17 birds in a trench-coat operating a blog

so yeah

and I stand by that

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Siberian Blue Robin (Larvivora cyane) Although I had often heard its distinctive song echoing through the highland forest, this blue bird—which rarely emerges from the undergrowth—finally allowed me to see it up close. It flew off immediately, making it truly a fleeting encounter.

コルリ 高原の森に響き渡る特徴的なさえずりはたびたび耳にしても、なかなか藪の中から出てきてくれない青い鳥と、ようやく間近に出会うことができた。すぐに飛んでいってしまったので、本当に一瞬の邂逅。

Tea gown ca. 1875-80

when someone tags your post "#unreality" and you screenshot the tags and say "what are you talking about? this is real" because you consider the post easy to discern as not real and find this joke funny you're actually just causing paranoia for people who now feel like they can't trust the unreality tag. not everyone has the same reality discernment skills as you. what's "obviously" a fictional story to you may not be obvious to other people.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.