#rabbit advice

[bblinkoo]

okay, so i have an almost 4 month old rabbit and i feel like i cant make any progress with bonding with her. originally she was in a very small play pen but i did my research and she now free roams my bedroom except for when im at school (im in college) and im never out all day. when im not home i keep her in her (much bigger now!) playpen with plenty of hay, water, pellets, chew toys and her bed. i try to cuddle with her when shes roaming and she wont have it. sometimes she'll be affectionate with me but then sometimes she'll become aggressive and bite and lunge at me for no reason. shes also extremely aggressive if i reach into her playpen for literally anything!! ive also tried to litter train her, i have the bumbox and am constantly cleaning up her poop and pee to try and get her to understand she needs to go in there instead, and her hay is right above her litterbox in a large hay bag. (i cant leave her hay in the litterbox because she's a digger.) in the couple months that i've had her i haven't been able to groom her or cut her nails at all because she wont let me and attacks me if i try. shes not quite old enough yet to be fixed, so im not sure what i can do about any of this behavior until i can get her spayed. i really love my bun and am not sure how i can bond with her more than this! any constructive!! criticism would be greatly appreciated, i want my bunny to love me :,(

#bunny #rabbit #rabbit care #pet bunny #pet rabbit #small pets #bunny care #rabbit advice #pet advice

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

I keep trying to draw the daycare attendant. And no matter how hard I try I don't like how I draw them Q3Q have any advice?

i dont actually like how i draw them most of the time, a lot of my art makes me frustrated but im also lazy enough that i tend to say "does it get across the idea of what im trying to convey? yes? ok good enough" and then yeet it at all and hope for the best

my best tips would be to relax and worry less about what it'll look like at the end, AND to have fun with their anatomy. they got goofy silly noodle arms and legs that are way longer than their proportions call for, and its fun to just make em into silly lil dudes with bendy straws for arms n legs. also! give em big goofy eyes! its fun! its silly! and it leaves a lot of opportunity for expressiveness!

this is all advice based on how i draw tho so take it all with a pinch of salt hsdfkjshdfksj do what makes you HAPPY worrying too much about the outcome ruins the fun of drawing!!

#asks #anonymous asks #art advice #rabbit advice #bones of a rabbit #advice with rabbit #im not good at helping im so sorry shfdjsfj

[thatsbelievable]

#How to Tell if the Rabbit is Guilty #tips #tricks #life hacks #helpful hints #advice #rabbit #rabbits #bunny #bunnies #The Rabbit Code

[sincerityisscarity]

What do you mean you don’t like bunny wabbet?

My art! Gearing up for Ostara

#art #digital art #bunny #rabbit #ostara #new artist #artist #bunny art #sketch #advice welcome

[jstor]

After yesterday's post, we fell into a chapbook rabbit hole! Here's one of the gems we uncovered (and yes, we realize we're mixing metaphors).

This dream book from 1859 includes interpretations such as, "To dream you see a ghost, is very unfortunate: if it is of a comely aspect, and dressed in white, it shews deceit and temptation to sin; if you are in love, it is a sign of your not being beloved in turn, and that you are in the habits of friendship with one who is your most inveterate enemy."

Needless to say this isn't one of JSTOR's peer-reviewed publications. It comes from McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection on JSTOR, which features nearly 1,000 chapbooks published in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the US in the 18th and 19th centuries. And yes, they're all free to read and download!

#dream interpretation #dreams #dreaming #dream book #shady advice #chapbooks #rabbit hole #research #jstor

[gringadano]

#alice in wonderland #alicia en el pais de las maravillas #disney #rabbit #white rabbit #cartoon #love #life #self love #lifestyle #lovers #live #real life #books #advice #animal lover #family #film #funny #fashion #food #money #drink me #chesire cat #crazy #girlblogging #blond girl #magical girl #girlcore #cute girl

[kathybluecaller]

#twrp #twrp band #lord phobos #just a little something he said earlier on stream #took sung’s advice of looking at nasa space photos. found a new rabbit hole to fall into

[ferretrix]

casting a magic spell on my followers to make them witness my descent in a diary comics blog

#this is a joke. i am not going to become a diary blog. only sometimes. #this is about testament <- was rewriting it for like the fifth time after going down a screenwriting advice rabbit hole on yt #talking big game for a project ive posted ljke four whole pieces about since its conception #. #in my defense its like a kaiju battle behind the scenes of 'i haveGOT to make a webcomic or I'll DIE.' and 'you need to START OVER! NOW!' #battle of epic and diametrically opposed proportions that has a net change of like three unexplained illustrations and one vague lore page #anyways im going to fix this by renaming every single character to oblivion and rendering everything else a placeholder title 🎉🎉 #sorry thank you to everyone who commissioned me for distracting me from fully imploding into this

[bettsfic]

Betts,

Would you be comfortable in showing us what your messy first drafts look like? Not for a whole story but maybe an excerpt and noting how it changed in revisions. I’ve been looking for first drafts by writers and either found they look almost identical to finish printed version or I can’t find them at all.

i can show you what a messy first draft looks like but i don't think it'll be very illuminating. for me, the down draft is mostly about developmental work. i'll write ten scenes and the final draft will be chunks from six of them. so on a small scale it looks like i don't do much editing, but big picture i write over twice as much as i end up keeping, and what i keep has usually been completely rewritten. so if i do a side by side comparison of a scene, what you're not seeing is the stuff that didn't make the cut, or all the ways i wrote in the wrong direction for a long time, or the hours of research i had to do for a single detail (an example of which you'll see below).

i wrote an issue of my newsletter about my drafting process, so that might be more helpful. i also answered an ask recently about ways to develop a scene if you're stuck.

unfortunately i don't have the brainwidth to do all the research here, but the new yorker published an early draft of raymond carver's "what we talk about when we talk about love" which as originally called "beginners," and somewhere there's a detailed comparison of the two and the changes his editor, gordon lish, made.

but! you asked to see a draft comparison. so here's a draft comparison.

so this got a little crazy and i ended up making a gdoc for scene 2 so you could see them together. see link at the bottom. conclusion: comparing drafts is very hard and i don't think this probably helps at all but i tried.

"final" draft

these are the first two scenes of a short story i wrote called The Group W Bench. we begin in 1970 and then move into present day-ish. i've bolded the small things that were actually big things, and i'll explain why they were big things at the end.

"final" is in quotes because there is a different final draft of this story that goes in a completely different book.

scene 1: past

They didn’t hand out 4-Fs in St. Louis. Supposedly it was the worst draft office in the country. I didn’t know anyone who’d gotten out of it, but in my hometown they didn’t seem to want to. Most everyone was proud and eager to get shipped off.

My number was 66 and it’d been pulled just after I turned nineteen. On the bus to the induction center, I tried to come up with a plan. My only options seemed to be mutilating myself or flat-out running. I was too much of a coward for the former and I couldn’t wrap my head around the latter. There were only a dozen of us on the bus and I had my whole seat to myself. Out the window, cornfields blurred past; it was August and the stalks were head-high. I tried to imagine myself out in the jungle holding an M16, but I couldn’t. I’d graduated high school with a C-average, only kissed one girl one time, was raised by parents who’d had no parents of their own. My mother grew up in an orphanage. My father rode the rails. They fucked up my brother Tommy, did a little better with Wyatt, but by the time I came along, they’d given up. Sometimes I felt feral, raised by wolves.

Across the aisle, a guy was playing the harmonica. He had shaggy black hair and stubble around his jaw, big nose bent at the bridge. He caught me staring at him and I looked away quickly. He crossed the aisle and sat beside me. 

“You look like you don’t want to be here,” he said.

He didn’t sound like he was from Missouri. He sounded like an actor on TV, all hard Rs and round vowels. I didn’t respond to him. For all I knew he was a plant, some kind of spy trained to sniff out potential defectors.

He ran his thumb over the shiny surface of the harmonica. The movement reflected the sun into my eyes. “Buddy of mine got his arm blown off.”

“My brother died,” I told him. I’d been the one to answer the door that day. I was only sixteen and the boy who delivered the telegram couldn’t have been much older. He handed it over, touched the brim of his hat, and said, “I’m sorry for your loss.”

There were no remains. Nothing to bury. Just a bit of yellow cardstock telling me Tommy was dead.

“Sorry to hear that, man.” He held out his hand. “Jack Ward.”

I shook it. “Birdie Mills.”

Jack smiled, a deep dimple carved into each cheek. “Hell of a name, Birdie Mills. Where you from?”

“Here. Couple hours north.”

“California. Riverside.”

“What’re you doing here?”

“Just got out of film school. Can’t get student deferment anymore. So I started bouncing around, you know, changing my address. They finally pinned me down.”

I hadn’t thought of that, transferring draft centers, delaying as long as possible hoping the war would finally end. It was a relief to meet someone as reluctant to go as I was. I felt crazy sometimes, surrounded by men who wanted nothing more than to die for their country. I couldn’t imagine loving anything so much I’d be willing to give my life for it.

“You have a plan?” I asked.

“Nope.” We turned into the induction center lot. “I’m gonna wing it.”

early draft

according to my document, i wrote this on november 8, 2022, so almost exactly a year ago. at that time, this was one chapter of a novel that had alternating POVs in third person. i had about 90k of this novel written. which turned into a short story. which turned into a different novel.

scene 1

Birdie’s number was 257 and it was pulled shortly after he turned nineteen. His draft office was in St. Louis, notoriously one of the worst in the country. There were no 4-Fs in St. Louis. He didn’t know a single man who’d gotten out of it, but then again, they didn’t want to. Most everyone in his town was eager and proud to get shipped off. 

On the bus to the induction center, he tried to come up with a plan, but nothing came to him. Out the window, cornfields blurred past; it was August and the stalks were head-high. He tried to imagine himself out in the jungle holding an M16, but he was just a coward from Missouri who graduated high school with a C-average, who had only kissed one girl one time, who was raised by parents who’d had no parents of their own. His mother grew up in an orphanage. His father rode the rails. They fucked up Tommy, did a little better with Wyatt, but by the time Birdie came along, they’d given up. Sometimes he felt feral, raised by wolves.

Across the aisle, a guy was playing the harmonica. Birdie couldn’t pull his eyes away from him. He had shaggy black hair and stubble around his jaw, big nose bent at the bridge. He caught Birdie staring at him and kept his gaze, some recognition in his eyes, and a moment later he was slotting the harmonica into his jacket pocket and coming to sit next to Birdie.

“You look like you don’t want to be here,” the guy said.

Birdie didn’t say anything. For all he knew, the man could be some kind of spy trying to sniff out defectors. 

“Buddy of mine got his arm shot off.”

“My brother died,” Birdie admitted.

“Sorry to hear that, man.” He held out his hand. “Jack Ward.”

Birdie shook it. “Birdie Mills.”

Jack smiled, a deep dimple carved into each cheek. “Quite a name, Birdie Mills. Where you from?”

“Here,” Birdie said. “Couple hours north.”

“California. Riverside,” Jack offered. 

“What are you doing here?”

“Just got out of film school. Can’t get student deferment anymore. So I started bouncing around, you know, changing my address. They finally pinned me down.”

Birdie hadn’t thought of that, transferring draft centers, delaying as long as possible hoping the war would finally end. It was a relief to meet someone as reluctant to go as he was. He felt crazy sometimes, surrounded by men who wanted nothing more than to die for their country. 

“You have a plan?” Birdie asked.

“Nope,” Jack said, pulling his harmonica back out. They were turning into the induction center lot. “I’m gonna wing it.”

changes and why i made them

lotto number 257 was pulled in 1970 but only numbers under 125 were drafted. it took an entire afternoon to figure out how the selective service lotto even worked.

turning this into a short story, the sentence "They didn’t hand out 4-Fs in St. Louis" was a stronger opening.

as a chapter in a book, at this point the reader is familiar with birdie and knows him only as a scoundrel-type character seen from the perspective of his son who despises him, and his daughter who reveres him. so in the old version, it was satisfying (or intended to be) to get to his POV and see him from his own perspective. as a short story, i tried to organize the opening in such a way that you get grounded pretty quickly and see birdie as a scared kid before you get to the scoundrel days (see below).

the brief "my brother died" flashback was the first part i wrote in his POV, and that was back when the structure of the narrative was a series of short, titled vignettes. so on one hand i was glad i got to keep it but sad i had to shoehorn it into a different scene instead of allowing it to open the piece.

the novel was written in third person but when i tackled it as a short story i decided to change it to first person because i like first person better, and birdie is a very fun narrator.

the "I couldn't imagine..." sentence was added in the short story version because in the present timeline, birdie's about to get shot to save his daughter while they're robbing a bank together. so in one sentence, i managed to condense an arc that before took a VERY long time to establish.

this got kind of out of hand. i tried to do the same thing with scene 2 but it was hard in the text window so i did it side by side in a google document. if you want, you can add comments asking why i did certain things and i'll answer you there. i'm sure i missed stuff.

sorry if this isn't helpful!

#writing advice #bk #rabbit's blood #revision

[werebutch]

I feel like rabbits aren’t really a common pet and it’s even less common to actually treat them properly 😐 so I don’t post about their care that often but obviously when trying out a new food for pets in general do it gradually and if you’re getting it from outside make sure nothing is coming from near a road or lawns with pesticides etc etc. especially make sure you’re familiar with lookalikes in your area and are comfortable with identification etc.. it is so fun to forage zzzz (<- lynx wanted to speak??) for my rabbits though I will say dat

#rabbits are the best pets ever but they’re also pets that take up your entire space and time and money. lol #so. yes. think of them more like a dog than a rodent. LOOOOL #idk people are always asking my advice on Instagram so sometimes… I put here..

[achillidiot]

Hey!!

Idk if there is a section of tumblr for rabbit owners but if there is i hope this reaches the right people/group!

My uncle has rabbits (breeds them, i dont nessesarly condone it but theres really nothing i can do about it right at this moment, except for giving them the best life that i can), and since he has a lot of horrible cronic pain + a lack of oxygen, me and my grandma take care of them most of the time.

But the thing is, my grandma is getting a really big surgery soon, on her ankle. She had one last year, but the componets didnt heal with her legs, and they need to try again, along with fixing some osteoperosis on her knee of the same side.

Since she won't be able to do as much, i'm really wanting to step up and help, but by then i'll have to get ready for finals, as well as preparing for next year (planning to do some big things).

Can ya'll give me advice on how to juggle caring for these rabbits, and my other life activities?

Sorry if this sounds a bit stupid, but i could really use the help.

Thank you so much!

#also please dont discuss the family problems mentioned in the post more unless nessesary. Im trying not to give a lot of personal info away #rabbits #rabbit tumblr #rabbit community #rabbit #please reach the right audience #please #advice #rabbit care #outdoor rabbits #pet care advice #pet care

[cosmic-crow444]

Meet Flops, the latest addition to my family. Now we five nonhuman children; amongst them a dog, a cat, and two turtles. Now a senior bunbun who needed to be rehomed due to unfortunate circumstances surrounding her owner.🐰

He's such a cuddle bug and gave me kisses. I have a room I want to be his room- my study. Which will hopefully be ready soon. Then he would he would have a nice large area to hop. But it depends on when living situations change. 🍀

Regardless, I will be as attentive to this rabbit, his old owner deserves that much as they are a wonderful person. Plus, of course, I love all animals and plants 🤍

Peace be with you 💜

#senior bunny #senior animal #adopt senior animals #bunny #bunbun #rabbit #rabbitblr #feel free to give advice #petblr #bunblr #flops

[thatsbelievable]

#What to do if You Happen Across a Bunch of Rabbits Poking Pumpkins With a Stick #tips #tricks #life hacks #helpful hints #advice #Halloween #rabbits #bunnies #rabbit #bunny #pumpkin #pumpkins #jack-o’-lantern #jack o lantern

[bellamygate]

does anyone else ever get overwhelmed with the amount of information in the world and obsessed with optimising literally every aspect of your life

#can't do something as simple as go on pinterest bc i fall down rabbit holes of advice & tips

[haunted-medievalist]

in news from grad life, my supervisor asked me about phd plans today and upon hearing i want to take a few years to do various non-academic things before i start one, immediately produced an application form for a scholarship to study abroad in iceland for a year? like this was not remotely on the radar of what i was planning for next year but tbf i hadn't actually planned that much, and i was initially looking at a master's programme in iceland before i settled on the one i've actually ended up on, so... why not! could be living in iceland this time next year! sometimes niche, half-buried teenage dreams do come true!

#it is a scholarship to study the first year of the BA in icelandic as a second language #and i think after that year you can choose whether to reapply for the scholarship and keep going with the rest of the degree or not #i have other vague post-masters ideas such as enrolling in a 6ish month long creative writing course i've had an eye on for a while #but that is online and could theoretically be done alongside a uni course in icelandic #if anyone following me for whatever reason knows anything about being an international student in iceland i am eager for advice #spending my evening hyping myself up and going down study abroad research rabbit holes #15 y.o. magnus studying a beat-up second-hand icelandic grammar book on their school lunch breaks is thriving rn #oh i am also taking very *very* beginner's icelandic classes at uni alongside my master's this year but it's not certified/accredited #i don't even think the teacher is qualified i'm p sure they just enlisted the first icelandic man they found who happened to be in the city #rambles

[jay-avian]

ADHD Tip: Rabbit Thoughts

This is a term I coined myself back when I was tutoring this little kid. He seemed to have the same problem I had in regards to not being able to focus. We both had random thoughts "jump around" when working, so I tried to devise a way to help with this.

I read somewhere that writing things down helps you to get them out of your head. There is also a phrase that my family and I tend to use dealing with rogue thoughts: "Take every thought captive", meaning to take it and reason with it, not let it get the better of you (also helpful for intrusive thoughts). But this made me think of the concept of catching rabbits and putting them in a pen. It's a kid-friendly explanation and just a fun one too!

TL;DR: write down rogue thoughts as they come. Can categorize for later: random things, to-do tasks, urgent must-do right now

Let's say you're in an intensive work session, either studying, writing, working on a project, etc. You want to grind without losing that motivation or hyperfixation energy.

Quick and easy solution: Thought Dump. Just dump everything onto one sheet of paper. This is typically what I will do. It makes things a bit harder to look back through, in case you wrote down things you need to do later. But this is just meant to be a solution to get everything out of your head so you can focus on the task at hand. (This is also good for emptying your head before bed)

Categories:

Rabbits - A really quick to-do list. These can be things you can do during breaks or things you need to do in general that day or week. It may help to add a check box next to these so you remember to actually do these things.

Bunnies - Your average random thought. They can be anything from ideas to save for later, things you want to look up, or random repeating phrases or words. Anything that doesn't have to be dealt with right away or even later that day.

Hares - Things that must be dealt with right away or else you can't focus. These don't necessarily have to be written down at all. These can be things like getting food or water, going to the bathroom, or something urgent you forgot about that needs to be taken care of.

Now go forth and get some work done!

Note: some things may not be as urgent as you think. Your anxiety may make it seem super important when it can wait even a minute more, like calling someone back, starting to make food for dinner, etc. Remember, don't panic. Again, take every thought captive. Sit with it for a minute, breathe, and try to process it with logic and a level head. You got this!

#adhd advice #adhd #focus tips #adhd focus #rabbit thoughts