This guy raised an abandoned moose calf with his Horses, and believe it or not, he has trained it for lumber removal and other hauling tasks. Given the 2,000 pounds of robust muscle, and the splayed, grippy hooves, he claims it is the best work animal he has. He says the secret to keeping the moose around is a sweet salt lick, although, during the rut he disappears for a couple of weeks, but always comes home…. Impressive !! MINNESOTA CLYDESDALE
why are moose so terrifyingly large
Because they’re pretty much legit surviving Ice Age megafauna and almost everything was bigger back then
his moose leaves for a few weeks to Fuck
if you would like to try and stop the moose leaving for a few weeks to Fuck you are welcome to try, buddy
Rescuers Down Under doesn’t get enough credit for a lot of things, but one creative choice in particular that I think should be talked about more is the movie’s decisions to mostly have real life fauna but then also making one of the main characters a dinosaur-sized eagle and just act as if that’s a thing that already exists.
Marahute is a gift.
Wait, I thought Marahute was a Haast’s Eagle?
Ok, so, this is a Haast’s Eagle. Pretty big as far as real eagles that existed go.
This is Marahute, a MUCH larger bird.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: that’s a small boy on her back, not a grown human, so the size comparison isn’t as clear cut as you think. Which, yeah, sure, but-
That small boy is equal in size to her goddamn skull.
Even if this kid is, like, four years old and super shrimpy, that’s a HUGE ass bird.
This bird’s the size of a goddamn ceratosaurus.
Also, like, note the beautiful proportions of Marahute.
She’s not just a magnified eagle. Her wings are much longer and wider than a real eagle’s would be, her legs thicker and longer with even bigger feet, her head proportionally smaller. If you wanted to kaijufy an eagle, this is how you’d do it. They knew they weren’t making a normal eagle here - this is a monstrous, marvelous eagle of impossible size, with proportions modified to make that enormous body still plausible as a flying creature. Just a fantastical eagle monster, a divine beast.
Of the posts of mine that continue to get reblogged months after they were posted, this one’s legacy has been more or less benign, but I do think it’s interesting that a number of replies to/reblogs of it can be paraphrased as “Ok but it’s actually good that she’s impossibly big an fantastical et cetera…”
Because, like, nowhere in my ramblings did I say her being an impossibly big eagle was a bad thing, or a thing that I was criticizing. I in fact said the movie “doesn’t get enough credit for doing this” - I was noting this as a positive.
And yet people are so used to posts on the internet being nothing but negativity that they assume I was taking a negative stance regardless of the words I used, and felt their own praise had to be phrased in contradiction to it.
I just think that’s interesting. It says something about our state of mind in this digital space.
This is suddenly happening a lot on posts of mine, and I’ve started calling it “discourse poisoning”. When you’ve become so used to everything being framed in good/bad, right/wrong, pure/problematic calls to action, you assume literally everything is that.
If they make an earth flag it should be of this angle to piss off the most amount of people
None Earth with South New Zealand
The amount of time you have to spend on this website to still remember the Deep Lore like None Pizza with Left Beef, only to apply it to this post. Truly, boggling.
Do not talk about your abusive family on tiktok. Do not talk about your closeted identity on tiktok. Do not talk about your traumas and mental illnesses on tiktok. Do not talk about your plans to move out from your abusive household on tiktok. Do not talk about the ways you disagree with your bigoted family on tiktok.
Do not attach your face or voice to anything on tiktok that you do not want your family members, neighbors, coworkers, or classmates to see. Be smart and stay safe.
Before posting ANYTHING on tiktok, ask yourself what could happen if your video is recommended to someone who recognizes you in real life.
If you’re talking about your abusive mother, what will happen if one of her friends sees your video? If you’re talking about being a closeted trans teen, what will happen if your friend’s parents see your video? Will there be consequences? Will you be in danger? Are you in a safe enoigh position where that information getting out wouldn’t put you at risk? What information do you want circulating about yourself?
I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing
