Be Queer, Strike Fear

Optimus Prime and Megatron was about narrative. Everyone honors Optimus Prime because he’s the hero but his whole thing doesn’t work without a bad guy. Megatron is his bad guy. Hating the scene for including Megatron is incoherent. You can’t have a functional Optimus Prime without a bad guy to oppose him. It just doesn’t function.

Similarly, in a sex scene, you need someone with a “hit” kink and someone with a “hitting” kink. The scene doesn’t function optimally without the “hitter”. As the comments suggest, willingness to hit isn’t necessarily enough for the “hit” person to get off. The “hit” person needs the “hitter” to enjoy themselves too. So for this reason, demonizing the “hitter” is contrary to the well-meaning sentiment. If the goal is to protect the “hit” person and help them achieve self-actualization then the environment needs to be supportive of the other half of the scene, the “hitter”.

we have to write poems in my creative writing certificate program, so I pieced something together from Belphie's medical reports

Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Colombia

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Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria), family Tichodromidae, found across high mountain areas of Europe and Asia

This species is the only member of this genus and family.

photograph by Mathieu Bally - Wildlife Photography

Bearded Reedling aka Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus), family Panuridae, order Passeriformes

photograph by Carlo Galliani

Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, found in southern Central America and northern South America

The only member of this family

photograph by Supreet Sahoo

Kagu or Cagou (Rhynochetos jubatus), family Rhynochetidae, order Eurypygiformes, endemic to New Caldeonia

ENDANGERED.

This bird is the only member of its family.

It is most closely related to the Sunbittern.

photograph by the_zoologist_barista

Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), family Scopidae, order Pelicaniformes, Ethiopia

The taxonomic affinities of this bird have been greatly debated over the years, and now is believed to be in the Pelecaniformes.

This is the only bird in this family.

Their closest relatives are the Shoebill.

photograph by Ian Davies

Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), family Balaenicipitidae, Mabamba Swamp, Uganda

This bird is the only member of its family.

The taxonomic affinities of this bird have long been debated. It currently rests within the order Pelicaniformes It was, in the past, often places in the Ciconiiformes).

Its closest living relative is most likely the Hamerkop.

photograph by Jean-Christopher Damond

Malaysian Rail-Babbler (Eupetes macrocerus), male calling, family Eupetidae, order Passeriformes, Malaysia

The only member of this family

photograph by Janetli SF **Xiao Guo Tai**

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens), family Icteriidae, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

This species was once considered to be a wood warbler, family Parulidae, but is now placed in its own family (of which it is the only member).

photograph by Loud Photography

Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) aka “Stink Turkey”, family Opisthocomidae, order Opisthocomiformes

The only living member of the bird order Opisthocomiformes.

This leaf-eating bird uses foregut fermentation, in its enlarged crop, to help break down its food. (The ferementation is where the smell comes from, which gives it the name “Pavo Apestoso”)

They live in vegetation at the edges of lakes, streams, and rivers.

The young have 2 small claws on the fronts of the wingsthat help them climb through vegetation.

(No seriously, Larry is the Chief Mouser of 10 Downing Street. It's a real role that has been held by cats since the 1850s)

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