#hooting

[professionalowl]

Actually, while we're shaming people for their 452 unread books, here's a list of unread books of mine of which I own physical copies, attached to the year I obtained them, so that you can all shame me into reading more:

2024: Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence (James Bridle; just started)

2021: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (Cal Flyn)

2024: Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life (Steven Shaviro)

2021: The Unreal & The Real Vol. 1: Where on Earth (Ursula K. Le Guin)

2023: A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)

2023: Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living (Dmitri Xygalatas)

2023: Vibrant Matter: A political ecology of things (Jane Bennett)

2023: The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present (Chris Gosden)

2018: Ways of Seeing (John Berger)

2022: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Ed Yong)

2020: Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Jonathan C. Slaught)

2023: My Life in Sea Creatures (Sabrina Imbler)

2020: The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Jennifer Ackerman)

2023: Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation (Tim Birkhead)

2020: Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife (Benedict Macdonald)

2022: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Siddhartha Mukherjee)

2022: An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks)

2021: Sex, Botany & Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Patricia Fara)

2023: At The Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)

2019: Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino; I have been trying to finish this forever and am so, so close)

2023: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf (Sean Duffy)

2021: What is History, Now? How the past and present speak to each other (Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb; essay collection, half-read)

2020: Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England (Thomas Penn)

2022: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Silvia Federici)

2020: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Touissant Louverture (Sudhir Hazareesingh; half-read)

2019: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hallie Rubenhold; 3/4 read)

2022: Lenin on the Train (Catherine Merridale)

2020: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (China Miéville)

2019: The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution (Mark Roseman)

2019: Heimat: A German Family Album (Nora Krug)

2018: Maus I: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman)

2020: Running in the Family (Michael Ondaatje)

2022: Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys; also never technically "finished" Jane Eyre, but I did my time, damn you)

2023: Time Shelter (Georgi Gospodinov)

2019: Our Man in Havana (Graham Greene; started, left unfinished)

2019: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John le Carré)

2021: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge; half-read)

2017: Rebel Without Applause (Lemn Sissay)

2022: The Metamorphosis, and Other Stories (Franz Kafka)

2011?: The Complete Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino; vaguely remember reading these when I was maybe 7 and liking them, but I have forgotten their content)

2022: Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Lea Ypi)

2021: Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland (W.B. Yates)

Some of these are degree-related, some not; some harken back to bygone areas of interest and some persist yet; some were obtained willingly and some thrust upon me without fanfare. I think there are also some I've left at college, but I'm not sure I was actually intending to read any of them - I know one is an old copy of Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss that Dad picked up for me secondhand, which I...don't intend to torment myself with. Reading about Tom Huffman's cognitive-structural theory of Great Zimbabwe almost finished me off and remains to date the only overdue essay I intend to never finish, mostly because the professor let me get away with abandoning it.

There are also library books, mostly dissertation-oriented, from which you can tell that the cognitive archaeologists who live in my walls finally fucking Got me:

The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking (Thomas Wynn & Fred Coolidge)

The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Karenleigh A. Overmann)

Archaeological Situations: Archaeological Theory from the Inside-Out (Gavin Lucas)

And, finally, some I've actually finished recently ("recently" being "within the past year"):

The Body Fantastic (Frank Gonzalo-Crussi, solid 6/10 essay collection about a selection of body parts, just finished earlier)

An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (Patricia Fara, also a solid 6/10, fun read but nothing special)

Babel: An Arcane History (R.F. Kuang, 8/10, didactic (sometimes necessary) but effective; magic system was cool and a clever metaphor)

The Sign of Four (A.C. Doyle, 2/10 really racist and for what)

Dr. Space Junk vs. the Universe: Archaeology and the Future (Alice Gorman, 8/10, I love you Dr. Space Junk)

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology (Lucy Moore, 8/10, I respect some of these people slightly more now)

The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin, 9/10 got my ass)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (A.C. Doyle, 7/10 themez 👍)

#if you see a book on this list that you gave me years ago. well. just know that i failed. #genuinely so much worse than i thought it was but i'm making my best effort to get through them #this is honestly just for fun because i love to list things. user professionalowl bookshelf reveal. please offer reviews if you have them #hooting

[superiorsturgeon]

Just spent 30 minutes of my night hooting back and forth with two different owls on the far side of the neighborhood.

Good times!

#owls #owl hoots #hooting #meeting the neighbors

[nightowlwriting]

Hi hon😚 It's been a while, I just wanna check in and make sure everything is okay...

Are you drinking enough water? Eating enough? Getting good sleep?

hi! omg it's been forever. yeah i'm doing ok! i moved again and my mental health took a downslide really badly. i recently started crocheting and getting more involved with work, so my time has been focused off of the internet for a little bit.

i'm going to get back to writing though! i decided that for every fic i write that's not dark in here (because i swear to god i will finish that fic if it kills me) i will write one chapter of that until it's done.

thank you so much for checking in on me!!

#ask the owl #warenai #hooting

[tripthelightfandomtastic]

I refuse to apologize for the absolute and utter fool I become during the second half of Free Bird.

#that shit makes my southern brain SURGE #like boy howdy im about to go muddin in my pick up truck #day drinking a coors banquet on a porch in my rocking chair at 45 mph #hooting #hollering #bull riding #i love being southern #yeehaw

[aroclawthornes]

(watching goop!belos hitch a ride onto hunter) (whispering) just like in the 1996 doctor who tv movie

#i KNEW it reminded me of something. god #toh spoilers #221 #belos #hooting

[poodlepoint]

Peaches has a message?

(Featuring birds, and Angus messily chewing flowers & rattling the fence in the background.)

#howling #hooting #weird dog sounds

[meowtifullycute]

Moonlit Guardian: The Enigmatic Owl!

#owl #nocturnal #wisdom #mysterious #night #predator #feathers #hunting #silent flight #symbolism #nature #avian #bird of prey #hooting #camouflage #enchanting #wildlife #eyes #talons #perching #forest #adaptation #majestic #creature #nocturnal predator #raptors #aves #silent hunter #wisdom of the night #night vision

[nicollekidman]

first kill is an achievement because it’s some of the worst writing for television i’ve ever witnessed, the music is overbearing and laughably edited in, 90% of the actors are phoning it in, there are plot reveals every episode that rival riverdale twists and YET it is a riot and so much fun to watch

#like it sucks SO bad it’s so horrendous in nearly every way and i’m flabbergasted at every single creative choice but #i’m giggling!! i’m booting!! #hooting

[a-shape-changer-in-winter]

#hooting #hollering

[captainpirateface]

#great horned owl #owl #parliament of owls #owls #captainpirateface #bipolardepression #chemicalimbalance #wtf #captain pirateface #CaptainPirateFaceLovesYou #sights and sounds of tumblr #we have such sights to show you #sights and sounds #owl hoot #hoot #hooting

[hootcifer]

Congraduations!

thank you!!!

#i graduated high school yesterday =D #hooting

[professionalowl]

please look at this little plush seagull i found on the rspb website oh my god

#gift shopping once again and was considering seagull plush as an ironic gift for a friend who professes to hate them #i will not. because i know i would keep them #hooting

[earnedmagic]

1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2

#vintage fashion #i’m the guy that eats the dates on calendars had me hooting and hollering

[nightowlwriting]

Hi, how r u hun?

I'm in love with Dark in Here, I can't wait for the next chapter!! How often will you update it?

I wonder if the reader will become close friends with Pietro and get Bucky a little jealous 🤭

Ahhhh thank you!!! I'm so glad that people like DIH 🥹♥️ I'm not sure when I'll update because I write some every day, but only 200 or so words. Plus I'm moving across the state soon, so everything is sort of on hold until I'm moved and then unpacked 😅

Also, Reader's relationship with Pietro is definitely going to be plot-heavy but I'm not sure that Bucky is going to be the jealous one 👀

#dark in here #ask #anonymous #hooting #ask the owl

[awolgina]

don't think it's hindukush tokesntalk but waffle cone glob in my banger ...

TGIF 🥳 🙌 🤪 💚🍯🌬🌬😁💋🐝 trying hindu kush strain, I don't think it's actual hindu kush like I had in the 70s, I'll give it another try tomorrow. the waffle cone glob after this video has me knocked 💀 😂 I had the shakes for a minute then every muscle released, luckily I was sitting by then 🤷‍♀️🐝🤪🤣👵💋

#tokesntalk #bong tokes #hooting #fresh ground #hindu kush strain #skeptical #lol #youtube

[aroclawthornes]

can't believe my profs are still expecting me to do this work, as if flapjack owl house didn't literally die last weekend. it's like they don't even care

#hooting