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All the blue gold Doggusts together. 💫

Doggust day 13: Perseids 4. ☆₊˚. Catch! Just something silly off the sketches I accumulated over the week. Sleep well! Eat breakfast!

burgertv

javert

tumblr users yearn for the much-maligned genre of "iowa writers workshop divorce litfic"

#OP try searching the term domestic suspense #or reading through some recommendation lists of adult fiction from the 2000s #there's buckets of it #enough for it to become a cliché #personally I'm not the biggest fan of books about middle class ennui #but I acknowledge I am not the target audience #anyway the person in the notes who recommended Merrily We Roll Along made me snort

mangonetics

"why was the ending so rushed it was so good up until the ending" the answer is the same every time no matter the media you're talking about: the author is a bee and had to go back to the hive to defend the queen

#it just makes sense

mysillycomics

how to have a sturgeon summer:

1. be quite large

2. use your barbels to find prey among the gravel along the bottom of the river

3. extend your siphon-like mouth to eat small fish, shellfish, and crustaceans

4. launch yourself out of the water and make a big splash just for fun

5. show off them scutes!

you can now enjoy your sturgeon summer

sitta-pusilla

We can't be wringing our hands about people not reading books while also shaming a highly visible group of fervent readers. Yes, this is about romantasy and booktok.

"Ugh, everyone's illiterate nobody reads anymore"

"No! Not like that!"

Pulpy genre fiction has always been more popular than highbrow literary fiction. For obvious reasons. This is true for every medium. And people have been saying romance novels in particular are frivolous drivel, and/or fomenting moral decay for centuries.

I'm not saying that anything is beyond critique. There's plenty to critique. But for perspective, the dime store sci-fi/fantasy paperbacks my uncle reads and the Tom Clancy style airport thrillers my grandpa likes are just as tropey and derivative as any romantasy. And just to put my own skin in the game, I am a documented fan of Hallmark Christmas movies. The more trite, the better. I love seeing grown people learn the magic of Christmas every year.

Some of this is just plain snobbery. And misogyny.

sitta-pusilla

I just think it's weird that we're having this panic about people not reading at the same time we're making sport of mocking a fandom built around reading!

We can't be wringing our hands about people not reading books while also shaming a highly visible group of fervent readers. Yes, this is about romantasy and booktok.

"Ugh, everyone's illiterate nobody reads anymore"

"No! Not like that!"

Pulpy genre fiction has always been more popular than highbrow literary fiction. For obvious reasons. This is true for every medium. And people have been saying romance novels in particular are frivolous drivel, and/or fomenting moral decay for centuries.

I'm not saying that anything is beyond critique. There's plenty to critique. But for perspective, the dime store sci-fi/fantasy paperbacks my uncle reads and the Tom Clancy style airport thrillers my grandpa likes are just as tropey and derivative as any romantasy. And just to put my own skin in the game, I am a documented fan of Hallmark Christmas movies. The more trite, the better. I love seeing grown people learn the magic of Christmas every year.

Some of this is just plain snobbery. And misogyny.

oliviawhen

Doggust day 10: Perseids 2. 💫

bugologies

Gulmp.

aotearoa-enjoyer

sitta-pusilla

Advice for anyone who wants to get into birding!

You don’t have to travel far or go to super remote places to see good birds. That’s one of the great things about them! Birds are very accessible (too accessible) wildlife. You can see cool species doing cool things at your local park, wooded lot, retention pond, or landfill.

Don’t feel like you have to shell out for super expensive binoculars/scopes/cameras/etc, especially when you’re just starting out.

NEVER make eye contact with a wild bird

Your local Audubon chapter or other bird club can be a great resource for learning local hotspots, and building up your ID skills. These clubs are usually happy (desperate) for new blood

Wear body armor no less than 4 inches thick. Kevlar highly recommended

A good field guide is a must have. Even experienced birders keep one on hand for reference. There are also great bird ID apps. I use Merlin myself

If a bird’s shadow passes over you, you must burn all your clothes and purify your body immediately.

I always recommend visiting bodies of water for novice birders. First, they’re great places to see wildlife in general. But mostly it’s that wading birds and waterfowl are big, easier to ID, conspicuous, usually stationary, and the nearby water is convenient for emergency purification rituals.

Yes, they are watching you too.

Remember, birds are wildlife and can easily become stressed out. Please give them their space, especially in the spring and summer breeding season.

Birds do not have teeth. If you see one grinning at you do not trust it, it is a trick!