¦ #LANDBACK ¦ BLACK LIVES Matter ¦ ACAB ¦ TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS ¦ WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER, GET USED TO IT ¦ Hi, I'm Amber, but you can call me Bam, or BamBoo, or That Dork That Hyper-Fixates on Things Easily. I blog about pretty much whatever's on my mind. This is a multi-fandom blog. I am married to the most wonderful man, and I am a preschool teacher. Dragons are my life! ADHD. I'm in my late twenties, so if I've followed you and you're a minor who doesn't want adults following them, DM me and I'll unfollow. Demi/Bi af. Enby, they/she! If you have any questions/comments/tag requests, don't be afraid to shoot em my way! I love talking to y'alls, and will help to the best of my abilities!
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A French late 19th century giltwood porter’s chair
in the Louis XVI style
the Vitruvian scrolled toprail centred with a floral pendant issuing conforming swags, with ribboned frames, on stiff-leaf clasped and spiral fluted legs, with brass plaque stamped: ‘MATI & CIE, 104 HAUSSMANN BOULEVARD’,
Been sorting through my thousands of old photographs, I took this in 2013 and that would’ve been the last time I shared it on tumblr. It’s the footprints of a mouse on a slime mold in Bel Air, Maryland :)
A big part of cultivating creative discipline is accepting that you can’t just sit around waiting for inspiration to strike and learning how to write without it, but the other half is learning never to let inspiration go to waste when it does strike.
If you’ve got an idea for something that you’ll never be able to show to anyone else – maybe it’s too personal, maybe it’s too pornographic, maybe it just doesn’t fit your idiom – you should absolutely go ahead and write it anyway.
This isn’t a “write for yourself” thing (and there’s no shame in being uninterested in writing for yourself – art is about communication!): it’s a “building your portfolio” thing. Self-plagiarism is one of the most fundamental skills of any artist, and you never know what random scribble is going to turn up exactly what’s needed for some seemingly unrelated project later on.
Like, it’s not likely that that grotesquely self-indulgent character piece where your fandom crush inexplicably has three dicks will randomly prove to contain the missing ingredient for that novel you’ve been procrastinating on writing, but it can never entirely be ruled out!
personally i think there should have been at least one episode where sokka collects aang and zuko and is like, “looks like we’re running low on supplies. time for a GUYS-ONLY field trip. three days of hunting and fishing and polishing our swords. y’know, manly warrior stuff. (aang, sotto voce: actually sokka i’m a vegetarian as you know–) you girls have fun sitting around braiding your hair and talking about your crushes” and then the entire episode is just zuko and sokka lying around by a river, plucking blades of grass and staring up at the stars confiding in each other their deepest feelings and most secret insecurities while aang braids flower crowns, and whenever the screen cuts back to katara and toph and suki, they’re fighting and screaming and hacking away at river pirates and evil spirits and legions of assassins and hired mercenaries with swords. you know, as girls do.
and when the boys finally drag themselves back to camp (they stayed up way too late discussing what true leadership really means and whether or not power always corrupts) they find suki and toph and katara lounging around with black eyes and fresh bruises and bloodstained weapons and sokka shrieks, “what were you guys DOING while we were gone???” and karata just shugs innocently and says in her sweetest voice, “oh, you know. just girly things”
they are absolutely still wearing the crowns and they don’t have a single fish to show for their efforts
Yesterday I was birding in a wildlife refuge and this huge dog without a leash and no owner in sight ran up to me and started barking at me, and getting closer and closer. Literally thought it was going to pounce. It had a collar, but no owner in sight. I’m not afraid of dogs, but I am afraid of any large animal that’s angry and has the capacity to knock me over. After about five minutes of this dog growling at me and me trying to calm it down, its owner finally showed up, and was like……“oh haha I thought he was yelling at an animal.” As if it would have been normal and fine for the dog to attack the wildlife.
It’s a wildlife refuge. There are endangered species that live there. Dogs are required to be leashed at the park…you know why?? Precisely because dogs like to go after birds and other small creatures.
This isn’t even the first time I’ve dealt with unleashed dogs….
I was at a beach, collecting seashells and birding, when a huge pitbull ran up to me growling. Thankfully it didn’t attack and just sniffed my bag, but the owner was just a speck in the horizon, didn’t care that their dog was running around doing god knows what. The dog could have gone after the wildlife, too.
People letting their cats roam free outdoors 🤝 People that let their dogs run around without a leash:
Endangering their pet, the environment, and other people with their stupid choices
Keep your dog on a fucking leash
It’s not just wildlife. It’s other people dogs too.
I dogsat for a coworker who had a not-always-friendly-to-other-dogs dog. She was also 20 pounds and easy to carry if needed, but sometimes she was fine with other dogs and sometimes she chose violence.
I took Doggo on walks several times over the week I watched her. Always in places dogs are required to be on leash. Always during times we were less likely to run into other people walking dogs.
In one such place, a park near where the coworker lived, we stopped to sit on a bench (Doggo sat up next to me for love) for a few minutes. Out of nowhere a large pitbull bounded up to us.
I immediately scooped up Doggo, stood, and turned to face the pibble. While the pibble was clearly just excited and happy, the owner was a significant distance away.
Owner once he got to us, with a big grin: Oh don’t worry she’s friendly! She loves other dogs too! Me, holding a clearly upset dog: Mine isn;t and she doesn’t.
The look on his face made it clear that other dogs not being friendly wasn’t even a thought he had when he took the leash, that was in his hand, off his dog. Again in a park with numerous “Keep your dog leashed!” signs.
As I walked by with a now growling dog in my arms, I told him he needed to keep his dog on a leash - like the park required. I carried her until we were out of sight and she was calm.
If I hadn’t responded like I did, there could have been major problems from not only me and the dog I was walking, but also the other dog and owner.
Not everyone has dog-friendly (or even people-friendly) dogs. Give unknown dogs space and for God’s sake:
