Dune, Frank Herbert

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

I went to the local aviary today and they had some really mean things to say about owls.

I can confirm that most birds have a detectable amount of wiring behind the eyes - blinking lights and buttons and sliders and frizzy things that spark and chirp and beep. They also have a lot of soul that can communicate with ours because the programming is fairly compatible. Vultures are clever and curious, swans are clear and lawful, chickens have a lot of personality, caged parrots are dissociated and disinherited and frankly worrying, falconry-trained birds of prey are tremendously businesslike.

And owls are absolutely lovely beasts with their own irreplaceable validity. but they are basically stuffed with polyester fiberfill. They have one button, like a child's toy dinosaur that opens and closes its mouth when you press the back of its head. And it isn't even a sophisticated electronic button it's just a lever that rocks back and forth to make the claws open and close. I think they may have actually evolved independently from sponges. Their skulls simply exist to create holes that funnel sound and light, and as a place to hang a giant hinged beak. An owl is just an empty tube like a windchime that the wind whistles through, and you can drop meat down it. They use the meat to generate feathers, and then emit the bones in pressed little packages like those machines that flatten a penny and stamp it with the logo of a theme park. I think that's the gist of it - most birds are electronics of varying levels of sophistication, but owls are just a system of levers and pulleys. No elevator music in those skulls, just the wind echoing through empty caverns of slightly irritating design. Absolutely fantastic.

I remember my wildlife professor talking about capturing birds for tagging purposes, and how many species of birds were clever, observant, or would eventually catch on to the fact that these free meals led to getting grabbed/caught (Released just fine and with a snack, but still grabbed, measured and tagged).

Not owls though.

They'd look at the bait attached to a pole held by one human. Look at that human, and the human next to them, holding a large net. Look back at the bait. Back at the humans. Repeat a few times.

And every time, without fail. Even ones that had to have seen this play out before. Even ones that had previously been caught and tagged themselves.

They'd go straight for the bait.

Then be confused when, in fact, there was indeed a net thrown over them. Just like before.

And thats tremendously valid of them

I tell people that owls are fantastically evolved for what they do, which is catch moving prey at night. Anything else, they just don't have the capacity for it.

We give our non-releasable animals enrichment. The vultures and corvids get puzzles, the falcons and hawks get destructables, the quail gets new hides.

The owls? They get their food on a different plate. Or, if we're feeling daring, we'll put it slightly under a piece of butcher paper. They never get it. They cannot comprehend that the food is there, just a little different.

We are going to start feeding some of our older owls bugs for their health and I'm genuinely worried that they won't recognize them as food.

Bless them

another history making marvel post I never see anyone talk about is “so is nobody helping blade kill all those vampires”

found it

huge shoutout to the guy at the bar who said “i like your dress maam” and when i was like. i’m a man but thank you! he was like “oh shit i like your dress homie” i love you forever

guy with poor circulation vs guy who is a human furnace. Who will win

just been informed they are now kissing with tongue and fucking sloppy style in the ring. Love wins

some more horror movie goosebumps covers

concept art for my au where candace is a stag beetle

you’re just like the rest of them

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I finally got it on video of him STOMPING on his lil fish toy

i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn't find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.

this painting is what ultrakill speedrunners see when they close their eyes. if you showed this to the romans who flogged jesus theyd think this painting is excessive. this painting is the blood cavern from space funeral. it's the color out of space.

jegus tapdancing christ it is actually that bad

NO FUCKING WAY

i just realised what this reminds me of

it looks kinda like the red wall paintings from Pompeii, many of which owe their colour to intense heat & gases released during the eruption. man looks like he's been cooked & then left underground for 2000 years.

Behind a Little House, by Manuel Cosentino

never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man

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can people stop saying insane things on this post

one of my favorite things about FMA's worldbuilding is that you get to gradually realize how edward elric is the only person who dresses like that

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.