WHEN WILSON ASKS HOUSE TO BE WITH HIM DURING HIS SURGERY AND SAYS NO BECAUSE IF HE DIES HE’LL BE ALL ALONE AND THEN HE GOES TO THE SURGERY ANYWAY AND THEN WILSON SMILES BEFORE HE GOES UNDER AND THEN HOUSE IS WITH HIM FOR THE ENTIRE RECOVERY AND THEN THEY LITERALLY GET A NEW APARTMENT TOGETHER????? the fanfictions write themselves really. HOW IS THIS SHOW REAL?
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Bird update: Unfortunately I’ve had to say goodbye to my rooster. I quite liked him but if you’ll remember, he was here on probation and after a few weeks of good behaviour he started pestering my hen a lot. She started looking a bit unhappy (huddling under the outdoor table instead of trotting about), then she stopped laying and I thought perhaps she was moulting and it could explain her moodiness and missing feathers, but the pattern of missing feathers seemed to point to the rooster as a culprit. Then he hurt her wing, allegedly (I have no proof so I’m protecting myself from a libel claim.)
On nice days Dru likes to sit and soak up the sun, stretching her wings one at a time, and on a couple of occasions I saw her stretch only her left wing, never opening her right one. I poked her wing gently and she didn’t bite my hand off which was a good sign, but then I picked her up and placed her on a chair, expecting her to jump off straight away like “I never asked you to put me here, mind your own business”—and indeed she jumped but she only flapped her left wing to slow her fall.
I called the vet to ask if it meant the other wing was broken and what I could do, and she was pretty reassuring, saying if the wing was held closed in the right position it would heal on its own—if it were dangling on the other hand I would need to find a little toddler’s t-shirt for my hen to wear, to keep her wing against her body. The vet also said what vets always say—“as long as the animal is eating normally it’s probably going to be fine!” (and that’s the case)
But I couldn’t keep the rooster any longer—even if he weren’t the one who hurt Dru (innocent until proven guilty) it wouldn’t help the healing process if he kept trying to mount her, so I put him in a box and took him back to his natal farm. They weren’t terribly happy to see him again, but well. I wanted to give him a chance but the circumstances (with only one hen) weren’t auspicious and I sort of expected this experiment to fail. Best of luck, rooster...
A couple of days after his departure, Dru lay an egg again for the first time since mid-February, so I think the message was pretty clear!
Also, that’s a tall bale of hay (from a chicken’s perspective) so I’m not sure how she managed to climb on top of it without boosting herself with her wings. Did she fake a wing injury to get the rooster ousted? Pampe would fake a wing injury without hesitation but chickens strike me as honest. I mean they're unrepentant food thieves but they’re upfront about it.
Final bird update: on Friday I managed to get a new hen! I hope having a new coopmate won’t put Dru in a bad mood again and cause another egg strike. The new hen is very young and still looks like a gangly teenager, and she seems quite vivacious and curious, here she is determinedly strolling into her new home:
One notable fact about her is that she doesn’t speak chicken. She doesn’t kot kot like an adult hen, and she doesn’t make the incoherent gurgling sound that baby hens make, either. It’s more like a dissonant quack. I’m not sure what to attribute it to—maybe she was raised near ducks and picked up a foreign language? I might have to call her Daisy if she keeps this up. I tried to record her but she’s pretty scared of me for the time being so she’s all shy and quiet when I’m nearby...
Dru isn’t amused by any of this. New hen tries to follow her and chat with her and gets snubbed a lot. Well, I did hear Dru cluck amicably the first evening when I brought the new hen in the coop, but she didn’t get an answer, there’s a real language barrier here. I hope the new hen learns French soon because right now Dru just keeps running away from her!
Poor Dru, she lost her good friend and then had to deal with a dude who woke her up every day at dawn crowing as loudly as possible, and now a new roommate who speaks duck. It’s only been two days though; I’m sure they’ll get along eventually!
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irt poverty/homelessness + alcohol use (esp with @butchfeygela‘s tags on my post)- people really underestimate the function that substance use/alcohol use can have for someone who is unhoused. being unhoused is boring, cold, painful, + lonely. substances can allow the 8 hours panhandling to get the $45 you need for a motel to fly by. alcohol reduces your perception of the cold + can knock you out whben you can’t sleep. substances can help you cope with the physical deterioration from malnutrition, constant stress, + sleeping outside. substances can provide social connection with others who you would otherwise not enjoy or help you cope with being alone.
not only that but- many unhoused people are stuck in a seemingly inescapable position. the pathway to financial stability or even housing is difficult or even impossible. in the wake of that hopelessness, the downsides of substance use start to seem insignificant. arrest? you’re getting arrested anyway for sleeping outside, peeing outside, standing in the wrong place, etc. physical danger? you’re already beat the fuck up, anyway, right? loss of relationships? you’ve lost most people already. inability to keep a job? nobody will hire you + you can’t stay employed, anyway, because you have no car + no shower.
perhaps for you or me, the cons of heroin use or binge drinking nightly greatly outweigh the pros. that isn’t the case for everyone. if we are really serious about ending overdose/addiction, we need to start looking at giving people lives worth recovering into instead of shaming them for their own hopelessness.
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Marceline in her first introduction, spotting Finn and Jake squatting in one of her houses: huh a pair of weirdos are living in my house? Is... is that guy a human? Like my mom?! Huh, I think I'm gonna go mess with them now, follow 'em around for a bit and see if they stand up to me.
Marceline: This'll just be a gag! It DEFINITELY won't completely change my life forever
Marceline, a few years later, thinking about that:
Marceline, sitting in her cave house with her father figure back in her life, reconciled with her ex-girlfriend, and her life filled with love and friendship and peace she has never known: Huh.
Finn, sitting next to her: What?
Marceline: Oh, nothing.
Marceline: ...Messing with you guys that night we met was the BEST GLOBDAMNED decision of my life.
Ice King, compelled for reasons he doesn't understand: Marcy!! Language!!
Ice King: If you're gonna swear, give it the REAL GOOD NAUGHTY JUICES. Don't hold back, that's for weenies.
Finn: Like you?
Ice King, nodding, completely unoffended: Yeah.
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i love calling tbrm ugly from uchiha pov/ standards and then making an uchiha fall madly in love with him anw. he becomes beautiful to them because of love. they didn't fall in love with his appearance they fell in love with him and then because of that they now love his face because it's his. they're gonna fight anyone who calls him ugly now even tho they did it first. and then they try to awkwardly reassure him like who cares what those assholes think youre not with them anw and tbrm is like literally im fine dw about it bc his self-worth and identity is completely divorced from his appearance and uchiha is still like. yknow what i think imma burn their house down for good measure brb and tbrm has to hold them back (read: hug) until they calm down.
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