#I had a really great weekend

[wyrddogs]

I know I always bitch about volunteering for dog events after we put on a big one but I'm going to bitch about volunteering for dog events.

Tldr: Treat your volunteers nicely or they'll quit.

Bitching under the cut.

There are certain people at our events who have strong opinions on how lure opping should be done and they are not shy about sharing criticisms. They're all the super hyper-competitive Whippet People. And like, I'm human. I mess up sometimes. If I don't stop the lure deep enough over the finish line that is 100% on me and I generally go "oh fuck" when it happens. I don't make that mistake often (like, once or twice a year), but it happens-- and it specifically happens because I really don't want to run the super fast dogs into the back wall, so I slow the lure early because judging distance is hard.

The non-Whippet People will let me know, I'll apologize, they'll say 'great!', and then we'll move on with our lives. The Whippet People will let me know, and then they'll ask their friends to let me know, and then every time they walk past me for the rest of the day they'll go "now remember that the dogs have to be going full speed over the finish line!" And they'll also bring it up the next day. Multiple times.

I asked a whippet person (lowercase letters) who lure ops for advice and she was like "yeah it happens" and gave some good advice and said I'm doing a good job. She said everyone messes up sometimes and shared a couple of her goofs.

So I don't need people to say thanks or give me accolades or anything. That's not why I'm volunteering. I volunteer because I enjoy dog sports, and dog sports run on volunteers, and if people stop volunteering then there will be no more dog sports and that will suck.

But I am not going to lie, when certain people, who do not lure op, only offer criticism, and bring that criticism up over and over and over, including when I am not making mistakes, and they never ever mention when I am doing a good job, which is the vast majority of the time, it makes me want to say "okay, you fucking do it" and walk to my car and drive home.

#using my angry tag: #sportsmanship #I had a really great weekend #I'm not quitting racing #or lure opping #but sometimes I want to take certain people and shake them #'you realize I'm doing this for free right' #'you realize I'm doing three peoples' worth of work while you sit on your ass and do nothing when your dogs aren't running right' #'you realize I don't even have a racing dog right now right' #'I don't have to be here' #'I could be doing something else' #anyway the people whose opinions I care about have my back #but sometimes I want to bite someone

[quietblissxx]

🥰

#I love the backstreet boys. i remember listening to them as a small child and their music hits me with the most visceral nostalgia #i love concerts with my full heart #i love my bestie and trips with her. i love great food and comfy hotels and swimming and shopping #i had a really great weekend #I'm overflowing with joy #personal

[julykings]

summer’s end

#had a really nice weekend to round it out u kno #saw Sarah on Friday for pasta and watching reality tv #picked wildflowers on Saturday and went to the dog park and some yard sales with my sister and we had such a good time we’ve been kind of #distant lately so that was really great. and time and my bf went to a mug decorating workshop and then tried a new restaraynt and got giant #margaritas . and watched survivor #Sunday gym kicked ass + moved furniture around and helped my bf paint his bedroom #today went to work first thing then to the lake for swimming and napping in the sun then more work and more gym which also kicked ass #then groceries and making out with my bf now home laundry etc getting ready to go to bed so I can wake up early and take Winston to do some #thing before work and my first classssssss yayyyy #can u tell im tired I made so many typos and fully just used the wrong words… we painted his bathroom . #personal

[blueskittlesart]

cold fruit in a hot kitchen (so i had this great watermelon last weekend)

#so I had this great watermelon last weekend. and the thing is it probably wasn't even that great of a watermelon #but I was four hours into an eight hour shift and we had thrown out all the watermelon salad because no one was eating it #and then our manager ran in and yelled that the client really fucking wanted watermelon salad. #so like six of us servers started frantically chopping watermelon. and the kitchen got really hot #in the way it does when everyone inside it is really stressed because there's no fucking watermelon salad #and after we chopped all the watermelon and the client got their fucking watermelon we all had a moment #where we looked at the remaining watermelon and we were so hot and cocktail hour was almost over anyway and the salads were all plated #and we all went for the watermelon and we ate it with the kind of rabid intensity you only get while eating cold watermelon in a hot kitche #and it was the best watermelon I have ever tasted and several days later i am still chasing the high of that fucking watermelon #and the thing is i know it isn't even the watermelon i'm actually missing #it's the feeling of cool liquid on hot skin and the feeling of a crisis averted and the feeling of camaraderie #that comes with devouring a watermelon in a hot kitchen with six other people who you have nothing in common with except that watermelon. #i don't dream of labor but i am dreaming now of being 4 hours into an eight hour shift eating watermelon in a hot kitchen. #i dream of laughing around the cold fruit in my mouth. I crave that watermelon like i'll die without it. #< honest to god this is real and that watermelon left such an impact on me that i had to draw it and write this. having a normal one #maybe this is insane but working in a team of people you truly like to do something you actually enjoy is so underrated #if only they fucking paid me i could work as a server for the rest of my life. unironically #skribbles

[amaliatheartist]

What is there between us, if not a little annihilation?

#amalia's art #fall out boy #art #artists on tumblr #happy (early) one year to so much (for) stardust!!! #I ​made this early cause I had some free time this weekend and I needed to make a collage because the last couple of days weren’t great #I now feel normal again 👍 #the new schedule will take some getting used to tho #this line makes me think of a lot of people in my life #people who I wish I talked to more often and that I wasn’t so hesitant to approach cause I don’t want to bother them #I put a couple references to other fob albums I really like #blue clock for infinity on high #red pocket watch for folie à deux #purple overlap is a reference to mania #fanart #baby annihilation #so much (for) stardust #so much for stardust #smfs #smfs era #fob #fob lyrics #fob fanart #fobcreators #fall out boy fanart #collage #collage art #analog collage

[glittergoats]

I'm not done with this game but that won't stop me from making impulsive animatics regardless

#p5r spoilers #persona 5 #persona 5 royal #takuto maruki #sumire yoshizawa #kasumi yoshizawa #goro akechi #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #my art #so yeah im like almost done w marukis palace #i think #but this fucking idea wouldn't leave my brain so i spent an hour yesterday being insane making this #i do wish the section with sumi akira and akechi was a bigger chunk of the game #i thought it was really compelling and having only 3 party members is something you haven't had to deal with since kamoshida #so it was a nice challenge too #but whatever i still enjoyed the little like hour sequence we did get #might beat the game this weekend we'll see ! i dont actually know how much time is left like gameplay wise #the song is the hounds by the protomen btw #great song #its about megaman

[essektheylyss]

Okay but for real, please download Merlin, the Cornell-based bird-logging app. It is so great. It will tell you about birds in your area. It will make you so insufferable on hikes and outings. It doesn't have any comments section so if this site gets nuked do NOT try to find me there but know that that's where I'm hanging. Having a great time birdwatching. Logging the bluejay that bullies my cats. Helping researchers track where birds are for climate change-related population monitoring. 10/10, highly recommend getting a life and doing some silly birdwatching.

#I forget who here recced me the bird app cuz it's PHENOMENAL so I'm sorry I am blanking #also if anyone has recs for apps for tracking flora pls lemme know cuz I am on the hunt #if you have had a good experience with inaturalist I wanna hear about it cuz it felt too social media-y for me #is it good? I do not know. I actually really want to cuz I need to be able to better identify plants. #it would be so funny if I just didn't open my inbox and instead made a post about birdwatching for every ask I get this weekend lmfao #I really think it's what the dash deserves #I'll tell you about arizona birds! it'll be great #I also have seen some GREAT juniper trees and stars today. yes STARS. #literally if you haven't done it lately go find somewhere dark and see the stars. v important. #anyway junipers are making berries rn! they're delightful!

[trashyshrew]

Maybe some drawings of Inosuke please?

Also have a lovely day/night! ^-^

#ask and you shall receive #(in 5-7 business days apparently) #kny #demon slayer #inosuke hashibira #silly sketches #i don't mean these to come off as low-effort - this week has just been really busy for me 😅 #but these were really fun #thank you so much for the ask #and hope you had a great weekend

[spaceratprodigy]

✏ WIP Whenever ✏

Thank you for the tags @captastra @darkfire1177 @the-lastcall @hibernationsuit 💖💕

Haven't been working on too much personal art lately so not many new things to share

Have a lil sneaky peeky at these tiny sketches for the next few faith and max smoochy prompts in my ask box tho :]

open tag to anyone who wants to jump in!

#next week is gonna be great for faith and max enjoyers it looks like #just wanted to get a couple of these sketched out before I leave for the weekend #since they've been really nice (and much needed) stress relievers #I promise I haven't forgotten abt the other prompts in my ask box!! #I just have bigger ideas planned out for those and haven't had the time to work on them!! #but believe me I have been SO excited for when I can get back to them #they're literally all I think abt in terms of what I want to draw next!! #those and p&p au AND western au okay!! I have all the ideas planned out in my head but no time yet!! #2024 is gonna start off with some banger art fr fr #ily friends thank you for tagging me sorry I've been super slow getting around to everything #my mind has been all over the place and it's just that time of year ya'know #much love to y'all always <3 #my art #faith and max

[deanmarywinchester]

been thinking a lot about communal living and communal parenting which means I’ve been reading the Supernuclear substack since I found it and I can’t stop thinking about this post about raising several babies in a small intentional community. Supernuclear is by these people who started the community, Radish, and talks about the nuts and bolts of starting and running Radish (rules, financials, community building) as well as featuring stories about what worked and didn’t work in other communities. im thinking through the class assumptions of Radish, and some of the other communities Supernuclear features sound frankly unpleasant (thinking of this expensive- and disorganized-sounding college-dorm-ass small weed farm)

BUT! as someone who wants babies but is really scared about how demanding it is with the State Of Everything, i LOVE this post. Radish has “baby happy hour” every day when the babies are picked up from daycare and they hang out in the communal area with other people in the community. parents can spontaneously ask to leave a baby monitor with other folks so they can go out without paying for a sitter after their kid is asleep. “Even with a newborn, we see friends 5-7 nights a week. We go out to dinners and parties on a whim. And we have a dozen friends who are invested in our kid, share in their milestones, and feel 100% comfortable watching them for a hour or even a weekend.” girl the dream…….

#my posts #urban studies #<- I GUESS i mean that’s my tag that’s closest to this and when I think about urban studies I think about communities anyway #but anyway. I have some fondness for even the unpleasant sounding and failed intentional communities I think we can learn from anything and #there have to be better ways than what we’re doing now #I had a great time over the weekend cooking for ceasefire protestors in an intentional community that was so clean and bright and chill #it was really cool #personal

[vivacia-18]

After many years, guess who decided to try their hand at bookbinding again?

That's right, me! And of course I chose I giant of a fic, because I am nothing if not ambitious XD. I think it's 3 inches or more thick, and came to a whopping 1088 pages! The fic is Count Your Blessings by @madmothmadame , a Founders Era Tobirama centric fic and I cannot recommend it enough <3 <3 <3

My cover fabric and end paper are pretty simple, one part because I thought it suited the story, one part because I had them on hand, and one part because I'm a raw beginner and that's about as good as I could manage XD

It took a lot of waffling on my part (graphic design is NOT a great skill of mine) but overall I ended up really happy with how the title page came out - if I had the artistic skill to paint/draw it or the supplies to transfer it, this would have gone on the cover as well. Alas, for now it shall remain inside only.

A little detail that gave me some grief, as I waffled on font style and size a bit, but ultimately I'm really pleased with it - I used a plum blossom branch as the scene break throughout the book. If you've read the fic, you probably know why I picked that particular image for this and the title page ;)

I realized after printing that some of my paper had gotten a bit aged, even though it was stored in the printer. I wasn't about to waste the paper, ink and time for a reprint though, so I left it. Since the book is for me, little things like that are no bother. I was just glad I didn't fuck up in the printing or signature sewing order X'D

I included the authors notes from the end of each chapter as a bonus section at the end, so they'd be preserved with the story but not breaking up the flow of reading the book ^_^

Final view, this time from the spine - think I left the gap a little to wide between the cover boards and spine but eh, again this is just for me and only my third binding ever (and certainly the largest! XD) so I'm still really pleased overall.

A very fun experience, and I'm looking forward to my next re-read of the story, where I'll be doing it with my very own chonky boi version held in my hands :3

#viv18art #bookbinding #naruto #tobirama #count your blessings #really glad I decided to bind this fic #it was just as fun as I remembered #except better because I have a good printer now #so I could do that at home and not have it buggered up like it was for ayem #also had the bonus of a binder kicking the bucket at work last week #so I had the opportunity to scavenge the boards #made the cover part easier for me for sure #I've kinda got the binding bug now #this project went so well imperfections and all #and SO much faster than I thought #like it took me... I dunno three weekends and a bit? #I spent more time figuring out the formatting than anything #once I was on to the physical portion the project just flew #it was great #very looking forward to the next one #and I have so many fics I'd love to bind <3 #best part is even if it takes me a bit to get stuff for the cover #I can make the text blocks whenever and just have them ready #I mean of course I like to do it all at once #but sometimes needs must #and the text block part is my fave part anyways soooo #yeah #new hobby unlocked methinks

[joelletwo]

giving up on going to bed proper tonight i am Not getting everything i need to do done in forty minutes [adjusted for time it took to write this post. 30 minutes]

#and it took me so long to fall asleep the last two nights i might as well have just stayed up [shrug] #this isnt even representative of what working is going to be like!!!! i didnt know i was going to be working this week!!! until monday!!!!! #the night before!!!!!!!!! i couldnt prepare anything or pre-do any chores!!!!!!!!!!! #<- the job is really genuinely great so far but my position has so little to do w literally anything else in the building that im #super falling thru the cracks about every single thing me and my single coworker arent a squeaky wheel about lol. im a little #irritated about it but whatever <- i didnt have access to anything i needed half my first day even tho they had the whole month #to get the ball rolling on that 😭😭 i still dont have access to some stuff #i may or may not have to work friday. wont know till tomorrow. idk what im doing next week. im taking verbal 'yeah probably' #permission to not come in this weekend bc i dont want to lol #AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #anyways. [keyed up] [why its been taking me so long to fall asleep]

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by my beloved no.1 chappell roan stan @cordiallyfuturedwight thanks my darling <33 i can only apologise for the lack of ms roan here... i swear good luck babe has been on repeat i don't know what happened

tagging the usual suspects, apologies if i've already missed yours: @aprylynn @jiminsproof @thvinyl @cosmicdreamgrl @visionsofgideontheninth @hoseeok @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @monismochi <333 and you dear reader

oh and see here for more of my self-proclaimed songs of the summer if you're interested in that kind of thing

#director's commentary-- #comin' around again - they call her amber MARK because she never misses. this one is particularly delicious #the thrill is gone - it's stunning. listening to raye again to prepare myself for genesis #bring back the seven minute songs i say!! #i'm fighting my own diminished attention span tooth and nail but i'm losing badly because i keep getting distracted #helen of troy - we all moved on from solar power a little too quickly actually this summer we should throw our cellular devices in the wate #whatcha doing - yeah i have this song on repeat to fund dua's next vacation and it's an honour to contribute. #ALSO did everyone see the chris stapleton x dua acm performance? exquisite. they served AND they ate #bodyguard - still my fav. ryan beatty i could find you anywhere #skip to the good bit - rizzle kicks are making a comeback and my god it has been twelve LONG years without them. #nature is healing. i can hear the trumpets #ok love you bye - anyone who decides to use the line 'if you can't see my mirrors - i can't see you' is an instant icon #it's uncanny - hall & oates deep cut. it's obviously fab #so sick of dreaming - maggie rogers i will follow you to the ends of the earth. album is phenomenal. what a loser!!! #aw shoot - cuntry and music global pop sensation cmat has done it yet again. happy pride my queen #honourable mentions - rachel chinouriri's new album is really great. listen to 'it is what it is' #obviously rm made it to the artist list. who else up thinking about nuts and groin rn!!!!! #vampire weekend's new album is like something from a peanuts comic and st. vincent's new album is indescribable #but if i had to try i'd say like something from a peanuts comic but if woodstock had an insatiable bloodthirst #okay i think that just about covers it! thanks darlings #MWAH #receiptify #tag

[starbuck]

this morning i was just living life as usual and now i have applied for one of my dream (seasonal) jobs and have mountain goats tickets so like. :))

#GOOD DAY!!!!!!! #work was also really fun - had some great conversations with my coworkers and got a lot of things in order #expect to accomplish a LOT tomorrow too! #and lots of social engagements #when will schoolwork get done? unclear. #but it WILL get done #and all will be well #pleased with myself for being SUCH a freak that i managed to apply before the job was advertised ANYWHERE #i caught it just a few hours after it was posted #i wanted to catch it almost immediately #but it’s probably best that i didn’t… i think it all worked out for the best #and VERY pleased about tmg tickets :)) #nice of them to wait until i’ll be JUST recovered enough to go to come within reasonable driving distance #BUT before i start this new job (IF i get it) which would make me unavailable on weekends #perfect timing!! #anyway - all i need now is an interview date for this job and i’m SET #i’m still a little nervous but RELIEVED nervous instead of dread #which is MUCH preferred

[toribookworm22]

Guys...

It's my birthday! ♥️

#bookworm updates #so far ive had a really great birthday weekend #and now im gonna stay in and relax today #im gonna watch some musicals #and eat leftovers #and pretty much just do whatever i want #cause its my day 🙃 #bookworming

[nerdierholler]

Hi.

Still bopping around just the brain got overwhelmed and needed less stimulation for a while so it’s been a lot of alone time with easy books and clearing off the dvr (do people still call it that?). Slowly I’m starting to feel closer to normal again though and I hope to be back here more soon.

#i’m fine #just needed to conserve brain power and social battery #they’re feeling closer to being topped of though #a lot I built a robot this weekend at work #a little basic ROV to go flying through the water #love making these and we had a really cool design that worked great #so glad someone else in the community is picking up the project #it just wasn’t going to be me or my work this time around #life at nerdy holler