#owl people

[toadlett]

Owl People is back! Chapter 3 is gonna be a big one, I hope you're ready! Also go look at the website, @evegwood made it so much better! read it here: https://owl-people.com or on tapas: https://tapas.io/episode/2824889

[typhlonectes]

[mrmrsdarklordjrthethird]

My dnd character his name is saffron he’s a rogue

[punkedsolar]

Owl people, or in one case, owl bear. Some of these were absolutely tiny - the pen and ink is about an inch tall.

[fakedtales]

AI’s an increasingly worrying thing these days, so Casual Trek’s latest episode covers some meltdowns AI has had in Star Trek!

In Star Trek: Voyager’s Dreadnought, B’elanna’s reprogrammed missile child that she definitely wants to use for war crimes is threatening random people in the Delta Quadrant.

In Star Trek: Discovery’s Stormy Weather, the Discovery’s newly self-aware AI has a freakout when the ship ends up in a pocket of nothingness.

Finally, in Star Trek: Lower Decks A Mathematically Perfect Redemption, we discover new lows for rogue exocomp Peanut Hamper and I explain my issues with owls.

Casual Trek’s on all podcatchers until the AI overlords catch us making fun of them, and here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/casual-trek/episodes/Im-Sorry--I-Cant-Do-That--BElanna-e2kmi17

[falderaletcetera]

I recently reread and caught up with a comic I'd lost track of and cannot recommend it enough if you enjoy:

bugs

fairies

Creatures (tm)

mushrooms

body horror

astonishingly lush details and backgrounds when I know that's a thing artists complain about doing (but then often do anyway, to my delight)

MORE bugs

badass witches

grim & gorgeous lore and magic

okay but I really wasn't kidding about the body horror.

it's Owl People by @toadlett and it's an absolute labour of love, so check it out, if you like!

[proselles]

alex hirsch was really just so pissed that no one saw his epic old man yaoi that he went and wrote a whole new book and made a whole website specifically to show meticulous evidence that this weird old man fucked a triangle.

he really said what were ford and bill really doing in that pocket dimension they shared, hm? did you ever think of that? oh - you think it was just chess? hm. interesting. i dont.

the ultimate rare pair shipper. i have never seen a creator do this before. absolutely fascinating at every angle.

[aurorepeuffier]

I was wondering if people on tumblr preferred gifs to videos. Many people told me that the sound was missing (and because I'm proud of my owl dubbing). I repost the video version here

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

[strawberri-draws]

Cannot wait for the Mom Team Up

[jibberjibbsart]

Supernatural “Power Hour” Part 19!

The girls are fighting!!

First | Prev | Next

[avephelis]

they get matching t-shirts

[novelist-becca]

Man.

Imagine being Eda here.

You did everything in your power to keep your daughter (who just cracked open your walls) safe and away from the fight. Argued with her about her safety and even helped carve her palisman.

Only for it to be in vain, because she ended up being killed by Belos anyway. And you got a front row seat.

You don’t even know what to do as you watch the light orbs that used to be your kid float away.

At this point, Eda doesn’t give two shits and let’s the owl beast take the reigns.

You can practically hear her grief and agony in “I don’t think I can control myself right now.”

[falderaletcetera]

IT'S THE OWL PEOPLE SIREN POEM @TOADLETT

(art by toadlett)

[sheerakk]

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Obsessed with their new looks