Silver Tongue

Apr 05

Let’s talk about Nightjars

ironfoxe:
birdstoconsider:
they are these wonderful tiny predatory birds
With great camouflage for multiple environments
And lovely plumage dependent on their species
BUT BEST OF ALL IS THEIR MOUTHS, which look small then their beaks are closed (they’ve even got cute lil’ whiskers!)
BUT ARE ACTUALLY HUUUUGE
BEST BIRD
i am here for this bird
@batz

@cyanocitta-blattidae

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clientsfromhell:

I was creating an advertisement for an interior design company. During the early morning I get an e-mail from my client.
Client: Hello, I was looking at the ad you sent me and I was not very happy about it.
Me: Okay, what would you like me to change?
Client: I would like you to change how the ad looks.
Me: How would you like it to look like?
Client: Like a modern house.
I changed the way the whole ad looks like and sent it to my client.
Client: What is this?! I wanted it to look like a classic home, not a modern house!
I sent a refund and cut off contact from this client.
Until they used my designs.
Me: Hi, the designs you are using on your website are mine. Stop using them.
Client: They are mine since you sent them to me.
Me: Please stop using my designs or I will have to seek legal action.
Client: You can’t bully me! I’m going to talk to my lawyer!
Next day, I saw that the client took down my designs from his website. I can only guess that he DID talk to his lawyer.

[video]

baby boomers: high school is the best time of your life!
generation x: college is the best time of your life!
millennials: *high pitched screaming into the void*

[video]

hollow-clunk-sound-effect:

xeppeli:
i’m the first comedian to tell raunchy jokes
and the last

That’s not a dog with a knife, this is a dog with a knife

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General List of why people are so harsh on the PPG 2016 Reboot

bugeyedfreaks:

terraterracotta:
People keep asking the question, so why not compile a list of reasons?
FOR THE RECORD: I’m not asking for anyone to agree or disagree with these points. I’m simply making this reference list of so other people can understand what’s going on and why fans are upset to begin with. (Feel free to add to the list if I have left out/forgotten anything)
Craig McCracken is not involved in any way whatsoever. (Supposedly according to Tom Kenny, Craig approved the show yet he has no control over what’s actually going to happen)
Before the show was even announced, Cartoon Network asked back the original voice actors. Except for the girls. The voice actors for the girls were upset with this and were more than willing to voice the girls, and the network still refused to rehire them for the show. Devastating Tara Strong (Bubbles), Elizabeth Daily (Buttercup), and Cathy Cavadini (Blossom).
This wouldn’t be so bad if they were giving new voices to the girls, but the new voice actors are trying to sound too much like the classic girls. So why even replace them?
ALSO RECENTLY NOTED, they didn’t ask back Miss Bellum’s voice actress either, Jennifer Martin.
It has a very high-budget opening, yet the episodes and previews we HAVE seen are littered with animation errors and it just looks shoddy.
A fan re-animated the clip from the episode animation above with no budget and it looks better.
It seems very likely that the reboot was made only to sell toys, not re-invent or continue the story of the girls. So they don’t’ care much about quality. This is due to the large amount of merch already available despite the show not even being out yet.
The first episode, “Man Up,” has the exact same plot of an episode from the original series’ 5th season, “Makes Zen to Me.”
Same first episode gives a grossly stereotyped version of “Zen,” and is full of really cringy mis-representation among other issues. (This user explains it very nicely, as well as tears into other things wrong with the episode)
Same first episode used a stock photo of a desert for one of the backgrounds. It can easily be found on google images. Continuing with the theme of shoddy quality.
Buttercups’ voice actress, Natalie Palamides, described her character’s personality as “thick skinned” yet the first AND second episodes of the reboot already contradict this (She flies off the wire and beats up a character for calling her “princess” and the goes on to hurt her sister). It makes a lot of people concerned when not even the voice actresses understand the direction of their characters
The girls’ personalities are all over the place in general, and in many ways aren’t true to who they were in the original. “Flanderized” is a good way to describe it.
((On a side note, it’s been officially stated the reboot is being made with older audiences in mind as well. It’s not just “for kids.”))
Perfect roundup of reasons. And none of them are in any way hate! Because people aren’t being haters for disliking this show, as clearly evidenced above.
Thanks for putting this together! I don’t know when you did it but I appreciate the effort you put into it!

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