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Vet came by yesterday afternoon.
It took some doing to get Seamus to lift his foot, according to Hubs. Doc thinks he might have either an abscess or laminitis. It's difficult to tell at the moment. She said he reacted to a test on the front of his hoof that would point to laminitis, but it's inconclusive without an xray.
For now, we are treating him as of it's an abscess until Monday. Seamus needs a 15 minute-a-day foot spa in a solution of warm water, Epsom salts, and iodine. We are hoping it helps to draw out an abscess and relieve pressure. If by Monday there is worse or no change, Doc will come back out for an xray.
We are hoping it's just an abscess. If he does have Laminitis, we need to make a hard decision. He already has one bad hoof in the front. It becomes a quality of life issue.

So we commence the 15 minute soak. We decided to do it with his evening feed since he stands very still for that. I think he enjoyed it, eventually. He stood very well for his first foot spa!
Today, he had his stall mucked and fresh hay and water supplied. He's still ready to leave his stall, but I think he's benefitting from his stall rest. Sheridan isn't pushing him around and it's giving him a much needed break.
#this old man#bless his heart#i wish he was small enough that i could cuddle him but alas#hes too big for scooping up and snuggling#hes such a sweetheart#i dont want him to be in pain#but hes 26 or 27 and thats quite old for a horse#things are to be expected#and we arent going to keep him in pain#the farrier has offered a second opinion#which we will take up if the soakings dont help#deep sigh#and we persist#hubs and i need to toss down some more square bales soon#time to put on the snow suit again#homestead#farm#draft horse#horses#tw animal injury#tw medical mention#tw vet mention#tw vet
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where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"
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prof offhandedly said “I used to work on a show called backyardigans” like it’s nothing.. like it’s just some random show…
#idk I know my profs have all worked on cool things but it threw me off guard how casually he said it#like he expected none of us to have heard about the backyardigans before lol#also like half my profs worked on care bears at some point which is really funny to me
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drawing deltarune every day until chapter 3&4 drop ✨(day 101)
childhood sweethearts
#deltarune#noelle holiday#kris dreemurr#utdr#weird route#snowgrave route#fanart#daily deltarune#blood tw#kriselle#<- if you want it to be. the idea i was trying to get across is that before noelle actually understood what romance or marriage was#as a kid she just was like ''well i would marry kris bcuz they're my best friend ^_^''#also ive always been interested in the idea that these two were sort of always ''expected'' to get together. like not FORCED to#but their parents would always comment on how well they got along and would kind of assume they might start dating eventually#like yknow. the whole thing of our families are friends so wouldnt it be cute if our kids got together and tied us together??#ive having difficulty wording it but i hope you know what im talking about lmao#edit: THIS IS NOT ABOUT COMPHET!!!!!! KRIS IS NOT A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#5k#10k
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missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉
#art#twisted wonderland#twst 5th anniversary#i'll stop for a while now i promise i just wanted to get this out#genuinely feels a bit weird to be 5 years in already huh!#that combined with having finally finished up episode 7...#oh no all the milestones hit at once help#hold on while i reminisce for a moment#because MAN i did not expect the anime disney boy game to become so special to me#(especially my little wet rat dragon and his family)#to be fair 2020 onward was uhhh let's say prime timing for a piece of silly and unapologetically indulgent media#(not to get too real here or anything but let's just say that. some of the stuff in 7 specifically did hit a bit harder than it should've.)#but also just. you know how it goes.#sometimes a thing doesn't so much speak to you as it reaches out and grabs you by the throat#with an intensity that shocks and bewilders no one more than you#and sure you can ignore it because having any emotions about media beyond faint scorn is of course the epitome of ~cringe~#but you could also just throw yourself wholeheartedly into it#and lemme tell you one of those options is a hell of a lot more fun#idk i'm just kinda rambling here#it's been a weird five years but i'm glad to have had these guys for it#and hey if nothing else it gave us meleanor#the inside of my brain at any given point is just the 'do it for her' meme covered in pictures of our late great dragon princess#i would not have it any other way
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fibercrafts are SO maddening cuz wdym I have to go to work tomorrow, I'm like a third of a way through making a whole ass fucking cape, don't you think I should be allowed to focus on what matters (my fucking cape)
#it's very pretty 😌#tbf i can only do like half of it. i have lining in the mail#so i can't actually finish it#BUT i should be allowed to finish the part I can do now#so when I GET the lining I CAN finish the whole thing#goDDAMMIT#I want to sewwww#anyway hand sewing going fine if tedious BUT faster than expected honestly#darts on satin are a pain in the fucking ass#but this is gonna be SO fun when it's done#if it even needs to be said: it will be essekcore 😌
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i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:
"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.
an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.
You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.
If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.
Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.
#fandom#fandom infrastructure#fandom history#was working on the ship polls blog and the comments i get there often reminded me of this#every once in a while i've gotta reacquaint myself with the xkcd expert familiarity comic principle#and the general knowledge that people dont explain the basics of fandom anymore so people have to learn it on their own#while everybody just expects them to know it and that's not fair to them!#i will also put my usual thing: folks are always welcome to ask me anything about fandom stuff#it can be specific pjo fandom stuff or general pan-fandom stuff#i have been in fandom for a long time and i am happy to explain things#legitimately if anyone ever has questions about even the most basic of fandom stuff. go for it. i love talking about it
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#funny talking tag#My favorite thing to do is HC characters as trans but also that they've never heard that term before and act accordingly.#My other favorite thing to do is make characters repressed.#My other other favorite thing to do is make a character go ''I feel like a(n) object/animal/thing pretending to be a man/woman''#''but I don't really care about that right now I have a job''#Anyway while this post can be about whichever characters you feel fit I made this with a certain character in mind.#(Dimentio of SPM fame) (He has something really specific going on that makes me cackle) (You can ask me about it)#(Also Morceau Oleander is a trans woman to me because she would be happier)#(and she deserves to live a life not defined by other's expectations of her)#Someone put a forbidden and ancient curse on this post so no more.
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guy who's stuck in a timeloop for so long he stops wanting to leave it. guy who started out trying to escape but slowly grew used to and became comforted by the familiarity of the repeating day. guy who is no longer who he was before the timeloop. guy who is offered a way out and violently refuses it because he can't leave, doesn't want to leave. guy who escapes the timeloop by chance or force or accident and doesn't know how to live anymore. guy who keeps going through motions that don't match the situation and keeps having conversations that aren't actually occurring. guy who panics every time he realizes he can't predict the next instant. guy who left the timeloop but still lives with it.
#the cryptid speaks#time loop#ik there's been talk of the trope '[x] never left the timeloop' but what about [x] who never Wanted to leave the timeloop#like astronauts who come back to earth and keep trying to let go of things midair#former timelooper who is still expecting to know your next sentence; to predict the next major event; to survive everything
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Three mimir
#I don’t love it#I like some things#but for spending 2 hours I was expecting much more#hmmm#I need to work on contrast so bad#is just that I love color so much I can’t#AAAUGHH#sorry#either way#there it is#I like the lamp#and papyrus is adorable#did yall notice his slippers#and the annoying dog is there two#so there is actually 4 mimir#hmm#what a pain#I also like the couch#lmao#undertale fanart#undertale#sans undertale#sans the skeleton#undertale comic#sans#papyrus#fanart#anyways#I miss Gaster why isn’t here in the drawing
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this week on game changer, I am faced with the realization that good actors are, in fact, good actors
#game changer#game changer spoilers#god they got me SOOO fucking good#truly was not expecting it at all#I really wanna rewatch it again with context now because like erika and izzy and jiavani especially i fully believed were fucked UP#but no they just! are like that!!#also in hindsight makes me respect sam/the showrunners even more#of COURSE he would get consent from them to drink on camera#of COURSE he would keep them sober for the duration of the episode anyway#like obv we’ve had drinking on game changer before (sam says 3) but that was fully voluntary on the party bus#and this would’ve been a ‘u gotta drink as part of the rules of the game’ thing instead#but nah they’re all sober as shit!#which makes all of their drunken kissing and ass touching etc both funnier and more fun to watch from the audience#bc u know their judgement isn’t impaired at all from alcohol#they’re just fully committing to the bit#yippee!!!!!
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see the problem with having a fully vibes-based "do what you want forever" politic is that it sorta gives you blanket permission to be deeply incurious about the world and how it functions. every argument can be boiled down to "who's bringing the mood down? just chill out man" and you never have to examine anything for coherency or power dynamics. those girls are just being so meanies for no reason
#.jtxt#.xtxt#realistically im not sure what i expected from someone who read maia crimew's vibes-only manifesto and thought it was the epicest ever#i think it'd do people some good to actually read things written by social scientists for once. could help a bit on the antifeminism front
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just had SO much fun with the fallout tv show... i love you missus okey dokey
#fallout#fallout tv show#my art#lucy maclean#i was not expecting it to be so good but it was!! delightful#i think i like video game adaptations better when they do their own thing with it lol#such a relief to instead of seeing something regurgitated mindlessly for profit#its actually just a completely fresh story but in a familiar setting. cool balm on my skin#i guess that's where i'm at in the remake hell we all live in rn#ella purnell has the sweetest biggest eyes i've ever god damn seen
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The final TF2 issue really got to me. Spoilers, but it’s the reveal that all of this suffering and murder and war over gravel and shitty land was for nothing but senseless, bottomless hatred. That the administrator can’t even remember where this revenge plot started as she flashes through different false memories of her parents’ deaths. There was never a tragic backstory or justification, only terrible people doing despicable things. And despite how crass and stupid and unserious TF2 is, the story subverts every expectation by showing the survivors and inheritors willingly breaking the cycle. Ms. Pauling lies to the administrator and chooses not to save her, and finally lets her die. (Hurts even more if you read into the subtext that Ms. Pauling is in love with the administrator.) She lets the final cache of Australium go and walks away from the burden and legacy of a century-old bloodfeud. Hale lets Gray’s daughter go and live her life freely. Spy is the first to arrive at Scout’s house and meet his big family, finally takes off his mask, and helps with the kids. Even Merasmus exhaustedly makes peace with himself and Soldier and chooses not to curse him or something. There’s nothing to finish, no promises to keep, and no one to avenge. The only thing to do is break the cycle and walk away.
It feels odd how happy and warm everything is, but it feels so right and earned. These bloodthirsty, awful, violent men were expendable cogs in a machine of endless violence, and they found a way out. It’s a genuinely great message about letting go the past that burdens you and finding the will and a way to hit the bricks, change, and be happy. Maybe they don’t technically deserve happiness, but they’ve got it nonetheless, and they’re not gonna let it go to waste. They’re still all crazy and violent, but on their own terms now and with people who love them! Smiles.
#tf2#rant#personal#the stuff with the administrator reminded me of the ending of breaking bad#except the admin isn’t as self aware as Walt lol#that there was never a sympathetic reason or justification to fall back on#all of this was done simply because they were sadistic people#I really appreciate the writers avoiding the expected trope of the administrator dying and#Ms Pauling taking the mantel and becoming the next administrator. both as a either a girlboss empowerment thing or a sad but realistic end#like nah they’re happy and doing well. we won’t torture these characters any more and doom them to continuing the cycle#they’ll be happy and you’ll be happy for them
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every time a new SA allegation of a favored celeb arises, i'm reminded of the absolutely soul-crushing experience of the depp/heard trial in which i learned that dozens of ppl i loved + respected + trusted were also willing to engage in the basest form of misogyny if the woman Seemed Crazy Enough. there was a horrifying 2ish weeks on this website + much longer irl where i genuinely felt unsafe voicing my discomfort as i relived something eerily reminiscent of the aftermath of my own assaults playing out on screen, commented on by true crime youtubers like it was a red sox game.
it happens time + time again with every new allegation + it's truly the most agonizing + exhausting part of being a survivor. i am begging you all to consider that survivors are watching you engage with this stuff like theater + it erodes our trust in all of you + compounds our grief.
#one of the only things i still have blacklisted is depp/heard#the whole ~she's a borderline bitch who deserved whatever happened cuz she was the crazy one~#schtick is smth i never expected to have to watch play out on a public stage so much so that my 50 year old acquaintances would know of it#now every time it's a new Beloved Celeb i'm like i don't trust any of you fucking ppl
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