#Distinguished Americans

[fotos-art]

Caribbean Flamingos, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

© Claudio Contreras

NPL/Minden Pictures

Did you know that Caribbean flamingos, also known as American flamingos as we see them today, fly in groups called "flocks"? You can see them on the Yucatan Peninsula and in the Caribbean, where they are the largest of their species in the Americas. These birds are distinguished by their characteristic pink color, long necks and curved beaks. They live in marshes, estuaries and brackish coasts, where they eat shrimp and small crustaceans that give them their characteristic pink hue. They make short migrations in search of food, and you can also find them in the southeastern United States and South America.

[wheucto]

object show characters being named as their own objects might strike you as odd, but is it really that strange? with humans, differentiating each other using names is necessary. we're all "humans," so there's not much to name off of. physical features, maybe, but people can often share those...

however, with objects, there's a clear distinction to name someone after. and, why do names exist? to distinguish people from one another. why would you make a name, when there's already a perfectly good one right there? and sure, there's people who are the same object, but there's people with the same name too. they'd probably get nicknames/slightly different names... besides, that's why surnames exist.

[wingedjewels]

Kestrel by Kip Hutchison Via Flickr: Perched very high in a Pine Tree.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Hearts Still Beating

post-apocalyptic YA

a few years after a tick-borne zombie apocalypse destroyed most of the world, a treatment is developed that keeps the infected from going feral

an infected teen is in recovery and sent back in the world - to live with her former best friend’s family, since her sister hates her for killing their parents

the best friend now lives on an island community with her parents and adopted siblings, traumatised from what she’s had to do to survive

when the militant group that has control of the island becomes increasingly aggressive, they’re forced to reconnect and work together

f/f, bi MC

[0-k-4]

JEAN MOREEAU REAL NAME IS JEAN-YVES. I KNWOW THIS SOUNDS VERY NORMALY FRENCH TO NON FRENCH READER BUT. IT HITS DIFFERENTLY FOR FRENCH PPL

[bonefall]

is there multiple words for mole, or multiple species and a generic word? trying to translate an oc’s name (Palemole) and coming up with Olurrbosgo (pale + european mole)

That's kind of the point lmao. If you're speaking Hindi, the word for bread is Naan. Ask for naan in New Delhi and they won't give you an american-style breadroll. If you're speaking Clanmew, the word for mole is Bosgo. Ask for Bosgo they will give you Bosgo.

If there was a Clan that was dealing with different species of mole with different behaviors, they may create new terms if need be. But there's one species of mole in the Clan cats' home and it's the European Mole, so Bosgo simply means that

[pigeon-quill]

not to post about a niche asmr series on main but the Dark Prince series subverting the "it's a fantasy setting so everyone is vaguely english" trope with Illyian being casually American and no one ever addressing it is iconic

[dolokhoded]

epic the musical can die by my blade i don't think there's anything actually wrong with i'm just abhorred by the amount of tenors and think everyone sounds like the vocal equivalent of an iphone face

[dandunn]

Yeah the "his or her" thing really is sexist by design unfortunately. It was funnily enough an attempt to be less sexist because the rule before "his or her" came into popularity was to simply use "his" unless the subject was specifically a woman or women. (ex. "everybody will take his seat" for a gender-neutral group of people but "everybody will take her seat" for a group of only women.) So the intentions behind it were initially good, but it never really got away from male-defaulting (you're still supposed to list the masculine first and there's no reason why)

It's also funny when people argue "bad grammar" about singular they cause like I said "he or she" wasn't even originally grammatically correct lmao. We have changed it before and we'll do it again

Lmao that's interesting. It sure feels telling when resistance to gender-neutral terminology ends up backsliding into dated horseshit right out of the 50s huh

[lesbegays]

i’m gonna invent a new job called butterfly proofreader in which companies or artists hire me to tell them “sorry that’s a viceroy not a monarch” before they publish something

[hacash]

me every time Jonathan Groff stars in a film/show

approximately ten years after I saw Jonathan Groff starring in said film/show

yes this is because of Rogue

[nickbutnodick]

thats either a fish crow or a regular crow with a really bad cold

[comradecowplant]

I don't follow blogs ran by people being racist about rap so I'm only witnessing the secondhand responses to the recent "discourse" and sadly 'tumblrinas being racist about their bad taste in music & low lyrical literacy' is exactly what I'd put on my 2024 bingo card for this steadily declining shithole....

[widowshill]

not for nothing that roger and jeff are wearing completely identical suits for vicki's wedding down to the same pearl stick pin and it's roger that is distinguished with the accessory and the visual emphasis. that roger wears the pocket square and jeff goes plain without one, without a boutonnière (as feels the most probable and appropriate; they both wear boutonnières in roger's prophetic dream of the wedding). that not only is he wearing the handkerchief, but it's folded in such a way as so take as much space as possible – straying from accepted formality of a neat TV fold, occupying more room on the screen, drawing more attention, pointing among other things to his heart in bright white.

[911-on-abc]

y'all when we talk about Eddie being from Texas we have to remember that Texas is a big fucking state. Like, Eddie is from El Paso, a city that is a lot closer to where I live in AZ than it is to Austin Texas. Don't get me wrong, Texas is Texas, but West Texas is very different from East Texas, culturally and geographically. So some of the things Judd from Lone Star does or says, for example, won't really track with Eddie