This is fucking awesome LMAOOOO

At the zoo with @syncarida and a lyrebird came up to us in the aviary and started putting on a show!!! His beautiful plagiarism song...

Me: It's a video of a lyrebird!

Partner: A liar-bird? Why does it lie?

yeah leopards in general are just small animals!

both leopards and snow leopards are commonly less than 100 pounds as adults.

hell, mountain lions can be bigger than either of them!

which technically makes them the fourth largest cat in the world, if still not a big cat proper.

It's about an intersex kid.

It's about a little girl born with a staff.

And that's Not Right.

The adults in the room- her father, the 'medical professional'- attempt to remove the staff, by blade and by fire. The fresh little baby SCREAMS. So they agree to pretend it doesn't exist. She'll probably grow up just a regular little girl.

right?

But just around the onset of puberty..... it becomes apparent, not to her, but to the adults, that she's not going to be Regular.

The medical professional tries again to rectify matters. She tries to destroy the staff while the girl is unconscious. The girl screams. The adults give in. They aren't monsters.... but life will be so much harder, so much less foreseen, for this strange little girl....

They try to raise her 'right'.

If she won't be a conventional woman... maybe an unconventional woman. A Powerful woman- in the way that women can be powerful. Are permitted to be powerful.

But she's not a woman- she's a child. What will she be, when she's grown? A Witch. A Wizard. She can't be either. She can't be neither.

(The term 'warlock' is repeatedly invoked and scoffed. The etymology of 'warlock' is 'breaker of oaths'. Counter to the covenant. Rulebreaker.)

I think that's because he got it right on the one level where it counts:

"...And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’

‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’

he got it right on the one

level where it counts:

Sir Pterry was a man who could be floored by people praising how much his specific and directed support meant because he was just coming at something close to their situation from such a fundamentally decent viewpoint that he lifted them out of darkness without even trying.

A fence blocking me from my goals.