(i ordered 2 bacon egg and cheese sandwiches and a hot coffee for now and an iced coffee for later)
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Various ways in which I have underestimated my chickens (callout post to myself):
cognitive abilities (memory): I dropped some pasta while making a salad earlier and Louise was nearby so I opened the door and invited her into the kitchen to come clean up. At first she just meandered round the room glaring suspiciously at furniture because she's unfamiliar with the inside of my house, then I helped her locate the pasta and she pounced, but before she could eat all of them Morille came zooming across the room with Pandolf zooming behind her, which freaked out the hen who noisily flew-ran out of the room. She stayed away long enough that when I called her inside again I expected her to have forgotten all about the pasta, and that I would have to show it to her again, but instead she went straight for it, resolutely, having clearly kept this important goal in a corner of her teeny tiny mind this whole time.
hunting abilities: before getting chickens I didn't realise they actually hunted? (sometimes.) I pictured their search for food as quiet foraging, busily scratching the dirt for worms, but a) hens are never quiet they're always chattering to each other so already that part was wrong; b) when they find a worthy prey they hunt it with the fierce determination of a mountain lion. I once saw Dru chasing a grasshopper across half the pasture, running at full chicken speed and sometimes boosting herself with her wings Mario kart-style while the grasshopper desperately hopped for its life, until eventually she pounced with her beak wide open and managed to catch it mid-jump. With an action movie soundtrack this scene would have been every bit as intense and gripping as a cheetah hunting a gazelle in a wildlife documentary.
social abilities (empathy): one time Cordélia had a little bit of grass stuck in her eye and she kept rubbing her head with her claw to try and dislodge it unsuccessfully, and then she seemingly asked Dru for help, placing her face very close to the other hen's face like "see that stupid twig?" and Dru removed it with her beak. Again that's not something I would have expected from a hen... they're very disloyal creatures, so it was fascinating to see. They would stab their grandma for a dusty rigatoni but leaving a friend with something stuck in her eye is apparently a level of antisocial even chickens won't cross.
social abilities pt.2 (romantic sensibility): sometimes when the night sky is clear and you can see the Milky Way, instead of tucking themselves in at sundown like they usually do, they'll fly to the roof of their coop and sit there for a little while to watch the stars together. Okay this one may be a tiny bit less scientific an observation than the others but I don't have an explanation for this behaviour; I've never noticed anything wrong with their coop on these particular nights, the door is open, they can go in—and the girls don't seem stressed at all, if anything they look like they're having a nice peaceful moment and I feel bad for bothering them.
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“Hope. A strange concept, after so long seeing myself as the agent of ruin.
Oh. Oh.
So that's some piece of a crumb over why Kuras is so "curious" about the MC.
"-Few would cling to life so resolutely"
Hope has become such a foreign concept to him after so long, especially looking at the current state of Eridia, oh I'm gonna be sick.
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first attempt at tamagoyaki! It actually was pretty fun to make the layers!! (though the very last one folded in on itself and had to get chopped off 🥲)
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Laios and Kabru having a “history will say they were very good friends” thing going on in historical reflections of their era but in the way where scholars try to downplay how much Kabru hated Laios fucking guts
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chill sunday vibes. we went out earlier and watered the garden, picked some green beans, and whined about the tomatoes not being ripe yet, and now i'm doing some reading before i finish making supper.
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After the events of ToA, when Apollo was visiting Meg in the summer (or was it mid-May), beside all the gardening and ice cream eating and evenings of watching scary movies, and just spending time together (they may have stolen some apples from the neighbours apple trees; or some cherries. Just maybe), they decided - Meg forced - to bake some cupcakes, because they were extremely bored.
Knowing the fact of then having the recipe, ingredients and absolutely zero skill in baking, the result was fairly great, even if it was burned a little and had too much or not enough of filling in them.
Then, one of them suggested putting some icing powder onto the cupcakes. They had a little bickering because "it is too sweet I am telling you—" .
After fifteen minutes of mastering the communication skills, it was put onto them.
The thing is, that they put the wrong powder and the cupcakes were covered in baking soda.
(It was the most delicious cupcakes both of them ever had.)
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