If you need some hope to get you through reactive dog training, here’s Arlo playing around without a care in the world while the neighbor dog barks at us on the other side of the *chicken wire* fence :’)
There was a time when he’d be barking back, a time when he’d maybe be lunging at the fence, and a time when he’d be cowering in the other corner of the yard if there were a dog barking at him. But look at him now! Don’t give up!
thinking of toddler harry who’s very, very attached to his godfather sirius (as he should be, really) and gets pissy whenever he goes for work. (yes, sirius is a 9-5er here. suspend all disbelief, folks)
so, to get a handle on the tantrums, sirius dresses harry in his own little formal clothes, robes and over cloak and silver clasp and fake wand holder and all.
‘look, siri, im just like you!’ harry says, every morning like clockwork. once they look absolutely alike, hair combed and tied neatly (little butterfly clips in sirius’ curls, ofc), they set off for the day. sirius conjures a little size-appropriate desk for him that he can sit at, gets him a briefcase and all. when u open it, it has all sorts of colouring materials, beads and strings and charms for DIY, and a little notepad with a pen for Serious Stuff.
throughout the day, sirius gets his work done while harry carefully does his own stuff. whenever he gets too fidgety, sirius sends him out on a ‘mission’—going out and evaluating how the rest of the employees are doing their work. harry, of course, takes his task super seriously and tries to emulate sirius’ Grown Up Face very diligently, walking with his hands behind his back and an adorable little frown on his face. of course, he’s so short he can’t actually see what anyone’s doing but everyone’s accommodating enough that he has enough information to relay it back to sirius in his office.
at the end of the day, both of them take their cloaks off the hanger, simultaneously sling it over their shoulders, and wave a goodbye to the remaining members in the office. when they get home, harry is still meticulously copying sirius’ actions so he neatly sets his shoes to the side, hangs his cloak on the rack, and falls face first into the sofa with an exhausted sigh of relief.
‘being a adult is hard, padfoot,’ is the last thing he says before drifting off to sleep.
Used this Tieria drawing as a bit of a test/warmup drawing to help me get used to working on a bigger screen, as my iPad arrived yesterday so its only really just a case of getting used to the big screen (for those of you wondering, all of my digital stuff has been done on my phone up until now and I was just very stubborn about moving on to using a bigger screen… until recently when my last two reasonably(?) detailed drawings caused my phone to lag while finishing them off).
Before anyone asks I did not have a solid idea on what I was doing with this drawing due to it being a test piece, but this is the traditional sketch that I did yesterday to sorta help with getting used to the new addition to my art equipment to help with college stuff primarily.
the idea of Earth-Alpha Chip getting injured did actually interest me, but that it could just be undone by the logic of Earth-Alpha makes too much sense. but this was the first bit of him having internal complexity that really worked for me- the idea that he would feel his role in Richard/Dragonflyman’s life is contingent on his ability to be his sidekick, and he would fear losing that relationship if he couldn’t be Stinger anymore
but, of course, the highlight was more info on Earth-Omega Chip! some of which was very shocking and some of which was in-line with what I’d been expecting
the characterization of Earth-Omega Richard was really strong, too. I like that he genuinely cares about young people and is consistently bad about acting compassionately towards them. I liked the depiction of his mental state so soon after Chip’s death. I think we’re beginning to see here the progression towards the person he becomes at the time of the beginning of the main story, where he’s able to interact with Earth-Alpha Chip differently. also, the depiction in this story of the way he resorts to using violence- both before and after Chip’s death- and how he’s out of touch with how that affects witnesses, made that he was still being too violent a year into living on Earth-Alpha make sense to me
Whoever is slowly filling up my feed with LOST gifs, I thank you for fueling my obsession with this show as I resist the urge to watch it with my husband until after the convention that we’re attending and potentially after finishing Battlestar Galatica. You’re doing the lord’s work for this little Benjamin Linus FanFiction writer
“hey so there’s been a bunch of exposures recently but we’re gonna have the volunteer party this week bc it’s outdoors so we’ll be fine. yeah it’s a bunch of people all talking maskless face to face in relatively close proximity but we’re outside so any transmission would of course be impossible” be so fucking for real