
fairy-wren: beryl-spangled tanager (Photo by ownphotography)
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#bird #adorable
“It was all our own fault,” Marilla said resignedly.
-Anne of Green Gables
‘And Jane and Michael screamed at him as he passed.’
– Mary Poppins
“Mario stopped and looked in the shop window.”
—The Cricket in Times Square
“Nevertheless, young Woolsthorpe persevered in his studies of natural philosophy in the way a gentleman should, by digging into any suspicious-looking burial mounds he could find in the neighbourhood, filling up his lizard press with as many rare species as he could collect, and drying samples of any flowers he could find before they became extinct.”
–Snuff, by Terry Pratchett
…you know, if you look at it a certain way that’s actually pretty accurate.
“Would you rather X boy or Y boy?”
“What? Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just here studying the mating habits of Homo sapiens. Seeing as how sapience complicates everything it touches, humans’ sex lives are even more interesting than those of ducks. Speaking of ducks, did you know duck penises…”
(I haven’t actually had this exchange, but I could. The beginning question is one I have heard, just not directed at me. Turns out in that group it was strictly volunteers taking part in the highly-euphemistic sex discussions.)
(I did actually read about duck genitalia. You can read it if you want. Beware of animal rape. The TMI should be obvious.)
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#sexuality and lack thereof #meme

This character intro page gives a completely misleading impression of Cacofonix’s importance in the series. You flop, Cacofonix – you mattered in maybe two books? Asterix the Gladiator and Asterix and the Magic Carpet? And you only mattered in the latter because you’d suddenly been given a bullshit magic power that you’d never manifested in any of the twenty-plus books before that.
oh well at least Justforkix thinks you’re cool
yes, everyone in this series has a punny name
my all-time favourites: the two legionaries called Sendervictorius and Appianglorius.
“yes, everyone in this series has a punny name”
this is why my little brother loves the Asterix series beyond all reason. He’s probably read the entire English set by this time, just giggling at all the puns or anything that looks like a pun. (I quite enjoyed going through one of them with him and explaining things like the visiting British druid Valueaddetax – but I was quite startled by how MANY there were. It’s amazing.)
…this is where the Taverley druids get their naming scheme from, isn’t it?
*lightbulb*
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#Runescape #seriously #the druids all have names like #Pikkupstix #Pikkenmix #Bowloftrix

ID-062 Komodo Island, Blue Snake (by FO Travel)
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#snake #adorable #don’t you wish yooouuu #were scaly and blue?

NGC 6302: Big, Bright, Bug Nebula
Credit: A. Zijlstra (UMIST) et al., ESA, NASA
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#nebula #pretty things #space

Dragon scale armor. 3 sessions so far, more to go.
Jinx Gameface Tattoos
Orlando, FL
Raise your hand if you saw this and your first thought was that it was a K’da.
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#Dragonback #tattoo
Want.
That is all.
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#Hello #I’d like to order a cup of SCIENCE! #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #the power of science
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