#love at first bark

[sandythereadingcafe]

REVIEW

LOVE AT FIRST BARK by Michelle Major at The Reading Cafe:

' a wonderful story, revolving around family, animals and love'

#books #reviews #Love at First Bark #Michelle Major #The Reading Cafe #Harlequin Books

[thereadingcafe]

#MIchelle Major #Love at First Bark #Crimson Colorado #Romance #Animals #Contemporary #Review

[dandelion-roots]

[ID: a digital comic in two panels featuring bungou stray dogs characters. the first shows atsushi banging open a door and shouting, dazai-san! are you oka- the second shows a shot from the anime where chuuya is holding dazai against a wall by his neck. the text reads, homoerotic atmosphere, and four squares with text point out whats happening. they read, casual hand in pocket, chokehold, knife, and lastly um... followed by two sweat drops pointing at chuuya's knee between dazai's legs. a tiny panel in the corner shows atsushi covering his eyes with his tiger paws and blushing as he says, i'm sorry... end ID]

come here. crack open the canon with me for a minute. consider. what if atsushi hadn't listened to everyone telling him dazai would be fine and left to save him only to witness whatever the fuck was going on in that cellar. consider the bit.

#soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #skk #skk fanart #atsushi nakajima #nakahara chuuya #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #bsd chuuya #bsd atsushi #im a liar it wasnt just for the bit i wanted to study that absolutely WACK perspective shot #and the colours!! its like a sauna in that cellar everything's sooo red #the next shot would be chuuya barking at atsushi abt why hes blushing #also yes ik atsushi wouldnt be able to transform only parts of him like that at that juncture but i love baby tiger paws #if were cracking the canon open anyway why not #also learned FINALLY how to make borders around brushes #first gradients now this bsd is rly opening new horizons for me

[suiheisen]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

#this is now my FAVOURITE game i've watched in real life knocking the game misconduct one off the number one rank #he was so annoyed the entire game and so annoying about it :') #he kept shrieking away on the bench and i couldn't hear a word from where i was seated #but you could just hear this constant yipping away dhfsgfkjshgfsjf PLEASE it was so funny your 36-year-old babygirl was BARKING #drew kept sitting there like... is mom okay... i don't think mom's okay... #also extremely good for me (since he wasn't really hurt) was the whumpfest of it all oh my god what ancient gods did he anger......... #geno kept Hovering in concern #po kept giving him little shoulder pats the way a sweet brave babyboy would try his best to soothe a rabid little dog #ek of course kept trying to slide right inside him and also kept skating up to him and STARING him in the face in concern/lust/both #also guys this is my first time in canada ever!!!!!!!! i'm excited #anyway. very good game for me sorry for this post but you know i love a #long post #sidney crosby #evgeni malkin #pittsburgh penguins #also!!! to all who celebrate #ramadan kareem/eid mubarak #<333 staying with a friend here through the eid celebration and they've been cooking and everything smells so good

[beaulesbian]

im just noticing some similarities

#something something all bark no bite bc they love luffy so much already #zolawlu #lawlu #zolu #zolaw #bc of reasons #mine #one piece #gif:op manga #i just need more for this ridiculous ot3. the 2 swordsmen who would do anything for luffy #2 captains and the first mate/ protector #the chaotic zolu duo and one fondly annoyed guy who gave up on trying to explain logic to them #the three very aro and/or ace coded characters- im taking them and putting them all in a qpr polyship #so they can cuddle and fight and have some good reassuring hugs. but also the devotion ! the fate etc etc good night im tired #rlly bad and weird day here so im just thinking about these instead..

[yyyaammmmmm]

theyre both trans bc i say so!

alsp an assortment of sketches from this cutsey footsie little au of mine where basically its XXX years into the future (omg! reincarnation! so unique!) but obvi Vash is still og vash bc plant core. he opened up a little plant shop bc once Earth and No Mans land started trade, plants and vegetation became so much more common. and then Mr Woldwood is a mechanic! he mostly does bike mods (angelina core) but he often is js doing little repairs around ye old hopeland!

and then they meet and kiss a lot and wolfwood has an incurable heart disease and he dies and vash agonizes over losing wolfwood so young again :3!

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun #nah bc ive lwk had ideas like this bouncing around my head #ever since i saw nightows baseball modern au #d in nicholas d wolfwood stands for doomed by the narrative fr 🗣️🗣️ #also literally so sorry for my horrendous renditions of vashwood #i swear i cant draw either of them for the life of me 😭💔 #its ok whatever for the vashwood grind #i love them. #also first like. actual post idk how else to say it. first AU post actually #guys! #mechanicau #🗣️ BARK

[skitskatdacat63]

2010 Bahrain Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

#aaaaaahhhh what a good podium!! he looks so good bark bark bark #i love how theres like 2 immensely iconic pictures from this gp #its still so cool that he won his first race with ferrari!! #tho its a shame bcs its mostly due to seb's technical issues :( #not saying i dont think fernando shouldve won but rather that i was excited for a potential vettonso podium sigh #i already made a post w my thoughts abt it ^ but man i rly loved how 3/4 of this race was vettonso playing cat and mouse #and all the discussion post finish were abt comparing thier performances #twas a very exciting moment for me as you prob know ;;;; so its a shame that after all that they didnt end up on the podium together #OH MY SPEAKING OF THAT. it was so hilarious bcs they cut from nando celebrating in the car to seb's car on the side of the road SOBBBBBB #ah at least we got a little webbonso moment. that moment in my race notes literally says 'webbonso???' cause mark came from nowhere #anyways that gif where hes spraying champagne(rose water ig) at the camera makes me FERALLLLL AAKUHDKJAK #ngl even tho its not champagne it sounded pretty tasty. sparkling water/rose water/pomegranate juice i think? #f1 #formula 1 #fernando alonso #we do a little bit of f1 #fa14 #2010 bahrain gp #<- feels rly cool to write 2010 finally

[sirazaroff]

How do you think velvet is handleing everything in vacco right now

She’s having a great time 🥰

#fooze #rwby #rwby fanart #velvet scarlatina #rwby velvet #coco adel #rwby coco #rwby crosshares #beacon roads take me home~ #she’s been upset to be in vacuo day one at this point cinder can turn the whole place to glass for all she cares #in all seriousness I’m sure she’s managing. busy ripping open colossal grimm worms to rescue coco #gotta keep her leader on her toes and reminder which piece of ass is actually worth barking over (hers) #I like to think the first thing vel does when team rwby and friends show up is look for the lil rose and give her a huge hug #there was a point she though Ruby was low key dead and that was so sad to read #time for hugs and kisses and gay reunions #more important than protecting sand rn #I forgot her arm tat. love that for me

[rainboweemart]

Monsters was so good!! 👏👏

#First art of the year woo 🙌 ( & yes I ship them 🫠) #hah this brings back the ache of not having enough walkthrough to Zoro’s family in the Animanga… #Ryuma is such a legendary character wish I knew more of him before Thriller bark and Wano 🥲💘 #I absolutely love how Ryuma’s personality is basically a mix of Luffy’s and Zoro’s 😭😂 #One piece #monsters 103 mercies dragon damnation #shimotsuki ryuma #roronoa zoro #One piece monsters #ryuma x flare #flare #wanted! #ryuma #one piece fan art #my art

[ghouljams]

Hmmm this has been rattling in my head for a little bit. Irl I’m very particular about who can call me what version of my name or nick name, so could we maybe get some feral Ghost and/or König who lose their shit when some other person refers to their darling as Love or Liebling? Cause essentially I feel like both of them have used those new names so much that they’re pretty much ingrained into their Darlings and have the potential for magic even by non magical folk? Akin to True Name vibes? I’m not sure. Here’s my idea, go wild!!

OOOOH I have been wanting to talk about their nicknames for a while, yes yes yes. I will do some fic(one for both Darling's names) and some authors notes under a read more because I have MANY thoughts.

You don't think you've ever seen König this mad. He is dripping with it, seething under his hood in a way you think you could see even if he wasn't holding a man by his neck.

König's fingers dig into the expose brick of the shop, fastening the man where he's held, threatening to give his neck the same treatment. Everything about him is unnaturally angled and sharp, positively vibrating malice. You've never been scared of him before --not properly at least-- but you're starting to think maybe you should be. The fae man he's caught certainly looks scared.

"Das ist nichts für dich, du sprichst diesen Namen nicht," You don't think König is speaking to him, he's talking to the shop. He says it loud enough for the rest of the patrons, magical and otherwise, to hear. It's strange, you don't recognize his voice. You know it's König, you can see him, but his voice is commanding, speaking word to law in a way that seems to write it in the very air you're breathing.

You didn't think it was so offensive when the guy called you Liebling, König calls you that all the time. It's as close to a name as any of the fae in your store have heard for you, of course they'd use it to try and be polite. Although, now that you think about it, this is the first time one of them has tried it.

The fae pinned to your wall is starting to look more insectoid than human. Eyes bulging and fingers long and awkwardly jointed as it claws at König's grip.

"You can't kill anyone in the store," You say, because you don't know what else to say. When König's turns his furious gaze on you, you know why. He is an unstoppable force of nature, and you are an ant he's taken a liking to.

-

"Did you hear me, Love?" You shudder, feeling your bones click together unpleasantly. You like the shop woman well enough, but that is really annoying.

"Find something else to call me." You tell her over your tea, unsure how to vocalize the wrongness that hearing her call you that inspires. She tips her head one way then another.

"But that's what Si-" You can feel yourself grit your teeth against the growl that wells in your throat. You cut her off quickly before your teeth start itching too badly and you end up biting someone.

"You don't get to call him that," She flinches back away from your tone, you can feel her overgrown pet staring at you. You recenter yourself, feeling the pleasant warmth of Simon's tethers as you calm your bite response. "Ghost," You tell her, "you call him Ghost."

"Names, right." She sighs, dragging a hand down her face, "We really need to write a guide or something."

"How to attract the obsession of your ideal man so he can never leave you." You agree, sipping your tea. You're thoroughly satisfied that you've avoided whatever crisis your bones were shuddering against.

"Babe, there is something deeply wrong with you."

Alright Author notes: Whew, I have so much to say on Names and the Darling's names. I will try to not be too rambly but also I doubt anyone is actually going to read this note lol

Love and Ghost's story is about change: as Ghost becomes more human for Love, she becomes more fae for him. I think Love absolutely becomes a part of her "true" name, and she becomes very protective of it. That's a name that Ghost has given her so she's protective of that aspect for sure, but it also becomes her. Also in a very meta-textual narrative sense she is Love. She's the embodiment of the actual emotion for Ghost. In the context of the story she's very much made for him, the universe's way of balancing him out as he's lost his connection to humanity. She's also sort of our portal into the fae au, if that makes sense, so she's the embodiment of love in that sense as well.

Love and Ghost are two people that sort of don't have a choice in loving each other. They're truly soulmates. Even with all the brain-be-gone and magical fuckery that Ghost puts Love through, she is very willing and very much finding her own ways to trap him. They're two deeply broken people that are making their way towards being whole together. Although I feel like I haven't done a good job of showing that just due to the nature of the moments in their relationship I've been showing.

This is also like, I don't want to say a spoiler but sort of, Ghost has not always been a Fae! I think his mother was fae, or had the blood at least, but Ghost was stolen and "created" in the fae wild from a semi-human child. I think this is the major debt Price holds on him: rescuing him from whatever held him in the fae wild long enough to create what Ghost became. This is also why Ghost has never created tethers, and why he's sort of overdoing it with Love. She's his first(and last) love.

Anyway on to Liebling and König: Liebling's nickname is König's Name for her. It is his. It's a part of him and his tether to her. Unlike Love, Liebling doesn't really recognize his pet name as her name so it doesn't have the same true name power over her. It does however have that sort of power for König. If he says that name and tugs on a tether it does the same thing as Love speaking Simon's full name. BUT this also means König is VERY protective of the name. It's like someone else calling her their wife, no, that's his wife.

It helps that this is the only name König has for her, and it does have an effect on her. I think Liebling very quickly really likes the pet names. They make her feel held, they make the tethers happy, they're her connection to König, and as much as she complains about the horrible nuisance he is she really does grow to love him so much. I actually think the first and last time that they say/learn each others true names are when they get fae married. But they don't really need them, they have names for each other and those feel more true than any other could.

#fae!ghost #fae!konig #fae au #Liebling and König are so cute together because they're building things together #Love and Ghost are like seeing the absolute worst of someone on the first date and deciding you're going to marry them #like Ghost did stalk her to try and make himself her perfect man #but Love got used to the brain-be-gone magic really fast and was flattered he was putting this much effort into her #anyway those are my name thoughts i hope you like them #hey also y'all are so thirsty for price and soap I see u in my ask box #bark for me

[shadowinthetreesbutcooler]

red team are FULLY going feral im so here for it, cellbit vouching for cannibalism and getting excited, baghera wanting to build a dirt shack and everyone wanting to crawl into a cave and chase people through the woods

#qsmp #qsmp liveblogging #end of the event the other two teams are gonna have interpersonal conflicts to worry about #meanwhile red are having trouble being reintroduced to their own society because they went completely rabid #if they do get all the eggs back chayanne and tallulah watching their dad burrow even further into the wall and snarl and hiss at people as #they approach #missa's avoiding own home at first not just for fear of being a burden on his husband and family now but bc he hasnt had his rabies shot #cellbit gets EVEN WORSE somehow and roier dives down the rabbit hole with him not because purgatory made him feral but bc it made him #bloodthirsty and he loves his husband ESPECIALLY at his worst #leo gets back and doesnt notice a change at first bc her dad always barks at ppl and wants to hunt bbh for sport but the eating ppl is new. #if pomme finds out her mother nearly gave up on saving her shes distraught until she sees the state of baghera #living in a dirt shack and eating human flesh #charlie gets back to eggxile with a new craving for human flesh and a new distrust for codeflippa bc hes said it out loud now and knows in #his heart its not her but how can he let go when he has nothing but her and the other cannibal freaks he trauma bonded with in purgatory #jaiden would be more upset about cellbit killing fed workers but by the end of the 2 weeks she gets him a little now. shed never turn on th #federation ofc but she gets it a little bit. #and differences aside green and red have all bonded now over a shared murderous rage towards bbh lmao #pac is afraid not only of cellbit but all of red now. too afraid to leave the lab. #you get the jist its 2am im going to bed lmao #(lying) #qsmp spoilers

[breezere]

More venom-kichi please- I beg

🛐🛐🛐🧎🧎🧎

normal miu interactions

#she made fun of shuichi one time and kokichi did not hesitate to pop out and defend him #miu didnt even blink she just immediately started barking back #and theyve been Like This ever since #u know love at first sight? this is frenemies at first sight. fated worsties #ask #breezy answers #shuichi saihara #kokichi ouma #kokichi oma #miu iruma #saiouma #oumasai #i mean by NATURE it is #breeze art #is it possible to third wheel an argument . is there even a term for that #shuichi is too used to this by now #he is logged tf OUT

[sergle]

Now I’m curious, what breeds are on your list?

✨Golden Retrievers✨ Pomeranians Samoyeds Rottweilers Irish red setters German Shepherd (I like the black ones) Rough Collies and Shelties Great Pyrenees Bernese Mountain Dogs Cocker Spaniels St. Bernards Borzois and probably more that I forgot to list!! These are all dogs that I Especially want to cry when I see them, and that I could see myself loving / being able to meet the particular needs of their breed. I've expanded my Range a little in the two years since I brought Hugo home, since he's taught me a lot about dogs, and I could potentially take care of a baby with very different needs from the ones that he had. I'm still by no means a dog expert but. Yanno. You learn small things over time! In the end, when I was searching for a dog a few years ago, I had a few qualifications I didn't want to budge on. I needed a dog that's trainable, but not stubborn, a dog that's gentle and considerate with my cats and my niblings, a dog that's not too reactive, a dog with soft fur, and a dog that is affectionate. So... Hugo is all of those things!!! He picks up skills quickly and listens (I gotta work on his Recall though), he takes extreme care around the cats and is so careful that he can be left alone with kittens and baby chicks, so being sat on / bothered / tugged on by small kids isn't even a challenge. He has never growled at anyone or anything in Irritation in his life. He's never bared his teeth. He doesn't bark at strangers or at odd noises, he doesn't snap as a response to being surprised. He's extremely pillowy soft, and his fur doesn't irritate my skin or pierce my clothes. He is extremely, extremely sweet and loving, frankly to the point that he would easily fall in love with a new owner if he was kidnapped lmao. You can maybe see why I like goldens so much. I got REALLY close to adopting a Pomeranian, which I'll continue to Think About, basically forever... but as someone with a predisposition for migraines, I don't want to set the dog up for failure if I'm not ready to hear bark bark bark bark bark bark bark all day. That's the ONLY downside. Maybe I invest in some noise cancelling headphones? They're beautiful dogs though, I love an animal that looks like a little rat. You ever see one of them after a bath? My god.

#they're comically small. #but YEAH that's the list as well as I can remember it off the top of my head!!! #sorry you asked me about dogs so I'm gonna Talk About Dogs. I have too many paragraphs of thoughts. #sergle.txt #sergle answers #I spent a lot of time looking at the Stats on the AKC website? for dog breeds #which is amazingly helpful actually. to just give a sliding scale on all the general breed traits #I also like mixes and mutts and everything btw. I love a good shelter dog. but. #I wanted to be able to predict what I was in for with this dog. hence Hugo. He's very much breed standard #with a random puppy you don't know exactly what traits they'll be predisposed to have #and again there were some very important things I needed. #but yeah I spent a lot of time looking at Stats and for First Dog.. I wanted to veer away from #the Loud dogs and from the ones that have high exercise needs. like LOTS AND LOTS of activity #Bc I wasn't prepared to deal with too much barking and I wasn't prepared to go on 5 hikes a day. yk. #Idk! it's all fun. there's something pokemon like to me abt dog breeds #it's fun the way that they're all so so different

[pmpknsoup]

hhhhholy god

#ARE YOU GUYS SEEING HER #omfg her muscles #i unironically loved the first movie and i am SO excited for the second one #rwby #yang xiao long #rwby yang #blake belladonna move ASIDE its my turn #barking and running laps i LOVE HER #ill draw her in this outfit soon i pinkie promise

[gildedmuse]

Coworker: I finally caught up!

Me: Ooh, you saw Law use his awakened fruit? Wasn't it awesome?

Coworker: Yeah, one question.

Coworker: Who was that dude in the flashbacks?

Me: ...

Me: No, try again.

Me: You've done it wrong.

#what's the point of rushing so you don't get spoiled only to spoil the plot yourself #I'm sorry whose CORAZON? #just you know #the man who saved Law #the reason he's alive #his WHOLE point in being here in the first place #it's fine you just skipped all the parts about Law's entire characterization and motivation #thats probably not important #He skipped most of Thriller Bark too #But Dressrosa and Thriller Bark are things I love! #its rude to skip them! #dressrosa arc #one piece #trafalgar d. water law #trafalgar law #one piece as as family activity! #*work #donquixote corazon #donquixote rosinante #Why did you think Doffy hated Law!? #so you just skipped the parts that explained DOFFY #arg!

[alinelie]

just him

#ts4 #oc: graham ventura #(or grapcio cause I love this nickname) #bark bark woof woof that's all I can say. #so... #because I discovered body presets I gave him a new one #he is wider. and bigger. and taller #I like it because he has bigger chest and shoulders #but his waist isn't narrow anymore #previous graham looks so small around him #He also got a black rose tattoo instead of his previous ones because I don't like them #and i’m obsessed with his arms. I'm not ashamed to say it. #The love I have for this pixel man is ridiculous #ledger is next on the list to makeover and I have no idea how I'm gonna do it #Once they get makeovers #I'm gonna recreate their first photo #I also thought of their ship's name but I have absolutely no idea #grager? xd definitely not. #ledham? nah. #I spent two days working on graham's makeover and my head is EMPTY. #ts4 simblr #ts4 screenshots #ts4 maxis match #the sims 4 #ts4 cas #simblr #sims 4 maxis match #the sims 4 cas #my sims #simmer