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For the record, Great-tailed Grackles are amazing looking birds that deserve more love. It’s a grackle. But with more tail! What’s not to love?

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here’s a list of birds I saw (some heard not seen) this weekend not that anyone asked:

Dickcissel, Eastern Meadowlark, Red-Tailed Hawk, Great-Tailed Grackle, Indigo Bunting, Red-Shouldered Hawk, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Red-bellied woodpecker, PURPLE MARTIN, TUFTED TITMOUSE, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Summer Tanager, Yellow-throated Warbler, Northern Parula, Eastern Phobe, Baltimore Oriole, American White Pelican.

do you hear. purple martin? tufted titmouse. summer tanager? oh my god the summer tanager was so bright and gorgeous. the purple martin? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

some of these birds were on my “I desperately need to see this” list. you do not understand how happy I am right now aaaaaaaa

oh also I might have seen a scissor-tailed flycatcher too (I think I did?)

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listening to WTNV and got to an episode where in the intro the creator said “and on the weekend of July 11 we’ll be at dash con!”

that indeed did not age well.

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tomorrow is the day I set out to try and find scissor-tailed flycatchers, wish me luck.

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chat guess who’s going to see a WTNV live show (it’s me)

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INTERGENERATIONAL CROSSOVER OF THE SUMMER, my mother is ALSO a WTNV fan WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW

like look, I knew it was old. but this.

actually it makes a lot of sense now, never mind

OH MY GOD this is probably why the Night Vale logo always gave me a nostalgic feeling, my mom has probably bought a piece of night vale merch or something and I’ve seen it oh god everything makes sense now of course I recognized it.

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I have a document where I keep ideas, and I currently have like, four ideas and one of them is just-

“therapists are avatar of the eye”

no punctuation. one sentence.

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innocent bystander: “Hey do you know what the weather is right now?”

Me:*picks up acoustic guitar* “and now, I give you the weather.”

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I actually am currently listening to it! (it is so good help)

about…let’s say two weeks ago I was out and saw a funny sign in someone’s yard. It said something like “No human is legal. Birds are…fine I guess, The moon is a crime.” I was like “that’s a fantastic yard sign, I want it..badly.” Now, the key thing here is that I had not yet started to listen to Welcome to Night Vale.

I was scrolling through Welcome to Night Vale merch out of curiosity just a few seconds ago. And guess what I find? The fucking yard sign.

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(haha look at me reblogging myself)

i did not know I cared about this…this much. I also did not realize how non cohesive this is. I’m not fixing it tho

APOLOGIES FOR TYPOS IN ADVANCE, IM NOT CHECKING ALL THIS

(this post started about the usage of bird wings in the MCYT community so the starting of this post is about that a bit but uh..I started…ranting a bit so I made my own post instead of ranting on someone else’s. And the main points of this post can be taken even if you don’t care about MCYT what so ever. Okay also DISCLAIMER I am not a scientist or whatever, I’m using a graphic I found on the internet, I just..have thoughts. A lot of them.)

Look. I’m not even mad about how much we use bird wings in the MCYT community, I love bird wings. But god forbid we have some variety. I’ve seen the same like..3.

The most common seem to be (in MCYT fanart anyways)

1.Generic white angelic wings. 2.Canary wings. 3.Parrot wings.

I love it! We love birds. But, please I beg, there are so many birds with such good symbolism. Use color, use shape. I see people tend to us the feather/wing shape for option one, and I just beg we can do better. Not even better! We can do different things for different characters. Do you know how many different types of canaries there are? Find a reference and make a rough pattern, make them look different! color is so important aaa.

AA imagine the symbolism with pigeons and doves too! how they’re essentially the same, but are treated differently because of small factors? aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Okay, besides color-I’m begging we should use different wing shapes. imagine the character implications. here here-

okay hear me out-Maybe a character who has some trauma and has a flight response has wings that are more similar to Elliptical Wings (also called maneuvering wings I think). imagine the implications because they’re good for short bursts of flight. A character who doesn’t think about the consequences, and just wants to make it out alive in the moment. And that adrenaline/their wings can’t take them far from where they are/danger but can take them just a bit away AAA you see the vision?

Maybe a character who feels they are out of control in their life/needs more control has Hovering Wings? Aaa imagine a character who feels they only spectate their own existence and has hovering/active soaring wings. please. please. consider it.

okay but just imagine a scene in a comic or whatever where one character loses to another because, while they on the surface should be even on the battle field (they both have wings) one characters wings aren’t suited to the terrain, and they fail. imagine god imagine, one character whose always been skilled or whatever on home terrain and has an crises once they lose. Do you see? Do you see the possibilities are endless.

MCYT talk:If giving a character (im using character because I’m not sure what else to use) wings depends on what series they’re in, then take a look at that characters environment/base! Wing shapes depend on the environment a lot, and it would be super cool to see a wing shape differ from someone with an ocean base than someone in the jungle, and to see how the same person varies from series to series because of their environment.

look, I know this will never happen because a lot of the time winds serve more for “wings for wings sake” (whether that sake has lore or not) and that wings that are shaped more similarly to Active Soaring Wings aren’t pretty, but I can dream. (I know a lot the time they’re simply supposed to look like wings and not a lot of time is spend thinking about it.)

but please please if someone does something like this I beg of you tag me in it I want to see please I’m losing sleep over this.

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APOLOGIES FOR TYPOS IN ADVANCE, IM NOT CHECKING ALL THIS

(this post started about the usage of bird wings in the MCYT community so the starting of this post is about that a bit but uh..I started…ranting a bit so I made my own post instead of ranting on someone else’s. And the main points of this post can be taken even if you don’t care about MCYT what so ever. Okay also DISCLAIMER I am not a scientist or whatever, I’m using a graphic I found on the internet, I just..have thoughts. A lot of them.)

Look. I’m not even mad about how much we use bird wings in the MCYT community, I love bird wings. But god forbid we have some variety. I’ve seen the same like..3.

The most common seem to be (in MCYT fanart anyways)

1.Generic white angelic wings. 2.Canary wings. 3.Parrot wings.

I love it! We love birds. But, please I beg, there are so many birds with such good symbolism. Use color, use shape. I see people tend to us the feather/wing shape for option one, and I just beg we can do better. Not even better! We can do different things for different characters. Do you know how many different types of canaries there are? Find a reference and make a rough pattern, make them look different! color is so important aaa.

AA imagine the symbolism with pigeons and doves too! how they’re essentially the same, but are treated differently because of small factors? aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Okay, besides color-I’m begging we should use different wing shapes. imagine the character implications. here here-

okay hear me out-Maybe a character who has some trauma and has a flight response has wings that are more similar to Elliptical Wings (also called maneuvering wings I think). imagine the implications because they’re good for short bursts of flight. A character who doesn’t think about the consequences, and just wants to make it out alive in the moment. And that adrenaline/their wings can’t take them far from where they are/danger but can take them just a bit away AAA you see the vision?

Maybe a character who feels they are out of control in their life/needs more control has Hovering Wings? Aaa imagine a character who feels they only spectate their own existence and has hovering/active soaring wings. please. please. consider it.

okay but just imagine a scene in a comic or whatever where one character loses to another because, while they on the surface should be even on the battle field (they both have wings) one characters wings aren’t suited to the terrain, and they fail. imagine god imagine, one character whose always been skilled or whatever on home terrain and has an crises once they lose. Do you see? Do you see the possibilities are endless.

MCYT talk:If giving a character (im using character because I’m not sure what else to use) wings depends on what series they’re in, then take a look at that characters environment/base! Wing shapes depend on the environment a lot, and it would be super cool to see a wing shape differ from someone with an ocean base than someone in the jungle, and to see how the same person varies from series to series because of their environment.

look, I know this will never happen because a lot of the time winds serve more for “wings for wings sake” (whether that sake has lore or not) and that wings that are shaped more similarly to Active Soaring Wings aren’t pretty, but I can dream. (I know a lot the time they’re simply supposed to look like wings and not a lot of time is spend thinking about it.)

but please please if someone does something like this I beg of you tag me in it I want to see please I’m losing sleep over this.

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being a crane wives fan is always interesting because I did not find it through any fandom. I saw pretty cover art, was bored and said “why not” and listened to Curses.

(the funny thing is that the crane wives lead me to the life series, not the other way around.)

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oh god not again please all I can think about is welcome to night vale now not again I have things to do

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about…let’s say two weeks ago I was out and saw a funny sign in someone’s yard. It said something like “No human is legal. Birds are…fine I guess, The moon is a crime.” I was like “that’s a fantastic yard sign, I want it..badly.” Now, the key thing here is that I had not yet started to listen to Welcome to Night Vale.

I was scrolling through Welcome to Night Vale merch out of curiosity just a few seconds ago. And guess what I find? The fucking yard sign.

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“I think you put your thumb inside your hand when you punch,” says a man who is not short, helpfully. “So your thumb is protected.” Everyone else nods eagerly.