Superb lyrebird

via @princepestilence

FUN FACT: lyrebirds specifically collect and reproduce other species' alarm calls as a treasured part of their vocal repertoire, quite possibly because it scares female lyrebirds into holding still for a little longer. a lyrebird in a zoo is absolutely going to pay attention to an alarm call so important it makes the HUMANS upset. of course he loved that noise, it's lyrebird gold.

feeling a profound spiritual kinship with this scholar from 1955 valiantly defending his blorbo iago against apologists who want to make him boring by deciding he's a nice guy just reacting reasonably to the circumstances he's in

this paper actually continues into the thing where poor dr rosenberg here has to very patiently lay out that the only way there is any evidence at all that othello did anything to justify iago's actions is if you just take iago's word for it about a bunch of claims that are not supported anywhere in the rest of the text, and surely would come up if the audience was supposed to think they were actually true. nothing ever changes

The Disco Elysium/Death Note fic I discovered I'd accidentally crafted myself into the perfect engine to write when it possessed me for five straight months (based off neproxrezi's excellent viral post) is finally done and posted.

A crossover formatted like a Disco Elysium bonus sidequest! Play as Harry Du Bois*,

*simulate watching a letsplay where the player selects slightly different choices than you would

and investigate who fatally struck Light Yagami with a Kineema Coupris! (It was you.)

An offering for the meme gods.

Me: “-Additionally, framing Kirihara’s continuing pursuit of Hei in the closing scenes of episode 25 as a completely one-sided obsession, as in both Ryuusei no Gemini and the otherwise infinitely superior Shikkoku no Hana manga, does a deep disservice to his character on a thematic level as well. It’s no coincidence that until he appears to save Misaki, the only appearance of Hei’s mask for the entire last three episodes is a single shot where it is removed as a symbolic refutation of the idea that he is a heartless monster. And yet, when the emotional core of the Gate sequence is accepting and admitting that the Black Reaper is a lie and the man behind the mask hates hurting people and has always hated hurting people, the final time he appears onscreen, the mask is back. But of course it is, because as Amber says, rejecting her future means going back to a world where he’ll have no choice but to keep killing to survive, because the Syndicate will never stop hunting him down. When Hei, wearing the mask of the Black Reaper, says that Li is gone, that’s the price he paid for the path he chose: the world he chose to preserve is one he can no longer be a part of. The fiction that was Li was a chance to exist apart from the Black Reaper, and the human connection it allowed is framed specifically in terms of the fact that he enjoys spending time with Misaki Kirihara! So to present all of their subsequent encounters as her screaming ‘Li-kun!’ at Hei’s retreating back while he completely ignores her or treats her with disdain not only devalues Kirihara’s character in an annoyingly sexist way, but also implicitly undermines Hei’s entire character arc because if he places so little value on an emotional connection sincere enough that he talked about his sister, unprompted, on purpose, it calls into question so many other times when the metaphorical mask broke in a far less dramatic fashion! I don’t even mean this as a shipping thing, but on that note-”

Bartender, moving my 17th chai latte out of my reach: “Ma'am, I think you’ve had enough.”

I am escorted politely but firmly from the bar, yelling the entire way about how not killing Hourai makes no sense as a decision motivated by anything but sentimentality for Kirihara, and that it is a deeply fucking weird choice to have a full-on visual tribute to the Evangelion finale about how the protagonist needs to stop trying to pretend he doesn’t care about people and then go, “oh, but not this person who he demonstrated that conviction by openly helping when he had nothing to gain, he doesn’t even remember she exists,” and that Shikkoku no Hana has not one but two scenes where she shouts at his back as he’s disappearing and literally all they’d have to do to make me so much less annoyed is add ONE panel where he glances at her over his shoulder with an unreadable expression, he doesn’t even need to say anything-

The battle was decided when the king’s holy spear pierced my chest. It was my defeat – no, it was my victory. All that the king had achieved, were reduced to nothing by my hands.

Yes, look at me. Hate me. Let the mere mention of Mordred forever grate your ears and twist your face with anger. Curse my very name.

But to the very end – the king did not recognize my existence.

Those cool eyes of jade watched over my death, turning away from me the instant it became certain. The king spoke no final words, shed no tears, showed not even the slightest hint of hate.

Shen Qingqiu, pissed off during a peak lord meeting: when I die I want Shang-shidi to lower me into the earth, just so he can let me down one last time

Shang Qinghua: bro c'mon

Yue Qingyuan, abruptly overcome by jealousy so intense that he's on the verge of a qi deviation: but I thought I was the one who let Xiao Jiu down the most...?

the funny thing about being a big blog on here really is the number of people who will follow you for months while having absolutely zero idea about who you are and what you do

That's a good point random kitty blog. I'd be stunned to find out that you leaked the no fly list or something

This is some sort of scale, but I have no idea what it's measuring.

Alternate hypothesis.

why the hell has this never come up in a cowboy movie

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SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY CODIES

There’s certain hobbies and interests that aren’t inherently conservative or regressive but do attract a lot of people who are those things or worse and when you’re a progressive person involved in those hobbies hearing that someone else is interested in your hobby usually has to involve some “But are you normal about it?” conversations before you get too excited

Someone: I think the Vikings are really cool. I like Viking metal and stuff like that.

Me: *threateningly holds up plastic fork* Answer me quickly. Do you have normal opinions about immigrants?

age of sail/napoleonics, allotment/food gardening, keeping chickens, golden age detective fiction, Celtic languages, Waldorf/steiner-montessori parenting - not even touching on permaculture; do not touch on permaculture - foraging and food preservation, the lord of the rings, horses -

Military history. Dear god, military history.

"so are you into historical costuming in the way where you do lots of primary source research and half your friends are queer, or the way where you get all your information from the 1970s Little House on the Prairie show and run a blog talking about your ten kids and Godly Helpmeet husband?"

fountain pens and anything to do with textiles

Ancient philosophy.