The hilarious thing about that medieval bestiary thing that’s ALL OVER MY DASH is that real medieval beliefs about animals were like ten times weirder than anything joked about in it.
Like, mice were believed to be clods of dirt that grew legs and a tail.
Worms were also believed to spontaneously generate from dead bodies. No reproduction needed, they just happened.
Bees were a kind of bird, and came out of livestock (oxen specifically.)
Bears were believed to be born shapeless, and had to be “licked into shape” by their mother’s tongue. (Yes, that is exactly where that phrase came from.)
Goat blood was believed to be hot enough to dissolve diamond, even though they had enough goats to disprove this.
Pelicans, supposedly, had terrible tempers and would beat their own young to death, then grieve so intensely that they’d wound themselves and their blood would revive the dead babies.
Seriously, this shit is wild. Look it up. It’s worth your time.
(I’m sorry for hijacking your post, OP, but I got really excited about this and I couldn’t help myself.)
Medieval bestiaries are super fucking weird, there is really no getting around it. I mean, the descriptions above are testimony of that. Let’s take a closer look at the Aberdeen Bestiary (England, c. 1200):
Here is an image of a bear licking her formless cubs “into shape”. The author of the manuscript describes the cubs as “tiny lumps of flesh, white in colour, with no eyes” who regain their shape from the licking of the mother and from cuddling (!). Also, bears apparently heal themselves by eating ants. The more you know.
Dogs get a very long description in the manuscript. Most importantly though, puppies are said to cure “inner wounds”!
Bees, who were in fact considered a kind of bird, are said to have a model society, ruled by a king (which they elected, mind you, this is a bee democracy. a communist bee democracy. wait what?) and possessing multiple armies. They are indeed also born from the corpses of oxen. If you feel like “producing” bees yourself, you can beat calves to death and wait until worms form in their blood. These worms will later become bees. Why not, right?
Aside from “real” animals, bestiaries were often also filled with imaginary ones. (some of these were inspired by classical mythology, such as the Minotaur, Chimera and Cereberus) Examples include:
The Bonnacon, an Asian beast resembling a bull but with horns that curl inwards and the mane of a lion. Don’t chase this bastard, because he will poop dung that burns like fire to defend himself. (also it looks as though it has a tattoo on its upper arm?)
The Dragon, here fighting its mortal enemy: an elephant. Because obviously.
And lastly, meet the Yale! A black horse-like creature with two “unusually long” horns on top of its head, that are adjustable. According to the manuscript, they “move as the needs of fighting require. The yale advances one of them as it fights, folding the other back, so that if the tip of the first is damaged by a blow, it is replaced by the point of the second.” A+ on practicality there.
Bear in mind that in medieval times, nothing happened without a reason and things certainly didn’t get written down without a specific goal. Since most scribes and intellectuals in the (early) middle ages were members of the clergy, the bestiaries make slightly more sense if we remember the moralizing and educating function they had. Allegories and metaphors were basically medieval fetishes and the animal world was a lovely way to teach people about the Bible and about morals.
Slightly more sense that is, overall they’re still WEIRD AS FUCK.
my grandpa saw my gemsona on facebook and now he wants me to draw him a gemsona
he want’s to be an opal!!!!!
i did a quick one we’ll see what he thinks about it tomorrow!
GEMPA OPAL YAAAAAAH
AH my twin sister DREW FANART AHAHA!!
GRAMPS’S REACTION TOMORROW STAY TUNED!
Here is my grandpa lookin at the post! My sister went over to his house (since I live in a different city) to show him how much you guys love it (and to tell him how cute you think he is!!) I did call them but I wanted my sister to actually show him all the nice tags and how popular he is!
HE also wanted to show you his pug Mordue! They so cute…
He loves it and he’s very happy about how much everyone loved it and so does my mom! Thank you guys so much!!! It really made his day!! He wants to print it out and hang it on the wall so my sister will help with that!
This is one of the most common questions I get about insects. Everybody seems to want to hate wasps, just because they’re very good at killing other animals and protecting themselves – which is true of almost all predators, isn’t it? People idolize dolphins, tigers, wolves, bears, hawks, often even the much-demonized snakes these days (I’m glad that’s turned around), but they’re still quick to dismiss wasps as evil just for being well-defended hunters.
That’s also the answer to the original question: wasps are basically keystone carnivores of the insect world. Frogs, bats, spiders and countless others all do their part, but wasps are the most high-efficiency regulator of other arthropods, ESPECIALLY for plant eating caterpillars. Take away the wasps, and everything else suffers. Even the insects they kill suffer, as their uncontrolled population depletes their own resources and leads to outbreaks of disease.
Most wasps, of course, are totally harmless to humans anyway. Most are tiny, specialized parasites who lay their eggs in other insects and couldn’t sting us if they wanted, but the bigger, nest-building, stinging wasps are just as important. One nest of hornets can perform critical population control for an acre of land or more, and yellow jackets are essential scavengers, especially of dead insects.
Wasps also pollinate flowers, just like bees do, and in fact many flowering plants are only pollinated by wasps – usually just one species whose pheromones they imitate.
The aggression of wasps is generally highly exaggerated. They don’t “want” to sting you, because they run a lot of risk themselves in doing so, but they will if they’re absolutely convinced you want to eat their babies – and nothing convinces them more than if you seem to show “excitement” at the sight of them. (In other words, if wasps make you nervous, they’re going to interpret your elevated breathing and movements as hostility)
Smaller wasp nests, like those of paper wasps, are very prone to becoming “tame,” getting used to human presence as long as it doesn’t disturb them. This can get to the point where you can walk right up and touch the nest and they only get a little curious. If you bring them food with some regularity, this goes faster and they might end up eating right out of your hands.
Plain old honeybees actually kill quite a few more people than any wasps – and that thing about horses is just totally untrue, horses can live through quite a few more hornet stings than an angry swarm will even deliver.
Sadly all the unnecessary hate and fear has rendered many hornets critically endangered, as people even go out of their way to destroy nests they find in the wild, where they naturally belong.
LISTEN UP KIDS BECAUSE I AM FED UP WITH SEEING THIS BULLSHIT CROSS MY DASH (such as this post here)
THIS POST IS NOT GIVING YOU IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON HOW TO PREVENT RAPE
THIS POST IS MADE UP FUCKING BULLSHIT BY SOME FUCKING GUY PEDDLING A SELF DEFENSE CLASS SPREAD BY A GODDAMN EMAIL FORWARD
YES. AN EMAIL FORWARD. THE SAME SHIT YOUR GRANDPARENTS SEND TO YOU TELLING YOU THAT CANOLA OIL IS ACTUALLY ACIDIC AND WILL GIVE YOU CANCER THAT CAN BE CURED BY DRINKING ORANGE JUICE FIVE TIMES A DAY. THAT KIND OF BULLSHIT.
This bit of codswallop began its Internet life in January 2000 as an enthusiastic e-mail penned by an employee at the St. Louis office of the public relations firm Weber Shandwick. The writer was among a group enrolled in a self-defense class taught by David Portnoy, an instructor who claims to have trained with actors Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Portnoy refuses to give information about what he teaches in his classes or details of where he gained the information he passes along, preferring instead to sell it. (He demanded a $1,000 interview fee from a Denver Post reporter). If, however, this Weber Shandwick employee’s e-mail describing what he teaches is accurate, Portnoy should be characterized as a fear merchant vending false information to those anxious to feel safe.
If rapists choose their victims based on hairstyle and length of tresses, it’s news to those in law enforcement; they’ve never noticed this trend. Rape victims have short hair, long hair, and no hair. They’re also young and old, short and tall, fat and skinny, femininely dressed or looking like they just fell off the tractor, and all points in between.
Likewise, the claim that rapists go after women wearing overalls because “the straps can be easily cut” is pure hogwash, as anyone who has ever tried to cut up an old pair can attest. Overalls are made of some of the most resilient fabrics known to mankind (denim and canvas, usually), and cutting these straps is made almost impossible because the fabric is doubled over and seamed at that point in the garment. If there’s a pair of scissors that can snip through this, I’ve yet to wield
them.
Rape is also not always about getting sex quickly. Often it’s an act of rage or punishment directed at a vulnerable person for perceived injustices done to the attacker by others. Getting a woman out of her clothes quickly isn’t a factor in these rapes; terrorizing her and inflicting bodily harm is.
If we take points one and two together, we’re to believe rapists arm themselves with scissors for cutting overall straps (instead of just easing them off the shoulders or — heaven forbid! — undoing the fasteners) yet fail to think to equip themselves with rolls of duct tape to keep their victims subdued, preferring instead to grab hold of their hair and hang on.
According to Denver Police Sgt. John Burbach, most rapes occur in the evening hours and into early morning, ending before dawn, not “between 5 and 8:30 a.m.” as claimed in the e-mail. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice fully support him in this claim: The DOJ says “Approximately two-thirds of rapes/sexual assaults occurred at night — 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.”
As for the tidbit “The number one place women are abducted from/attacked at is grocery store parking lots. Number two is office parking lots/garages. Number three is public restrooms,” Kathie Kramer, public relations coordinator at the Denver Rape Assistance and Awareness Program (RAAP) says, “Statistics in studies I’ve found don’t support this idea about grocery stores or parking lots being especially unsafe.” Location is important in a violent sexual assault, but there’s nothing inherently dangerous about parking lots or public restrooms; what matters is their isolation. Areas heavily frequented by foot traffic are far less likely to be chosen by a rapist. Likewise, badly-lit, less-frequented places will be favored for this type of attack.
The e-mail claims that only 2% of rapists (one out of every fifty) carries a weapon. That figure is seriously out of whack: 1995 U.S. Department of Justice statistics show that weapons were used in 30% of all rapes, meaning the chances that your rapist will be armed is just a little less than one in three. Battling an armed attacker while unarmed yourself is rarely a wise course of action to take, and misstatements such as the 2% figure could well incite an attacked woman to thrust herself into that dynamic because she figures her chances are far better than they actually are.
“If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.” That’s great advice, provided you get the right rapist. And you’ve no way of knowing until it’s too late.
As comforting as it might be to believe there’s only one sort of baddie out there and if you understand his mind you can stay safe, that just isn’t the case. There is no one set of right answers, and e-mails of this ilk potentially put us at even greater risk by suggesting that there is.
Around 1980, Nicholas Groth, director of Forensic Mental Health Associates, established a typology of rapists. Groth arrived at his conclusions by distilling his observations of more than 3,000 sex offenders over the course of 25 years of practice. (Most of his patients, Groth points out, were not sexually deprived at the time they committed rape, thereby exploding that most common of rape myths: that men rape because they’re unable to get sex any other way.)
In a general sense, rapists fall into three motivational types: anger, power, and sadism. In anger assaults, the rapist is getting even for “some wrong he feels has been done to him, by life, by his victim at the time. He’s in a frame of rage and attacks someone sexually.” The anger rape is usually unpremeditated and impulsive, but the impulse drives the rapist into excessive force: the victim is punched, choked, and kicked into submission. Most such offenders derive little pleasure from the act, says Groth, but “they want to degrade their victims, and sex is something bad, dirty, the worst thing you could do to someone. That reflects a lot of our values in society.”
An anger rapist could be discouraged by a potential victim who yells at him or puts up a physical struggle, thanks to the unpremeditated nature of the attack. Because the aggressor may not yet have fully decided to pursue this course of action, resistance may well change his mind. Here, even a half-hearted attempt might prove to be all it takes to end the assault. On the other hand, the rage the attacker is feeling might well be further fed by active resistance — this could be taken as yet another instance of one more person trying to deny him something he wants.
Power rape, according to Groth, is a form of compensation, committed usually by men who feel unsure of their competence. Rape gives them a sense of mastery and control. Power rapists usually hunt for victims or seize opportunities that present themselves unbidden. A power rapist is unlikely to be discouraged by resistance because his whole self image is wrapped up in his attempt to prove mastery. A woman who chooses to fight one of these had better do a darned good job of it, because she could well end up fighting for her life.
Groth defines his third type, sadistic rape, as eroticized aggression perpetrated by those whom the very act of forcible sex excites in ways that consensual sex can’t. “If the anger components of aggression are eroticized,” he explains, “then you see sadistic acts, such as deliberate sexual torture, using an instrument to rape the victim.” A sadistic rapist is interested in inflicting pain and lasting harm. Any countering aggression on the part of the victim could well add to the attacker’s enjoyment of the experience, prompting him to further acts of depravity in an effort to provoke further resistance.
The question of to fight back or not is an age-old one, and there’s no one right answer. Granted, one particular rapist might be sent running bloody-nosed by a swift right hook, but try that on another one and a horrific experience could be transformed into a fatal one. Resistance advice of the type being circulated in the e-mail in question creates the false impression that escaping unscathed from the clutches of a rapist is only a matter of knowing which self-defense tricks to employ. Reality, however, is far different. Not all rapists can be overcome.
Does this then mean self-defense classes are a waste of time? Hardly. But they’re also not the surefire protection they’re too often touted to be, any more than a can of mace confers upon its wielder guaranteed safe passage through whatever mean streets and dark alleys lie in her path. Also, physical skills are only as good as recent training — someone who hasn’t practiced a move in the three months since she took a course is only a tad better prepared to fend off an attacker than someone who never had any training at all. Worst of all, such training can lead those who have aced their courses to develop a dangerous complacency about their own safety, inducing them into a state of overconfidence wherein awareness of their surroundings becomes a lost art, buried under the certainty that now bad things can’t happen to them.
Complacency kills.
As always, the best defense to an attempted rape is not to be there when it happens — either avoid potentially dangerous situations (none of this “Oh, it’s only a few blocks; I’ll just walk” at 3 a.m.) or run like hell if you find yourself in one. Escaping your attacker is a far wiser course of action to strive for than attempting to do battle with him. Forget about his needing a good beating followed by a lengthy jail term; your first priority has to be your own safety. Leave the Wonder Woman stuff for Linda Carter and make like a track star vying for a gold medal in the 100m.
The e-mail did contain one bit of valuable advice: Stay aware of your surroundings. Not only is it important to see trouble coming before it gets to you and avoid it, but an alert stance can help discourage a would-be attacker. Those looking to prey upon others — whether their aim is robbery, rape, or mayhem — generally choose as victims those who appear preoccupied or tentative in preference to those who exude a sense of purpose. Or, as I was told long ago, “Always look like you know exactly where you’re going and move like you’re expected to be there at exactly a certain time.” Mooning about aimlessly can make you a statistic.
So, to sum up, is avoiding a rape a matter of wearing your hair short and eschewing overalls? Hardly. And anyone who attempts to characterize it as such ought to be whomped over someone’s knee.
IF YOU CAN REBLOG THAT LONG ASS PIECE OF SHIT POST, THEN YOU CAN REBLOG THIS ONE CORRECTING IT.
REPEAT. THIS IS INFORMATION IS NOT TRUE AND COULD GET SOMEONE KILLED.
SPREAD THIS SHIT LIKE ‘WILDFIRE’. THANK YOU.
I LITERALLY CREATED A BLOG TO SPREAD THIS. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE.
every time I see that post go by my dash i want to scream. You’ll notice that the OPs usually delete it and I’m hoping it’s from getting called out, but like a fucking cancer this post STILL SPREADS
Oh fuck I have reblogged this post I am so sorry. I’ll be sure to fact check shit in the future instead of assuming it as correct based on the number of notes.
This was kinda the firts thing I ever reblog. So I might as well reblog this.
Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]
LET ME FURTHER ELABORATE ON THE HILARITY OF THE BEST AMERICAN POLITICAL PRACTICE TO EXIST, “THE ANNUAL RUNNING OF THE INTERNS”:
RECORDINGS ARE NOT ALLOWED INSIDE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. SO WHEN A DECISION IS MADE, COPIES ARE HANDED TO MEMBERS OF THE PRESS INSIDE THE BUILDING IN A PRESS ROOM WHO THEN LEAVE THEIR ROOM TO HAND THE COPIES OF THE RULING TO THEIR INTERNS (WHO AREN’T ALLOWED INSIDE THE PRESS ROOM)
(PICTURED: INTERNS FROM 2013, WAITING FOR THEIR RUN)
AND THEN THE INTERNS HAVE TO DELIVER THE COURT RULINGS WHILE THE JUSTICES ARE ANNOUNCING THEIR DECISION INSIDE THE COURTROOM ITSELF.
SO THE INTERNS RUN THROUGH THE SUPREME COURT BUILDING FROM OUTSIDE THE PRESS ROOM TO OUTSIDE, ACROSS THE PAVED WALKWAYS, AND DOWN THE STAIRS OF THE COURTHOUSE AREA INTO THE BROADCASTING PRESS PEN IN THE STREET.
(A PREVIOUS YEAR’S INTERN RUN WINNER)
INTERNS ARE TOLD THEY MAY TO THROW SOME ELBOWS IF NECESSARY.
AND ALL ARE RACING TO BE THE FIRST TO DELIVER THE COURT RULINGS TO THEIR RESPECTIVE BROADCASTERS WHO ARE WAITING TO GO ON AIR
PICTURED IN FRONT IS YESTERDAY’S INTERN WINNER LAUREN WHO SAID SHE “JUST LIKED TO WIN” WHEN SHE PULLED CLEAR AHEAD TO DELIVER THE OBAMACARE RELATED DECISION.
You want to hear how gross of an exaggeration it was? Because my post didn’t even do it justice.
It was March 2011 when the first semblances of Homestuck began to seep through the wood and metal of the convention circuit. The unsuspecting convention goers had absolutely no idea what they were in for as little groups of kids with grey makeup and orange candy corn horns started around the con halls. People were curious, hell I was curious, but that’s all it was. Morbid curiosity.
It was around the time [S] ==> Kanaya Return To The Core was released that people finally hitched on and started getting into it.
And dear god was it hell.
Homestuck completely invaded the convention circuit, bringing in crowds of people ages 11 to 31, and a majority of them were kids. There were meetups every month for every occasion at every place you could imagine. Homestucks started to completely take over convention halls to the point where the dealers room all but emptied out whenever a photoshoot started. Promstuck was established and became a cemented part of convention going. Gamzee’s flooded the con halls at one point after he went crazy and people tried to recreate sopor pies.
People were sitting in bathtubs trying to sharpie dye their skin grey. Karkat cosplayers were having actual literal buckets thrown at their heads. Nicki Minaj’s ‘Turn Me On’ was a national anthem that sparked a music video. Children screaming ‘Fuckass’ in the hallways as they got their unsealed paint all over the walls and floors. There was at least one hundred Dave cosplayers at every photoshoot, and Photoshoots looked like this:
You see that Squarewave in the middle of the group? That’s me controlling the crowd around me. You want another example? Here:
That Kanaya with the cape in the middle is also me. Not good enough for you? How about this:
This was convention Homestuck. This was true nightmare. If you saw a horde of Homestucks coming at you, you fucking ran. There were literally hundreds of Homestucks back in 2011.
A video of a group of cosplayers sitting in a restaraunt, passing around a bucket and spitting in it caused outrage for everyone.
And then there was the tumblr side of it.
AU’s popped up for every conceivable thing. Broadwaystuck, Circusstuck, Dormstuck, Sadstuck, Any fucking thing you could think of, you slapped -stuck onto the end of it and it immediately became a reality. There were countless ask blogs for every character imaginable and the Homestuck Hype was real.
When the Cascade flash aired it crashed Newgrounds for two days.
‘FIRST!’ cosplays were a thing, and if you managed to make one you were heralded as a god. The Alpha Kids came into existence and everyone raced to cosplay them and to see who could name them, who could be them first. Canon urls became sacred and if you had one you were god.
There was a literal fight for the jadeharley url
Updates were daily, multiple times daily. It was the start of Octopimp’s Eridan and Tavros voices, it was how he got popular. Broadwaystuck sweeped tumblr like a plague and the words ‘Let me tell you about Homestuck’ became a threat. It was around the time I formed The Rose Lalonde Homestuck Thesis. Everywhere you looked, there was Homestuck. Hussie’s girlfriend was sending cease and desist’s to fanartists, Whatpumpkin didn’t even have Tshirts on it’s website yet. People kept skipping the Intermission to get to the trolls. And then Cascade happened.
Then the fandom went on Hiatus. A Megapause, if you will.
And then things started calming down. Once 2013 started, it was as if nothing had ever happened. Homestuck was still there, sure, but it was muted. Controlled. Expectant. As if anything that could happen now wasn’t anywhere near as bad as what had already transpired. Now we are but a shadow of the chaos that once was.
2011 Homestuck is not a gross exaggeration my friend. I lived through it. I survived.
One of the many reasons MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is so successful as an action film is the editing style. By using “Eye Trace” and “Crosshair […cut for length]
It occurs to me that one of the reasons Mad Max is so remarkably effective at eschewing the male gaze may be because of this approach. If you listen to this pre-release talk by the cinematographers, he talks about how challenging it was for him to follow Miller’s edict to keep the centre on whatever was meant to be the focus of the scene because, and this is from memory and it’s a two hour talk, ( but I think it’s in the first twenty minutes or so, and he says it twice, so if anyone wants to go check?) his instinct was to include the beautiful girls in the back of the cab.
Like, he literally mentions how gorgeous Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is, and how it went against all his instincts to leave her out, even though the scene was supposed to be about Furiosa, or Max.
And I think we the viewers noticed that.
As someone who has no training in film or video, I would have to see some counter-examples, to see how not-on-center more conventional cinematography is. And to see some more exploration of what it has to do with male (or other) gaze.
Most film composition and photography composition is off-center for visual interest. Specifically they aim to hit one of the golden ratio ‘points of interest’, all you have to do is google “Golden Ratio” or “Rule of Thirds” and the word “composition”. This is the golden ratio:
The blue lines are where it would appear on a rectangle the ‘points of interest is roughly where the lines cross perpendicular. You can ‘cheat’ by using ‘thirds’ (black lines) instead of the golden (blue lines) REMEMBER THESE POINTS:
This is (mostly) center frame:
This is more classically composed:
You can see especially how she literally shifts from one point of the golden ratio to another. Your eyes are immediately drawn to her eyes. (San Andreas trailer which is mostly clean of male gaze)
Max is, as a still shot, in comparison more ‘boring’. Your eyes aren’t ‘led’ anywhere. There’s nowhere for it to go…which is a good thing because your attention needs to be about right there because Max is going to nearly get his head taken off.
And then you have the Age of Ultron trailer. (Fuck you Marvel):
If you’re framing this by the golden ratio, one of the points of interest is at her eyes, the other is her cleavage. I BARELY HAD TO GO 20s INTO THE TRAILER.
Why don’t we get Steve’s cleavage?
Why don’t we get Tony’s cleavage?
Both their eyes are at the sweet spot of the Golden Ratio.
Natasha’s head and ass are too, however.
Red Witch’s chest instead of her face….
See how there’s almost no headspace for Natasha:
The focus here is literally NOT on her face, it’s on Natasha’s chest and hips
This is a recreation of the original pug. They can do many things the modern pug can’t, like going out in cold and heat and actually working. They are not perfect, but maybe one day they will be.
these are adorable. the tails aren’t so tightly curled either, which is nice.
just something to think about: Pug breeding in Germany is not the same as Pug breeding elsewhere. Germany has anti-torture breeding restrictions, due to breeds like Pugs and Pekes not being able to just be dogs. MPRV Pugs have longer legs, extended muzzles, less-tightly curled tails, and eyes that sit IN the head and look in the same direction!
I know that Pugs are a very well loved breed, especially on Tumblr, but more people need to be aware of the health problems they have due to the way they look. I implore you all to read that link, because it explains why a longer nose is better, why a straighter tail is better. It explains why the Pugs looks need to change and where breeders are going wrong. It’s wrong to breed a dog just for aesthetics and in doing so cause a mass amount of health problems, it causes problems to things that should be easy for anything living e.g. breathing. Breeding Pugs the way we are, the problems they face now are only going to get worse in the future and that’s scary. Doesn’t health and happiness come before aesthetics? If you really, truly loves dogs and Pugs in particular, you’d understand that the step forward is to out-breed Pugs and to make them healthier.
These Retro Pugs aren’t perfect, but they’re so much better and it makes me so happy. This is what Pugs should look like, this way they’ll have a new lease of life. Retro Pugs are the way forward and if everyone follows, it’s a bright future for the Pug.
Oh god yes, everybody needs to know about retro-pugs! It’s a wonderful effort to decrease the many many healthproblems pugs have via crossbreeding with different, more healthier breeds. The pugs maintain their goofy sweet look, just a little sturdier and often a little bigger and with longer legs. There are a couple of great breeders in Germany that I’ve been keeping an eye on for years now.
Also they usually still have their very pug-typical character and personality, with the added bonus of being healthier and less prone to diseases and ailments. So when I’m going to have a pug – and one day I WILL – I’ll definitely buy a retropug :3
Finally managed to do a makeup test for my Nux costume for SDCC. Still some stuff to fine tune, but I think it’s lookin’ good. WITNESS ME!!! There’s commentary on the pictures, I apologize in advance for my tom-foolery.
Mad Max Fury Road Cosplay Female Nux.
(AKA Nux wearing a tube top.)
WITNESS.
SINCE WHEN ARE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO BE THIS CUTE *AND* AWESOME AT THE SAME TIME???
EY FATTY BOOM BOOM 