Bridges

No, not Beau Bridges you idiot, regular bridges!


Here's the thing about Civilization... From what I understand you reproduce a whole bunch and have your children grow up and become grown humans. You all work together, plant seeds, breed livestock and basically obliterate your parcel of land for all the resources it has. Then you build roads so you can sell your apples and pigs to neighbouring villages and then those roads need to cross a river because there's better grain on the other side maybe, so you need to build passageways everywhere all around the world so that civilization can function, or something.

Right, so basically you need to build bridges spanning these physical obstacles. And then cities emerged and these incredible bridges got built.





Bridges.

Animal Collectives

Ok, so this is always an "adorable little conversation". Credit goes to J-Bags for this gem of an idea. There are so many great collective names for members of the animal kingdom. I was thinking, how amazing would it be if there was just one guy that came up with all of these? Like some sort of old English Zooliterary master? That would rule. Anyways, dick with this:

So a herd of antelope, pride of lions... a pod of dolphins, etc.. thats fine and all. But there are a few which are a bit more spectacular.

A lounge of lizards
A murder of crows
A parliament of owls
A mischief of mice

and a blessing of unicorns.

yeah, bro.

Animal behaviour, pt. 1

Man, I love stories about wildlife exhibiting behaviour that is strangely "human-like". For example, this is one I read recently that made me go "yeah!":

June, 1994. In Wales, a village's local bee-keeper, Margaret Bell, who kept bees for several decades, passed away. After her passing, the town's residents noticed hundreds of bees settled peacefully, on the corner of the street, directly opposite the house where Margaret had lived for twenty six years.

The bees were paying their respects.

*shudder*

Jaguar Warriors? Yes please!

So if you thought the ancient Aztecs couldn't get any cooler, think again, buddy. Their military had two classes of warrior -- the "Jaguar Warriors" and the "Eagle Warriors". Hell yes!

Each class was said to wear the skin/feathers of their namesake, and took on characteristics of their animal to some extent in battle.

Imagine like, sitting in an Aztec bar and someone asking you what you did for a living, and you replying "I'm a motherfuckin' Jaguar Warrior!". Yeah!

Coat of Arms

Having your own family "coat of arms" is so damn cool. Having something that somehow represents your family in a symbolic way is awesome -- imagine having a fucking "chimera" on yours? Or a phoenix or something.

I wish mine had a snake fighting a lion, with a badass shield in the middle and cherubs flying around it.

Big Cats

...imagine these three were "coming for you" - you'd be so fucked.



Nature has such badass regal creatures in it.

Speaking of regal creatures - I love in children's stories, particularly picture-heavy books, where there's some sort of hierarchy or monarchy in the animal kingdom. For example, the Lion would usually be king, but for some reason a SNAKE is queen, and they have a trusted bird as an "advisor" and monkeys do their bidding, and whatnot.

Such a cool "utopian society". I'm certainly not basing this on JUST the lion king, but it is a very classic example.

This guy is the best animal king of all time, however:



...Have TWO bananas.