Tyger Tyger

My dog:

My dog:

Also I don't know there just seems something a bit weird maybe about the whole addressing how women are regarded and treated and addressing the lack of respect Enola gets because of her age and how class and wealth affect the way people are treated but then it feels like racism doesn't really exist in this universe?

And 'Moriarty's' coded message thing to Holmes does annoy me, why would she even do that, why has everything Moriarty does ever got to be about attracting Holmes's attention and getting him to notice him (or her in this case) even when this is just drawing attention to his (her) crimes and therefore completely detrimental. S&Co have done the same stupid thing of Moriarty trying to get their attention and then he got pissed off about getting their attention and Moran got first arrested and then killed largely because of Moriarty drawing attention to their crimes in the first place. It's one thing flaunting your crimes, flaunting what you're capable of, taunting the police and even Holmes maybe, but to keep directing this just at Holmes always, it just feels like always making Moriarty obsessed with Holmes in a way that totally demeans the character. And no I do not like this Moriarty at all. Not just cos I hate genderswapping of characters I already love (though I do), because of this stupid coded message to Holmes thing, because also I just... I don't like this thing of Moriarty having to have some kind of 'deep' reason for becoming a criminal (people also do this a lot with the Irish thing too and acting like Moriarty becomes a criminal because he hates the english and he had family members die of starvation and all of that and it's just, I really don't think it's that deep and Moriarty doesn't need some kind of backstory full of abuse and oppression to justify or explain why he becomes a criminal. Sure this Moriarty says basically committing crimes was fun but we still get the whole thing about how she's treated because she's a woman, that is what sparked it all off, her becoming a criminal, apparently. I'm sorry but that really doesn't interest me or feel anything like Moriarty to me.

You simply leave them alone if they're wild species, and you be chill if they're domestic breeds. If wild, give them a wide berth if you need to go past them. Don't threaten them, don't charge them, don't raise your arms at them (especially don't raise your arms, that is an invitation to a fight). Don't hiss or yell. Don't kick or grab or chase or otherwise make some asshole attempt to assert dominance because the goose didn't immediately flee or submit or whatever.

They are literally just animals. Not monsters, not evil, not demons, not mean. They are amazing parents, they are fiercely protective of their young and their mate. They want to be left alone. They are willing to take on a creature much larger than themselves in order to exercise their right to be left alone, which they wouldn't have to do if people just left them alone in the first place. They do not enjoy this. It's very scary for them and they would prefer not to do that.

I saw one of these geese bite a cockapoo because the stupid person walking it went and walked it right through the middle of the geese (including the babies) while someone was feeding them. That really pissed me off, they could easily have just gone around them, there was plenty of space to go around, and the dog did nothing wrong, it was obviously nervous of the geese and all it was doing was looking at them, it made no move to attack them or lunge at them or anything. The poor dog got hurt and scared purely because of the person being a dick about both wild animals and their pet. But even those parents are generally quite chilled out as long as you're nice to them. I got hissed at a little bit by them initially until they realised oh you've got food and you and your dog are not being threatening or coming any closer and then they couldn't care less about their babies coming right up to us. (Meanwhile they were being super vigilant about and aggressive towards a heron)

(This is the same geese about... 2 weeks(ish) later. Kind of blurry though because I had to take the picture on the move because we had to move away quite quickly since the goslings were starting to follow us towards the road)

This squirrel attempted to jump a full six feet (yes, I measured) from a nearby bush to the bird feeder. Its first two misses were spectacular, so much so that when it made it on the third try, I let it hang out and eat as many peanuts as it wanted.

Nothing explicit, they're just getting started

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