Victor gave Chris a single tulip, which in Japan means "You are my destiny.

And the meaning of the flower itself is "budding love.

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Anatolian shepherd dog puppy in training

they live with the herd and the herd accepts them as part of the herd, just, “that’s our Dave, he’s a bit strange but we love him, knew him when he was just a lamb you know” and the dog just lives among them as one of them but then if a wolf or somethin comes along the herd is like “O Reely? Have you met our Dave” and the wolf gets to make the acquaintance of Dave, 200 lbs of teeth and muscle who believes the wolf is there to kill his actual family and is pretty upset about it. 

that is the difference between a shepherd guarding dog and a shepherd herding dog. Herding dogs are NOT part of the herd, they use modified hunting techniques to bully the herd into moving where they are meant to go. They are built for speed and agility, often as small as 35 to 45 lbs, and are absolutely no match for a wolf. Plus, the herd doesn’t trust them, is suspicious of them, which is how the herding works

This is also why herding breeds are often very intelligent and trainable, because we made them to work with us, while livestock guardian dogs most often do not make good pets for most modern lifestyles - we bred them to work independently, away from people, and make their own decisions without human input.

This addition is SO true. Livestock guardian dogs rate low on traditional dog “intelligence” tests not because they’re stupid, but because they’re so independent.

I read one scientist’s remark on why they scored a Great Pyrnees low and it as essentially “this dog knows exactly what I want him to do but he’s ignoring me.”

we have a pyr mix and he is very often in the “he knows precisely what we want him to do and is staunchly ignoring us in favor of what HE wants to do” category. I love him to bits tho.

uploading my Snoopics here too <3

it kept getting reuploaded everywhere without credit so-

The art of seduction

English added by me :)

being a symbolism enjoyer should humble you because at the end of the day no matter how eloquently you articulate it youre essentially saying "i love it when things have meaning"

my hobbies are Colours and Shapes but, like, in a mature, sophisticated adult way

Oh…my…god

omfg, I thought this was a cute comic about a charmander traveling around hanging out with other pokemon and then you did that

UGLY, GROSS SOBBING

I went back through and noticed something. All of the pokemon, except for the child, have ditto’s face. Every time. I didn’t notice it at first, but then the end reveal, and it has been that way all along, I just didn’t notice. MY TEARS.

it’s 1am and im extremely sad now

I DONT’ EVEN WATCH-PLAY POKEMON AND THIS STILL HOTS MY FEELS SO FUCKING HARD.

the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away

i feel this so deeply because it's true for most of them. but y'all!! it doesn't have to be that way! sure it may not be full time, but you can meet each other. in 2022 my friends and i that i met in a fandom-specific server, we organized a little con for ourselves! we met up in chicago and i got there early and slept on one of my best friends floor, they greeted me at the airport with a big sign and helped me navigate the trains (im from TX and we dont have anything like it) and spent a few days in person, sharing two air bnb's and hanging out late into the night and going to multiple museums WE WENT TO THE AQUARIUM! we had dinner together and traded gifts someone got booklets made to document the event and it had blank pages and we all signed each others books like you would yearbooks. it was beautiful and amazing. i've been battling depression and more my whole life and '22 was just a truly awful year for me and this was easily the happiest i'd been in so so long. a little over a year ago, when we had to rehome my mom's dog, one of my best friends and his mom took her in. i drove 10 hours up to them with the pupper and got to spend a few days with him. we went to the mall and hung out talking about everything we normally would but in person. it was short but amazing. there was a short time where, i was contemplating moving up there to the same city as him, but alas it hasn't worked out. but i came very close to it. back in in the mid 2010s i was still living in Virginia; and i got to meet one of my RP partners i met here on tumblr in person. they lived a little over an hour away so constant meet ups werent possible. but the first time we met? valentines day. i was still married (tho rapidly approaching the end of it) and i guess he felt valentines had ended by noon so my friend drove down and picked me up and we went to the giant mall in norfolk and hung out all day. then come 2016, god literally like probably exactly to this week now, is when i left my now ex-husband. i had to sleep on another friends couch, but my RP partner? as soon as they got their place ready, a month later we became roommates. there were ups and downs but it was awesome, and they helped me through my separation and divorce. we played pokemon go together and still RP'ed too, we'd go on WAWA runs in the middle of the night for quesadillas, or to cookout because I was so obsessed with their shakes. we were roommates for a year before i finally moved back to the south.

there are no set in stone plans yet, but me and one friend still hope to meet in person one day soon. another friend only lives three hours from me, and so help me i plan on dragging her to the renfaire with me at least once. it can be hard, especially nowadays with how tight money is. but please don't ever think it's impossible. even if the time is short when you get it, it's so so worth it. i know two or three days may not seem like enough time but Gods it's better than none. it's possible, i promise.

and also remember that friendships -- any relationship -- isn't defined but what you can do together in person. you are no less friends with someone if they live five minutes from you and you see them daily, or if they live in another country on the other side of the world and the closest to in person you've gotten is a video call. don't ever let anyone (not even you!) devalue your online friendships, and what they mean to you.

I did as well with a friend from Twitter once

He lived like 5 hours away or something and I didn't drive at the time but he was visiting family near my neck of the woods and after swung by my place for a sleep over

It was super fun, highly recommend

shoutout to @gabapple, we should do this again! just not over Easter this time, because my boss might actually blow a gasket

yowza a new year 🔊

Shiny Espurr ko-fi doodle for @beskarmermaid! ❄️

Sending my most reliable corporate staffer to Connecticut to shut down a Christmas tree farm. Wish me luck

I keep sending them, but they don't come back. I really just need to shut down this farm. Do you think I should go check it out

Can I go with? My fiancé, one of your reliable corporate staffers, who I was supposed to marry January 1st hasn’t been answering my calls either

Good idea. I'm sure if you remind her of your lucrative upcoming business deal she'll come back.

#it turns out that there's only a fine line between a hallmark special and a horror film

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As a wise coyote once said; who give a fuck? picarto.tv/RAINRAINRAIN 3:30pm az time. 

Moomin doodles for the soul

my second favorite thing in Nosferatu (1922) is when it cuts to the "werewolf" and it's a hyena with the saddest gentlest eyes you've ever seen