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ROBRON COMMUNITY CHOSEN SONGS (1/?)

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i don't really understand why you would be pro-zoo. like i understand nature reserves and sanctuaries where people can observe from afar, but it doesn't seem right to me when they're locked up in generally small confined areas for people to watch them do nothing all day. idk maybe i'm getting this wrong, and i still really respect you, i just don't understand this. like i interned at a zoo and felt uncomfortable with how small their living areas were and how they had no stimulation

Zoos don’t look like this anymore.

They look like this:

Good zoos do not keep their animals in “tiny spaces” with no enrichment.  I’m not pro-roadside zoo.  I’m pro-accredited zoo.  Zoos are incredibly important for conservation and education.

Are Zoos Necessary?

The Importance of Zoos: Resource Post

Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter: Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium

Why I Want to be a Keeper

Why I Believe in Zoos

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Komodo Dragon

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it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here

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✦ fluorescence

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I need a Western movie where Glen Powell plays the Good Cowboy and Sebastian Stan plays the Bad Cowboy and no I will not elaborate

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i feel like Mav is like the proudest dad in the world and talks about the Daggers all the time but rarely uses their actual names which often results in people thinking he has wayyy less kids then he actually does

like people will talk to him and he mentions his “darling baby boy, his oldest son, his baby bird” (Rooster) and tell stories about him and stuff, but he also tells stories about his “little spitfire, the troublemaker,” (Hangman) and somewhere along the way it gets misinterpreted that these are the same people

this happens with several of the daggers until everyone is a mixture of everyone and the only idenifiers are that sometimes Mav says his daughter instead of his son and general age range.

there’s probably a debate/bet between a lot of the people who have heard the stories but dont know who the Daggers are about how many kids Mav actually has

The general consensus is that he has 4, but guesses range anywhere between 3-9 (3 as the min because his oldest who is assumed to be boy, at least 1 girl, and a youngest boy. 9 because theres so many damn stories that theres no way its just three kids)

Mav also conviently forgets to mention that he didnt actually raise any of them but Bradley, leading to further confusion.

There isnt even any indication that he didnt raise them, because with the stories he tells, you can apply pretty much any age between 8-35 to them and it would still make decent sense.

This all comes to head in one of 2 ways

first one is a random officer or something noticing the picture of the whole squad on Mavs desk.

officer: Oh, what’s that, sir?

mav, absolutely beaming: oh! those are my kids!

officer: oh, thats so sweet! which ones are yours?

mav: all of them!!

officer: *shocked pikachu*

Or, alternatively, the scuttlebutt makes its way back to one of the daggers

another random officer: Oh hey, Fanboy, you’ve worked with Maverick, right?

Fanboy: yeah, why?

officer: do you know how many kids he has? we’re debating it

Fanboy: uh… none, i guess? i mean maybe 1 but Rooster isnt technically his kid

officer: okay ur either lying or insane

Fanboy: ?????

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Thinking about Robert Sugden, who was taught by his own father that the best thing he can do for the people he loves is get out of their life.

Thinking about that Robert Sugden seeing his son for the first time in the hospital and immidiatly trying to leave town so Seb can have a better life.

Thinking about that Robert Sugden faced with a life sentence for protecting his baby sister and and cutting the people he loves most out of his life. Because seeing him in prison will destroy them. (Because he does not want to become a burden because they are better without him.)

Thinking about that Robert Sugden being told by the only two living people who he loves that they don't want him to come back home. That they moved on. That he will be a burden in their new lives.

(Thinking about him going anyways. Not to get them back but only because he thinks they are in danger. And if nothing else he can protect them.)

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saying “i want him” about the character but not in a romantic or sexual way . i just Require him i need to Obtain him

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when the ao3 author is funny in the chapter notes and i get lowkey parasocial

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See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

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Someone was asking in a thread what kind of people could work for ICE right now.

I think it's a good time to remember that the image above are the people who put children into gas chambers.

When I was little, I asked what kind of person could work at a concentration camp.

The answer to both questions I think is "normal people who have accepted the dehumanization of another group of people."

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been watching too many ww2 movies

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love rebloggin 20 things out of nowhere at once then leaving

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“beauty and the beast” where beauty’s dad comes home with the rose and is like oh shit oh shit this terrible monster says i have to come live with him forever because i picked his favorite flower and beauty just goes fuck that and puts on her pants and marches down to the beast’s castle herself

and she’s expecting this horrifying dark fortress but it’s actually sort of just a normal castle with big rose bushes and furniture that’s sometimes alive

and she thinks, i can work with this

and the beast comes out and he’s like don’t look at me i am a hideous monster and beauty’s like dude you’re like a talking tiger in a cape are you kidding you’re AWESOME can i pet you can i stroke your paws can you give me a ride

and he’s like what and she goes around the castle like okay we’ll put curtains here and expand the kitchen and this could be a really cute breakfast nook

and the beast is confused because isn’t she supposed to be terrified and hate him and he had all these intimidating speeches planned and he’s like uh aren’t you going to try to run away

and beauty’s all are you kidding this is a magic castle i’m going to live here forever

so they just sort of settle in together and one day beauty goes home for the weekend to visit her family and they’re all amazed that she’s alive and her sisters go WHY DIDN’T THE HUGE MONSTER EAT YOU TO DEATH and she’s like nahhh he’s basically just a big cat he’s kind of cute actually sometimes he plays with yarn when he thinks i’m not looking

and she explains how it’s really not that bad, all the dishes wash themselves and i get all these gorgeous dresses for free because the castle doesn’t know what else to do with them and yeah there are flowers everywhere but hey that’s his hobby y’know i’m not gonna discourage that man

and then one day while beauty’s re-alphabetizing her magic library and trying to decide where to put that enchanted mirror the beast comes up and he’s like hey so this is awkward but are you like………………………………..in love with me……?????????

and beauty’s like oh uh wow haha um sorry no you’re…sort of a tiger

and the beast is like thank goodness because if you were i’d have to turn back into a human and i’ve kind of gotten used to being a big lion thing with horns and the ability to speak english for some reason like why would i want to go back to being a spindly little man and then beauty laughs and she’s like okay well can you go catch us a wild boar for dinner, dear

and they end up getting married in the end just because it’s easier to explain that way, you know, a single lady ~~living alone with a man~~ even if he’s not actually a man, and that’s fine with them because beauty was never really into the whole boys and sex thing and the beast (whose name is jeff) is honestly more interested in his flowers

and whenever any of the other ladies in the village give her any shit beauty is just like, oh, you don’t like my crepes? well you know my husband, who is literally a tiger, loves them and then everyone leaves her alone, which is really all she ever wanted

and she goes back to her magic castle and sits down with a book in front of the fire and rests her feet on her cat husband and nobody bothers her ever again

can that happen

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IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it