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nennt mich Zucker weil ich kandis alles nicht mehr

@zuckergussprinzessin / zuckergussprinzessin.tumblr.com

Hi, I'm Charlotte. I'm 36 and you're wonderful. I just wanted you to know that. Things you may find here: lots of fandom stuff, music, blah blah blah feminism, nifty nature and science things, all kinds of pretty and funny things. I write sometimes, and even art happens on occasion. I know. It's like magic.
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Once again randomly remembered this story about a couple who had a small parrot - pretty sure it was a budgie - who didn't talk but learned to communicate with people in its own way. Once it figured out that people always turn to check their phones when the notification sound comes on, it started making the text message notification sound to request human attention. The parrot also liked to follow people to the door whenever guests were leaving, and would use its wings to pantomime the motions of a person putting their coat on. A very clever, charming bird.

And every once in a while it just randomly hated some people. Not for any real reason, or even reason to suspect bad vibes, but by deciding "fuck this person in particular" for shits and giggles alone. And one time when the owners had invited a new friend to their home, the bird decided that it Did Not Like Her.

So in the middle of polite conversation, the bird - who was free to roam around the apartment at the time - hopped onto the living room coffee table, right in front of the unwanted guest. And in that moment, the owners put two and two together and understood that whatever mischief the bird had decided to do, it was now too late to stop it.

But instead of unleashing the absolute hell that even the tiniest displeased parrot could be capable of, the little budgie made its little "may I have your attention please" cell phone notification sound, and once the guest was focused on the bird, looked at her dead in the eye while doing the putting-my-coat-on wing motion.

The guest did not recognise the pantomime for what it was, but she was nonetheless delighted that the parrot would do a little wing-roll dance for her. And the host couple were at first too stunned and then too polite to tell her how impressive that gesture truly was. Their bird had shown both remarkable restraint and cleverness by using its entire vocabulary of human communication just to say

"I have an important announcement: I think you should leave."

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apolladay
Anonymous asked:

do you ever feel nervous when taking a walk in your local forest in the daytime bc of the animals (like bears, not foxes) there?

  • yes & I have a reason to (there are animals during the daytime)
  • yes but I don’t really have a reason to (animals only active at night or much deeper into the forest)
  • yes but I really don’t have a reason (no animals)
  • no, maybe I should due to the animals here, but I’m op & afraid of nothing (animals active there during daytime
  • no & I don’t have much of a reason to (animals only active at night/deeper into the forest)
  • no & I don’t have a reason to (no animals)
  • not a forest walker
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DJ: [...] and then Ty and I were- became, like, inseparable at the very beginning. Like, just immediately. And over the last 10 years our relationship evolved to what it is today. And now we're getting married. It's just so crazy. That this person who was just my friend, now I think about all the time. And he sends me the best messages and he supports me and loves me unconditionally in the right way, cause I would never abuse that [...]

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absolutepie

Aww good for them, bless and mazel etc

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