cannon accident
illuminated treatise on warfare, Upper Rhine ca. 1420-1440
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rh. hist. 33b, fol. 102r
In the early mornings, the majestic bin chicken tends to its crops. #ibispridecoalition #binchicken #ibis #australia (at Gold Coast, Queensland)
Sea otters and giant river otters are like if someone got two artists to design a giant otter, but ended up with two very different ideas on what they should look like cause one draws hello kitty fanart and the other was a nihilist.
Anonymous asked:
dimetrodone answered:
It looks like a baby bird popping it’s head out of an old fruit
OKAY BUT YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY MISSING THE BEST PART OF THIS BIRD:
I FOUND MY PATRONUS ANIMAL! MEET…. THE SHAME-FACED CRAB:
JUST LOOK AT THAT FACE:
IT IS CLEARLY NERVOUS AROUND EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING AND WAITING FOR SOMETHING BAD TO HAPPEN
LOOK AT THEM AWKWARDLY SCUTTLING OUT OF A SOCIAL SITUATION:
LOOK AT THEM HARRUMPHING AT BEING TOLD ATTENDANCE AT A GATHERING IS MANDATORY:
LOOK AT THEM BURROW AWAY FROM THEIR PROBLEMS, PRETENDING THEY DON’T EXIST:
I LOVE YOU, CRAB OF SHAME!
Pelagic red crabs are making themselves at home in their new exhibit!
Also known as tuna crabs, these crimson crustaceans washed up en masse in Monterey Bay during the 2015 El Niño.
God just imagine walking the streets in 1830s France, rounding a corner and coming across a slick gang of gentlemen and ladies, all with forked beards and satin and leather outfits. They eye you lazily, like crocodiles, as you step into the alley. One is ironically playing the ukelele, the jangling notes tapering off menacingly as their attention fixes on you.
“Oh no,” you say, grabbing your companion’s arm, “Bouzingos!”
“Oh look,” says the ukelele player. “Some grocers.”
“We don’t want any trouble,” your companion says, backing away.
Snickers and sneers ripple through the surrealist gang. One of the Bouzingos takes out a croissant and bites it right in half. Another smokes a cigarette with their ear. One of them is a lobster.
“Have you culturally appropriated any tchotchkes recently?” One of them jeers.
“We’re sorry,” you apologise, “we’ll be going now.”
You and your companion stumble back into the street, dragging each other.
“these gangs are really getting out of hand,” your companion says weakly. “Do you think we’re… infected?”
You shiver. For a moment, vague longings and inconsolable regrets assail you. You feel moved to contribute to the discourse. Anxieties flicker across your heart. But the moment passes.
“No,” you say. “I think we got away clean.”
having been reading Dumas this is AMAZING
hannelore-grace
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When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things:
- Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish)
- Words don’t change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese)
- We don’t live in some bizarre Beauty And The Beast world where we give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)
- Likewise, we don’t have have two different words for “they” because we don’t care whether “they” were male or female (Spanish, French)
- There’s no formal “you” because we don’t play mind games about whether or not we respect you (Spanish, German)
- We don’t alter the whole fucking language based on how much we respect you (Japanese)
- The letters and sounds might not be consistent, but at least we have letters, not just pictures (Mandarin)
- We don’t have a fucking stupid tense specifically for talking to two people because some idiot decided that a two-person tense was necessary (Arabic)
So yeah, I think we’re doing okay as a language
Oh and some of our plurals are irregular, but at least it’s not like every goddamn plural is an entirely new word so you have to learn every word twice
At least it’s not like that, right? Right, Arabic? WHAT A DUMB IDEA THAT WOULD BE, HUH, ARABIC?
But we do kinda have the tone thing. Like record and record, resume and resume, etc
For a few words, but you can mispronounce a lot and still get away with it. I’m referring to this:
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