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IMPORTANT!!!

I have moved to http://transformersandbirds.tumblr.com/. Please re-follow me there.

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I think I'm going to move this blog.  Not just change the name, but get a new Tumblr account.  It annoys the crap out of me that my main blog is a side blog.  (My main account is wavescream, but I don't use it as much.)  I have to remember to switch the account every time I post or I accidentally post to the wrong blog.  And whenever I comment on a post or follow someone, it says wavescream instead of soundstar.  I kind of don't want to start over because I'll lose all my followers - I guess you can all just refollow me at the new url, but some people might miss my "I moved" post if they don't always get all the way through catching up on their dash, because I sure don't.  It'll also be annoying to lose all my old posts, but I guess it would also be kinda nice to have a fresh start because gosh I have so many posts that aren't organized well because I kept changing around the tags I use (please excuse my OCD) .  Now I'm rambling and I think I'm forgetting to mention something...  Anyway, would anyone mind if I moved to a different url?  People change their urls all the time, but this is a bit different because my followers wouldn't already automatically be following me, and my old posts would be gone.  Actually I would use a different e-mail address as my login, so this would still be here just not updated anymore.

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#aircommanderp #kusuarts #lahteh #godamnitriot #plantmandotexeretired

Secret Project revealed! I am putting together a TF Fanbook featuring Perceptor, Wing and Drift. I asked five artists to take part and they worked amazingly hard on what they created! I can’t say enough about how impressed I am with the quality and beauty of what they’ve each submitted. 

I’m going to put this together over the next couple of weeks and will have it printed in full color. These are watermarked samplings, and each image is tagged with the corresponding artist’s tumblr. :D

I’ll have the printed copies at TFCon and have the printed copies to sell. (They will be $20 each, for anyone who is curious.)

Thanks again to the lovely artists!!! <3 

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OMG YES please draw Drift/Wing please draw lots and lots of Drift/Wing please I'm begging you there is just not enough Drift/Wing there needs to be more please ASDFJKL; forever my otp <3

i would draw drift/wing as much as i do drift/rodimus but like

fuck drawing wing

seriously

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(from Transformers Animated season 2: Return of the Headmaster)

it had to be done

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you tube never disappoints

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Lazy colors are lazy colors. Bed nao. zAz

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Reblog If You Ever Used One Of These or Just Know What It's Called

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Stellar’s Sea Eagle

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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right. Top Text: “Looking for a book.” Bottom Text: “It was blue and I read it 20 years ago.”]

Former book retail robin here. This was one of my classic customers, they came up to me “I am looking for a book and it was blue and I read it 20 years ago.” When I asked for title, author or even subject, they said “It was about God and it was blue”

REALLY!?!?!?

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Blue-Headed Pionus (Suzie)

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Perched byJosh Heidebrecht

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Tail Pulling

Crows (meaning Corvus, not just the crows with the common name “crow”) pull tails.  It’s like they can’t help themselves.  If there is a tail, it must be pulled:

Magpies in the genus Pica (the holarctic magpies) do this behavior as well, which is impressive, considering how much smaller they are.  One advantage they have is a small size that lets them get off the ground and away from their target a lot quicker.

And apparently all tails are fair game, I guess there is truly “no honor among thieves”:

Usually when you see this behavior it’s in the context of food.  A crow or magpie will pull another animal’s tail in order to distract it from it’s food and steal it (this sometimes occurs alone or in teams).  Here’s a video of a raven stealing a bald eagle’s food. This behavior is so common it’s noted in many scientific papers, with a nice summary from Lawrence Kilham in his 1989 book The American Crow and the Common Raven, page 34-35:

“Tail pulling is a habit common to a number of corvids (Goodwin 1976). The crow that robbed the otter by pulling its tail could have done so by happenstance or as a deliberate piece of strategy.  It is hard to know.  The crows had pulled the otters’ tails many times before, to no seeming purpose except an urge, shared by Black-Billed Magpies (Lorenz 1970) and Common Ravens, to provoke animals larger than themselves, whether there is any immediate advantage to doing so or not.  Bent (1946) reported three Common Ravens robbing a dog of a bone, one bird pulling the dog’s tail while others stood by its head.  It is conceivable that crows, like ravens, are capable after trial and error of seizing upon the right movement for pulling a tail to advantage.  Another use of tail pulling can be to get a larger bird or mammal to move from a carcass, as I describe later for Common Ravens contending with Turkey Vultures and as Hewson (1981) did for Hooded Crows contending with a Buzzard.  Goodwin (1976) described crows and magpies pulling the tails of mobbing predators. 

The behavior appears to be innate, for one of my hand-raised crows pulled a sheep’s tail and a hand-raised raven a cat’s tail when they were less than three months of age.”

But honestly?  I think they just do it for fun, or simply can’t help their natural inclination for causing trouble ;)

Because clearly some animals just deserve it (read: squirrels are annoying and their tails are irresistibly fluffy).  Cats are also fun targets.  Sparrow-hawks too.  (And even if the tail is hard to find, they will seek it out.)  … …and Foxes.

Just another reason to love corvids ;)

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"Yes" doesn't mean "yes" if there is a gun or knife pointed at you.  This should be common sense.

"Yes" doesn't always mean "yes" when you haven't created a situation in which your partner feels comfortable saying "no."

I feel like this should be obvious. But every time I see someone say “yes means yes; no means no” I cringe a little. Consent isn’t always that simple.

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dumbledore: slytherin wins the house cup.

slytherin: WOO! VICTORY!

dumbledore: haha wait I forgot, 100 points to harry potter for breathing.