I suppose an arrow is a sort of three-dimensonal line that ‘punches’ a hole in your chest.
That’s not a very nice thing to do to Hell’s pigeons though.
I mean the visual concept is more that you’ve wronged @hellenhighwater somehow, you’re sat on your porch and suddenly
*THOONK*
There that is, in your door frame.
You unfurl the message from the arrow and have barely a moment to process the message before you hear it.
Wingbeats in the Distance.
It’s Arson and Larceny
Oh I think Hell’s aim is better than to hit the doorframe. Were I to piss Miss Highwater off to that degree I would end up quoting the skyrim guards unironically.
This is beautifulllllly done (the Ace Arrow!!!) Ah, you people get me so well! The message with the arrow is spot on, and the delivery is impeccable, but unfortunately Arson and Larceny’s arrival as the promised threat is doomed to be underwhelming.
Despite the burning fury in her tiny avian heart, Arson remains unable to commit the major felonies of which she dearly dreams, and she’s married to a lovely fool.
If the longer message you intend to send is “‘I am beset by idiots, and this curse I send twofold back to you,” then Arson and Larceny are the perfect messengers and/or curse incarnate. Feathery doom be upon ye.
… a remarkable family that has conquered the world. One family… 40 different faces. They thrive in every landscape… from the frozen north… to the driest deserts. From the most remote, barely explored places… to the heart of our modern world. These are the cats.
As I grow older I feel my capacity to understand that Miss Piggy is not a real person reached a peak in my adolescence and is now on a steady decline. I watched a Wendy Williams interview and there’s this part that’s like “can we get a ring cam!” and Miss Piggy shows her bling and I’m just like fuck she’s so iconic. Miss Piggy who are you wearing? Miss Piggy have you ever considered running for office??
Like literally every time I see Miss Piggy there’s a period where I need to readjust to the fact that it’s not a person, and I feel that period is getting longer and longer with every instance
now all my Youtube recommendations are filled with Miss Piggy interviews. I’m not complaining. Miss Piggy what’s your secret to ageing so graciously
It’s not just the audience; professional journalists, hosts, and actors report it is legitimately difficult to not see the Muppet as a person, and it is, in fact, incredibly easy to interview or act with them once the performer gets properly set up.
Like that one time they couldn’t figure out why Kermit’s audio was so garbage… then realized they’d put the mic on him instead of the performer.
this has been a very longstanding issue - before the muppet show was even a thing some muppets appeared in commercials, such as rolf the dog
they had a continual problem where when people directing/shooting the dogfood commercial would give dirrection to rolf that they would be speaking to the muppet, to which rolf REPEATEDLY had to tell them ‘i cant hear you, you have to talk to him’ and point at the performer underneath him
rolf is one of the most embarrassing muppets to need this direction as the performer is this, damn, obvious when not on camera
‘sir, i am a bathroom mat, the man you need to talk to is back there’
I did an interview with Gonzo one time, and when I got into the Zoom call, it was the actor on screen trying to figure out his audio. And then once he did, he went like “OKAY!” and then just like dove to the floor and it was Gonzo and there was never a moment when I doubted that the dude was just Gonzo’s tech guy
I have met a muppet-like puppet in real life and when I tell you that my brain was hacked FUCKING INSTANTLY….. It was a person, I swear it was a person. I asked it for a hug (no i was not 5 years old, i was like 28 at this time). i genuinely don’t know what came over me, it was just. It was a person???? Witchcraft
A couple years ago, I was invited to the birthday party of one of my former preschool students. I decided to bring my teaching puppet (a big rat) along because I knew several other kids from that class would be there, and she was always a huge hit with them.
They were, of course, very excited to see her. But what surprised me was that after the kids ran off to play in the sprinkler, the parents around me struck up conversation with the puppet. They continued for at least fifteen minutes, asking her questions like, “how long have you been teaching?” and “eaten out of any good dumpsters lately?” until one dad exclaimed “why have I been talking to a rat puppet this whole time!”
There’s a guy who comes to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science with life size Skeleton puppets of mammoth/young T-Rex that he wears. You can fully see him in the middle of the skeleton, and it’s a SKELETON, but absolutely everyone interacts with the puppets like they’re living, breathing animals. I watched multiple people attempt to feed pretzels to the baby rex.
you know in hindsight it was very easy to see that Donald Trump was going to blow up the economy. it was also very easy to see that Donald Trump was going to blow up the economy with any foresight too if you weren’t a raging moron dismissing that for stupid personal reasons.
Experience: Learning the right way to connect the dots.
This is the best representation of something I have been trying to explain to people for years!!!! Saving this to my phone so I can routinely pull it out when I need.
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I bring you sad news today. Murphy, the eagle who incubated a rock (and later raised a foster eaglet after his rock “hatched”), passed away at age 33 (almost a decade longer than long-lived wild eagles!). A tornado hit his local area. It’s believed he sustained blunt force head trauma, likely from spooking during the high winds, as his cage and fellow eagles were unharmed.
Murphy is survived by his foster son, Baby 23-126, who was successfully released into the wild, and a second foster eaglet he was still caring for; this eaglet is expected to be able to be released as well.
I know a lot of people on Tumblr enjoyed seeing his story, and I know we will remember him fondly.
Not to make everyone sad again, but! I realized that just days before Murphy passed away, the eagles (Shadow and Jackie) who had hatched 3 eaglets lost one of them to a sudden, severe winter storm.
Now, I’m not saying that Murphy suddenly had somewhere else to be, but an eaglet passed away and an eagle known for how he took care of lost eaglets passed away just days later. I’m just saying. I’m just thinking if there’s anything after death for eagles, maybe I hope they find each other.
