no cause do you guys realize how fucking broken Walter would be if he saw how everything turned out? if he saw how much Lark hated himself? the change from hyper little kid to self loathing soldier obsessed with redeeming himself from a mistake he made as a child?? if he saw how much Grant STILL hadn’t changed?? still relied on pain as a way to ground himself?? years later still ignoring his emotions in favor of the path of least resistance? if he saw how broken Nick was?? how he’s still divided between homes, with little to no support from either side, even though he has 3x the amount of parents he technically started with?? God don’t even get me started on TJ. fuck if Walter could just sit that boy down and tell him to stop trying so hard to be a step-dad and does he remember nothing about how Ron finally won him over and just to be there for Scary even if he’s not good at it?? And Sparrow. Fuck. Seeing Sparrow still so afraid of his own anger and still trying to be the mediator and still trying to pretend things are okay even when they’re so blatantly not?? and last but not fucking least. You cannot tell me that if Walter knew that the boys didn’t speak to each other. and had raised their kids not to know each other, separate from a support system they had to know they would eventually need he would be fucking livid. this coming from someone who’s wife and son left him because he was cursed. this coming from someone who found a family in an adopted homunculus and five young boys who just needed a bit of guidance and someone to believe in them. knowing these five boys who gave Walter a family when he had been alone for so long had abandoned each other would fucking destroy him and you know it.
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A Cheerful-Sparrow Feathursday
Among the most cheerful birds in our neighborhood are the common House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) and the Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis). I wake up every morning with the House Sparrows on my porch telling me to chirrup! And as I walk to work, the Juncos flitting about close to the ground, with their white tail bars and their tiny chipping calls, just starts the day off right.
Both are sparrows, but the House Sparrow, a year-long resident here, is an Old World sparrow (family Passeridae), introduced into North America in the 1850s.The Junco is an indigenous New World sparrow (family Passerellidae). They breed much further north in summer, and while they do winter in our region, in Milwaukee I tend to see them only in spring and fall as they move through. For me, they are harbingers of the changing seasons.
The images shown here are from a 1930 painting by American nature artist Walter Alois Weber reproduced in Bird Portraits in Color by the American physician and ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts and published by the University of Minnesota Press in the 1934. The volume includes 92 color plates by five wildlife artists illustrating 295 North American species.
The two birds in the upper left of this plate are male breeding adult and fall immature male Juncos; in the upper right are male and female House Sparrows; at bottom on the ground are female breeding adult and juvenile Juncos.
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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections
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Sketches of Walter and his kids based on my recent Walter hc post
(Description in Alt and copied down below)
[id: Digital sketches featuring Walter the Immoral interacting with his son Paeden and the other season one kids. The sketch on the left shows Walter standing in front his shop with Paeden. His son hangs off one of his arms on the right while grinning. A shop sign above them has a new label that says now family run. The sketch on the top right shows a weeping Lark hugging Walter tightly, sitting in between the frog mans heavily bandaged thighs. Walter hugs him back with a tearful smile. The caption says that there is nothing to apologize for and that he is glad he kept all the kids safe. The center right sketch occurs before the top scene and shows Walter sitting down in a chair and being hugged on all sides by all the kids. Nick and Sparrow are on the left and Lark and Grant are on the right with Terry Junior hugging from the back. All of them are smiling and the caption says I love you at the bottom. The last scene on the bottom right shows a little brick home with three windows and door with the workshop on one side and an outhouse and bath building on the other. There is a lantern resting on a high pole nearby and the caption below says lantern is on and welcome home. id]
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hello tumblr dot com i have finally given in and made an account.. twt is hell and i need a place to be insane about dndads. i think about it too long and i get physically ill so this is where all of my random ramblings will go since i will never have the energy to make actual fics LOL
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For both #WorldFrogDay + #WorldSparrowDay today, here are two ivory nestukes on display together at the The Walters Art Museum:
1. Skull and Toad
Ohara Mitsuhiro, Edo, early-mid 19th c.
2. Stylized Fukurasusume ("fat sparrow")
after Masanao of Kyoto, Edo, early 19th c.
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