@amarguerite‘s thread about ahistorical Protagonist Names reminded me that my mother was cleaning the attic recently and unearthed her list of baby names; apparently if I had been a boy I would have been Rowan Rooney, which means I would have had only one career option: protagonist of a YA fantasy novel set in Ireland.
It would have been inevitable.
I went on a birding trip to the skagit valley and whidbey island today and holy cow are there birds up there. SO many birds. That whole area is bird city in the winter. I got multiple lifers today!!!!
I know I’ve finally gotten used to the PNW because I now see eagles and no longer get excited, just mildly annoyed that it isn’t a more interesting raptor.
hope everyone who celebrates thanksgiving is having/had a good one
I’ve been hanging out on a insect ID forum recently and I keep doing a double take when people use the word “inverts”
it’s very weird to have the sort of social circle where the two possible meanings of a given word are “19th century psychological term for homosexual” and “affectionate slang for invertebrates”
hi friends I’m still alive
how’s it been going, tumblr?
at what point in the journey from “I think there MAY something living in our roof” to “there are DEFINITELY MULTIPLE ANIMALS LIVING IN OUR ROOF” do I email the landlord?
me, lamenting over a picture of a snapping turtle: I wanna go pondiiiiiiing! I wanna get a dip net and a ponding light and catch things and ID them and let them go. :(((
housemate, walking in partway through this whining: wait, are you talking about animals or women?
me: ….I…. yes, I am definitely getting my net and my lesbian field guide and going out to catch some women in a pond, you’re correct.
I got so irritated by the response(s) to that post about academic jargon that I took a few days off social media and I come back and…… it went from 70 notes to 2k+
adobe illustrator is my supervillain origin story
gahhh I’ve been using indesign all day every day at work for like two weeks and now I keep trying to use indesign keyboard shortcuts in photoshop and being really confused when they do something weird
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 