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@bramblestar334 / bramblestar334.tumblr.com

Bramblestar, he/him, they/them, it/its, and purr/purrself, bi and polyamorous (read pinned post for more info)

My name's Bramblestar, but I don't care too much what you call me as long as you're not insulting me

Purrself/it/he/they (in order of preference)

I am an adult, if this makes you uncomfortable, feel free to not follow.

I don't really have a DNI but I'll block as I see fit. Don't take it purrsonally lmao.

I have a few typing quirks, including using 8 instead of parts of words that would make the same sound, using cat puns whenefur pawsible, and double mouthing my emoticons :33

I'm very very plural and @invisible-friend-system is our system blog

Prospit dreamer, page of heart

My interests change about once a year. Currently hyperfixated on Dandys World and In Stars and Time (going insane over this game help)

Feel free to tag me in basically anything you think I'd like. Cat videos, random posts about my interests, tag games, literally anything. I love attention.

Discord: Bramblestar334

Wattpad: Typewriter_galaxy

Artfight: Bramblestar334

I also run @somewhatdailyanthrostuck please please please request stuff so I have ideas to draw please

โ€œGod poured me out like milk and curdled me like cheeseโ€ sounds like a post youโ€™d find on tumblr dot com, but it is in fact Job 10:10

Job wouldโ€™ve done numbers on Tumblr if he live-blogged his experience. Probably wouldโ€™ve gotten much the same responses too

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that is the face of a man worried he will be next

Sorry, he WHAT? Imagine being this man's boss and having to sit him down like. Listen. Brian. We need you to fuck the bird. You have to act like you're excited about it.

crane husband.....

this is the diametric opposite of all those awful swan wife stories and i love it.

(WalWaPo makes you jump through like three separate hoops before you can read the article, so I will share some of the highlights:

  • Walnut was born in a species-recovery breeding program in the 1980โ€ฒs.ย  The program had crane chicks hand-raised by human volunteers, and at that time they did not fully understand the measures necessary make sure that the chicks do not imprint on humans and retain their identity as cranes.ย ย 
  • As a result, her keepers believe, Walnut does not recognize other cranes as members of her own species.ย ย 
  • It has not been proven that Walnut killed her previous suitors; however, there is a persistent rumor in the white-naped-crane-conservation community that she did.ย ย 
  • Because this species is highly endangered, and the gene pool of the captive population is small, itโ€™s pretty important for the survival of her species that Walnut A) mate, and B) not kill a bunch of other cranes.ย ย 
  • The actual name of the keeper is Chris Crowe.
  • They both arrived at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2004.ย  ย 
  • Walnut immediately began paying special attention to Chris--and ignoring the eligible male crane in a nearby enclosure.ย ย 
  • Walnut initiated their courtship, performing the opening moves of a mating dance.ย ย 
  • Chris realized that if he reciprocated the mating dance, it might be possible to artificially inseminate Walnut with her participation and consent.ย  (The process normally involves restraining the bird.)ย ย 
  • It worked!ย ย 
  • Chris and Walnut have had five children, who were raised by other crane couples at the facility--sometimes the biological dad and his mate--both because itโ€™s unclear whether Walnut would accept the chicks as her own, and because Chris is not equipped to be a Crane Dad.ย ย 
  • However, the Institute provides her with artificial eggs to sit on, and Chris takes his turn looking after them.ย  (This would not work with real eggs because he canโ€™t sit on them properly, but Walnut seems to feel that he is on the job if he just stands over them.)
  • Chris accepts that he is pretty much married to this bird.ย  White-naped cranes live to be about 60, and they mate for life, so he knows he canโ€™t retire while Walnut is alive.ย  (At the time of the article, Walnut was 36, and Chris 42.)ย ย 

Legit cannot pick the funniest part of this

she has not been PROVEN to have killed her exes, but there is a PERSISTENT RUMOR (really officers she's simply DEVASTATED, she sobs, wearing a new feather boa unfortunately resembling her most recent deceased husband)

His name is Chris CROWE. (Mrs. Walnut Crane-Crowe?)

the mental images of a whole human man learning and performing the crane mating dance, and "sitting" on artificial eggs so she thinks he's performing his duties as a husband and father (and apparently OBJECTS if he does not?)

"chris, buddy, you gotta marry the possibly-murderous crane lady for the GOOD OF THE SPECIES." (alternately: "chris, my man! good news! we found you a very interested lady! She's 36, she's very spirited and independent, she holds a very important and rare status in her society! ...Is there a downside? WELL...")

chris sits any potential human partners down, like "my love, you must understand before we wed,,, i am already... Attached" (camera drifts wistfully to the above photo) "Lady Walnut and I have an,, Understanding... the relationship is open, but very committed"

just had to explain this post to my father bc he thought my stifled laughter was a signal of illness.

well done, everyone, good game. hit the showers.

Not only is he 'married' to walnut, this has apparently happened SEVERAL times, so he has MULTIPLE crane wives, none of which know about any of his other crane wives. This man is, for some unknown reason, irresistible to cranes

the โ€œthis content has been removed for violating Tumblrโ€™s Community Guidelinesโ€ notice really adds a lot of flavor to this post and somehow makes it MORE obscene than whatever that actually was

World Heritage Post

Hi! This is a rickroll. Please visit youtube dot com, type "never gonna give you up" in the search bar, then click on the first video that comes up. Thank you for your consideration.

Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

"In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness - from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis."

-Rebecca Solnit

Ossimoro

FREE PILLOW FIGHTS!

I love that most people once they realized what was happening just went full Berserk mode without a care

also the man dropping his walking cane to have an anime like elder master reveal

This wonderful human is bringing so much joy into the world. Heโ€™s reminding people theyโ€™re allowed to play. That they can be silly in public. That fun can come in unexpected places and at unexpected times. I wish I knew who he was. Iโ€™d donate so he could buy more pillows and bring more fun into the world - once itโ€™s safe enough to.

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