U-Uncle Mike? Is That You? 

shoutout to paris hilton for not abandoning her ‘micropig’ 

when it turned out that it was a normal piggy who grew up to be a big fat fatty piggu

I SPENT. A WHOLE. FUCKING. SEMESTER. PAINTING THIS. MONTHS.

I WANT IT TO GET LOTS OF NOTES, GIVE IT LOTS OF NOTES, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW PAINSTAKING AND TIME INTENSIVE THIS WAS.

This morning passes as slow as the clouds crossing the sky 

Sometimes the wind picks up and it scurries on past 

For the most part though, it drags by 

A slow winter wind in a cold classroom

The drone of a teacher whom most would consider nice

He is simply energetic and draws from me too much 

I wonder if he draws from the other students 

Do they feel the effects of it the same way I do? 

I don’t know but I sit in the cold room 

Feeling as frozen as the morning dew in January 

And I wait for the day that I don’t have to return to this place

This cold, desolate place that haunts me

The girl you loved was kidnapped four years ago on the way back from the local tavern, and you’ve been grieving for her ever since. You finally decided to assume she was dead and make an attempt to move on - that is, until rumours start circulating of a powerful sorceress who lives in the forest amongst the wolves, a sorceress whose attacks focus on men known for lewd behaviour and whose hair is said to be the same fiery red as your lost love.

reading letters from 1818 is wild

“it’s that time of the year when I get colds for no apparent reason again” have some Clairitin hon

i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills

Do you think brachycephalic dogs are fine?

Let’s all just take a long look at the following two images. The top one is how a healthy dog should look. 

Brachycephalic breeds such as in the second image include dogs such as the French Bulldog, American Bulldog, Pug, Pekingese, Shihtzu, Boxers, and more. You may have heard smack about them previously or not at all, or you may be fully on the brachycephalic bandwagon still. I just want to refresh everyone’s memories a bit on why these are such horrible breeds and why they should not be continue to be bred. I have seen, every day for almost 3 weeks straight, dozens of deformed brachycephalic dogs being AI’d, being monitored during pregnancy, and having puppies delivered by C-section. I am sick of seeing this, and so this post is born.

Brachycephalic dogs commonly (and by commonly I mean almost every single brachycephalic dog) suffer from a syndrome called Brachycephalic Airway Syndrome. This syndrome involves the following, to varying degrees:

1. Narrow nostrils and overgrown bones within the nasal cavities (or, in other words, normal sized bones in a horribly shortened face) which obstructs airflow.

2. A trachea (i.e. windpipe) that is too small.

3. Everted laryngeal saccules (stage 1 of laryngeal collapse*) which can obstruct airflow.

4. A soft palate that is too long and obstructs airflow within the larynx.

These deformities translate into the cute, snorting, snoring, wheezing, overheating dogs that we all dote on. However, as if that’s not enough, these dogs can also have a multitude of other problems such as enlarged tonsils, vomiting and acid reflux, *full collapse of the larynx, jaw malformations resulting in dental malformations, skin disease, eye disease, heat intolerance, and inter-vertebral disc disease. They often require corrective surgery at a young age, and even then are not going to be completely healthy.

In other words, they’ve got it real bad. And people are still breeding them even when they are showing clear signs of anatomical and heritable abnormalities.

These dogs suffer unnecessarily just by being alive. Please don’t support their breeding, and don’t talk about them like they’re normal and healthy. They are not.