Look I Have Zero Excuses For This, But The Idea Popped Into My Head And Now It's In Your Head, Sorry

me impatiently to the little french cat boiling me in a stew: chat am I cooked

Ballad of the Falcon and the Star (Баллада о Соколе и Звезде)

Uzbekfilm, 1978

A beautiful and sad story about the unrequited love of a falcon for a distant star. Loosely based on the work of 18th century Uzbek Sufi poetess and Otin-Oy (title for a female Muslim religious scholar in Central Asia) Jahonotin Uvaysiy. In her time, Uvaysiy wrote over 15,000 hemistiches and is still held in high esteem in Uzbekistan.

I regret to inform you that severance actually is that good

Raptor ballet

Yellow-breasted or Indochinese Green Magpie (Cissa hypoleuca), BATH TIME!!!, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Viet Nam

photographs by Leo Ngo

another milkshake study

✹ mourning dove ✹

it's nesting season again for the Big Bear Valley Eagle Live Cam pair and I figured I should share some of my favourite screencaps from over the years. these birds don't know how much I love them.

spoke deeply to me.

going insane over the fact that helena's father never realised it was helly using the OTC until she literally stood on stage and screamed it out, but irving immediately knew something was up when helena came back pretending to be helly. the fact helena clearly studied helly's interactions with mark, recognised the significance of the attraction between them and tried to replicate it as well as she could, but she never managed to convincingly do the same with irving because she just couldn't recognise that kind of love as existing, let alone mattering- a familial bond, a relationship that rhymes with a father figure. she never expected it. why would irving pay attention to who helly is? why would he notice? why would he care? but of course he does. helly was never cruel. fetid moppet.