Thefourthvine

@thefourthvine.bsky.social

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I favorite dog pics. She/her.

Chair/couch thing with two seats and only one arm, which is wide, slightly sloped, and padded.
A black and white cat stares at the camera judgmentally
Godzilla showing off them teethies
Results identifying me as a conscientious objector to AI
A silver dog in a grey dog bed
The Queen Mary, a giant decaying boat with a Russian submarine in front of it. If you don’t think it’s ominous, you’ve never been inside it. It has real “luxury hotel that is never going to let you check out and where you will definitely discover at least one cursed object” vibes.
NYT gift link screenshot. It says “Someone unlocked this story for you.”
A green moon with a red eye; the assemblage radiates the Cool Dude aura of a character in an ‘80s after school anti-drug special.
A screenshot of a bird page from Roost. Drawn-in blue arrows point to two games.
Extremely happy silver dog in a living room
A hard-won tripod pen grasp
A concerned but hopeful silver dog on her bed
A sad silver dog resting on a pink leg contemplates the end of the world.
Two battling monsters with the label “NO KINGS BUT KONG/NO GODS BUT GODZILLA”
Tweet by C.M. Galdre Wild bee: just getting snack Me: no prob bee Mason bee: just make house Me: build a way b Honey bee:jus sampling the lavenders Me: you know I got an assortment Bumble bee: hey *bonk* I jus *bonk* I h Me: *holds flower still* Wasp: I'LL SEE U IN HELL Me: U TELL THEM WHO SENT U 3:41 AM • 08 Jul 18
Screencap of an insta post. The caption says “You tell them. They doubt you.” The picture is of Larry Bird looking at Magic Johnson on the basketball court during their playing days. Bird is holding up his finger to his lips in a shushing motion. Above him it says “They always find out.”
A screenshot of a buzzfeed quiz that asks “Finally, if you had to give a presentation on why one of these TV shows is THE BEST, which one would you pick?” The choices: friends game of thrones frasier the sopranos parks and rec breaking bad the west wing the office the wire
and wash in cold water. Insert the disk with the smallest holes in your food mill, and purée all the grapes through the mill into a bowl. If you prefer to use a blender or food processor, first cut the berries open and remove their seeds. 2. Put 1 cup of the puréed grapes into a small saucepan. Add the flour, shaking it through a strainer. Mix thor-
Chilled Black Grape Pudding FOR 4 SERVINGS 1 pound fresh black grapes 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons granulated sugar A mixing bowl kept in the freezer ½ cup very cold heavy whipping cream 1. Pull off all the grape berries from their stems
Summer year 'round! With nearly 345 days of sunshine every year, Long Beach is the ideal respite for snow birds looking to escape the winter chill.
A disturbing vase made of weird protrusions with holes in them. Bonus: from a distance it looks like it’s made of molars.
Transformative works: Yes, please! If you want to remix, record, perform, translate, adapt, or fanbind any of my stories, go right ahead - no need to ask permission. Just please link back to the original story when you post your work (and please post it somewhere I can see it), and let me know (by comment, email, or the related works request) so I can go revel in whatever awesome thing you've done. Same goes for art or whatever other creative things you might feel inspired to do. A note for fanbinders specifically: If you'd like to share your typeset file with others, that's fine! Please let me know where it is and make sure I can access it, too. It's fine to send typeset files to a service for printing. It's also great if you want to change a typo or a formatting problem --please do! But if you can, please also let me know so I can fix it in the original document. Please don't use my work for anything commercial (and especially don't sell copies), use my work to train AI, or host my work on other sites or archives without checking with me first.
A sad and disappointed silver dog who did nothing to deserve rain.
A picture of an ear. “La oreja” is written underneath, and below that there’s a read “Incorrect,” with the correct answer given as “La oreja.” The entry and the correction are exactly the same.
A floofy grey cat stares at the camera from a position on the floor. The stare is haughty and aggrieved. If the cat could speak, the words “incompetent peon” would definitely be involved
Screencap of my ao3 profile, which says: My pseuds: thefourthvine and Littera Abactor I joined on: 2008-09-17 My user ID is: 58
Silver dog lying mostly on a dog bed, her eyes open
A WaPo popup that offers a monthly subscription at one dollar, except under that it says “every week” in a much smaller font
A bad photo of a digital form offering a choice of how to be addressed in: First name only, proper sir name (spelled s-i-r space name), or other
Small bird on a power wire above a roof
An older man in a black jacket clutches what I first thought was a ferret but it’s probably a cane. He’s exchanging a meaningful look with a younger man. The younger man is holding a wicker tray (?) with an orange, a flask, and something covered by a checked cloth. The younger man is the vehicle for the real stars of the scene: a large striped brown knit cap and a long red knit scarf, which is worn over three visible layers of clothing, all with open necks.
A screenshot of part of a Wikipedia entry. It reads: Plot In 1977, Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki, dressed in an assortment of knitted accessories), a fine arts student at UC Berkeley, leaves his girlfriend (and semi-nude model), Hope Eastbrook (Gina Holden), to go home to Placerville, California for Christmas break. With his brother Pat (Aaron Ashmore), he drives home on a motorcycle with a sidecar that serves as the only operational family vehicle for the duration of the story.
A screenshot of a recipe for “3-Ingredient Tomato Salad.” The ingredients list contains 6 ingredients, one of them optional. (Text follows.) How To Make My 3-Ingredient Marinated Tomato Salad For two to four servings, you'll need: • 2 large heirloom or beefsteak tomatoes, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil • 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano • Flaky salt and ground black pepper, to taste • 2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan, optional
Screenshot from Libby showing that I have 29 holds, 7 loans, and 10 notices. It also shows that Letter to the Luminous Deep is due soon.
A medium sized silver dog sprawls on a white dog bed but rests her head on a gray dog bed she’s moved near the white one.
Headline reading “Drunken, armed Border Patrol agent assaulted police Officer outside Long Beach restaurant, DA alleges.” Beneath is a picture of the Yard House, a local restaurant
Spock and Kirk from the Star Trek AOS are in the foreground standing in the Enterprise’s bridge. In the background are Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura.
Just the saddest fucking flag. The seal of LA County on a blue field with a green bar at the bottom. On the green bar it says COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES in yellow, which means that “County of Los Angeles” is on the flag twice. Kenneth Hahn designed this flag and I am not surprised.
The flag of the city of Long Beach. It has a swoopy thick white line running side to side. The bottom is blue and the top is yellow. The yellow part has the city seal in it. The blue part has “CITY OF LONG BEACH” with “THE INTERNATIONAL CITY” in italics, because why not all caps and italics? Why not, I say?
A tweet by @thefourthvine: I just saw a man pick up and carry 2 (TWO) golden retrievers. Large ones. One on each shoulder. He was saying, "You always do this. You SAID you wanted to go for a walk!" as he picked them up. 7:46 PM • 2018-12-19
A living room with a toilet in it, fully in view of the window across from it
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Two lemons. One is a normal-sized supermarket lemon and the other is a larger than grapefruit sized one from our tree.
A plethora of yellow roses in various stages of bloom. In the background, green leaves and dirt and grass.
The tiniest tomato plant ever; every leaf is a miniature and the whole thing is both abundantly green and growing and extremely wee.
New tomato plants in a planter
Stevie Nicks sings the end of “Silver Springs” directly into Lindsey Buckingham’s ear. His eyes are closed. Truly, he will never get away from the sound of the woman who loved him.
A yellowish fish with a lot of black spots in a leopard kind of pattern. It has large gray liplike protrusions near its mouth.
A silver dog stares up into the phone (actually the face of the person she’s lying on)
A cover for Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie. This is a 1920s mystery short story, but the artist must have thought it was a 1980s romance novel. A woman in an off the shoulder flowered blouse clutches the shoulder of the besuited man in front of her; his eyes are closed. They are surrounded by a weird golden cloud. The author’s name is in bright highlighter yellow script. The title is in all caps metal-look silver and has streaks of neon pink underlining random parts of it.
A hard-to-avoid Google AI search result retrieved February 26 that says: “No, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth in March 2025 after being stranded in space for almost eight months.”
A sad worried silver dog on an old brown chair. She is looking into the future and she does not like what she sees.
A wary silver dog eyes the camera, hoping the person behind it will not force her to get out of bed in this cold, cruel, damp world
An illustration of a polynomial, 5x^2 + 2y - 7, with coefficients, exponent, variables, constant, and operators labeled. The image is from BYJU's.
A silver dog on a grey dog bed with a white blanket. She is curled up very tightly and trying to deny the world beyond her bed even exists.
Two Buddha’s hands/fingered citrons. They are lemon in color and texture but they have many fingers or tentacles extending out of a top ball. They look like eldritch lemons that have gone through a warp portal unsuccessfully. Photo by The Spruce Eats.
Two texts from the same number. The first text is a test of Alert Long Beach. The second says “Anyone want Air 8 pilot OT tomorrow the 24th? Contact Sgt. Schuerger or the desk.”