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[celestialvix]

So I was told that Human Planet had a segment about pigeons in the Cities episode that I might be interested in and I was honestly so underwhelmed. I haven’t finished the episode so maybe there’s more pigeon stuff but I feel like all I saw was more Birds Of Prey Are The Only Cool And Acceptable Birds and pigeons are Trespassers In Our Urban World Who Shit On Everything And Are Useless On Top Of It. Which isn’t true and I’m so tired of this being framed as some horrible burden that humanity must face. Pigeons are the victims here, not us. 

Hate of pigeons didn’t start until the 20th Century. Before that was about 9,900 years of loving them. The rock pigeon was domesticated 10,000 years ago and not only that, we took them freaking everywhere. Pigeons were the first domesticated bird and they were an all-around animal even though they were later bred into more specialised varieties. They were small but had a high feed conversion rate, in other words it didn’t cost a whole lot of money or space to keep and they provided a steady and reliable source of protein as eggs or meat. They home, so you could take them with you and then release them from wherever you were and they’d pretty reliably make their way back. Pigeons are actually among the fastest flyers and they can home over some incredible distances (what fantastic navigators!). They were an incredibly important line of communication for multiple civilisations in human history. You know the first ever Olympics? Pigeons were delivering that news around the Known World at the time. Also, their ability to breed any time of year regardless of temperature or photoperiod? That was us, we did that to them, back when people who couldn’t afford fancier animals could keep a pair or two for meat/eggs. 

Rooftop pigeon keeping isn’t new, it’s been around for centuries and is/was important to a whole variety of cultures. Pigeons live with us in cities because we put them there, we made them into city birds. I get that there are problems with bird droppings and there’s implications for too-large flocks. By all means those are things we should look to control, but you don’t need to hate pigeons with every fibre of your being. You don’t need to despise them or brush them off as stupid (they have been intelligence tested extensively as laboratory animals because guess what other setting they’re pretty well-adapted to? LABORATORIES!) because they aren’t stupid. They’re soft intelligent creatures and I don’t have time to list everything I love about pigeons again. You don’t need to aggressively fight them or have a deep desire to kill them at all. It’s so unnecessary, especially if you realise that the majority of reasons pigeons are so ubiquitous is a direct result of human interference.

We haven’t always hated pigeons though, Darwin’s pigeon chapter in The Origin of Species took so much of the spotlight that publishers at the time wanted him to make the book ONLY about pigeons and to hell with the rest because Victorian’s were obsessed with pigeons (as much as I would enjoy a book solely on pigeons, it’s probably best that he didn’t listen).  My point is, for millenia, we loved pigeons. We loved them so much we took them everywhere with us and shaped them into a bird very well adapted for living alongside us.

It’s only been very recently that we decided we hated them, that we decided to blame them for ruining our cities. The language we use to describe pigeons is pretty awful. But it wasn’t always, and I wish we remembered that. I wish we would stop blaming them for being what we made them, what they are, and spent more time actually tackling the problems our cities face.  

I just have a lot of feelings about how complex and multidimensional hating pigeons actually is

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@glitching-moon

I AM SO SORRY ABOUT THE DELAY!!

Here it is tho and hope it was worth the wait! Lost the files and had to redo it and all that but it's done and here's the cute poly of Erro, Ink and Nightmare! :D

Created for the Star Wish festival ^u^ @starwishfestival

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Oh!! It is so adorable!!! Thank you! Love how cute they all look and that Pap is carrying my sona! So precious!

Thank you again!!

@celestialvix I was your star wish festival friend! Sorry it’s not my best work but I tried 🫰

@starwishfestival

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@techcat

Hello! I was your imp! :D

Sent it to the discord and forgot to post it here, haha

Anyways! Merry Gyftmas!!

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I didn't forget! Got my new ref sheet updated now! So, click for better quality but I think it came out cute!

I'm always dying my hair so this is the current but for the Starry Festival and Gyftmas, your more than welcome to lighten the pink or use the other hair colors from my previous posts of my sona too!

Any questions than feel free to reach out and ask!!

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Hello! Been a while! Just a little post to mention I'm participating in Star Wish Festival and Gyftmas!

I'm working on my persona ref sheet, and it should be posted later tomorrow since the sketch is mostly done! So, in case anyone was wondering 👀👀👀

(I work long shifts so sorry for the delay!!)

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That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

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Holidays coming up and everything so browse and sat this again!

The flood of serotonin I got from seeing it again is absolutely amazing and I still love it!! ❤️

Hewwo @solarfai I’m you secret santa for @starwishfestival event!

You wished to be baking with HT bros, well, Paps was ahead of you, he’s going to bake some healthy cupcakes! XDD

Thank you SWF for hosting this event ♥

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Echo and Echo

Surrounded by Echo

The creator of Technoid’s most addictive drug

Echo -> @celestialvix

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I still really love this, cuz like, so cute!!!

Happy Birthday @celestialvix !!!

Hope your day is full of delight and ramen <3

[celestialvix]

🎄APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN🎄

🎁 How to sign up: send us an email at gyftmas2024@gmail.com with ‘GYFTMAS24’ as the title, and wait for our reply! Remember to read our rules first!

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🎁IMPORTANT🎁 If you realize you forgot something in your application, DO NOT SEND OUT A NEW ONE. Contact us on Tumblr, Twitter, Bluesky or at gyftmas2024@gmail.com.

🎁Applications will stay open until Sunday, November 17th🎁

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Timeline 2024

Sign Ups (CLOSED) - 6th Oct to 3th Nov Emails - 9th to 10th Nov Gifts and Wishes are exchanged on the 25th December via Social Media as well as the Submission form which will be attached to your email! @utfandomevents

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20 million votes have been uncounted

Link to this Tweet here

Link to the tweet here for the image above

Link to the White house

If you need further help in a quick format, here is one, but i urge you to also add in the details for requiring an investigation, not just recount.

I know its a shitty situation and were tired but we still have to try to fight for a life that's worth living.

If you can blaze this post, GO FOR IT!!!

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guppies

i haven't done a under water pic in so long ^^

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@phinix53

I loved his design and wanted to draw him to practice at doing backgrounds and stuff vuv

[celestialvix]

Please stop and listen to our painful story and help me save the family 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Help me get my father and mother out and secure their lives

The story of my father and mother who suffered from illness and lived under the wall of a tent

“The tent was their only shelter. Its winter wall was made of threadbare fabric that did not protect them from the cold or summer heat. Inside, they were lying on a thin mattress, two defeated bodies suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure. They woke up every day to the sound of chronic pain and dreams. That relaxes with every breath.