I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vics

Takahē bird in Te Anau eating Grass, Nate Sundance-Kid

A whole flightless new zealand bird whose existence I just keep forgetting somehow :( Kiwis steal all the spotlight

#oh he’s round #they really know how to make a bird in Aotearoa

YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT WE DO

i know it was a very 2000s feminism girlboss movie addition but you have to love arwen drawing her sword at the river and telling the witch king to come over and claim frodo if he wants him so bad. truly the high fantasy equivalent of yelling “come say that on my side of the street motherfucker”. the spirit of luthien tinuviel was alive within her in that moment.

They go out for drinks but then it just turns into this 😳

also this

So I have an odd little question for the FFXIV players out there, as a few of my friends have independently done it

(Reblog with the color you dyed them if so!)

Part 2 of 2

“Over banks of bright seaweed

The ebb-tide leaves dry.

We will gaze, from the sand-hills,

At the white, sleeping town;

At the church on the hill-side—

And then come back down.

Singing: "There dwells a loved one,

But cruel is she!

She left lonely for ever

The kings of the sea.”

The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold (1849)

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

Not "belongs to me"; "belongs with me."

Tshirt idea I had

murasame | krishna | stardust rod Weapon series for Samurai, Dancer, and Black Mage.

All three will be debuting as new foil prints at Anime Expo this year!

I need to talk about puffbirds :(

I'm glad you asked!

Puffbirds are in the family Bucconidae, which is most closely related to the jacamars and more distantly to toucans and woodpeckers.

They evolved as sit-and-wait hunters, which means they typically... you're not going to believe it... sit and wait for something tasty, an insect or perhaps a lizard, to pass by them. So their adaptations involve being as unassuming and drab as possible. That's why they're called puffbirds, because they sit to sit and floof themselves up on a branch.

And they get no respect for it.

See, being a camouflaged sit-and-wait hunter means you have to be supremely confident that sitting still will be good enough to not be seen.

Which means that your defense in the face of danger is typically to freeze.

Which means that humans have been calling them idiots for centuries, "the most stupid birds imaginable".

One species is known in Venezuela as aguantapiedra, "stone-endurer", because of its tendency to stay put despite having rocks thrown at it. The same goes for cabeza piedra. In Brazil there is João Doido, "dozy John". In German they are known as faulvogel, which refers to laziness or possibly to foulness.

Swainson asserts that "there is something very grotesque in the appearance of all the Puff-birds". In 1873 E. L. Layard said he was "struck with their extreme stupidity" since he was able to shoot three of them off a branch with none of the others flinching as they were shot.

Fortunately, despite all this lack of respect, puffbirds do not taste good, are smelly, are not colorful, are very inactive, require large insects for food, and are poor singers. Which means that they have attracted very little interest to humans other than the fact that you can throw rocks at them and they won't fly away. They're not being hunted for food or fishing flies or poached as pets. They're doing pretty well all things considered.

References

del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; and Sargatal, J. (eds.) (2002) Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 7. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Eva Funderburgh

I thought I recognized this piece! I'm friends with Eva, she is just as delightful in person as her works.

This one is called "Drink Deep." You can see more of her work here: https://evafunderburgh.com/#

i will never get tired of painting viera ( ´ ▽ ` ) this is one of two for chels!

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my heart absolutely breaks for gaza. imagine screaming for help. for someone to save you and the world ignores you for the most part. shame on anyone and everyone who supports this. where is your empathy.

i am so angry. people saying it’s justified or retaliation or whatever the fuck you wanna say. look at the death tolls of israel vs palestine. i don’t care who did what first or when or where or why. NOTHING JUSTIFIES THIS. i feel insane.

blue hydrangea: apology, regret, and forgiveness

The Broad-Tailed Hummingbird is day 29 of #migratorymay2024 hosted by @migratorymay and @environmentamericas

the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

not again