turns out crested gecko feets can’t stick to Mac screens very well

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a comedy in 3 parts

[id: Trifle, a brown and orange spotted crested gecko, sliding down a MacBook screen slowly while trying to climb]

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

hey uh I hate to tell you this but your golden retriever boyfriend comes from a pet store and not a reputable breeder

I'll become his reputable breeder

Samus's suit is very nearly the only Chozo Power Suit we get to see in the games, thanks to the Chozo being, well, nearly extinct and their culture abandoned. We don't have many examples to compare it to. We do have one very similar suit to compare it to, though: Raven Beak's suit, which has a similar design and many of the same abilities as Samus's. The parallels drawn between the two characters in Metroid Dread are very intentional: Raven Beak is meant to be like Samus, but with superior technology.

There's one glaring difference between the two, though: Samus's suit is very colorful. Every iteration of her suit in every game has a multi-colored palette, typically using bright vivid shades. Raven Beak, on the other hand, opts for purely functional gray. Other "chozo warriors" shown in the game also have monochrome suits.

Why does Samus get the colorful suit and no one else does? Bear with me for a second here, because I have a theory.

Samus is very small compared to the Chozo. Fully grown, she is still the size of a juvenile among them.

What demographic are small, brightly-multicolored versions of things typically made for?

That's right, they gave Samus the only suit that would fit her: the Fisher Price brand Baby's First Battlesuit. The weapons-grade equivalent of this

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what they don't tell you about mecha capes is that they save you from having to draw the mecha

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proletarianprincess

lmao on the edinburgh zoo site it says “there is a daily penguin parade at 14:15 but it may be cancelled last minute as it is a voulntary parade, we do not coax the penguins with food, and they may not want to go out” lmao anarchopenguinism

this is the cutest goddamn thing i’ve ever heard

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I saw the penguin parade. It was a very slow parade, because the pingüinos take their sweet time and aren’t very fast walkers to begin with.

airyairyquitecontrary

can I volunteer to be a penguin

daamneron

I feel like the world needs to know the context of the edinburgh zoo penguin parade, becausr I’ve been going there my entire life and I only found out about this the other year.


So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.


Also, one of those penguins is Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-cheif of the Norwegian King’s Guard. This isn’t really related to the parade at all, I just love the fact that there’s a penguin in the Norwegian army

Reblogging with Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III inspecting his troops.

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Carry on …

I love everything about this post.

A GOOD POST

A lovely older friend of mine lived in Edinburgh when she was a small child, and regularly attended the penguin parade – as a penguin. That is, she was a small toddler and thus about the right height and speed, and she just waddled along with everyone else who was about 2’ high.

So the answer to ‘can I volunteer to be a penguin’ is at least occasionally ‘yes.’

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