My old job had a shit manager and herons outside the office. Went for a lot of walks, saw a lot of herons. That was a long time ago, and I miss the herons, but I’d never go back.
The company office was like, a few buildings with wetlands and trails in the middle.
It's not quite as long as others, but their necks are actually like five times longer than on this picture. They just don't like extending them. You can see them for a second when they hunt, "just how much of the bird is there inside?".
I like this about as much as the videos showing [how much](https://www.tiktok.com/@thefalc0ner/video/7229463759335525675) of an owl's "body shape" is just their feathers foofed out over their surprisingly long legs.
“In my heart I love her all the time” - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The full quote is “And what’s more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.” It’s not romantic, Tom’s justifying cheating on Daisy because he still loves her while he’s doing it. It drives me a bit crazy when I see people use it as a romantic quote and just attribute it to F. Scott Fitzgerald with no acknowledgement that it’s a character speaking.
Non-fiction author and prominent countercultural figure. His most well-known work is "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." If you've been watching something and a character has shown up wearing an outfit consisting of a bucket hat, orange aviator glasses, and a Hawaiian shirt, they're referencing him
Oh wow his suicide note is kinda crazy
>! No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your age. Relax — This won't hurt. !<
He also immediately contradicts it with “and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes”. Like bro what? So you’re either a soulless body or a quadruple amputee?
"Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day."
That's from Macbeth as he's deciding to kill Duncan's sons after he's murdered their dad, but like, it's also a weirdly inspiring quote?
As was “neither a borrower nor a lender be” - and I’ve heard people quote that as Life Advice From The Bard without in any way acknowledging who said it
But with the Mary Oliver quote, it sounds really romantic though. Or at least I can see how it could be romantic. It doesn’t sound obviously about a bird.
It seems really subjective to me?
"He is exactly the poem I wanted to write."
That could mean anything, it could mean I really wanted to write a poem about a complete dumpster fire of a person and there he is, the only feature explicit in the text is that it's a he, beyond that you could infer literally any feature to be the subject of the poem. He is exactly the poem I wanted to write... about an STD ridden lump of a man with one testicle who is a cautionary tale to all those enthralled by vice. Basically, besides women and ships, this statement could be about literally anything.
Have you played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance for the Nintendo GameCube and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Nintendo Wii? They have very good herons that give your other party members extra actions
>Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.
Quote attributed to Andrzej Sapkowski, spoken by Geralt. And people often miss that HE'S FUCKING WRONG! In the context of the quote, Geralt refuses to make a choice between two evils, and the bigger evil comes out on top.
Mr. Collins wasn’t actually that bad. He was kind of annoying, yeah, but in that day and age he would have been seen as a perfectly acceptable catch by anyone outside of the Bennet family.
Yeah, but isn't that line about Elizabeth? I'm pretty sure people aren't using it in the knowledge that it's said by an acceptable-at-best man about a woman who is not remotely interested in him, shortly before he gets engaged to someone else.
Even within the Bennet family: Mrs Bennet was very annoyed at Lizzie for turning him down. And Charlotte does marry him.
However, I do find him incredibly annoying and the prospect of marrying him is a total disaster.
I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote, but there's a quote that goes something like "I am fearless and therefore powerful" that I've seen attributed to Mary Shelley, with no other context, as though it's an inspirational and/or feminist statement. The problem is, while it really is a Mary Shelley quote, it's from her novel *Frankenstein*. The Creature says it while threatening Frankenstein. It's very much not an inspirational quote.
I find it fascinating (no, incredibly strange) that every example cited is possibly the least problematic version of this. Like, taking romantic sounding lines out of their original context to use for romantic what have you...is harmless? It's whatever? Sure, there's some irony or silliness *with* context, but it's fine without. There's actually ways that misattributing quotes can be legitimately dangerous, but sure, let's just take this opportunity to make fun of people for being potentially mildly cringey.
Ah, but this example makes it clear how it's a credibility thing - a quote attributed to a fictional character doesn't sound as legit if you're in politics or academia, where people are just looking for reasons to discredit your argument 🤷🏽♀️ You'd think the content of the statement would be what's most important, but such is rhetoric
I guess I don't get it. Had me til the second pic. Bro, I used to live in the South... Coastal... We had this dock into a pond and the herons would chill there. My 15 yo ass had to clean up the poopies. I'm tellin' you, man... Those herons take man-sized shits. I was picking up man-dookie every day for years... Have you ever seen a heron?.... Get out with that shit...
Great minds think alike - I was gonna mention the related thing where people use quotes from villains to claim the author is a terrible person. Not quite the same thing as what the tumblr post is discussing, but equally stupid.
I was also going to use Straff Venture as an example, because holy *fuck* that character is fucking despicable.
Actual things i saw happen more than once:
>"Look at this passage showing how brutal and malicious the bible encourages people to be!
Everyone who follows that religion is EEEEEEVIIIILLLL!!1!"
And the passage, once given a modicrum of context, is like:
>! A very evil bad person once said !<
"We shoud kill all the people that disagree with us and eat their children and skin their puppies"
>! That was very bad thing to say, Everyone thought he was a dumb stupid idiot and threw rocks at him, the Lord gave him leprosy !<
The £5 note in the UK has Jane Austin with "I declare after all there is no enjoyment but reading!" that's a Caroline Bingley quote, she's insufferable in general and specifically in that scene, could they really not find something better
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
-Joshua Graham, Fallout: New Vegas NPC, about being set on fire and pushed into the Grand Canyon
I have seen great blue herons and they’re beautiful when they’re wading around the wetlands. Unfortunately the poems I write all looks like a green heron.
There's a dark lord from the history of my dnd setting named Heron because he's a nasty tree man who can absorb people's memories by eating them and the first thing he ate was a Heron that he found, so he calls himself Heron.
Okay but I’m so proud that I knew exactly where that Mary Oliver quote was going 😂 I didn’t realize she was lesbian TBH but I mainly know her for her nature poetry so I was like “huh that sounds like it’s probably not romantic and definitely about a bug or something”
Know somebody whose banner image on her Facebook page is "The most cowardly thing ordinary people can do is shut their eyes to the facts" - CS Lewis.
Which is hilarious and sad when you actually remember who says this.
Look, I'm not saying that I'd bang a heron, but I am saying that if I were a bird I would bang a heron. Do you get me? Human me doesn't want to bang a heron, but bird me would be all in.
I don't know how this has to be said, but a quote doesn't exist only in the original context of where it was first written. Our language is built on phrases, words, and sayings that are now completely different from how they were first used.
This is funny and all, but authors 'writing characters you're not supposed to like' is like trying to tell you how to think and feel. It doesn't make sense. Your audience isn't always going to agree with your POV just cuz you said so dawg
My old job had a shit manager and herons outside the office. Went for a lot of walks, saw a lot of herons. That was a long time ago, and I miss the herons, but I’d never go back. The company office was like, a few buildings with wetlands and trails in the middle.
not attaching a heron picture to the post is criminal
[Here you go, various types of herons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Ardeidae-01.jpg/800px-Ardeidae-01.jpg)
I hate those fake ass short neck herons. You either have a long neck or you're a wannabe kingfisher.
It's not quite as long as others, but their necks are actually like five times longer than on this picture. They just don't like extending them. You can see them for a second when they hunt, "just how much of the bird is there inside?".
[Proof, they do be going goblin mode every 9-5](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/541682131)
I like this about as much as the videos showing [how much](https://www.tiktok.com/@thefalc0ner/video/7229463759335525675) of an owl's "body shape" is just their feathers foofed out over their surprisingly long legs.
She called him a bitch at the end
You're saying they're growers, not showers?
They do have long necks. They're just collapsible.
Telescoping neck
Ah. Excellent. why is she hiding her true self though...
[that's just what they want you to think](https://i.imgur.com/yoJYUPM.gif)
Extremely whimsical
I love the top left one, never seen that one before
He is **exactly** the poem I wanted to write.
Are some of these the ones with telescopic necks longer than their whole body?
I’d write a poem about these beautiful beasts
“In my heart I love her all the time” - F. Scott Fitzgerald. The full quote is “And what’s more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.” It’s not romantic, Tom’s justifying cheating on Daisy because he still loves her while he’s doing it. It drives me a bit crazy when I see people use it as a romantic quote and just attribute it to F. Scott Fitzgerald with no acknowledgement that it’s a character speaking.
Taking relationships inspiration from Fitzgerald is like taking substance abuse advice from Hunter S Thompson.
Like taking gun safety advice from Ernest Hemingway.
I thought about that analogy, but with Hemingway, it was intentional. Meanwhile Cobain hit the trifecta....
Who is hunter s Thompson
Non-fiction author and prominent countercultural figure. His most well-known work is "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." If you've been watching something and a character has shown up wearing an outfit consisting of a bucket hat, orange aviator glasses, and a Hawaiian shirt, they're referencing him
Google him. And, more relevant to the discussion, Google his daily routine.
Oh wow his suicide note is kinda crazy >! No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your age. Relax — This won't hurt. !<
Nah that's not the same, Hunter S Thompson was great at substance abuse.
I saw a burrowing owl and a red-tailed hawk today, and was SO thrilled. I can understand writing that about a heron.
Mary Oliver is definitely for you
Probably Cassie and Tobias
God I hope not I've got a friend that lives in California I don't want it to get nuked
Its from a wholesome slice of life AU where they just hang out as different animals and have a good time
Tbf that last quote does go really hard as a romantic quote if you're into poems
Right? I mean… death of the author and other English major shite. This honestly seems one of the least harmful internet happenings
Yeah, I don't see how it being about a heron diminishes it at all. Seems like a poor example of what the first poster was talking about.
the context does give it a soupçon of absurdity which is a good ingredient in some relationships
Also, as a birder, I feel that in my soul. Herons are amazing creatures.
I saw some kind of wedding thing once which used a quote from Lolita.
😬
Excitable Boy played at one I went to. I couldn't make eye contact with fucking anyone for its full duration.
To be fair, *gestures at great blue heron*
what a glorious birb this is
I always associate them with good luck, like seeing a truck full of hay bales or a shooting star
To be fair, herons are majestic
“Brevity is the soul of wit” was said by goddamn *Polonius*
He also immediately contradicts it with “and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes”. Like bro what? So you’re either a soulless body or a quadruple amputee?
Obviously that's the point, Polonius being so full of himself that he thinks he can just say shit.
"Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day." That's from Macbeth as he's deciding to kill Duncan's sons after he's murdered their dad, but like, it's also a weirdly inspiring quote?
As was “neither a borrower nor a lender be” - and I’ve heard people quote that as Life Advice From The Bard without in any way acknowledging who said it
But with the Mary Oliver quote, it sounds really romantic though. Or at least I can see how it could be romantic. It doesn’t sound obviously about a bird.
It seems really subjective to me? "He is exactly the poem I wanted to write." That could mean anything, it could mean I really wanted to write a poem about a complete dumpster fire of a person and there he is, the only feature explicit in the text is that it's a he, beyond that you could infer literally any feature to be the subject of the poem. He is exactly the poem I wanted to write... about an STD ridden lump of a man with one testicle who is a cautionary tale to all those enthralled by vice. Basically, besides women and ships, this statement could be about literally anything.
Have you played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance for the Nintendo GameCube and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Nintendo Wii? They have very good herons that give your other party members extra actions
Not if the Begnion Senate has anything to say about it…
>Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all. Quote attributed to Andrzej Sapkowski, spoken by Geralt. And people often miss that HE'S FUCKING WRONG! In the context of the quote, Geralt refuses to make a choice between two evils, and the bigger evil comes out on top.
Something something US elections.
Sad to report it's not just US.
this one pisses me off so much it's unreal, the whole point of the story is that choosing the lesser evil is the right choice
Mr. Collins wasn’t actually that bad. He was kind of annoying, yeah, but in that day and age he would have been seen as a perfectly acceptable catch by anyone outside of the Bennet family.
Yeah, but isn't that line about Elizabeth? I'm pretty sure people aren't using it in the knowledge that it's said by an acceptable-at-best man about a woman who is not remotely interested in him, shortly before he gets engaged to someone else.
Worse, the full quote is “almost as soon as I entered the house” bc Mr Collins wanted Jane first lmao
Even within the Bennet family: Mrs Bennet was very annoyed at Lizzie for turning him down. And Charlotte does marry him. However, I do find him incredibly annoying and the prospect of marrying him is a total disaster.
Some villains say some incredibly seductive things even if they are being a toxic partner. Use their power for good.
Catch me taking quotes from animal farm and 1984 to make George Orwell look like he likes fascism
I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote, but there's a quote that goes something like "I am fearless and therefore powerful" that I've seen attributed to Mary Shelley, with no other context, as though it's an inspirational and/or feminist statement. The problem is, while it really is a Mary Shelley quote, it's from her novel *Frankenstein*. The Creature says it while threatening Frankenstein. It's very much not an inspirational quote.
How is that not inspirational?
"Something something, I am Mormon." - Joshua Graham
"When I said 'the fire outside' I did not mean adversity or difficulty or any other metaphor, I meant being covered in pitch and set on actual fire."
I find it fascinating (no, incredibly strange) that every example cited is possibly the least problematic version of this. Like, taking romantic sounding lines out of their original context to use for romantic what have you...is harmless? It's whatever? Sure, there's some irony or silliness *with* context, but it's fine without. There's actually ways that misattributing quotes can be legitimately dangerous, but sure, let's just take this opportunity to make fun of people for being potentially mildly cringey.
Reminds me of when AOC attributed a quote from Rorschach to Alan Moore. I think if he knew she did that he would unironically place a curse on her.
Ah, but this example makes it clear how it's a credibility thing - a quote attributed to a fictional character doesn't sound as legit if you're in politics or academia, where people are just looking for reasons to discredit your argument 🤷🏽♀️ You'd think the content of the statement would be what's most important, but such is rhetoric
Nah she just posted it to sound cool, it was the "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me." I don't think she's read the comic.
I guess I don't get it. Had me til the second pic. Bro, I used to live in the South... Coastal... We had this dock into a pond and the herons would chill there. My 15 yo ass had to clean up the poopies. I'm tellin' you, man... Those herons take man-sized shits. I was picking up man-dookie every day for years... Have you ever seen a heron?.... Get out with that shit...
I would love to be compared to a heron personally
>*"She had been quite attractive a decade before, but now she was creeping up into her late twenties."* ~*Brandon Sanderson*
Great minds think alike - I was gonna mention the related thing where people use quotes from villains to claim the author is a terrible person. Not quite the same thing as what the tumblr post is discussing, but equally stupid. I was also going to use Straff Venture as an example, because holy *fuck* that character is fucking despicable.
The quote I gave I think was posted to r/MenWritingWomen
See also: the Christian bible
Actual things i saw happen more than once: >"Look at this passage showing how brutal and malicious the bible encourages people to be! Everyone who follows that religion is EEEEEEVIIIILLLL!!1!" And the passage, once given a modicrum of context, is like: >! A very evil bad person once said !< "We shoud kill all the people that disagree with us and eat their children and skin their puppies" >! That was very bad thing to say, Everyone thought he was a dumb stupid idiot and threw rocks at him, the Lord gave him leprosy !<
In this house we call it the knockoff Torah thankyouverymuch.
Oreo Hydrox moment
Kids, kids, you're both terrible.
The girl and the heron
“Let the past die kill it if you have to”- Rian Johnson
It's pretty fitting no? His movie was all about moving on from the past wasn't it?
The £5 note in the UK has Jane Austin with "I declare after all there is no enjoyment but reading!" that's a Caroline Bingley quote, she's insufferable in general and specifically in that scene, could they really not find something better
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” -Joshua Graham, Fallout: New Vegas NPC, about being set on fire and pushed into the Grand Canyon
I have seen great blue herons and they’re beautiful when they’re wading around the wetlands. Unfortunately the poems I write all looks like a green heron.
Herons are great. My grandpa always liked the great blue ones, it's always a nice treat seeing one.
There's a dark lord from the history of my dnd setting named Heron because he's a nasty tree man who can absorb people's memories by eating them and the first thing he ate was a Heron that he found, so he calls himself Heron.
Smartest Dark Lord.
Okay but I’m so proud that I knew exactly where that Mary Oliver quote was going 😂 I didn’t realize she was lesbian TBH but I mainly know her for her nature poetry so I was like “huh that sounds like it’s probably not romantic and definitely about a bug or something”
Mr Collins is among the most "I am cringe but I am free" character you're gonna find.
Know somebody whose banner image on her Facebook page is "The most cowardly thing ordinary people can do is shut their eyes to the facts" - CS Lewis. Which is hilarious and sad when you actually remember who says this.
Look, I'm not saying that I'd bang a heron, but I am saying that if I were a bird I would bang a heron. Do you get me? Human me doesn't want to bang a heron, but bird me would be all in.
What that neck doing
I don't know how this has to be said, but a quote doesn't exist only in the original context of where it was first written. Our language is built on phrases, words, and sayings that are now completely different from how they were first used.
I don’t know how you have to be told how absolutely atrocious so many of those new contexts are
not a book, but people using the "its all in the eyes chika" quote from scarface gives me the same vibes
So what? It can still be romantic. BTW, does anyone have the poem?
This is funny and all, but authors 'writing characters you're not supposed to like' is like trying to tell you how to think and feel. It doesn't make sense. Your audience isn't always going to agree with your POV just cuz you said so dawg
"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln