#northern swans

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I/NCEST BRACKET - ROUND ONE: WEISSWHIT VS NORTHERN SWANS

Propaganda is below the cut.

WEISSWHIT

“Is this more Lannister or Targaryen? Anyway do you remember Whitley’s introductory conversation with Weiss? The little almost ballroom dancing walk around, “I didn’t stop growing while you were away at Beacon”? They’re so i/ncest-coded it’s amazing.”

“everyone in this family is i/ncestuous in this show in some way dear god.”

NORTHERN SWANS

"GILFxMILF, this covers all the bases."

[ladylyra]

grim reaper birds

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The Sea and Sorrow @ainurweek

[dearlylostdoe]

forever northern italy !

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Susan Meiselas. Rawanduz, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, 2007

[honeymoonavenue2013]

Fall is coming up guys!! 🍁🕸️

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Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields, to the Arctic Ocean

Taken June 2023

[jumping-jackalope]

hi. unrelated to literally everything else (i'm drinking wine) i jokingly started figuring out what birds my friends would be if. you know they were birds. i cannot do this for random people but mutuals i can give you . a bird.

[christmaswinter]

Kastoria`s lake,Greece

Winter 2017

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04/11/2023-Walk around the Weston Shore area from Weston Sailing Club including Netley Castle

Pictures taken in this set: 1-5. A family of angelic Mute Swans that it was a delight to observe kissed by the glorious evening sun, some immersive and special moments watching the birds as they swam towards us and one of three still quite grey feathered youngsters flapped its wings. 6 and 7. Views near where we parked with nice chestnut trees which I enjoyed seeing in view. 8. Looking towards Netley Castle. 9 and 10. The sea where it was great to be back near after a month or so away, with the lowering sun beautifully bringing sparkles to the water as it also created gorgeous creamy skies. Evocative winter scenes. A rainbow was good to see at the start of the walk too.

I was very pleased to see a Great Northern Diver out to sea, one of my birds of the year which is always a treat to see and I've seen more than ever of them this year, this area where it all started seeing the species for the first time this year here on January 2nd. Great Crested Grebe, Black-headed Gulls, a group of Mallards, a lovely group of Carrion Crows, Feral Pigeons on the castle and Woodpigeon were other bird highlights. Thistle, daisy, chamomile, gorse, dock seed heads and chestnuts on the ground were good plants and fruit seen. I was pleased to see a Buzzard on the way home and nice sky at home this evening around dusk.

[beatriceportinari]

thinking abt american lakes still. do they have any swans at your lakes

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Round 3 match 4A

The Northern Pintail is named for the characteristic long, pointed tail feathers of the male. Along with the tail, the glossy brown head and white chest and neck give the male a distinctive appearance. The female is mottled brown like many other female dabbling ducks, but has a long, slender neck, making the silhouette unique. This duck is globally widespread and its breeding range encompasses much of the northern hemisphere.

The Trumpeter Swan has a loud honking call that can sound much like a car horn. They are the heaviest native bird species in North America, and can weight up to 13.5 kilograms or 30 pounds. They commonly nest on top of structures built by other animals, such as beaver dams and muskrat dens.

[strawberryjayne]

The Wild Swans at Coole 

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The trees are in their autumn beauty,

The woodland paths are dry,

Under the October twilight the water mirrors a still sky;

Upon the brimming water among the stones

Are nine-and-fifty swans.

The nineteenth autumn has come upon me

Since I first made my count;

I saw, before I had well finished,

All suddenly mount

And scatter wheeling in great broken rings

Upon their clamorous wings.

I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,

And now my heart is sore.

All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,

The first time on this shore,

The bell-beat of their wings above my head,

Trod with a lighter tread.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,

They paddle in the cold

Companionable streams or climb the air;

Their hearts have not grown old;

Passion or conquest, wander where they will,

Attend upon them still.

But now they drift on the still water,

Mysterious, beautiful;

Among what rushes will they build,

By what lake's edge or pool

Delight men's eyes when I awake some day

To find they have flown away?

[thatgirlwhokeepsreading]

I absolutely second that! I'm Australian but (for reasons not relevant here) spent upper primary school living in Western Europe attending an USAmerican international school. My mother was haunted by the idea that me and my siblings weren't learning the Australian-specific humanities content we'd have gotten if we'd been back home, and as part of an effort to correct that bought us some books that basically had a Horrible Histories-esque tone.

I mostly read and re-read the first book in the series, and I can't remember date range but it basically started with pre-invasion* European contact and went through to I think federation. My recollection is these books didn't really unpack the First Nations' perspective, like they still were very much positioned primarily as sympathetic to people who had been transported. (Which does mean they were pretty ACAB lol.)

But the fact that they left in parts like massacres, enslavement, genocide of Indigenous Tasmanians, James Cook being Like That, etc., ended up being HUGE for me. Like, I'm a historiography** girl, I know there's no "neutral" approach to reporting history, but the barest facts prima facie are just Not Good. In particular I remember this part that was just like "Terra Nulius was plainly bullshit, because like... There Was Guys There. You kept having to kill them, so they're clearly there???? European understandings of land ownership be damned."

Anyway, I say this was Huge for me bc it turns out when I reintegrated into Australian schooling I was coming in way hotter and more anti-colonial than everyone else. Also I was so so bad at naming people who undertook mapping expeditions. So I ended up being slightly behind anyway because I didn't know anything post-federation and retained Zero names of white boys who died trying to find the inland ocean.

Like I'm not even trying to claim I was a Woke Bae in class (I was 11yo and I wanted the authority approval so bad lol), or that I'm a flawless ally to Indigenous people now, or even that my peers were all completely ignorant. It's just literally my whole perspective was founded on the idea that cruelty to Indigenous people was if not a feature then an inevitable byproduct of colonialism, and this was Probably Bad Actually. And I didn't realise that for most of my peers and even many teachers weren't starting from that same premise.

And this always fascinated me because my mother didn't set out to give me a Woke History Book. (I think I literally ended up with those books bc, as I say, they had a very HH vibe and I LOVED HH.) It also, more importantly... really stands in contrast to the sanitized American history I learned in school.

(*they used the term "settlement" or if they were feeling spicy "colonisation", which is fairly standard for books ostensibly aimed at white kids. In the academic environment in which I operate**, however, we tend to use "invasion" because even if the Brits brought a prisoner labour force to then colonise with doesn't make it not a military action.)

(**Australian theatre historiography, not history history, so I won't unilaterally claim language we use is current best practice)

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