#the eagle lover

[voreltheeaglelover]

New favorite thrift find.

[littlepawz]

Harpy eagle, the largest eagle in the world looks like a person in a bird costume, but judging by the size of his talons, I wouldn't want to make fun of him face to face. They live primarily in the upper canopy layer of tropical lowland forest and are considered "endangered species" in Central America due to the rapid decline in their numbers as a result of deforestation. Less than 50,000 of them can be seen over the world.

Harpy eagles have a hearty appetite and enjoy munching on a variety of monkeys, tree porcupines, sloths, coatis, birds, snakes, and lizards.

[dazednstoned]

Dutch's supposed "progressiveness"

Some people, both in-game and in the fandom, consider Dutch a very progressive man, especially for the time. He did include marginalized groups of people in his gang, but that was only because those people were so desperate they were willing to follow him blindly and obey him to preserve the security and safety provided within the gang.

He didn't help Eagle Flies because of his morals, it was to serve himself. He didn't "rescue" the women because he's a good man, it was because they could offer him things like free labor, assistance during jobs, and in Abigail's case sw. He saved John and Arthur, orphans with no $ or family, to mold into perfect outlaws who wouldn't disobey him.

He isn't progressive, he preys on struggling people and then uses them to his advantage and disposes of them when they no longer serve him. We see this with the Wapiti Tribe, his readiness to abandon Abigail once she got kidnapped, and his refusal to rescue John (+ etc).

Dutch's love and care have always been conditional. He didn't love anyone for who they were, but for how they could serve him.

[theartofmadeline]

cards 6-13 in my muppets major arcana

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[troythecatfish]

Philippine Eagle Appreciation Post

[sarasakysunmoon]

Now she is really big and powerful! Real beauty!

[anonymous-chicken-was-taken]

Sam the Eagle and Jean the Interpol Agent have got to be my favorite gay people.

[girlinlovewiththeforest]

Indian eagle-owl (Bubo bengalensis)

[teecupangel]

Altaïr gets reincarnated as an eagle in the modern era after he died and just flies around learning stuff until he saw 16y old Desmond just escaping the farm and gets the feeling that he's important so he sticks with Desmond and just lives with him up until Desmond gets kidnapped. I just want to see a possessive birb! Altaïr screeching at anyone who looks at Desmond wrong

Could be AltDes 👀

(ngl, this turned out to be a bit similar to the AC1 portion of Zero Eclipse and borrowed a bit of Altaïr’s Eagle parts from this ask)

He had no idea why he had been reborn as an eagle but it was fine. He could work with what he had. A new life was a blessing (or perhaps a curse for an old lonely man such as himself) that he does not intend to squander away.

He first tries his luck with Masyaf, knowing it should have already been abandoned by the Brotherhood but still wishing to see how it fared after all these years.

The sight of a large Abstergo building in place of where the castle used to stand gave him a sense of dread that he had an inkling of why yet wished desperately to be wrong about.

His dread was warranted as he found enough evidence that points to Abstergo being a Templar-owned company.

But there were many things about this world that he was unfamiliar with.

Many terms and words…

Devices…

Places…

He had nothing but time and it wasn’t like he could find any Assassin to communicate with right now so, with a heavy heart, Altaïr took flight and flew away from his old home.

It is during his travels to understand the world that he sees him.

Lanky but quick with moves that reminded him of the training he had when he was a child learning the basics.

And he was fleeing from people older than him…

Altaïr was not a stranger to the cruelty of this world. If anything had remained the same no matter how many years have passed, it is that humans did not change at all.

They could be as kind as they could be cruel.

And there was a desperation in the child’s movements that made Altaïr believe it was the latter.

So he let out a cry to catch the boy’s attention and flew above him to guide him out of this forest safely.

The boy only hesitated for a moment before he soon ran after Altaïr and that… did not bode well for the boy.

Any normal human would have probably ignored Altaïr.

The fact this boy did not…

Altaïr feared what life this boy must have had that he would place faith in the cries of a random bird of prey.

With his guidance, they were able to lose the boy’s pursuers and took a break by the river. It was a bad place to take a break in as, if his pursuers even had a little bit of intellect in them, they would realize that they stand a greater chance of catching a boy by following the river that the boy would probably use as his guide.

But the boy needed a break, his face flushed and his breathing too shallow to be normal.

Still, there was a brightness to his expression that clouded the fear his eyes held.

Altaïr knew that the boy has no idea of what to do now but he was still…

Happy.

Perhaps it was the adrenaline rushing thru his body but, right now…

He was happy being away from his pursuers.

“Thanks!”

Altaïr cocked his head to the side, wondering how he should act around this child.

Normal humans tend to ‘freak out’ whenever Altaïr shows even just a higher level of intelligence than normal avians.

But this boy…

He smiled at Altaïr as if it was normal to thank a bird of all things.

“My name’s Desmond.” The boy introduced himself, “Ummm…”

Altaïr stared at him for a moment before he hopped down. He used the many rocks around them to form his name in the alphabet that the people of this country seem to prefer.

“Uuhhh… Alt…” Desmond cocked his head as he pointed at the two dots on top of the ‘i’, “Why’s there another dot in the ‘i’?”

Altaïr wanted to sigh.

Could bird sigh?

Altaïr used his wing to push the rocks aside and redo the entire thing, focusing on sounding out his name instead of trying to spell it.

“A… um… Altaïr?” Desmond read with a tilt of his head. There was still that American accent that makes his name sound strange in his ears but it would do for now. Altaïr nodded and Desmond grinned at him, “Okay, Altaïr. It’s nice to meet you.”

Altaïr was sure normal people wouldn’t greet a bird like this.

It was clear that Desmond…

… Desmond was going to need his help.

Unorganized Notes:

Desmond still travels to New York and Altaïr follows him from above. Altaïr only appears when Desmond’s alone.

He had only planned to stay until he was sure Desmond would be okay but… well… he sorta never left because he realized Desmond was never going to be okay.

They were two lonely people who found solace in each other’s company.

The more Desmond learned of the real world, the more he realized that Altaïr isn’t a normal eagle but he ignores it because he’s afraid that talking about it would make Altaïr go away. “Like… speaking it out loud will erase the magic.”

Altaïr usually stay in Desmond’s apartment or flies around New York whenever Desmond has a shift in Bad Weather. He now knows how to operate the remote and he’s an avid History Channel and Natural Geographic watcher.

Altaïr was way in deep with a documentary about ‘Ancient Aliens’ when Desmond was captured. His Eagle Senses did tingle when Desmond was being abducted but, by the time he found the abduction sight, Desmond was long gone.

Altaïr starts looking for Desmond immediately after but the trail ends in an airport. He could, theoretically, try and find the plane that took Desmond but as an eagle? He’d stick out in a busy airport like this.

Out of ideas and his adrenaline finally crashing, Altaïr fell unconscious on the roof.

That’s when he dreamt of Desmond and… he was in his human form… He calls out to Desmond and Desmond turns to look at him, eyes going wild as he ask, “Altaïr?”

So, in this setup, Altaïr and Desmond dreams of one another while Desmond is captured by Abstergo and Altaïr tells Desmond to find clues of where he was, anything at all. Desmond is pretty sure he’s dreaming of Altaïr because he had been reliving Altaïr’s memories and Altaïr froze at that. He was what?

“Did you… did you find my memory seals? Do the Templars have my memory seals?” “What? What’s a memory seal? I’m reliving your memories thanks to this freaky device they call the Animus.”

Anyway, one night, Desmond tells him that he saw the buildings outside but he couldn’t make out anything. Altaïr tells him to try and remember them and try to describe them, anything at all, and they realized that Desmond could actually project what he saw when he thought of it. Altaïr recognized where Desmond was. “Rome’s Abstergo facility. I’ve seen it before when I checked out Italy.” “Where… have you not been anyway?” “The Artics.” “Of course.”

Anyway, when Altaïr gets there, he sees people acting suspiciously and realized they’re Assassins. He goes to them and tries to get their attention. When they ignored him (well, one of them went “Is that an eagle?!”), he steals one of their phones and stared down at them as he used his talon to type (and he’s really glad Desmond had bought him a second hand phone he could practice on so he could text Desmond, really, Desmond had been too accepting of the weird things Altaïr could do) “im here to save desmond are you assassins”

Okay. He wasn’t great at it but he still think he got the message across and they stared at him with wide eyes which yeah, fair, that’s the normal reaction people should have.

They did sorta agreed to partner with a bird of all things because they were Assassins and weird shit was pretty well this was weird af but they'll work around it anyway. Altaïr’s scouting helped them plan around the traps Abstergo had and it became clear that they were waiting to ambush them. In the end, they get far enough to cause a distraction for Altaïr to just divebomb into the level that Desmond was in after an Assassin shot at the windows to make it easier to break. Desmond recognized Altaïr immediately and his body moved on its own as Altaïr screeched at him before taking flight. All Lucy could do was shout Desmond’s name as he jumps after Altaïr… and performs a Leap of Faith.

Into hastily created ramp the Assassins made for him.

In this scenario, Desmond is taken out of Abstergo by Assassins that he recognized as the other kids from the Farm who had gone against Bill’s orders to not do anything and went ahead to rescue him. (sidenote: if you don’t want to create OCs, you can go down the Old Master route and make these Assassins reincarnations of actual canon characters that have no memories of their past, making them based on Assassins from Masyaf would be fun and a reference to how the Farm was like a distorted less militaristic version of Masyaf but other AC characters that Altaïr and Desmond wouldn’t know, like maybe Arno and the Frye twins? Maybe even Ezio since Desmond doesn’t know him yet would be fun too)

Anyway, after this, Desmond and Altaïr would be part of a sorta-rogue Assassin cell and their next shared dream would have Desmond realize that he had been speaking to his Altaïr and not the Altaïr of the memories he had been reliving. Altaïr just takes the whole “my Altaïr” thing in stride and Desmond wonders why Altaïr is an eagle in the first place.

The endgame would probably Altaïr and Desmond trying to find a way to get Altaïr a human body of his own? Or Altaïr just stays as an eagle anyway and any physically romantic scenes they had would be relegated to their shared dreams.

Altaïr pecks Bill. That’s a given. He might even screech at the other Assassins who helped Desmond escape if they’re unintentionally being inconsiderate of Desmond.

Look, it’s me. If you give me a ‘maybe/could be AltDes’, my brain immediately goes “alrightly then, how we going to make this AltDes, lads” and all my braincells just start popping out like freaking Rabbids with nerf guns of different tropes.

[c28hunter]

I'm starting an Eagle Eye fan club, I need more of this man, he has so much potential an yet he's just a background man with no story

[vintage1981]

Celebrating Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.

Ingoushka Petrov was born in Warsaw, Poland, one of two daughters of a father of German Jewish descent and a Polish Jewish mother. During World War II, she and her mother were imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) but escaped. In Berlin, in the 1950s, Ingoushka married an American soldier, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., and moved to California. After her marriage failed she returned to Europe, but after a small role in a film, she took the shortened stage name "Ingrid Pitt", keeping her former husband's surname, and headed to Hollywood, where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in films.

In the early 1960s, Pitt was a member of the prestigious Berliner Ensemble, under the guidance of Bertolt Brecht's widow Helene Weigel. In 1965, she made her film debut in Doctor Zhivago, playing a minor role. In 1968, she co-starred in the low-budget science-fiction film The Omegans, and in the same year, played British spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.

Her work with Hammer Film Productions elevated her to cult figure status. She starred as Carmilla/Mircalla in The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla, and played the title role in Countess Dracula (1971), based on the legends about Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Pitt also appeared in the Amicus horror anthology film The House That Dripped Blood (1971) and had a small part in The Wicker Man (1973).

During the 1980s, Pitt returned to mainstream films and television. Her role as Fraulein Baum in the 1981 BBC Playhouse Unity, who is denounced as a Jew by Unity Mitford (Lesley-Anne Down), was uncomfortably close to her real-life experiences. Her popularity with horror film buffs had her in demand for guest appearances at horror conventions and film festivals. Other films in which Pitt has appeared outside the horror genre are: Who Dares Wins (1982) (or The Final Option), Wild Geese II (1985) and Hanna's War (1988). Generally cast as a villainess, her characters often died horribly at the end of the final reel. "Being the anti-hero is great – they are always roles you can get your teeth into."

In the 1980s she also reinvented herself as a writer. Her first book, after a number of ill-fated tracts on the plight of Native Americans, was the 1980 novel, Cuckoo Run, a spy story about mistaken identity. "I took it to Cubby Broccoli. It was about a woman called Nina Dalton who is pursued across South America in the mistaken belief that she is a spy. Cubby said it was a female Bond. He was being very kind."

In 1999, her autobiography, Life's a Scream (Heinemann) was published, and she was short-listed for the for her own reading of extracts from the audio book.

The autobiography detailed the harrowing experiences of her early life—in a Nazi concentration camp, her search through Europe in Red Cross refugee camps for her father, and her escape from East Berlin, one step ahead of the Volkspolizei. "I always had a big mouth and used to go on about the political schooling interrupting my quest for thespian glory. I used to think like that. Not good in a police state."

Pitt died in a south London hospital on 23 November 2010, a few days after collapsing, and two days after her 73rd birthday, from congestive heart failure.

Seven months before she died, Pitt finished narration for Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011), an animated short film on her experience in the Holocaust, a project that had been in the works for five years. Character design and storyboards were created by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Plympton. The film is directed by Kevin Sean Michaels; co-produced and co-written by Jud Newborn, Holocaust expert and author, "Sophie Scholl and the White Rose"; and drawn by 10-year-old animator, Perry Chen.

[dootznbootz]

opinions on helen of sparta being compared to prey animals? blink blink

*blink blinks back* Then immediately sits like this because of the question.

It's a good question that I'm happy to answer! It just makes me mad.... I sincerely hate the wording of "prey" being used to describe her.

SHE IS A VICTIM! THAT DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS "PREY"!

I can...see how people in ancient times may have used that word and still meant it in how she is a victim... but modern-day English-speaking people calling her that??? (considering how in different languages the word "prey" could have different meanings.) I'll just say that as someone who has been "prey" herself at one point, I REALLY hate that word as a descriptor. Just say victim or survivor. 👍

Honestly to call ANY victim "prey" is so fucked up. "Prey" to me, feels like "it's meant to happen." "Prey" are part of the food chain and so that's what happens. And to compare that to abduction and SA? Almost as if "that's our place"? It also kind of implies something being "eaten" or killed... Helen SURVIVES. She's traumatized and definitely needs healing and support but it's not like she can't find joy or peace ever again. Prey just feels so fucking gross.

Also, if someone calls victims "prey", I hope they know that Moose, Elk, Boars, Bovine, ZEBRAS, etc. are technically "prey". And these are VERY aggressive animals while still being "prey" for some other animals. And also that doesn't mean that "Oh, they're powerful! Clearly they should've been able to stop it." That's victim blaming :P

She is a clever, determined, caring woman who was ripped from her home for YEARS because Paris was a dipshit who decided he needed the prettiest woman in the world despite already having a wife. He didn't care about the fact that Helen didn't want to be there and was already married. He is so selfish that he will not let her go back even when THOUSANDS have died in the war! EVEN HIS BROTHER HECTOR AND PRIAM DO NOT BLAME HER! Granted, we do not know if Aphrodite would have let him undo their deal of "I want the prettiest woman" if he DID end up feeling bad for Helen and he wished to let her go home (I doubt it based on his personality though).

"Oh, if she is so independent/strong, then why didn't she just kill Paris and leave?"

AGAIN! Victim blaming!!! First thing, people who ask that have media literacy that is piss on the poor. You also have no idea about the political implications that would have happened if she DID kill Paris. She literally cries about staying there and argues with Aphrodite about seeing Paris, only to get strongarmed by Aphrodite as, guess what? A GODDESS WILL ALWAYS OVERPOWER A DEMIGOD. (This isn't Percy Jackson where he "killed" Ares as a 12 year old (Percy, you were my childhood, but that's bullshit.))

Even confined in Troy, she ARGUED with APHRODITE about going to see Paris! She is not some meek woman who just does as she's told with no pushback! She argued with a GODDESSS! Very few survive doing that!!!

She's not "Prey to fate", she's a "VICTIM of Fate".

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

Joyce and Hopper around 1959 vs 1986!!!!

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Steller's Sea Eagle

^Image credit: Julie Edgley

Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus)

The Steller's Sea Eagle is the heaviest eagle in the world. Their diet consists mainly of fish, such as salmon and trout, but this is not the only thing they eat - they have also been known to eat mammals and birds, both by hunting them and already dead specimens. Steller's Sea Eagle nests are known as aeries.

[laitoslittlemacaron]

My brain is so rotten with DL omygod, my current internship is in an elementary school and the class room im using for my project with the kids is the Adler class-

[apportensmortis]

when you find a character playlist and it has fucking mother mother and tally hall if their an insane character. like no bro. i want exact reasons and headcanons for why you chose this song. anyway magnus hammersmith playlist im not copying and pasting what i wrote about each song it'd be too long.