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[proletarianprincess]

lmao on the edinburgh zoo site it says “there is a daily penguin parade at 14:15 but it may be cancelled last minute as it is a voulntary parade, we do not coax the penguins with food, and they may not want to go out” lmao anarchopenguinism

[cannibality-deactivated20250227]

this is the cutest goddamn thing i’ve ever heard

[livenudegirl]

I saw the penguin parade. It was a very slow parade, because the pingüinos take their sweet time and aren’t very fast walkers to begin with.

[airyairyquitecontrary-deactivat]

can I volunteer to be a penguin

[commander-damneron]

I feel like the world needs to know the context of the edinburgh zoo penguin parade, becausr I’ve been going there my entire life and I only found out about this the other year.

So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.

Also, one of those penguins is Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-cheif of the Norwegian King’s Guard. This isn’t really related to the parade at all, I just love the fact that there’s a penguin in the Norwegian army

[runrunningrunner]

Reblogging with Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III inspecting his troops.

Carry on …

[breatherunlive]

I love everything about this post.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

A GOOD POST

[guerrillatech]

[esoomris]

Wow.... so you’re telling me you took an action that resulted in the death of one person...... to save the lives of many people.... who would have died if you did nothing??? that sounds so familiar

[ilikeit-art]

No magic, just knowledge of physics and the usual tricks of life

[eccentricks]

Noel cowards diaries are killing me

[dinercarts]

#[noel coward voice] i’m like so happy for myself and like so worried for you

[skribblegurl]

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

[heywriters]

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

[bumblewyn]

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

[breelandwalker]

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

[vash-o-vision]

READ A BOOK ToDAY

[whitepeopletwitter]

[lorileopard]

[heydocverdant]

this is the plot of the giver

[all-da-fandoms]

I’m dying bcse it literally is

[catchymemes]

[thedepressionoftrees]

Inspiration struck me like a brick to the skull

[megadan94]

It’s been nearly 5,000 years, and the end of the world is still “coming any day now”.

[leviathis-krade]

maybe he just needed a warm cup of milk to sit down and gaze at the stars with

[30-minute-memes]

I pronouns you not guilty

[garrettauthor]

I PRONOUNS YOU NOT GUILTY

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Link to the from your friendly neighbourhood librarian:

What's Your Pronoun? - Beyond He & She Book

RELEASE DATE - 12 FEBRUARY 2021 "His [Dennis Baron's] new book, What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She is a meticulous, consummate dissectio

[cheshirelibrary]

[pagesinmylife]

I feel like public libraries don’t get enough hype. Like, you’re telling me all I have to do is give you my name and address and promise to bring the books back and I’m allowed to take as many as i want??? And I can check them out over and over again if I need to??? And I only pay if I damage or lose the book???? If this is where my tax money is going then please keep on taxing.

[animate-mush]

A spotter’s guide to Vampires

So we have:

A Vampire who is also a Wizard

A Vampire who is Sleeby 

A semi-vampire who is not yet dead

Jonathan Harker (probably not a vampire just weird af)

[publicdomainbooksdevotee]

[allysonrudolph]

I went on Twitter hiatus right when the shenanigans started and TBH it’s extremely on brand for me to have opted to read quietly in the corner with my goth/nerd friends while everyone else is getting silly.

[smirk47]

Reading today’s Dracula Daily reminded me AGAIN of a really good article I read a few years back about how at least some vampire mythology is likely inspired by the symptoms of Tuberculosis in times before germ theory was widely understood or accepted:

how victims slowly wasted away, but would unpredictably get worse or better over time before they actually died,

how those around them were likely to get infected after a delay and start wasting away themselves (as if their life force was being drained by the first person who got ill…), etc. etc.

Anyway, I tracked down the article! Still need to re-read it myself, but from what I recall it’s well worth a read if you like vampires, archaeology, and history!:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/

(It’s also about a fascinating period during the 1800s in rural New England when townspeople kept exhuming the graves of people they suspected may have been vampires in order to perform rites to stop them from rising again!)

[dreamertrilogys]

literally die

[allysonrudolph]

Always fun to hit the parts of Dracula where all the characters sit down and read Dracula