#harold the giraffe

[secretsofthewilde]

Every now and then after having a smoke/drinking I think about how I'm breaking several of the promises we made when we were kids at school to a very special giraffe, and end up spending more time than I should thinking about how I've disappointed a puppet

[gottabezoo]

Meet Harold the Giraffe - inspired by One Direction's Harry Styles.

Harold is a 3 year old giraffe who is a bundle of energy. He enjoys listening to music and attempting to dance along (he is quite clumsy though). He is also a very stubborn giraffe and only answers to the name of 'Harry'.

If you would like to know more about Harold the giraffe, feel free to send us an ask.

Art by @enchantedlandcoffee

Disclaimer - Gotta Be Zoo is a fictional place made up by Hani and Ash to share their love of animals.

[sidetongue]

someone said Sprig looks like a baby giraffe and honestly

[alilaro]

all my little guys so far!

[abandoned-as-mustard]

If i had a nickel for every time harry styles casually mentioned cocaine in a song then I'd have two nickels. Isn't much, but weird it happened twice.

Harry. Dude. Do we need to have the talk in the giraffe van

[kansananna]

Learning that a major thing from elementary school was only local to your area of the state and was copied from New Zealand is wild

[wp100]

i swear i remember as a kid we did these fire safety quizzes or games on the computer. and we got special stationery (rulers i think) with the fire safety logo on it whatever it was called

i swear we did something like this. and it's probably lost/deleted media now. sobs.

kinda like a harold the giraffe situation. you only really experience it in the moment. and you dont remember much about it except the smells and the feeling of being there and you were having a fun time, not a care in the world. it'd never be recorded so the experience is only a memory. maybe there are recordings of it, but probably not from the 2000s

[househrt]

Australiacore Chase headcanons

Chase never got his pen licence in primary school and he doesn't like thinking about how much it still genuinely affects him

He's usually pretty good at avoiding Aussie colloquialisms and sayings, but sometimes he slips up and he's always surprised to learn it's not a universal phrase. Like, he says "no hat, no play" to a very confused kid he was trying to gently warn about sun damage, and tries to fix it by mentioning "slip, slop, slap", which makes the kid more confused

He pretends to like Vegemite because it's what's expected of him, but really he can't stand it

Similarly, he doesn't actually know how to surf. It just makes him seem cool if he says he does

He went to a Catholic primary school that did hymn singing regularly, and as much as the Catholic upbringing gave him lifelong issues, some of those hymns still get stuck in his head

At 17, he was very seriously considering getting a Southern Cross tattoo and the only reason he didn't get it is because he couldn't afford it (and he wasn't about to ask his dad for money for a tattoo)

He tries and fails to get Cameron into Kath and Kim. She doesn't get why he likes it

He's scared of giraffes because of Healthy Harold

[brooklynisher]

Do you have any other obscure spg characters u wanna ramble about bc I genuinely didn't know taggart was like . A Thing (am I even spelling his name right)(I do not know how to spell)

WELL I'm not as thinky thonky with these other characters as I am with the Babclocks, but here are some random ones to throw at you!

Marylin Verato and Jaquelyn Pomene [x]

Harold (from Steam Powered Giraffe accounting, been working since he was 5)

Diet Seven-Up (Engineer in the aesthetic prosthetic division, came from Cherry Cola Slovakia)

Lars (stuck in the hedge maze, became a Gardner, but he's having a pretty fun time)

[x]

I'mma keep them to Patreon but those guys are definitely some guys

Whatever this thing is??????

[x]

EDIT: ALSO here's some ones I barely remember existed

Bip Has the soda brand Also a place in Kazooland, "The capital of Merveille was named after its founder, and is a favorite spot for vacation for Peter Walter VI. It was also in Bip that the Great War of 1823 was ended by a mysterious mime with a magical kazoo." [x]

Doctor Laborday An old hero Rabbit compared to Rex Marksley

Howard Lloyd "This large sprawling landscape of suburbia is a metropolis of 1950's ideals, where the beautiful residents are protected from the ravages of time by a blue matter rich force field over the city. Created by a visionary man from Earth after slipping through an interdimensional rift, Howard Lloyd saw the potential of the unstable rift and created what some have called the 1950s utopia of mankind. Those who enter the city rarely decide to leave the prospect of eternal youth, but some do choose to escape Preferbia's roving gangs of fish mutants and frequent attacks by the Hypexion Moon Worms" [x]

The Highwayman

Lily Brennan

Boft

^ I remember reading about The Highwayman but I don't know where

[daniarts19]

The Total Drama Characters if they are animals.

I’m doing a update to my animal au list, just for things

Hosts:

Chris McLean- Weasel

Chef Hatchet - Alligator

Blaineley - Fennec Fox

Josh - Labrador retriever

Don - Golden Eagle

Island/Action/World Tour Contestants:

Ezekiel: Opossum

Eva: Honey Badger

Noah: Aardwolf

Justin: Peacock

Katie: Meerkat

Tyler: Border Collie

Izzy: Red Panda

Cody: Mouse

Beth: Quinea Pig

Sadie: Chinchilla

Courtney: Jackal

Harold: Canadian Goose

Trent: Silver Fox

Bridgette: River Otter

Lindsay: English Cocker Spaniel

DJ: Deer

Geoff: Sea Lion

Leshawna: Brazilian Toucan

Duncan: Grey Wolf

Heather: Snow Leopard

Gwen: Corsac Fox

Owen: Panda

Sierra: Striped Skunk

Alejandro: Jaguar

Revenge Of The Island Contestants

Staci: Parrot

B: Elephant

Dawn: Owl

Sam: Sloth Bear

Brick: German Shepherd

Anne-Maria: Black Panther

Dakota: Flamingo

Mike: Mash Deer

Jo: Spotted Hyena

Scott: Red Fox

Zoey: Gazelle

Lightning: Zebra

Cameron: Rabbit

Pahktiew Island Contestants

Beardo: Bison

Leonard: Pangolin

Amy: Saluki

Samey: Saluki

Rodney: Moose

Ella: Squirrel

Topher: Black Footed Ferret

Dave: Abyssinian Cat

Scarlett: Rat

Max: Mole

Jasmine: Kangaroo

Sugar: Pig

Shawn: Amardillo

Sky: Cheetah

The Ridonculous Race contestants

Tammy - Tapir

Gerry - Cobra

Pete - Rattlesnake

Ellody: Mongoose

Mary: Beaver

Laurie: Alpaca

Miles: Goat

Jen: Ring Necked Parakeet

Tom: Hyacinth Macaw

Kelly: Mink

Taylor: Mink

Mickey: Chipmunk

Jay: Chipmunk

Lorenzo: Tazmanian Devil

Chet: Warthog

Rock: Striped Hyena

Spud: Sloth

Dwayne: Lion

Junior: Lion cub

Crimson: Hawk

Ennui: Vulture

Stephanie: Asian Rhinoceros

Ryan: African Rhinoceros

Carrie: Sheep

Devin: Dhole

Emma: Siamese cat

Kitty: Siamese cat

Jacques: Husky

Josee: Lyxn

Brody: Harbor Seal

Sanders: Doberman Pincher

MacArthur: Pitbull

Total Drama Island (2023) contestants

Caleb: Horse

Axel: Wolverine

Nichelle: Tiger

“Scary Girl” Lauren: Fruit Bat

Damien: Bat eared Fox

MK: Raccoon

Wayne: Reindeer

Raj: Emperor Penguin

Ripper: Spotted Skunk

Zee: Giraffe

Chase: Coyote

Emma: Tabby Cat

Julia: Swan

Millie: Hippopotamus

Bowie: Crane

Priya: Indian Peafowl/Peahen

I just hope I do some fanart for their designs and maybe redraws too.

[mrghostrat]

Hear me out.

Surely you were exposed to Healthy Harold in the life ed van, and if you were like me you also had the life changing experience of seeing the person who just spent the better part of an hour teaching you about the dangers of nicotine chain smoking behind the van during lunch.

Crowley and Azi would definitely be that couple to travel Australia with Harold the Giraffe (Harry the Rabbit??) trying to help kids while immediately committing all the sins that they just warned against.

I'M WHEEZING AZIRAPHALE WOULD ABSOLUTELY RUN THE HEALTHY HAROLD BUS OH MY GOD 🥺 and CROWLEY WOULD BE SO GOOD WITH THE KIDS 🥺

my primary school was straight up bush, and that bus was always parked in the big kids area by the fence line where it got real wild and you couldn't see much. so i had a pretty fantastical experience and COMPLETELY BELIEVING that vegetable enthusiast was a real ass giraffe, and refusing to believe the year 6's who SWEAR they saw the chick's arm controlling it

(were you also a local celebrity if you got to pat him????? i never ogt to pat him. the jealousy raged inside me, like. next year. next year i'll be the one)

[thr-333]

Leo: Ham starts with ‘H’ so does healthy, therefore-

Donnie: HEART FAILURE

Leo: HAROLD THE GIRAFFE!

[slashingdisneypasta]

OMGGGGGG!

I just found out that Healthy Harold is coming to my centre later this year!! XDD I'm so excited to see the giraffe who lives in a van and teaches all the Aussie children about drugs, body autonomy and general health and safety again XDDD

[birdo-is-here]

whomst

when i was a wee lad my school would place us all in a van and a puppet giraffe named Healthy Harold would teach us how to eat healthily

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

"William stole Africa from him???? 'The giraffes and the elephants are all mine'???? What??? I knew he was jealous of the Tusk foundation but this is ridiculous…and untrue because Harry had two major projects in Africa, and he went there every summer. He did several Africa documentaries. How did Will steal it from him?"

Spoken like a true colonialist. Well done, Harold.

Besides, how could this possibly be, considering that Harry is the one who actually has a "second family" who "brought him up" in Africa?

It sounds very late 1890s or early 1900s. “Prince X stole Africa from his brother after sending reinforcements to the rebels who had run out of horses and bayonets.”

[ask-doctor-wombat]

hello Australian man. Do you remember Harold the giraffe

Yes.