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Hi, I’m Dave. Adult. I’m a Hetalia veteran circa 2010. If you don’t vibe with that, you may not want to follow me. Occasionally, I may post or share mature or suggestive ship art.

[gabbyp09]

[l--nica--l]

ぴぴ

[gildedgoldenamelia]

It's such an interesting idea, at least to me, that human governments push their nations' immortality as far as they can. We see it in canon that Russia's boss forces him into situations where he is physically harmed. We see America's government refuse to tell him things, all while demanding his involvement in military action. But it makes me think, would the human governments of the United States and the Soviet Union manipulate their personifications into being used as test dummies for space travel?

The governments know just how deeply passionate (if not unhealthily obsessed) their personifications are with beating the other, and that personifications will always choose themselves to be harmed if it saves one of their people from being hurt or killed. It would be so easy for governments to convince a nation to use their human body as a test in early launches.

Do you want the Reds to win?

Do you want the capitalists to win? You know their nation is doing it.

Neither Alfred nor Ivan gives it a second thought, really. Not even a second is given to the question of "are we immortal in space? If I blow up/suffocate in space, do I revive the same way if I do on Earth? To stay immortal, do we need to have a physical connection to the Earth?"

These oh so highly secret missions of the early to mid-60s aren't known to anyone outside of a small group of space agency, government, and military officials.

No one knows what Alfred is doing until a NASA hr assistant accidentally calls Matthew a few hours before one of the tests because Matthew is listed as Alfred's next of kin and hr needs to confirm something, but this poor new hire hr employee wasn't told anything and thinks Alfred is just another human involved in secret testing. Gets the human blacklisted from federal employment for the rest of their life.

Ivan finally gets caught after a failed launch and the government practically dumps him on his sister's doorstep with a note to send him back when his skin comes back.

[aurvain]

experimenting… China redraw

[creaturegoose]

WIP remaster of this guy

[kusuri2013]

Cyberpunk paro

[kyoman-rc]

itager forever bro

[yellowceiling]

everybody clap i drew something

[chereks]

fishing with a friend

[toyonomo]

buon san valentino 💚

[neznamohto2]

art, trash and chronic alcoholism. truly a bohemian

“wish we could turn back time to the good old days…”

I watched some pictures of Naples SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. And there is really dirty so i drew a smal comic on this topic WHY IT TURNED THAT GLOOMY … sorry yuyuvasya posted cringe again😮‍💨

Used giogio as a reference for romano cus i love them both they’re related to italy. romano is literally italy. i need this crossover….

[aurvain]

beautiful boy, john lennon

[cake-apostate]

Now that I think about it, in a lot of folk horror stories, it seems like the most reliable information about the monster usually comes from the village elders. But The Summer Hikaru Died is different.

Most of the detailed background information comes from young historians, like Maki's brother and Tanaka. Pieces of information that don't seem to fit the narrative, such as Nounuki-sama as a euphemism for mercury despite "Hikaru" having nothing to do with the metal, turn out to be important. Asako's grandmother best fills the role of village elder with sound advice, but since she passed, it's Asako who keeps her wisdom. The adults who know about the Great Brain Snatcher only know that it's terrifying, killed one of their friends as children, and the Indou's ritual kept it at bay (which is also inaccurate). Yoshiki and "Hikaru" had to go searching themselves.

And to top it all off, anecdotal evidence is repeatedly shown to be unreliable. Impurities destroy memories, leaving only physical evidence like books and records. The villagers in the past misunderstood the nature of the Great Brain Snatcher and the holes, and not because people in the past were superstitious, but because the things they were dealing with cannot be directly observed and conform to preexisting biases. And when it comes to information only passed down to the men of the family, it only took two deaths for the Indou family ritual to almost be lost forever; it's implied Hikaru's father was even killed for finding out something different.

So instead of a story where you survive by listening to the old stories and the advice of your elders, it's one where the heroes look at a lot of different sources and have to keep an open mind.

[hikanatsu-art-archive]

071425 // portrait

hikaru: draw me

yoshiki: a portrait.. huh...

this is his face, right? not hikaru... where exactly is the face anyway? ah, so...um... this is tough...

(2 hours later)

yoshiki: it's done...

hikaru: (laughs) is this supposed to be me? it doesn't look like me at all! there are too many things here, and this part is completely off lol

yoshiki: it's so different from humans, I don't understand anything...

[rzhkch]

[tenshikyun]

baby it's cold outside ❄️

[kedreeva]

These two pictures are of a peahen (top photo from April 2019, and bird on the left in the bottom is the same bird in November 2019) that is currently going through a transformation from traditional hen plumage to cock plumage- which I suppose makes him a peacock now! The bird is 17 years old and while this sort of transformation is not unheard of (called “henopause” because it usually happens to older hens), it’s not usually such a stark difference. This bird went all out though!

[Source]

[kedreeva]

Here is an 18 year old pea that began life as a hen, but stopped laying at 14 years old and grew in male plumage!

And a blackshoulder peahen:

Who 14 years later decided nah, and swapped to male blackshoulder colors; QUITE the difference!

[Source]

And a video from a very confused man who has had this happen 5 times on his farm so far:

[reblogosaurusrex]

Peacocks said trans rights!

[kedreeva]

Another transitioning bird was posted to the group I’m in not long ago!

(source)

[kedreeva]

Another bird, this one only 2 years old, was posted yesterday. The owner had this bird genetically tested after she noticed a lack of displaying among other typical “peacock” behavior. The result came back as a hen, which means most likely this bird’s working ovary (birds only develop one, the left one) has been compromised or failed to develop normally, resulting in male plumage at a very young age.

(source)

Because this transition only occurs when the hen’s working ovary (they only have 1, the left one) stops working (or fails to start), thus ceasing production of the hormones which suppress male plumage, they are not fertile. They also do not change sex organs, just their plumage.

[kedreeva]

It’s Pride again, so please enjoy my collection of trans peafowl!

[kedreeva]

There have been several people in the notes expressing that these are intersex peafowl and while I certainly won’t take that away from anyone (welcome, enjoy!), I feel that you should all know that there are regular intersex peafowl as well.

These peafowl grow in and retain sex characteristics of both hens and cocks, for their entire lives. They do not lay eggs or court, the way the other sexes do. Unlike a hen in henopause, they do not transition into or out of this state- they are born to it and remain in it their entire lives.

In reality, gender isn’t really a thing for peafowl (or birds in general) at all and sex is pretty much a grey area. We assign them sexes (yes, sexes, I’m getting there) based on human concepts of it, but they don’t even have x and y sex chromosomes. They have Z and w, and it’s flipped from how humans are; the bird with the 2-same chromosomes is a male (ZZ) and the bird with one of each is a female (Zw) and we only assigned the sexes like we did because the hens lay eggs. Don’t even get me started on the bird species that aren’t peafowl that have more than 2 sexes. But they have no concept of gender or sex. If they did, maybe they would argue their males are the ones that lay the eggs. There’s no way to know; they are just animals we’re projecting human concepts on. Biological sex really does fall apart if you look at it sideways, and gender was a mistake.

In any case, at least in one sense, the initial birds in this post are maybe not transgender, exactly, but they have made a transition from one state to another that heavily involves looking like a standard female and then looking like a standard male, and some people have found comfort and joy in relating to that. That end state is not really one sex or another, if you look under the hood so to speak, and hopefully other people will find joy and comfort in that as well. Yet other Peafowl have not ever transitioned and yet have the characteristics of multiple sexes their entire lives the same way, and I hope that this extra knowledge can bring joy and comfort to even more people.

That’s all this is about.

[flameraven]

I know there have been some examples of gynandromorphs in songbirds, where the bird looks split in half between male and female plumage. Does that ever crop up in peafowl or chickens?

[kedreeva]

I’ve never seen or heard of a case of gynandromorph peafowl. I assume it would have been widely talked about, particularly if there were photos, so I think it’s fairly safe to assume it hasn’t happened.

I have seen several photos of gynandromorph chickens, including this lab study:

The issue in fowl over small birds like cardinals or finches or parakeets is that the size difference between males and females can cause serious health issues. This particular bird was noted to have a rib cage that was much bigger on one side than the other.

[kedreeva]

The funniest part about this entire post is that I made the above addition about gynandromorphs just a month or two before Gemini, my bilateral chimera boy, hatched. He could VERY easily have been a gynandromorph as well, but wasn’t.

Me: Never seen a gynandromorph

The universe: you know what would be funny… :3