many strange things in the usa but the scariest thing to me how common the garbage disposal unit is. why does your sink have teeth. thats some horror house imagery to me.

it'd be really great to one day go on social media and not see people claiming that the appearance and presentation of a number of trans people i know and love is inherently transphobic and a caricature and disgusting and an assault on All Trans People lmfao.

transphobes who explicitly try to make man in a dress caricatures are doing so bc they're transphobes. a transfem with lipstick and facial hair and depictions of her from people who love her are not caricatures. a non binary transfem with no access to hrt and who is tall with broad shoulders is not a caricature or a personal attack on you. if a person gives you dysphoria just by existing and presenting themselves a certain way, that is a You problem and you need to keep it to yourself. these are people who are just as subject to transphobic and transmisogynistic violence as you are, and badmouthing them as traitors/dangerous/giving you a bad name/liberal/disgusting/discouraging others from Real Transition TM/actually Men just makes you another enemy sorry.

im sorry that you feel personally disgusted and offended by this trans person who has a huge rack and visible stubble and is proud of rocking both of these. keep it to yourself, cunt. im referring to actual real life people btw not your own projection on a wall of respectability hidden under new vocab of "actually that trans woman is only doing so because she doesnt feel confident enough but i bet i could make her look more feminine <3" or "it's actually evil and telling other trans people not to medically transition when you don't have my exact transition goals"

happy to be around you

been thinking about how its canon that susie will rest her chin on peoples heads......

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No thoughts. Only Murdybot.

mita is so coooooool wait

mitaga mei sa--wsa sa

mita is so coooooool

idk if the w there makes a verb or consonant sound but either way that was probably the worst place to extend it

mita is so coooooool wait

mitaga mei sa--wsa sa

mita is so coooooool

widehead

how i feel redesigning the skinny twink adopt i bought into a fat girl

It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

Part of why Ravens are considered Spooky Bad Things We Associate With The Faeries is because they can and do mimic human speech - but much, much better than a parrot. With a parrot, you can tell something is off about the sound. You can tell it doesn’t belong to a human. Ravens don’t sound like that, no, cause they’re overacheivers. (And passerines). They sound EXACTLY like the voice of whoever they are mimicking.

But more importantly they love the sound of human laughter. No one knows why. But it is totally, 100% possible, and it happens to this day, to walk along the paths in the Black Forest and suddenly hear a strange kind of giggling sound, or maybe even a very clear, definitely human sounding “hello?” “Hiiiii!” Or “let’s go!”.

However, it takes a lot of practice for them to copy sounds as perfectly as they do, so you’re equally likely to hear something that definitely sounds human-like, but the words make no sense and the sound is unlike any language you know.

Ravens at the Tower of London do this all the time. Theyre pretty sociable with humans though, so they do it quite openly. I have seen videos of people, mostly Americans, look absolutely spooked out of their skins when a big ol’ raven (mind ye, these are birds that are 2 feet tall with a 5 foot wingspan) comes waltzing up on the deck and starts talking to them.

And ravens, especially the ones there that have been bred and raised by humans for centuries, don’t just imitate - they have one of the same language processing genes we do, and they understand the way a toddler might that things, places, and individuals have names, and can string together basic sentences much like an african grey.

I know because I used to work with one, Darlene, who knew, quite well, what she wanted and how to ask for it. If you were preparing her breakfast, she would hop on up and investigate. She used to be an illegal pet, and had been taught “manners”. That is to say, if she went for something and you told her, sternly, “mind your manners missy!” She would stop, look at you, perhaps for up to a minute, and then point with her beak to what she wanted. If that did not work, she would ask, in plain English, “grape?” Or “Darl have grape?” And lord help you if you gave her anything less than what she asked for. She would throw it at you, and try to bite you, sometimes while saying “No!” In the same tone as I imagine she was reprimanded in her home.

So yeah. Parrots arent the only ones.

WHAT

Was anyone gonna tell me that ravens can talk or was I meant to read about it on a tumblr post?!

Talking Ravens has been a trope in fantasy for so long that people forgot that it is based in fact.

Story from another world

The sound my stupid cat makes when I move him from his favourite spot (on top of my jackets)

what kind of camera are you using this is like movie quality god damn

HE SOUNDS SO SAD PUT hIM BACK

@anywherejustnothere