run with it

everyone tits out with a parasol is such a beautiful world to imagine that the fact it doesnt currently exist fills me with equal parts fire and misery

Soon though. I can feel it.

Our baby knife as kids was Raptor Tag. Raptors hunt in packs so the person who was "it" had to run around pretending to be a velociraptor and to tag people they had to actually tackle them and "eat" them for 5 full seconds (others could come to the rescue and save them in that time, but risked getting eaten too or instead if the raptor switched targets). Eaten players then became raptors, until the whole pack was teamwork-hunting the last wily or lucky kid. There were no winning survivors- the game was won as a group once everyone was a raptor.

In point of fact, I was usually The Deer because I was the best at evading/ not going down without a fight, whereas most boys would just start crying or tattle, which is no fun at all.

Your school would've loved Get Down, Mr President

Give it a try.

entranced by the number of trainers who want to have no fun with their dogs at all.

please look at the tone of the text. why would the original trainer use the words "reflexively and even compulsively" to refer to snuggling your dog in the mornings? why would he spend a paragraph talking about how physically interacting with a social member of your household is a bad thing when that individual is seeking out affection? if the trainer wanted to communicate that we should not engage with dogs who are physically shoving us over and ignoring our polite 'busy' signals, then he should have said that. he did not. he said that petting my dog when she puts her head politely on my knee is a bad thing.

ilya is more than slightly proud of her tbh.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

was it mail-order, the way presumably all of his books and maps are? did they even have cartoonish disguises available by mail-order back in late 19th cent Romania? did Dracula have to sew it himself? i need to know these things!!!

#clearly Dracula goes out irregularly as his own servants. The people in the coach weren't surprised to see him as his 'coachman' #he goes to town in his huge floppy hat and hoitily toitily tells everybody that his MASTER wants this and his MASTER wants that #and if they don't comply his MASTER is going to be angry and scahahary and anyway he's having the time of his life #He's convinced that he's fooling everyone. He is not #but the point is he can just buy whatever and the people will be equal amounts terrified and annoyed but they'll get it for him

*dracula strolling to the village to buy a roast chicken for his Good Friend Jonathan* "it's one roast chicken how much could it cost 1604 romanian lei?"

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but NO shane (who is staying for the weekend and woke up to the Trash Panda Coachella happening outside when the bin outside toppled over with a crash because the raccoons couldn't figure out the complex bungee cord security ilya has had to institute but CAN still knock it over), he has NO idea why they're all here. no clue. DEFINITELY not a problem of his own creation because on nights he couldn't sleep even after going out late he liked sitting in his dark living room and watching the raccoons. he for SURE can't tell them all apart and DEFINITELY doesn't know what raccoon was whose baby last season and absolutely feels NOTHING about watching the kits all grown up even if they're making a MESS right now, which is IMPOLITE, olyenka-

OBSESSED with this creature; she draws the body from above/below and the head from the side, with a giant eyeball that takes up the entire head and never looks in a specific direction. in a very old-fashioned sense: iconic