arguably bottomless, “Wind” itself needed to have no bottom. The hundred hours of footage from which Welles worked on the feature was packed with self-inflicted wounds upon which he could pour salt, particularly with respect to his tortured relationship to the film culture he helped create but the specific personal relationship with Bogdanovich. Down to the pettiest little thing. When Bogdanovich’s Brook calls Hannaford a “rough magician,” after a speech in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” and Hannaford “confesses” to Brook that he knows not the meaning of the word “abjure,” those who have read Bogdanovich’s interview book with Welles, “This Is Orson Welles,” should be able to hear Welles himself pretending he doesn’t know who Mizoguchi is.

In that book Welles says of Godard, “What’s most admirable about him is his marvelous contempt for the machinery of movies and even movies themselves—a kind of anarchistic, nihilistic contempt for the medium—which, when he’s at his best and most vigorous, is very exciting.” It’s not for nothing that Welles sets the ending of “Wind” at a drive-in theater, the inverse of a sacred movie palace, a place for the desecration of cinema and a pretext for sexual activity, and shoots it like it’s a touchstone site of the romance of the American West, which of course it is. Everything contradicts everything else in this film, while at the same time drawing perfect circular connections. What Godard had to say about Welles, in 1963, was this: “[M]ay we be accursed if we forget for one second that he alone with Griffith, one in silent days, one sound, managed to start up that marvelous little electric train in which Lumiere did not believe. All of us will always owe him everything.” Fun fact: on the slates for “Wind,” the cameraman was written in as “Bitzer.” If you get that joke—for “Wind” is a movie best appreciated only by individuals as enriched and as damaged by cinema as Welles was himself—you will get this movie.

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20 Dog Park Horror Stories

Going to a dog park is usually a nice experience for dogs and their owners, but every now and then a situation presents itself that can cause a lot of stress to all the parties involved. There are certain rules that owners must follow at dog parks, when this doesn’t happen, we often see problems and serious accidents.

It turns out there is no shortage of dog park horror stories online, so we’ve scoured the internet to see what other pet owners have to say about their personal experience. These are 20 dog park horror stories, if not mildly entertaining, will surely be a good example of what you can occasionally expect in a dog park, things not to do and what to avoid.

The Unprovoked Attack

Broken arrow, a user of at Sherdog.com forum, brought his 4-month old puppy to the dog park. When a special needs kid came to him and asked him to pet his puppy, he, of course, gave him permission. However, after a few futile attempts to pet the dog who was running around, the kid just kicked the puppy in the ribs with full strength, sending the dog flying 10 feet away!

Fortunately, the owner saw this and managed to stop the kid from kicking the dog again, punching the kid in the shoulder in order to protect his dog, causing the anger from the kid’s mom and other people at the park.

Read the full story here.

The Dog Riot

Reddit user local_weather shares a story about a couple who brought their 50-pound dog to the small side of the park. Of course, the large canine, not used to small dogs, starts chasing them around and that aggression ultimately led to the big dog attacking a smaller dog. This caused all of the small dogs to go after the big dog, leading to an all-out fight.

Read the full story here.

Hit with a Leash

Forum user at justlabradors.com under a nickname LuvMyLabs2 tells a story of a lady who came to the dog park with her whippet. Since she and her dog were new, a big group of dogs started chasing her dog, causing him to roll a little. The new lady freaked out about it and started calling her dog. Of course, the group followed her dog to her, which is when she started hitting them with a leash, hitting the user’s dog Chloe in the process.

Read the full story here.

Scuffle at the Gates

This story by Reddit user LadyGodiva21 doesn’t have anything to do with dogs, but with people. Dog parks usually have double gates at the entrance, to prevent dogs from escaping when somebody comes in. One lady left the first gate open and then opened the second gate as well. Of course, a dog ran out of the park and she just took her dog and left without a word to anyone.

Read the full story here.

Death Grip

Germansheperds.com user Anitsisqua witnessed a scary bloodbath at one dog park as she was chilling with her dog Gable. She heard yelping while she sat on the bench and saw a small Yorkie surrounded by a group of bigger dogs.

When the little dog started running, a black lab went after her and grabbed her. Anitsisqua ran towards them, pulled the lab by the collar to make him let go of the Yorkie. However, she couldn’t do it and until the lab’s owner showed up, the lab wouldn’t let go. The small dog was urgently taken to the vet with blood coming out of her neck wound.

Read the full story here.

Precious Yoga Pants

Reddit user a_calder shared a story that isn’t as scary as the others. He and his date were walking his dog Toller and saw a woman walking her toy Pom. The woman saw a Great Dane and started petting it and playing with him. However, the Dane was drooling and got a bit of it on her yoga pants. The woman had a hissy fit over a little bit of drool. Perhaps funny for others, but certainly stressful for the Great Dane owner.

Read the full story here.

Another Gate Problem

Laurel Scarioni of dogstardaily.com had an unpleasant experience with an aggressive man at a dog park. Similar to one of our previous stories, it involved a rude person at the double gate entrance. Laurel was with 3 of her dogs in the area between the gates when the man entered. She asked him to close the first gate and when he refused, she reached to close the gate herself. However, the man reached over and pushed her so he can open the gate again! Laurel left, appalled.

Read the full story here.

The Careless Father

At the dog park at the time when this happened, Reddit user cdflrcp was the only one with another guy. Their dogs were getting along, playing with a tennis ball and each other. The two owners were chatting when a man with a little girl came to the fence, picked up the girl and put her in the yard to play with dogs, without asking the owners if that’s alright to do. To make the matters worse, she had food in her hand! Thankfully, nothing happened since both dogs were well-behaved.

Read the full story here.

The Dog Hitter

Forum user chocco_23 at justlabradors.com was walking with her dog Belle when she encountered a woman with 3 dogs. One of the dogs was on a leash since he can’t behave well, while the other two started playing with Belle.

Then Belle went to the woman to greet her and the dog on the leash started growling and barking. Belle started to back off, but the woman still hit her and said that she was aggressive!

Read the full story here.

The Ball Chaser

Reddit user parakeetprincess was at a dog park with Bullet, her 70lb German Sheppard, throwing him his tennis ball. A little 2-year-old girl was running around the park and at one point picked up the dog’s ball. Bullet started running towards her, full speed, to get his ball. When parakeetprincess saw this, she called him and he tried to stop, but couldn’t. He rolled over and then plunged into her, causing the parents of the girl to overreact and yell. The dad even hit the dog with a water bottle.

Read the full story here.

A Dangerous Pond

On the sherdog.com forum a user named RerouteToRemain told a story about one big black lab who would always try to force other dogs underwater when in the pond. One man, who had a young Australian shepherd, saw that his dog was practically being assaulted and jumped in the water. He picked the lab by the neck and tossed him out, leaving right after this happened.

Read the full story here.

The Soccer Ball

Reddit user taraep was with her dog at the park when somebody came in with a couple of dogs, one of them a shepherd mix, and a soccer ball. Since the user’s dog goes crazy for soccer balls, she immediately stole the ball from the other dog. After taraep managed to get the ball from her dog and throw it to the shepherd, her dog started chasing it again and was greeted with a warning snarl from the shepherd.

The user then started to get her dog to the other side of the park and as she was walking away, she saw that the shepherd in question had bitten another dog owner. The owner of the attacker just watched everything, not even offering an apology to the bitten man.

Read the full story here.

A Fight over Yorkie

One user at the germansheperds.com forum, x0emiroxy0x, tells a story of his dad’s golden retriever who attacked a Yorkie who came at the dog park. The small pooch started running around the retriever, causing the big dog to grab him and shake him. Thankfully, the user’s dad saw this and got his dog to drop the Yorkie. However, four other dogs jumped in and attacked the small dog after, leading to three hurt dogs as a result.

Read the full story here.

Nervous Nellie

Redditor cofveve1234 went into a dog park one day with his puppy. There was some girl who was abusive to her dog, dragging him by his collar to get him out of the park for a drink of water. The user’s puppy tried to play with the other dog, but she raised the tensions and the puppy ended up biting her dog. She then raised her hand to hit cofveve1234’s dog, but he managed to stop her, after which she started yelling like crazy.

Read the full story here.

Easily Triggered Owner

Forum user Trickster shared his story at justlabradors.com about a time when he took his dogs Joker and Murph to the park.

They were playing with each other and a Golden retriever Molly, when a big man entered the park with his German Shepherd. As they approached the group, Joker went to greet them and sniffed the Shepherd’s butt along the way. For some reason, that triggered a gross over-reaction from the owner, leading to a verbal conflict.

Read the full story here.

The Exodus

Another story with the gate comes from Reddit user expibotou. While she was playing with her greyhound mix, a woman with a kid came in. The kid held the gate open, and even though everybody yelled at them to shut the gate, she just stared at them as at least seven dogs went out, including the user’s dog. Fortunately, everything ended up without an accident.

Read the full story here.

Irresponsible Owners

A user FierceRedBelt shared a story on a sherdog.com forum about her female retriever mix that is usually very submissive and doesn’t like dogs her own size. When they came to the dog park, one male dog of her size started picking on her. The dog’s owners completely ignored FierceRedBelt and her plea to make the dog stop doing it. In the end, she was forced to leave the park.

Read the full story here.

The Pee Story

Reddit user prehistoricshark recalls a story of his dog peeing on a kid’s face. Since his dog loves peeing on the fence of the park, when the kid put his face on the fence to look at the dog, the inevitable happened. The pooch even kicked some sand in his face, making the kid cry.

Read the full story here.

Displaced Fire Hydrant

Nonsense from sherdog.com forum tells an accident horror story. As she was playing with her pooch in the park, she tossed a ball for her and the dog got so excited that she ran into a fire hydrant. Full speed, at the pointy part of it. After a couple of spins in the air, she landed and screamed in pain.

Read the full story here.

Fast-Food Jerk

Reddit user MistressVanilla witnessed a very strange behavior from a man who came to a dog park with a huge bag of McDonald’s and sat at a picnic table. Of course, dogs came flocking to him, and he started elbowing them in the face, one after another. He even pushed a puppy that jumped on the table completely off it!

Read the full story here.

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Rosanna – 5 month old female Ibizan Hound (Podenco) Cross

Rosanna is a drop dead gorgeous 5 month old tan and white Wire Haired Podenco cross. The Podenco is a small sight hound, very much like a greyhound, Lurcher or Whippet in terms of temperament and generally hardy and rugged. Podencos are becoming popular here in the UK. They are active, athletic dogs and jump surprisingly high for their size. They tend to do well at agility and make wonderful pets. Unlike the greyhound, they don’t just hunt by sight, they also hunt by listening and tracking so they are very bright little buttons and make engaging, entertaining companions. Rosanna’s Mum had originally been a pet but she was found as a stray with her pups and the whole family was brought into rescue together.

Rosanna is a proper perky little princess. She loves her toys and games, plays ball, walks nicely on the lead and loves a fuss. She will make a superb companion and pet, and would probably be good at agility and enjoy it too. She is good with other dogs, could get used to a cat and could go to a home with children. Rosanna is a young girl who has had a dreadful start to life but she has bounced right back. She has a very engaging and resilient personality and she is now all ready for her special home.

FOSTERERS REPORT: Rosanna is a cracking little dog, she loves her walks, play times and loves a fuss. She goes nicely on the lead, is crate trained, house trained and not noisy. She has chewed her bed but she is still a baby so that’s to be expected and she hasn’t chewed anything else. She can also be left for a few hours without any trouble. She is a delight! No known health issues.

Rosanna is microchipped, vaccinated, up to date with flea and worm treatments and has a full passport. She is not neutered because she is not yet old enough but having her neutered at the appropriate age is a condition of adoption. Angel’s Kiss only uses kennels for immediate rescue and emergencies, all dogs advertised for adoption have been fostered, so they can become familiar with the normal sights and sounds in a family and a household. It is with fosterers that these troubled souls learn what it is like to live in a home, sleep on a bed, eat a decent meal and know what it is to be loved. Fostering is the bridge from the old life to the new. Rosanna is in a foster home in Wirral.

Angel’s Kiss homes dogs throughout the UK but anybody interested must be willing to travel to meet them at their foster home.

If you are interested in adopting Rosanna please get in touch with us through this website. The adoption fee is £250 and we always require a homecheck. This is done through a national network of rescue volunteers and usually does not take more than a few days to arrange.

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The Other Side of the Wind

In Jean-Luc Godard’s 1968 film “La Chinoise,” one of the characters, Kirilov, announces, “L’art ne pas le reflet du réel, mais le reel de ce reflet.” Which translates as “Art is not the reflection of reality, it’s the reality of the reflection.” In “The Other Side of the Wind,” a film shot in the years between 1970 and 1976 and later (only partially) edited by Orson Welles, a character named Mr. Pister, a very young, whippet thin and presumably callow square of a film critic—played, not coincidentally, by Joseph McBride, who would go on to become, besides a fine critic and scholar in general, one of the key voices keeping Welles’ often misunderstood legacy alive—asks its bete noire-legendary director figure, Jake Hannaford, “Is the camera eye a reflection of reality or is reality a reflection of the camera eye?”

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This citation of Godard sounds more like a piss-take when Pister continues “or is the camera merely a phallus?” This is meant to sound ridiculous, and it does, and yet the more you reflect on what’s actually in “The Other Side of the Wind,” the more the idea of that camera as phallus — or at least as impotent phallus desperate to achieve tumescence and usurp the passive voyeur status of the eye/lens —gains currency. Among other things, this picture from the director of “Citizen Kane,” “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “Touch of Evil” and several other masterpieces both mainstream and hermetic, increases the sex-and-nudity quotient of the Welles filmography not by a percentage but by a power.

The story, such as it is, concerns the 70th birthday party of Jake Hannaford, portrayed with vanity-free abandon and lemon-sucking bitterness by John Huston, who looks like he’s been dragged through hell and spat back up onto earth because hell found him too hard to digest. To this party have been invited dozens of friends, enemies, well-wishers, and chroniclers. Journalists, academics, TMZ-avant-la-lettre footage collectors, documentarians, and out-and-out spies. The other thread of the story is of the movie Hannaford is trying to complete, a trippy, arty, uncomfortable, almost dialogue-free chronicle of a woman (Oja Kodar, Welles’ lover and a credited co-writer of the movie) walking nearly naked through the world and happening on all manner of orgiastic activity while pursuing a male biker whom she seduces in a moving car in a sequence that’s virtuosic, dreamlike, and squirm-inducing all at once.

The Hannaford party is an assemblage of the footage shot by the invitees. In a narrated prologue, conceived and executed well outside of Welles’ purview, Peter Bogdanovich’s character explains the rationale behind the document. An extra-diegetic text before the film proper begins explains that this cut of Welles’ unfinished film is an attempt to “honor and complete” Welles’ vision.

What vision it finally presents is a continually paradoxical one. It is a curse on cinema and a blessing of it. Its explorations of sexuality near explicitness, but its musings on the subject have to do with nothing but secrets. A sniping critic/historian played by Susan Strasberg harps on Hannaford’s camera fixating on his movies’ leading men. She recalls that Hannaford had affairs with all the wives of his movies’ lead males, and theorizes that this was his way of sublimating his desire for the men. Certainly Hannaford’s fixation on John Dale (Bob Random), the hippie-curled leading man of the new project, is not healthy. Dale came into Hannaford’s life while the latter was vacationing. The older man believes he saved the younger when he was trying to drown himself. A drama teacher brought to Jake’s party has a different story about Dale’s own ambition. Repressed homosexuality is not especially emphasized here as a betrayal of one’s self, but “Wind” is a movie in which everyone is selling everyone out, or at least is susceptible to doing so. Its web of relationships is vertigo-inducing, and the breakneck cutting, constantly shifting film stock, and seesawing aspect ratios don’t construct the easiest through-line by which to track them.

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“The Other Side of the Wind” is a very rich film and a very difficult one. I’ve seen it nearly three times now and what I intuit about the aspects of it that “work,” and those where the seams just show too nakedly shift all the time. Cameron Mitchell’s fired makeup artist, with his ridiculous straw hat and bathetic vaudevillian bearing, seems to have dropped in from an entirely different film, and I still can’t be sure that’s not entirely the point. Some of the compositions — an early shot on the studio lot, a low-angle into which move Mercedes McCambridge and a couple of other figures to make a nice Eisenstein-like three-figure composition that Welles expanded upon with just the right dolly-in camera movement — are vintage Welles, including uncomfortable closeups like those of Glenn Anders in “The Lady From Shanghai,” all of the  tricks and trills pushed to their limits like a circus act gone mad. While the film-within-a-film, with its empty spaces and forced-perspective winks, is parodying Antonioni and other art-film directors, there’s also a self-critique or homage in the visual references to Welles’ own “The Trial.” In “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead,” the fascinating documentary about the making of this film that’s also an excellent companion piece to it, Simon Callow, the actor, director, and Welles biographer says “I have a feeling, for which I have no evidence, that Welles didn’t want to finish ‘The Other Side of the Wind.’” This is followed by denials, some indignant, of the idea that Welles would not WANT to finish a film. Of course he wanted to finish; he was merely denied the opportunity.

As it happens, I agree with Callow, and I think there is evidence: it’s the movie itself. As a vessel for Welles’ self-loathing, which by this point in his life was arguably bottomless, “Wind” itself needed to have no bottom. The hundred hours of footage from which Welles worked on the feature was packed with self-inflicted wounds upon which he could pour salt, particularly with respect to his tortured relationship to the film culture he helped create but the specific personal relationship with Bogdanovich. Down to the pettiest little thing. When Bogdanovich’s Brook calls Hannaford a “rough magician,” after a speech in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” and Hannaford “confesses” to Brook that he knows not the meaning of the word “abjure,” those who have read Bogdanovich’s interview book with Welles, “This Is Orson Welles,” should be able to hear Welles himself pretending he doesn’t know who Mizoguchi is.

In that book Welles says of Godard, “What’s most admirable about him is his marvelous contempt for the machinery of movies and even movies themselves—a kind of anarchistic, nihilistic contempt for the medium—which, when he’s at his best and most vigorous, is very exciting.” It’s not for nothing that Welles sets the ending of “Wind” at a drive-in theater, the inverse of a sacred movie palace, a place for the desecration of cinema and a pretext for sexual activity, and shoots it like it’s a touchstone site of the romance of the American West, which of course it is. Everything contradicts everything else in this film, while at the same time drawing perfect circular connections. What Godard had to say about Welles, in 1963, was this: “[M]ay we be accursed if we forget for one second that he alone with Griffith, one in silent days, one sound, managed to start up that marvelous little electric train in which Lumiere did not believe. All of us will always owe him everything.” Fun fact: on the slates for “Wind,” the cameraman was written in as “Bitzer.” If you get that joke—for “Wind” is a movie best appreciated only by individuals as enriched and as damaged by cinema as Welles was himself—you will get this movie.

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