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Origin: Atlantean

“Who are you strangers and where did you come from?”

Origin: Atlantean

(HALTINGLY & with a bad, very american accent)

“Who…are you strangers and….where did you come from?” 

Origin: Atlantean 

“Your manner of speech is strange to me.”

Origin: Atlantean

“I….travel…friend!”

Origin: Atlantean

“…I travel friend…

(impatiently) …You are a friendly traveler?” 

(does anyone else love how she’s correcting his shitty atlantean LOL bbies ♥)

Origin: Latin (look at this frickin dweeb switching into latin)

“So, my friend, I am a traveler!”

Origin: Latin

“You speak the language of the Romans!”

Origin: French (milo plz)

“Do you speak French?”

Origin: French

use tools

Can be taught to speak (like parrots)

Have huge brains for birds

like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee

They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things

they are scary smart at solving puzzles

some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies

they can remember faces

SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.  They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows.  Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag.  But the nice guys with masks they left alone.  THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight.  THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.

They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.

Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well… near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped… and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.

That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like I’d lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him. 

Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree. 

That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck… and one from his chick.

i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me. so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance.

a few more times later, very soon after, they could tell i was trying to help, and did not attack me. i was “allowed” to walk up close and pick him up, he couldn’t drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth.

i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared, i thought he recovered and left, but he came back the next day and lands on me, and i see him around the block quite often, and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again. i feel like i’ve adopted a son.

As a side note, I volunteered at a rehab (Hope for Wildlife), where they were rehabbing a crow with a broken wing–who was named Russell Crow. He kept pulling his bandage off so a sleeve was cut off some old clothing and put on him like a little sweater. 

It passes the Bechdel test. The first conversation is arguably between Queen Leah and Maleficent. The following conversations are between the good fairies where they talk about protecting Aurora and foiling Maleficent’s plans. Actually, most if not all of the conversations between all the women pass the Bechdel test. Their conversations mostly focus on protecting Aurora, a young girl.

The fairies are extremely proactive. They come up with a plan to protect and raise Aurora which largely works. They set Phillip free from the dungeon of Maleficent’s castle and they do a bulk of the leg work in taking down the self-proclaimed Misstress of All Evil.  

People tend to (hyper) focus on Aurora not being this badass warrior princess and forget that she’d been raised as an ordinary teenage girl. I mean, what are you expecting her to do? Fight Maelfiecent in hand-to-hand combat she never learned to do because she was raised by three pacifistic fairies? Yes, how dare this average, ordinary teenage girl without any superpowers be made a victim of a cruel and vindictive evil fairy who got pissed off at being snubbed at attending her baptism? A lot of it tends to be victim-blaming, not unlike how people crap all over Snow White and Cinderella.

Also that the movie was written by old white men in the fifties. Given when it came out I think that makes the movie all the more impressive. I’m not saying the movie is perfect, its got flaws and there is always room for constructive criticism. But people tend to ignore this movie except to talk about Maleficent. While I grant you that she’s amazing and I love her character there is plenty to enjoy about this film.

@landstriderdovahkiin made these and I love them so goddamn much

Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

GUYS

SHIT

Hello world, ADHD is SO much more than just about attention.