#swooping

[redrcs]

A taste of their own medicine

Willy Wagtail swooping a magpie on my neighbour's antenna

For non Australians, in the nesting season, SOME male magpies start swooping and attacking passersby. They can inflict nasty injuries and, in extreme cases, have injured people in the eye. As a photographer, getting swooped comes under the heading of extreme photography.

[avalonnuovo]

Poster for livestreamed concert by Swooping (Hiatus Kaiyote)

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[shadow-pixelle]

Last Line Challenge

I got tagged by @shootingstarpilot, thanks for that! Technically speaking my last line was from a planning document, which I normally wouldn't share, except it was a test snippet for a section because I wanted to see if the vibes fit. SO! Last line of that, and also the last line of an actual fic, that being Swooping!

Planning snippet;

Misty’s step forward was hesitant, and Ashley just watched through the tears as she slowly made her way over. The hug was unexpected, making her freeze up for a moment before she just wept.

Swooping snippet;

There were days when Oswald hated this goddamn city. Most of them were nights like this one, where he found himself standing on his own goddamn roof and waiting for a Bat, but the days in this city were terrible as well. Those sorts of days were the ones where he sat there, wondering why the hell he was still here. But he knew why. This city was a goddamn nightmare, but it was his nightmare, his family’s and the other Old Gotham Families that swanned around in the upper levels of society. The Cobblepots might not be up there any more, but it was still their goddamn city, and the place knew it.

No pressure tags for @clockwayswrites, @kalicofox, @greentrickster, and of course the traditional open tag of 'feel free to play!'

[jrtouchshriek]

Which leads me to ask - what omen is a magpie? Especially a swooping one?

yknow it's a real shame that romans didn't have access to australia specifically for augury reasons. i really wish i could have seen a roman augur have to deal with australian birds. like imagine trying to properly interpret an omen from a fuckin. cassowary

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Swoopingpermit

[taino-ti]

kickin it all off with my mage Enda, the elven Antivan Crow.... aka babygirl.

[bronwynhillside]

Sings "this is Australia "

A message from the premier of Western Australia

It's magpie season folks, welcome to spring

[kewpie-notice-me]

this was made to help me better visualize 2012 leo in the Rise verse while reading crossover fanfics huehuehue

[a-wa-c]

I had two favourite things when I was living alone:

Using my sous vide to make kickass tasting chicken breast and steak, pan searing in my cast iron skillet until nice and crispy, then chopping them up and dumping it into chicken 2-minute noodles.

Feeding the off-cuts to the magpies that live near my place, which made them friendly, but only to me. Listening to a small child think "oh they're friendly to him so they must be friendly to everyone" followed by squealing as they swooped him.

It was a simple cycle, and that bloody kid did not learn lessons quickly.

[anonabelle]

Couldn't resist busting out a warmup sketch while listening to one of my comfort osts. This is Berk always makes me feel so emotional. What a way to open a movie.

[blatantescapism]

[Image description: a tweet by fucked up foods. “Fill your life with experiences, not things.” The accompanying photo shows a person standing at the edge of open water. The person is wearing an all-black outfit. Over that, they are wearing a dress made of netting, entirely covered with hamburger buns. They are also wearing a hat made of hamburger buns. They are holding half a hamburger bun in each hand, arms raised to the sky. A flock of seagulls has approached, and several are already swooping. The person is about to have an Experience. End ID. /]

[rocky-the-rockstar]

[byjove]

The Italian restaurant in my mom’s hometown WAS definitely a mob front. The owner briefly served in the Italian military, immigrated to America in his twenties back in the early 70s, mysteriously had enough money to open a chain of Italian restaurants and was convicted for trafficking cocaine across the Virginia/West Virginia area and spent 15 years in prison.

My mom had worked as a waitress at the place while she was a teenager and throughout her 20s and she realized that when she was sent to the restaurant’s sister location in West Virginia in a mysteriously packed car by her mysteriously nice boss, it probably wasn’t pizza ingredients she was hauling. It was the 80s. She was a tiny, very naive, conventionally attractive church girl with no criminal record so she was the perfect unwitting drug mule.

The thing was, this restaurant and the man who operated it were locally loved. Beyond large scale organized cocaine trafficking, food was his other passion. Everyone waited anxiously for him to get out of prison and when he did this guy started a crusade against the corrupt local sheriff’s office. He started doing anti-police brutality advocacy work WHOLEHEARTEDLY. Donating to local families who had been victims and participating in local drives and awareness campaigns.

Made men usually do local charity work but the balls on this guy to take up sword and spear against shitty corrupt ineffectual law enforcement. Incredible. One thing about Appalachians is that we hate the cops and we love social agitators. This guy lived a long eventful life and died recently of natural causes and the overwhelming outpouring of love for him on Facebook was incredible, a uniting force that the town had not seen in decades, everybody was sharing their favorite stories about him and I’m sure local law enforcement was fuming.

[voltaical-art]

do you guys ever think about how Wyll is introduced as an archetypal fantasy hero, but then it turns out he’s a warlock, who made a pact with a devil. Do you ever think about how Ansur is described as this fantastical dragon of myth, but then when you find him, he’s turned into an undead monstrosity. Do you think about how when Wyll does the right thing, he is punished to become more monstrous. Do you think about how as Wyll’s warlock powers grow, his spells get more horrific. Do you think about how Ansur was killed by his closest friend. Do think about how Wyll was cast out by the most important person in his life. do you guys ever think about Ansur and Wyll.

[taino-ti]

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