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Christmas Cactus, March 5

Nihon no kotori (Japanese small birds), cute helpful chart by @T_marohiko listing the following species:

First row - 百舌 mozu (bull-headed shrike) / 目黒 meguro (bonin white-eye) / 川蝉 kawasemi (kingfisher) / ツグミ tsugumi (dusky thrush) / 鶯 uguisu (japanese bush warbler)

Second row - 雀 suzume (sparrow) / 燕 tsubame (swallow) / 椋鳥 mukudori (grey starling) / 駒鳥 komadori (japanese robin) / 赤啄木鳥 akagera (great spotted woodpecker)

Third Row - 頬白 hoojiro (meadow bunting) / シマエナガ shimaenaga (silver-throated dasher) / 鷽 uso (japanese bullfinch) / 菊戴 kikuitadaki (goldcrest) / 白鶺鴒 hakusekirei (black-backed wagtail)

Fourth row - 五十雀 gojuukara (eurasian nuthatch) / 四十雀 shijuukara (japanese tit) / 小雀 kogara (willow tit) / 日雀 higara (coal tit) / 山雀 yamagara (varied tit)

Fifth row - 黄鶲 kibitaki (narcissus flycatcher) / 小瑠璃 koruri (siberian blue robin) / 大瑠璃 ooruri (blue-and-white flycatcher) / 瑠璃鶲 ruribitaki (red-flanked bluetail) / 尉鶲 joubitaki (daurian redstart)

Vintage Jane West and her horse. #janewest #vintagedolls #alwayslovedthehorse

So, this is my little friend who goes mushroom hunting with me. His name is “Little Bell” in our language.

(brought to life by @woolboon )

BILL WATTERSON - “A Cartoonist’s Advice”

The Breathless Grit and Determination of South Korea’s Iconic Female Divers Are Captured in Life-Size Portraits by Hyung S. Kim

SwanQueen IS intentional

I keep seeing posts saying that SQ wasn’t intentional in the beginning, but then they started adding it when people saw it as romantic.

AND I AM SHOOKETH

THEY made it queer from the start, people simply picked up on it. When they shot the Pilot and the first couple of episodes, there was NO AUDIENCE yet. Emma was queer coded and I’m not just talking about that shot of her kicking off her heels after the job (aka fake date with a stupid dude). I mean, just fucking look at her here!!

Think about it for a second!! If the show was always just supposed to set them up as RIVALING MOTHERS (lmaooo), why the fuck did they write Henry out of the scene as quickly as they could?! The kid was there for a couple of seconds and then out of their hair! The whole drinking thing also makes it more erotic/romantic/passionate… I mean, remember that overview shot of the hallway with Emma following Regina? I mean the whole thing could be the set up for a porn. And the way Regina hands her the glass, how they look into each other’s eyes… If they didn’t want to set SQ up, they could have gone for apple juice or whatever.

Why the shy “Hi” and the staring at each other??? That’s a classic romantic meet cute!!! Sit your ass down, imagine that you are writing a scene of an adoptive mother meeting her child’s birth mother. This is so not what you would end up with unless there was something else on your mind. (No, a curse and a Savior doesn’t explain it either.)

And then the second episode, still no audience response yet when this was written and shot.

Emma is wearing almost nothing for NO GOOD REASON. The whole scene is threatening and seductive. If it were just threatening, it would NOT HAVE LOOKED LIKE THIS. I MEAN, I AM SURE THEY BOTH WANTED TO JUMP THE OTHER AND ONLY AFTER THAT GET RID OF THEM, YOU FEEL ME??

So excuse me, but DON’T LET THEM OFF THE HOOK for ANYTHING! The writers invited a female queer audience, and they got it! Nobody is fucking delusional, okay?! or I’ll punch a… lesbophobe. It was always there, they put it there! If you think they didn’t create Swan Queen, then you’re taking the blame off of the writer’s shoulders. End of the story. Merde.

THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT

The old hemlock forest at Tibbs Run Preserve bows under the weight of a late fall snowstorm this past weekend.

the origin of Carol of the Bells, ukrainian folk song Shchedrik

Brighten up the day with purple .. By © Robert Birkbey