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tomoless

“When was the last time you held your baby?”

Here is the redraw with more little monkeys

littlemisshere

twins at a carousel with your dead best friends and an immeasurable grief ⭐️

CW // noose, nothing explicitly violent

thetulgey-wood

Bugs when they're snug in a rug

pokeberry5

*wiggles him*

to go with this lol

dysphoria-things

“fanfiction is an act of resistance”, says harry potter fan who doesnt participate in any other acts of resistance

dysphoria-things

why are you all so dedicated to a shitty white supremacist novel by an author who poured 78,000£ into anti trans legislation that PASSED in the uk. i dont care if you put the cop in a dress i dont care if the nazi grows out her hair all emotionally I WANT THE STUPID FUCKING SERIES TO DIE!!! WHY DO YOU WANT IT ALIVE SO BAD??? IS IT WORTH THE SAFETY AND COMFORT AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS AND SIBLINGS IN THE UK??? LET IT FUCKING DIE

kainathan

spidey sketch page

cassidy-summer

jul 24 winner of the epic skins poll — undead 🦴

thebraveandthebold

charming-cherry

If my nipples want to be the star of my outfit who am I to stop them

nightwingstits

dailydccomics

Zatanna and Black Canary sketches art by Joe Quinones Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell (2014)

meeloistrying

Agent Emre Sarioglu & what is left of him.

took me forever but here are the emre portraits i started a while ago, based on the redesign sketched back then. Similar to the ones i painted for freja, the design might change once i get to make the fullbodies versions, but we'll see!

ponpasta

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deadmomjokes

It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

philosophicalparadox

Part of why Ravens are considered Spooky Bad Things We Associate With The Faeries is because they can and do mimic human speech - but much, much better than a parrot. With a parrot, you can tell something is off about the sound. You can tell it doesn’t belong to a human. Ravens don’t sound like that, no, cause they’re overacheivers. (And passerines). They sound EXACTLY like the voice of whoever they are mimicking.

But more importantly they love the sound of human laughter. No one knows why. But it is totally, 100% possible, and it happens to this day, to walk along the paths in the Black Forest and suddenly hear a strange kind of giggling sound, or maybe even a very clear, definitely human sounding “hello?” “Hiiiii!” Or “let’s go!”.

However, it takes a lot of practice for them to copy sounds as perfectly as they do, so you’re equally likely to hear something that definitely sounds human-like, but the words make no sense and the sound is unlike any language you know.

Ravens at the Tower of London do this all the time. Theyre pretty sociable with humans though, so they do it quite openly. I have seen videos of people, mostly Americans, look absolutely spooked out of their skins when a big ol’ raven (mind ye, these are birds that are 2 feet tall with a 5 foot wingspan) comes waltzing up on the deck and starts talking to them.

And ravens, especially the ones there that have been bred and raised by humans for centuries, don’t just imitate - they have one of the same language processing genes we do, and they understand the way a toddler might that things, places, and individuals have names, and can string together basic sentences much like an african grey.

I know because I used to work with one, Darlene, who knew, quite well, what she wanted and how to ask for it. If you were preparing her breakfast, she would hop on up and investigate. She used to be an illegal pet, and had been taught “manners”. That is to say, if she went for something and you told her, sternly, “mind your manners missy!” She would stop, look at you, perhaps for up to a minute, and then point with her beak to what she wanted. If that did not work, she would ask, in plain English, “grape?” Or “Darl have grape?” And lord help you if you gave her anything less than what she asked for. She would throw it at you, and try to bite you, sometimes while saying “No!” In the same tone as I imagine she was reprimanded in her home.

So yeah. Parrots arent the only ones.