nl watcher

yea clickbait

[psyhoopa]

Aggggghhhh I love the behind the scenes, filled with so much joy and whimsy

[deadeyesopened]

[skittay]

at work: i will start every project and clean my room and learn a new language and read a book and exercise

at home: 20 more rounds of MOVES LIKE GASTER || Deltarune Parody of "Moves Like Jagger" please

[mf-dooom]

[yetanothergreyjedi]

that is the face of a man worried he will be next

[ashtraythief]

Good news, he was not next! In fact, she accepted him as her mate, he learned the crane mating dance and now every year, he artificially inseminates her with crane semen to expand the very endangered crane population. True story.

[luulapants]

Sorry, he WHAT? Imagine being this man's boss and having to sit him down like. Listen. Brian. We need you to fuck the bird. You have to act like you're excited about it.

[whetstonefires]

crane husband.....

[roach-works]

this is the diametric opposite of all those awful swan wife stories and i love it.

[alex51324]

(WalWaPo makes you jump through like three separate hoops before you can read the article, so I will share some of the highlights:

Walnut was born in a species-recovery breeding program in the 1980′s.  The program had crane chicks hand-raised by human volunteers, and at that time they did not fully understand the measures necessary make sure that the chicks do not imprint on humans and retain their identity as cranes.  

As a result, her keepers believe, Walnut does not recognize other cranes as members of her own species.  

It has not been proven that Walnut killed her previous suitors; however, there is a persistent rumor in the white-naped-crane-conservation community that she did.  

Because this species is highly endangered, and the gene pool of the captive population is small, it’s pretty important for the survival of her species that Walnut A) mate, and B) not kill a bunch of other cranes.  

The actual name of the keeper is Chris Crowe.

They both arrived at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2004.   

Walnut immediately began paying special attention to Chris--and ignoring the eligible male crane in a nearby enclosure.  

Walnut initiated their courtship, performing the opening moves of a mating dance.  

Chris realized that if he reciprocated the mating dance, it might be possible to artificially inseminate Walnut with her participation and consent.  (The process normally involves restraining the bird.)  

It worked!  

Chris and Walnut have had five children, who were raised by other crane couples at the facility--sometimes the biological dad and his mate--both because it’s unclear whether Walnut would accept the chicks as her own, and because Chris is not equipped to be a Crane Dad.  

However, the Institute provides her with artificial eggs to sit on, and Chris takes his turn looking after them.  (This would not work with real eggs because he can’t sit on them properly, but Walnut seems to feel that he is on the job if he just stands over them.)

Chris accepts that he is pretty much married to this bird.  White-naped cranes live to be about 60, and they mate for life, so he knows he can’t retire while Walnut is alive.  (At the time of the article, Walnut was 36, and Chris 42.)  

[thesylverlining]

Legit cannot pick the funniest part of this

she has not been PROVEN to have killed her exes, but there is a PERSISTENT RUMOR (really officers she's simply DEVASTATED, she sobs, wearing a new feather boa unfortunately resembling her most recent deceased husband)

His name is Chris CROWE. (Mrs. Walnut Crane-Crowe?)

the mental images of a whole human man learning and performing the crane mating dance, and "sitting" on artificial eggs so she thinks he's performing his duties as a husband and father (and apparently OBJECTS if he does not?)

"chris, buddy, you gotta marry the possibly-murderous crane lady for the GOOD OF THE SPECIES." (alternately: "chris, my man! good news! we found you a very interested lady! She's 36, she's very spirited and independent, she holds a very important and rare status in her society! ...Is there a downside? WELL...")

chris sits any potential human partners down, like "my love, you must understand before we wed,,, i am already... Attached" (camera drifts wistfully to the above photo) "Lady Walnut and I have an,, Understanding... the relationship is open, but very committed"

[anais-ninja-bitch]

just had to explain this post to my father bc he thought my stifled laughter was a signal of illness.

well done, everyone, good game. hit the showers.

[largishcat]

[eshlimoriarty]

[lazorsandparadox]

Not only is he 'married' to walnut, this has apparently happened SEVERAL times, so he has MULTIPLE crane wives, none of which know about any of his other crane wives. This man is, for some unknown reason, irresistible to cranes

[queersatanic]

the “this content has been removed for violating Tumblr’s Community Guidelines” notice really adds a lot of flavor to this post and somehow makes it MORE obscene than whatever that actually was

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[kedreeva]

I regret being the bearer of bad news, but I thought it should be shared that Walnut passed away in January of this year (2024). There's a lot of mixed info about the lifespan of cranes (due to people misunderstanding what a median is...) but the average for most species I know of is 20-30 years (in the wild if nothing eats them/they don't die young), and 30-45 in captivity, with the oldest known white-naped crane having loved to be 46. Given that she was 42, this old gal did good, and I'm certain she will be missed by folks here.

[optimysticals]

Fly on forever Walnut Crane-Crowe

[hyunonaut]

I drew these thinking ‘I haven’t seen anyone draw flowery without the vest on’ and then I did it too many times

It just kind of turned into me drawing clothes for fun but the point still stands. And while these were fun to do I realize he needs to keep the vest on it makes flowery be flowery

[threedollarsdotcom]

we are proud to announce im bansky

[toskarinfr]

reading one of yoko taro's interviews with toby fox and it is really funny how he spends basically the entire time talking about him like how people talk about kane parsons

[toskarinfr]

Toby Fox: "Maybe I made a mistake not putting a fishing minigame in UNDERTALE. maybe it'll get the first negative score on Famitsu"

Yoko Taro for the fifth time this interview:

[hyrude]

ao3′s orphaning option is cool and a good idea but mostly very fucking funny. i posted this work for fun when i was younger and i still want people to be able to come back to it if they liked it, but now im an adult professional and i dont want it attached to my name. whats the word for that? umm, anonymously posting? no. i want something that indicates i murdered this story’s parents 

[kyraneko]

technically the story’s parents faked their own death and disappeared to go have an office job, and that’s even funnier

[vyeoh]

[negiwave2000-deactivated2026041]

i miss u siinamota ..... these tweets r beautiful

[circusheart]

May I please have 1 everything

[bernieandtheaeroplanes]

Noah's Ark if every animal reproduced asexually

[circusheart]

Interesting I like it

[saltedume]

[rabbitkinglune777]

by all means necessary.

[rabbitkinglune777]

I'm kinda not pulling any punches with these types of drawings.

[rabbitkinglune777]

I want to make peformative people who use my struggles to prop themselves until it's time to throw black people under the bus and bigots simultaneously uncomfortable with this drawing. it's something that deeply causes me rage

[calware]

incredible pull at the museum the other day

[decadentqueentidalwave]

More than half of disabled Black people in the USA will be arrested by the time they reach their late 20s, compared to 28% of disabled white people.

- Source

[thisnewjoe]

Because good technology security means that links should always be posted with their destinations plainly verifiable, here is the URL from Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/young-people-with-disabilities-more-likely-to-be-arrested-idUSKBN1DA2SY/

[diserbillyti]

To add, traumatic brain injury -- which is a disability, obviously -- is extremely over-represented in incarcerated populations, and is mostly only ever discussed as a "risk factor for reoffending" rather than any more complex or nuanced narrative of the prison system culturally selecting for disabled people.

Prevalence of traumatic brain injury in incarcerated groups compared to the general population: A meta-analysis

Traumatic brain injury can cause numerous behavioral abnormalities including aggression, violence, impulsivity, and apathy, factors that can

A frustration with that is, if we know a specific kind of disability lends itself to antisocial behaviour that results in incarceration, and we aren't attempting to address this disability in ways other than policing and prison, then it kind of seems like we're just feeding disabled people to the prison-industrial complex.

[chameshida]

Out dogged

[ammnontet]

whats your favorite comic i did?

nine page comic of unmoving corpse laying in room never found and not rotting

the invisible comic that no one can see but it exists its just invisible forever

comic i didnt post or make or think about at all but its real anyway somehow

it keeps restarting and nobody can finish and it traps you in a loop forever

comic that puts u inside of it by pg.5 and youre chased by the minotaur

overly friendly comic that's not weird or evil its just a little overly friendly

any of the other ones

Answer 8

Missileaneous

Voting ended onJul 23

[ammnontet]

[pigswithwings]

stop using the word degenerate i am going to kill u

[pigswithwings]

dont use it to refer to urself. dont ever refer to others with it i will chew your flesh from your bones. look up the nazi use of "degenerate" and "degeneracy", research the "degenerate art" exhibition and fucking think abt the history of that word b4 u use it to make a funny little joke about being so weird. fucking come on

[pigswithwings]

ultimately my point is 1. do your research and 2. if you refer to actual people as subhuman then you are rapidly approaching facist ideology, if not already at your wretched destination. i don't really talk about this stuff on my blog because i am not as well versed as i should be, but i made this post because the adoption of phrases like these really makes me angry (especially when it's "ironic". you know that it won't be for long). to imply that someone isn't a person but a thing carving away at society, that there is a "true/upright/pure" way of being human, that the mere existence of others is tearing away your own quality of life? this shit often leads to the belief that these types of people, these "degenerates", are actually not people and do not deserve respect or a right to being alive. we know what happens with beliefs like these. there is so much history of hatred and suffering and slow systematic stripping of rights behind that word. please do your research