Should I pick a girl as a gesture towards women’s equality, or is that pandering? Or do I think it’s pandering because of my limited male point of view? I’m vexed, Uzo, vexed!
Month: June 2017
8/2/15 – New camera practice at the zoo.
OWL FACES DO NOT WORK LIKE EVERYONE THINKS THEY WORK
open face lid
this is why Rowlet bothers me so much.
@tytonidae-bones
everybody always makes the marauders out to be super cool and suave but dude
they had codenames
they named their own friendship group
as far as i can tell only aBSOLUTE DORKLORDS DO THAT
how much do you wanna bet the entirety of hogwarts refused to call them ‘the marauders’ and they got all grumpy abt it
The entire exchange between them all during their 5th year exam also attests to this.
1. He’s sitting in my chair 2. He’s wearing my clothes 3. His names remus Lupin??
That’s not even funny ! but they all laughed. And they’ve known he’s a werewolf for how many years at that point? 3? I can’t get over it lolol it is absolutely dorky.Sirius and James wore matching Phoenix shirts while riding the motorbike together.
Elvendorks.
In addition (and I will categorically never get over this) sixteen year old James Potter doodling Lily’s initials in a love heart on his DADA OWL exam?
And for god’s sake, they dedicated a significant chunk of their free time to drawing their entire school (and not just any school- Hogwarts, the most convoluted building anywhere ever) and enchanting it to keep track of every single person, not to mention the fucking stairs and the walls that move. This map can see people under the Invisibility Cloak, doesn’t give two shits about Polyjuice Potion.
They were gi-fucking-gantic dorks. You can bet that their dorm room had more advanced textbooks in it than any other in the castle. You can bet that their homework (despite often likely being done a little close to the line) will nine times out of ten be twice as many inches as they were asked for including moving, colour coded diagrams and insanely complex theory on how to improve the effects of said spell or potion, potential applications that literally no-one would have thought of.
Like the very fact that they’re canonically fucking mischief makers of the calibre of Fred and George, the fact that they caused trouble that way is just textbook behaviour for a lot of really really bright kids? They were goddamn geniuses, and they were bloody bored 90% of the time, so they pushed themselves. Acing transfiguration? No problem, let’s become Animagi to help our best mate. Ancient Runes way bellow our skill level? Fine, we’ll use a combination of that, arithmancy and charms to make a map that tracks people all over the castle.
They were absolute nerd kings, and I sodding well love it.
My ideal beginning to a Batman movie:
We start with a slow pan down to Gotham as Oracle narrates
“Ask your average person who Gotham’s most famous citizen is, and you’ll get the same response every time: Bruce Wayne. Everybody’s heard of Bruce Wayne. You’ve probably heard his name a million times before. But there are some things that the average citizen doesn’t know about him. See, to the people of Gotham, Bruce Wayne is a rich kid who never grew up. They think he’s a buffoon, an airhead, a moron. But the truth is…”
*Batman bursts out of a window, screaming, on fire*
*record scratch, freeze frame*
“…they aren’t entirely wrong about that.”
EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
This is then followed by a series of clips from interviews with various Gotham citizens, all of whom give humorously ironic descriptions of Bruce Wayne’s idiocy:
“Bruce Wayne? I hear the guy gets through a super-car every month! Replaces every one, just like that!”
*Cut to shot of the Batmobile flipping end-over-end after slamming into one of Bane’s APCs*
“Wayne? Please! The guy would probably have accidentally killed himself years ago if he didn’t have that butler to babysit him!”
*Cut to Alfred physically restraining Bruce from going out to fight Scarecrow while having a broken arm, a concussion, and the flu,*
“I bet he throws away cash like it grows on trees!”
*Cut to Batman shouting “Hey, Lucius! Ask R&D to make some kryptonite/Nth metal alloy baterangs! Y’know, just in case!”
“I’m almost jealous. Super rich and he gets to hang out with gorgeous women across the world? Sign me up!”
*Cut to Bruce being slammed face first into a wall repeatedly by Lady Shiva.*
@smut-smut-in-the-butt this seems like something you’d be interested in
This is the Batman I long for.
Jasper the pet skunk crying to be picked up
someone please pick this ball of lint up
I can now add *angry pet skunk noises* to my list of useful non-verbal exclaimations
Sometimes I feel we’re closer to having Pokemon pets than we think
Your puppy seems distressed
Geladas are sort of baboons. They’re the only monkeys that are full on grazers, so why are they so scary looking? God damn it gelada you’re a motherfucking vegetarian. STOP TERRIFYING ME. But their diet is one of the reasons they got terrifying in the first place. Just like how humans have boobies to make up for the fact that you can’t see their butts too good, geladas have graphic and disturbing bright red, hairless, hourglass shaped markings on their chests. That’s because they just scoot around on their butts eating grass all the time, and there’s no point in having a swollen red sexual characteristic where no one can see it. But the worst thing about them is that god awful LIP FLIP thing they do where they turn their fucking faces inside out. Jesus fucking Christ! WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO EXIST? I wish I was DEAD.
Birds!
I don’t know what kind they are. The mother is a larger songbird-frame bird, with a grey back and a dull yellow belly. She flies kind of oddly, with her wings sort of cupped and fluttering. I’ve seen more birds like her, and they all fly like that. They’re really agile and can hover well, but they aren’t fast across open air. I can’t remember ever seeing them before, and I would remember that flight pattern, but they’re all over the place, always in pairs, this year.
The nest was clinging to the side of the tree. You can see a lot of webbing in the photo- I think that’s either webworm (tent caterpillar) webbing or spider webbing, and it was worked all into the nest. I’d imagine “builds its nest out of webbing and sticks it to a tree trunk” is a pretty distinctive bird thing.
@lookatthisbabybird and general @birdblr, anyone wanna take a stab at IDing? Googling and those “find that bird” websites haven’t gotten me anywhere so far. I’m in Central Texas, and sometimes we get birds that are supposed to only live in Mexico, so it could be some of them came up from there.
Maybe a barn swallow?? I can’t see the bottom of the nest, but they usually make like a cup out of mud then build a nest in it. Also maybe western blue birds???
Mama is bigger than a swallow and doesn’t have the sleek shape and forked tail, plus there isn’t that much mud in the nest.
Definitely not a bluebird. Mama is yellow and grey.
After more Googling, I think they might be Western Kingbirds. I’ll see if I can photograph the mother later to confirm.
In Rural America, We Need Sex Ed Along With Accessible Reproductive Health Care – Rewire
Listen if you wanna talk about the transphobia in the drag community lets talk about it. If you wanna address how rupauls and his show have encouraged this transphobia we can talk. If you wanna talk about the transphobia within that show specifically and how that has altered mainstream drag then we can. Or if you wanna talk about transphobia side connected to drag like people thinking trans women are all drag queens we can. but what youre not gonna do is sit up here and erase and misgender the trans women who are and were drag queens from the start of drag till now. Yall are not gonna sit up here and say drag is a “making fun of womanhood” or “just men in wigs” because that’s absolutely wrong to say. (Black) trans women have worked too damn hard to create something that we use a means of survival and safe expression for you court jesters to come up on this internet and say that dumb shit.
trans women arent drag queens drag is exclusively gay men
There are a number of trans women who are drag queens currently and in the past. This is exactly what i mean y’all are so stupid and transphobic. There is quite literally a drag queen who gave a speech about being a trans woman and a drag queen on tv just yesterday. Shut up.
Yoshi’s starting to stand up for himself!
I love Yasha gobies so much!!
I just love seeing Mollies in marine tanks 🙂
For anyone concerned: mollies are actually brackish water fish, and they can be acclimated to either freshwater or saltwater. They’re great in marine tanks because they’re one of the few readily available fish that will eat algae without eating your corals, plus they’re small and not terribly aggressive.
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