Call a clinic rather than hoping a random stranger on hr Internet is going to be online.
This is for people’s future reference:
Go look at the bird. If it seems dead, pick it up, gently, see if it’s breathing. Touch its eyes if it isn’t. If it’s not breathing and its eyes don’t respond, it’s dead. Bury it or place it in a bush somewhere.
If it’s alive but seems dazed and isn’t really moving, put it somewhere quiet, away from predators. If there are a lot of stray cats around, bring it inside, put it somewhere dark, quiet, and enclosed so it can’t get into the rest of your house. Leave water next to it, make sure there’s a tiny bit of light, and leave it alone otherwise. Check on it in an hour or so. If it isn’t recovering, call a wildlife rescue clinic. If it’s fine, put it outside. Stunned birds are usually sitting upright, don’t try to move much, and don’t thrash.
If it’s moving, but thrashing around, fluttering awkwardly along without seeming to be able to stand, or otherwise acting like it’s awake but sorta broken, carefully capture it and take it to a clinic. That could indicate brain damage. If you can’t take it to a clinic right away, bring it inside and put it in a cloth-lined box, closed, with water available. Give it an hour to see if it recovers, then, again, clinic.
Always be careful handling wild birds. Expect it to scratch, peck, and bite. Be very careful of the wings, restraining them gently against the bird’s sides unless the wing seems injured. Do not squeeze the ribcage! Birds can’t breathe if you do that. Cup the bird in your hands, supporting its frame, without squeezing or applying any more pressure than is needed to keep the wings still. Don’t let it flap wildly or it can hurt itself. Do NOT let your cats, dogs, pets, or small children near it! Especially not animals, but also children. Older children can be shown the bird, quietly, but don’t pass it around for people to touch. Leave it alone as much as possible. If you need to transport it, line a box (cardboard is fine) with fabric, put the bird inside, and shut the box, it’ll stay calmer if you keep the box shut and the bird in complete darkness.
Below is a pic of me holding a brain-damaged bluejay (probably ran into a car) in one of the ways you can hold a bird. One hand under it, one hand over it, carefully keeping the wings folded. You can also cup your hands with the bird sitting in them, press your palms gently to the sides, and put your thumbs on its back. Feet laid back, toes pointing towards the tail, are best unless one leg seems damaged. I took the bluejay to a wildlife rehabilitator, this photo was taken right before I put it in a box so we could carry it in the car. I never got an update, but the lady told me it had a decent chance, bluejays are tough. It was thrashing along the ground, flapping like it was flying but unable to get off the ground, and couldn’t pull its feet under itself for support. Apparently typical bird behavior when brain-damaged. The cat in the background was not responsible, she was checking out the smell.
I sincerely believe that by 7th year Ravenclaws would just tell the door to their common room to fuck off and it would open for them
Q “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” A “You shouldn’t shove either up your arse.” “…Technically, yes.”
Imagine it, a poor First Year is waiting outside the common room, they can’t answer the riddle in a way to appease the eagle and must wait until someone else to answer it for them. It’s getting late, they’re starting to resign themselves to having to spend the night here.
Suddenly, their saviour comes! It’s a seventh year! Back from a night finishing off their Araithmancy essay in the Library. They look angry, but our poor little first year squares their shoulders, waiting to see what will happen, and hope that they’ll keep the door open for them.
The Seventh Year bangs the handle against the wall, and a slightly disgruntled voice asks the question again: “What is the truth?”
The Student Replies, “The Truth is that I am so fucking sick of all these mother fucking questions about stupid fucking topics like this you bloody fuck-witted bastard. Who in the name of Merlin’s saggy left testicle gives a fucking damn about all this shit anyway? I’ve been working my arse off in the library for the last seven hours now let me the fuck in or, truthfully, I’ll blast my way in and take you with me.”
The eagle knocker tutts, but allows the student entry anyway, and our little first year enters, eyes wide and in shock. They watch the seventh year go up to their bedroom, awe all over their face at their new hero. They did, indeed, learn something that day by waiting for someone to arrive, they learnt that swearing has a magic all of it’s fucking own, and that sometimes it is big and clever to use it.
The only head canon I will ever accept. Its both perfectly witty and fantastically assholish
witty and fantastically assholish… pretty much quintessential ravenclaw traits right there
My favorite version of this headcanon is that there is one Ravenclaw who went all seven years by answering the riddles with some variation of “not a potato” and was only ever wrong once.
1. I grabbed a 4ft alligator out of a pond in Florida when I was like 5, and held onto him for a while.
2. My sister ran me over with a golf cart like 5 Times at least
3. Another incident involving the golf cart was me riding in a hitched on metal cart used for utilities, which completely rolled over on our hardened dirt trail on the outskirts of the woods and warped the metal connection. How I didn’t break my teeth or any bone is beyond me.
4. I straight up almost drowned like 9 Times
5. The Full Body Fiberglass incident.
6. I got swine flu I was the only fucker in my community to get god damn swine flu and it was as miserable as the news stories made it out to be.
7. Electrocuted in the face with enough volts to stop a draft horse.
8. I got???? Stabbed????? Once???? In the CHEST????
9. My dad handed me a pistol in a grape field when I was 4 and just told me “shoot it.” And I did. (Note- I’m a good shot)
10. I GOT STABBED IN THE CHEST ONCE???????
11. Whiplash on the trampoline so severe I was unconscious for 1 minute and my sister thought she killed me (this was probably where I actually died)
Anyway I think I’m actually a ghost and just am really good at using technology.
I need elaboration on pretty much all of these stories, especially 2, 5, 7, and 8.
Let me just talk about this scene in TFP in the episode “Triage”
After Megatron asks Knockout to repair Soundwave’s visor, there is a long pause while ominous music plays in the background. We see Knockout looking unsure and gritting his teeth while looking at Soundwave.
What is there to be uncomfortable about is the question. Knockout is a doctor so he should be okay with examining others and seeing their ‘personal parts’. But having to repair Soundwave’s visor makes him hesitant.
Was this supposed to set up or hint for a Soundwave face reveal? Is his face too damaged/terrible to look at so that’s why he always wears a visor?
In these shots we can see Soundwave’s eyes under his visor, which means he does indeed have a face.
So most likely TFP planned for Soundwave to have a face reveal at one point but never got to it
Personally, I read that as “augh, he’s not going to like that, I don’t want to deal with angry Soundwave right now” rather than “eww”.
And yeah, Soundwave has a face, it’s shown in some of the comics.
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