#blurds

Are there any species of hawks found in California that are this gregarious? Are they secretly Harris hawks? A quick search says swainson hawks are also social...

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good opinion (:

I guess what I’d say is this is an evil, writ large, that most ppl are intimately familiar with, writ small, within some of the people they’re closest to and love the most, and emphasizing that aspect is more interesting that presenting him as “just” an evil intergalactic overlord. Like: he very much IS an evil intergalactic overlord responsible for the murders of literally thousands of worlds and probably trillions of people resulting thereof, but he’s also your dad, and that big evil is intimately and inescapably connected to the less-visible evil that makes your boomer-dad so infuriating to talk to about politics and society because he’s 1)been pretending the world’s fundamentally still 1976 for the last 40 year, 2)cares more about the convenience of Amazon delivery than the vile abuse and social destruction it creates, and 3)cares more about whether His School or Rival School wins the gatorbowl every year than whether nazis are working to create a blood-purity slave-society under his nose. He obviously “cares for you” in some(probably narcissistic) way; he’s fun; he loves puns; he’s easy to trust and be around and talk to; and he’s overtly polite and respectful to women; but his unthinking misogyny, selfish willingness to put his comfort before others emotions, and arrogant unwillingness to actually hear what he’s listening to or every really change, is why your mom divorced him(or, in this fictional instance, has led him to build his whole empire on the constant exploitation of a woman he claimed to “love”, as a power-source, after he stole her agency from her by “killing” her, exclusively to please his friends). 

What I mean is that I’ve seen some takes interpreting him as this intentionally malevolent mastermind who’s deliberately out to get everyone, and I feel like that’s a flatter, less interesting evil than ‘local man promoted too many times, loses all sense of perspective, and ends up being the solar system’s undying evil emperor without even getting that he’s doing it because he somehow thinks he’s still doing an ok job’

Oh... that’s somewhat less interesting. Bummer

thank you, my friends. Anyway I was going to be like oh Pterry didn’t know what he was talking about, goats aren’t intelligent they’re just needy, but then I remembered that that’s a false binary and neediness is the mother of biting the fucking goathouse latch open again