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revilonilmah

Rainy Day Charmander

#charmander #pokemon

chillyfeetsteak

from this article, which is well worth the read, if only for the fun of seeing zuck get dunked on

purplejabberwock

My bestie's tags

biglawbear

AI is just Really Advanced Counting

frontmansdefender

RIP to the legend

silvermoon424

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

charlesoberonn

I’m here to dispell some misconceptions about misconceptions about quotes.

All of the “true” “complete” “unshortened” versions of quotes you see on this site or in other places online are the real misconceptions, and the more familiar and well-known versions of the quotes are usually the original ones.

1. The blood of the covenant

So this one goes that the quote “blood is thicker than water” (meaning: family ties are more important than other bonds) is actually an incomplete version of the quote “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” (meaning: bonds created between people are more important than family ties)

This “complete quote” is actually a modern interpretation by two authors named Albert Jack and R. Richard Pustelniak in a webpage from 1994, and has no historical evidence supporting it.

2. But satisfaction brought it back

This one is an extension of the quote “curiosity killed the cat” warning against experimentation and investigation by adding “but satisfaction brought it back” to subvert the meaning and make it about the reward of investigation and experimentation rather than the risks.

Like the previous “complete quote”, this extension has origins in modern media rather than in tradition that was changed or altered. Specifically in newspapers of the early 20th century.

3. But fools seldom differ

Another extension to a well-known quote. “Great minds think alike” used whenever two people come to the same conclusion independently, ammended with the phrase “but fools seldom differ” or sometimes “but small minds rare differ” to turn the phrase’s meaning.

Once again, while the original quote is centuries old, the “complete” version is a new invention, originating most likely from a 1996 book by Gregory Titelman.

Somebody noted on a popular post going around tumblr -which lists these “complete” versions and many other- out how while the shortened versions of the quotes tend to promote conformity and conservatism, the “original” quotes promote freedom and choice.

And while the idea that conformists tried to change and altered these “true” quotes to promote their ideas, it’s really most likely the other way around.

Modern, free society edited and altered these old quotes from a more authoritarian time to fit our ideals of freedom and choice.

scary-ivy

WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY PUT IN THIS SHIT??? I FEEL LIKE I DON'T NEED A CAR ANYMORE BECAUSE I COULD JUST RUN EVERYWHERE

scary-ivy

"and more" more what.???

tentacleteapot

playwrongs

I think strange horrible things should stop befalling my friends

catastrophespouse

I think strange wonderful things should start befalling my friends

a-peach-in-space

slopforhogs

Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu) “Javelina aka Collared Peccary” by Larry Lamsa, CC BY 2.0 (x)

santapau

New Secret Knots comic, "The River". I hope you like it!

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dogpuppy

sreegs

the existence of uncanny valley would suggest there is also a canny mountain

radwolf76

Canny Mountain, Charlie!

sevibun

#dragon age origins #mabari #art

alltherestofus

Seeing the diminishment and erasure of the legacy of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series occur in my actual lifetime is mind-boggling.

You've got people out here making youtube videos about the legacy of dragons and dragonriding in fantasy fiction without talking about the dragonriding Grand Master of SFF herself Anne McCaffrey.

This isn't some obscure thing where I'm trying to promote someone who is only kind of known because of forgotten representation. Anne McCaffrey was A HOUSEHOLD NAME when I was a kid when it comes to fantasy literature. She's the first woman to win a Hugo and to win a Nebula. In 2002 there was a TV pilot filmed for Dragonriders of Pern.

Eragon, Temeraire, Toothless, and the dragons of Fourth Wing exist because these people grew up on the blueprint set by the Pern novels. Talking about dragons and not mentioning Pern is like talking about Orcs and not mentioning Lord of the Rings.

Y'all need to read your fucking classics before you go talking like an authority on a topic. Jesus Christ.

shipfishwrites

that's what i've been saying!! same page here.

math-is-magic

FWIW, I actually thought I was reading Pern when I first read Temeraire. I got the two mixed up and thought the reason the daogn corps were considered less reputable was because the gay dragon sex stuff was known in England or something. Took me a while to realize they were different series lmao.

purple-hel

The thing is, there's a lot of not great underlying themes in her books. The dragons mating is pretty rapey, someone in the books even calls it rape and is ignored. There's a repeated theme across series where women are great and adventurous and then meet their guy and start defering to him. And child abuse isn't treated with nearly the seriousness it ought to be. There's a lot of 'well that was progressive for the time, but that was 50 years ago' themes.

I read the books in my early teens, and loved them, but I wouldn't give them to a teen girl now without a lot of prior discussion.

alltherestofus

I totally understand, but with respect, that doesn't matter to the main point that I'm making here.

The issue is not whether or not the morality of the books stands up to the test of modern taste. Taste does not change the reality of influence and historical impact to pop culture eras. It doesn't stop other authors from getting cited regularly, including authors who had *less* genre impact than McCaffrey. And that's not even touching on the double standard of booktubers fully able to read and acknowledged problematic past male authors but pearl-clutching over problematic past female authors. And that's not even getting into the conversation about authors who are popular RIGHT NOW who write far worse content then McCaffrey did.

You're welcome to talk about the book problems at your leisure, but it's irrelevant to this post.