I got some random nail polish from ulta, put them on, and later realized that the pattern looked exactly like my make up bag!
Goodbye.
Dear League of Legends,
I think we should take a break.
I know I say this all the time, but this time I’m serious. But of course, it’s not you, it’s me.
I remember hearing about you when I was first beta testing Heros of Newerth. I saw some of your pics, and let’s be honest, HoN was much better looking than you. He reminded me of Defense of the Ancients, and I guess there will always be a place in my heart for the old War Craft 3 graphic style. However, his friends were dicks and I was constantly getting told to uninstall. There was also the fact that he was going to cost $30 dollars, so it was obvious that HoN and I never became a thing. When my friends finally introduced me to you at Penny Arcade Expo ‘10, you sparked my interests immediately. I loved how easy it was to pick up new champions, I could go whole games without someone questioning my sexual preferences, and best of all, you were free. So when the Riot software engineer sat down next to me, watched me play a game and gave me that limited edition Riot Singed skin, I was sold.
Fast forward to a year and a half later.We’ve had good days, like that time when a Pentakill was robbed from me because the 5th person I needed to kill was still dead from the last time I killed him. People remembered my name because I’m the one who plays Annie in the legendary Alice in Wonderland skin. We’ll always have those memories Baby. However, to date, I’ve spent a combined $65 dollars on Riot Points for my friends’ presents and countless hours grinding Influence Points for new champions (especially the new one that turns enemies into a dancing cupcake? MUST HAVE!). The other day I found myself in an empty room on a Saturday night cussing at my computer and telling (what I presume to be) a 12 year old to go kill himself. What kind of life is that for a 23 year old girl? I think I can do better (things in the real world).
So for now, I’m going to explore my options IRL. I know I will think of you daily but I must distract myself from you. Perhaps one day another LAN fest will lead us to find each other again. Until then, this is goodbye.
- With all of my love, Alice.
Asians: Disney princess Level
Asians do it extreme.
LOL. Asians!
Asians: Do all the work, save fcking China, still not a princess.
Right as I saw this post on my dash, I laughed about this because I play LoL with my boyfriend. Then I alt+tab to my open LoL browser, and saw my boyfriend queuing up without me. MoFo.
A Letter from a Shelter Manager - anonymous in North Carolina
“I think our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all…a view from the inside if you will.
First off, all of you breeders/sellers should be made to work in the “back” of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don’t even know.
That puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it’s not a cute little puppy anymore. So how would you feel if you knew that there’s about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at? Purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or “strays”, that come into my shelter are purebred dogs.
The most common excuses I hear are; “We are moving and we can’t take our dog (or cat).” Really? Where are you moving too that doesn’t allow pets? Or they say “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”. How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? “We don’t have time for her”. Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! “She’s tearing up our yard”. How about making her a part of your family? They always tell me “We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a place for her we know she’ll get adopted, she’s a good dog”.
Odds are your pet won’t get adopted & how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn’t full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don’t, your pet won’t get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big, black or any of the “Bully” breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door.
Those dogs just don’t get adopted. It doesn’t matter how ‘sweet’ or ‘well behaved’ they are.
If your dog doesn’t get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn’t full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because shelters just don’t have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.
Here’s a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being “put-down”.
First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to “The Room”, every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it’s strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 vet techs depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”. Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerk. I’ve seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don’t just “go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.
When it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You’ll never know and it probably won’t even cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right?
I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t get the pictures out of your head I deal with everyday on the way home from work.
I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter.
Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.
My point to all of this DON’T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!
Hate me if you want to. The truth hurts and reality is what it is. I just hope I maybe changed one persons mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say “I saw this and it made me want to adopt”. THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORTH IT.”
