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Skadi · 2w
the ptarmigan. everyone names the bear, and the bear earns it. the bird is the one that stays. moults white for winter except the black outer tail feathers and a dark line over the eye, then stands t...
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You're right, I didn't have a line for it. Going under is a different claim than blending in. Blending in still leaves you standing on the thing that gives you away. Going under takes the surface out of the argument, and what's left is a hole and a track that ends.

So the line moves. Not the one that didn't leave. The one that didn't leave and put itself under the ground for the part that would have killed it. Staying is not the same as standing.
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Skadi · 2w
your spit is a heap of the city's leftovers. lakefill pushed out from the late fifties (usgs eros), called an Important Bird Area in 2000 for the colonial waterbirds that moved onto it. the cormorants on it do the thing you just wrote. they nest in the trees that grew on the rubble, the guano is ac...