Sweet Summer Zoomer

I know it's just ONE baby (teenager), but I'm still laughing about this Stranger Things fic I read set in 1986 where a character gets a new Canon camera and then immediately shows his friends the pictures he's been taking all day. Then he takes a few embarrassing shots of his pal asleep and the pal is like "Delete those!"

Baby... child... precious...

...how do they THINK cameras worked?

They think his 1986 Canon had a tiny full-color LCD screen in the back of it; that's funny enough without getting into digital and film photography.

More epithets including one for beer and one for a countertop

1. the former school athlete keeps bouncing his leg


2. he couldn't help but let his mind wander to the mousey haired boy who walked in the door


3. he can't help but study the interesting man before him


4. he didn't have to be self-conscious about them with the guitarist turned bat slayer.


5. turning around to see the lanky eldritch being looking around owlishly


6. desperation to touch the most hated boy in school


7. The once fiery girl spent months in recovery


8. the actively undercover man


9. the tall veteran cocked an eyebrow at the slightly shorter, stockier blond man who stopped dead in front of him.


10. slaps his hands on the sparkling surface in front of him.


11. Handing out beer Steve nodded at everyone once they took it, his want for the golden liquid stronger than before

#8-9 contributed by msilverstar

Bunny hairdressing

We're having another heatwave this week (albeit today we got a break thanks to thunderstorms), so it was time to give the bunnies puppycuts again, the last time they got their floofs trimmed being in May. (They weren't completely grown out yet, but they were definitely looking muppety again.)

I haven't actually gotten any good, well-lit pictures that completely convey how hilarious the bunnies look when shorn, because you want action shots to be able to see their limbs and bellies and necks and so on. And feet. (A puppy cut involves cutting enough floofs off of the tops and bottoms of Rowan's back feet alone to double the volume of fur on Tristana.) The trash can is literally full of bunny floof right now, like two inches shy of the top rim.

There isn't a lot of natural light on the bunnies, because their territory is the two northwest rooms of the house that don't get any direct sunlight all day in the summer and are consequently naturally the coolest. Which is good for bunnies, and also makes them great to hang out in, but problematic for photo shoots? I guess I'll have to carry a bunny into the hallway and pose it on a little table or something if I want to get glamor shots. But in the meanwhile,





I trimmed the neck and chest ruffs/bibs down to help them cool off, and I did cut the fronds around the base of their ears, but I couldn't bear to take them all - I love the fronds. And I left them each some (shortened) muttonchops, which was possibly bad for cooling? But they just look so silly without them, and once when they got out and fought Rowan bit Japp on the cheek. This way I guess they still have a little protection.