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so my sister's dog is very very wary around new people, barking and circling and hiding behind furniture, and i haven't seen this dog in 3 years since before i transitioned. i.e. i went from futch aunt to bald james flint, so i'm like, ah shit, i'll have to introduce myself to this dog all over again.

so im sitting on the ground very non-threateningly as The Creature is circling with her tail between her legs. and then i remember something the adoption agency told me when i first adopted my blind dog, Loki. they said "talk to him ALL THE TIME!! dogs learn who people are by the way their breath smells! nobody knows that."

so i think. Oh, excellent. and I grab The Creature by the face, pull her toward me, and blow air straight into her nose.

AND IT FUCKING WORKED.

her mouth opened into this big old smile and she immediately started wagging her tail like "oh, it's you! Hi! sorry. something changed, but idk it doesn't matter anymore" and she was an unstoppable cuddle bug aftter that.

anyway psa if you've transitioned and are visiting a dog who you once knew, breathe on their face.

Happy birthday, Kakavasha!

Actually, he's teasing two of them at once 😔

Sketchbook - Moss Kittens 2022

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So back when I was a senior in undergrad, my partner went through, like, the craziest nervous breakdown I'd ever witnessed in my life. And like, maybe it makes me a back girlfriend or whatever but I was kind of like, "I'm gonna mind my own business on this one."

So my partner gets super close to two other students in his program. He was a film student so his senior year was being capped off by him making a movie. He decides he's going to make a movie about him turning into a salmon. He gets crazy into it. He starts eating salmon for every meal. He buys a bunch of salmon-related stuff. We found a T-shirt at Goodwill with a salmon on it and he thought it was divine intervention that he was doing the right thing. He walks into the freezing-cold Puget sound fully clothed several times to "get into it." He watches videos of salmon spawning and is like, "Nothing is more poignant than this." He gets a tattoo of three salmon on his arm.

The entire time the two students he got really close to are fully enabling him. It's a folie á trois sort of situation. They're out until six in the morning doing creepy art school shit and encouraging his (possibly no longer fictional) desire to become a salmon. My partner has an answer for everything. "Salmon get eaten by bears," I say. "That's a cool as fuck way to die," he says blithely. "And Salmon are free of the yoke of capitalism."

And if I dared to say, Hey, this is....getting a little odd..., he would throw a full-scale tantrum. I'm not supporting his dream (I wasn't sure at this point if it was his dream to be a filmmaker or his dream to become a salmon). I'm basically like, okay. Be a salmon! Fuck!

We had been dating for five years at this point and this behavior was such a left turn that I just decided to ignore it. And then after all that he basically went back to normal after graduation. Sometimes he'll be like, "That was weird, huh?" and has nothing more to say on the matter.

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Esta es una máscara de Venado para el Carnaval Carpinteros en el estado de Hidalgo. El carnaval se celebra en Metzquititlán, es una tradición ancestral donde las máscaras de madera tallada son el eje central de la celebración. Originalmente, estas máscaras representaban animales y figuras coloridas. Pero con el tiempo, la estética ha evolucionado hacia trajes completos de bestias, demonios más terroríficos enfocado al mayor impacto visual y expresividad simbólica. Estas máscaras preservan la identidad cultural del pueblo con lo moderno, lo oscuro y lo imaginativo.

This is a deer mask for the Carpinteros Carnival in the state of Hidalgo. Carnival is celebrated in Metzquititlán. It is an ancient tradition where carved wooden masks are the centerpiece of the celebration. Originally, these masks represented animals and colorful figures. But over time, the aesthetic has evolved toward full costumes of beasts and more terrifying demons, focused on greater visual impact and symbolic expression. These masks preserve the cultural identity of the town with modern, dark, and imaginative elements.