What are they putting in bananas these days?

Marvel/TH blog turned into Good Omens content almost exclusively. It's ineffable.

[kaiyonohime]

Donald Trump is now a convicted felon.

[tlirsgender]

You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you're just like. Oh ok

[tlirsgender]

I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn't a broken leg would mean you Die because you can't. Do things

And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn't properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps

So basically I have connected the two dots ("you didn't connect shit") I've connected them

And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh

Really makes you think

[tlirsgender]

Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I'd love to see where crows are going with this

[findersfeeders]

Fun fact, there is little info on crows (as far as species of interest go) because they're so good at evading human tactics for collection and observation. I had a friend who studied them in grad school. Not only do they describe humans to each other (so crows you've never seen before will avoid you), they also learn the precise distance of net cannons (for trapping and tagging) after 1 encounter and then stand at that distance the entire time (making naive researchers think maybe they can juuuust caych em). So basically you need to befriend them (a common strategy), or find a murder that's never seen you before (researchers wear presidents masks to throw them off, but then they remember and describe the cars). In this case, you have one chance to collect enough in the group to get good data. Whatever crow you catch once, you probably will never catch again, ruling out biosensing devices (like they use with other birds and turtles n junk).

The latest big finding about crows is that they have a grasp of knowledge breadth, meaning they "know what they know" meaning they are conscious (self aware), have subjective experiences and can reflect on their knowledge. (Source) This also implies they have an understanding of the unknown.

Look up Andreas Nieder and Jon Marzluff's work if you want the deep skinny.

[loverinstinct]

@todaysbird

[neil-gaiman]

I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. 

You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.

I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”

Happy Valentine’s Day.

[neil-gaiman]

Eleven years old. Still true.

[therealbucky05]

[petermorwood]

:->

[neil-gaiman]

hello Mr. Gaiman! would you please tell my depression to fuck off?

I can try.

Dear Depression, please fuck off. Begin by fucking off, continue to fuck off, and about the point where you think perhaps it's time to stop fucking off and come back, then just fuck off some more.

[xofemeraldstars]

Pride & Prejudice // Good Omens - Cinematic Parallels (insp.)

[goodomensonprime]

Disaster Puppy Content™️

[neil-gaiman]

I mean I was fumbling for words to describe Crowley and "disaster" and "puppy" seemed to go so well together.

[gatheringbones]

I love reading a book you are slightly too stupid for

[gatheringbones]

ways to keep reading despite feeling stupid because the tags you all keep adding have made me realize that my post is being used to self harm:

recognize that stupidity is a cultural concept leveraged against stigmatized populations who operate from devalued spheres of intelligence

notice feelings of panic and shame and frustration rising in your body when you encounter a difficult text, react to them like a loving friend who thinks you deserve to learn things

recognize the conditioning it takes to convince someone they are too stupid to deserve to learn things

go back and read a difficult text whose meaning and nuances escaped you the first time around after you read two or three more and the first one has had time to cook in your brain

open your brain’s mouth like a whale shark and cruise through the water digesting anything that gets caught in your filter plates

[impossiblepackage]

Also, just look stuff up! Just Google the words you don't know. If a line seems like it's referencing something, try searching it and see what's up. There's no shame in not knowing or understanding things.

[likelytowritesomestuff]

I was on FB when I found this old gem by @neil-gaiman

Do you remember it?

[neil-gaiman]

One day in South Africa I got David to record it on my phone, with a vague plan of auctioning it off for charity...

I really ought to find it again.

[spikedaily]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 3.08 “Lovers Walk”

[asexualenjolras]

Neil Gaiman and the Good Omens team deserve so much better than to have something like this spoiled. It's one thing for Amazon Prime to accidentally spoil something, but it's entirely something else for "fans" to keep sharing the photo/video around.

It's just over a month to wait. I'm sure you're capable of waiting that long. Aziraphale and Crowley waited 11 years to see if their plans worked out, you can wait a month for season two.

And, no, I won't give context if you don't know what I'm talking about. Keep it that way. Show the show some respect.

[neil-gaiman]

This.

[myjetpack]

My cartoon for the latest issue of New Scientist.

[neil-gaiman]

Our world.

[vampirebeverage]

new kinsey scale just dropped tag yourself

I used to be a 5 but now I’m a 3

[yuhengwanye]

6, pretty exclusively green tea white tea or matcha, i’m insufferable,

[twobabkas]

WE’RE SO BACK

[elt]

@neil-gaiman did that actually happen to you? Pretty funny nevertheless

[neil-gaiman]

It did. Although it was in the advanced readers copy of Neverwhere, so we caught it before it went out to the public. Universal Find and Replace is never your friend.

[samuraifuckingfrog]

[eerian-sadow]

That. Includes. Hiring.

That. Includes. Scheduling.

That. Includes. Firing.

That. Includes. Approving. Or. Denying. Social. Benefits.

[valtsv]

adulthood is just telling yourself “and after i’ve done THAT i can finally relax” with increasing desperation