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Expanse Text Posts 10/?: 'Now You're Thinking With Portals' Edition

one of my absolute favorite phenomena in tumblr/twitter/ao3 creative circles with characters that are even slightly nonhuman is the way they'll get ascribed random-ass animal traits even if they make no sense - see every sort of vaguely-eldritch character that gets given pointy ears and hooves and a tail and surprise, they also purr! - and this obviously extends to things people find hot to the point where it goes beyond a trait of xyz animal and just becomes a part of the Nebulous Concept Of A Nonhuman Character so you get shit like this

freshtokill

pjharvey

i'm reading the genius of birds by jennifer ackerman (amazing book) and today i learned that the first ever documented case of a bird making a tool to use as a weapon against another bird was a steller's jay breaking off and sharpening a stick to wield like a lance at a crow that was taking too long at a feeding station the jay also wanted to eat at. the jay tried to stab at the crow but narrowly missed, the crow lunged back, the jay dropped the stick, and the crow picked it up with the sharp end pointing towards the jay and pursued it into the trees

pjharvey

imagine the guy in front of you at mcdonald's is taking too long to order and so you fashion a blade on the spot and hold him at knifepoint. and then he steals your knife and points it back at you while chasing you out of the restaurant. and also the guy is twice your size

dapperprincess

blazing-butterfly-inactive

Tfw someone thinks "all art is political" means "all art is overtly and intentionally out to make a political statement" when it actually means "all art is inevitably influenced by the politics of both the artist personally and the society they live in"