#also pigion

[not57-frogs]

*casually dumps my school doodles into my blog*

(credits to my best friend for the second slingshot she drew :] )s

[duckyjeb]

Really wanna make like, a love/shining/infinity nikki × genshin au. Purley self indulgent I just want to draw pretty clothes

[dragon-phoenix-along]

Goose Racoon Or

Gull Rat

It annoys me unreasonably when you want to ask people "what bird and what mammal would make the worst gryphon" as a fun thought exercise, and people with no joy and no imagination always interpret it as "a gryphon that sucks, is physically impossible, and would hate being alive", and - being predictable and lacking in imagination - always, always answer with "a hummingbird and a blue whale lol".

Like come on. Why do you have to suck the fun out of everything. Why not use a fraction of imagination and delightful whimsy. Imagine the combination of a mouse and a sparrow. That creature would be merciless, burtal, absolutely determined to get into your trash and has the power of both wings and hands to do its will. Or a crow and a cat - that thing is smart enough to fuck with people and not afraid to do it. Imagine the ungodly shriek of the noble fox-seagull, also determined to get into your trash.

A gryphon that is a combination of a kangaroo and a cassowary. The only proof we have of a loving god is the fact that those things do not exist. If hell is real, it's full of them. That thing can't fly, but it will run you down, it will kill you, and you will look stupid the whole entire time you're dying.

Why would the first thing that pops into your mind at the words "the worst gryphon" automatically be "a gryphon that hates being alive". Can you not picture a gryphon that fucking loves being alive, and has both the power and the will to make it everyone else's problem.

[becausesure]

HEY GERTYYYY

also that is Perry the Pigion's voice

[remuslupininskirts]

List of topics on the “would be cancelled on twitter” ( @the-sun-is-also-a-star and @oddbrainedtboy ) group chat tonight:

Me and @the-sun-is-also-a-star ‘s flirting

Crabs

Boobs

Teds love life

Me sending pictures of bears and captioning them things about ted (then everyone joining in)

That i’m gonna start saying epic sauce

Lists

Illegally getting a pigion

The best silver wear (im correct)

[talking-tarantula]

Hi! God I missed you so much!) Welcome back!

Thanks! And sorry for getting to answering this late!

Lots have been going on actually in the life outside of Tumblr. I was in Sweden for two and a half month without any Wi-fi and got my hip placed back in place properly.

It was out of place, due to a hiking accident seven years ago and the doctors (of course 🙄) didn't find a thing and didn't know what's wrong with me, when even I could feel a the bone of my hip sticking up against my skin and against my right groin bone.

Due to always only laying around and pumping myself full of strong painkillers (that didn't even help and were very bad for my heart) to at least cope with the daily pain a little better, I got scoliosis and my muscles in legs and back went pretty much bye-bye, which is why I'm still quite unstable and have to wear a corset (which is annoying).

I've also had water in my thighs. In fact, so much that I couldn't even bend my knees properly anymore. And I was pigion-toeing very heavily to the point where my toes would almost touch each other or I would stumble over them often, while I was only walking on the outer space of my feet because of the hip misplacement.

Thanks to the treatment though I can finally walk properly and I'm not in pain anymore. I also lost a lot of weight during treatment with luke-warm lemon water to manage to discharge the trabbed water in my thighs and around my stomach. So now I'm about half my former weight! I lost 18 inches around the stomach.

Since I hope to go to Sweden again someday, I'm currently trying to learn Swedish and it's going quite good so far!

Recent events also had it that I got to care for a carrion crow! I suspect that it's a female and called her Elischeba, or Elli for short. My Mom found her in the morning when she went out for work barely three weeks ago.

Right now Elli is undergoing a worm treatment. These worms are living and multiplying in her lungs and giving her trouble breating, so they got to go.

However, when I made my way to the vet the first time to deliver a poop sample to the vet with my E-scooter, I've spontanously decided to pick beef with the pavement and it went out 1:0 for the pavement (According to a friend of mine the scooter said aveda kedavra 😂). After my tumble to the ground I felt very dizzy, disoriented and very nausous. And my hearing went woosh for a few minutes.

Though the X-ray didn't show a thing and I suspect it's just simply heavily sprained. I still can't move or bend my wrist and it started bruising pretty badly. But I think that it'll be fine in the end.

That was the update so far :)

[anantradingpvtltd]

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[guillemelgat]

Language Goals 2023

In the spirit of last year’s very reasonable and achievable goals, here are more reasonable and achievable goals for 2023!

Catalan - I’d like to get the C2 this coming year. I’d also like to read more; specifically Ausiàs March and Vicent Andrés Estellés, and possibly El Canigó and/or El comte Arnau. And if I can, I’d like to write one creative piece in Catalan that I can feel proud of!

Welsh - I’d like to listen to more of Pigion, watch more Hansh videos, and also to find more spaces to use the language in. I really want Welsh to start feeling like a language that I can do things in, because I’m at a level where I can.

Basque - I want to watch at least one or two things in Basque, and, the same as Welsh, for it to be a language that I can use for things, not just a language I’m learning.

Malayalam - I would like to get to a really basic home heritage speaker level of Malayalam by the end of the year—understanding conversations when I visit family, and being able to answer when spoken to. My goal is to watch one Elikutty video per week, and to try to integrate the language into my thoughts and routine more.

Spanish, Galician, Aragonese, Asturian - I’d like to brush up on Spanish for academic purposes, and also to learn a bit about the grammar of the other three. I’d like to start remembering to actually watch A escampar la boira, and to start listening to more music in Aragonese and Asturian. As for Galician, I’d like to go into breaking down lyrics for the many songs I already listen to in it, and maybe watch more videos in it as well. In general, I’m aiming to go into the sphere of Iberian studies, especially Iberian minoritized languages, and so I want to be more familiar with the larger panorama.

Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Manx, Breton - Same as for the others above, I want to have somewhat of a functional understanding of more Celtic languages so that I can interact with speakers and media production without needing a translation. I also just listen to a lot of music in at least Irish, and it drives me crazy not to be able to at least superficially understand it. I think the Celtic cultural sphere is really interesting, and so I’d like to be able to learn more about it and talk to more people within it without needing to make them translate to English.

Russian - I really want to be able to understand what people are saying at my friend’s house, and I think that if I put in enough Russian listening practice and vocabulary study I’d be able to piece it together, at least partially; I can already figure it out sometimes with just a few words and context. So I’d like to actually put in some time on that, in the hopes that maybe afterwards, if I spend a few days at her house, I’ll come out understanding Russian sdfhksdhf

Amharic - I’d like to be able to speak some basic Amharic, so my goal is to learn a few basic sentence patterns and some vocabulary, and maybe be able to say one or two things by the end of the year. Nothing big, but just a bit.

I have no idea if I’ll even get close with any of these languages to the goals that I���ve set out here, but I think that if I do, it’ll pay off! And if I don’t, then at minimum, my goal is to learn one thing for each that I can feel good about in a year’s time, and I hope that at least I can do that.

[alliepigion]

@velveteenlop replied to your post: [[MOR] currently in that state of i want to die...

big fucking mood 

also *dumps so many hearts on you*

the biggest mood ever

let us rot together in the trash and disappear

thank you vel you’re amazing i hope you don’t mind me hoarding these hearts for the longest time

here are some hearts back 

take care of the dump truck it’s coming in

// dumps a flood of hearts on

[ravenlesslangblr]

Welsh 10 day challenge

I've figured it out! Let's do a little language challenge. 10 days only, because let's be honest, my soupy brain will barely let me have a commitment this long. These can be adapted to any language, I'd say, but they're mostly suitable to me. So, feel free to change anything around if you want to try it. Also, 10 days may not have to mean 10 consecutive days, but that's what I'd like to attempt. I'd also like to post them here to keep me accountable.

1. read a news article - be aware of how much you can understand without looking anything up - write a 2-3 sentence summary in another TL - write down 5 new words

2. 2-3 Duolingo lessons/tests - write down the concepts you learned about

3. review 10 important verbs - note the tenses - use them or recall them in sentences

4. one episode of Pigion - make notes of what you can understand - vocab should be available on the website

5. watch the Welsh memes Youtube video - create 2 memes yourself

6. 15 words in a category you like - draw them - learn them

7. learn 1 grammatical concept from your book and explain it

8. watch a Youtube video with subtitles and shadow it, comment on the video

9. read 2-3 pages HP or Menna's poem - write either a short summary or a short journal entry relating to the content

10. explore a museum website - write down interesting words - write a few sentences about why you'd like to visit alright, let's go!

[dadzawa-adopt-dabi]

Fucking hate Hawks. stupid pigion. dumb fucking bird is only liked because we are all obsessed with wings.

also me: continues writing dabihawks, reblogging hawks art

[gay-nonbinary-axolotl]

I was writing a DBQ essay for AP euro, y’know as one does, about Poland during the cold war and I got side tracked and this was the result:

At first I started out strong with the intro

“In Poland they were opposed to the communist that the countries in the Soviet union were under. This caused Poland to become independent from the soviet union. (Doc. 1) Some of the factors that led to the workers opposition movement in Poland were the energy crisis and stagflation and the prevalence of religion in Poland. The most important of these factors was the energy crisis and stagflation.” (its a rough draft and I suck at school don’t judge me)

Then I got side tracked with the first body paragraph and started talking about cheetahs:

“The energy crisis and stagflation i have no idea how to structure thisAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA y couldnt i write about cheetahs cheetahs r cool cheetahs can go from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds and can reach up to 70 mph theyre spots r like fingerprints and koalas have human fingerprints so its likely that at least 1 person was framed by a koala also theyre 1.1-1.5 meters long 60-80 cm of which is the tail which helps them take curves and tho they can go 70 mph they cant do it 4 vry long (100 meters) cuz they overheat at 41 degrees celsius also they weigh 120-140 lbs and have an average lifespan of 17 with a highest of 20 (same) their predators are lions hyenas which would be the perfect fucking predator if they didnt have a bad hind leg structure so they cant run good cuz they have a rly strong jaw humans and eagles also they cant rour ruor raor roar due to a fold in their vocal chords so instead they purr and chirp and i-i-i-i got a migraine and the babies start out with gray fur to look like a honey badger (?) and dont open their eyes for 1-2 weeks after theyre born and r completely dependant on their mother for 6 months and cheetahs mate all year and the litters consist of 2-4 cubs and the female cheetahs are solitary and only interact with the males when mating and the female makes the first move and the males move in pacts and after 6 months the mom teaches the cubs to hunt and they usually 4:20 nice bite their pray on the neck but when teaching they bite it by the head and trip it to make sure it doesnt get away and they have to change lairs every 4 days when they have kids to make sure predators dont get them and they have to eat fast to make sure predators dont take their food and there are 36 different cheetah species and they have about 3 months of pregnancy also the cubs leave the mama after 15 months and the males r vry territorial and pee on things that r theirs like dogs also many ancient cultures including the mesopotamians used and trained cheetahs to hunt and the egyptians worshiped them they were sacred to the egyptians (y not theyre fucking awesome) and the giant cheeta egxisted 1-2 million years ago and not cheetahs are an endangered species y u wanna kill cheeta cheeta cool cheeta dont do nothin to u cheeta have social anxiety and theapy dog cheeta adorable pigions were domesticated pigions are sky dogs we abandoned pigeons mom pls heeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppT^T^T^T^T^T^T^T^T^T^T^T^T^T^T^T”

Anyway, I just used this to talk about cheetahs. I’m going to fail AP Euro byeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

[kasdeyathebitterwoman]

*pigion crashes into thy window with a scroll* * "what is up gorgeous, *wink*. If 't be not too much ado and annoyance, may i requesteth something again? The reader is usually quiet about what she can do, so one day she thinks H has left the house so she starts playing something (guitar or piano or something like that). H walks in on her playing and is in awe, and asks them to teach him. Fluff ensues. S'rry f'r requesting a lot, thee executeth ideas so well 😅😓 -Le Frenchiest Fry"

*knocks loudly and repeatedly on door* LE FRY, IT IS I. MEOW. I AM HERE WITH YOUR REQUEST! 

Seriously, Le Fry my love, I am so sorry for how long this took me to put together. I hope this is close to what you wanted. Also, you could never send me too many requests! Send me all of them! By carrier pigeon, smoke signal, Morse code, cryptic tapping on a wall....I love your requests, I love you, and I’m always happy to write for you! 😘

You were typing away on your computer when Henry poked his head into your office to let you know he was going for a run. Unlike him, you were an early, early bird. Generally up before him, you were usually well into your morning routine by the time he got up to do his fasted cardio for the day. 

Today, you were feeling rather antsy. Work on your novel hadn’t been going according to plan or schedule for some time. After pushing yourself for a good thirty minutes, you allowed yourself a break. Standing up, you stretch your arms and your back then make your way to the kitchen. 

“Henry?” you call out. There’s no answer so you check your watch. He wasn’t usually out this late for a run, but you figured he’d stopped somewhere to take a break. Heading back to your office, you stare at your computer, feeling no desire to write or edit. Instead, you feel a little antsy. The only thing that’s helped calm you down in the past is playing music. You weren’t the best, but technically you were pretty good. 

From the back of your closet, you fish out the guitar that was once your dad’s and strum a few strings. They’re a little out of tune, so while you sit on the edge of the bed, you twist the nobs at the head, getting everything ready. Once you’re satisfied, you begin playing the first song that comes to mind, “Walkin’ After Midnight” by Patsy Cline. 

“I go out walkin’ after midnight, out in the moonlight - just like we used to do; I’m always walkin’ after midnight, searchin’ for you,” your voice is a little rough with only coffee, but you figure your way through it. The song isn’t a hard one, just a few chords and a few lyrics, but it’s one of your favorites. In less than three minutes, you’re done so you start a whole new song. “River” by Leon Bridges. 

“Been travelin’ these wide roads for so long. My heart’s been far from you; ten-thousand miles gone,” you sing out. As you’re playing the second verse, you hear a small shuffle from behind you. All the sound stops when you turn and are startled to see Henry standing in the doorway, staring at you in awe. 

“Please don’t stop,” he murmurs, stepping forward. He sits down across from you, not noticing the bright red blush that has invaded your cheeks. Your eyes immediately shoot to Kal who was still lounging on his bed in the corner. Some guard dog, you thought to yourself. 

“How much did you hear?” you ask him, unsure you even want to know the answer. Henry is still sweating from his run, but he doesn’t seem to notice or care. His eyes are trained on your hands which are resting on the guitar. 

“I came in right as you started singing Patsy, then quietly stood there while you played that other song.” He states. His blue eyes moved up to yours and you felt your cheeks blush even harder. “Could you teach me?” he asks and your jaw drops open slightly. 

“Oh, I’m not that good. My dad only taught me the basic chords and a few combinations. I’ve just learned by teaching myself different melodies,” you stutter, feeling heat trail down your neck. Henry shifts a little in his seat. You glance up at him through your eyelashes and connect with his baby blues. 

“Please?” he’s genuine with his interest and you just can’t say no to him. 

“Okay, but get a shower first,” you agree. A wide, beautiful smile opens up across Henry’s face causing butterflies to take flight in your stomach. He agrees to your terms, jumping up to hastily kiss you on the lips, then dashes for the bathroom. You can hear the water start and the shower door open up then close. Moments later, Henry is shuffling back out to the bedroom in shorts and a clean shirt. His biceps are bulging past his sleeves as he towels off his curls. 

He sits down next to you and accepts the guitar from you. You explain the major chords, how to find them with your fingers, and a basic chord pattern to play and learn. Henry seemed to enjoy every moment of the impromptu lesson. His hands were dexterous as you helped guide his fingers to the correct places. For almost an hour, he brokenly strums along to “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Brown Eyed Girl”. Eventually, he looked up at you, smiling wide. 

“Would you play that other song?” he asks. You look back curiously. 

“Which one? The Patsy Cline song?” 

“No, the one you were playing when I walked in and startled you,” 

“Oh! The Leon Bridges song.” You state with understanding. Nodding, you take the guitar back, sit down on the edge of the bed and begin playing. Henry’s eyes never leave yours as you strum away the song. “But there’s blood on my hands and my lips they aren’t clean,” you croon. It’s a surprise to hear as Henry’s low baritone begins to harmonize with yours, but you don’t stop. You glance up to see him smiling slightly as you sing along with him to the chorus. “Take me to your river. I wanna go. Oh, take me to your river. I wanna know.” When the song is over, you look up at him feeling nothing but love. Henry is staring right back at you, a gentle smile pronouncing the dimple in his cheeks. 

“You know, if I had someone like you offering to teach guitar when I was a kid, I would have taken this up much sooner,” Henry states with a smirk. You stare back, slightly in shock, before you snort and collapse into a fit of giggles on the bed. 

[ramblinseahorsey]

mkay.  mina needs to get in the castle and past globgor, eclipsa, and meteora, who are all way op.  she’s gonna need stealth. that’s where sneaky crow comes in.  Yet she also needs brawn and numbers for when she makes her full attack and everything goes nuts, cause she’s gonna have a LOT of mewmans/monsters/who knows who else against her.  now, let’s ponder who still has a negative view of the royal throne and/or a lot of free time?

(don’t know enough about the pigions view of eclipsa for this one to be anything more than a random guess) 

I refuse to believe Manfred’s the only racist Mewman left. 

LET MY PATHETIC HOPES LIVE HE WAS “DEAD” ONCE BEFORE.

I know people have already mentioned Rhombulus, but I wouldn’t put it past any of them for a second. They’re all desperate, and certainly haven’t warned the Queen.

    It would also explain how Heckapoo would know things are going to go down, and why she wouldn’t want to give details since Marco is friends with Eclipsa and would want to warn her. 

Heh, for all we know, Mina might just charge in randomly with her crow and armour screaming, no plan or army even crossing her mind.  I really don’t think so, since it’s been shown she’s an amazing warrior and has enough sanity left to lie low, resupply, and spy.  but I wouldn’t put it completely past her, and I would laugh myself to death if some filler episode ended with her just.  Blasting through the wall Movie Umbridge style. but SCREECHING. 

btw, remamber when we first watched Starstruck and thought it was filler? and the lil warning at the end was just telling us she was a recurring character?

[aubrey-plaza]

Hey I just wanted to say that I like your blog you seem like a really cool person

2/4 Also when I come across your stuff on my dashboard it makes me smile

3/4 Oh and since asks make you happy, do you like pigions?

4/4 And is there a difference between pigeons and doves also I think I wrote pigeons wrong sorry

Anon I hope you know how much your asks have BRIGHTENED my evening I can’t stop laughing at ‘pigions’ adsjhas;kldj

I don’t mind pigeons honestly; I have a few friends who are super afraid of them but I think they’re pretty badass. They don’t migrate in winter and stick it out with us and I think that’s real cool of them

Also I just googled and apparently pigeons and doves are the same thing??? wtf??? I feel deceived by this information

in any case, thank you so much for these lovely asks, you’re awesome, anon

[diamondblueorchid]

I love pigeons!! I call them Rats with wings lovingly. Doves....are also not that bright. One dove dove (pun intended) RIGHT INFRONT OF OUR CAR!! Mom couldn't hit the breaks fast enough. That bird brain had a death wish I sware!!!! RIP Feather explosion. Anyway. I love pigions.

Pigeons are doves. They are rock doves, and I wonder if we began to call them that if people would hesitate to hate them, as doves have that history as messengers of peace. It is true that in my neighborhood nobody hates the mourning doves, dusky and elegant with wings that squeak as if they flap on rusty hinges. They roost on the wires like little Audrey Hepburns, while the pigeons troll the ground, tough and fat, some of them look like they should be smoking cigarettes. They look poor and banged up, like they could kick the mourning doves’ asses but are wise to the divide-and-conquer tactics we use on one another, so they coo wearily at the mourning doves and waddle forth in search of scavenged delights. What you may not know is when you call a pigeon “a rat with wings” you have given it a compliment. The only thing a rat lacks is a pair of wings to lift it, so you have named the pigeon perfectly. When you say to me, “I hate pigeons,” I want to ask you who else you hate. It makes me suspicious.

I once met a girl who was so proud to have hit such a bird on her bicycle, I swear, I thought that it was me she hit. I felt her handlebars in my stomach and now it is your job to feel it also. The pigeons are birds, they are doves. They are the nature of the city and the ones who no one loves. When people say they hate pigeons, I want to ask them if they hate themselves, too. Does it prick the well of your loathing? Do they make you feel dirty and ashamed? Are you embarrassed about how little or how much you have, for how you have had to hustle? Being dirty is not a problem for the pigeon. You can ask it, “How do you feel about having the city coating your feathers, having the streets gunked up in the crease of your eye?” and the pigeon would say, “Not a problem.” You will now stop blaming the pigeon. It is not the pigeon’s fault. The pigeon was once a dove, and then we built our filthy empire up around it, came to hate it for simply thriving in the midst our decay, came to hate it for not dying. The pigeon is your ally. They are chameleons, gray as the concrete they troll for scraps, at night they huddle and sing like cats. Their necks are glistening, iridescent as an oil-slick rainbow, they mate for life, and they fly.

Michelle Tea, Against Memoir. [emphasis mine]