#Emerald Swift

[birdstudies]

April 1, 2023 - Emerald Swift (Sceloporus malachiticus) These swifts are found in parts of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. They feed on insects, foraging in the early morning. Unlike many species in the same family, they are ovoviviparous, meaning their eggs hatch while inside the female and she gives birth to live young.

[knuxtiger4]

One life leaves and another enters. Meet Talos!

Talos is an Emerald Swift which as you can see has a very rough issue going on with his back. He had been at my old Petco at 50% off forever and had even tried to help him prior. After losing Puba and now having an empty bioactive tank that I decided helping this guy out would be my next animal.

He is also an asshole. 😂 Which is fine cause I love handling asshole reptiles no one wants! I have been working on doing every other day soaks for him and trying the boost his nutrition to help hopefully fix his back scales up. Did a lot of reading which unfortunately not a lot of care sheet out there for these guys. I have my auto mister going hourly to keep the humidity up in the 60 to 80% range he needs.

I have debated on trying to breed him down the road. Sadly Emerald Swifts are WC and rarely CB. I was possibly looking into that avenue (I do this with Fire Belly Newts already) but would be hard since these guys just are what I call a no touchie reptile which people don’t really like.

Will see in time though we want to get him better first!

[ladyamanda123]

Realities of tonight….she may just leave us at the restaurant

All of this flagging, all of the crazy queer mashups, all of the build up. Will this just be another KissGate, another LavenderGate?

Maybe.

That really sucks to say out loud. But I feel like I want to prep myself for that very possible reality. Maybe the plan is still bigger. Maybe it’s a doc. Maybe it’s the Rep vault tracks. Or maybe she will just continue riding the fence and playing this balancing act forever. Maybe a final reveal will come Evelyn Hugo style?

If she walks out tonight in that Blue and Gold bodysuit again I feel like that will be our answer….three nights in a row is likely for filming and that is a brand Taylor move for sure. Hopefully like last night she will give us something amazing in the surprise song set.

The bottom line….this is Taylor’s life and Taylor’s story to tell however she chooses to tell it.

Tonight I want to just enjoy the final show for whatever it is. I think there will be something special. But whether it will be connected to a Coming Out or not, I just want to enjoy this final moment of this most massive of Eras.

Don’t get me wrong…..I am still praying all my little queer dreams for something massive! For the burn it all down she’s been promising and if she does I’m going to be INSUFFERABLE lol!

BUT…she also made very clear…

🎶 Dear Readers, if it feels like a trap, you’re already in one.

She’s told us not to hang our hats on her for this. Can’t say she didn’t warn us if, just like the hetlors clowning for Rep TV AGAIN, we also walk away tonight disappointed.

Just the way it might be…..but here’s hoping it’s Daylight time!!

🤞🌈🤞

[pinkorchidsinspring]

THE EMERALD CITY IS NEAR 💚💛 FOLKS…

CASSANDRA X MAD WOMAN X I DID SOMETHING BAD TOGETHER?!!!!! This is beyond loud…

Reputation TV is coming… and so is a free Taylor.

She’s at the peak of her fame right now according to every media outlet out there, so like mother said: you gotta leave before you get left… 😝

Side note: we have already left the field of poppies and stepped onto the yellow brick road so… we’re real close to emerald city folks 👏

This mashup is yet another step in the right direction…

The way they skip in the movie is just like how tay does it… and for reference another fan recreating the skip…

We’re off to see the wizard 💗

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

@taylorswift both my tumblr dash and my life will feel so empty in the absence of your Eras Tour.

I hope you say and do everything you want to say and do tonight, and that the last show Vancouver N3 is everything you wanted it to be.

Even if you prove me wrong and you don’t announce the double album, with the rep Vault tracks being songs from the lost Karma album, I’ll be so proud of you nonetheless. Even if whatever you have planned for tonight still doesn’t convince the Hetlors, I am convinced. Gaylors are sooo sure! And we aren’t going anywhere.

We’ve both been lurking on gaylor tumblr far longer than we should have, I fear. Let’s make the gaylor theories a part of Taylor Swift truth, yeah? Let there be Taylor Swift truth and Taylor Swift™️ downfall. It all happens tonight. Or maybe tonight is only the beginning… let’s see.

Thank you, and I love you! Good luck! xx

[tyyjaimiee]

It’s December 8th, and Taylor Swift has just ended her last show of the Eras Tour by saying, loudly and clearly: “I’m a lesbian.”

Everyone hears it. Everyone claps, whistles and cheers. All the Hetlors do too.

Later, they take to social media and they let everyone know that they still don’t believe Taylor is a lesbian. “She’s mocking Gaylors, that’s all!” “It’s a joke…” “It’s not real!”

Taylor changes her bio on all social media and writes “Lesbian 🧡🤍🩷”. Hetlors defend themselves, saying that she just loves the colours and she’s a huge ally.

Taylor lets the public know that she’s dating a woman. Hetlors refuse to admit it’s true. If say Gaylors were flabbergasted, but tbh, I don’t think we’d be that shocked. At least I wouldn’t.

[thefriendofdorthea]

I'm actually gonna cry if Tay doesn't wear green/yellow or green/green. This can't be the new 5 holes in the fence, I can't take it 😭

[all-too-unwell-13]

hi i'm bored so here's what i think marauders era characters would think about taylor swift 😙😙

(this is a part 1 with the marauders + valkeyries)

the marauders:

james - i don't think he'd have much of an opinion her tbh. i can see james listening to shake it off REGLIGIOUSLY, but other than some more tracks from 1989?? not much 🤷‍♀️

sirius - i genuinely don't think he'd care much for taylor at all. her music isn't his thing, but eventually remus would convince him to listen to some of speak now and i think he'd like 'haunted (taylor's version)' as well as 'mine' and a few other sappy love songs from some other albums that he associates with remus <3

remus - folklore is HIS ALBUM, okay? he listens to it daily, sometimes listening to evermore as well. remus prefers her softer, more lyrical music (this includes songs like 'new years day' as well as even 'dear reader' bc he'd relate a lot i think!!)

peter - like sirius, peter doesn't really listen to her music, and therefore doesn't have any opinion on her music. but if anybody turns her music on, he won't turn it off bc he does vibe with some songs (mainly the popular tracks, because i don't see him properly listening to a lot of her discography because he just prefers other music)

the valkeyries:

lily - the og swiftie of the entire friend group. she listens to taylor swift religiously and LOVES folklore (she was the one who introduced remus to her music and that album), as well as reputation (bc who doesn't, honestly?). her favourite songs from folklore are 'the lakes' and 'invisible string' !!

mary - forced swiftie i fear (she likes to joke that lily makes her listen to taylor all the time, but really mary also enjoys the music). she's a huge fearless tv girl and her favourite songs are 'the way i loved you' and 'jump then fall,' not just bc she might relate to either, but she just likes them!!

marlene - doesn't love taylor's music, but wouldn't turn it off if it came on 🤷‍♀️ she spends a lot of time listening to it bc of lily and mary, so she knows a lot of the lyrics, but she wouldn't listen to it herself, if yk what i mean!!

[theconfusedbookshrimp]

'...Ready for it?' is so art heißt baby! coded

[vomits0cutely]

“I’ve been doing it since he left, I keep finding his things in drawers. Crucial evidence, I didn’t imagine the whole thing.”

Literally all and any character from the Marauders era after they loss another person.

[romanpolitan]

NEW FIC DROP!!!

hello gelato fans !!!

i forgot to post here but i wrote a new fic :) the longest i’ve ever wrote, a solid 24 paged introspective on neo and roman and how i believe their relationship develops and the importance of roman in neos life. the store referenced multiple moments through the book, and i am very proud of it, so i hope you like it too!!!

[chappellschickensangwhich]

[oliviarosedorothy]

ok but what if I started making halloween Taylor banners

[nomsfaultau]

Chapter four is up! Techno is starting to get pretty adept at being kidnapped, only these captors are slightly less nice, especially since they mistake him for Wilbur —who he does NOT look like, by the way! Fortunately, Techno and his kidnappers have a lot of common ground, given they’ve all been screwed over by Philza Craft. Techno doesn’t mind working for his captors, even, if it means he survives. All he has to do is learn to lie like his life depends on it (which it does), suppress any positive memories of the Crafts in order to betray them, pray he doesn’t get Tommy killed, and ignore the growing fear that violence and manipulation runs in the blood. Other than those tiny wrinkles, it’s not half bad. Fun, even, though Techno is horrified to discover he excels at scheming the logistics for a criminal empire.

The Angel of Death, meanwhile, is going to make those who stole his son pay. Soon his Technoblade will be safe in his arms, right where he forever belongs.

[iheartmoons]

listen listen i always thought my tears ricochet was completely about sirius but good lord was i wrong. LISTEN:

Even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe All the hell you gave me? 'Cause I loved you, I swear I loved you 'Til my dying day -- regulus talking to sirius!!! because ofc sirius gave regulus hell once he learned that his brother had become a death eater. and regulus obviously knows he deserves it, not only because he loves sirius, but bc he knows what he's doing is wrong.

I didn't have it in myself to go with grace And you're the hero flying around, saving face -- i always thought that first line was the most sirius thing ever (and it is obvs) but that second line changes everything!! regulus didn't have the courage to go out like a hero, turning away his family with dignity. reg helped (well not really but ygm) the order and betrayed his family, but in his own way, and definitely not gracefully.

(on second thought, it actually works perfectly both ways. all of the order calls sirius brave for having the courage to run away. but all reg's family calls reg the hero for doing 'the right thing'.)

And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? Cursing my name, wishing I stayed -- if sirius hates reg so much, why is he crying over his death?? (reminder that sirius thought reg was a DE when he died as well, so his tears would have been for someone he thought was evil!)

You wear the same jewels that I gave you As you bury me -- i'm not entirely sure but i know that this relates to his family. its like. reg did so much for his family. and yet they bury him with no remorse (well, thats a hc but still)

And I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want, just not home -- his home is sirius. i won't take any debates. and he cant go to sirius because sirius 'doesn't want him anymore'.

And you can aim for my heart, go for blood But you would still miss me in your bones -- sirius again. like the brothers were on such bad terms from sixth year up, and sirius hated reg for being a DE. but as much spite as there was between them, sirius still hoped that reg wld come back to him.

And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming at the sky) -- ok this one i actually imagine in the cave. yeah, i know he wouldn't have been able to see the sky from a cave. but i imagine him drowning and facing the surface, and through the cracks of the surface, he watches the sky and imagines the stars watching over him. and reg screams, but he's underwater (sorry that sounds so cringey good lord) so no one (sirius) can hear him or save him.

And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves -- UMM. do i ever need to explain.

You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same Cursing my name, wishing I stayed -- again (its getting tenuous now) sirius!!

[I] turned into your worst fears -- so the [I] completely changes the meaning but I DONT CARE. canonically reg turned into sirius' worst fear in the world. how fucking sad is that. sirius fears what reg became more than he fears voldemort. (his boggart is himself in slytherin clothes, having a dark mark, becoming essentially what his parents wanted)

Crossing out the good years -- their entire childhood. everything they did together. the fact that they lived through such abuse together. to throw it all away. to stop looking at each other in the hallways. painful????

anuways, what do u think?

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

Why have I never watched the I Can See You mv until I saw the bts??? Holy sheeet

You’re meaning to tell me she sang THOSE lyrics while waiting impatiently in her cell for a GIRL to show up and save her… and said girl dodges and makes her way around lavender haze laser beams and a bunch of other purple lights can be seen… 💜 and then in the bts, Taylor describes her as “looking like an assassin… but also an ANGEL” during the moment she’s trying to open the vault with a chainsaw… “sparks flying everywhere”… 👀

And THEN, in the mv, Taylor steps out of the vault in green light… emerald green…? 💚

Edit: she also mentioned “sparks flying” in the Fortnight bts… hm…