#dreading

[great-and-small]

Some species of terns (including the Royal terns pictured here) exhibit a mysterious behavior called the “dread” and we don’t know exactly why they do it.

Tern colonies are almost always a cacophony of noise with the sounds of squawks and chatter from breeding adults and groups of juveniles. Even at night the noise is constant. Sometimes though, the entire colony will fall utterly quiet together in a sustained period of silence that we call the dread. Often the birds will leave their nests as a group while they fly together in perfect silence.

After the dread the birds quickly return to their normal chatter. We don’t yet know what this behavior means but it has been theorized to be a form of social bonding, a threat response, or even just plain fun.

If you’re interested in what the dread sounds like, have a listen from a researcher who observed tern populations firsthand.

[en-la-licorera]

Shrimp!Medic cuz i was dreading all day and maybe tomorrow will be the same.

[ziggityzigg]

I made these

[oncosis]

Heads up im gonna be so insufferable for the next week because I’m away from home and subjected to the horrors so i WILL be whining a lot

But if you wanna distract, please send me some asks and share anything you’d like, I’ll answer the between classes :)

[snailfan35]

from a writing standpoint which is the only thing i care about because i’m a grown woman, byler becoming canon in the least 4ish hours of stranger things after years of build up for literally everything else in the show would be atrocious writing wise and not make sense at all.

there would need to be a MASSIVE moment of reflection from mike about being gay, akin and bigger than wills moment in episode 4 but even that moment had years of emotional storytelling behind it. mike doesn’t have that right now. there’s around 4 hours left all together. most of that will be dedicated to defeating the big bad and tying up things like max’s coma. where do people expect the hours of writing and revelations and hard conversations between SEVERAL characters that would change so many dynamics to happen? i don’t know what people think will happen and the fallout will be so shitty to watch all around

i really just don’t understand what they expect to happen when directly on screen there’s been zero hints of mike returning wills feelings. in fact there’s been pretty heavy handed (but extremely sweet, i cried at robins speech) proof of otherwise. you cannot use supposed sub text etc and say thats proof it’ll happen for a show as heavy handed as stranger things.

this is a show that has lines directly explaining things we’ve seen five minutes before over and over and also is known for severe, clear on screen build up before making any relationships canon (jancy, jopper). even robin and vickie, a relatively more background relationship had way more hints (not posters in the back and theories of gates or whatever) in the small time it was given pre canonisation

i’m not even massively into mileven. i just hate how non media literate this whole thing is making people look and act and how awful the fallout will probably be all around. stranger things is a silly mediocre mainstream show!!! it’s not a masterpiece of subtext and hidden meanings behind every line!!! and that’s so okay. it doesn’t need to be. it’s fun, emotional and nerdy and just has a lot of care put into each scene. that again does not mean there is hidden meanings, it just shows the dedication of all of the crew to make the show feel the way it does

and for the record, ship what you want regardless of canonicity. that’s like 90% of the fun. it’s so harmless when you know it’s an au or whatever and just enjoy the show regardless of your ships presence. idk when fandom culture lost that (is is klance? it’s usually klance)

[pencilmagmen]

[mechhours]

evil old grandpa with his evil little bedazzled 2000s flip phone my beloved