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In today's "Not A Bad Bit Of Snark" dep't at Bluesky...
(For those curious about why he's so pissed off: the Daily Kos story spells it out.) ...Tl;dr:
The filmβs success at the box office comes after weeks of a bigoted right-wing campaign led by multibillionaire GOP donor Elon Musk, who railed against the film for casting people of color and LGBTQ+ actors, including Lupita Nyongβo and Zendayaβwho are both Blackβand Elliot Pageβwho is transgender.
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HELLO I have a big bill coming up and I need some help paying for it! I am opening commissions, discounted comms are avaliable through my ko-fi shop, and regular comms can be requested w a new google form! You could also buy my comics from my itch or get a physical copy of Death is Not the End chapter 1 from my shop! please and thank you for the help :)
They once drew my version of Dionysos and Hades and Persephone for me (the latter was a commissioned piece). Their art style is really lovely <3
iβm sorry but it is absolutely a conservative impulse to believe that an ancient work has some kind of βpurityβ that can be βdesecratedβ by adaptation. think about what you are saying. why do you think adaptational change or reinterpretation is an βoffenseβ to βcultureβ that must be answered for? what could motivate a person or movement to designate a certain story as βsacredβ? when you do this, are you conjuring an idealized past? in the same breath, does this position modernity as a threat?
The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.
It is simply too many degrees Celsiheit outside.
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really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram
new DB Cooper theory: he went up
that is the face of a man worried he will be next
Good news, he was not next! In fact, she accepted him as her mate, he learned the crane mating dance and now every year, he artificially inseminates her with crane semen to expand the very endangered crane population. True story.
Sorry, he WHAT? Imagine being this man's boss and having to sit him down like. Listen. Brian. We need you to fuck the bird. You have to act like you're excited about it.
crane husband.....
this is the diametric opposite of all those awful swan wife stories and i love it.
(WalWaPo makes you jump through like three separate hoops before you can read the article, so I will share some of the highlights:
Walnut was born in a species-recovery breeding program in the 1980β²s.Β The program had crane chicks hand-raised by human volunteers, and at that time they did not fully understand the measures necessary make sure that the chicks do not imprint on humans and retain their identity as cranes.Β Β
As a result, her keepers believe, Walnut does not recognize other cranes as members of her own species.Β Β
It has not been proven that Walnut killed her previous suitors; however, there is a persistent rumor in the white-naped-crane-conservation community that she did.Β Β
Because this species is highly endangered, and the gene pool of the captive population is small, itβs pretty important for the survival of her species that Walnut A) mate, and B) not kill a bunch of other cranes.Β Β
The actual name of the keeper is Chris Crowe.
They both arrived at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2004.Β Β
Walnut immediately began paying special attention to Chris--and ignoring the eligible male crane in a nearby enclosure.Β Β
Walnut initiated their courtship, performing the opening moves of a mating dance.Β Β
Chris realized that if he reciprocated the mating dance, it might be possible to artificially inseminate Walnut with her participation and consent.Β (The process normally involves restraining the bird.)Β Β
It worked!Β Β
Chris and Walnut have had five children, who were raised by other crane couples at the facility--sometimes the biological dad and his mate--both because itβs unclear whether Walnut would accept the chicks as her own, and because Chris is not equipped to be a Crane Dad.Β Β
However, the Institute provides her with artificial eggs to sit on, and Chris takes his turn looking after them.Β (This would not work with real eggs because he canβt sit on them properly, but Walnut seems to feel that he is on the job if he just stands over them.)
Chris accepts that he is pretty much married to this bird.Β White-naped cranes live to be about 60, and they mate for life, so he knows he canβt retire while Walnut is alive.Β (At the time of the article, Walnut was 36, and Chris 42.)Β Β
Legit cannot pick the funniest part of this
she has not been PROVEN to have killed her exes, but there is a PERSISTENT RUMOR (really officers she's simply DEVASTATED, she sobs, wearing a new feather boa unfortunately resembling her most recent deceased husband)
His name is Chris CROWE. (Mrs. Walnut Crane-Crowe?)
the mental images of a whole human man learning and performing the crane mating dance, and "sitting" on artificial eggs so she thinks he's performing his duties as a husband and father (and apparently OBJECTS if he does not?)
"chris, buddy, you gotta marry the possibly-murderous crane lady for the GOOD OF THE SPECIES." (alternately: "chris, my man! good news! we found you a very interested lady! She's 36, she's very spirited and independent, she holds a very important and rare status in her society! ...Is there a downside? WELL...")
chris sits any potential human partners down, like "my love, you must understand before we wed,,, i am already... Attached" (camera drifts wistfully to the above photo) "Lady Walnut and I have an,, Understanding... the relationship is open, but very committed"
just had to explain this post to my father bc he thought my stifled laughter was a signal of illness.
well done, everyone, good game. hit the showers.
Not only is he 'married' to walnut, this has apparently happened SEVERAL times, so he has MULTIPLE crane wives, none of which know about any of his other crane wives. This man is, for some unknown reason, irresistible to cranes
the βthis content has been removed for violating Tumblrβs Community Guidelinesβ notice really adds a lot of flavor to this post and somehow makes it MORE obscene than whatever that actually was
World Heritage Post
I regret being the bearer of bad news, but I thought it should be shared that Walnut passed away in January of this year (2024). There's a lot of mixed info about the lifespan of cranes (due to people misunderstanding what a median is...) but the average for most species I know of is 20-30 years (in the wild if nothing eats them/they don't die young), and 30-45 in captivity, with the oldest known white-naped crane having loved to be 46. Given that she was 42, this old gal did good, and I'm certain she will be missed by folks here.
Fly on forever Walnut Crane-Crowe
i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.
i love the USA: weird vibes. dont trust that.
i love muskegon michigan: you are experiencing a kind of personal joy that i can and will not take from you
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no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood
at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95Β°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly
at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.
at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.
At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.
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It's me. Football Cat.
happy if you have scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with your sexuality july
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Just a reminder about settings best turned off over at Instagram
To keep your stuff from being scraped by / remixed with AI.
β¦ETA, for those wondering: itβs possible that if your account is private, you wonβt have these. Mineβs public and needed to have them turned off, so at least some folks will still be seeing them.
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Watercolor??????
