adrian’s aviary

• adrian • 22 • they/them • white • lesbian • some posts are queued • "one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not usamerica" •

[aardvaark]

hey everyone, here’s some blog navigation info for your convenience:

@idkwhathatmeans: my side blog for the tv show Bones

#leverageposting: what i tag all posts related to the show Leverage with (because i talk about it too much lol). if you don’t want Leverage posts, filter out this tag. if you’re specifically looking for Leverage stuff, check this tag.

#horror: for horror media/related content, feel free to filter out this tag if you don’t want to see scary stuff/fake blood/etc horror stuff.

#wren speaks: what i tag my original posts with

#asks: what i tag asks with

here’s a carrd with some other info just for fun :) i don’t really update it much jsyk

also - if we’re mutuals, feel free to ask for my discord (or message me here if you prefer)!! i think that's it. thank you for listening, people in my phone <333

[wutheringheightsfilm]

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

[nourishedbytime]

[charlesoberonn]

[aardvaark]

jeri ryan (tara in leverage!) was in the nyt crossword on sunday. my disturbingly detailed knowledge of everything leverage-related has once again come in handy! thank god for my obsessions, how else would i solve niche clues in a newspaper crossword?

[aardvaark]

one Leverage detail that i think is overlooked is that Hardison canonically attends the Oscars every year since he was 15. and in the flashback, he’s clearly in the very front row when he’s applauding as Halle Berry wins Best Actress (which would’ve been 2002, when she became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress). it even seems like he actually talked to Halle Berry since he says "I told you this was your night" while applauding. so basically he’s had a front row seat at the Oscars since age 15 and mingled with stars and evidently has never been caught, and it’s only briefly mentioned once as a throwaway joke. he’s that good and he’s been that good since he was literally a teenager. his side quests are legendary. and now i desperately need to see him bring some of the team to the Oscars as his plus-ones.

[aardvaark]

average nate-centric leverage episode: grief & drinking & catholic guilt & maybe sterling is there also

average parker-centric episode: another incredibly traumatic piece of her backstory is revealed

average sophie-centric episode: oops she lied/manipulated/kept secrets too much & backed herself into a corner

average hardison-centric episode: hardison gets into a Situation TM

average eliot-centric episode: what if we made eliot a minor celebrity. again.

[scleroticstatue]

Eliot already is a minor celebrity in the world of Retrieval Experts, so I think he's just Like That

[springsgreenleaves]

#also remember that hardison put himself in situations before he joined the team

Situations are enrichment for Hardison.

[argumate]

hell yeah! I never meet any hot chicks in ##USER_CITY##, it’s a total backwater!

[adhoption]

take me down to the ##USER_CITY## where the grass is ##COLOUR## and the girls are ##USER_PREFERENCE##

[enbyzombies]

btw body horror is stuff that doesnt naturally occur and is used to scare ppl, like extra eyes, animal parts on a human, a mouth opening in the stomach, not. disabled people’s bodies lmao.

[enbyzombies]

This post was a plea to stop treating visibly disabled people as monstrous because of the differences their disabilities have caused. It was not an invitation for people to argue what is and is not body horror. It was a call out for dehumanization, not the horror genre.

[enbyzombies]

bringing this back around for IFEW (international face equality week)!! take this time to educate yourself on disfigurement and similar things, and take the steps necessary to become a more accepting and understanding person!! disfigurement and disability is not something to be afraid of!!

[unwastelandunbaby]

idk I think maybe 2000s/10s feminism talked too much about “unrealistic beauty standards for women” that people forgot “beauty standards for women” is already fucked up

[jasper-rolls]

game dev: we make deep, meaningful, games with real messages. we don’t want our games to be just mindless and feel good - we make games to say something about the world we live in

community: hey this bit seems to be kind of weirdly racist

game dev: actually we aren’t saying anything and our games are just for fun and there is absolutely no correlation between this and anything in the real world

[aardvaark]

i like how in legal dramas, the lawyers can say literally anything to witnesses as long as they say "withdrawn!" afterwards. especially when they do it like 20 times in a row and everyone just waits until they’re done before intervening, if they intervene at all lol.

[aardvaark]

i was thinking of law & order svu in this post, but it is genuinely exactly like this scene lmao

[aardvaark]

i like how in legal dramas, the lawyers can say literally anything to witnesses as long as they say "withdrawn!" afterwards. especially when they do it like 20 times in a row and everyone just waits until they’re done before intervening, if they intervene at all lol.

[kittysneezes]

I like this article because it’s not what you think it is.

[aprilwitching-deactivated201808]

the world is a strange and wonderous place

[bloodborzoi]

my favorite buffy monster-of-the-week episodes are the ones where they actually get a bit scary/creepy, like hush (the doctor guys really creep me out!! i hate them!! best episode of s4 easily) and that one ep in s5 where the alien creature follows buffy, dawn and joyce back home and crawls on the ceiling its so disturbing i hate it and thats what makes it work so well

[darthmelyanna]

Happy May Day, y’all.

[mysteriouseggsbenedict]

I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind

[claudiadpdl]

i love how white people are supposed to be graciously forgiven for having a racist past because "they were kids and didn't know any better" but no one gives a flying fuck about the black kids that were subjected to brutal racist bullying during their childhoods. bullying that we're still subject to today because nothing has changed. white people were not being racist to some amorphous, unfeeling entity in some vacuous, isolated section of the internet, they were hurling slurs, racist "jokes"/imagery and antiblackness at REAL ACTUAL CHILDREN while gaslighting and mocking us for being upset, and no one gives a fuck!! we're just supposed to forgive these people who are never sorry and never will be and if not we're the problem and im so sick of it