That's a Dunnock

And then there’s Jedediah. Who. Y’know. Is a tad slow.

Octavius’s feelings are 100% reciprocated. Jed is just as in love. He’s just so dumb that he hasn’t realized he’s gay, much less in a relationship with Oct.

Jed will go “I mean yeah I wanna kiss him but that’s normal. Like, with the homies. But only Octavius. I’d only kiss him. But that doesn’t mean we’re in love or anything.”

And Octavius is actively holding a bouquet of roses like “please marry me you beautiful idiot”

I remember my dad picking me up to sit on his shoulders (possibly one of the last times he did that because I was getting too big to hold there for long) so I could be close to it's flipper because he wanted to show me something. He had me hold up my arm parallel to the whale's, and explained that we had the same bones, pointing to it's scapula and humerus and radius and ulna and so on while poking the same bones in my skinny little arm, all they way down to the tips of my fingers and it's own.

And in that moment, I could suddenly see how the whale and I were the same animal, just stretched and shrunk into different proportions by nature. There was an entire exhibit with skeletons of different animals and we went through all of them, picking out the hands and faces of all of them on myself.

I had never felt such a profound connection to the world around me before as I realized on a visceral level that not only was I related to all these creatures, they were very literally my distant cousins, and that in a way, they were me from back then and I was them from now, and we all were others still from the future.

Every living thing on earth is your cousin. The most distantly related humans are your 50th cousins. Chimps are your several thousandth cousins. An octopus is your 25 millionth cousin. Trees are your billionth cousins. You and I are surrounded by family. And that makes me feel profoundly loved.

Crab Plover (Dromas ardeola), family Dromadidae, order Charadriiformes, Gujarat, India

+ Jedtavius at the end if you squint.

What happens when you mix a cowboy and someone so pretty they forget how to function?

Art dump. Got bored during work.

I don't like it much now, but they're still cute