Hi all, hope you’re well. Things aren’t the best for family and thus for me, but I’m currently distracted by fic-ness, which helps.
To wit: I’m making some changes, to expunge anti-Semitic elements from 9 11 10. So far, they have been in chs. 9, 26-33, and 38. I’d be curious to know what people think. I’m going to link to an author’s post as soon as I am done, and in the meantime, I’m chainsawing through ch. 40.
The nice thing is that this is getting writing juices flowing again, so keep your fingers crossed for me, please. Best wishes to all.
ETA: it is (mostly) finished! All I have to do is add a scene in chapter 40. That scene is the most important for where I’m taking part of the culture of what is now Eretz Mayim. (It involves a cult of swordsmanship and martial prowess. Erik mysteriously disappeared from that place before said cult really got going, though …)
Never ask @timberwatchco what the difference is between their watches that are supposedly designed in Canada to aliexpress watches that look exactly the same but are a quarter the sale price. They will delete your question and attempt to insult you privately.
So from the looks of things it’s the same stock, not designed in Canada like advertised, and funnily enough obviously undermining their own potential customers in the process.
“Ever visit a store where they charge more for things than what they paid for them?”
Sure have guys. It’s called shopping around, with 2 online platforms I’d rather go directly to the source than through a cocky middle man who falsely advertise products they never own since it’s clearly a drop ship business and attempts to throw shade to genuinely curious customers then blocks them afterwards.
Once upon a time, advertisers were allowed to lie to us. As shocking as that may seem, there are countless examples of advertisements from the early twentieth century that claim all sorts of things.
This is what you see if you look at tumblr without being signed in. It actually says ‘Seriously, put anything you want here’.
What it doesn’t say is; ‘Except boobs, bums, torsos, legs, feet, fitspo pictures, erotica, bondage, tied-up or fetish ideas, no sexy, pretty, or cute pictures. Also no inspirational pictures, or fanfic - all fanfic and original compositions’ are banned, deleted and marked as unwanted -. Please post clean, boring and puritanical images, works and thoughts only. Because everything else will get you banned.
Manchester band False Advertising launched their new EP Brainless at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen on 22 April 2016, supported by their friends Bad Grammar.
these unusual birds are red factor african greys. the typical plumage for an african grey is a full-bodied grey with the only red being on the tail. these birds have only been recorded in captivity, and are the result of extensive breeding for their color mutation.
My brain refuses to read this as real color and will only see a red layer photoshopped over regular birds. But I just looked it up and it appears to be real so??
they’re definitely photoshopped (the red color comes off the body in some places) but honestly the fact there’s a whole website dedicated to breeding these fake birds is killing me
ok apparently red factor african greys DO exist but they don’t look like these and these pictures are photoshopped
these are real ones and honestly that makes this even funnier
Red factor greys come in a lot of varieties, given that it is a colour mutation and not a seperate species. Though most often it is only a small part of the bird that gets coloured, sometimes there is extremely high red factor because of selective breeding or just mutation.
A lot of the time it just affects chest and bellies, but sometime appears more on the back and the wings.
Fully red african greys still have texture and pattern to their plumage, which is often where the white boarder effect comes from. African grey feathers, as you’ll note on the birds above, have a small light grey/white ring around the edge of many of their their grey feathers and it becomes much more noticable against the red.
Some of the photos on the original site seem more genuine, but it looks like a breeder who is photoshopping their birds to be more red than they are to try to enhance business. Which… I mean seriously? Bad form.*
It’s particularly noticeable on their chick pictures, where they look far too uniform and a few places the red cutting to fleshy tone doesn’t look natural, is way too even and has a single pin feather bisected to be both grey and red. And a few others where they accidentally also coloured the bird’s beak and feet
It is a complete shame that one of the first sites to come up when you search for information on red factor african greys is a site that has photoshopped images and makes people think this mutation isn’t real. Because bird genetics and colour mutations are fascinating and I hate that an unscrupulous tactic almost stopped people from learning more about this neat occurrence!
*Typically big mutations like this come with side effects as well, like having a few random red feathers may be just a natural thing but selectively breeding for the mutation above all else can be damaging to the species in general and I wouldn’t recommend it at all personally. So it’s all bad form, but like… if you are breeding for this mutation then photoshopping your birds is even worse because it gives a false impression of what these wondrous things are.
