Tags via @smute

important life update: my dog came out of the woods with half of an artisanal baguette

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going

@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.

@sseanettles

Reading your tag made me laugh out loud. It’s like two old friends unexpectedly stopped by your porch for a quick visit. XD

Photo study (kinda)

this puppy currently being fostered by a rescue i follow makes me feel like. like. i don’t know. she’s a bug

her name is Primrose. jesus christ man

i cant fucking do this

when dogs are scary smart

over the last several months, we have been implementing a protocol to eliminate karybelle the sheltie’s barking surrounding her mealtimes. we have accomplished this by initially introducing an alternate activity during prep time (stuffed kong) and religiously giving her a time out gated in the yard if she stops that activity to bark, thus delaying her dinner until she’s quiet. this has been extremely successful; she’s gone from barking literally 100+ times during meal prep to barking 0 times, and only occasionally slips up. the behavior she has chosen to replace her meal-prep-screaming (after all, that energy has to go somewhere) is frantically - but silently - running circles around the coffee table to finally slam into a perfect down-stay as her bowl is set down.

this evening as the food was coming out, karybelle seamlessly slipped into her silent circling routine. except after a couple of reps, she abruptly changed course, yeeted herself out the dog door, barked once, and immediately jumped back in to resume her circling.

if that isn’t a demonstration of crystal clear understanding of criteria, i…don’t know what is lmao

literally the canine version of this

A copper retriever with her unoxidised puppies

Such a beautiful family ❤️💚

I got this comment on my reddit post and I've got a bad feeling anyone who creates surreal art is going to have to deal with this going forward. My Otis art took about 15 hours to create and I don't actually think it has that uncanny look of AI, but anything weird is now being deemed to look the same.

My foster dog’s adventures in motherhood

Some more

"Orpheus on the Windowsill" by Valentin Tselmer (1950s)

2002 Michigan Renaissance Festival

I think my main problem with modern clothing is that nothing's got volume anymore. Like historically there's been so much clothing that's just BIG, bulky, meant to be flashy and volumnous and not look like it was just spray painted on the body. I mean yeah I do wear skinny jeans on purpose but what if instead of a hoodie I wanted to wear a big fuck-off fancy little purely decorational off-the shoulder cape? Consider:

Big brimmed hat, big boots, skinny jeans, t-shirt and a big wide short cloak that covers up like half of me. Not for any body image reasons or other insecurities. I just think that if I wished, I should be able to discreetly conceal carry a small dog.

"Why are you still on tumblr, it's a dead site" Tumblr is the ONLY site that still works in the way of -Follow this person, see their posts- instead of -you stopped scrolling and stayed on this post for .2 seconds longer than others, here's 100 more posts like it- I hate algorithms. Tumblr has its many issues. But at least I keep my choice of what I see.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE BACK

Tumblr is the only website that's alive. The others are all dead.

We are the last bastion of humanity online.

thats bc you can do anything you want including derailing a post so this is about Sawyer now

everyone say hi to sawyer

hi Sawyer!

Zelda says hi to Sawyer.

Oscar enters the chat.

Laszlo and Vincent would like a word treat

Miss Erzabet No Biting feel you all should admire her.

Rhyton in the shape of a dog's head, Greece, circa 480 BC

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

How does tumblr feel about Primrose