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I'm sorry, I can't stop thinking about maleficent and diaval as the tough, goth parents, and aurora being their happy, sunshine daughter.
Example. Maleficent is sitting in a tree staring into space, thinking about revenge, probably. Diaval is nearby, as a raven. Then all of a sudden aroura comes running up with her yellow dress and flowers in her hair and pink ribbons and huge smile and she says 'omg godmother!! Today my aunts were baking muffins but they forgot about them!! they exploded in the oven and there was batter everywhere, i dont even know how they got muffins to explode, it was soo messy! Anyway i went exploring today and i found some wild raspberries and flowers! They smell so sweet, and i made you a flower crown!" *places crown on maleficent head.* "godmother you look amazing!! i love you!!:)"
and then maleficent is just sitting there silently the whole time like :0... :)....
Pick something you need to hear, then pass it on (reblog) if you want to <3
I am glad you are here
I am so proud of you
It wasn’t your fault, you didn’t deserve that
you do matter
thoughts aren’t facts, don’t believe everything you think
if it matters to you, it’s important
everything you feel is valid
you are worthy of love and kindness
asking for help doesn’t make you weak (it’s actually very strong)
your value is not based on your productivity
you are not alone
you will get through this
Thanks, Anon!
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Crows are scary They
use tools
Can be taught to speak (like parrots)
Have huge brains for birds
like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee
They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things
they are scary smart at solving puzzles
some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies
they can remember faces
SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT. They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows. Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag. But the nice guys with masks they left alone. THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight. THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.
They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.
Guys I’m really scared of crows now. (q)
Yeah but have you seen this
A colleague of my dad’s lives next to a lake, and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice. A crow swooped down. “Oh hell,” she thought, expecting carnage, because crows are opportunists. But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free.
Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once ,they’re bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill
I love crows so damn much. When I was fifteen, I hit a pretty serious bout of depression, to the point I was in my room for months. Well, a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window. There were two parents and two chicks. One chick was healthy and strong. One was weak, and had a caw like something being strained. It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him ‘Buck’.Well… months passed and Buck’s sibling was taught to fly. His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong. The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck, but I saw him try to fly, fail, and crash to the floor. His father helped him back up into the tree.
Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well… near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped… and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.
That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like I’d lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him.
Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree.
That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck… and one from his chick.
Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring, summer, and fall on our property. Buck still greets me every spring.
that last reply made me wanna cry. that’s so beautiful.
Don’t forget the Russian Crow SLEDDING DOWN A ROOF not once, but twice.
this one morning i kept hearing really loud caws, i remember it was like 5am, LIKE REALLY LOUD AND ANNOYING AND AGGRESSIVE, so loud that i could hear it through a closed window, and i eventually went outside to check it out. there was a crow on my front lawn, it had an injury on its head and couldn’t fly and there were two other crows circling right above it, and they were cawing like mad.
i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me. so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance.
a few more times later, very soon after, they could tell i was trying to help, and did not attack me. i was “allowed” to walk up close and pick him up, he couldn’t drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth.
i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared, i thought he recovered and left, but he came back the next day and lands on me, and i see him around the block quite often, and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again. i feel like i’ve adopted a son.
Best birbs !!
your son is Beautiful and Strong
every time I see this post it has different crow stories and every time I reblog it again because all crow stories are good stories
Like, I wouldn’t want to be on bad terms with a crow, but they are a really smart animal, they aren’t scary You just want to be nice to them because they will know and they will remember, and they will pay you back if you treat them a certain way.
As a side note, I volunteered at a rehab (Hope for Wildlife), where they were rehabbing a crow with a broken wing–who was named Russell Crow. He kept pulling his bandage off so a sleeve was cut off some old clothing and put on him like a little sweater.
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I don’t think I’ll ever not reblog this. This posts makes me cry and smile at the same time.
He’s so handsome!!
I would trust a crow with my life
This is your regularly scheduled crow appreciation post
many east indians respect crows and lowkey worship them and now i know why :)
fucking superb you funky little death omens
Damn now I want a crow
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Good birb 👍
"maleficent: mistress of evil" as the onion
Maleval moments from the Maleficent script by Linda Woolverton
Anyway I'm thinking about Maleficent describing her wings. Thinking about how she said
1. They dragged behind her when she walked
2. They never faltered
3. She could always trust them
And I'm thinking about how after she lost them, she asked Diaval to be her wings, and
1. He trailed along behind her throughout the movie
2. He never faltered in his loyalty, for 16 years
3. When she turned him into a dragon, she immediately collapsed in relief, even though she was still in severe danger, because she trusted him completely to deal with the threats
Just thinking.
Me, desperately hoping that we'll one day have a Maleficent 3 that will finally give us the Maleficent and Diaval (Maleval) realization that I've been dreaming about since seeing the first movie !
Seriously, let Aurora's parents finally get their true love with each other !
As much as I have my issues with "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil", I will be forever grateful that it gave us these two precious maleval moments.
The way Diaval takes off her cloak, like he's shielding her from unwanted stares, and she's looking at him with wide-eyed and trusting 😭
The way he casually touches the small of her back and whispers "let her go" into her ear like a loving partner of two decades 😭
If there's ever a third movie, please oh please don't take this away 😭
Late night thoughts
#MahsaAmini #kittycatandmanlyman
Just an underrated moment in my opinion.
It's easy to forget this is Diaval's neck she's leaning into, because he's in his equine form.
But he's still sentient. He's still that same guy inside. Man, bird, horse. He's Diaval, and Maleficent knows this. And she lays her head into his neck for consolation.
Aurora, about to introduce Diaval: (I'd say he's my dad, but technically he isn't. I'd say he's Maleficent's partner, but theoretically he isn't. Officially he's her servant, but I can't say that, it's ridiculous...)
Aurora: This is Diaval.
I went ahead and signed up for the "ad-free browsing" Tumblr now offers and I'm happy to know others are too, and I want to say that I've seen a lot of people angry that Tumblr is trying to get people to "pay" to get rid of ads and like okay, yeah. Paying the amount gets rid of the ads, and Tumblr's intent here is to have you pay them money and they will not show you the ads that would be making them the money you're now paying them, because that's how ads on websites work, and have always worked. the money has to come from somewhere, and if it's not ads, it's users. or both.
but also like.
I've never had the ability to just give Tumblr money. It's never been an option available to me.
I can't really speak for anyone else, but I do often have some spare money, and I often use that money to donate to things that I like that have made my life more bearable. I set aside money each year for my monthly donations to AO3. I donate to wikipedia when they ask. I "buy gems" on flight rising at least once a year. Stuff like that. And even the last one, I do that once a year not because I want the gems (it's nice to get them) but because I use the site often and it improves my life and I want it to keep running. I donate to things I am able to use for free because they mean something to me. Because I want them to stay, and I understand that it's not their fault it takes money to run things.
I've never had that option here. I've never been able to donate directly to Tumblr to say "here's $20 to keep the lights on, thanks for giving me a place to call home." I've never been able to speak to Tumblr with my money.
And yes, it's a hellsite (affectionate and derogatory) and yes they do things that drive me up a wall sometimes, and they're not even close to perfect. They fuck up plenty.
But... it's ours. This space is mine, it's where my friends are, it's where I come to unwind, it is full of some of the most amazing folks I've had the pleasure of interacting with. It contains so much fandom history at this point. And it's not tracking us and it's not making us use real names and there's no viewing someone's follower count, no one gets merit for anything, posts blowing up is chaotic at best. There is no other site like that, not really, and certainly not one so easy to use that's already so full of people. Tumblr is one of the last bastions of wilderness on the internet, and I spend literal hours on here making stuff and talking to people and looking at stuff other people made.
And regardless of what Tumblr is or isn't, what they have done or not done or fucked up... Tumblr isn't just @staff. Tumblr, for me, is all of you, shitposting and meme posting and passionately science-ing and informing everyone about current events and showing off pictures of animals that make my day a little brighter. And without Tumblr as the platform to do all of this on, I would have to go someplace worse. Like Twitter. I don't want to go to Twitter.
So... in my eyes, I'm not paying $40 to get rid of ads. I mean, yeah okay that's happening as well, and it's a nice bonus, but it's not why I'm doing it, because I already get rid of ads for free.
But I AM giving Tumblr a $40 donation as a thank you for 10+ years of free service, the friends I have made along the way, the experiences I've earned here, the people I get to interact with, the sometimes functional website, the thousands of my posts they archive and host, and in the hopes it will stick around to continue to do all of that and more.
It doesn't have to be worth it to you, but it's worth it to me.
This is 100% new and 100% Tumblr with 0% ads.
If you love ads, then this post is not for you. If you love Tumblr but hate ads and want the one to continue without having to endure the other, then this post is literally for you. Hello, you.
As of today, you can set up ad-free browsing on your personal desktop computer, from anywhere in the world, and then enjoy the same effervescent Tumblr you know and love (yes, including mobile) without the interruption of ads. Scroll away.
Some caveats:
It’s $4.99 for a month of pure, unadulterated nonsense.
If you like a discount, you can get 33% off (that’s four months for free) at $39.99 for a whole year. Imagine.
This is opt-in. You don’t have to do this. We won’t make you.
How do you opt in?
Easy! Just go to your Account Settings on desktop and hit "Go Ad-Free." From there, you can choose to pay monthly or yearly:
And that’s it! You’ll be able to enjoy your favorite blogs and posts without any pesky ads getting in the way.
That’s all for now, Tumblr. Back to your blorbos.
As the staff post about ad-free tumblr continues to get thousands of notes telling staff to fuck off in the tags, I wanna remind you that this website's days are numbered. Tumblr is still unprofitable and by some modern-day miracle none of its acquiring companies pulled the plug on this money pit. But it will happen if it continues its trajectory.
Whether you like it or not, Tumblr needs to make money off you somehow in order to stay up. It either serves ads or asks for money to use it. This has been a paradigm on the web longer than many of you have been alive. It's Tumblr's job to make money right now because it's well past its grace period of being a black hole for cash. This has actually always been Tumblr's job, since it is a corporation, but that's capitalism for ya.
If you want Tumblr to be here for free and you want to continue to use it, you do yourself a disservice by opposing any changes Tumblr makes in order to pay for its costs. When this site finally goes belly-up then you're gonna be Tumblr-less until whatever startup takes its place and the cycle repeats itself.
If you think it should just ask for donations Wikipedia-style, remember that if and when that happens, there will be users repeating the same tired bullshit about giving Tumblr any money.
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