#len hawkes

[abirddogmoment]

I thought this was a straggler red tailed hawk when it was flying by but upon editing my photos I realized it was a juvenile bald eagle. Very cool to see as I was in the city and not expecting any birds!

[wingedjewels]

I have been spotted!! by Debbie Meader Via Flickr: The Juvenile Cooper's Hawk turns it's head to look directly into my camera lens. I have been spotted and he was not too happy with my presence in our backyard. Photo taken in Camas, Washington.

[coffeenuts]

[halflingkima]

i see so many breakdowns about the tragedy of the champion!hawke (you try to save everyone, you will not; you do everything for the people you love, you will lose them anyway; etc etc) but i've never seen a breakdown about the tragedy of bethany hawke. she has all the tragedy of the champion, all the trauma, on top of being a mage and losing all agency for the majority of the story.

i get that a mage!hawke's storyline is similar, but by nature it cannot be exactly bethany's; her tragedy is borne of being the main character's little sister.

[sunshanslens]

Unedited photos from a recent out of town trip — red tailed hawk

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

As much fun as I'm having doing my alternative run of DA2, one thing I really miss about my mage Hawke is his friendship with Merrill.

Those two are best friends and he's 100% supportive in her goals toward the eluvian. Ed has the humorous/charming personality, too, which bounces off super well with Merrill. He doesn't think any less of her for her usage of blood magic; if anything he's impressed by her level of strength and willpower. He's so ready to defend her from the other companions and the clan, and he's absolutely out here attempting to matchmake her and Carver....at least he is in my heart because the game won't let me, it's fine, I'm not bitter about it or anything-

But then my warrior Hawke? She has the diplomatic personality with quite a bit of direct/aggressive thrown in there and she ends up having the same attitude as that one party banter Aveline and Merrill have: "Merrill, you're clearly talented and meant for great things, but you're stupid," and that's so difficult for me to lean into. I'm trying to play Aris differently so she ends up being so condescending to Merrill, like she's trying to gently tell her to give up on the eluvian but it doesn't come off well.

Also if Carver was around, Aris would be the opposite of Ed, she'd look at the suggestion of her brother and Merrill getting together and be like, "No :) I don't think so :) I like Merrill, she's my friend :) but she's not right for Carver."

But I guess it makes sense; if you told him that Bethany would giggle and kick her feet and twirl her hair around Sebastian, Ed would've thrown him in the ocean as a warning. Meanwhile, Aris is like, "A handsome prince that could take my sister away from all of this? Wonderful, we just need to work on his incorrect views on mages, but that shouldn't be a problem :)"

Anyway I miss playing Hawke as the #1 Merrill stan.

[okbirdphotos]

Cooper's Hawk

Virginia, February 2024.

[mymarifae]

this card is so important. to me.

look. teeny tiny itty bitty len. barely bigger those little vials. he’s helpign

[capiolumen]

Winter Musings 2023 iPhoneXR Hipstamatic Photography Original Photographers Photographers On Tumblr Lowy Lens, Third Ward Film, No Flash

[inthecityofgoodabode]

February 2023: Honeybee & A Walk

First honeybee of 2023: 

Seen while walking: 

A stray dog just chilling. If I trek this way again, I’ll probably pack a sandwich bag with some dog food just in case we see each other: 

I’ve never understood why someone would put up a gate but not fencing to go with it. The gargoyles are a nice touch: 

I’d been meaning to check out this new construction site. It wasn’t very interesting but I discovered new lands to explore. It was like accessing a new area in a video game: 

I had already walked a long way so this is was as far as I went but I’ve marked it for future exploration: 

[transmasc-tabris]

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[calochortus]

Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata) caterpillar, in situ - with sallow food plant by Will Atkins Via Flickr: Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire. You can see where it's had a good old chew on the sallow leaves, not long before pupation.

[wingedjewels]

Where did all the birds go!!! by Debbie Meader Via Flickr: I was watering our potted flowers on our back deck, when I heard a loud flapping of feathers. I looked into our backyard and all of our backyard birds were diving for cover in our Rosy Glow bushes, and a Immature Cooper's Hawk landed on one of our fence posts. He was intently searching the yard for movement, but all of his prey had taken cover and they were very quiet. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.

[sha-brytols]

someone: do you think anders is a good person

the part of my brain that engages in genuine critical media analysis: i think it's disingenuous to label him through the lens of a binary good/evil paradigm because what makes him such an interesting and engaging character is his status inbetween a human with complex emotions and desires and flaws that will never fully align with each other, and the singleminded focus and purpose of a supernatural entity that is literally justice incarnate and has no capacity for nuance and whose very nature is fundamentally incompatible with humanity but the two of them are so deeply connected that they make up a single identity that's constantly at odds with itself and this struggle causes him to act in ways that aren't always clean and often land him and those around him in impossible positions. i think he was morally justified in doing what he did to the chantry but i also believe he understood the magnitude of what he was doing which is why i inherently disagree with the notion that characters like varric or sebastian were wrong in their reactions because that's the very nature of violent revolution—people get caught in the crossfire and are harmed despite their innocence and regardless of the righteousness of the action at large. if someone killed your mom to protect a hundred orphans you probably wouldn't come out of the experience full of love and admiration for the person who killed your mother because regardless of the outcome they still fucking killed your mother. anders destroyed people's homes and lives and there's a conversation to be had about how he gaslit and exploited hawke, his own potential lover, into being an unwitting accomplice even though we know through meta knowledge that he was perfectly capable of doing it on his own and very likely only wanted hawke's involvement because he needed a powerful figure to become the rallying symbol for his cause. the reality is his very nature would have never allowed him to choose hawke and his friends over his goal because to do so would have been fundamentally selfish and antithetical to his newfound identity as one who champions the needs of the many at the expense of the individual. it's a beautifully tragic story about the lengths a person would have to go to in order to enact any sort of meaningful change while constrained in a system that benefits from their powerlessness, and how that process cannot exist without suffering and pain on both the individual and collective level. i also feel like if anders was written by a person with a degree of compassion and awareness for not only the character they were writing but just what living as a vulnerable and targeted minority is like then the narrative and message would have been vastly different than what ended up on screen because, ultimately, the game wants you to look at the stark injustice of a child being ripped away from their family to spend a life locked away in cold isolation where they're at constant risk of exploitation, abuse, death, and even a complete removal of their personhood, and think that there's room for compromise. it's a narrative that perpetuates the myth that passivity and tolerance in the face of oppression is more virtuous than burdening the masses with the discomfort of seeing their own culpability in sustaining it. a better game would have challenged varric and sebastian while also affirming their anger instead of just the latter. a better game would have explored hawke's reaction in a deeper manner that examined their relationship with the system, their own internal biases, and how anders affected their worldview.

the part of my brain that was on tumblr in 2014 and is still extremely petty and spiteful: he should have blown up the conclave while he was at it

[monopeptide]

female downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)

tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)

red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

male mallard (Anas platyrynchos)

AND: bonus fiddler crab (I don't know enough to ID him more specifically than that)

hi does anyone want to see some of my bird photography

[sunshanslens]

Unedited photos from a recent out of town trip — what the fuck is a kilometre