Big fan of whatever this genre of conversation is
Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards
barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC
nonononononono
‘saw from the 1600s’ = ~400 years ago
this fresco is from ~3600 years ago
dumbest pet peeve i have is people not bothering to research what kind of antlers to give their deer or deer-related characters
when people defend the “Cis white guy is default” thing like “He’s meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!” kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL “default” you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year.
happy fanfic writer appreciation day to EVERYONE who has ever posted a fic, tried to write a fic, wanted to write a fic but didn’t think your writing was “good enough” to be shared (between you and me, it is!!!) because ALL of you make this fandom better with your creativity and beautiful words, whether you know it or not. thank you!!!!!!!!!! ❣️❣️❣️
wow I'm cutting it close, aren't I?
So thanks to a friend,I checked and several names of Nigerian tribes are trademarked.
Timbuktu, an outdoor clothing brand based in northern England, filed to trademark the word “Yoruba”.
They are not the only one,hoever.
Some examples of it being registered,or attempted to be registered
I think we should talk about it more,as it is cultural appropriation,stealing people’s culture to use as brand names,collections,or other stuff such as one i saw being used as POLO SHIRT brand name.
If you see a video of someone playing/roughhousing with a baby calf, it’s important to ask yourself “is this something that will still be cute and not scary when the animal weighs 1500 pounds”
The calf is probably having fun! But that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a good thing.
It’s really cute when you’re bottle feeding an adorable baby bull and he bunts your legs and chases you!
It’s not so cute when he grows into a Very Much Not Baby bull with horns and testosterone and the knowledge that ramming people with his head and charging them is a thing he can do!
(This ABSOLUTELY applies to heifers too)
Recently saw a video of a guy letting his teenage Brown Swiss bull use him as a scratching post and it caused much internal screaming
"Remember everyone, it's cute when a tiny kitten attacks your hand, but it won't be so cute when you're dealing with an adult cat who you've taught that this is acceptable. You should use toys to play with your kitten and disengage if it attacks you. Otherwise you will end up with an adult cat who attacks people for fun."
"Anyway, I raise huge slabs of muscle on four legs, check out this cute baby..."
Your hoarder grandfather dies and you gotta clean out his hoarder house but unfortunately he was a powerful wizard so you gotta clean out twelve tower floors of floor-to-ceiling cursed artefacts and expired mystery potions.
There's a rat infestation and you genuinely can't tell if they're natural rats or not.
He's got some really nice magical cupboards that lead to huge extradimensional spaces but those spaces are also crammed full of random bullshit.
You find like twelve magical ancestral swords in there. You're pretty sure that your family has a magical ancestral sword but you have no idea if it's any of these ones. You'll have to ask your mum but she refused to come to the tower so you're gonna have to lug all twelve of them across the country to her idyllic little village to find out.
You call a mover but a giant Drake with a saddle with like twelve hundred bags hanging off its side shows up with exactly two Kobolds on its back. Small shiny things go missing.
You do this on purpose because the more random shit they steal, the less you have to worry about trying to sell or dispose of.