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OP: so this is the ‘intense regional downpour’ on the weather forecast

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Pretty incredible news to hear during tough times

Source.

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I've been really busy in the studio this year, and the completed shelves are starting to get full (especially as they have to also make space for the primered-waiting-for-paint models!) Below the cut are individual pictures of what I currently have. A few of the older ones are extra motivated to find new pastures, so I'm taking offers on them. Drop me a line at lupa(dot)greenwolf(at)gmail(dot)com if you're interested in any of these and want more pictures/info.

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Cats Stealing Food in Paintings

Still Life with Cat (1705) by Desportes, It's no use crying over spilt milk (1880) by Frank Paton, Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Fish Still Life with Two Cats (1781) by Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Still Life with a Cat and a Mackerel on a Table Top (18th Century) by Giovanni Rivalta, The Collared Thief (1860) by William James Webbe, Cat Stealing a String of Sausages (17th Century) by Abraham van Beyeren, Still Life with a Cat (1760) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Kitchen Still Life with Fish and Cat (ca. 1650) by Sebastian Stoskopff, An Oyster Supper (1882) by Horatio Henry Couldery, Still Life with an Ebony Chest (17th Century) by Frans Snyders, Still Life with a Cat (1724) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Attacking Dead Game (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Still Life of Fresh-Water Fish with a Cat (1656) by Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Fruits and Ham with a Cat and a Parrot (18th Century) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Holding a Fish in Its Mouth (18th Century) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Still Life with a Cat and a Hare (18th Century) by Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Rayfish (1728) by Jean-Siméon Chardin, A Cat with Dead Game (1711) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Fish (1728) by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin

Via James Lucas on X/Twitter

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That's a dangerous trick to teach. And one I taught my cat accidentally.

I taught my cat to tap me with a paw when she wanted attention. I came to regret that decision occasionally

I learned my lesson with that with Queenie, a past GSD. She was a very... punchy... dog for a reason.

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My first "my dog" was a shelter retread Australian Cattle Dog. I got way more background than you usually do with a shelter dog, but that jump from corgis & collies to heeler was huge.

I never did fix her dog aggression but she was the most trained dog I ever had as tiring her brain helped her settle and teaching her to focus on me made her safer in public. As a result she got to be a mascot at 2 jobs I had, go darn near everywhere with me. And in a pinch I would've used her as a carry things for me service dog on my high pain days.

But my next dog after that, I went back to easier and slightly dumber/less devious. But I miss her willingness to try whatever dumb thing I came up with just for the fun of it....that and her tendency to make up her own tricks

I guess what is just as important as being an 'experienced dog owner' (if not possibly more) is like, realistic expectations of the breed(s) of your dog? Especially if the breed you are looking into is like, one with the typical traits of the breed group turned up to 11 (in my experience, the Patterdale is this for the terrier group)

One of the ways to get this is to have experience with owning other dogs of the breed group, but it's not the only way

I am sort of here and there on the experienced dog owner thing.

Like, no, I do not think that a complete novice who has never even interacted with a dog before should jump straight into getting a potentially dopamine-deficient biting machine that dials everything all the way up to Extra and beyond.

At the same time, the decoy in training at the mondio seminar I just attended with Fenris is exactly that person- first dog, never owned or trained a dog before, and jumped right into malinois and protection sports. And it seems to be working, so egg on my face for thinking that's usually a bad idea.

But I don't... necessarily disagree with the "usually" part- I think this person has more commitment than even people who are on their 10th dog, and I think that matters more than the "experience" portion of it. You can own whatever breed you want as a complete and total novice. Just make sure you're prepared for what you're signing up for.

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Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

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btw if you’re fat and your partner doesn’t love you wholeheartedly, if they’re attracted to you “despite” your body, if they avoid touching you, if they look away from certain parts of you, you’re allowed to break up with that person. look at me. you can do better. you are not unloveable and you don’t have to settle i fucking promise.

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This blog is my adult version of cutting pictures out of magazines and glueing them on to paper

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Why is this heat so hot 😩

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“Hot and bothered” in the sense that it is 90 degrees out and I am extremely annoyed

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I love the "glasses are disability" thing because it applies to basically every complaint abled people have about disability

"You're not even that bad, why would you get that?" Have you ever used a magnifying glass for small details or zoomed in on a picture

"Why do you have that accommodation TODAY?" Why do you wear reading glasses when you're reading

"It seems like your 'needs' are inconsistent." Yeah and you wear sunglasses when it's sunny and not all the time

"But you can technically walk without that." Yeah and if I put the page really close to your face you could read it, it would just hurt and be hugely impractical, inconvenient, and limiting

"But you COULD go without it all the time, you don't NEED it to live." And maybe you could technically see without your glasses, doesn't mean it's comfortable or practical day to day

"If you REALLY had a hard time seeing you would have glasses." Have you ever known someone who couldn't afford a new pair of glasses? Or eye appointments? Someone who needed vision therapy or special prism glasses? Someone whose vision only gets bad during migraines or seizures? Someone with astigmatism that glasses can't help? Someone who didn't qualify for LASIK?

"You only use it when you're out in public." Have you ever gotten up to use the bathroom at night without putting on your glasses

"Decorating it is just trying to get attention, and it's a medical device so stop glamorizing it." Do you hate any patterned or colorful glasses frames too? Art with characters who wear glasses? People who make OCs with glasses? Glasses chains, prescription sunglasses, aesthetic fake glasses with tinted lenses?

"There are secretly lots of people just using aids for fun and attention." There are secretly lots of people wearing fake glasses or colored contacts for fun and attention, it does not affect you

"We need to find fakers, they're stealing disabled resources!" Someone pretending to need glasses is "taking" a seat in the front from someone who might need it more. That sucks and they shouldn't do that. But I'm not going to scrutinize every person who wears glasses to see if I think they really need that seat. You personally are not the arbiter of who is (based on the random times you've seen them) secretly not disabled

"My friend has that and doesn't act like that." Does every pair of glasses in production, or even every pair close to your prescription, work for you? Is your vision identical to every other nearsighted person?

"If you can do X why can't you do Y? Some people with that can do Y."/"But if you have that how can you do X? People with that can't usually do X." Some people are nearsighted and some people are farsighted and some people are both. Some farsighted people can read some without glasses and some can't. And good distance vision doesn't mean you don't ever need glasses, it's just an entirely different reason you'd need glasses

"You're too young to need that." And there are young people who need bifocal lenses

"Why don't you use this DIFFERENT aid though, it would look like you didn't even have an aid." Why doesn't everyone in the world wear contacts

"Why can't I/my friend/my kid play with it?" Do you let random strangers and children try on your glasses at the grocery store

"I was just trying to help, I thought you'd need a push/you were in the way." Are you cool with me suddenly pulling your glasses off your face to clean them, or because the glare was distracting me

"You'll eventually stop using it though right?" Are you planning on no longer needing glasses someday

Disabled people are free to add

I am aware this is not a 1-to-1 perfectly accurate post. Do not come into the notes trying to "um actually this isn't a perfect comparison." I know. Just don't

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I wish kinky sex ed wasn't so stigmatized even among left-leaning "sex positive" circles. Everyone's all "uwu I'm a sub I'll do anything you ask" okay mommy wants you to read The New Bottoming Book so you learn how to sub without hurting yourself since your sex ed up to this point is porn and your ex boyfriend Jared who liked to choke you incorrectly

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you ever heard a lightning fucking scream?

youre about to

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the choctaw vampire hunters in sinners, photographed by eli joshua adé, smpsp.