Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. BlueSky: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
In public he’s a very quiet, well behaved animal. He spends a lot of time looking at people’s faces whilst they’re doing things.
Mind you, the guys’ my best friend. Like we’re together constantly, we do everything together and when it’s just me and him he’s the biggest dork on the planet. He’s the most undignified creature I’ve ever had the pleasure to be acquainted with.
So of course, like I forget how pretty and unique he looks to new people. He’s a German Shepherd that was born all white -so he has a long, stark white coat, a fluffy tail, and golden eyes. They’re the prettiest eyes I’ve ever seen, in the right light they sort of glow amber.
Today we went to get coffee, and the coffee lady looked down and just had a meltdown, “he’s a fae!” (Her accent makes me think she’s Russian/Ukrainian) so I looked down and the little nerd is doing his best “we’re in public I’m gonna act cool” schtik, sitting with his fluffy tailed curly majestically by his side, chest out, head tilted slightly up so he can just by a few degrees look at the lady right in her face. He just sits. And stares.
Again like my dog is nuts, he’s the type of guy that will reduce himself to a puddle of whimpers, nibbles and flailing paws over a phrase like “is it time for a walk?”, also, he sleeps with a stuffed hedgehog. Every night. If he can’t find Sonic he’ll storm the house and howl at people like they’re holding him prisoner until it’s found.
So cue Sabot (dog, pronounced “Say-bow”) acting like he’s not a hot mess, and this lady is just captivated. She says “he has such a wise face, he looks like an old wizard’s dog, can I biscuit him?” To which I say of course, she gets a biscotti and comes around the counter and squats down near Sabot, who does what most polite people do when meeting a new person and shakes hands. This is too much for the coffee lady, and she takes her 15 minute break. To talk to My Dog.
Guys, I think I just found a new best friend because that was the cutest reaction to meeting a dog I’ve ever seen.
I love your -8 ninetales
Best. Reblog. Ever.
Ok, so I found the perfect photos that capture the spectrum of his behavior:
In public/when strangers are around:
Taken literally two seconds later, when it’s just him and I:
Us, alone, too lazy to hold his own head up so he rests it on things:
There was also once, with one of our pack mates, he saw a mirror for the very first time. He proceeded to make faces at the mirror for several minutes, sitting on the back of a couch like a cat:
It’s nearly 2018 and people are still mindblowingly bitching that certain demographics are being “pandered” to when included in fiction. When included as one character/plot line amongst a sea of the same white straight guys over and over. Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with these guys personally, I have a problem with the disproportionate portrayal of them as a representation of our species as a whole.
So, maybe the solution to get a proper balance is a few years/decades/generations of the opposite. Because, despite what you have seen in fiction all your lives, white straight men are not the norm. They are not the default. They aren’t even fully relatable for well over 50% of the audience.
So how about they become the token? Imagine if you will, a world with mainstream books, movies and shows where in the entire cast there is just one straight white guy. Everyone else is part of a beautifully diverse and accurately portrayed group that better represents the rich tapestry of the human species. Of different races, cultures, sexualities, genders, abilities and any other variation that isn’t an able-bodied, cis, white straight guy (as almost every damn protagonist and friends).
Maybe after some time being the “token” character there might actually be some balance obtained? I mean, once the butthurt ones stop crying over no longer being pandered to?
I can’t believe that the government is watching our every move and yet they refused to warn me that I was about to walk into a Panera where THREE of my exes were working together.
Hey, the government? You could’ve texted me. You’ve got GPS; they’ve got their jobs on Facebook; I know you know we dated. You knew, you have the technology, and you just let me walk in there, make eye contact with them, and walk out without ordering anything. Fuck you. I hate this country.
My favourite thing about the tags and replies on this post is that they’re full of people legitimately slut-shaming me for having dated three people who ended up working at the same place. Like I’m some compulsive bread whore. Like I just shoved a whole Panera up my ass one day.
Do straight people not understand the small town phenomena where 1.) there are a maximum of ten LGBT+ people that you’re even vaguely compatible with, and so you all just end up dating each other at one point or another, and 2.) word gets around that the manager of a specific business isn’t a blatant homophobe, and so it ends up becoming staffed entirely by LGBT+ people despite not being an inherently gay establishment? You guys don’t just have, like, that one Taco Bell where everyone is a lesbian?
today is Nov. 15. the FCC, under chairman Ajit Pai, will not listen to the public despite millions of comments in support of net neutrality. They are going to try their hardest to kill net neutrality, which in turn will kill the internet, which in turn will help eradicate democracy. it won’t just affect Americans, it has the potential to affect the entire internet, something we ALL use daily. you can bet your ass other countries will see america doing this, and use it as an excuse to do it in their own countries.
this is what buying a plan without net neutrality looks like there:
you have to pay MORE for features you’re already guaranteed to have under net neutrality. and in america, you already know how expensive everything is.
democrats AND republicans both want net neutrality. advocacy groups in touch with congress have said that if your members of congress receive calls from you, they are more encouraged and more likely to take action to stop Pai’s plan to gut net neutrality. after Nov. 22, it will be MUCH HARDER to convince your member of congress.
hey guys, please reblog this version and don’t forget to call!!! if you are nervous about calling, you can use resistbot to send faxes to your reps and thestance appto pre-record your message so you won’t have to speak to anyone. (available in both google play and app store)
Call your senatorsssssssssssssss call your reps call this fucker and tell him no
With Net Neutrality on the verge of being axe I’m starting to really worry about my future here. This is important to me an probably any artist who uses the internet to gain a living. We need as many people voting against this as possible.
1.Go to This Link (They made it complicated to navigate their site and make it a chore to voice your opinion against them directly, so this takes you straight to the goods. )
2. Hit “express” on the right hand side
3. Fill this out and hit Continue to review screen. Done!
I don’t know how effective this is (Instructions by John Oliver), but it’s worth a shot! Reblog this and spread the word!
Idk how the FCC functions, but if it’s anything like the policy office at my agency, actually, these comments are SUPER important. So, please take half a second to do this.
The link above didn’t work for me so I looked it up. You are looking for 17-108, “Restoring Internet Freedom - Apr 26, 2017″ Right now it is at the top of “popular proceedings” https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/browse-popular-proceedings
Click “Express reply” for the easiest way to make a comment. NOTE: You MUST hit the enter key after you enter your name for it to work. This is just a weird quirk of the form. I don’t know if this will work on mobile devices or not.
Easy copypasta text if you’d like:
I strongly support net neutrality backed by Title II oversight of ISPs.
I don’t know exactly how much weight they will put on this, given our corrupt dumpster fire of an administration, but I can tell you 100% that public comment periods HAVE indeed shaped policy in other parts of the US Government when a lot of people spoke up. Short, clear, factually-based comments are good.
little known fact, once you are older & no longer in school, time stops being real. did that thing happen one year ago? two? five? a few months ago? who knows.
