Wildlife photographer Will James Sooter captured the amazing struggle between a Peregrine Falcon and her chosen prey.
okay but to me this just looks like a falcon who has gotten fed up with their dumbass friend’s inability to fly
“Oh jeez- look, I can’t watch this anymore…
look, you’re supposed to FLAP-
no not like a goddamn magikarp get your ass out of the water-
okay, no, you see that? That is a backwards somersault
oh ffs do I actually have to do this-
look I am PHYSICALLY LIFTING YOU INTO THE AIR. YES YOU MIGHT WELL GAPE IN ASTONISHMENT IT’S PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME YOUR FACE HAS BEEN MORE THAN AN INCH AWAY FROM SMASHING STRAIGHT INTO SOMETHING
THIS IS CALLED AVIATION, MOTHERFUCKER, NOW STOP PEDDLING YOUR LEGS THAT ISN’T GOING TO DO SHIT I mean christ Barry do even I have to tell you this crap you’re three years out of college…”
Really? You think I should? Well, heck, I suppose that wouldn’t hurt me getting hold of Toonboom and paying the rent, but I don’t know the first thing about taxes and how it’d affect them, and I have no idea how to set up a donate button either but… well, I don’t know? Maybe? I’ll look into it, but I’ve never thought about it before!
What about you guys? Think I should do it? Anyone know a good tutorial I can snoop through?
I’m not going to say a huge amount, and I might even delete this later, but for all of you who know which post I’m referring to- can I advise something?
Please, be careful.
Telling someone to ‘ignore that nagging voice of doubt’ can seem helpful, but it can also seem patronizing. To be told how to behave from someone who doesn’t have the same past is difficult to accept. What he told us was complete, honest, and carefully thought out.
Yes, we must let him know that we love him, utterly and truly, and that we will support him always, in any way in which we can, but do not give him directions. He did not ask us for that. He wasn’t asking for anything; he was explaining, which is a very different matter.
It may sound ironic to hear me, then, giving you advise; but having grown up with two psychologists for parents and deep routed interest in the subject (not to mention a little experience in the roller-coaster-emotions-setting field), I just feel that as much as our enthusiasm and love must reach him, it mustn’t reach him in the wrong way.
Basically, think. Not just about what you want to tell him, but how he would feel with the manner in which you tell it to him. Language is a fragile art and can be written and received in completely different ways.
Okay so some of your are going to flip a table but
I think I’m going to quit doing M.O.D.
The truth is I haven’t really been enjoying the videos much at all. I’m really quite a shy person, and acting and recording myself aren’t how I like to work. I’m zany enough if I know you in person, but I like to entertain people through indirect mediums- animation and comics etc.
I’ve never liked being in the spotlight and this whole gig is just making me very anxious, and tired. It literally takes away my entire Sunday; putting on the makeup, coming up with answers, recording, editing, uploading, then livestream… I just feel like I could be using that day to make more things that are much better, like maybe working on some short animations or working on the comic. When I was still looking for work it was sort of okay, but now I’m working from 9 to 6 five days a week it’s just too much to have a one day weekend.
So… yeah. Sorry. I stink, I know, but I have to admit to myself that this doesn’t make me happy, and I can do other things to make you chaps happier than M.O.D. does. Maybe occasionally I’ll break her out of storage for larks, but this whole weekly shindig is just not my style.
