Every time we take my dogs collar off my mom pets his ears and repeats “you’re nakey!” in a babytalk voice
Fairly certain that’s a universal experience for all human dog owners.
My dog is told “Would you like to wear your jewelry?” And becomes excited. He then chooses which necklace he’d like. He has a few and they all have to have tags on them. I discovered this because I bought him a second collar and he refused it with a sneeze that usually is his equivalent of “fuck you”. I asked him why he didn’t like it. He did a dance. I don’t know how I figured it out, but I remember putting the new collar on him and seeing him still beg for the older one and thinking “there’s got to be a reason”. It occurred to be that he might want a little jingle. So I took an old keychain bauble and put it on his collar and he was so happy I thought he’d leap outside. The whole walk, he pranced around like a prize pig. So I realized that the collar couldn’t be a collar. It had to be a necklace. And now he has a large selection for every season, each with a set of tags that have his name and some sort of jingle decoration.
Sometimes he gets downright picky. He has one that has the Batman symbol on it and he prefers that most of the time, but recently the tags on it broke and he flat out refused to walk until I’d transferred the tags from another collar to it. But he has to choose the tags, and he happened to pick a set that were difficult to remove. But it has to be that pendant on that necklace or he’d piss himself right there in protest.
For anyone that for some god forsaken reason decided to start using Twitter as their primary art gallery, please stop. Twitter is soon going to amp up its shitty format switching and compression bollocks to the max.
@staff Not exactly the “welcome back to the app store” you were expecting huh
THIS is the kind of protest that tumblr will care about sooner or later. Leave bad ratings and reviews on apple or in the google play store. Lower their rating so hard that it damages their userbase.
Logging off for a single day isn’t of interest to tumblr. I’m not saying y’all shouldn’t protest in any way you can or want, but logging off the site for just one day isn’t going to bother tumblr because tumblr doesn’t CARE about your symbolic protest. Tumblr has proven time and again that it doesn’t CARE about its userbase. We’re still using the site and we won’t stop using the site any time soon because there’s no alternative. But that’s what we’d have to do to hopefully force tumblr to change anything. And they still won’t do it because their policy change isn’t about family values or what the userbase allegedly wants. It’s about money.
So, unless you stop using the site and app permanently, or for a long period of time, this isn’t going to matter to tumblr. And when you do, you need to do it in big numbers.
Leaving them bad reviews in the apple app store or on google play (where it’ll be harder because the current average rating is 4.4 stars and you need to edit or leave a LOT of bad reviews to drastically lower that), is going to do more to damage their reputation and thus do more to compromise their profit.
dumb shit Eddie and Venom have done to test their bond:
If Venom eats Eddie’s food instead of him does it still count as eating for their body?
(They go two days before Eddie can’t take it anymore and has to eat something again just because he misses the taste and sensation of eating. Answer: Yes.)
How far can Venom’s physical attachment to Eddie stretch?
(Tendrils of black goo cover the entire apartment before Eddie thinks he’s going to pass out. Answer: Pretty far.)
If Venom manifests a head from Eddie’s shoulder, could he close his eyes and see through Venom’s instead?
(It gives him a headache for the rest of the day because everything looks different in a way his brain can’t deal with. Answer: Kind of?)
How many days can Eddie go without doing his laundry and just get Venom to be his clothes?
(It’s surprising how many noises are loud enough to get Venom’s form to falter or retreat back into his host without warning. Answer: The result was not worth the experiment.)
If Venom watches TV while Eddie is asleep can he remember what was watched? Does it feature in his dreams?
(Answer: Yes to both. Eddie bans horror films after waking up screaming one night. Thanks to the food channel he always wakes up hungry.)
Since Venom has total access to all of Eddie’s thoughts and memories, does it work the other way around?
(Memories pre-Eddie are impossible for him to experience, but he loves revisiting the hazy memory of Venom’s short time as a dog. He drags that one up whenever Venom is being annoying. Answer: Not really.)
Some animals have seemed to sense Venom’s presence in Eddie, is there a pattern?
(Answer: They seem to trigger an extreme flight or fight response in most animals, especially prey or large predators that sense Venom as competition. Eddie didn’t know you could get a lifetime ban from a zoo.)
If Venom can control every aspect of Eddie’s body doesn’t that mean he could use his voice-box too?
(It takes some practice and it still comes out deep and just a little… off to be Eddie’s natural voice. Answer: Yes. In an unsettling kind of way for everyone that hears him.)
Okay in my house we have a strange tradition. My mother builds this beautiful Christmas village.
It wraps all around our house through the rooms and under the trees and it’s wonderful.
Every year she hides the Christmas Vampire
This started when I was a very small got child and spread to all of my friends, including my best friend from elementary school who I just so happened to grow up and marry. Now that we have grown up and moved nearly 600 miles away we still always go home for a week at Christmas for multiple reasons, including the Christmas Vampire.
Needless to say we still partake and things have gotten heated.
Stay tuned for the epic conclusion and to see my husband and father in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s sooty costume when I find the Christmas Vampire First!
Happy Haunting!
Dad has no fricken clue how to trash talk and I don’t trust him in the slightest.
The saga continues. Mom hasnt finished the village yet and it’s starting to get to her….
Hahahaha, I mean I love this on multiple levels. But what really threw it over the top was the mom’s anxiety over the world-building and city design being right. I feel you vampire-hiding mom, I feel you.
I can bet it will be the Dad who’ll find the Christmas Vampire first. I wonder what would he ask the kids to dress up as?
Of Dad wins the we don’t even GO TO THE MOVIES! We stay home and watch it’s a wonderful life and a Christmas Carol but the muppet version because dad doesn’t like people, tight places, or ghosts.
THE HUNT HAS BEGUN
GUESS WHO FOUND THE CHRISTMAS VAMPIRE
The Christmas Vampire was hidden in the lobster shanty. The story this year is that were was a terrible accident. He accidently spooked the carrousel operator who poured his drink into the switch board and caused a death. The Christmas vampire had to flee but he didn’t get far.
Dad husband and I had to conduct a police investigation but the number one detective, ya girl, caught him!
I like the implication that Dracula recognizes Trevor as a Belmont because of how wimpy his punches are.
I like that interpretation more. “Ah yes, this bastard, who’s first instinct upon seeing the world’s most powerful vampire was to punch him in the face. Yes, he’s from that family isn’t he?”
*gets punched in the face*
“There’s only one clan of absolute fucking lunatics in this backwater sty crazy enough to see the avatar of evil and throw a haymaker. Belmont, how’re you doing? How’s the family?”
I never would’ve remembered biting down into the seam of these things, often splitting them into two near-perfect halves. The texture was bad, the taste was bad, and yet…I chomped.
Never would’ve remembered without this post. The internet truly does make you feel less alone.
oh hey! we’ve got these marmalade balls in finland that are basically the same size as the forbidden ones and they’re more vibrantly colored too
it was basically a christmas tradition to eat too many of the green ones. i don’t think i could eat another one again and it’s been years since i’ve had a vihreä kuula
but just look at that
We found a true snack from the forbidden one
WHAT
these fruit slice things (link because reblog gets greyed out when i try to insert a picture???) hit what tiny kid-brain wanted the bouncy balls to taste/feel like too, and most grocery stores tend to have them around Passover here in the US, as they’re kosher
if i ever find just the grapefruit ones in bulk again, my teeth are done for.
