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Some diff pieces I’ve worked on (gonna fiddle with the Ratchet one and read range it so it’s less glaringly pink but hey that was part of the event it’s for)

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Some other quick tf pieces!

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I don’t remember if I ever shared these but here! Dragon age Qunari

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Got my kofi comms up to help with a fund I got started to afford a better pc for my work from home while I’m tending to my mother. Even simple sharing is appreciated!

https://gofund.me/f7e0b25f

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when people are like “he’s not even attractive you could find a guy that looks like him at any gas station” i’m like….. well you see there’s beauty everywhere actually

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your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

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i bring a "they shouldnt have that wild animal in their house" sort of vibe to the conversation that enjoyers of cute animal videos dont really like

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i feel like this is important enough to put on here.

if you have any videos on youtube make sure this is unchecked

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hi! can i ask what's ur opinion on giving pets away? not necessarily because u can't afford to care for em anymore but maybe incompatibility of personalities or maybe lifestyles. is it wrong to give ur pet for adoption if u know someone who's better suited for keeping a pet, like emotionally?

This is going to be controversial, but I support making that choice.

There’s a lot of rhetoric lately around how it’s evil and unethical to rehome your pet if you don’t “need to.” And what that does is prioritize human ideology over the actual animal’s well-being.

Pets that aren’t a good match for your home or pets that aren’t really wanted anymore frequently have lower welfare! When caring for an animal becomes a burden or is forced, people end up resenting them, and that means the animal often doesn’t get all of its needs fulfilled. Even if you’re still feeding it and providing appropriate vet care, how likely are you to provide affection or enrichment to an animal you’re tired of being stuck with?

Lifestyle and personality really matter to making sure a pet is a good fit for a home. A dog that alert-barks at every leaf that moves is probably a bad fit for someone who has a chronic migraine syndrome, and they might not know that until the dog has been in the home for weeks and started to open up. A really feisty kitten that requires a ton of play might not do best in the home of someone older who wanted a quiet lap cat. And while you can you do your best to plan to find a compatible animal, you won’t always know ahead of time what issues might arise.

“Forever home” rhetoric is really, really popular and I think it’s very unfair to the animals it is supposed to support. It started with the backlash of seeing animals abandoned inappropriately, and has been heavily reinforced in the public mind because it’s so frequently used to drive fundraising and support for legislation. The whole “forever home” concept communicates to people that getting an animal is an immutable commitment and that if you can’t keep an animal, it is a personal moral failing. It frames human priorities (we think people who get rid of animals are Evil and Bad and should be shunned) as more important than actual welfare needs for individual animals (are they getting the care they need where they are).

Obviously, I don’t support people dumping animals or just getting fad pets they’ll discard immediately, but there’s so many alternate situations that can arise. Even if it’s just “they got a pet and didn’t know what caring for it would take and didn’t want to care for it so they brought it back, how awful” like… okay, I’d like the person to have done more research before they got a pet, but isn’t it better that the animal now has a second chance to go to better home? Knowing what a commitment requires theoretically can be very different than having to actually follow through regularly, and I’d rather see someone maturely acknowledge that having an animal isn’t a good fit than keep it anyway!!

If animals being happy and with all their biological, veterinary, and social needs fulfilled is actually the goal, we need to prioritize their welfare over human opinion. I’d much rather see an animal rehomed responsibly to somewhere it will thrive and be welcomed than see people keep animals they can’t/don’t want to care for out of guilt or shame. 

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"I want to live in a world in which teenagers can fulfil their natural purpose of being annoying" and "I do not always want to be annoyed by the teenagers" are compatible sentiments

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Doodling in ballpoint trying to figure out how best to utilize it. Didn’t do too bad

Will probably go over Isha again tomorrow and sketch up some other fellas

Bonus pen sketches. Silco’s quote stuck with me as I worked on my newest DnD lady, and of course, Op was the first thing I doodled when trying to see how this paper took pen

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the gender my parents know about and my much cooler gender my online friends know about

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I always feel extra irate when folks talk out of their asses against other people in times of need. So many things can happen that result in folks needing to rehome their pets. It can be having a kid and the pets reacting unexpectedly, having to care for an elder with similar results, even just the pet changing without exterior changes causing them to lash out. Meds, training, etc aren’t always effective. Which sucks, but I’d rather see people make that attempt, then reach out to find a better suited home for their pets than simply abandon the animal, lock them away or otherwise. And yes, even euthanasia when that doesn’t work is a better option than risking further harm or outright abandoning the animal (no, rehoming is not abandoning and it’s insane to insinuate that.)

Other situations I see garner blame and aggression towards people are sudden cases of homelessness, owners becoming disabled, or other dire scenarios where the owner is no longer capable of housing or caring for their pets. Some folks manage, as I did when homeless for a series of months, but this isn’t possible for everyone. I got lucky, could camp in a parking lot near my vet’s. Had what basic materials I needed to keep up on their enrichment and care all the while tending to my own medical needs. I could keep them warm. Fed: watered, clean.

Working at a vet hospital after years at school, years of rescuing animals from feral colonies, etc, I feel gave me an insight others lack. I’ve seen people be awful towards their pets, discard them for ridiculous reasons, neglect them in many ways: the amount of DOAs we got with severe abuse signs, a man trying to use his own needles on a dog’s abscess rather than spend coin on our treatments, another man trying to beat his pet in the waiting room because she looked at him wrong, upper class folks rolling their eyes at their pets in distress and doing everything to avoid care- while poorer folks wailed over their inability to cover a surgery resulting in the animal’s needed euth. Poorer folks jumping each and every hoop, having medical episodes in our lobby, yet still trying to find what’s best for their pets. A man running in covered in gashes while cradling his pup’s body after a severe attack from another dog let loose. I’ve seen behavioral trainings and meds work, I’ve also seen them fail, with people crying over their pets, pets that went from loving sweet creatures to incredibly aggressive and reactive over the slightest things. It changes fast, it changes hard, and sometimes the professionals are just as helpless as the owners.

It is incredibly easy to judge. Especially knowing the bad people that exist out there. Especially after seeing it firsthand. But it costs you NOTHING to be kind, understanding or simply close your mouth and step away from the computer to keep from speaking on a situation you find yourself thinking poorly towards.

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Heads up, if you follow me and think about being a judgemental ass on that rehoming signal boost post I reblogged earlier, I will be blocking you immediately.

You never truly know how a pet will react to a new tiny human in the household until you're in the moment. And the tiny human MUST take priority. You can't make people not have a child if they already have a pet. Instead we should grieve with them when training is not working and we should assist them when they are trying to find a better situation for their companion animal.

If that dog is not adjusting to a child in a manner that threatens the safety of the child, there are only 2 options: rehome or euthanize. The owners are being responsible. Don't be an asshole.

And for anyone wondering why they can't find a shelter to take the dog... any limited intake shelter is not going to take a large breed dog that has shown an issue with children. It's not adoptable. It would sit in the shelter for the rest of its life. In an open intake shelter, this dog would have at best a few days on the adoption floor before euthanasia but in reality might never make it to the floor in the first place. Shelters are also currently flooded with animals in no small part thanks to the proliferation of backyard breeders that popped up during early covid.

Private rehoming to someone who knows what they are getting into is this dog's only chance.

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affirmations

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself

i am able to make phone calls and appointments

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Responses like this are insufferable. No. They found a home for the dog. Just take two seconds to check the blog this is from rather than being judgmental and callous. Also a dog putting their child at risk is not a simple “inconvenience”. You truly outed yourself with that line alone.

We have seen enough cases of people keeping high prey drive pets around kids resulting in deaths for both the pet and kids. Or even elders. Or even fit adults. Do yall really wanna insist on pushing for that or risk the baby’s life after all attempted interventions have failed? Life isn’t black and white, and the sooner you folks realize that the better off you’ll be.

Learn some humanity.

Hey, kind of a long shot but figured it never hurts to ask:

Do any of my followers live or know someone in Oakland, CA who’s looking for a dog? Our friend Richard and his wife just had a baby and they’ve tried so hard but the new baby and dog are just not compatible.

He’s about nine, very high energy and affectionate. Not a good fit with kids or cats as he’s pretty high prey drive but very friendly and well socialized otherwise.

Here’s Milo

Shoot me a DM if interested. They’d love to be able to see him sometimes if you’d also like to make friends with some cool nerds.