#but they likely already have a nest and i dont want to just jail them

[thatpunnyperson]

Something damaged my pigeons!!!

As background, I live in southern california and have managed several bird feeders in my yard for 6 years now. Fixing and cleaning and keeping them maintained, plus refilling them with seeds that are safe and nutritious for both the local birds and the squirrels (the squirrels actually spill a lot of the seed onto the ground which is ideal for the ground feeding birds)

Anyway, there have always been a pair of pigeons, very dark colored and clearly a bonded/mated pair. I've watched their feathers get nice and glossy and filled out, the iridescence of their necks getting more prominent, their feet getting to be a nice bright and uniform pink, their nairs and beaks looking SO healthy. I love these pigeons so much.

And today, while refilling my feeders, I saw that the female pigeon was missing a few tail feathers in a clump....as though something had grabbed them and yanked them out as she tried to fly away. I know they're just feathers and I know her flight isnt super affected by them because she and her husband flew down to the ground where I was hanging back up filled feeders, so she's able to fly and be a normal pigeon without that clump of feathers.

But that doesnt change the fact that SOMETHING nearby Damaged My Pigeon. Likely someone's dog or outdoor cat. Probably not a toddler, because the pigeons don't get too close to people.

But ~My Pigeons~ !!!!!! 😫😫😫

[epicdogymoment]

just thinking about gintokis cycle of being alone then being found then being alone again:

he starts off alone as the corpse-eating demon, then he’s found by shouyou and he gets taken along to shouka sonjuku and meets katsura and takasugi as sakata gintoki, then the joui war where he meets sakamoto as shiroyasha, and then he loses shouyou to his own hands, and he loses the other three too.

then gintoki is left drifting alone in the aftershocks of the joui war, just a wandering ronin, who offers his life in the place of a small girl’s, who gets sent to jail and gets sent to be executed, whose life gets spared by the executioner because who could kill a good man? who was left wandering again, who made his way to a graveyard already on the brink of death and survives by the kindness of a stranger and makes a one-sided promise to her late husband that i will protect her in your place.

he starts a yorozuya by himself, above that old widow’s place and eventually gathers a few people around him, then they break up and he’s left alone again, for god knows how long until a few chance encounters has him collecting more and more people, until suddenly he has a family again who won’t leave him alone no matter what, and he lives out his days as yorozuya gin-chan.

except. following the events of be forever yorozuya, once he realises that hes the vector for this virus, he isolates himself, but not before seeking out the bare minimum of help needed to get himself to help him not only isolate himself from the world and cut off every single one of his ties, but to erase himself from existence, because he knows that nobody else would have the nerve to do it. he spends five years by himself, dead to the world, and leaves all of his ties built up over time distraught over his absence because sakata gintoki belongs with people, even if he doesnt think he deserves it. and they have to all go back in time to drag him back from the edge of nonexistence and convince him that yes we want you around, and yes our lives are better with you in it.

going back to canon canon territory, gintoki fights together with his family and his ties for the sake of his family and his ties, and his past and the shiroyasha come back to haunt him, and once the battle is “won”, he pushes away his family in the present and gets sucked back into his past to search all over japan, alone, for two years straight, but he still gets dragged back to his present, to his family, to edo, because sakata gintoki belongs with people, and because he has kids to take care of, goddamnit, and because home is where you are. so he makes his way back to edo and they finally, finally finish the battle for real and his past is finally dead and buried in the ground. so he reforms the yorozuya and returns to being gin-chan, surrounded by his family in the present.

and here we get into… post-canon stuff. because he’s back together with his kids, but they’re getting older, and sooner or later they’ll have flown the nest and he’ll be left alone up there again, as the solitary yorozuya gin-chan. and maybe they come back to visit often, but really, he’s all alone again, isn’t he? and all the better for them too, right? because no matter how many times they try to pound into him that we enjoy your company and we need you around, he still seems to think that his ties with other people are holding them back from something. you must have something you really want to do, so you dont have to be tethered to me, even though he knows that he wants and needs other people around.

so when his kids eventually get too big for his little house, who is he to stop them from leaving? hell, he would probably try and encourage them to go and carve their own lives out for himself, because he can handle himself (even if he wants them around), and the yorozuya used to be a one-man operation before you lot came around (even if it was a lot better when he had company). and sakata gintoki ends up alone again, because he thinks that its better off like this.

[edge-lorde]

its valenTIME again, folks. just how did andre feel about lockhart tasking him with styling pink themed outfits?

not great but not as bad as i feared. pink is merely of personal distaste to andre rather than a huge universal fashion faux pas. we come to the conclusion that hes just gonna have to figure it out. as predicted, he does then also ask me to be his valentine, saying something to the effect of “hey, instead of just accepting free clothes from me whenever you have a date, why not just date ME?” very awkward considering that he always takes the time to style multiple outfits for me, i have already made up my mind & its not him, and i AM still going to take one of his outfits regardless. yikes! sorry andre, ill make up for causing your grandma to die before getting to see you play quidditch some other time.

next was merula i believe. her level was very tsundere from what i remember. lots of blustering. “its not like i LIKE you or anything but im the best valentine in hogwarts. why didnt you say you smelled ME in the love potion? i hate your guts.” teen me would have definitely found her pathetic. but during this level the painting of the knight guy tells us that the 6 of us are the only guests coming to lockharts party. suspicious.  

thats awkward but before then we have to have a level with talbott. his level is, hes outside, in the dark, searching for doves??? lockhart told him to get some doves so hes just aiming to catch them with his bare hands i guess. no magic spells just raw power. we have an animagus level where we transform into the natural predators of doves, hawks and cats, and use our keen senses to attempt to locate some doves hiding on the school campus. he doesnt seem like the dating type but he asks the mc out, admittedly they have some fun chemistry. the level ends with him giving me time to think about my answer by turning into a bird and flying off into the night. 

then we have a prepping the restaurant level where at the end madam restaurant owner tells me to follow my heart and i get to pick my valentine, i of course pick barnaby as i have said i would previously. 

the its back to andre. i loved the outfit i ended up with btw. andre styled a more princessy one and a more spunky one. i tried them both on and ended up really loving the princess one. i especially love the luxurious long pink hair it came with. i wore it with my sunglasses and blond facial hair, and even broke out the make-up it made me so excited. still had to turn andre down when i went to go get it though. he took it well “i dont want things to be weird between us.” he said, which is good because things are about to get a whole lot weirder. 

i go to the party. everyone is dressed to the nines and looks cute as hell. andre has given everyone wonderful pink stylings, even he is wearing an almost-pink purpley shirt. 

as forewarned however, we are the only guests there, and lockhart seems much more interested in us than he does in his own stories. it becomes apparent as the night goes on that this was all a ruse! we werent randomly selected at all! lockhart chose us to lure us into a room so he could steal our adventures, wipe our brains, and claim them for his own!!!!!!!!! egad!

certainly all of that is in character, but idk how that would work? like the cursed vaults have been covered by the newspaper with my name in them already. hows he going to steal that? also were all kids. like barnabys thing is that his parents were deatheaters and now theyre in jail, idk how lockhart could possibly fit himself into that role, given the timeline? in any case, mc figures it out and he does a group memory charm and poofs away. 

we are all left standing there like... what just happened.. is it valentines day...? who asked who out... i cant remember....

but then we do get one last level were we get a real valentines date. very cinematography much lighting. many leaves so green house. roses? yes. barnaby promised prof sprout hed study for class if she let him use the green house as a date location. he suprisingly knows a lot about romance for someone who is usually made out to always be the dumbest person in the room. its nice i guess but also completely unrelatable. nice shot of some lovebirds in a nest, then all of a sudden one is down on the table. no lovebird flying animation lol. i turn it into the lovenote from class. be my valentine it says. barnaby gives me a decorative valentine heart that gives 1 energy per day like the christmas car snowglobe. all new date animation kiss on cheek scene as well. very well done. 

there are some other general game notes but that will have to be for next time.

[visualstories123]

Louise ideas for essay

People tend to always relate to the protagonist in their favourite novel or film,they find a connection to a main character. Their flaws,their backstory ir just a personality trait that seems like their own. Films that make you feel.this way tend to end up in your top picks when listing you favourite ones. But I would like to look into and even possible experiment with the idea that there is underlining reason and a common link to why you love the films you do. Liking films from different genres and different decades , you would.think they sont have a link. Some examples of my top 3 films are milos formans one flew over the cuckoo's nest, on the basis of this films you see a guy trying to get out of jail by pleading insanity and making trouble in the mental institution. But look deeper, this man refusing to.cornform to the rules and regulations of society ends up finding himself and realising and making others around him realise you can just be you and that's ok and you are not insane for that. My next favourite is the classic my fair lady which many people find narssasist and Male dominated. I.think it's a great story of a person who has been hard done by the class system of Britain and Rises and sees it's not what she can become to.fit in but mabey so that you dont have to.fit in and you was ok just the way you was. Do you see the connection already? Ok third and final one con air, a 90s dumb action flick with a bit of romance and over acting by good old Nicolas cage. Well here I am to.dissagree and say this man was wrongly treated by the justice system and doesn't want to be a bad person just wants to get through life and shows throughout that you can still be a nice person whilst doing what you gotta do to survive. My 3 films to me are my own experiences and they link to personal experience in my own life and 3 films from 3 different types of movie makers all have a common denominator, someone who rises from a bad situation that socity8has placed them in.

[lostandbrokenshell]

Darkest Before Dawn. Part 2

Farcry 5 fanfic. Rated M for Mature language and sexual reference. No pairing or plans for smutt.

Your head hurt fiercely slowly you open your eyes there was a man sitting not far from you, your hands where zap strapped to a post.

“Good your awake, you people really kicked the hornets nest.” He said staring you down.

“Sir im a lonely red head.”

“Im reffering to the shit job you deputies and that dumb ass marshal did.”

“Well it was my first day, i skipped the tutorial. Probably a my bad.” You reply as you close your eyes. Fuck did your head hurt.

“Is this a joke to you? Because those peggies are out there murdering people and burning their homes to the ground. They where waiting for some dumb ass to start their holy war and you ass holes just did it. Now good folks are dying and im trying to figure out this mess you made.”

“No this isnt a fucking joke, i was literally blown off a bridge. I went to see what happened to the dumb asses when we lost contact and another deputy split. I have no fucking clue whats going on i arrived in this town yesterday to start my job today. I went from being a fucking paramedic to this shit? Fuck. Fuck this is fucked. Am i going to make jokes? Yes, why? BECAUSE I WAS BLOWN OFF A FUCKING BRIDGE! Worst first day ever and now im tied up in what looks like is some old dudes basement. Sorry if im not taking it to seriously right now i have had a doozy of a time trying to figure this shit out.” You say while glaring at him, he studied your face for a few minutes before sighing deeply and pulling out a knife and cut you loose.

“Theres clothes in there, get changed burn the uniform meet me down the hall.” He said as he walked away. You pick out a flannel red shirt and jeans and go see the old man. There was one wall dedicated to your family and another woman. Clippings about disappearing people,a cult, people being strong armed out of their properties and homes. Your family was the centre of it all.

“Jeez” you whisper and you hand traces the wall. You look at “Faith” and the flower named bliss it was some serious chemistry compound drug work.

“Near as i can tell, shes a replacement for the sister they couldn’t find. Call her Faith because they believe that their sister will come back, and that “Faith” will help harrold her into a new beginning.” He said from behind you. “Names Dutch. I get you didn’t kick this hornets nest, but your involved non the less deputy. Help me, help the folks out there in this mess and maybe we can fix it.” You turn to face him, his face was stern and fixed on you for your reply.

“They’re killing people?” You ask and he nodded.

“If not themselves, they order it.”

“Im in.” You say with a small nod. Your heart had sunk. Blind leap of faith was a bad idea. Should of looked up everything, is that why the house was so cheap? People cutting losses and getting the fuck out of town? Dutch talked with you for a while catching you up on Edens Gate and “Peggies”. He helped you get a good lay of the land and where to find some things and even gave you few guns to leave with.

“Other than your, brief training as a deputy what else do you have in your bag of tricks. Because you cant underestimate these peggies.” Dutch asked as you where heading to the bunker door. “ These peggies dont mess around.”

“Fair enough, i was in air cadets until i was 18 got my pilots license through them, learned to shoot to. Im a ace shot actually.” You say with a smirk. “I also volunteered as a firefighter at 16 did that for a few years to, become a paramedic and did that until I moved here. I have lots of experience saving lives, this is the first time i get to use guns to do so.” You say with a smile.

Duth noded “Good dont die then.”

Securing falls end wasnt easy, you had to wait for a group of peggies to take off and act, strike fast and once they had the opportunity the rest of the town fought with you. Mary May put a shot and beer in front of you.

“You earned it darling.” She said with a smile “You really shoved it to those peggies! And it was beautiful.” Before you could answer the tv flickered and started showing an image of John, he had Hudson and was talking. You couldn’t hear what he was saying your mind tuned it out. You where lost, it really is your family and they are fully aware of what they are doing. The video started over again it was on a loop you realize you where holding your breath and exhale. You take the shot and put your head on the counter. This is fucked.

“Dep-you-tee” the radio crackled “You must have a radio from my men enough of them had one.” You look at the radio beside you Mary May was glaring at it. If looks could kill.

“Hello John.” You say slowly your mouth was dry, your heart pounding.

“Ah, there she is! I was wondering if I would get to hear your voice. I wonder when we get to meet? Will it be at your baptism maybe?”

“Not surprised you don’t recognize my voice John, but we met.” The bar was silent probably the quietest its even been you didn’t know.

“Oh? An old conquest maybe? Did you have a habit? Lots of possibilities. But none that matter. We maybe short what was promised but reaping day is here.”

“Where you promised another person?” You ask remembering Dutchs words about how they believed you would be back.” Laughter erupted on the other end.

“Dont you worry about that dep-you-tee, Joseph hasn’t been wrong yet, see you around John out.”

“Looking forward to the reunion, kind of its conflicting now... Joanne Hope out.” You didn’t add your last name, you didn’t go by Seed anymore but you think that was enough for him to get the picture. Everyone in the bar was fixed on you and the radio. There was a long silence before it was broken surprisingly by the radio.

“You’re top priority Dep-you-tee, your marked now. Lets see if you are, who you say you are hm?”

“Nothing like a good ole sibling rivalry John, in the midst of a hostile cult takeover. Lookin forward to it, because im not turning my back on these people. Ive dedicated my life to saving lives im not going to stop now.” You slide the radio away and the pastor sat down beside you everyone went tense watching you. “Im not like my brothers.” You say quietly as you sip at your beer.

“I certainly dont think that you are. Im pastor Jerom” he said warmly has he put his hand on your back. “Thank you for saving us.”

“Seeds arent welcome here” someone angrily yelled

“Then i guess its a good thing my last name is Knight. After my parents that raised me.” You say as you turn around to face the people. “I dont know what shit show i walked into, but this certainly isnt what i was expecting. Finding long lost homicidal siblings running a cult that almost killed me multiple times since i came to town. Fucking great. Just fucking great. I didn’t look into shit moving to this town because i wanted to be surprised. Looked beautiful seemed like a great job everything just seemed to fit so i thought it did. Should of stayed in Canada, paramedics dont deal militant cults.” It looked like a couple people where going to say something and you where getting ready to leave. Mary May slammed her hands on the bar.

“The deputy stays. She chased those peggies out of town, she freed us and gave me my bar back. Got a problem with that then walk.” She said as she nodded towards the door everyone looked down and walked away. “You got balls. I like that.” She said to you with a smile “Have another shot, we cant pick family.” She slid another shot to you and Jerom and poured one for herself. “Cheers” you all raised your shot glasses.

The next day you start driving up to the jail Jerom thought that maybe some space between you and the men looking for you might be best. You where not ready to deal with Jacob yet either so you decided on Faiths region. Besides should probably check in at the office so the know your alive, if they haven’t heard already. It was easy to zone out driving no one one the roads. Just tree, tree, tree, sign, tree, tree, tree, flaming person, tree, tree. Shit! Flaming person? You slam on the breaks and look back a peggie was on fire while it looked like Sharky assisting in the lighting of the fire. You put it in park and hop out.

“Sharky my man! Safer to travel in numbers want to come?” You ask as you to nod to your stolen truck.

“Hang out with the coolest deputy ever bashin peggie heads? Hells yes im in! Your like the coolest bro ever, i mean dude, dudette? You know. Uhh, yeah.” He said with a nod.

“Great, I remember something about a flamethrower? That would be great in times like this.” You say as you both get in “I mean if the worlds going to burn, might as well help it.”

“Seriously your like, the fucking coolest how did you end up with the popo?or this shit hole town for that matter”

“An absolutely terrible judgement call.” You reply With a laugh. “When my parents passed and left me everything i saw an opportunity to try something new. I had money to sit on while i did training and that for some reason i thought law enforcement. I mean i did some firefighting, was a paramedic and thought why not law. It ended up the town i had long lost family in, needed someone of my position i went for and got it.” You say the jail was close by now. “I wasn’t expecting a crazy cultists hostil take over on day one of the job.”

“No one ever expects the crazies, you just cant know how crazy they are untill its to late. Like we all knew they where crazy but not likeTHIS crazy. This is set your house on fire with you trapped inside crazy. Because thats what they’re doing ya know, litterly what they’re doing.” Sharky said with a nod “I feel bad because i may of shown one or two peggies how to make a flamethrower before i knew they where crazy peggies.”

“Dont worry Sharky, i wont blame you for that... If you dont blame me for my long lost family. Im, uh.. My last name was Seed a long time ago, before i was adopted.” You say stiffly not sure how he would react he looked surprised for a minute then nodded.

“No worries bro, we’re on the same team!” He said as he patted you on the shoulder. The prison came into view and it looked like it was through a war.