#to know theyre a huge rip off if youre not going there to specifically body build on specific machines

[fuck-customers]

I've worked in dog care for about 4 years now. 3 of those years were at a huge kennel that fits almost 300 dogs (the one where they have to stay in small cages for days at a time). While i absolutely love my job, there is one thing that really boils my blood. There are owners there that board their dogs for months at a time, specifically, FOOTBALL PLAYERS (wont name any names) from a certain D.C. based team that literally abandon their dogs. Like holy cow fuck you guys. Why get a dog, and then leave that poor creature in a 6x6' pen for HALF A FUCKING YEAR. Most of the times, they tell us theyre dropping them off for a month or so, and then we wonder why they're there 6 months later. Why not just get someone to watch your dog at home??? Don't you all make hundreds of thousands of dollars?? Oh THATS RIGHT! YOU CANT because your dog wants to rip everyones throat out because theyre territorial. You know why that probably is? Because he stays locked in a 6x6 pen for the majority of his life. When the poor dog isnt growling and snapping, hes crying and screaming until he goes hoarse. At night, right before we leave, he settles down and will press his body against the fence so we can scratch him through it. It's heartbreaking. They arent bad dogs, but theyre all nuts from being neglected. Trust me, i don't like making assumptions about owners based on what i see with their dogs. Some dogs bang themselves up, or dont gain weight easily,or are just narurally scared of everything. It's impossible to know what's happening in their home, but surely if you love your pet you're not going to leave it in a loud scary place for half a year at a time?? Like some customers will leave their dogs there when they're moving out, or something stressful is going on in the home and the dog cant be there, but they visit their dogs almost every day?? It just breaks my heart. Also i seriously doubt that the owners are gone for months on end since they play home games, so why not bring your poor pooch home for a few days at a time at least. If you don't have time for a dog, then you dont. Deserve. A. Dog.

[lizziebennet]

Hi Aurora okay first tysm for your blog It's so lovely to have another person so passionate about my fave things (i.e hp and period dramas) Anyway, i recently read the HP series (again) and found myself feeling SO MUCH. I genuinely teared up at so many different touching parts and I was just wondering what are your favorite most heart-wrenching/emotional parts from the books? I realize this is a lengthy quesition so feel free to never answer this or take a year.

ye S SS i love being passionate ab things and sharing that passion w my followers!!!!! i love yall esp when u ask me questions like this where i get to talk ab my fave things everrrrrrrrr (ps thank u so much for letting me take forever to answer this ur so cute to say that ilysm)

ok so literally i will cry my way thru the entire series when i reread bc harry potter has so much emotional weight for me and so many memories that go along with it. but i decided to limit myself to just 10 bc otherwise id be sitting here typing all day. so w/o further ado: 

AURORA’S TOP 10 MOST TEARFUL HARRY POTTER MOMENTS: 

((in no particular order)) 

HARRY READS LILY’S LETTER IN DH: listen harry doesnt actually spend a lot of the books angsting over the fact that he doesnt have parents but in moments like this u remember he IS AN ORPHAN AND IT GETS ME SO HARD. fuk like just picturing harry crouched on the floor of sirius’s bedroom reading that letter… rereading it… crying… wow.gif!!!!! the line that makes me cry eveRY TIME is “She had made her g’s the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil.“ LIKE RIP RIP RIP ABORT ABORT ABORT ITS TOO SAD!!!!!

THE LOST PROPHECY IN OOTP: JESSESCREAMING.JPEG!!!!!!!!!!!! listen ,,, i talk ab this chapter so much on my blog. it is my #1 favorite moment in my #1 favorite harry potter book which is my #1 favorite series of all time. SO ITS A PRETTY BIG DEAL. harry’s reaction to sirius’s death… his anger at dumbledore… his grief… his discovery of his fate… its beautiful writing and its so painful but so amazing to read. LIKE!!!!! MY BABY!!! HE’S LOST SO MANY PEOPLE!!!!!!!! MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD!!!!!!!!!! “I DON’T CARE!“ Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. “I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANYMORE!” “You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”” LIKE LITERALLY WHEN I GET TO THIS POINT I HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK BC IM CRYING SO MUCH I CANT MAKE OUT THE WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!! also fun story: one time i was listening to ootp on audiobook while on vacation and we were in the car waiting to taxi on to a ferry boat and we were listening to this chapter when the ferry guy came by to take our tickets and i had like TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY FACE and jim dale is yelling as harry in the background…. the guy was like ‘is this bitch ok??’ lmaOOOOo 

HARRY AND THE MIRROR OF ERISED IN SS:  this is another one of those moments where you remember that harry is an orphan and its /so/ painful. thinking about this teeny 11 year old baby harry sneaking out every night just to sit in front of this mirror so he can see his parents………my darling baby sweetheart i love him So Much. it just makes me so sad like hes /so young/ AND HE JUST WANTS TO SEE HIS PARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHH!! it also gives way to one of my all time favorite hp quotes: “It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” 

HARRY STOPS SIRIUS AND LUPIN FROM KILLING PETER IN POA: me reading this part is literally ISAYTHATSMYBABYANDIMREALLYPROUD.GIF!!!!!! like!! my boy!! he finds out this man literally caused the death of his parents and he MAKES THE GROWN ASS ADULTS SPARE HIS LIFE… LIKE… he literally acts twice his age and is so mature and is just…….so amazing. it shows such strength and wisdom and it makes me SO PROUD. the way he references james also makes me cry because you see the relationship harry has with james even though he’s literally never met him and its so beautiful. i love harry so much. 

HARRY AFTER SECTUMSEMPER-ING MALFOY IN HBP: this is literally the opposite of that last one where im so proud of harry this is def… not one of his best moments lol. he rly rly fucks up and his guilt is so raw and it makes me so emotional because i feel SO bad for him. its def an important harry moment in the books because it shows his flaws and the consequences of his rage, but it also shows how GOOD he is because he feels so bad about what happens and like willingly takes his punishment even though it means that he cant play in the quidditch match. he really like… atones and even tho its rough to read i def love that its a part of the series bc its a really like watershed moment for harry and i think it really reminds him of the wizard he wants to be. this part also leads to i think a more satisfying harry/ginny first kiss bc ginny defends harry and then him not going to the game leads to “several sunlit days” AKA ONE OF MY FAVE HP MOMENTS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

HARRY AND HERMIONE VISIT JAMES AND LILY’S GRAVE IN DH: “But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents’ moldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing.And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off or pretending? He let them fall, his lips pressed hard together, looking down at the thick snow hiding from his eyes the place where the last of Lily and James lay, bones now, surely, or dust, not knowing or caring that their living son stood so near, his heart still beating, alive because of their sacrifice and close to wishing, at this moment, that he was sleeping under the snow with them.”  THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS THAT I HAVE TO STOP READING BC IM CRYING SO MUCH I CANT MAKE OUT THE WORDS ANYMORE. I CRIED TYPING THIS. IM SO SAD. 

THE FOREST AGAIN IN DH: hoo boy. hoooooo boy this is a Big One. this one is really…. wow. just. wow. [deep breath]. there is So Much in this chapter that makes me cry where do i even START. harry realizing that he has to die and ACCEPTING IT BRAVELY LIKE THE HERO HE IS. “Why had he never appreciate what a miracle he was,  brain and nerve and bounding heart?” im crying….. hes so good. HARRY NEARLY STOPPING WHEN HE SEES GINNY and ginny’s crying and comforting some girl and im crying too. JAMES. SIRIUS. LILY. REMUS. WHEN HARRY ASKS IF IT HURTS TO DIE LIKE LITEARLLY I HAVE TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN AND GET UP  AND WLAK AROUND THE ROOM BECAUSE I GET SO EMOTIONAL LIKE. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! when harry sees harry and screams at him ……………… rip in pieces me!!!!!!!! ALSO ONE OF HIS LAST THOUGHTS BEFORE THE AVADA KEDAVRA IS OF GINNY AND KISSING HER……….. [GUNSHOTS] [SCREAMING]

BELLATRIX TORTURES HERMIONE IN DH: fuk this scene is no joke scary like it took harry potter to another level of real darkness. hermione being tortured was so chilling like beautiufl amazing smart snarky hermione it was so painful to read like my heart rate goes up when i read it bc im worried for my girl :/ and ron is sHAKING and like screaming and literally throwing himself at the walls to try to get to her and its SO upsetting like. they are still CHILDREN like theyre all so young and they dont deserve this like. hearing her plead and stuff … its just…. too much. these are my CHILDREN i have to PROTECT them. 

HARRY DIGS DOBBYS GRAVE IN DH: this is another one of those harry moments where i just want to give him a huge hug. like he insists on digging dobby’s grave by hand which is just ..... [gets choked up] its fine. and his thoughts while he dig make me so sad. he so /tired/. hes so frustrated with dumbledore and he the hallows and the horcruxes and he feels responsible for what happened. and ron coming out and helping him dig silently makes me so happy and its one of those times u really see how much rons friendship means to harry. and harry comes out of this like ... older and more mature? his wisdom and knowledge is rly apparent when he talks with griphook and olivander right after this like. he knows what hes going to do. hes made his choice. hes not going to race voldemort for the wand. i love him so much for that choice. hes such a grown man in this part like accepting responsibility, taking care of hermione and everyone like getting things in order. i love him. 

MRS WEALSEY HUGS HARRY IN THE HOSPITAL WING IN GOF: “’It wasn’t your fault, Harry,’ Mrs. Weasley whispered. ‘I told him to take the cup with me,’ said Harry. Now the burning feeling was in his throat too. He wished Ron would look away. Mrs. Weasley set the potion down on the bedside cabinet, bent down, and put her arms around Harry. He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mothers face, his father’s voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.” HARRY POTTER DESERVES MORE HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he feels so guilty about cedric and god bless mrs weasley for telling him it wasnt his fault because it WASNT!!! he did so amazing in the graveyard like.. .he saw voldemort return and he fought him and he survived and he saw his paretns and hE TOOK CEDRICS BODY BACK SO IT COULD BE WITH HIS FAMILY!!!!!!!! HE TOOK IT BACK FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  i would die a thousand deaths if it meant that harry didnt have to experience this pain!!!!

whew so there we go!!!!! the bottom line is obviously that i love the harry potter series more than anything and specifically i love the boy harry potter so so SO much and his suffering is agonizing to read and he didnt deserve any of it!!! i can litearlly think of SO many more heartbreaking moments in the series but here are just a handful. happy birthday to harry!!! 

[devlinstridekid-blog]

this is unrelated to most of the shit i normally post but alright

if youre like me and still cosplaying homestuck in the year of our lord 2017 ive got some shit to advertise to you

heres a few tips for ya

-hot glue isnt as good as its built up to be, youll get your ass a hot glue gun and youll be all hyped and then shit wont work. never ever ever use hot glue on fabric either, it stains like a bitch and doesnt stay. only use hot glues in a pinch itll save you a lot of tears. alternates can be other glues specifically designed for fabric or even epoxy if you can. be careful with what you use tho as some shit is hells of dangerous to your lungs to try to get some ventilation while youre working

-this one kinda goes without saying since its pretty widely known but dont bind with ace bandages or any shit like that, or three sportsbras, thats how you ruin your body. binders can be pricey but if you plan to cosplay male characters a lot or something along those lines its a worthwhile investment

-body paint? how bout that shit, gettin yourself all painted up only for the shit you use to be just that, shit. snazaroo and ben nye are seen as the “gods” in a way to a lot of cosplayers but that shit aint great tbh. if youre going somewhere hot prepare to sweat it off or if thats just a thing your body does. try paradise by mehron or their creamblend stick. also always seal your paint, dont be the asshole who ruins everything for everyone else. seal that shit how you can with sealing powders and sprays. not baby powder

-actually making you cosplays, yknow sewing and crafting. sometimes if your lucky youll find premade shit or someone willing to do it for you for a price. always err on the side of caution, ask around if you can about the person thats selling, ask to see their work. check out other shit theyre selling if you can and look for inconsistencies if you can find them. dont buy from an asshole, they will rip you off. i made that mistake. sewing is hard to take up especially at first, getting a good machine helps, but handsewing is good if you have time

--on that note, looking up tutorials helps. theres a lot of shit out there that can help. dont be afraid to modify that junk

-as this is homestuck centered, have some horn advice. ive seen a lot of shit used for horns, fuck i know a guy who used a goddamn pool noodle for his ghb cosplay and it looked amazing. what you wanna go for if youre not going huge tho is something light, but sturdy. a lot of people ive seen use model magic or fimo or sculpey. those are all okay and all, but they break pretty easy. may i recommend to you paper clay? i typically use hearty since its the best ive had in my experience and its super light, the shit can take quite the beating before breaking, ie falling onto solid wood

-cant afford a shirt for a cosplay from the official site, but you need it? or they dont sell it? not to self promo but i do that shit for cheaper than the site if you need it, but also making the shirts yourself. fabric paint is good, but it runs out quick and its hard to find an actually good brand. acrylic paint can be used if watered down to not stiffen the fabric a ton. plain shirts can be found at stores like walmart or target or off of amazon 

-dont do super dumb shit that could actually get you hurt while making stuff. be careful with power tools if youre under like 16 ig?? dont hurt yourself for the cosplay

-on body types for specific cosplays. you got a body? you can cosplay anything and if anyone says otherwise theyre lying to make themselves feel better and also tell me so i can fight them

-you dont have to get a $30+ wig for it to be good, theres actually quite a few good one for cheap (legit my davepetasprite^2 wig was $8 and its really good), sure they may not be super thick, but theyre good for on a budget. im willing to give wig advice from personal experience 

thats about all ive got for now stay tuned for more and all that jazz