spiritual successor to my email post

ok this too

"my wife and I saw you from across the lake and we think your vibes are rancid"

lmao on the edinburgh zoo site it says “there is a daily penguin parade at 14:15 but it may be cancelled last minute as it is a voulntary parade, we do not coax the penguins with food, and they may not want to go out” lmao anarchopenguinism

this is the cutest goddamn thing i’ve ever heard

I saw the penguin parade. It was a very slow parade, because the pingüinos take their sweet time and aren’t very fast walkers to begin with.

can I volunteer to be a penguin

I feel like the world needs to know the context of the edinburgh zoo penguin parade, becausr I’ve been going there my entire life and I only found out about this the other year.

So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.

Also, one of those penguins is Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-cheif of the Norwegian King’s Guard. This isn’t really related to the parade at all, I just love the fact that there’s a penguin in the Norwegian army

Reblogging with Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III inspecting his troops.

Carry on …

I love everything about this post.

A GOOD POST

A lovely older friend of mine lived in Edinburgh when she was a small child, and regularly attended the penguin parade – as a penguin. That is, she was a small toddler and thus about the right height and speed, and she just waddled along with everyone else who was about 2’ high.

So the answer to ‘can I volunteer to be a penguin’ is at least occasionally ‘yes.’

@byk23 – I think Hannipenguin would try to escape though 🤷🏽‍♀️

Need a music box like this

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let's watch the sunset with mama

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It's okay raccoon. We've all been there!🤣

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This is Nigel Raccoon 🦝, right 😂?

Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x09 - “Shiizakana”

Both Hannibal and Hannipenguin 🐧 look dashing in their Russian winter ❄️🌨️ hats!

Art by @byk23

@byk23 Hannibal the Swannibal 🖤 🦢 keeps watch over his kingdom in autumn 🍁 🍂.

PENGUINS. all of them!

(not precisely to scale, but close)

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Hannipenguin's 🐧 relatives

pov politely asking to hunt you for sport

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Bedelia Cat 😺 plays the long game patiently.

Good news whump smut fans

waves vaguely at Hannibal

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the most curious kit.

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Bedelia Cat 😺 is warm and cozy, dreaming of red ♥️ wine 🍷.

Bush thick-knee (Burhinus grallarius)

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Upgraded Killdeer

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I feel like this could be a Cannimal Sanctuary scene 😂. Hannibird and Willbird having a nocturnal stroll as they chat excitedly about murder.