I know they don’t really do dropout shows other than d20, but I really want Emily and Murph to do an episode of Very Important People together. Give me those Hot Date vibes
currently obsessed with murph and emily's Hot Date show it's fantastic, if you enjoy silly and weirdly heartfelt comedy get in there
I'm convinced it would be wildly more popular if it was actually available anywhere (not the creators' fault), i can't even buy it on Amazon in any country I've tried, I had to pirate it :(
LIKE: If you found Dimension 20 because you followed Collegehumor (CEO skits, Hardly Working, any Dropout/Youtube content basically)
REBLOG: If you found Dimension 20 because you followed a castmate through their different projects (Hot Date, Adam Ruins Everything, Rick and Morty, Zac’s twitch stream)
COMMENT: If you found Dimension 20 purely through discovering them in DnD related projects (NADDPOD, Roll20 streams, Critical Role’s Monsterhearts: A Cinderbrush Story, Critical Role’s Exandria Unlimited: Calamity)
I've discovered that one unexpected - but appreciated - aspect about moving to a new country is how you're always learning new things. For example, as an American I'm used to seeing ibis as regal creatures in a zoo exhibit, while Australians call them "bin chickens" because of how ubiquitous they are and for their penchant for digging through garbage.
Which, well, I think is a bit unfair to them - their beaks are designed for digging through silt and sand to find food like mussels and crayfish, or for snagging bugs from fields. And they were doing just that before houses were built over those places, so of course they will shift to different food sources available. If our own human development and waste didn't facilitate their behavior, they wouldn't be doing it.
They do tend to hang out on our roof an awful lot, though. I personally don't mind it - I particularly love when they walk over the plexiglass rain cover. I get to watch dinosaur feet tromping above me.
Today I found one with a stick. A rather large stick! He seemed proud.
Image description: a large, gangly ivory-plumed dinosaur of a bird with black wings (ibis) sitting on a roof with a branch in its mouth
So, I became curious why and then promptly forgot as one does because I got distracted by a honeyeater bird visiting flowers on the other side of the yard. Link below for identifying birds which I've been using - any suggestions for others?
While identifying that bird, I learned that cuckoos will invade its nest, and started thinking briefly about the movie Vivarium, which led me to imagining what it would be like for an ibis to raise a cuckoo.
So off I went to learn how ibis nest, and this is where it gets fun and circles back to my roof:
"The male Australian White Ibis secures a pairing territory on a branch of a tall tree to attract a female. The courtship ceremony involves the male putting on a noisy display, as well as showing aggression towards other males.
When a female arrives, the male attracts her by bowing from his branch. He then offers the female a twig, forging a bond when she grasps it and they begin to preen one another. Once the pair bond is cemented, the birds fly off to build a nest at another location."
So, yeah, I basically saw an ibis getting ready for courtship which is pretty cool imo