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I love calicos! Ginger toms are cute as well, but calicos to me are just friggin' adorable.

This dorkface greyhound is Rock.

The racing tattoos located on the inside of his ears indicate he's from Ireland, however he was found by a Canadian Humane Society group, rescued from neglectful owners who tried to keep him outdoors in the middle of winter. Greyhounds have no body fat, and even though Irish dogs have a slightly thicker pile to their fur, they still suffer when exposed to extremes of weather. He was transferred from the Canadian group to the greyhound rescue local to me.

He was the second dog I looked at. BestieRoomie is the one who drew him to my attention. Within a few moments he was leaning against me during our introduction and I knew he belonged with me. Unfortunately, the rescue didn't know a whole lot about his training (or lack thereof).

Rock loves walkies, running, treats, doing this thing called 'roaching' where he lays on his back with his legs straight up in the air, and contorting his body into yoga master level positions. He's really smart but also sneaky, he loves to steal things and deposit them in the yard. He also hates crates. He doesn't bark often, but when he does it's quite load, and otherwise he moans, groans, whines and chitters. Small furry things are for killin'. He's usually very popular at adoption group volunteer booths, and one lady likes to call him her favorite "Ambassadog". He does a shimmy dance when you scratch his butt and loves his neck and ears scratched.

MUSH/RL friend of mine was given a gift of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls by our pal in from the UK. Unfortunately he forgot them at our mutual friends' house. We work in the same place, so I just got to walk over to his desk over on his side of the building and announce, "Hey man, you forgot your balls at S&K's place. If you want your balls, you're going to have to talk to N. So just remember to go get your balls, okay?"

As expected, the co-workers around him started cracking up.

I've decided to dip my toe and see if anyone is interested in this. Want to show off pics of your dog, cat, lizard, bird, snake, rock, whatever? Do it here. Having a problem with your pet and want advice? Do it here. Want to tell stories or mention funny things your pet? Do it here. Have questions about breeds, adoptions, need recommendations for local vets, etc? DO IT HERE.

@Kanye-Qwest said in RL Anger:

Going just off the few lines you've shared, do you think he's increasing the behavior for attention? If he's home alone a lot, he might be acting out. Do you take him to dog parks or something of that nature when you get home?

I think some part of it has to do with a new roommate. Both the change in presence in the house as well as the fact that she's taking up a lot of counter/shelf space in the kitchen (not as frustrating to me as it is to bestie/roomie #1, but a valid complaint nonetheless). The first thing I do when I get home is take him for a minimum 20 minute walk on the leash which he adores, and on the weekends he also gets run abouts at a local enclosed field. I shy away from dogparks, greyhounds are not always reliable around dogs of a certain size and too many people are too stupid to understand that it's best to keep little dogs and big dogs separate. Doubly frustrating when the nearest local facility with a dogpark actually has two, one for small dogs and one for the bigguns. Of course, everybody uses the big dog park and that's how accidents happen. I know from experience. Sigh.

He does have toys, but they're not really his thing. He's had a kong filled with treats, within a few days it was abandoned in the backyard. I'm pretty sure we need to establish some boundaries about his behavior and for a while the level of communication we had was a within acceptable parameters, but the level he's acting out now to is simply unacceptable. It's simply an issue of money at this point, but it's on my list for the very near future. If I get a tax refund, it's probable some or all will go to that.

And thank you, @Miss-Demeanor for your kind words, it's really easy to feel like a "Bad Dog Mommy". I also love cats, but Rock has a high prey drive and basically if it's small and furry, he will try to eat it.

There's simply too much time in the day away from the house for me to leave him without access to the yard. The problem isn't his food, just his urge to steal. Which I think will involve some going back to basics in terms of obedience.

I love my dog, I really do, and I know my bestie/roommate loves him too. But lately we've had some serious problems with counter-surfing and stealing odds and ends from the kitchen. We have a baby gate that we use to block off the kitchen when folks are in there cooking, but his food and water dishes as well as the dog door to our backyard are in the back end of the kitchen and we can't deny him access to them in the daytime when folks are at work or at night when people are asleep.

I plan to take him to obedience school (as much for me as for him) but I have to wait until I free up the money. Today he stole a loaf of fresh baked challah right off the top of the stove even with a large pot put in front of it to keep him from doing so. Roomie has been working hard to bake these, and I can't blame her for being pissed at him. But it's frustrating for me, and while this used to be something that happened on occasion, the frequency of occurrence has been increasing much to my frustration.

I walk for 20 minutes a day now, thanks to my dog. Sometimes, if the weather's nice and I'm feeling energetic we'll go a longer walk. I've also pretty much completely given up soda.

I don't know that it's having any effect on my weight, but I generally feel better.

I'm also three months away from completing payments owed on a major debt which will free up my finances considerably.

Log, or it didn't happen!

I don't feel I have any business defending or critiquing the issue from an LGBTQ perspective, but I can add this to the conversation:

1. on a Victorian London, I played an female Asian business owner, specifically for the challenges that would be brought by the setting.

2. On a post Civil War mush - on various iterations, in fact, I've played Jewish women (which I am, RL), specifically for the challenges involved in playing such a character.

3. I've played a Lost Holocaust survivor, who had to deal with the fact that there were more than one Nazi in the sphere.

4. I've played a Jewish superhero character in an alternate universe where the Axis won. For the alternate universe plot, the suggestion was mine.

So obviously I don't mind settings where playing the status of a character in a despised or disissed minority. As such, what I really think it boils down to: "play it if you enjoy it, don't if you feel uncomfortable".

I am slightly uncomfortable weighing in, because I am not queer, so I'll try to keep this succinct.

I am aware of queer players on the game. I am aware of queer players on the game playing Shadowhunters. I have not made any assumptions about the orientations of their characters.

With that in mind, if any of the players want to speak up from their perspective, it might help.

At the end of the day though, @GangOfDolls, it's completely okay for you to decide this isn't your cuppa, and I don't want to press the notion of BUT BUT BUT! I will suggest that the perspective of our queer players might be useful here, and that without the context of canon it can be hard to judge. This would solely be for edification, not persuasion.

Edited to add: Thanks, @TNP!

^^^^^^ This.

A quick analysis, without spoiling:

The tv show has a superior actress as the heroine, and a superior actor as the hero (he also has heterochromia which I gotta confess is visually interesting). I also prefer Harry Shum Jr. as the magic-y fella as opposed to Geoffrey Gao, though he wasn't bad. The support characters I'd mostly prefer from the movie, except for two: How do you pick from Johnathon Rhys-Meyers/Alan van Sprang and Aidan Turner/Isaiah Mustafa? You don't. You just enjoy.

@Auspice I thiiiink it's based off the Eden System, similar to the mechanics used for the official BtVS RPG: here's the link to the game's app process walk-through.

If you're interested in checking out the canon, you have other options. There's a movie (90 minutes of your life) and there's a tv series (different actors, and I consider it the better adaptation despite some...issues). Otherwise you can poke around the wiki and get a pretty good idea of what's what. I'm also willing to crash course people.

I'm not sure if the movie is available via Comcast and the like, but the tv series can be watched via On Demand, and I think a few of the sight services - Hulu, Amazon Prime, maybe Netflix?

@Sunny NO, YOU.

I'm playing Naomi Morgenstern. I'm looking for more Morgensterns.

Hit me up here, or on the game.

Important Note: We are NOT the canon Morgensterns.

You do not get to dictate people's grief.

You do not get to dictate who they grieve, why they grieve, or how they grieve.

Grief is not a binary. Grieving for Person A does not mean you don't or wouldn't grieve for Person B.

And while we're at it?

I am a Social Justice Bard, fuck-you-very-much.

My favorite Tweet re: Carrie Fisher:

Carrie Fisher went out the way most women would want to: after telling the world she fucked Harrison Ford in his prime.

I started to write something sassy about Aleksei and then realized it would sound really creepy so just consider this as "Cupcake officially says something sassy but not creepy about Aleksei".

It's not too hard to cut the ties. My brothers were all adolescents when I was born, so while having five brothers, I was also an only child. However, this particular brother was the one I looked up to as a kid, the one I felt "got" me.

So, you know. Easy and hard, at the same time. I'm waiting to hear if my therapist can fit me in sometime in the next two weeks and hopefully help me process the delayed reaction.