there are people in this world you haven’t even met yet who are going to love you so much, so please just hold on because the people who are right for you are coming
u know that scene in batman vs robin where they’re gonna watch a movie adaption of the book damian was reading?? well here’s them watching it,, cuz i wanna see them bonding more
‘Always show, not tell,’ is a big fat lie. If you always show, you’ll have half a novel of descriptive words and flowy sentences that will be hard to read.
Here is a quick tip:
Show emotion.
Tell feelings.
Don’t tell us ‘she was sad.’ Show us- ‘Her lip trembled, and her eyes burned as she tried to keep her tears at bay.’
Don’t show us ‘her eyelids were heavy- too heavy. Her limbs could barely function and she couldn’t stop yawning.’ Tell us – ‘she felt tired that morning.’
Showing emotion will bring the reader closer to the characters, to understand their reactions better. But I don’t need to read about how slow she was moving due to tiredness.
Likewise, when you do show, keep it to a max three sentences. Two paragraphs of ‘how she was sad,’ with no dialogue or inner thought is just as boring.
Pugs are not cute. Pugs are malformed, inbred, sick animals that should never have existed.
(Above: pug and wolf skulls. Note the shallow eye sockets, crowded, protruding teeth, and short snout in the pug.)
Dogs pant to cool themselves. As pugs have practically no snouts, they have trouble cooling their bodies and they can suffer from organ failure as a result.
Pugs are often unable to breathe properly due to their short snouts and compact breathing passages. This inhibits their ability to do things that dogs like best – running, chasing things, playing.
Pugs suffer from a mangled jaw from which their teeth grow in all directions.
Because of the distorted shape of their skulls, their eyes commonly pop out of their heads. 60% of prolapsed eyes become blind. Eyes put back in the skull are prone to infection and the dog may need treatment for the rest of their life.
Their eyes are also prone to swelling painfully, becoming scratched, and being irritated by their eyelashes.
When excited, pugs are prone to getting fluid stuck in their throats, making them choke or gasp for breath. This is given the cutesy nick name “reverse sneezing”. [video]
As it can be difficult for pugs to exercise, they are prone to obesity.
Some pugs are born with their nostrils pinched almost shut, making it impossible for them to live without an operation.
The wrinkles on their faces will become infected without constant, careful cleaning by their caretaker.
About 64% of pugs suffer from hip dysplasia (malformed hip sockets) which causes crippling lameness and painful arthritis.
Pugs have a genetic weakness to demodectic mange (a pretty nasty skin condition caused by mites).
Their curled tail makes them susceptible to hemivertibrae – misshapen backbones which cause spine bending and instability, neurological disorders, back leg paralysis, incontinence, and pain.
Pugs are so inbred that a study of ten thousand pugs in the UK had the genetic makeup of only 50 individuals. Inbreeding means that defective genes are more likely to be expressed and passed on to offspring.
Necrotizing meningoencephalitis (brain swelling) is common among pugs. Dogs with this condition usually die within a few weeks.
I am so sick of seeing pugs being celebrated. Their small, squashed skulls, facial wrinkles, curled tails, and protruding eyes are actually valued when these characteristics are a cruelty in themselves.
Pugs are charming, sweet, funny little souls and they don’t deserve the bodies humanity has designed for them.
Stop celebrating pugs. Stop buying pugs.
let’s celebrate retro pugs instead
responsible breeders decided they liked the temperament but the health issues were a nightmare, so they fixed them, they bred them out
it’s retro as in before the muzzle was bred out
and look at them
the one on the left is a retromop and the one on the right is a (elderly) pug
they’re healthier, live longer and have all the pug benefits with none of the usual health issues because of the deformed skull
they have longer legs
making exercise easier, and yet maintained most of the pug looks, and yes, they have the pug grin
want a pug – get a retropug or retromop, a healther, happier, and possibly cheaper option
even though I love pugs, it’s important that people know this
Retromops are where it’s at friend. Keep 100% of the pug charm with 0%of the terrible unhealthy inbred deformity.
Yes, Peggy Arnold did have that breakdown at West Point after her husband defected. However, it was COMPLETELY staged! She was left behind at West Point with her son Edward who was still a baby. George Washington had breakfast with her that morning. Lafayette reproached Washington playfully, saying how the young men (mostly aides) waited their breakfast with “ravishing” Peggy Arnold. Washington said in return:
“Ah, I know you young men are all in love with Mrs. Arnold … You may god and take your breakfast with her and tell her not to wait for me.”
Two aides, Samuel Shaw and James McHenry went ahead and told Peggy that a large party of guests had been delayed but would shortly arrive for breakfast. When Washington dismounted at the Robinson House where the Arnolds were stayed, one of Arnold’s aides, Major David Franks explained that Arnold had been summoned to West Point on an urgent call and that Peggy Arnold lay abed upstairs. Late into the afternoon there was still no sign from either Peggy or her husband. Arnold had long hopped on a barge that André was supposed to be on and Peggy staged her scene.
It was Lieutenant Colonel Richard Varick who initially notified Washington of the “delirious” behavior of Peggy Arnold upstairs. he had found her roaming the halls in a state of partial undress and coaxed her back to bed where she insisted that “there was a hot iron on her head and no one but General Washington could take it off.” When Washington went upstairs to calm her, he found her hugging her child, Edward, to her breast. She pretended not to recognize Washington. “There is General Washington,” Varick urged her gently.
In return Peggy insisted, “No that is not General Washington! That is the man who is a-going to assist Colonel Varick in killing my child.” She added, “General Arnold with never return. he is gone forever, there, there, there.” She motioned toward the ceiling saying, “The spirits have carried him up there. They had put hot irons in his head.” She fooled everyone and played it to perfection. Hamilton wrote to his wife, Elizabeth Hamilton:
“It was the most affecting scene I ever was witness to. [For a considerable time, Peggy had] entirely lost her senses … One moment she raved, another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her infant to her bosom and lamented its fate, occasioned by the imprudence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced insensibility itself.:
After the event, believed to be innocent, Peggy was sent back to Philadelphia where her family resided. Theodosia Prevost had been a good friend of hers and Peggy had stayed with Prevost in what is now Paramus, New Jersey, enroute to Philadelphia from West Point. Peggy, unable to take the lying anymore, confessed everything to Theodosia, telling her that “through unceasing perseverance, [Peggy] had ultimately brought the general into an arrangement to surrender West Point.” Nobody saw that the reaction was a farce.
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