#this is so great

deodorant-stick:

based off of @whobrokethisvase’s incorrect quote! i had SO much fun animating and acting this out

domestic-harry:

IM SCREAMING

d0g-bless:

dadboyshiro:

d0g-bless:

katieshirogane:

dadboyshiro:

spent a good twenty minutes reading through old chat logs between katieshirogane (when will she return from the war) and i about dogboy!shiro and pidge and her being lance’s roommate and using His Good Shit on the giant filthy mutt she found when she gave him a bath and lance absolutely losing his shit but shiro’s fur being On Fleek and even when he turns into a human he still got that sheen tho and im laughing

@ me next time binch

@katieshirogane@dadboyshiro i feel like this would make a fantastic comic series like i wanna wrote this sooooo bad but i just feel like the humor would not be the same but i love this dogboy!shiro is a good boy

I kind of actually have a bit of an outline started on it because I was planning on writing, like, a really lengthy oneshot on the dogboy Shiro au!! But I want to finish my current projects first (I totally started writing that stupid Shidge divorce April Fool’s prank idea because I have no control lol). 

Honestly dogboy Shiro will forever be the most hilarious thing to me if for no other reason than Shiro giving postman Lance an absolute run for his money. 

Also, just a random thought that occurred to me because it’s a Real Problem – potty training a grown ass man who’s spent the last x amount of years as a dog and has not a fucking clue of how to human properly.

The afternoon after he turns human, Pidge has no idea why the hell he’s standing at the door and whining. And she’s certainly not ready when he pees on her neighbor’s bushes.

And when she comes home after an extra long day at work the next evening and steps in a lukewarm puddle on her carpet (WHILE WEARING SOCKS)???? Oh hell no.

Pidge would not be amused, and I wholeheartedly imagine she’d wrangle Hunk (or possibly Keith) to deal with the situation because she did NOT earn a PhD in computer engineering to have to babysit a grown man in fear of him shitting on her carpet!!! 

@dadboyshiro First of all know that I am Tired enough to have almost typed your username as dogboyshiro which would be fitting given this conversation.

I look forward to the April Fool’s prank fic because… of course why wouldn’t i

Literally everything about dogboy!Shiro is fucking hilarious and i wish i knew why?? it just is??? of course this is coming from someone who was given a dog figurine for a birthday gift from the people i’d been working with for a week because and i quote “we don’t know much about you but you love dogs” and frankly if you don’t know me that’s really all you need to know

But i fucking love the idea of her having to teach Shiro to be human again? I think my issue is that i need to determine if there’s a reason for Shiro to have been a dog but also… can he turn back into a dog? like… as he becomes less doglike and more humanlike does he stand on two feet but he still has dog ears and a tail??? there’s a lot to unpack here but also im just gonna stick in my sad safe lil post-canon universe with Halley who is not just a Great Pyrenees but the BEST Pyrenees (note to self: write that down for a stupid joke that Shiro would tell and Pidge would roll her eyes etc.)

Also didn’t we make add a head&shoulders angle to this except Keith is a catboy? which is also fucking hilarious 10/10

also Netflix is 100% spying on me because this was recommended to me which honestly applies to this conversation and i can’t

OKAY HOLY FUCK I AM WATCHING THAT MOVIE AS SOON AS I AM DONE GETTING MY ASS BEAT IN OVERWATCH!!! SHIT!!!

AND I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN ABOUT PIDGE HAVING TO TEACH SHIRO TO DO HUMAN STUFF AGAIN LOL. It’s just… there’s so much opportunity for hilarity. I desperately want Pidge taking Shiro out to a fancy dinner w/ her family and her just sweating the entire time bc she’s afraid Shiro’s going to go Full Dog Mode at any second (lo and behold, she returns from the bathroom to find Shiro sniffing at and eating the leftovers from an abandoned table hahaha).

I dunno what the general consensus was on how Shiro became a dog in the original convo (I don’t think we actually decided) but I know for the oneshot I’m doing, like… he was def human first. Cursed to be a dog by Haggar or some shit, like, a good decade ago or something. Why was he cursed? Still working on that. He pissed her off good somehow lol. So yeah, Shiro when he reverts back to human form is 100% Adult Human Male, just with the mind of a dog, basically, lol.

I don’t remember about Keith?? I know there was def like a harem catboy au kind of. I wouldn’t be surprised if we talked about Keith being a catboy in the dogboy shiro au though. If I didn’t already have a role for Keith I’d be tempted to throw him in, too.

holy shit i cant wait to watch this movie. this is going to FUEL ME. 

sofilovesmusic:

“Dana Dan is a graphic commentary on sexual assault and the need to eliminate it. It begins with the reflexive, almost homicidal rage we feel when we hear about these crimes, before moving on to a more level headed call to arms. It culminates in a gentle appeal for all of us to reflect on the role we play in creating a world where atrocities of this nature are committed and to work towards eliminating it altogether.”

the-moon-loves-the-sea:

the-moon-loves-the-sea:

autistic-viago:

the-moon-loves-the-sea:

autistic-viago:

autistic-viago:

i love how ed and izzy are like ‘he can’t handle a fuckery’ sirs i would argue you met because stede had a fuckery

’#oh that’s a very good point #he’s dang good at a fuckery #just not a SCARY one #he’s great at confusing the heck out of ppl’ @the-moon-loves-the-sea yes yes EXACTLY

@julians-blog-i-guess you’ve changed the way I see him again. I was just rewatching it and I was struck by Stede saying, “As total as my theatrical knowledge may be—“ to the crew. Last time I thought he was being absurd; this time I believe him. Arguably all his survival skills and half of his management skills are theatrical. Most of his life goals, too. And now I really think his entire duel with Izzy was a masterful fuckery. From the moment Izzy challenges him and Stede gives him one steady look, shifts, and says, “Well, I accept,” Izzy should have been suspicious. He’s far too calm about it. But Izzy thinks he’s just stupidly overconfident (which is what he thinks of Stede’s whole career and character), and Stede feeds into that—asks him the rules of a duel, as though Ed hadn’t just been teaching him; tells him to warn a man, as he ducks back from any real danger; stumbles and flails across the deck, staying just out of reach, flinging gunpowder at Izzy and thwacking his ass and riling him, then lets himself be disarmed—right in front of the mast. And then Izzy is so insulted, and so desperate for blood, and so sure he’s won, he doesn’t notice Stede positioning himself to take the blow. Any other time, Izzy Hands would know what would kill a man. And Stede would never beat him at it, and Stede knows it. But he’s had an epiphany—just like when Ed told him lighthouses should be avoided, and when Frenchie told him the servants hear everything; Stede takes the little fact he’s last learned (where to take a blow) and makes the absolute most of it. He fuckeries him.

yes absolutely!!

adding on, i think his biggest strength is his ability to improvise and come up relatively easily with solutions on the go. it seems to be a rather unique talent among pirates - which is absolutely one of the reasons ed was so fascinated by him but that’s a rant for later. i think he tends to notice every small thing he could use to his advantage.

he’s good at spotting things others don’t, and i find he’s very good at knowing how to use them to his advantage. he’s a very out-of-the-box thinker, and can easily come up with untraditional solutions. i think he tends to go into situations with a rough plan, and a mental list of 'here’s stuff i need to be cautious about, he’s what i can use against the other person’

and as you mentioned in the tags, his ability to hold a fuckery not for the sake of scaring his opponents, but to confuse them, is also crucial. he does this a lot (meeting izzy, the entire fuckery episode, duel with izzy) where he’ll confuse them long enough to distract them, and then use whatever hidden advantages he’s found to completely obliterate them

and this contrasts wonderfully with ed’s more rigid style of creating an absolutely magnificent plan, but not really having a backup if things go wrong? his whole thing relies on having his (howeve unique and creative) plan go according to plan, and when it doesn’t, he’s screwed and gives up. he can also spot the small details that other people miss, but he doesn’t know how to use them to his advantage on the go in the same way stede does

(stede is a challenge for ed. he’s fucking bored out of his mind, and here comes this new guy who has a completely different way of going about doing things than virtually anyone he’s fought, and his ability to improvise is a huge strength ed doesn’t really have. they’d make great opponents - ed and his more traditional knowledge versus stedes capacity to come up with crazy ideas on the fly - and i hope we get to see some of that in s2)

both stedes 'art of confusion’ and improvisation are easily mistaken for overconfidence a lot, and very understandably so. he’s going into situations he doesn’t seem at all prepared for, but through a combination of both of these and his sheer fucking luck, he winds up fine most of the time aside from the occasional stab wound

(this is another way he absolutely pisses izzy off, because izzy’s spent years practicing and honing his skills to be Absolutely Perfect, whereas stede is this one overconfident inexperienced arsehole)

That makes so much sense. He is smart and attentive and fearless at improv and he’s spent most of his life bullied or bored out of his mind, and now he’s got the stage and the stakes and he’s thriving. He’s so out of his element but he’s finally using everything he’s got. Being chased around for half your life sets you up pretty well for adapting on the fly, and befuddling people who don’t think much of you.

@dragoonthegreatyes. It’s why even though the first time he was stabbed he was utterly unprepared (Did you mean to do that??), after that he is Ready. He may be a recent ex-hermit but he is an ex-hermit with the power of anxiety.

Also!! That hyperaware trauma response makes him extra attentive to the crew when they’re hurting, or vulnerable—he is careful of their emotional needs because his own are so painful. And it’s part of why he’s magnetic to Ed—he notices what Ed’s feeling before Ed’s admitted it to himself, and he spots the points where he’s vulnerable, and he wants to help. He doesn’t ignore or mock or dismiss Ed’s feelings like Izzy has.

But of course that’s their downfall—he’s so attentive to Ed but he never takes the time to share his own feelings and needs with Ed, or to tell him where he might be vulnerable in turn, or to give him a chance to take care of him or reassure him. He might feel like it’s too much to share, or he might not expect him to care, or he might be too focused on Ed, as a coping mechanism. He’s emotionally generous, but not at all open. So when Stede’s trauma comes between them Ed is blindsided. He had no idea what happened, or what could have triggered him. The most he’s ever heard of what worries Stede was admitted while he was delirious and dreaming.

mayfriend:

foreverrwinter:

They’ve found the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Babies who die of SIDS have a significantly lower level of an enzyme, the purpose of which is to rouse the baby from sleep if necessary (such as the baby stops breathing). This is extremely huge science and medicine news. There is a biological reason. It’s not random.

Previously, parents were told SIDS could be prevented if they took proper precautions: laying babies on their backs, not letting them overheat and keeping all toys and blankets out of the crib were a few of the most important preventative steps. So, when SIDS still occurred, parents were left with immense guilt, wondering if they could have prevented their baby’s death.

Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. (…) Harrington explained what she was told about the cause of her child’s death. 

“Nobody could tell me. They just said it’s a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn’t sit well with my scientific brain.” 

Since then, she’s worked to find the cause of SIDS, both for herself and for the medical community as a whole. She went on to explain why this discovery is so important for parents whose babies suffered from SIDS. 

"These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault,” she said.

(…) As the cause is now known, researchers can turn their attention to a solution. In the next few years, those in the medical community who have studied SIDS will likely work on a screening test to identify babies who are at risk for SIDS and hopefully prevent it altogether.