#i genuinely dont understand people like this

[saint-nevermore]

this keeps appearing on my dash and i understand animal handling isnt exactly common knowledge, but its shocking just how many people who dont know anything about husbandry are insisting this is funny because "well, it isnt good animal care to let a duck be eaten!" or because the pelican "deserves" it.

pelicans are highly oppurtunistic predators that eat pretty much any prey that fits in their mouths, but especcially fish and chicks. why on earth would you house a pelican or let it roam in the same enclosure as its natural pret? this isnt fair to both the pelican OR the other birds - since its worth mentioning pelicans can and will eat adult birds as well. in a good facility worth its weight this could never feasibly even happen to have to intervene with. this aviary is also horribly inadequete even for ducklings - every aviary ive visited that allowed visitors and animals to share the same paths has a ludicrous amount of space with the vast majority of it being inaccessible shrubbery and habitat. there isnt ANY water visible here for the waterfowl, and the lack of natural spots means these birds genuinely seem to have little to nowhere to go to avoid people, or indeed the predators that share the same space. not to mention those hard floors can lead to bumblefoot. calling this housing "inadequete" is an understatement.

this isnt the only time this has happened at this facility, i found *another* video from the same place of the pelican swallowing a pigeon, and its clear the pelicans are allowed to roam despite the dangers to smaller birds and itself. (side note - look at how hyperflexed and twisted the jaw is held here. this is undoubtably very painful.)

the main concern here is the unnecessary force and roughness used in restraining and moving the bird. in the video with the pigeon, the pelicans clearly react to being herded just fine, so theres no reason to quite literally drag the bird by its beak. although holding the beak is standard when restraining large billed birds like pelicans and herons, this is often a careful and relaxed hold, and they should absolutely NOT be pulled by their beak. if they can handle the birds well enough to grab its beak and wrangle food out it's throat, they can properly restrain and carry it. the bill is also held firmly shut, when it should be held carefully and somewhat open so the bird can breathe. i have watched wildlife vets manage to restrain and move wild adult SWANS without resorting to dragging them by their face. it is wholly unacceptable to handle a captive, TAME bird this way. if you wouldnt move a dog by grabbing them by their snout, why on earth is this okay or funny on a pelican?

on that note, the way the duckling (and to an extent, the pigeon in the other video) is just tossed to the ground is absolutely dangerous and negligent. the experience of almost being eaten is stressful enough without risking potential injury from hitting solid ground. its very clear no one in this scenario knows how to handle birds, since there was nothing stopping the worker just...putting the duck down gently? its tossed like its a hot potato.

circling back to the pelican being dragged by its jaw - pelicans have very narrow, thin jaw bones. although the upper bill is more rigid, the lower jaw is adapted to flex to accomodate swallowing large prey, but that also means improper handling could sprain or fracture the jaw. just take a look at how delicate the bones of the jaw are and tell me if it looks like a good idea to drag this bird by its beak.

similarly, this can also injure the birds neck especcially if the pelican panicked or pulled too much to try and escape. often if a bird like this isnt being restrained gently by its beak, it's neck will be held to prevent the animal hurting itself by trying to pull away. there are times where the bill is held in such a way the pelicans' neck is being bent at worrisome angles and at one point it even appears to be partially lifted off the ground. i have seen a video of an ostrich decapitating itself when its head got stuck and it panicked. this is incredibly dangerous, and to quote a great comment i saw once, its not about what happened, its about what could have happened.

the insistance of pelicans being these chaotic monsters is disturbing to say the least. they are animals taking part in extremely average behaviours. the fact OP has a whole tag for "not trusting pelicans" (its a BIRD??) tells me enough about why people by and large will turn a blind eye to being told this is NOT just a funny pelican getting told off. yall NEED to think about what you actually see when you see videos like this, and put aside immature human biases like calling a literal bird evil or thinking it deserves this. pelicans are beautiful, intelligent, often incredibly docile birds that deserve respect and appropriate care. its thinking like this that leads to a lack of accountability when animals are treated poorly and lets horrible practices go unchecked.

i am not a professional, i am simply a hobbyist who loves birds and wants to get into aviculture in the future. i have no credentials or training or schooling. but if i could figure this out, chase a suspicion something is wrong here, and do a literal crumb of research, everybody can.

closing note, this is apparently a zoo in the Shaangxi province in China, but i couldnt find anything more specific than that. do not make a clown of yourself by being xenophobic. poor animal welfare laws are a definite issue but shit like this happens everywhere and dumbass racist comments do nothing.

This blog has been telling you not to trust pelicans for over a decade and this is why

[txttletale]

hello...what is this "eidolon playtest". i thought it was perhaps some kind of MTG since you like that and "playtest" but then i keep seeing like.....random character art. is this a tabletop thing. is it mtg and i just dont understand mtg. i know i can probably google this but jt seems like something you wnjoy and id like to hear you talk about it :^)

eidolon playtest is an actual play series in which the creators of the ttrpg 'eidolon: become your best self' and their friends -- as the name implies -- playtest aforementioned TTRPG. it has a pretty interesting format in which the same GM runs two separate campaigns for two different parties which slowly become more and more intertwined until they start crossing over directly. so far they have two pairs of campaigns finished, eidolon POP and ROCK (seasons 1 & 2) and eidolon SKA and DISCO (seasons 3 & 4), and season 5 (eidolon VGM and EDM) currently ongoing. they also have a couple of short mini-campaigns of 3-4 sessions each, which i'm not going to list all of because there's a lot.

eidolon playtest is really good for so many reasons i can't possibly provide a comprehensive account but here's some:

the tables are really, really good at taking something and running with it. the number of goofy, seemingly one-off jokes that get called back to and built up and end up becoming extremely serious and plot-critical has to be in the double digits by now

there is very much a lack of... for want of a better word 'preciousness' to the play -- like, one of the things i really don't like about dimension 20 is that because there is an entire production staff making all these little minis and sets, right, there is an investment and a need to put the money in front of the camera, it's basically impossible for e.g. combat encounters to be skipped or for anything to go too 'off the rails'. meanwhile in eidolon everyone will get excited when someone pulls a fucking insane plan out of nowhere that radically reshapes an encoutner, or when someone rolls/draws badly and something awful happens -- i fucking love that kind of play, where everyone is excited to see cool shit happen whether it's bad or good, and the eidolon playtest team do it really well

the characters are really good and bounce off each other really well. something i commented recently is that i love diska for the fact thaqt nonoe of the players are afraid to have their character just be a huge cunt sometimes. every campaign has some amount of interpersonal drama and it always seems like the players are really excited to have it, too. there are conflicts, some get resolved, some don't, some spiral into irreconcilable differences, some pave the way for extremely close bonds.

eidolon, the system (especially the 2e version that's used for diska onwards) is a great system which encourages fun and cool things to happen. every character has a jojo-style extremely specific power, which means that fights aren't boring slogs of people rolling dice (i hate combat in actual plays that use wargames, lol, even games with well-balanced combat systems that are fun to play often make horrible audio) but instead wacky and consistently dramatic encounters where the players make clever and creative use of their powers to take on a freak-of-the-week

the cast is just really damn good! i mentioned how the characters on all the shows have ineresting and complex dynamics, but even apart from that there's just so many characters on this show that i'm genuinely attached too, so many memorable and interesting pcs and npcs.

the show is funny as fuck!! constant laugh out loud bits throughout every campaign, often alongside the extremely heartfelt or dramatic ones. i've been refernecing a bit from eidolon disco so much recently it's been driving oen of my gfs crazy (you can buy rat poison for free at the store)

i, yknow, go back and forth on whether to mention this when recommending it bc i'm sure that the eidolon playtest folks don't, like, want to be pigeonholed as A Trans Podcast or whatever, but, like, when it feels like every AP podcast that advertises itself or is advertised as 'super queer' is like, two cis gay people and maybe one transmasc if you're lucky at an otherwise super cishet table -- it is such a breath of fresh air to listen to an actual play with a legit preponderance of transfem and nonbinary players playing all kinds of trans and queer characters.

tldr: its like homestuck but good

[yurimom]

do you people know how to buy a car? genuinely curious. Does The Average Tumblr User Know How To Buy A Car?

if you go to a car dealership something awesome you can do as you are moving between offices is tell the employee “why don’t you walk with me?” and talk with them as they walk by you. its like. a power play. they’ll try to do similar to you too. also never buying the car in the same night. they will try to pressure you and make you impatient and ready to just buy and leave by making you sit around for hours and hours. don’t take their compromises. “mmmm i don’t know. doesn’t seem like a good deal. i think i’m alright. goodnight!” 100% of the time they will call you in the morning no matter what they told you, even if they say We Absolutely Cannot Sell It To You At That Price or We Can’t Include This. yes they can, and if they chatted you up for so long anyway, played the game of pressuring you into their negotiations, and you’re not asking for something Actually Unreasonable (you’re probably not) they will want to cut you a deal.

and dont buy into their guilt tripping. they will tell you shit like “i’d love to sell it at that price but we gotta keep our lights on/i gotta feed my family” dont EVER buy into it.

hit the reverse card. and dont feel bad about it. i told them shit like “well you have to understand i’m buying this car when it’s late, dark out, can’t even get it properly inspected. so i’m taking a risk here by wanting to buy it tonight.” or “well this is a good deal but what’s a good deal worth without a decent warranty? it’s suspicious. makes me wonder why you don’t want to cover xyz since it’s a used car…why are you willing to lowball it so much when the market price is xyz?” you pose these as genuine questions too.

also you make them sign everything they promise to get you after you buy the car. like if they promise to replace a part they WRITE IT DOWN, AND! i made this mistake! they write the date or timeframe they promise to get it to you buy!

sincerely someone who also used to make commission on sales, was very good at it, and is read as a gay young woman and thus has to be especially assertive when purchasing shit like cars. they use psychological tactics and you have to use them back

[daedricsheep]

That's totally fair. Pretending like expressing frustration with democrats is an inherently self-destructive action is itself self destructive. I don't intend to dissuade anyone from criticism of the lack of other actions taken by elected democrats. I agree. They aren't doing nearly enough.

I personally feel like this feels so small that I hesitate to suggest it's being done instead of anything else. It's a change of clothes that probably didn't take more than like 15 minutes of a group text, or whatever equivalent.

While i don't share the view that this little stunt is even worth the energy put into annoyance, I didn't realize there was some big back and forth argument in the notes of this post, I mostly just took the thread at face value, and thus looked at this event mostly in a vacuum. I dont see anyone having used the phrase addicted to doomerism, nor do i think the basis of what is being said carries that implication (though i can understand others may disagree on the latter point). I also don't see that phrased used when I did scan the notes. For what it's worth when I scanned the notes OP seems to agree that not enough concrete action is being taken by those with the power to actually do something, which is the base issue being taken with the "protest" at hand.

I also didn't say what you claim i did. I'll admit It's a bit offputting to be accused of laxidasical "daydreaming" by someone who mostly shares your position. Whether it's for a joke because you're not in the mood to genuinely talk, or because you're genuinely reading too much into what I say, I hope your current frustration passes soon and you have a better day tomorrow.

Whichever of us is right couldn't matter less if better work isn't done tomorrow, both by people like us and those in power.

[courtofthevampireking]

i try not to get involved in callout stuff but re: the sparklecare callout. i feel like this didnt really need to be a callout post? if im understanding right (PLEASE correct me if im wrong genuinely), kitty only ever did this stuff privately and never intended for anyone else to know, which imo means it shouldve been settled privately instead of made a whole public spectacle

(edit: to reiterate i am genuinely unsure if im missing something here PLEASE do correct me if im wrong. not trying to be combative just genuinely trying to understand)

(edit 2: thank you to the people in the replies for explaining. im still not sure how to feel but i greatly appreciate the additional context

to be clear, i dont support the actions taken here, im just not sure if it was the best course of action to post it publicly instead of privately contacting kittycorn about it)

[stiffyck]

"i dont like animated movies" okay but why. like i genuinely would like to know WHY. and id like to hear literally any other reason besides "animation is for kids" or "its childish"

[adelinamoteru]

I’m a big believer in robin jason and red hood jason loving each other. they would kill for each other. they are SO understanding and protective of each other. I genuinely refuse any other pov sorry

[oceanwithouthermoon]

saikis powers are a vital part of him so it makes sense that people who dont know about them cant truly understand his whole self, but its also very silly to me when people act like its the ONLY important part of him... people act like his friends that arent in the know are completely blind to who saiki is, but i feel like that kinda means you missed some major points... he cant keep his powers a secret forever and it DOES matter, but he can still be loved and KNOWN without knowing about them... hes still human, he still has a personality, he still has regular likes and dislikes, etcetc

his friends perspectives on him may have been wrong at first, but they CHANGED... they know him and love him, and theyll KEEP loving him the SAME once they know of his powers...

​some people cough cough cough in this fandom like to reduce saiki to JUST his powers and its so obvious that you just. missed everything. you didnt absorb anything from the show, you just saw it and went "ha, everyone thinks hes just a guy when hes actually super cool and powerful" no no no, he IS cool and powerful but look a little closer and at his core he is still LITERALLY JUST A GUY 😭😭😭

hes such a guy.....

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[qoldenskies]

ive been thinkin about it today and ngl i am not personally interested in envy being a point of contention in leo and donnie's relationship unless it goes equally extreme on both sides, both of them yearning for the each other's particular confidence in their strengths while failing to understand completely that its just one big coping mechanism and not something that should be envied at all. not twins in the way that they complete each other and need the other to feel whole, but in the way that they always feel incomplete no matter what they do, always secretly undervaluing what they have already, and the other has everything they want to feel worthy as a person. i ESPECIALLY enjoy this dynamic if this is contrasted with them being extremely caring and supportive of each other even as they feel stuck in each other's shadows..... so much drama can be derived from the idea

[milo-igidk]

can you guys do me a favor and like go back and reread the books cause some of you ppls takes are getting out of hand

[francy-sketches]

'why does show joffrey look like that he's supposed to be handsome' no sorry there's so many ugly/not conventionally attractive characteracters being prettywashed I think the rare cases of deyassification are based as hell. I like his weird little face ❤

[malwarechips]

btw making a note rq that if you think its reasonable to attack or insult other people over their slugcat hcs (cough cough, ppl who get pissy about slugcats with fur that "just look like warrior cats") then i don't really like you very much

[asteria7fics]

Ngl gang if I see one more person say that Kyle is "just as bad as Cartman" I think I'm gonna lose my fucking mind.

And I'm not saying that those two aren't similar. I've said before, many times that they are, but let's be more specific about what ways, please.

They're both stubborn and hot headed and driven and, yes, total jerks sometimes.

But Cartman is on a different fucking level than Kyle.

Kyle is a fallible kid that picks on his friends about as much as you would expect from an 8-10 y/o kid. Immature at times, and certainly can fall victim to group think and manipulation, but he is not the same kind of jerk that Cartman is.

Cartman is self-centered, self-serving and downright cruel a lot of the time. Cartman is more often the manipulator and instigator than not. Cartman has knowingly gotten people killed and shown zero remorse until he was informed that those people were actually connected to him, and that their deaths impacted him in some way. I could literally sit here and list all the reprehensible things he has done, but we'd be here all goddamn day.

They are not "same prick, different pants". Kyle is an average sized prick while Cartman is a world record level one, and he keeps fucking flashing people in public with the damn thing.

[fishareglorious]

i'd like to think in this scene as kakania gets teary over isolde, hofmann is in her seat pointedly ignoring what's happening and there's this split-second moment between her and marcus meeting eyes and silently greta convinces her to comfort kakania.

hofmann's thoughts go something like "hm, letting marcus have hands-on experience on how to deal with emotions running high in a controlled environment is a good decision to make. also. this means i won't have to partake in any of this woman's complicated relationship drama with isolde dittasdorf.

god im not touching that with a ten foot pole as much as i can."

later does she know she gets roped into it in the worst way possible

[superbellsubways]

10 days into pride month i am so sick of seeing biphobia everywhere imgonna throw up all my insides SHUT UPPPPP SHUT UUUUP i hate everyone forever