Hi huge fan of your art!

Suggestion idea: domestic movie Hayffie?

Somewhen during the 74th

i think the most annoying part of dog food discourse is how many people will act as though proplan/hill’s/Royal canin diets aren’t extremely and prohibitively expensive and that THAT is the reason so many people look into healthy alternatives.

People complain about corn being in the first five ingredients on most of those feeds because, regardless of other factors here, that is not an expensive ingredient. But it makes up a large chunk of the dry food. So the dry food should be fairly affordable, right?

Oh… with tax you’re spending about $100 for one 45lb bag of food where the third ingredient is wheat and the fourth and fifth ingredients are corn.

Oh… well! It’s slightly cheaper! But the second ingredient is rice, third is wheat, fourth is corn, and then fifth is poultry byproduct. None of those are very expensive so this just must be the low end cost of dog food unfortunately. The vets recommend it so surely that means prices aren’t inflated, right?

Oh? This one has similar ingredients with the only real difference being no corn? And it’s half the price?? Well surely that’s just a fluke.

Oh. Oh no.

This one even has CORN in it and it’s $20 cheaper?? Wow!

Like listen at some point I don’t care if your dog food has the ichor of the gods in it, I’m not spending $100 every five days if there are cheaper options with just as many “good” ingredients in it. If you think I’m a dog abuser because I can’t afford this overpriced garbage, that’s too bad. I don’t care. My dogs are perfectly healthy with the food I give them. Great weight and great coat. People giving dog food recommendations that aren’t those top three hyper-expensive dog foods aren’t trying to epic own those dastardly vets half the time, but I really don’t blame the ones who do lose trust in vets when the only heartworm protection they recommend lately are expensive triple-action brands like Simparica Trio that costs $120+ as opposed to the other heartworm protections that are only about $40-$60 on average, which is still cheaper even if you add on a $20-$40 flea and tick protection separately, and only recommend dog food that costs $85+ a bag even if your dog doesn’t have specialized dietary needs.

Those top three foods are GREAT at making competent prescription diets, I don’t deny that. I do still have to criticize the pricing of those prescription diets though because I have spoken to DOZENS of people who had to pull their pets off of a prescription diet and struggle to find something comparable because they couldn’t afford the food, and that’s terrible! These are not poor companies! Purina, Royal Canin, and Hill’s can ABSOLUTELY afford to lower their prices to make their food accessible to people who need it for their animals but they don’t. They probably never will. Because at the core they are run by greedy corporations. It doesn’t matter how many good nutritionists are on board if the company is run by people who put profits over customers and make the food impossible for people to afford.

I LOVE going everywhere by bike. Don't need to wait for a bus. Don't need to cram myself into a bus with (urgh) people. Or even worse, what feels like every single student in town. I still get home in about the same amount of time. I'm so so flexible including with places. Like yeah sure, let's go there! I don't care if the next bus station is far away. Doesn't matter to me.

Stayed out late with friends recently. Two of em had to get their family to come pick them up because that's too far to walk and it was too late for buses. A different friend lives like 30 minutes away but always walks and their way goes through a small park where literally no one is at with few lanterns so it's pitch black and I could literally just walk them home and then take the bike which is faster and has its own light and feels and probably is safer than walking those dark ass streets at night alone.

Like. I can just do all that. And yeah, sometimes when I'm not doing too well I feel like collapsing afterwards and yeah, maybe my fingers feel like falling off a lot at this time of year but that's like. SO worth it. I have no idea how people can live and NOT go everywhere by bike. Like if it's more than 20-30 minutes maybe but even with hills.... I fucking love my bike.

ok this is a long fucking shot but does anyone out here know anything about. Allergies but rather than having itchy runny-nose symptoms you just feel systemically like shit. Like fatigue, nausea, vague headache, moderate-to-severe excercise intolerance, that sort of thing. But correlated to like, pollen exposure. Or just air quality in general?

The best ballpark diagnosis I have is asthma, but I've never actually had An Asthma Attack so I don't know if that's.... right. And even if it is, I can't really find good research or resources on managing systematic effects of asthma at this like... non-acute, non life-threatening severity.

Sometimes with weird medical shit like this, there's information that exists if only you can find the right keyword to search.... maybe somebody's got something?

Or even just, it'd be nice to hear if anyone elae deals with this and I'm not, like, completely insane*

*for this. other insanity unspecified.

While we all know about Hawke's character-assasination in inquisition, I personally remain.. preplexed? a morbid kind of impressed? with how that game also managed to butcher my Warden with only about 5 lines of dialogue referring to him and a letter.

THE TECH INTERACTIVE

BROS I CAME HOME FROM WORK TO FIND THAT SOMEONE HAD GIVEN US A WHOLE ASS TELESCOPE‼️‼️‼️ FOR FREE‼️‼️‼️

it's tag venting time

afraid for my brother hours

Magnolia blossoms in the park by my campus

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Blizz comfirming my headcanons that she was, in fact, presumed dead. Which potentially qualified her for a KIA status, meaning that there was a funeral, there was a memorial in her name somewhere, That they likely reduced funding to the program and just fucking left her out there, because there was such a slim chance that she survived that they couldn't justify the money/time/energy to bring her back.

But Winston refused to give up.

AND that means that she spent longer time in the Isolation chamber because nobody though that she would come back, so they had a lot mroe work to do once they saw the sorry state she was in, as far as creating an accelerator that would work for her. Imagine months, maybe up to a year, being stuck in one glass tank, with very little privacy, very little communication, and very little freedom. AND floating in and out of the timeline. God I love her so much.

One of the stray neighborhood kittens followed me home today and it's taking every fiber of my being not to just let her in and keep her forever

tbh i think a lot about miravi in specific compared to other monprom ships and especially other monprom ships i have where

yes, they ABSOLUTELY want and crave domesticity and a gentle life and everything to be okay and normal. they want just a normal relationship, something wrapped up in mundane, in the everyday. for it to just be normal, expected almost, but their greatest fears and adversity in such a relationship are typical things, the things you find advice for in every newspaper column.

but remember how i mentioned how they are a story and a ship where to ask for a normal and ordinary and domestic life is harder and more dangerous than to ask for something else, the kind of love and life that people write stories about?

yeah. the thing i’ve neglected to mention is that - they want this domestic, gentle life. but it is not the life they have, not in the “present”.

the fact is, miranda is still tethered to the merkingdom. she is still more princess than person. she not only has UGLY habits herself, but she gets them from somewhere, and the vast machine that produced her is even worse, even uglier, even nastier.

the fact is, aaravi cannot live with miranda with how things are right now. she could marry her, actually marry her, but then she’d be in immediate danger and forced to take the reigns on something she doesn’t know how to control and actively wants her dead at it. they could elope, but that wouldn’t be an escape, and being found is an inevitability. they would have to pay the price, and thats even before you factor in all the things and people they CANNOT leave behind.

the truth is, things are not easy. they do spend time together, go on dates, miranda sleeping in aaravi’s apartment and wanting to move in, but this is all preamble. life existing in the cracks. their time is borrowed. this love sits on a clock that is running out due to factors beyond either of their control, and they have to figure out something before that time of reckoning. it might not come soon. it might not even come in a year or two. but it will come.

there’s a reason i keep going back, focusing on how aaravi interacts with the merkingdom and the slow creep of her discovering what’s going on with them, and that’s because that’s vital for what comes next. how do you break that system. how do you get out. how do you destroy something bigger than you or your family or everyone you have ever known that keeps chewing people up and spitting them out and hollowing out the world and life and love and keeping it all to itself. how do you kill a dragon.

and theres a reason i keep focusing on that domestic side to things, this borrowed time, this love surrounded by wolves on all sides. because to get into that is hard. and requires buildup. and discussion. and quite a lot of slow, miserable agony.

but these little moments make all of that worth it, because that is what they’re working towards in the end.