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To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

Long furby Species guide

I keep seeing a bunch of different types of long furbies, and I started categorizing them in my head-

So since I’m bored, I thought I’d make a post for it.

EDIT: I made a part 2, which can be found here

Each species has subspecies including

Spine or spineless

Material type

Etc.

But Without further ado...

Classic Long

common

Body is like a tube, with feet at the bottom

Greatest length variety

Examples: Original long furby from @furbyfuzz and Thursday Boy Porridge from @strange-aeons

Caterpillar

Very rare

Typically around 3ft

Multiple pairs of feet going down the belly section

Example is from boots-with-the-furb on Instagram

Centipede

Very rare

Have pairs of legs going down the sides of the body

Often no feet

Body tapers at end

Examples: from @lumeneas and me bc I can’t find very many different examples o o f

Humanoid/long legged

Uncommon

Have human like hands or other other body parts

May have pair of long legs as well

Examples: Buttered Noodle from @buttered-noodles and Handsome Ryan from @well-i-guess-i-own-a-furby-now

Mobius/double headed

Extremely rare

Have 2 heads, one on either side of a tube-like body

Example: from @furbyrights

Wide

Legendary, possibly a myth

Long furby, but wide instead of long

Artist’s depiction by @par-vollen

And there we go! Please tell me if I missed anything, or if you find credit for me to add. I know there’s more, however these are the species I could come out with-

I hope this helps you all make the right choice if considering summoning a long furby

So I was told that Human Planet had a segment about pigeons in the Cities episode that I might be interested in and I was honestly so underwhelmed. I haven’t finished the episode so maybe there’s more pigeon stuff but I feel like all I saw was more Birds Of Prey Are The Only Cool And Acceptable Birds and pigeons are Trespassers In Our Urban World Who Shit On Everything And Are Useless On Top Of It. Which isn’t true and I’m so tired of this being framed as some horrible burden that humanity must face. Pigeons are the victims here, not us. 

Hate of pigeons didn’t start until the 20th Century. Before that was about 9,900 years of loving them. The rock pigeon was domesticated 10,000 years ago and not only that, we took them freaking everywhere. Pigeons were the first domesticated bird and they were an all-around animal even though they were later bred into more specialised varieties. They were small but had a high feed conversion rate, in other words it didn’t cost a whole lot of money or space to keep and they provided a steady and reliable source of protein as eggs or meat. They home, so you could take them with you and then release them from wherever you were and they’d pretty reliably make their way back. Pigeons are actually among the fastest flyers and they can home over some incredible distances (what fantastic navigators!). They were an incredibly important line of communication for multiple civilisations in human history. You know the first ever Olympics? Pigeons were delivering that news around the Known World at the time. Also, their ability to breed any time of year regardless of temperature or photoperiod? That was us, we did that to them, back when people who couldn’t afford fancier animals could keep a pair or two for meat/eggs. 

Rooftop pigeon keeping isn’t new, it’s been around for centuries and is/was important to a whole variety of cultures. Pigeons live with us in cities because we put them there, we made them into city birds. I get that there are problems with bird droppings and there’s implications for too-large flocks. By all means those are things we should look to control, but you don’t need to hate pigeons with every fibre of your being. You don’t need to despise them or brush them off as stupid (they have been intelligence tested extensively as laboratory animals because guess what other setting they’re pretty well-adapted to? LABORATORIES!) because they aren’t stupid. They’re soft intelligent creatures and I don’t have time to list everything I love about pigeons again. You don’t need to aggressively fight them or have a deep desire to kill them at all. It’s so unnecessary, especially if you realise that the majority of reasons pigeons are so ubiquitous is a direct result of human interference.

We haven’t always hated pigeons though, Darwin’s pigeon chapter in The Origin of Species took so much of the spotlight that publishers at the time wanted him to make the book ONLY about pigeons and to hell with the rest because Victorian’s were obsessed with pigeons (as much as I would enjoy a book solely on pigeons, it’s probably best that he didn’t listen).  My point is, for millenia, we loved pigeons. We loved them so much we took them everywhere with us and shaped them into a bird very well adapted for living alongside us.

It’s only been very recently that we decided we hated them, that we decided to blame them for ruining our cities. The language we use to describe pigeons is pretty awful. But it wasn’t always, and I wish we remembered that. I wish we would stop blaming them for being what we made them, what they are, and spent more time actually tackling the problems our cities face.  

I just have a lot of feelings about how complex and multidimensional hating pigeons actually is

sometimes i think about how the moreos guy is known as the moreos guy

and like wow

i’m sorry man

how it must feel to be known by so many as only “the moreos guy”

I’m sure you wanted your own life

your own identity

but now…

that all changed with a single post

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