Aurë entuluva!

27. New Yorker in Minnesota. PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology. Professionally and nonprofessionally obsessed with nature, especially birds. Many kinds of queer. In which I reblog whatever I want. @death-by-vicious-mockery for Critical Role ramblings

[willgrahamscock]

just saw a deactivated mutual's post on my dash. that's my dead wife's corpse you're all dragging around

[the44th]

I also reblog this guys dead wife.

[log6]

I'm not gonna lie the secret to success for a great many people is absolutely stimulant abuse

[luulapants]

Wait hold on what was that

[placeholdername-1]

[animalphotorefs]

Photos of the Day: an airborne Canadian lynx

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[animalphotorefs]

You spoke, and I listened: this post now has additional toebeans!

[thejugheadparadox]

Breaking my silence on heated rivalry. Here's my main thought. It is so fabulous to me to watch these two like proper acting theory pilled animal work clowning physical theatre guys (a type i am highly familiar with) grappling in some kind of sisyphean hand to hand combat with some of the most awkward fanfiction dialogue ever written. And well sometimes they win. But always the point of fascination is the fight.

[kabaks]

I think it's funny this gay hockey show is some of the best immigrant to canada representation I've seen recently even if ilya had a perfect accent he'd get clocked because he doesn't know wtf a loon is

[stringcage]

Years of personal growth can be unraveled in 2 days at your parents house

[quixoticanarchy]

some people’s new years resolution needs to be to stop going out in public while horribly sick with infectious diseases

[quixoticanarchy]

i see this post is going around again.. sort of like a bunch of infectious diseases i could name

[homunculus-argument]

Artfully layering an axe bodyspray deodorant and two different perfume oils to create a tasteful mixture of amber, oud, mint, lavender, moss and petrichor, producing a scent that smells exactly like damp, stale, rotting laundry.

[dreamsareliminalspaces-deactiva]

Reminds me of that tumblr user that made powdered milk with sparkling water and created instant spoiled milk

[homunculus-argument]

That was also me.

[adeline-wheat]

Do you know any other ways to speed ruin things?

[homunculus-argument]

I wish I knew any other way to do anything.

[elwingflight]

Heated Rivalry has unfortunately pretty much the only thing getting me through a phenomenally shitty holiday season. But also, more importantly, I am a pretty serious birder. So obviously I spent the entire final episode extremely distracted by all the bird calls, there are so many of them and they're extremely location-accurate as best I can tell!

Please enjoy Birds at The Cottage, in approximate order of appearance:

American Robin (?) idk possibly one of the other robin-like songs

Black-and-white Warbler

Canada Goose

Swallow calls? Maybe Northern Rough-winged?

Common Loon*

Boreal Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee (fun because they're in a good area to have both!)

Common Raven

Red-winged Blackbird (I guess there's a cattail marsh right behind the cottage?)

Hermit Thrush

Yellow-rumped Warbler?

Red-breasted Nuthatch

There are definitely some I'm missing, I'm not fantastic at sound id (and didn't want to replay a 3-second bit 10 times lol) so I'm really hoping the other hardcore birder fans that must exist will chime in here.

*the loon calls did NOT sound right and it really pissed me off, it didn't sound at all like they were coming from a distance over the water and it was really intrusive :/ Can't believe the sound mixer let the birder (and frankly Canadian-cottage-visitor) audience down on this one thing.

[elwingflight]

Watching the finale and thinking about the southern Boreal avifaunal community. As one does.

[elwingflight]

Heated Rivalry has unfortunately been pretty much the only thing getting me through a phenomenally shitty holiday season. But also, more importantly, I am a pretty serious birder. So obviously I spent the entire final episode extremely distracted by all the bird calls- there are so many of them and they're extremely location-accurate as best I can tell!

Please enjoy Birds at The Cottage, in approximate order of appearance:

American Robin (?) idk possibly one of the other robin-like songs

Black-and-white Warbler

Canada Goose

Swallow calls? Maybe Northern Rough-winged?

Common Loon*

Boreal Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee (fun because they're in a good area to have both!)

Common Raven

Red-winged Blackbird (I guess there's a cattail marsh right behind the cottage?)

Hermit Thrush

Yellow-rumped Warbler?

Red-breasted Nuthatch

There are definitely some I'm missing, I'm not fantastic at sound id (and didn't want to replay a 3-second bit 10 times lol) so I'm really hoping the other hardcore birder fans that must exist will chime in here.

*the loon calls did NOT sound right and it really pissed me off, it didn't sound at all like they were coming from a distance over the water and it was really intrusive :/ Can't believe the sound mixer let the birder (and frankly Canadian-cottage-visitor) audience down on this one thing.

[thestargazerlily]

A PULSE. A BEAT. A SONG. LISTEN TO THE UNIVERSE SING.

@sketiana / @ getsoundrx on insta / What Holds Our Universe Together?, Lehigh University / Red Desert (1964) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni / This Bus Stop Was a Coral Reef, Once by Megan Arkenberg / Voyager Golden Record / @argumate / Music of the Heavens Turns Out to Sound a Lot Like a B Flat by The New York Times

[baddywronglegs]

I love that a lion with an eagle's head and wings is such a well-known mythical beast but apparently the English language can only agree on a grand total of 3 out of 7 letters in its name.

[quietsamurai98]

Regex that ought to match (most) spelling variations of this mythical beast's name:

gr[iuy](?:ff|ph)[eioy]n

[artemisonahunt]

I write it either as gryffin or griffin

But

Gruphon, gryffon, griphen (sounds like the plane, grippen, lmao), gruffin and others would be enlightened spellings

[asmuchasidliketo]

@artemisonahunt this one is for you

[ebrithilbowser]

@a-book-of-creatures

[a-book-of-creatures]

My beautiful daughter Grypheighn

[sewerfight-deactivated20250114]

Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on

[xenobotanist]

[61below]

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

[flowerbleedme]

is anyone imagining a dog with a propeller hat on

[casties]

OOK.

[miss-kitty-fantastico]

*Ooks sadly*

[unreluctantone]

*Ooks sadly* *pats you comfortingly on the shoulder from the other side of the room*

[ceeturnalia]

why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.

[elveny]

Don’t tell me delayed orgasms aren’t a thing

[ceeturnalia]

learning new things about the german rail system today

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Last rays of daylight on Two Harbors Lighthouse, MN

Taken February 2025

[politedemon]

HAPPY IDES OF MARCH!