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I’ve collected some weird vintage bird imagery, from bird hats to bird people, ghost birds to giant birds.

Red-winged Blackbird Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

Another thought I’ve been having relates back to The Scorching, the history behind it, and how much of a good twist it was to throw out. I don’t know if it was planned or a convenient retcon, but it works on so many levels thanks to the themes already present. It also leads to some interesting theories.

Burn could never have been queen. The first action we see her do in the books is destroy an egg due to hatch within the next few nights. It’s cruel, and most of all, it sealed her fate. The kingdoms were founded on the blood and tears of furious mothers, broken hearted from losing their eggs and determined to keep their broods safe. Burn couldn’t have been queen, because that is not what a queen should be. Thorn takes the throne because she took over a city, created an army, and fought tooth and claw to find and save her lost dragonet, despite the odds.

Glory takes the throne because she is the dragonet who should have been cared for. She should have been seen, noticed, and saved. She wants to be queen not to have the nicest things, but because someone should care when a dragonet disappears. The first dragon she rescues is a dragonet. She is worthy because Grandeur gave up on her dragonets and her tribe, but Glory refused to give up.

Coral isn’t a good dragon; her abuses and her absolute classist nature are abhorrent. However, she is marked by her craze as she watched as so many of her daughters were crushed in their eggs. The horror of losing a child is what marks a queen, in some shape or form. Orca was not worthy of the throne, because before she even challenged her mother, she devised a way to kill every dragonet that could challenge her before they so much as crawled out of their egg.

What one truly has to wonder is when the rules changed. When did it become a rule that to become queen, there had to be a fight to the death? When did mothers find themselves pitted against daughters, sisters, nieces, all for the power of the throne she has? Who came up with the deadly challenge?

One can only wonder.

 by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: Snowy Owl resting in the prairie lands

An injured bird has fallen into the underground..

ngl im ditching my overdone spiderwing wof fantribe. Im gonna make a tribe thats culturally centered around literature and is named after like fonts and types of paper and writing things like. How awesome would it be to have an oc named Helvatica

my mom took me and my dad to see migration and all i have to say is

if i had a nickel for everytime mack and pam salsa danced i would have three nickels

which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice

from Lesbian Connection November/December 2002: Volume 25 Issue 3

photo from kaygardner.com

the obituaries is a section i usually flip right past in every Lesbian Connection magazine, but when I stumbled into this one it gave me pause. i never met Kay Gardner, but she is incredibly special to me. the womyn who holds song circles for my group learned about song circles from Kay, and makes a point to honor her in each circle. singing Kay's songs fills me with love and pride, the lesbian kind. she spent her life traveling around the world, teaching about the healing properties of music and love. she reminds me that singing is a radical act. she is an inspiration to me and my sisters. thank you Kay.

erm… what the freak⁉️

Everything is going to be okay. The red winged blackbirds are returning.

Red-winged Blackbird Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

The more I read/understand about the Reddit/196 blackout thing the better I feel about the Reddit migration, like it’s all the shitposters from a subreddit where bigotry was actively discouraged? Yes please! You may enter, what do you need help with? My hellsite is your hellsite mi amigo

So the Simurgh is a tinker as well as having telekinesis and very good control of illusion, able to make a copy of herself good enough to even fool Scion... unless it didn't fool Scion, and he's just chasing after that one for his own purposes.

And Dragon's outfitted everyone with armbands, as is standard for battlefield info control, but these explode when someone is downed? Suggesting that it's a Simurgh-specific measure not needed for Leviathan attacks, which means she likely has some necromancy powers as well.

Good to know! I'll make sure to incorporate all this for my date ideas.