Hello everybody! I'm Tawny. :) Multifandom. Christian. 31. Ice Age lover. Colorado. Communie. Whovian. my ask box is always open. :) Fic masterpost in fandoms tab. Community and Ice Age are my forever fandoms. Also, I post a lot of Jeff/Annie & Manny and Diego is my favourite friendship/bromance ever!! On semi-hiatus, ie, mostly just my queue running nowadays!
And I am back with a new chapter of CI bk 1! In this chapter, tensions are rising and the herd gets caught in the thick of it. Diego and Peaches’ uncle/niece relationship is expanded upon more (so fluffy!), whilst, after the events of Tiger’s Heart, Manny finds Diego in more danger than before… what will he do about it? Read the chapter to see! Reviews/comments appreciated. :)
get some gross sicko pals to be a gross sicko with. having at least one or two who you can be a hater with too is a must. helps you save face from airing your grieviances in public. and honestly nothing more satisfying that sending some stupid shit into the group chat being like “lmao u seeing this???”.
stay away from anybody who acts like fandom is serious business/activism
never feel like you need to justify your likes/dislikes to some dumb cunt on the internet
something making you uncomfortable isn’t the end of the world & often it’s actually quite good to examine your own discomfort/disgust and what it stems from. builds character.
block/mute/unfollow at the drop of a hat
make sure to cultivate your interests outside of fandom and read things other than fic, this one, i’d say, is ESSENTIAL
what they don’t tell you about getting better at writing is that not only will you have to work on getting better at writing (intuitive, easy to understand) but you will have to work on getting better at all the parts of writing that are not writing (confusing. terrible)
two ppl with shared history is the bestest most delicious compelling dynamic in the world… exes. old friends. childhood friends. old friends who are no longer friends. decade long slowburns. multi decade slowburns. etc
incredible pompeii book fact that i will think about forever:
Garum, a sort of Roman fish sauce, was everywhere in Rome and apparently Pompeii was particularly famous for their garum industry. There’s lots of sources both in and outside Pompeii, and several different manufacturers and sellers have been found in the city.
The part that I can’t stop thinking about: jars of garum have been found with labels advertising it as kosher.
I mean, of course you hear about the conflicts between the Romans and Jews. They were very much in one another’s orbits. But still, the fact that there was apparently enough of a market in Pompeii to specifically create and sell kosher fish sauce… you know?
Here is a source for this! See “stamps on jars of garum” at the bottom of the page.
(I wanted to link to a good source by a reliable archaeologist for this, because the first thing that comes up when you Google it is a site which also claims there is archaeological evidence for Noah’s Ark, the seven plagues, and Young Earth Creationism - I don’t want anyone to dismiss this verifiable and very important fact out of hand because some drongo is throwing it in with “strata prove evolution doesn’t real”)
O the graffiti at that link.
And now I need to work “The one who buggers a fire burns his penis” into casual conversation.
King penguin chicks can hear a quarter of a second of their parents’ call and know it is them. While surrounded by hundreds of other screaming birds.
White bellbirds produce a call that hits 125.4 decibels — the same volume as a whole-ass rock concert.
Common nightingales have between 150 and 200 distinct song types. Mostly used for seduction (who’s surprised tbh?)
Parts of male zebra finch brains are 3-6 times larger than females to accommodate the complexity of their songs.
The cassowary head casque might have evolved primarily to act as a microphone to broadcast calls so low, us humans can’t hear them. They even tilt their head down and forward to make the broadcast more effective.
Superb lyrebirds are probably the best mimics on Earth, and tailor their courtship dances to particular sounds they’ve “collected.” They literally have a dance for the “song” of a chainsaw.
Truly bonkers shit these birds be doing with sound.
The club-winged manikin decided that vocalization was overrated and it would be cool if it played its own wings like a violin to make sound
Palm cockatoos are drummers
The whooping crane has a trachea that loops way back into its body to get enough resonance for its trumpeting calls
