don't let this flop. monty python watchers what phrases have had the most impact on your lexicon. for me it's "what's all this then" and "other than that, perfectly normal"
foolishpansy asked:
Thoughts on albatros? I find them to be quite superb birds. .
herpsandbirds answered:
Albatross. Yes.
Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Galapagos Islands
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.
photograph by Diego Quesada
Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Marion Island in the Southern Ocean
photograph by Rich Everett
Northern Buller’s Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, off the coast of Chile
photograph by Pablo Gutierrez Maier
Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, South Georgia Island
photograph by Bruce Robinson
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, found across much of the Pacific Ocean
photograph by Kat Paleckova
Makalena aka Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Hawaiian Islands
photograph by Isabella
Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris), coming to get you!!!, family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Sydney, Australia
photograph by Meysam Makvandi
Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariformes, offshore from Auckland Island, New Zealand
photograph by OKNZ
sardonic-rose asked:
Since you are accepting pet pics, here is my birb son, Cal. (He is both egotistical and needy at the same time.)
dashcon-two answered:
I love your birb son, he knows his greatness but sometimes he just needs you to tell him that you know it too
A world where you have a special animal soul companion, you get them at like...age five. Your parents take you for the ceremony. Since they are super magical they can change size so...larger sized animals can shrink so no one has to figure out how to like in an apartment with like...an elephant.
Find out your companion here *jazz hands*
Do you love them? Do you hate them?
How would your parents react to your new bestie?
"tumblr's the only social media without algorithms!" "you can still be anonymous on tumblr!" "tumblr's so nice because you don't have to show your face!" WRONG tumblr is special because you can have 3000 followers and still get an average of seven likes a post. i'm doing stand up comedy at a packed venue and one person is laughing
youre right im sorry beautiful
media: we have an anti-authoritarian story for you!
me: sweet hit me with the good stuff
media: so there's this marginalized underclass of people, right?
me: okay
media: and they're like, stigmatized for something that's mostly an aspect of how they are born, or where they're from, or they're badly misunderstood, right?
me: yup, got it, I'm with ya
media: so these people are rebelling against the current social order, because it's the instrument of their suffering
me: oh good great sure
media: but also they're violent and deranged and need to be stopped
me: ...what
media: yeah they're going too far, they're trying to overthrow the system and assassinate the nice cop trying to help them and also they burned down an orphanage
me: ...why? would they burn down an orphanage??
media: extremism is bad
me: still not seeing what this has to do with their fight though???
media: also now they've shot a dog. oops they shot another dog
me: what?! why? I though their motive was to overthrow oppression??
media: yes but their suffering has also made them evil
me: ...???
media: don't worry though, the good guys will defeat them and restore the status quo
me: the status quo that's been killing people?
media: well it turns out it was only killing the kinds of awful people who burn down orphanages and shoot dogs :)
me: oh. this is actually a pro-authoritarian story, isn't it?
media: nooo of course not don't be sillyyyyyy we're super progressive look one of the cops is a black lady don't be sillyyyyyy
Sleeping beauties and the art of doing absolutely nothing. Details from paintings by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip.
There’s a certain folkloric idea that if you die at sea, your soul is sort of. Inextricably stuck in the sea. Because your body is irretrievable, your soul is also irretrievable, down out of the reach of the gods who look at the surface of the world. In Norse mythology, they said that the souls of sailors who died at sea are caught in the sea-goddess Rán’s net and dragged into her domain, a distinct and separate afterlife alongside Hel and Valhalla. Davy Jones Locker. The funayūrei. A lot of cultures agree that once sea has a hold on you, even when your body has rotted and dwindled and been made food for crabs, it still won’t let you go.
Do you think we’re going to wind up saying the same thing about astronauts.
there’s just something so awesome about a character you love getting really badly hurt
nobody ever talks about the terrible fanfic epidemic of "they would NOT confess their love so openly and poetically as that."
big amatonormativity wants you to accept this as the norm but this is not how it has to be. we can push for consistent characterization in expressions of connection and affection. those characters could just kiss and not declare their undying love about it
reading this post back and realizing that i didn't get to my real point which is that maybe those guys shouldn't say that they're in love at all. i want you to look me in the eyes and tell me that you earnestly believe those guys would say "i love you". it doesn't have to be this way
Some lesser seen rodents... & non-rodents
Striped grass mice (x3), lowland streaked tenrec, Luzon cloud rat, Paca, Eurasian hamster, European hedgehog
It's so funny to me when those ads for ai generated "stories" are censored. Someone really spent more time putting a little blob over a character's low neckline than they spent creating anything.