#gentoo

[theashenphoenix]

SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS (2025) 1.03 Rebels With a Cause

[laughroditee]

I'd like to believe that Simon Riley is the kind of guy to watch animal documentaries.

One night, he watches one about Gentoo penguins, who mate for life. The males court their chosen partners by presenting them with the smoothest pebble he can find, and should his potential mate accept, that pebble becomes the foundation for the nest they will build together.

While on deployment, Simon searches the ground and rubble for the smoothest, most appealing rock he can find -- it's not like he has much else to do during downtime -- and then he gives it to you.

You don't really know what to make of it at first, but the mere act of accepting it opened the way to receiving pebbles each and every time he comes back from deployment, or anywhere else really. Now you have rocks from all around the world. And also from outside the barber shop and the bakery and the beach....

[lisp-official]

May tier uuwuwu

[klarathenerd]

Idk I Got Bored

[unbfacts]

Port Lockroy is known as the UK’s most southerly public post office, and about 70,000 cards are posted from there each year to over 100 countries. In one recent season, the team counted 938 eggs in 545 occupied gentoo penguin nests on Goudier Island, and later recorded 694 chicks.

[rn-deliabusby]

flickr

[cat-spleen]

"It's just that I never knew someone could be such a .... I guess a fangirl... for an operating system before."

my dad

[thewaterbirds]

Gentoo penguin contemplates island life on the Falklands

2025, watercolor and gouache

[reference photo sent in by a DnD friend living on the island]