sister: so what’s going on like right now?
me: look, half of the time I don’t understand what’s happening and the other half I don’t even know where the puck is.
I fucking hate it when you’re in such a fantastically giddy mood and then you see one simple little thing that makes you think, “oh” and then you just get this empty feeling in your chest and you get nauseous and the world just crumbles and you want to just lay under a blanket and close your eyes and fall asleep and never wake up.
“did you just pause the bee movie to have discourse about the bee movie”
Off camera: “This supreme court decision that could have happened, and since there had to have have been like, enough sort of like debate beforehand about whether…”
On camera: “Ok, but shouldn’t there have been a spinning newspaper transition there. Like Supreme Court declares bees as full citizens of the United States”
Off camera: “I mean, to be… to be fair, they’re only focusing on the bee media”
On camera: “On the bee media! *claps* ok, well on the bee media I think it would be a big fucking deal for them to be like Oh! We’re people now”
Off camera: “Well the thing is though, they probably already recognize themselves as FULL American citizens because they were born in America and have all… generations of coming *cut-off*”
On camera: “You know what this movie presents a lot of questions about personhood”
Off camera: “IT REALLY DOES! THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS MOVIE”
On camera: “The bee movie is about personhood really”
Off camera: “Ya, it is”
On camera: “Who is allowed to be a person?”
the crowning gem of this video is the Sollux shirt, which they probably wore specifically to watch Bee Movie
today I learned that no one knows who really created Digimon and the person who’s credited with it may not be a real person
Digimon came from the void.
after all these years of making sonic, kirby, mario and pokemon creepypastas, we’ve missed the forest for The Tree. Perhaps it is always what they wanted us to miss.
As a dog trainer, I can tell you that probably 50% of dogs really don’t like hugs and at least another 48% pretty much just tolerate them. Very few dogs I know genuinely like hugs the way humans tend to give them. What’s funny is that the picture that Fox used with this headline is one of the more common ways dogs do enjoy contact that humans would consider a hug.
Stanley Coren – the dude who wrote the article that is pissing everyone off about this – really does know what he’s talking about. He wrote one o my favorite books, called how to speak dog, which has some absolutely beautiful diagrams of dog behavior and body language along the gamut of extreme situations.
The way humans hug dogs is often really uncomfortable for them. We lean over them and trap them (think how many dogs we already know are spooky when you loom over them, but are fine if you get down to their level), and then we restrict their ability to move and shove our faces close to theirs. That’s not fun. Keep in mind that most dogs have personal space bubbles that are larger than we tend to think, and now you’re not only invading it, you’re making it so they can’t move or defend themselves if something happens.
Look at this photo from a couple years ago. Avalanche is probably the most tolerant dog I know of things that press his physical boundaries – he lets little kids do things to him that make me cringe and doesn’t even seem to notice half the time. This was right before I had to head back to college and I knew I wouldn’t see him for another 6 months, so I hugged him because sappy human emotions. I have an amazing relationship with this dog, and look at his body language. He’s kinda stiff, his face is a little tense, and the corners of his mouth are pulled back a little. All in all, he’s supremely un-enthused but he’s letting me do it. After about five seconds, he huffed out the sigh he uses to let me know when he’s done with the hug, and then pulled back and shook off.
Most dogs learn to tolerate hugs because we do it to them so often. It’s pretty much a kind of learned helplessness, plus, they like us and so they put up with our stupid human behavior. When you hug most dogs, you’ll notice they get kinda stiff, they look away or at other humans for help, you’ll see side-eyes or look-aways (not whale eye). Often they’ll distract you by doing something else like pawing at you, or licking your face as an appeasement signal. They’re all signs of discomfort that we already routinely ignore when we deal with our dogs, so it makes sense that people think their dogs are fine with it – they’re just still not listening.
More often, you’ll get dogs that will crawl up your chest when you sit and put their paws on your shoulders. Sometimes their face is close to yours, sometimes it’s on your shoulder. In that position – which they often initiate – they ca easily withdraw and get away if necessary and they’re not trapped or being leaned over. It’s not really a hug, just close contact, but I think it’s about as close as humans are going to get to one that a dog will enjoy.
just moving along like everyone else 