well, i won't know until they interact, but my guess is they'll probably get along okay. but if someone were to draw some convincing art of the ship, i might be influenced. :D
Bel's poetry-fugue: strangely awesome Loggan: the best service animal ever also.... Spoiler I suspect there may be either a) an adoption or b) a happy reunion in the works
Spoiler He's got no inhibitions right now, and yet all he wants to do is eat rice, noof your hair, and play where's-the-chesspiece with Aspera. How someone so gentle by nature can be so deadly by design is one of the great mysteries of your life. -dies of the wibbles-
I fell behind on Boat trolls because of reasons, so I decided to pick back up starting with the Space Navy AU. I'm two posts in and ohmigosh, is this going to be essentially The Irresponsible Captain Aspera? :D :D :D
Hahaha, @roach, you do such a great job of translating human porn/sexy-art tropes into troll. You were totally describing a gills-and-butt pose there.
I now want very badly to have a scene where there are Bad Guys and Twitch throws them at the ceiling.
Well, yes, Bel, you are a dog. You're a mix between a wolf and a human, didn't you ever read your Discworld?
Spoiler: WRT Where Woofs eating My two cents! I feed my dogs "prey model raw" which is as close to Real Wolf food as you can get from a butcher. General rule of thumb: 2% of their body mass if lazy, 3-4% if active per day. 80% meat, 10% bone, 5% liver, 5% other organs. Tripe, kidney, etc. A lot of people who can get their hands on whole carcasses will just chuck a pig or goat or deer or whatever into the back yard, let the dog munch until they get a food baby, then put the carcass in the fridge for a couple days, rinse & repeat. I can easily see werewolves doing this. My 100lb GSD gets 3lbs per day, but will happily inhale an entire 5lb chicken in under three minutes. Most edible meaty bones (such as a raw chicken drumstick) will get cracked into two pieces and swallowed whole. It all dissolves into bone jello in their guts. I've also seen him swallow a chunk of boneless pork loin as big as my two fists in one piece. TL:DR: My dogs are very spoiled and eat better than I do.
Please feel free to shut me up. Spoiler: WRT Where Woofs: GSD Butts The sloped back on GSDs (healthy ones at least, the ones that WIN the shows) is mostly posture! They're trained to cant their back legs out, one farther back than the other, when they stand as if on display aka "stacking". If the dog's spine shows a straight line from withers to butt, it's a healthy spine. If there's an arc or a bump halfway down the back, it's a "roach" (heh) back, and that is unhealthy. The dog's legs and stance should make its spine form a descending angle, not the curvature of the spine itself "Free" stacking is the dog standing on its own, with no input from the handler. This tends to be more relaxed, but the butt is still lower than the withers and it is a trained stance. It's intentionally different from how the dog would normally stand if it was just doofing around somewhere. "Hand" stacking is handler driven. The dog will free stack, and then the handler will exaggerate that stance. With GSDs, they'll streeeeeetch the back legs out, enhancing the angle and making the dog look much longer in general. Working lines tend to have fairly unimpressive free stacks. It's just not comfortable/natural for them to stand like that. Show lines look for dogs that naturally like to stand that way and breed that into their lines. I can, however, with a lot of treats and patience, put my working line into a hand stack to rival a showline. Also, a healthy showline should be able to do anything a working line can. The schutzhund club in town here has a National Champion with multiple titles in "Ooh look at me, I'm so pretty and well mannered! I am a perfect Lady!" and "Yeah you better run, motherfucker! Oh wait, you can't BECAUSE I JUST HAMSTRUNG YOU! #GET REKT" Her name is Honey, she's a gorgeous red-gold sable and she sounds like a fucking bear when she goes off the chain. I've watched this dog tackle a 6'5" 200lb guy in full leather armor, tear off his wood-and-carpeting arm guard and prance back to her handler on her tippy toes, tail flagged. Fun Fact! Each breed has a different style of stacking, designed to display that breed's best attributes. For example, where GSDs are stretched out long with dropped hips, Huskies are made to stand foursquare, with extremely straight legs, head and neck held at right angles to the body. And show huskies have the floofiest heads oh my stars ETA: And a "red sable" colored GSD is pretty damn close to the colors of a darker spectrum red wolf. My boy is a black-and-tan sable and I get so many people swearing he's a wolfdog. No. No he is not. I do not want a wolfdog wolfdogs are so high maintenance holy shit.
