Daisy, loving her elephant to death. Bonus shot: my secret and rapidly dwindling stash of replacement elephants.
you mean you’re not a master plush surgeon?
my boston has a shakey sheep from the kong people that rattles when he shakes it and crunches when he bites it, and i will not tolerate the idea of it dying
he loves his sheep, shaking it brings him such joy that when he thinks you’re upset he will shake his sheep at you because clearly if it makes him happy it must make you happy = dog logic
I have repaired one or two… but she shreds these things. There is often not enough left to salvage.
They’re dog toys, since they have no button eyes and were found in the pet section, but wow, they are not strong! They were clearly made for dogs without teeth.
And shoutout to Kong toys! They make them nice and tough! I wish Daisy love her Kong teddy bear as violently as she loves her elephants. Then again, the reason she probably loves her elephants so much is that they’re so easy to destroy!
that’s the sheep
it might be the flop factor
boston had this frog with really long legs, and he loved it because he could swing it around like a ballista, and as he’d do the head shake kill maneuvre it flopped and bounced off his head making sure he knew it was dead
the elephant has little limbs she can grab and use to shake her prey to death
and if the leg comes off it’s proof she is an excellent hunter and the kong bears don’t do that – their squids might though
mind you i did have a dog that killed every toy he got except a cheap pikachu won from an arcade that he loved to pieces and carried with him everywhere and occasionally in the dark of night you’d hear this “pika- chuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu” from this damn toy which went to bed with him
They actually didn’t find new bones. Rather, a forensic scientist re-examined measurements taken from bones found on Nikumamoru Island back in 1940. The bones were originally examined by some dude back in 1941 who unequivocally concluded they had to belong to a “short, stocky male” because there’s no way they could belong to some fearless globe-trotting adventurer delicate woman. Using new techniques to examine the measurements, the scientist has concluded with 99% certainly the Nikumamoru bones belonged to Eartheart.
So yeah, basically Earheart’s disappearance was only a “mystery” for like eighty years because of lowkey sexism and shitty science. And now we more or less know the truth. On International Women’s Day.
New painting, because I finally met this character and he’s pretty fascinating and wow I love wings and trenchcoats… This’ll be a limited edition print available in my personal shop!
EDIT: Hey guys! I did some major edits and color changes on this and just switched out the image file; also reblogging to say I’ve changed my mind about the limited print, I realize I won’t have time to do it this month so I’ve put print this up on my Society6 shop.
Have you been part of fandom for at least ten years (even non-consecutively)?
We’re Casey Fiesler and Brianna Dym, longtime fan community members, and also researchers in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. We’re conducting a survey about how fan communities migrate across platforms! So if you’ve used multiple platforms in that time (Livejournal, Tumblr, AO3, Usenet…), we would love to have you participate!
The survey is a mix of multiple choice and open answer, and you can answer as much or as little as you like. The survey should take on average about 15 to 20 minutes to complete. (There will be more questions depending on how many platforms you’ve used, though you can skip through questions if necessary.)
We will ask for some demographics (any of which you can skip) so that we can describe how fan communities are different from other communities, but won’t require any identifying information – unless you would like to give us your email address so we can inform you about the results of the study.
my friend just texted me “it’s not acceptable that trump feels good about himself and you don’t” and i think it’s the most motivational thing i’ve ever read
“The concept of fire-foraging birds is well established. Raptors on at least four continents have been observed for decades on the edge of big flames, waiting out scurrying rodents and reptiles or picking through their barbecued remains.
“What’s new, at least in the academic literature, is the idea that birds might be intentionally spreading fires themselves. If true, the finding suggests that birds, like humans, have learned to use fire as a tool and as a weapon.
“Gosford, a lawyer turned ethno-ornithologist (he studies the relationship between aboriginal peoples and birds), has been chasing the arson hawk story for years. ‘My interest was first piqued by a report in a book published in 1964 by an Aboriginal man called Phillip Roberts in the Roper River area in the Northern Territory, that gave an account of a thing that he’d seen in the bush, a bird picking up a stick from a fire front and carrying it and dropping it on to unburnt grass,’ he told ABC.”
I regret to inform you all that Prometheus is at it again.
Welp all we’ve had a good run as dominant species but looks like we’re on the way out now.
I have to say, of all the ways I thought I would go out, kneeling before out new raptor overlords beats some of the other options.
Jurassic Revenge; The dinosaurs are back, and now they have fire.
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