Slightest Complication

Oregon import, worst kind of dilettante; she/her, old  |  icon is courtesy of sugarandie

[ginstermotte]

Look at me. No, hey, wait. Please listen:

You cannot hate your way into a better future. It isn't possible. Even and especially if your hatred feels justified. You cannot do it. Only love, unity, peace and forgiveness make for a better world.

I know life isn't fair and it probably never will be. But you can choose hope. Get up.

[birdstudies]

July 1, 2026 - Waller's Starling (Onychognathus walleri) Found in a spotty range in parts of central and eastern Africa, these starlings live in and around mountain and lowland forests. They eat a variety of fruits along with chameleons, spiders, and insects, foraging in pairs and flocks, mostly in the canopy. Pairs build cup-shaped nests from moss, bark, dead leaves, thin twigs, and liana fibers in cavities in trees. Females incubate the eggs alone but both parents feed the chicks.

[cottagesongs]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Cnetizens: Why the thousand-year-old stone statues at the Northern Song Mausoleums aren’t covered with glass enclosures.

The director of the Cultural Relics Bureau replies: "They’ve stood here largely intact for over a millennium. Why add extra barriers?"

Visitors worry wind, rain and sunlight in the farmland will wear them down. The director explains:

Glass covers speed up decay—it’s like locking the statues in a sauna. Trapped heat and moisture create sharp temperature shifts. Salt crystals inside the stone expand and crack the carvings far faster than open-air exposure.

These statues blend naturally with the farmland landscape. Glass barriers would destroy the sense of scale and historical atmosphere.

When first built, the mausoleum complex was a restricted royal compound ringed by walls, palaces and pine trees—no farmland at all. After the Song fell, protection systems collapsed. Wars and weather destroyed buildings. Local residents gradually dismantled the abandoned structures, reusing timber and bricks in nearby villages.

By the Ming and Qing dynasties, villagers turned the empty grounds into farmland, leaving stone figures scattered amid crops.

Few people damaged the statues for three reasons: each weighs several tons and is impossible to move; folk belief held that anyone who damaged the guardian statues would be cursed with misfortune; every later dynasty passed laws punishing those who vandalized former imperial mausoleums.

Once an exclusive imperial burial ground, now ordinary farmland—this shift tells the story of history. Glass covers would only be unnecessary. As an old Chinese poem puts it: 旧时王谢堂前燕，飞入寻常百姓家

The swallows that were wont to grace the halls of Wang and Xie, Now seek the humble roofs of common men.

(cr 大鹅呀eyaeyaeya，陈帆fotochen，摄色📸，腾腾兔兔🐰)

[pangur-and-grim]

my house is scary at night

[storyweavingspider]

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Here's my Sunday FishSl Sketch, a yellow bullhead catfish (Ameiurus natalis)! Micron fineliner and Copics markers.

[birdplushie]

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind

[emil]

"Peggle make phone calls" has become shorthand for "fuck it, whatever" for me but no one ever knows what im talkingabout and it's also longer (longhand?)

[emil]

peggle make phone calls

[birdstudies]

June 29, 2026 - Pale-tailed Canastero or Huancavelica Canastero (Asthenes huancavelicae) Found in several separate ranges in the Andes of Peru, these birds in the ovenbird family live in dry scrubby habitats with scattered cacti, trees, and shrubs. Often foraging in pairs on the ground or in bushes and trees they are thought to eat mostly insects, though the details of their diet are unknown. While little is known about their breeding behavior, one subspecies builds semi-spherical stick nests with side entrances, usually in cacti.

[deseos-de-la-via-lactea]

source

[utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat]

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Northern Mockingbird flashing its wings while foraging Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 Salt Marsh

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[turing-tested]

Sorry am on lsd. Shouldn't have told you 2 eat a sandwich. That is your decision not mine. Sorry

this ask is so awesome. my favorite part is I can't find the other ask they're apologizing for.

[johannestevans]

Watched a documentary about abuse and advice one guy said to give children was, "Tell them that if someone is hurting them, to tell someone - and don't just tell one person. Tell as many people as possible, and keep telling as many people as possible until the abuse stops." and i really liked that

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Just really good advice. Not suprised I don't hear it more often.

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[birdstudies]

June 30, 2026 - Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner (Syndactyla rufosuperciliata) Found in the Andes from Ecuador south to northern Argentina and in a separate range in southeastern Brazil, southern Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina, these birds in the ovenbird family live in mountain and lowland forests. Foraging alone or in pairs and joining mixed-species flocks, they eat arthropods, usually picking prey from branches, dead leaf clusters, and other surfaces primarily in the undergrowth. Though little is known about their breeding behavior, they nest in cavities, probably building shallow cups from twigs where females lay clutches of two to four eggs.

[yellydany]

Suicune taking a nap in the forest💧🌾