#HighFlyers

[zulry]

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[critter-creature-or-beast]

By jim gifford - originally posted to Flickr as danzig highflier(red self), CC BY-SA 2.0

[cleaner-in-grey]

pigeon

make him a pigeon please

pigeon

Now you can hold him gentle like hamburger

[themummersfolly]

I guess this is chapter 3 of Highflyer?

The long shadows of early morning still stretched across the Wasteland when he was awoken by a distant clang and a volley of cursing. The Octoboss lifted his head from his makeshift pillow in time to see the woman throw something at her plane’s engine block and stomp off.

A splash of water in the face to wash out the night grit and a mouthful to swill and swallow, then a fingerful of grease around his eyes to keep the glare down. Piss in the common jar so they could reclaim the water, pull his hair back, and he was ready for the day.

The woman was sitting on her gas can, glaring resentfully at her aircraft when he approached.

“Fuk-oshima dai-ichi,” she uttered the full curse. “I’m never gonna get her aloft again.”

“Repairs no good?”

“Tried to patch the gasket, it just blew out first thing. I’ll have to rebuild the whole thing, I’m lucky I didn’t throw a rod.”

“You threw something.” He ducked under the wing, peering at the tools she had left scattered in the sand.

“Don’t take this the wrong way, but fuck you.”

Not many people had the balls to say that to the Octoboss. It was damn near enough to make him smile.

“I think I know a place where you can fix her.”

“Hm? Where at?”

He jerked his thumb. “’Bout twenty clicks that way. Good pile of scrap and they know what to do with it. We got our machinist from them.”

She stared in the direction indicated and grimaced. “It’ll take me five-ever to walk that far. And meantime I gotta leave me best girl here for the buzzards…”

He shook his head. “Bring her with. We’ll give you a tow.”

She looked back at him, almost startled. “What’s in it for you?”

“Couple more nights of your singing, I hope.”

She mulled it over. “Your boys put hands on me, the deal’s off.”

“Fair enough. Rig her up, we’ll bring the bikes down.”

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[cutekiddiestv]

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[4elementsphotography]

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[zulry]

[sassyfrassboss]

I have always thought that Meghan's pre- arriage "everyone loves classy" PR was as much aimed towards Harry as it was the public.

She presented herself as the ultimate fun loving, carefree, intelligent, smart, enterpreneur, business woman world traveler career woman millionaire who was also a domestic goddess, spiritual, go getter. These are words that Harry has used to describe her, at some point or other.

I believe a lot of what Harry initially got told about her, through her, was based off of her IG page, Tig blogs, small scale media presence. It must have been pretty easy for her to leave a story and present a certain personality based on pictures, cutsie videos and glam photoshoots. It's basically what she did on a more public scale with her PR as well.

But also, since Harry was pretty dumb, desperate for a partner he could show off to the world and his family, and they were pretty much in a long distance, he would have bought whatever she sold to him. His cosseted up bringing ensured he lacked the street smarts to call someone, especially such a confident outgoing woman out on her bullshit. What she presented to him was his version of "normal" everyday life, but it was also the right amount of adventurous, fun, glam, celebrity lifestyle which he could finally embrace.

Back in the UK, noone treated him a special of a celebrity. His family, his cousins, his friends were all low-key. But he had started believing his own PR and thought of himself as somewhat of a hunk, sought after bachelor celebrity. His friends would have laughed in his face if he started acting like he enjoyed the red carpet and Hollywood parties. But here, with her, he could enjoy that because it was her thing. She was seemingly accommodating him in her super celeb highflyer lifestyle.

He was being conned and he didn't know it.

Which is why it was such a shock to him Everytime she started collapsing on the floor in hysterics because he thought he broke her. So he had to play the hero and fix it for her. So this whole time, and till date maybe, he's been thinking he made all these decisions as a last resort, because he had no choice, but he was being backed into a corner so expertly that he saw no other option that to do what he did in the way did.

He thought that sudden, cataclysmic changes in her personality- from the art loving accomplished fun loving millionaire a complished actress supermodel best effortless classy royal to bitter, resentful hyper scared underconfident depressed person - was his doing. But actually, it was just Meghan finally being what she always was, and peeling back her own layers slowly and methodically so as not to scare him away.

What's hilarious is that while she was conning him, he was also being insidious and hiding his true self from her. She was too blinded by her hubris to see that. And she got hoodwinked too.

She never factored in Harry's special kind of sociopathy and darkness. Which is the biggest reason she (they are) is now failing.

But that's for another Ted talk, I guess, so I'll stop now and save that for later.

So I am going to break this down by paragraph.

I have always thought that Meghan's pre- arriage "everyone loves classy" PR was as much aimed towards Harry as it was the public.

She presented herself as the ultimate fun loving, carefree, intelligent, smart, entrepreneur, business woman world traveler career woman millionaire who was also a domestic goddess, spiritual, go getter. These are words that Harry has used to describe her, at some point or other.

Her “everyone loves classy” PR was 100% aimed at Harry. She had to market herself to him as a future Duchess/Princess but also a loving and caring wife. I also believe she was aiming this directly at the UK public and his family, but mostly the UK public. Her PR knew that if she didn’t have the backing of the UK public there is no way that the family would get behind their relationship. Also, she was marketing herself as the opposite of Catherine. Right around this time there were a ton of anti-Kate articles being published. About how she was too shy, not a hard worker, had a nanny, she didn’t know how to dress or photograph well, she wasn’t a kind and loving DIL to Charles, she was TOO involved with her family, she didn’t like horses, she had nothing in common with William – though Meghan had LOTS in common with William, she wasn’t well-educated, she wasn’t posh enough, she only had a degree in Art History, she never had a real job, she waited around for William to propose,…you get the idea. From November 2016 onwards we were saturated with articles about how Meghan was much better Duchess/Princess of Wales material.

I believe a lot of what Harry initially got told about her, through her, was based off of her IG page, Tig blogs, small scale media presence. It must have been pretty easy for her to leave a story and present a certain personality based on pictures, cutsie videos and glam photoshoots. It's basically what she did on a more public scale with her PR as well.

I will never forget the “cutsie” video of her eating the raspberries off her fingers. Also, it was in Bower’s book I believe that Meghan selected certain photos off of her IG for her friend to use to show Harry. She definitely was trying to get him hooked on her “sexiness” and then reel him in with her “carefree, loving, humanitarian” persona. We also know that they communicated thru IG often so from June 2016 onwards we can say for sure that her IG account and Tig blog were totally geared towards Harry and getting his attention and keeping it.

But also, since Harry was pretty dumb, desperate for a partner he could show off to the world and his family, and they were pretty much in a long distance, he would have bought whatever she sold to him. His cosseted up bringing ensured he lacked the street smarts to call someone, especially such a confident outgoing woman out on her bullshit. What she presented to him was his version of "normal" everyday life, but it was also the right amount of adventurous, fun, glam, celebrity lifestyle which he could finally embrace.

Exactly. Even though Harry now claims he hated the attention we all know he secretly loved being in the spotlight. His bitterness of George being born and then William taking on more of a Crown Prince role leaving Harry obsolete has been made clear through all of his interviews and his book. Harry wanted to be the center of attention so when he saw the “red carpet appearances” and fashion shoots of Meghan he thought he was finally getting someone who could make him more popular and more celebrity-like. Also, think of how easy it is to reinvent yourself when you aren’t faced with people from your past interfering in your relationship or you having to actually be around the person day to day. Meghan was totally able to tell Harry whatever she wanted because by this point, anyone who could truly tell him exactly who she was had been kicked out of her life long before.

Back in the UK, no one treated him a special of a celebrity. His family, his cousins, his friends were all low-key. But he had started believing his own PR and thought of himself as somewhat of a hunk, sought after bachelor celebrity. His friends would have laughed in his face if he started acting like he enjoyed the red carpet and Hollywood parties. But here, with her, he could enjoy that because it was her thing. She was seemingly accommodating him in her super celeb highflyer lifestyle.

He was being conned and he didn't know it.

Harry 100% believed his own hype. He totally bought into the “Hero Harry” PR campaign that ELF put out there…I mean we see it even now that Harry thinks he deserves special treatment because he served in the military. Well so did my brother who actually put his life on the line more than once and he doesn’t even use his military discount. What is hysterical is that his impression she was some sort of Hollywood superstar makes it clear he has no real knowledge of the workings of the world. He kept saying how impressed his family was by the amazing woman who was so accomplished and famous but 99.95% of the world had zero idea of who she was. What I find extremely telling is that he grew up with a certain set of people, women who had been raised in noble families and none of them wanted anything to do with him…it took a very long distance relationship with a hustler to tie him down.

Which is why it was such a shock to him every time she started collapsing on the floor in hysterics because he thought he broke her. So he had to play the hero and fix it for her. So this whole time, and till date maybe, he's been thinking he made all these decisions as a last resort, because he had no choice, but he was being backed into a corner so expertly that he saw no other option that to do what he did in the way did.

Meghan totally fed into Harry’s white knight complex. We know that Harry felt he could have done something to save his mother and Meghan feasted on that like a vulture. I do think that a lot of what he has done has been of his own violation though. Meghan might have nurtured the idea but I for a while have felt that Harry has always wanted to really bash his family and the press and he now has his opening.

He thought that sudden, cataclysmic changes in her personality- from the art loving accomplished fun loving millionaire accomplished actress supermodel best effortless classy royal to bitter, resentful hyper scared underconfident depressed person - was his doing. But actually, it was just Meghan finally being what she always was, and peeling back her own layers slowly and methodically so as not to scare him away.

You know when you get into a relationship and you always try to portray the best version of yourself and then slowly reveal your flaws? Like, maybe you aren’t the best housekeeper or you can’t cook to save your life…well Meghan portrayed herself as a victim and Diana 2.0. The thing is though, Diana was VERY prone to emotional outbursts and crying tirades so this is something familiar to Harry. It probably triggered him even more than her being completely in control of her emotions because Harry had witnessed his mother more than once sobbing on the floor during his childhood so Meghan sobbing on the floor triggered his white knight complex. What I think caught Harry by surprise, at first, was Meghan’s bullying tactics. That is one aspect of her personality she had a hard time suppressing. She was rude to anyone she saw as beneath her and at first he probably had issues with that but then she convinced him it was because she was bi-racial or that people were jealous of her.

What's hilarious is that while she was conning him, he was also being insidious and hiding his true self from her. She was too blinded by her hubris to see that. And she got hoodwinked too.

So I don’t know if you watched the Netflix series but it is SO clear that Meghan has him completely hoodwinked. By her saying in the series that she had no idea she had to curtsy to The Queen (Yeah okay sure) that she knew nothing of the Royals. Or when she was full on caught out lying during her lawsuit she blamed HER LYING and getting CAUGHT on William! And Harry bought it!

She never factored in Harry's special kind of sociopathy and darkness. Which is the biggest reason she (they are) is now failing.

She also never factored in him crashing and burning in popularity. Meghan truly thought that the heir to the throne should be determined by popularity and not birthright. So when they couldn’t convince the BRF to hand the keys to the castle over to Meghan and Harry she was pissed. I think she also counted on his popularity making her more important that Catherine in the hierarchy. The based all of their goals and ambitions on Harry’s popularity and not once did they take into account that the BRF would stick to the script. Once Harry started being told “No” for once in his life they started imploding and I think that is when Harry started to turn…up till that point he had been busy covering for her but now that he was going to be left out in the cold is when I think she truly got an idea of just what type of NARC he is.

But that's for another Ted talk, I guess, so I'll stop now and save that for later.

CAN’T WAIT!!!

[dailybomberman]

day 157: highflyer

(talk about low budget flights)

[bluestempigeons]

What are your 5 favourite fancy pigeon breeds? (Sooty is so cute by the way!!!)

I'm excluding the breeds I raise from this, because if I didn't it would be super predictable and boring. Anyways!

Dutch Frillback Pouter (Would love to get these someday! I need to ask around and see if anyone in the US still actively breeds them...) (Bird belongs to Peter Stallmann, who created the breed)

2. Lucerne (this is Beau :) being a fluffbeast)

3. Portuguese Tumbler (Produced by Michael Onyon)

4. Danzig Highflyer (Produced by Brad Child)

5. Genuine Homer (Produced by John Heppner)

Honorable Mention: Rhine Ringbeater (a breed I randomly got absolutely obsessed with for a good month and to my knowledge nobody in the US breeds anymore) (Produced by John Navant)

[lonestarbattleship]

"On September 9, 1813, the United States frigate USS PRESIDENT, Commodore John Rodgers, on his way home after a cruise, when a little to the southward of Nantucket, fell in with the 5-gun British schooner HMS HIGHFLYER, tender to HMS SAN DOMINGO, 74 guns, commanded by Second Lieutenant William Hutchinson. By passing as a British frigate and sending a lieutenant dressed in a British uniform on board her, Commodore Rodgers succeeded in getting the book of private British signals and the stations of the different British men-of-war on the American coast. Taking his measures accordingly he was able, on the same day, to enter unobserved into the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island."

NHHC: USN 903314

[audiobook-mike]

WWE Tournament Ideas

WWE should have more themed tournaments, here's me spitballing:

Annual Rey Mysterio Highflyer Cup - After Rey officially retires, you celebrate him by having a yearly tournament of WWE's best high fliers. Final match is a Ladder match. Some winners could be Ricochet, Dragon Lee, Seth Rollins, Logan Paul, Dominik Mysterio

Mixed Match Challenge - Bring it back dammit! Basically a tournament of Mixed Match pairs, a fun tournament with cool vignettes. Maybe have this around Valentine's Day. I think it would be cool if we got a one off of Carmella/Corey Graves together in a match.

Mick Foley's Christmas Hardcore Invitational - I'd have this in December and Santa Foley with his sack of weapons and personally invites some of the toughest superstars to a series of Christmas Hardcore matches. Winner gets a Santa Suit and a Golden Barbed Wire Bat. Really anyone can win this but I'd especially love for R-Truth to be the 1st winner, maybe also Braun, Dexter Lumis

[homeofhousechickens]

Pet Pigeon Blogs to follow

here is a collection of users who post their pet pigeons frequently sorry for any notifications this brings! @bluestempigeons Great pigeon keeper who also posts very interesting pigeon history snippets @orkyy I see this users very cute pigeon in the tag all the time @witchcraft-exotics who doesnt love Ms. Toulouse??? The living rubby ducky in pigeon form??? @partykeet they own a Fluffernutter relative named Oliver :) @purple-pigeon-art They are a breeder of color homers and they make FANTASTIC pigeon art and pigeon merch. Out of everyone here i really implore you to check them out as they really dont have the following they should. @/giant-runt-winter They own a giant runt pigeon- the biggest pigeon breed- named Winter who is very beautiful and elegant @nepeteaa They are a great artist but they also have a very cute pigeon named Pawpaw @pigeon-behavior If your interested in getting a pet pigeon especially a male following this blog and reading its resources is a good idea in my opinion @norithepigeon has a very cute Russian tumbler/Danzig highflyer mix named Nori

@pigeon-feet this user has a very cute pigeon and also an interest in bugs If i didnt mention your blog and you post your pet pigeon often feel free to add on!

[eyesxxyou]

Danzing highflyer pigeon:

American racer pigeon:

Classic old frill pigeon:

Mourning dove:

Lucerne:

Turtle dove:

White winged dove:

Bleeding heart dove:

Fantail pigeon:

And you may be thinking, "what Ellie!!! You went in order!!! Where's the English Carrier pigeon?!"

Do not fret my friends, here is Hobart Larry Brown's best friend and trustworthy companion:

The English Carrier pigeon :3

The English carrier is the ugliest thing I've seen in a while