#pheasants

i would love to see a ring-necked pheasant if you have the time :)

Common Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus (adult male)

Thank you, I'm happy to see someone excited about this blog!

Bonus Pride Mix:

I know you don't keep chickens. but look at this chicken. (screenshot from lord of the rings online. This is in Radagast's home in Rhosgobel, and I assume he knows his chickens, so I can only take his word for it.)

i’m a bit cowardly if i’m honest… i want to be able to be comfortably ugly but i also want to fit in, so i often find myself in a limbic space between desire for prettiness and self-aware shame at not being brave or woke enough to shake these compulsions, not really belonging to either the cool liberated self actualised feminists or the teenage girl masses. i know i have to take the leap of faith into chopped valley but i just don’t wanna do it ONMYOWWWWN like someone come withmeeee pls. everyone i encounter where i live doesnt want to be ugly. idontknowwhyyyy. it’s the countryside. who’s going to slander you for being unattractive, the humble hedgerow pheasant? but i guess i’m in no position to judge because i too have the Hottest Person in the Village Co-op syndrome it’s just i’m vaguely self aware of it soooo ummm thatttt makes me morally superior actually, it’s actually true don’t check it but it is.

i just want to make some friends who don’t even think about being beautiful so i can feel welcome without having to paint my face with ridiculous little sponges every day. (sorry to my current friends. i do like you guys. but also we never interact with each other bald faced and that is an issue.)

OR i could act as a person with moral fibre would and just do whatever i want on my own without worrying about assimilating into my surroundings …

Meet the Himalayan monal, the national bird of Nepal. The males have plumage so dazzling that they're practically feathered rainbows.

A Timeless Magic

By Gill Bustamante