sockmarten

“We’re gonna get you out of here.”

little scene inspired by Bamsara's fic

yep this very true. 

(im 26) 

so anyway answer my poll

Generally, for most conditions, running out of spoons doesn't mean you collapse, doesn't produce an effect they can actually see. What it means is that you run on life support, quite possibly unsafely, until you get to a safe place and can stop. But you'll owe those spoons back, with interest. You'll have hurt yourself to do it.

Some animals look like the color that they do because of pigmentation, some get their colors from reflective structures in the feathers/scales/etc themselves. This does not mean that only some animal colors are "real." That's just dumb.

A bluejay's feathers are not "tricking" you into thinking they're blue. If something reflects blue light and your eye perceives it, it's blue. That process I just described *IS* what color is. It's the relationship between specific wavelengths of light and your subjective ability to perceive them.

Like for one thing, your brain is "tricking" you into perceiving every color, because that's how perception works. No colors are "real." There isn't an elementary particle or fundamental force of "blue" or "red" or "orange." They are literally just words that describe the subjective experience of seeing different wavelengths of light. Your brain made all of this up. None of it is "real."

But a blue bird isn't "tricking" you by appearing blue to you even though it has no "blue" pigment because your vision doesn't detect pigments, it detects light, and a bird that "looks" blue is reflecting blue light. Your eyes don't sense chemical compounds that cause the reflection of specific wavelengths of light, they sense the light. By seeing a blue jay as blue, they're accurately sensing what they are made to sense. You are perceiving absolutely nothing that isn't "really" there.

Light can't "imitate" or "fake" being blue, because all "blue" means is a specific way that light is.

The wikipedia article has some great information in it.

Bearded vulture! Bird that actually is tricking you into thinking it is red