I really hate a lot of the advice on the Internet about taming birds.
So much of it is literally āisolate your birds so they bond to you instead of each otherā or āclip your birdās wings so it canāt get away from you when it feels nervous.ā Iām no expert, but thatās fucked up, man.
My advice for winning over untamed birds:
Include the bird in your daily routine. Eat, read, and do activities in their presence.
Figure out a treat the bird enjoys.
Spend time with the bird while offering them this treat, directly from your hand if possible.
Go up to but not over the limit of the birdās comfort with you. When the bird is nervous, back off.
Accept that you cannot force anyone or anything to love you.
Love the bird anyway.
ALT
Iām other news, my housemates and I are redoubling our efforts in Operation: Teach Cheese to Love.
I can verify that you are absolutely correct because thatās pretty much exactly how two of my great-grandmothers tamed a shitload of wild-wild songbirds and a condor, respectively.
Gallus, hang on: a condor??? Please elaborate.
It was like 1910, the migratory bird act didnāt exist and neither did much modern conventional wisdom re: not messing with the wildlife.
Great-grandma Agatha lived in Big Sur, where condors are endemic and werenāt remotely endangered at the time
One of the local birds had decided her garden shed roof made a good sunning perch and then started following her around while she did the garden because theyāre curious birds.
California Condors are like three and a half feet tall standing up and Agatha was 4'10" so she didnāt exactly intimidate the creature, and she liked āhaving a dog I donāt have to bend over to petā.
Condors, being intelligent and curious animals, clocked immediately that this woman wasnāt going to be a problem and would sometimes give him fun snacks or play games (she taught him tricks), so he hung about the place, roosting on the shed and getting very protective of her and the property in general.
He also brought his wife and children to hang around the place but was apparently kind of a jealous boy who would get nippy if she paid more attention to another bird than him.
Which was good, because there was an unfortunate amount of anti-irish sentiment in the area, and against her house, my other great-grandma Florence and their four children. So a flock of birds with wingbeats hard enough to knock a man out and the ability to projectile vommit acid was a handy thing to have about.
I think his name was Gregory, but Iām not sure.
āTamed A Condor For Funā is one of the less insane things Agatha did.
heās still alive and breaking into homes with his girlfriend as of September 2025 btw
obsessed with how they unsuccessfully hunted him and he returned to get his revenge on the army 5-6 years later, bringing backup this time. heās like the terrestrial Nepalese Moby Dick. this is completely abnormal behavior for an Asian elephant, even bulls. wonder what started him on this path.
my thing is, how do you lose track of an elephant?
Chitwan National Park is 367.81 square miles with a great deal of rough terrain, also home to tigers, leopards and rhinos. It doesnāt help that Dhurbe kept busting out of his radio collar. Elephants are highly intelligent so he probably has a mental map of good places to hide from humans and evaded them on purpose.
Most people donāt know this, but elephants are very good at hiding, and they camouflage quite well.
If they donāt want you to see them, you aināt gonna see them.
Imagine squinting at what you think is a rock formation or a tangle of tree branches and it is actually the vengeful bull elephant youāve been unsuccessfully hunting and sparring with for days.
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? Youāre scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document š
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then Iām glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Donāt ever feel bad for not knowing something, but āļø donāt ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned
I am shocked at how many people don’t have an actively hostile relationship with advertising
I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I’m skipping past your sponsor read. I’m muting the tv. I’m muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.
If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible
A jewelry company that is just reproductions of historical jewelry found at archeological sites would be so cool.
Gaukler Medieval Wares carries reproductions and artifacts, though his in-stock inventory is small.
Armor and Castings is a Ukrainian company producing a wide range of gorgeous medieval reproductions.
Heart of Oak is a friend and highly skilled artisan selling reproduction glass beads.
Thorthor’s Hammer is a very chill dude who makes excellent reproduction jewelry, belt hardware, and clasps from a variety of eras at a really good price.
Elegantly Eccentric makes reproduction jewelry from classical Rome and other cultures of early antiquity.
had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header āthe forcefeminization of victor frankensteinā
what the people want, the people get
you see
my professorās take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.
evidence as explained:
victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world
his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both āhysteriaā and postpartum depression
he pretty much swoons, letās be honest
henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalescesĀ
afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?
Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrationalĀ
the book does not otherwise have central female charactersĀ
Also, Shelleyās mother died in childbirth. Itās interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.
in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by MaryĀ Ā Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literatureĀ
i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you’re not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don’t treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.
ALT
