G R O W T H.

^ NOTHING BUT TRUTH HERE

I think about this all the time when I contemplate how terrible and self-centered nerd culture can be yet how much of their media furthers messages of self-sacrifice, cooperation and inclusion

This is the best explanation I could come up with for why it takes me so long to do updates sometimes when, at other times, I’m typing them up like clockwork.

also this:

facts.

I’m like this with my original fiction, too.

You guys forgot this one:

Accurate AF

Also this entire thought process:

[image credit  Emily Chapman ]

Capital classes: I wonder why “eat the rich” and guillotine jokes are so popular among millennials?

Also Capitalists:

EAT

THE

RICH

Proof that Chris hemsworth like all the actors in the avengers movies is literally a child. Part 2

ME, A NORMAL CONTRIBUTOR TO FANDOM: So let’s talk about the pedagogical implications Thanos’s snap would have on the Sesame Street curriculum within the greater MCU.

I don’t know how pedagogical it is, but I guess now I’m thinking about Bert sitting alone in a room, missing Ernie.

That is absolutely the emotional core of what a post-Snap episode of Sesame Street would be about (I feel like Bernice would be missing too, and Bert would try to play chess with Rubber Duckie?), but for the episode to function there needs to be something they’re teaching the audience besides ennui, and that is where I’m really stuck.

Because the emotional core wouldn’t stick if it’s not supported by the structure of the show! But it seems like the Snap destroys basically all structures in place. But that makes the structure of Sesame Street that much more necessary. And then I spiral like this for a while.

Disclaimer: I have not watched a full episode of Sesame Street in a long time

Big Bird has been waiting for the store to open for a very long time now. He’s a patient bird, and he knows about waiting his turn, but his watch has the big hand on the three and the little hand on the nine and he’s pretty sure that Alan usually open the store when the little hand is on the seven.

Finally, when the little hand goes all the way to the four, the door opens.

“Hi, Big Bird,” Chris says, his eyes red and puffy. “We aren’t going to open the store today.”

Big Bird doesn’t understand; Hooper’s store opens every day. “Why aren’t you opening the store, Chris?” Big Bird asks. “I need beakpaste, I’m all out.”

Chris just looks sad. “Big Bird, did you hear about The Snap?”

“No,” Big Bird says, and the way Chris is talking is very scary. He feels like he might need to sit down. “I don’t even know how to snap!”

Chris steps out form behind the door and gestures for them to sit on the stoop. When they’re settled, Chris takes a deep breath before he speaks. “Well, a bad man named Thanos came to Earth. Do you know about Thanos?”

“Yes,” Big Bird nods He heard some of the grownups saying that name. “He fought with the Avengers.”

“That’s right,” Chris says. “And the Avengers lost their fight. Sometimes, even when grownups try really hard, they can’t do all the things they want to do, and sometimes that means that bad things happen.”

“Did a bad thing happen?”

“Yes,” Chris says, taking Big Bird’s wing in his hand. “Because of Thanos, a lot of people are missing. And Alan is one of them.”

Big Bird has to think about that for a moment. He went missing one time, when he was a blue bird in a circus, but his friends found him and brought him home. But something about Alan’s face tells Big Bird that this isn’t the kind of missing where your friends can find you.

“Is Alan dead, Chris?” Big Bird asks. “I remember when Mr. Hooper died.”

“The honest answer is that we don’t know. He might be. Or he might just be missing.”

Big Bird tries to understand that. “Missing?”

“Yeah,” Chris says. “He might come back some day, and he might not. We just don’t know.”

Big Bird wants to cry. He loves Alan, and he doesn’t want any of his friends to be missing. “Is anyone else missing?”

“Yes,” Chris says. “Some of your friends may be, or their parents, or yours cousins and uncles and aunts. A lot of people are. And it’s very scary.”

“What can we do?”

Chris is crying a little, a few small tears pooling at the side of his eyes, and Big Bird wants to do something, wants to say something, but he kinda feels like crying too, and doesn’t know what will help. “I don’t know,” Chris says. “I think the only thing we can do is be here for each other, and love each other, and take care of each other. When things are scary, and when bad things happen, the most important thing to do is look around at the people who are still here, and try to do your best for them.”

Big Bird nods. “Hey Chris?”

“Yeah, Big Bird?”

“Do you want a hug?”

Chris nods. “I would very much like a hug, thank you.”

Big Bird does the only thing he knows how to do; he opens his wings and wraps them around Chris, doing his best to be there for the people who are still with him.

I hate my brain sometimes.

Because it pointed out within about four seconds:  The worst part of this is that they’d have to decide which muppet characters went missing after the Snap based partially on which muppeteers did.

brain, why are you like this.

— That Is Not What ‘Lovesick’ Is | Wonkette (via holyfiiire)

I promise you, brother, the sun will shine on us again.

Loki finally accepting who he truly is

…The rightful King of Jotunheim, God of Mischief, do hereby pledge to you, my undying fidelity.

YES

Them: Sit like a lady

Me:

Sit like women did before short skirts made “knees together” “ladylike”.

Instead of complaining that men take up too much space maybe we should just start talking up space again.

Big skirts Big stance Big mood

BLESS

I’m gonna reblog this forever and ever and ever and ever

Domestic pigeon feather patterns caused by a single gene, possibly caused by hybridization and this same gene also causes vision defects in people

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180717094723.htm Also apparently barless pigeons have eye problems?

Dove Mom-

Fascinating!

I have never worked with barless before and this is *really* good reason not to!

So what counts as barless? I assume that some pigeons appear not to have bars but do still have them genetically..?

Ok, so this requires getting into a bit of pattern genetics. ^v^

Ankhou, my feral Assisatance Pigeon, is the base/wild type Bar:

Andre, my Giant Homer cock, is Checker patterned. A mutation to the bar gene that spreads bars up the wing, dominant over Bar.

Morning Star, a mismarked Archangel, is a T-pattern checker, a further darkening mutation to bar that is dominant over Bar and Checker.

Fun fact! The Lacing of a COF’s wing is the Toy Stencil gene’s effect on T-pattern Checker!

This is what Toy Stencil does to Bar. ^v^

Black pigeons are a further darkening mutation on T-pattern Checker called Spread, which spreads the dark bar pigment all over the wings and body, dominant over T-pattern, Checker, and Bar.

Here is a Barless Racing Homer: A recessive mutation to Bar, Checker, T-Pattern, and Spread that seems to be a disruption of rather than a modifier to pigment.

You pretty much NEVER see these competitively flown. They are bred for exhibition, rather than performance, likely because of the associatd eyes sight issues.

Siiiiiiiigh…. 

God damn this being the sideblog…

The RP blog was here first, and If I’m not paying attention, stuff gets automatically reblogged to me main…

Ooo, interesting! Tail marked blue bar shield is my favorite color, with barless gold collar being my second…knowing they have vision problems makes me a little weary though.

The vision problems must explain why pigeons shouldn’t drive the bus.