#so the steps for teaching this were:
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Now I'm introducing a board so she will have clear criteria for starting and ending her retrieves in heel position.
This was just an intro session so very easy, just stand on the board until released. She already understands the board (from her conditioning course) and heel position so it was simple to put them together. Next steps are to fade the big lure onto the board and waiting longer to release her from the board.
It's crazy to think that she's just a baby! Not even six months! She's doing so so so good, I'm so proud of her.
#dogblr#rory borealis#my face#bird dog training#i really want a cato board#but my discount aerobics step wrapped in hockey tape will work for now#so the steps for teaching this were:#follow a lure#step onto a long board with all four feet#stay on a board with all four feet#heel position (on my left side her shoulder even with my leg)#and heel position with eye contact#and then just plug those together!#next i will do a small and smaller lure so she gets into position more auatomatically#then i will unpair the release cue from the kibble toss (so throw kibble wait a second then say okay)#and in the meantime still do flat ground retrieving#and then i will pair the board with the retrieve#small pieces for a small baby#its honestly so cool#it took uhh 10 weeks to get all four feet on the board? maybe 11 weeks?#literally ages#and she's been breezing through everything since then#so interesting to see where she gets stuck#and what comes effortlessly to her#wow i love a gundog#theyre so interesting to work with
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I really miss the natural hair community & watching natural hair content generally. That was so good for Black Women; we were thriving at it, too. And as rapidly as it rose to popularity, it’s crazy how dead the whole concept is now. I think it had more to do w all the division created over routines around maintenance than anything else. Everybody was entirely too pushy w trying to make what worked for them personally a staple for taking care of textured hair in general — & that shit walked so that colorism, featurism, texturism & misogynoir could run. Now the same ppl who was riding the wave a few years ago & swearing by all these products, brands, sponsors, wash day & styling methods have put natural hair away as a concept entirely.
Also, why the hell did we waste all that energy prefacing everything w, “Stop doing this and do these things for your hair to grow to tailbone length overnight🤡” — just to go right back to weave and perms? All that researching for what? All the dedication to disproving antiblack/misogynoir notions about Black hair for what? All the redefining of protective styles for what? All the trying to unlearn the belief structures around the colonization of Black hair for what? What did we teach ourselves fr? How did we make things any easier for Black Women and little Black girls? It’s tragic af. The Natural Hair Community/Movement is dead, it seems like. I don’t think we fought hard enough to prevent what happened to it honestly :\
#this isn’t to call out or demoralize weave or perms or anything like that either#I don’t think there’s anything wrong w black women doing any of that#but on the flip side I do kind of feel like#maybe weave is a bit of a crutch for us?#even w an understanding of it being a conditioning via white supremacy & antiblackness#I just don’t understand why it was smothered as a movement#& why black women seem to have like…. kind of just rolled over with it?#it was legitimately good for us before everyone else went to bandwagoning for relevance#and I get that too#but I still feel like we did a poor job at defending & teaching each other first & foremost#non black people definitely got in the way of that#but we also got in each other’s way ourselves#everyone I used to be subscribed to on yt for natural hair content stepped away from it#even those w natural hair grown & maintained beyond their waist or whatnot#the switch right back to unhealthy means of taking care of textured hair was flipped so easily#it just saddens me cus we were working at doing better#esteeming ourselves#our nieces#our daughters#our female cousins and mothers and aunties about the way we take care of our hair#and fell just short of actually taking something tangible from it#it wasn’t about having longer hair#it was about giving textured hair representation in ways it mattered#we were so driven in this & it was beautiful#there is no movement or dedication to this in 2024 tho#proud of black women who were independent thinkers & didn’t fall off w all the chaos#them trends had ppl clambering all over each other#& it ultimately killed the movement#nowadays you don’t even hear from the non black women who were vulturing for clout#i be floored w how sparse any content true to the hash tags are anymore
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And if I make a full post talking about how Abby, Shannon, and Taylor were actually really interesting and compelling characters that were just wildly mishandled by the writers and weren't allowed to fully explore their own motivations or personalities outside of being a love interest then what?
This is a threat.
#abby and learning how to prioritize herself after spending her entire life caring for other people at the expense of her own identity?#and realizing she's been doing it even in her relationship because she's literally been teaching this boy how to be a good partner#and that's not fair to her no matter how much she genuinely loves him and it really was just 'right person wrong time'#shannon and feeling so helpless and overwhelmed that the only thing she could think to do was run away#and even when she was ready to come back she was so ashamed of what she'd done and terrified she would never be forgiven#and she didn't have the courage to take the first step on her own but once she was given the chance she was ready to put in the work#taylor and prioritizing the truth over the comfort of others because so much of her life was spent being uncertain about her own family#and learning too late that the truth and your career don't matter if you keep hurting the people you care about#and maybe she learns to be better but she already burned that bridge and your personal growth doesn't undo the hurt you caused#i have so many thoughts about the FLEET of women who were done dirty by fox not allowing them to be independent characters#before they tried to make them a love interest#911#911 abc#911 fox#abby clark#shannon diaz#taylor kelly
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The strategy with which I planned this day off fills me with joy.
#I don’t mean what I’m going to do today. I have no idea lol#but I mean at SCHOOL#I didn’t tell a single student#and I booked the retired English teacher as a sub because she used to teach these classes and knows the material#and she will have the energy and the presence to carry them through stuff I want them to know but am too tired to teach#lol#like I really pushed myself all week with my high schoolers especially#and now she gets to step in and tag team#it is NOT a do nothing day#also she’s old school strict and they love to complain about that but the joy I felt in my heart#every time they were annoying this week. to think of the ace up my sleeve#and then!!!!! I did it on a Friday!!! so guess WHAT. by Monday most of them will have forgotten#and I won’t have to hear about it#I love to scheme in this way lol#a true joy of being a teacher#I know this is ridiculous blathering but I love to see it
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thinking again about Eight who falls in love with Nine from afar, but never once knows them up close.
#swtor#ooc#there's just something about. being the invisible person who watched and saw#and you get to know someone through their deeds and the little mark of life they left while they were still here#and you follow their path like a ghost#you don't even know who 'Nine' is. but you have seen the person they are#you'll never get the chance to meet them. but you know them#you saw and you heard#the mark Nine leaves on the story is so strong you can be a different cipher and still feel it#the one-sided pining of it where you're more enamored by someone you don't think is even alive still#but you fall in love all the same#what if him in the class story is just him retracing nine's steps to see the way they lived#in the hopes that they might find them again#but all it does is teach eight more about living#AND ALL THEIR COMPANIONS refuse to let eight in bc they still miss nine. and eight sees how much they loved them and falls a little more
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i did it… i finally finished the english->arabic course
only took me three years give or take 😅
#well. until the next update hopefully#bc imo this course is very limited#it only teaches two tenses and it doesn’t even touch on the dual pronouns or any of that#and it’s quranic/classical so you learn all the short vowels which doesn’t help you learn colloquial arabic#which makes sense as an msa course but still#and all of the helpful grammar charts and vocab lists are hidden or only found on the pc format which is super inconvenient#they also need to make changes on the last few units or so bc those were just dozens of the same few lessons each time#and it was very annoying to not be learning anything new for a large chunk of this course#ever since the last update removing the tree it all got messed up and claimed i made further progress than i actually did#so. next step i should probably get proper grammar books and avtually practice with my colleagues#duolingo#languages#arabic#my posts
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spent like two hours in a vc trying to unravel a MESS of a 22 story step template just to get all the internal logic straightened out 😭 writing is so hard I never wanna look at a letter again
#of course I’m kidding I love writing#but this particular piece I was working on. oh jeez oh boy#not variations#allzy rambles#also not gonna publish that one for a while I’m already so swamped as is 😭#it gets confusing because teach is also giving us other story structures to look at#which is helpful#but also confusing#like plot triangle + 22 step structure + syd field paradigm + story circle all laid on top of each other at varying opacity like a#story structure sandwich#although plot triangle and Dave Harmon story circle in my case were self inflicted
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local man discovers he's gotten into the habit of using DBT techniques without actually being taught them because at some point he realised that the things we get the urge to do when we have strong emotions often aren't healthy and that he doesn't like how he feels afterwards so he started noticing when that was happening and going "fuck that shit" and doing the opposite instead
#personal#thoughts#Lucy post#talking to 🍬 about various stuff we do because of our social anxiety and what are probably undiagnosed BPD symptoms#and we realised he's gotten himself into the habit of paying attention to how his emotions affect his judgement#and trying to take a step back when he's experiencing an emotion that he knows gives us the urge to do stuff that's not healthy for us#and he said he felt bad about having those emotions and urges to do unhealthy stuff#at which point I was like ''okay but you're choosing not to act on that and to take a step back and do something healthier instead#which is what actually matters here and is also something that takes a hell of a lot of self-awareness and self-control''#this is shit they teach you in therapy that's difficult specifically because you're going against your brain's instincts for a situation#and we were never taught how to do it so you've just fucking taught yourself to do it instead#without actually knowing it's a specific technique that has a name#I was aware of it but had never actually looked at the instructions properly because when I stumbled across it#it was at a point where being told to go against what my emotions made me want to do felt invalidating and upsetting#I've literally just pieced together that ''oh right that's what that is and how it's supposed to work#and how it's meant to feel when you do it right''#anyway all this is to say that I keep being impressed with the amount of progress 🍬's made on learning healthy coping mechanisms#including things I could never seem to get the hang of when I was fronting more and handling more stuff#and I'm really proud of him and 🦋 and everyone else who's been handling stuff within the system and keeping things running#but also nobody in here seems to realise how much progress they've made with anything until someone else points it out#I just realised I should tag this as#happy posting#because I'm talking about stuff that's going well and where we've actually made a lot of progress
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Rory's first session with steadiness training and she's crushing it!
#dogblr#rory borealis#my face#bird dog training#so bird dogs need a really strong WOAH (stop moving and stay) for safety#and also to help encourage pointing in younger dogs (you woah them when they have the scent of the bird before the bird flushes)#ive never taught woah before so i read a bunch of books and watched a bunch of videos#one of the first steps is steadiness (basically impulse control)#so were using my elevated step and some kibbles and a flat collar with a tab leash#basically once your dog understands the board you can start#hold the tab loosely (no tension in the leash but enough that you can stop them from going after the snack)#throw the snack and dont let the dog go for it (hold leash and feed snacks on the board)#make sure theres no tension in the leash before you release#the dog should be standing there of their own will not the leash stopping them#its really hard so make sure the dog is exercised and calm before you start esp the first time#and only do short short sessions#and reward HEAVILY#there are faster more old fashioned ways to teach it#but shes a baby and i dont mind going slow so this is what im doing#also - look at my face i was so unsure if she would stay 😂
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Normalize non-binary characters who don't dress like total dorks.
Normalize non-binary characters who don't remind you of the most exhausting person you knew in drama class.
Normalize non-binary characters who look like they'd be happiest bombing around rugged terrain in a 1987 Ford Ranger Bigfoot Cruiser they restored themselves.
Normalize non-binary characters who've never painted so much as a toenail and have no inclination to do so.
Normalize non-binary characters who are hairy, heavy, sweaty, and whose favourite musical group is The California Raisins.
Normalize non-binary characters who you can't identify from the other side of a warehouse by sight.
Normalize non-binary characters who look and act like a diverse group of people you might meet in your everyday life because god damn am I sick to death of shows getting praised for 'representation' that never stops feeling like a caricatured Other.
#non-binary#queer#enby#characters#yes I am watching Star Trek Discovery#yes its version of queer feels like it had to pass through six comittees of studio execs#yes its cringey as hell and no amount of 'but isn't it GOOD to see ourselves on screen at all' can makeup for how false it feels#I'm old enough to remember the 90s/00s and the first gay characters we were supposed to applaud for breaking barriers#they were all the same guy#the same catty sexless asshole#(Remember Second City's 'Sassy Gay Friend'? No? Man I'm old)#and it honestly did more harm than good because The Gay was always The Other#and rather than teach the lesson that 'a gay can be anyone around you'#it instead taught the world 'how to recognize a gay'#and even within the queer community we still internalize those fucking paradigms today#see: every self-doubt post going 'am I really [x] if I don't [y]#imagine how much freer the queer community would be if we hadn't internalized that sense of checklist gatekeeping#Am I really gay if i'm not an enormous tool like Kurt Hummel?#and so on#we don't take a lot of steps forward#we take a lot of steps sideways and call it progress because there's technically movement
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Despite all the splitting already I always find something else I’ve lumped and have to figure out how to break it out microscopically to continue crawling forward on hands and knees so one day I can look back and discover my dog is trained
#today’s realization that other dogs also need to be split#yes today she did great with the quiet slow Sheltie when last time she tackled the border collie#might have to stick to passing smalls for a bit#I’m also so bad at moving forward to the next micro step#too often I stay at the same one too long and she gets bored#or move too soon and we have to go back further and work back up to where we were#Essie really is so so so so so good of a dog she is teaching me so much#dog training
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dfjsdf its so nice seeing someone draw exclusively june <3
as someone who cant really stomach seeing john (i cant really wrap my head around how some people just disregard it?? it makes me so upset) your acc is one of my safe spaces
<3 i'm really glad that this blog can be a source of comfort for you ;u; that makes me so happy
i love june so much!!!! i'm a mod at @shittyjunedaily for a reason!!!! she is the one and only for me!!!111
#asks#anon#i personally do not mind seeing people draw john still i mean it is how he has been viewed for several years#BUT#big but#i just think egbert being transfeminine is so important to her arc now that it has been added. specifically that she transitions so late#etc etc a life of repressing their sense of self and helping other people with their arcs only to disregard their own#and then finally being left with the horror of existing in their own body when everyone else is doing okay and is not in any danger#how she looked up to her father and wanted to step in his footsteps so fucking bad but always felt inadequate#not because dad egbert had bad values to teach#in fact they were great#that makes it hurt worse for her even.#its knowing her dad would have loved her regardless but never got the chance to see his daughter being fully at peace or happy#and now that hes gone#she isnt sure if she even can be happy#i love. Jun egbert
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I'm sorry you're sick man :/
I'm very excited today because my gf said she would like me to get a trans bf becuase she's recently discovered she's poly and knows I want one, so now I'm just trying to find one!
I would love to read any haikus you write!
What are your sheel playlist thoughts?
yeah me too :( and my brother bought oreos and i cant even have any because i have to eat them with milk and milk would just make me feel worse :(((
gl on your hunt bro!! im sure you'll find a good guy xx
ok so i wrote five more than i was sposed to xx whoops
my favourite chicken is gone
she would run right up
to say hello
maybe next spring
we'll meet again
purple is the best colour, i think
so rare in nature
yet we assign it to kings
there are fawns in my grandparents neighborhood again
they are small, gangly
they hide behind their mother
dainty feet barely ghosting the grass as they run
my guitar has scratches from the time i dropped it
wood hitting pavement, a discord of noise
i find it has a certain mournful sound now
character development
we dance in your kitchen to old love songs
big band music always makes me happy
you're the first person i haven't had to teach to dance
#eel gets asks!#the last one is partly abt me and my best friend and partly abt eel n shoe haha#because every single person who has suggested we dance togther but one#cannot dance. so i always end up having to teach them#and after three years of proms and other dances and parties and weddings#it gets a little annoying :| especially if its the SAME FRIGGING PERSON WHO IVE TAUGHT TO TWO STEP AND WALTZ MULTIPLE TIMES#kys lily mosely/j that girl makes me so mad sometimes#its like she refuses to listen to anything i say when i try and teach her its so frustrating#my sheel playlist thoughts were mostly 'ohhh my god theyre so inlove its disgusting'#but i have a sketch of eel i might post after i finish it l8r tnight#made cornbread today tho!
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today is TERRIBLE :(
#wake up exhausted and depressed#classes were half cancelled and the ones i had the teacher was missing so i had to lead an activity i didn’t have a clue about#then i get insane cramps and start my period while teaching#then i get home and the wind is so strong it blows out my brand new earring and i retrace all my steps for 30 mins and can’t find it#ones i adore and are from an untraceable stall in a market that has already finished on an island i don’t live on#try not to cry in front of the person ringing up my coke zero and tampons#now i’m home and my house is a mess and i have to pack a giant suitcase to go home on Friday and I do not have the energy#what if I eat instant noodles and play video game instead
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Eddie and Max would've been the best combo bx their friendship would lead to a complete lack of personal safety but Eddie thinks he's doing like. A great job role modeling
(OK I realized this after I wrote it and this screenshot got more notes than the fic ever did but I feel like I should just say like. If ur gonna do something like that don't actually wrap the handle around ur wrist bc then you'll get dragged. Water skiing, sledding behind snowmobiles, skateboarding behind cars, all those, just hold on tight but u gotta be able to let go if u fall)
#eddie munson#max mayfield#max and eddie#started thinking abt an au where eddie was friends with max instead of dustin and i love those two but um.....this wouldve been better#much better#they have a lot in common and she is literally in the middle of a plot where shes mourning for her abusive step brother#eddies like...ur brkther was a dick and he died and i would like to replace him. teach me to skateboard#he says thats what i do i run away and shes like dug were zoomers#canon has like. rewritten in my head to the point where this is just true#i watched vol 2 w my mom today and i like...missed them talking even thk they only so once#but its great when they do he calls her red and she gives him a mike myers mask#that is their dynamic now#he says hey cool kid and she does a skateboard trick and he points proudly#also eddie is kinda ready tk sacrafice himself for her but all her angst js from somebody dying for her#so hes like i gotta do the really hard thing and save her and myself and then deal w the murder accusations#it makes the courage arc work better bc shes so so brave too#also they have a lot in common and he lives 40 feet away from her#ither things featured in this wip: just sitting outside throwin firecrackers#finding a trashed microwave and puttinf stuff in it#summer delinquints max and eddie is everything 2 me
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so do people who don't have rhythm, when they hear a song, do they think that the notes are played just whenever (in regards to both timing and pitch) or do they know that there's a more or less predictable pattern to it, that when you have a melody consisting of exactly one note at a time, that a skilled enough musician can add more notes to it to make it sound fuller (less lonely) and (often) better?
#like no shame or hate to anyone I'm just still perplexed how some people legitimately cannot hear the rhythm of a song when they hear it#like HOW#it's RIGHT THERE#HOW CAN YOU NOT HEAR IT??????#this frustrated me SO MUCH when i took dance classes and the three boys i danced with couldn't hear the rhythm of the song like what?#and i also had to teach *them* *their own steps*#though i guess it's always possible that they just didn't want to dance at all#unlike me who actually did#and i ended up quitting less than halfway through because i didn't wanna be a teacher when i was taking the same classes they were taking#like they were taking those classes *with me*#we had the same eposure to knowledge#but they didn't pay attention#fuckers...
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