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May post more about him later, who knows

A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.

Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food. 

i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!! 

They’re incredibly smart! And kind!!!

This little bug has thoroughly stolen my heart.

@crow-with-a-pencil

Mary Sue but a compliment

This girl is powerful and loved by everyone. And why shouldn't she. She should be allowed to have fun and be super overpowered

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The picture in the background of the second one

Tama is boss

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

Beautiful.

Now I’m crying thanks

and a new cat was hired right?

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

Law

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

a legacy

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.

Mood for today and every single week that will follow

the whole “i’m an evil monster because i have to kill and eat innocent people to survive :’(” angst in ‘regular human gets turned into supernatural monster’ stories is so stupid. like how is that even a problem??? there are also plenty of corrupt billionaires, abusers and cops out there for you to snack on

everybody’s like “eating the rich is the only ethical consumption under capitalism” until they actually have the opportunity to actually eat the rich 🙄 smh

what we do in the shadows is the only one that Gets It

you guys need to watch santa clarita diet. a woman suddenly only desires human flesh, so in order to fix it, her and her (wonderful, loving) husband find nazis, men’s rights activists and anyone else with immoral values for her to kill violently and then eat 

it’s great

remember: the ‘holy’ white doves are just white rock doves, aka the common pigeon!

Doves are just pigeons with white privilege

Also can we talk about how STUNNING their irredentist feathers are?

This post made me finally look up whether Australian crested pigeons are also doves, and I didn’t quite understand the wiki page but I think the answer is ‘yes’.

You guys are gonna go ham when you hear about fruit doves

But get a load of these fat bois. The kererū, or New Zealand wood pigeon.

with regards to what is a dove and what is a pigeon- so pigeons & doves make up the family of birds called the columbidae, and there’s a few hundred of them- even the famously extinct dodo bird is a member of the family!

the animal that usually comes to mind when you think “pigeon” is, as noted above, the common rock dove- specifically, the feral populations of domesticated rock doves that are found in cities worldwide. these are not truly wild animals- they’re the descendants of domestic pigeons, which is why you’ll find lots of color and pattern variation looking at city pigeons, like you might looking at a feral cat colony. the undomesticated rock dove lives in northern africa and southwestern eurasia natively, it was the species from which our domestic pigeons were derived- much like red jungle fowl to chickens, and wolves to dogs.

a flock of feral pigeons on the left, and an undomesticated rock dove on the right. note the variation in colors and patterns on the feral flock- some are lighter, darker, have checkered sides, and so on. the rock dove is a more solid light grey with two distinct black wing bars, but feral pigeons can look just like this, too. these all represent only the single species we tend to be most familiar with, only one of the hundreds of species of pigeons/doves out there (such as the various sorts of fruit doves above)!

but the actual difference between what species are called pigeons and what are called doves: well, there really isn’t. generally folks tend to call the larger ones pigeons and smaller ones doves, but this is not at all consistent and there are no specific pigeon or dove clades (evolutionary groupings) within the family. ergo, functionally speaking, ‘pigeon’ and 'dove’ are pretty much interchangeable.

ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

FUCK this post and happy birthday sonic

If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...

Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?

Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?

Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?

Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?

Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?

high school teachers: if you don’t show up with a dress and full makeup or a fitted tuxedo to class everyday to college your professors will execute you

college professors: 

I once had a professor SLAM a thermos down on his desk and say to us “there’s more pressure in my sinuses right now than there is at the bottom of the sea. This thing’s full of NyQuil. I’m going to drink it while I teach, and when your heads are replaced by swirling rainbows, I will cancel the rest of class.” The class ended up being 17 minutes long.

Your professor was trying to fight God

I was in a class in undergrad, fellow classmate walks in 20, maybe 30 minutes after class started and slightly out of breath. Professor gives a vague look of curiosity and the kid says “my bad. They set up a bouncy castle outside.” The Professor perks up “there’s a bouncy castle?! Class dismissed!” and straight up ran out of the room. It was a 10am class.

That’s a face that says “I waited too long to correct this person so now everything is awkward and I’m really uncomfortable.”

Hey so I looked this up and it’s a joke post by a wildlife rehabilitation group! https://www.facebook.com/122334mommy/?hc_ref=ARS-GF9yIX9bpP3eu-UWcS9Rwn1_wFmJEaq7ulcsZILjI7I99TguM5lWcxeqQBJoy6M&fref=nf They’d probably appreciate it if the source was known!

i am so, so, comforted that this is a joke post

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This is my cat Kite, reaching up to pat pat pat me after I had been crying.

Feel free to pass along this magical paw of love & comfort. Kite's always here for you. 🥰

PLEASE PLAY THIS WITH SOUND OMG

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original tweet by Pitosh2137

YOU. YOU GET IT.