why do pigeons like the train station so much. theyre never hanging around the bus station or the airport. why do they like train station

Goncharov Lore Thus Far, based on the top tumblr post results

from posts I’ve witnessed (only mentioning things I’ve seen >5 blogs post about) - there is an Anchovies scene, and fish symbolism also plays a heavy role. at some point Katya is seen near a fish bowl full of goldfish, and this is important to the Boat Scene as well. - Goncharov and Andrey have homoerotic tension, and this is used to further statements about the cycle of repression and violence

Tenant control is a great idea.

NYC's housing problems could be solved with rent control, Good Cause eviction protection, and vacancy taxes.

Its NOT to build more luxury apartments.

tbh it seems like a good idea to tag goncharov posts as unreality for those who have experience with delusions, hallucinations, or being gaslit.

for any confused or possibly unsettled over the way tumblr is leaping on the goncharov concept: it’s a joke based on a past tumblr post about a fake martin scorsese movie title being printed on a pair of knockoff shoes. there is no real film, the movie doesn’t exist, & people’s posts are just having fun with the concept.

you’re not imagining things & you’re not having an episode! i hope more people tag it as unreality for people’s safety & comfort

obsessed with the woman at the dmv who replied with a firm “no” when asked if she wanted to be an organ donor but when the clerk asked “do you want junk mail? we sell your name and address to companies” she paused and gave a very thoughtful yet decisive “…yeah”

damn is this a new era of tumblr fake stories

is it truly that difficult to believe that some people are just bizarre

out of all the responses from ppl that have never been outside i’d say this is my favorite. like have you never just been in a room with other people that are speaking

This is literally the funniest photo I’ve ever taken of gunne in my life

Baby want SHRAMP

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

absolutely obsessed with these tags

(via insomniac-arrest)

Video caption: Good guy who talks like a bad guy 

“Perhaps you’d like to see my pets. They were ALL … rescues.” 

“And as always, gentlemen, our profits will be … donated.” 

“Oh, I wish I could stay and chat, but I’m afraid I have to take my friend to the airport.” 

Redeemed villain who can’t let the speech pattern go

Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

These are the strongest nursing ear twitches I've ever seen.

She also looks evil and determined when nursing, clearly using this time to plot her takeover of the world

I, for one, welcome our future feline overlord.

And then there's the other one....

This is how I actually tell them apart: mastermind vs. mess.

if i died and got resurrected i would simply not come back wrong about it. not because i'm built different or anything i'm just already operating at maximum weird offputting little freak capacity.

*dies and comes back as a normal, well-adjusted human being*

my number one woman behavior is saying i’m fine with any pronouns and silently ranking people in my regard based on what they do with that information

This is George Costanza behavior

GEORGE: she he’d me!

JERRY: exclusively?!

GEORGE: the WHOLE evening.

JERRY: and this is the girl who had ACAB Land Back Fuck TERFs in her profile?

GEORGE: i told you, jerry! i told you that was a huge red flag. all performativity, no understanding behind it.

JERRY: i just don’t get it, who hears “any pronouns” and doesn’t even throw a they into the mix?

GEORGE: cis women on tinder, apparently!

KRAMER: *barging in* george! how’d that tinder date go?

GEORGE: terrible!

KRAMER: i warned you! jerry, i warned her, i told her “keep to hinge and her, there’s nothing for you on tinder” and did they listen?

JERRY: xe didn’t listen.

enjoy these rabbits

the best part of this post

Been reading some very good fics lately that look at the more literal interpretation of Nandor as vampire so I thought I would draw that.

ID: the image is a black and white digital illustration of Nandor the Relentless. His hair is untied and hanging around his face in a messy tangle. The lower part of his face and the front of his body is splattered with blood. His lips are shiny with the wetness of it. His eyes are glowing gold - the only part of the image in colour. He is staring directly at the viewer.

It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

Part of why Ravens are considered Spooky Bad Things We Associate With The Faeries is because they can and do mimic human speech - but much, much better than a parrot. With a parrot, you can tell something is off about the sound. You can tell it doesn’t belong to a human. Ravens don’t sound like that, no, cause they’re overacheivers. (And passerines). They sound EXACTLY like the voice of whoever they are mimicking.

But more importantly they love the sound of human laughter. No one knows why. But it is totally, 100% possible, and it happens to this day, to walk along the paths in the Black Forest and suddenly hear a strange kind of giggling sound, or maybe even a very clear, definitely human sounding “hello?” “Hiiiii!” Or “let’s go!”.

However, it takes a lot of practice for them to copy sounds as perfectly as they do, so you’re equally likely to hear something that definitely sounds human-like, but the words make no sense and the sound is unlike any language you know.

Ravens at the Tower of London do this all the time. Theyre pretty sociable with humans though, so they do it quite openly. I have seen videos of people, mostly Americans, look absolutely spooked out of their skins when a big ol’ raven (mind ye, these are birds that are 2 feet tall with a 5 foot wingspan) comes waltzing up on the deck and starts talking to them.

And ravens, especially the ones there that have been bred and raised by humans for centuries, don’t just imitate - they have one of the same language processing genes we do, and they understand the way a toddler might that things, places, and individuals have names, and can string together basic sentences much like an african grey.

I know because I used to work with one, Darlene, who knew, quite well, what she wanted and how to ask for it. If you were preparing her breakfast, she would hop on up and investigate. She used to be an illegal pet, and had been taught “manners”. That is to say, if she went for something and you told her, sternly, “mind your manners missy!” She would stop, look at you, perhaps for up to a minute, and then point with her beak to what she wanted. If that did not work, she would ask, in plain English, “grape?” Or “Darl have grape?” And lord help you if you gave her anything less than what she asked for. She would throw it at you, and try to bite you, sometimes while saying “No!” In the same tone as I imagine she was reprimanded in her home.

So yeah. Parrots arent the only ones.

WHAT

Was anyone gonna tell me that ravens can talk or was I meant to read about it on a tumblr post?!

my hot take of the day is that booktok & serial numbers filed off fanfic did not invent publishers churning out derivative works by mediocre authors who are having their hands held every step of the way & being told what tropes to use. we see it in the ghostwritten celebrity novel. we see it in many of the romances and crime novels that exclusively seem to be on sale for £4 in supermarkets. the difference is very online people are noticing it now because booktok reylo adaptations are being marketed to the social media generation, who will naturally be more vocal in both promoting and criticising these books, whereas the aforementioned predecessors were largely marketed to middle aged women who are more likely to talk about them in more insular and primarily offline circles. the increased advertisement of these books & their broadened reach bc of social media is certainly something to take note of but booktok & fanfiction are not solely responsible for bad books existing

sometimes the nut doesn't bring any clarity at all no matter how hard you bust it. the delirium only deepens.

My favorite tags on this one today