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@birds-in-posts

Green thorntail (Discosura conversii)

the single larger bird who shows up at the end is a bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)

FAIRIES

I didn't know hummingbirds came in goth.

last thing I'll say. this is a shock to the system. maybe you cannot see beyond the brick wall right now. you should take some time to grieve and be angry. process and detangle your mind. this is gonna suck. it's gonna be hard. it's gonna be painful. it's gonna feel impossible sometimes. if this is how it is then this is how it is. you can't hate your way back in time. you cannot hindsight your way into a better outcome. there are still victories around you to preserve. there are still people who need you to pick yourself up off the floor one more time. maybe if you don't have hope rn you can still have love. I feel bleak and despairing but I love you. so I will do what I can to fight for you. you can't see the top of the staircase so don't give in to whatever may or may not be waiting up there. All that you can really see is the next step in front of you. one step at a time. one step at a time. don't take yourself off that staircase. I love you guys.

It's OK if you’re not OK right now. I’m certainly not. Mothman isn’t. We’re devastated. There’s a hollow crater in my chest where my heart ought to be. I’m sick with worry. But I can’t let it consume me. So we’re going to allow ourselves to grieve and then find actionable ways to counter what lies ahead.

That will look different for everyone, but one thing that will be universally required in the days and years ahead is compassion and an unshakable commitment to kindness.

We will help each other through this. We will find ways to help other people. We will protect the people we love and even those we don’t to the best of our abilities. Because that’s the only option we have.

We will do it angry, we will do it sad, we will do it terrified. But we will do it.

Please be gentle with yourself. Please don’t do anything to harm yourself. The world needs your light. It needs your anger and your hope. It needs you.

Lol, I saw this on TikTok and thought I would share here, too. Credit goes to @rhondatoksaboutbooks on TikTok. The video can be found at this link.

Edit: I added an image description in a reblog. 😊

AGATHA ALL ALONG (2024-?) 1.07 | Death’s Hand in Mine

ghosta nova 👻🎸

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This movie deserved three sequels and a Saturday morning cartoon.

These are my ghostbusters. Now and always.

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

It's been a while since I posted here but hey, I wrote a book. PIRATES: A GRAPHIC HISTORY (But not THAT kind of graphic) is now available for preorder on Kickstarter. The title pretty much says it all... It's an all ages graphic novel about the history of buccaneers, brigands and other assorted barnacled baddies. Did I mention it's also a humor book?

Head to the campaign page for the full story, preview pages and the rundown of all the reward tiers available. The project funded in under a day but we're nearly at the halfway point for stretch goals. You can find it at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/silvaniart/pirates-a-graphic-history-but-not-that-kind-of-graphic

James has spent FIVE YEARS researching and working up this book and it’s gonna be great. If you like MST3K, Monty Python, Our Flag Means Death, Animaniacs and other fun, slightly irreverent takes on history. Go to the kickstarter and check out his sample pages and maybe pledge for some really fun tiers and stretch goals.

goodbye yaoi summer and hello yuri autumn

HUGE shout out to purple for being the only color that has like no losers. Deep purple royal purple bluish purple redish purple pastel purple dusty purple lavender periwinkle violet like. Banger after banger after banger!!

look at these. there r all absolute fuckin stunners:

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And yet they’re the SMALLEST DAMN COLOUR GROUPS in copic markers & CMYK hates them.

just some lads, being fellows

Things I've spontaneously said to animals. Do you do this too? Mailing list: https://buttondown.email/rosemarymosco Patreon: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

The 90's had the Iron Giant

The 2000's had WALL.E

The 2010's had Baymax

The 2020's will have...

The SS Warrimoo, a passenger steamship traveling from Vancouver to Australia, was silently knifing its way across the mid-Pacific waters. The navigator had just finished calculating a star fix and handed the results to Captain John DS. Phillips.

The Warrimoo's coordinates were LAT 0º 31' N, LONG 179 30' W. The date was December 31, 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton announced, "We're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line."

Captain Phillips was prankish enough to seize the opportunity to do the nautical feat of a lifetime. He summoned his navigators to the bridge to double-check the ship's position. He altered his course slightly to focus directly on his target. He then altered the engine's speed.

The calm weather and clear night worked to his advantage. At midnight, the SS Warrimoo rested on the Equator, exactly where it had crossed the International Date Line. The ramifications of this odd arrangement were numerous.

The ship's bow was in the Southern Hemisphere, in the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere, in the midst of winter. The date on the aft portion of the ship was December 31, 1899. The date on the forward half of the ship was January 1, 1900. The ship experienced multiple days, months, years, seasons, and centuries simultaneously.