Calypso

“We zoom out slightly to reveal the aliens are ALSO beating their own alien-fuckers away with a space-broom.”

Bald eagles will manage two nests a year— the one they use for rearing nestlings that is added onto annually to become a massive tower like above or continuously grow outward depending on the tree, and their winter nest which pairs make when they migrate south. The winter nest is not used to raise young, and seems to only be done as a bonding activity between pairs.

They also tend to use comically large sticks which they manipulate into curved shapes with their unbelievably strong feet.

Bald eagle nests can become so large that huge chunks fall from trees, or so dense and heavy the entire tree breaks under the weight. This is quite literally the only thing to make most pairs build a new spring nest from scratch, and they usually try again in the same spot.

Because a nest to a bird is not a home.

It’s a cradle.

Adult birds don’t sleep on their nests unless they’re on eggs or babies. To build a cradle when there is no chicks on the way just because you enjoy that process with your mate is one of the most romantic things a bird can do and I refuse to see it slandered by being compared to capitalism.

the point of this post is not swords. it is not how well someone can fight w a cane. the point is I want to see more disabled representation and I want to see characters who use canes and I want them to use them correctly and I want them to be just as fleshed out and interesting as their abled counterparts.

my cane user friend and I were talking abt sword canes just before I made the post so I tossed it in. I collect blades—knives, daggers, swords—and I’m also a disabled cane user who collects fancy canes. so I think combining the two is cool. I don’t even think they’d be good for self defense, I just think they’re a fun thing to show off to friends!

but this post has always, first and foremost, been abt mobility aids. this is abt being a young cane user who doesn’t see rep. I’d love to see highschool dramas where a character uses a cane but it’s not used to make u pity them, it’s just a regular part of their life. I wanna see fantasy cane users where the animal head handle speaks. I wanna see sci-fi cane users and cane users in romances and cane users in main roles.

Kings made tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high, cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the people of Gondor fell into ruin. The line of Kings failed, the White Tree withered, and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.

Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.

This was before Ellen came out.

This was before civil unions.

This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.