#dog attack

Celebrating 70 Years of The Muppets!

I’m sorry for the downer on your feed, and I know for some of my friends this’ll be the first time they hear this. I’m sorry. My minds been everywhere and I don’t have the emotional energy to tell everyone. Most learned through a prior on discord.

I promise. There’s no gorey photos here. No descriptions. I’ve seen too many that do that, maybe the scam Gaza posts have just scarred me.

And I know if a stories of a dead pet story is hard to hear. But, I talk about her below.

Either way, take care of yourselves. Tell your family you loved them. You’ll never know when they’ll be gone

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Monsters of Bureaucracy

Monsters of Bureaucracy is a one-shot Podcast Jam project by Ani Rey. It follows the story of a woman experiencing that even a world where the paranormal is normalized, the methodologies and systems at play would function largely unchanged. The purpose of the work was to explore the idea of chronic pain showcased in an audio medium. Ani Rey has never released an audio fiction prior to this, despite working on them for over a year at this point. She wanted to have something of her own released, before continuing her work with Cozy AF Productions. Content Warnings: Medical Fatphobia, Medical Transphobia, Allusion of Suicide, Dog-ish Attack @ 4:49

Drama. This episode is 23:37 long and it's a oneshot.

I looked forward and dreaded relistening this episode. It's immediately up there as one of my favorite audio fiction stories of all time. It makes me tear up just thinking about it.

So what can I say, other than "You need to listen to this story"?

This, to me, is fantasy fiction as its finest. I adore {horror, surreal, fantasy, Weird} fiction where those elements work on multiple layers. The experience of having a monster attached to her hip is real to our main character - but it's also a metaphor for us, the audience.

I adored the recurring, sometimes near-constant growling of the monster as a representation of chronic pain. Making an invisible disability audible. Bringing us into the experience of the main character. Sobbing in the car after a dismissive doctor's visit - fuck, I've been there. And the medical fat- and transphobia... hurt. angered me. sadly far too real and common of an experience.

I'm pretty stressed out because I'm moving, so I decided to write about König stressing out too! Yay! Anyways, let's go.

König has a complicated past. His childhood was filled with bullying, his adult life has been filled with bullets and bombs. He's been through too much for one man, honestly. The fact that he hasn't either become a hikikomori or a homicidal maniac is a miracle. I think the only reason we're safe is because he has a good family and he found good friends when he joined the military. However, he has scars. Not all of them are painted on his skin.

I've collected phobias that I think he might have into a list, however some of these fears are fears that though they impact him seriously, he can live with them and won't have a panic attack upon facing them. Fears that genuinely terrify him identified. His fears are ranked 1 through 5, with 1 being a fear that just makes him a bit wary/on edge, but he's not going to have a meltdown unless pushed or 5, a fear that can cripple him with just a brush.

Phobias are listed under the cut (also I got the fears from a list online, hence why they're mostly alphabetical)

The society in the US tries to gaslight us into thinking that this capitalistic hellscape is for the best. Propaganda constantly screaming that "we're the greatest country on earth!" meanwhile, we have the lowest life expectancy of any first-world country. There is rampant wealth inequality, mass incarcerations, and systemic racism and sexism, and that's just the tip of the iceberg! How dare they say we should be thankful that the noose around our necks is velvet.

My mom didn’t even like press charges but the county decided to prosecute the owner anyways and now the dog has to wear a muzzle on walks and they have to have beware of dogs signs on property

Trauma from dog attacks is so fucking real

My dad was attacked by a German shepherd as a 4 year old little kid and he still has scars around his entire skull under his hair where the dog wrapped its jaws around him

People will talk until they’re blue in the face about how it’s everyone’s responsibility to have basic decency and manners in public and then unironically bring their untrained Labrador into a grocery store and let it shit on the floor and not clean it up