i’m so ready for tsats but what i’m not ready for is looking through the tag to see [redacted] shippers criticizing & demonizing every little nico and will interaction in the book 😪
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if anyone's wondering what ive been up to recently while away from tumblr it's mostly just involved me getting really obsessed with todd rundgren and 10cc 👍
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Regarding that post you re logged some people don't understand that "this breed has known health issues we should watch out for" doesn't necessarily mean "this breed is inherently unhealthy" huh
Many deeply purebred dog folks are unwilling to acknowledge that with closed gene pools you run the risk of breed specific genetically linked health issues. To them, bad health is a “fluke” and they carry on, regardless of the health testing they do or the fact that their individual dogs may not have said health issue (not to say it isn’t lurking in their genetics). They are often under the impression that because they health test their dogs at a higher percentage than non purebred dogs often are that their dogs are healthier and anything said otherwise is heresy.
This is not to say that health testing isn’t important, it is crucially very very important and one of the major pillars of responsible breeding to me. But you can’t say “there isn’t a problem” because the breed isn’t known for a new issue that’s now popping up. Genes in a closed gene pool are like clothes in a washing machine. It’s gonna be the same stuff unless you open the door and add more, and if it’s only the same stuff you run to risk that your colors might bleed together unexpectedly (genes crossing unexpectedly and creating a new genetic health issue).
When I searched for a breeder when looking for dogs in my adulthood my decision was hugely defined by loosing my golden retriever, Lilly, several years prior much earlier than she should have gone (to cancer like many goldens do). The Golden Retriever folks however are pretty open about their genetic health issues and take these things pretty seriously, but the experience was still incredibly traumatic and scarring for me. Now imagine an unforeseen health problem pops up in your young to middle aged dog and they drop dead and then you find out it’s because breeders have sweeping this health issue under the rug because “it just happens” when it was preventable. This happens. Often (not with my golden per say bc goldens and cancer but you get the idea. People are traumatized by the nonchalant way many dog breeders treat these “random” health problems).
And it’s like in Malamute world I understand wholly that my breeder’s dogs aren’t necessarily perfect examples of the breed or whatever but I needed a breeder that took health seriously after what I’d been through. I needed a breeder that thinks any dog going before the age of 12 is too early. I needed a breeder that has dogs running in harness fully healthy in their double digits. I needed a breeder that fucking cared bc loosing a dog to health complications is traumatic.
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“I can’t help but think about how traumatic the end must be for Izzy” “Having your toe cut off must be so traumatic” “Izzy’s poor toe”
My brother in christ he nutted in his pants. He’ll be fine.
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Time for me to frantically clean my house like I’m going away for a week instead of a singular day
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i get so eye-rolly when i see people saying the Ratgrinders/Kipperlilly are 'playing by their own rules' or whatever
they're XP leveling. that literally IS the rules, especially in old-school style tabletop gaming. its milestone thats more modern/homebrew/house rules. XP leveling IS standard and the reason I hate it is because it encourages antagonism-as-problem-solving and favors low-level grinding against enemies you're confidant you can beat over exploration/growth/risk-taking
why are they XP leveling while the Bad Kids are milestone leveling? we don't know yet! until we found out I prefer to imagine these kids are trapped in a reality where XP leveling is their only option, and feeling bitter about it, and that makes me feel fondness for the fact that they went the soul-sucking route instead of the murdering-every-weak-civillian-for-fun route
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