i like to have something for everyone that stops by.
Sugar water for the hummingbirds and wasps, bird feed for the little birds, water for bugs and birds, shelled peanuts for the bigger birds and squirrels.
Everyone seems healthy and happy today, i fed them twice this morning already.
The squirrels have to cross the street to get to me. I worry about it constantly. I feel my heart in my throat when i hear a car. I've started placing an entire bowlful of peanuts on the other side of the street every morning, to dissuade this journey.
Because too many times, i worriedly check outside and see a car not even slowing while an animal friend is trying to cross. EVERYONE I CARE FOR IS FINE. But seeing this twice in one day completely fucking broke me.
It's easy to make excuses for carnists sometimes, like "they are conditioned... they aren't seeing the real pain" but when someone sees an animal on the road and doesn't even slow down, they are directly choosing not to care. In zero of those cases, were there any dangers of slowing or swerving, there were no other cars on the road. The only reason not to slow down was because they didn't care at all if an animal lived or died due to their actions. There was literally not even a personal benefit to killing this time. Yet they didn't care.
I've been crying a lot off and on. I feel completely hopeless. People literally won't even lift their foot slightly from the gas pedal to save a sweet little creature that's just trying to cross the street.
There's no way we will fix any problems in the world if this is the level of empathy we're dealing with from the average person. Holy shit. Forget dealing with big stuff like decolonization or climate change. We can't even get people to stop littering or take one small action to save a completely innocent animal's life.
Also everyone who is a "leftist" who isn't vegan, lmao no you aren't. You are willing to subject humans to traumatizing work just so you don't have to kill an animal yourself, when you could subsist of plants just fine (and most likely be healthier, according to the world health organization!), while paying for a completely innocent being who has thoughts and feelings to be raised in torturous conditions and then die just for you. Walk the fucking talk or get the fuck out.
My absolute favourite posts are ones where Hob loses his fucking mind over Dream's powers like "Of course you can control fucking dreams, look at you." and then immediately starts drowning him in questions :
"What's with the teeth falling nightmares?"
"The Corinthian's prototype."
"So do you also control dogs' dreams, or what?"
"Yes, Hob Gadling."
"So you can speak dog?"
"I appear as a dog to them. Just as I appear as a human to you."
When I was younger, we had a clock in the garage that would sing bird calls every hour, instead of chiming or ticking or the regular things clocks do. (......I am fairly sure it was exiled to the garage by my mother, who hated the hollow, tinny sound of it.) Anyway, I mostly remember that clock because the mourning dove call was so distinctive---twoo, twoo, too too too, too too too. I can shut my eyes and hear that song, and it taught me to identify it with unerring precision, even though I couldn't pick out another birdcall to save my life.
To this day, mourning doves are one of my favorite birds. and when I caught sight of one perched delicately on my bird feeder I lost my ever loving mind and will take it as a sign of good things to come.
do you have any idea how obsessed I am with this fucking line right now
like I can't be the only one who thinks this sounds like it could be a callback, right? Like the words "cuddly Astarion" were said at least once before???????
Dan and Donna are such an interesting ass duo. They've appeared more than the main character of Black Friday. They're the news anchors. They're played by a married couple in real life. There's probably something going on behind the scenes between them. They're a meme. The only thing they talk about is a squirrel who they misgender constantly. Pamela Foster wakes up and neglects her children to watch one of them. Knowing Hatchetfield they've probably killed someone in either self defense or cold blood. They've blamed each other of murder. They've covered the protests live at the Hatchetfield Kennel. Nick and Matt will never elaborate on any of the lore I just mentioned.