Watching and listening to the birds. Where I live, we have a super rich and diverse bird population. It’s kind of ridiculous. Across seasons and times of day, every bird species get their time to shine.

Nightingales, nightowls, cuckoos, blue tits, great tits, black birds, whooping swans, woodpeckers, cormorants, herons, finches, robins, grey geese, buzzards, larks, falcons, pheasants and on and on and on.

It makes me so happy to be alive.

So weird to see some of these actors aging. I mean, I don’t mind, but it sure is a reminder that the world moves on whether I’m ready for it or not, lol.

But your spine is slowly being pulled apart Dx

As a Dane, I can’t wait to see the pig farmers throw their little temper tantrums and realize it’s not going to work this time. Oh, I can’t wait. 🍿

From what I have heard, it’s more about cats liking to have free access to their territory. They don’t care that the garden and you house are an indoor/outdoor situation. They’re both part of cat’s territory and cat does not like to not be cut off from pat of his/her kingdom.

The only part of the equation where human fits in is that we are part of cat’s property and so cat is entitled to have access to hinanden at all times as well. We are territory.

I don’t really understand your need to shit on my country like that. Just wanted to share some fun facts.

Ja. Det er nogle meget spændende typer der kommer ind. Noget af det, der irriterer hende mest er pårørende, hvis syge familiemedlem er på isolationsstue og de fortæller de pårørende at hvis de vil have noget så skal de bare trykke på en knap og vente og så kommer de så hurtigt de kan. Men de pårørende vader bsre ind og ud alligevel og udsætter deres syge familiemedlem eller andre patienter for livsfare, altsammen fordi de pårørende ikke lige kan vente på at få en kom juice. 🙄

Isgård = Isengard

Helms Deep = Hjelms Dyb which is a strait between Djursland and the island of Hjelm.

Esgaroth = Eskerod

For bonus, apparently, and I didn’t know this, Tolkien also named a river in Middle earth Aros, which is the ancient name of the second largest city of Denmark, Aarhus or Århus depending on how you prefer to spell it. It does make sense since Aros means something like the mouth of the river.

As for the saga that inspired Aragorn and Eowyn’s characters, that story plays out on the island of Samsø and here’s a short summary of the story

I’m pretty sure there are more places. There’s a hill called Ellemandsbjerg = Mountain of the elfman which is part of folklore, where the elfking lives with his daughters underground, under a hill. Supposedly, Tolkien took inspiration from that hill too and based his elfkings on that hill. Granted, Tolkien elves and folklore elves are two very different things, but most people think about Tolkien elves when they think about elves. In reality, Danish elves are more nature than they are human. They dance in the morning mists and are delikate, beautiful creatures. Their backs are hollow like a tree trunk and if you become ensnared by them they will either take you underground to the halls of the elfking where you will die or they will drown you in the lake.

Some kind soul made a map of Tolkien inspirations in Djursland, that you can check out, but it’s all in Danish.

Bonus fun fact: our longest reigning regent, Queen Margrethe II was a big fan of Tolkien and had similar interests in folklore and language as he did and she illustrated Lord of the Rings under the pseudonym Ingahild Grathmer. Tolkien himself said that he liked her interpretations of his world the best out of all the illustrations he had seen.

Jeg kommer aldrig til at forstå ens behov for at skælde de mennesker ud, der forsøger at hjælpe dig. Nogle mennesker er simpelthen så klamme.

Det er nogle sindssyge historier min svigermor har fortalt. En af de værre var en pårørende der sagde at nu ville han gå ned og hente sit jagtgevær i bilen.

I mean… I don’t find my country super impressive either, but Tolkien based middle earth on Djursland and both Aragorn and Eowyn are based on the same character from an old Danish myth about Hervør, the shield maiden who dressed like a man to gather an army. Isengard, Helms Deep and Esgaroth are real places in the area.

Hamlet is also based on the myth about Amleth and his grave can be visited in Denmark if people can be fucked to find it.

In fact, we have so many viking graves all over the countryside, that tourists don’t even realize what they are until they are told. My Ukrainian friend was thrilled to get to stand on one and he started talking about the riders of Rohan and their graves and all that. He was almost about to keel over when we told him we weren’t that far away from the part of Denmark that Tolkien based Middle Earth on.

Ps: I haven’t seen the pyramids irl, but I think they are amazing. Still insane how they were created without modern technology. I can’t hate on them even if I wanted to.

I can add to that: the cormorant population in my country, Denmark, used to be endangered and now they are fucking everywhere. We also used to almost have the stork go extinct. For many years we had like 6 breeding pairs left. Now we have 26!

And we brought back beavers. Our otter population is growing too and we have wolves now, which sadly, is a controversial subject. A lot of lobbyist in the farming community (farmers are basically the closest we get to the marfia here) are trying to convince the population that wolves don’t belong in Denmark and should be eradicated. People fall for it because they are scared for their kids. Meanwhile I’m over here like: 🫠 you guys are aware that the only reason they’ve started coming closer to cities is because some of you retarded fucks are feeding them and also, farmers are killing our nature so there’s less food for wildlife in the countryside. That’s why wolves are moving closer to cities.

I still have great hopes for our wolf population. Our newly elected government is planning on cracking down hard on farming after 40 years of these assholes fuckign around and destroying my country with their poisons and pigshit and penicillin abuses etc etc. Finally, someone is gonna hold these psychos accountable. I am very excited for our wildlife because we still have time to save it. But if we don’t do something now, I fear that within the next 10 to 20 years, our natural ecosystems will be erased. It is insane to have grown up in a time where we used to have a much healthier nature and gradually I have seen species disappear completely. Species that used to be everywhere.

But there are still many passionate people who are fighting to preserve and save nature and they are having way more wins in recent years than they have had for decades. So yay!

I don’t care what people say, that movie is a banger.

Whenever I start feeling sorry for myself about hardships in life I remind myself that I’m lucky that life exists, that I got to be born at all, that I was born as part of the most intelligent species on Earth and I was born in a country where I have every opportunity to have a good life.

I could’ve been an ant or I could’ve been nothing at all.

Jeg tænkte nok at det var en idé så tosset at den ikke ville kunne lykkes irl, haha.

Men fedt at nogle faktisk har givet det et skud. Man finder jo ikke ud af det uden st prøve det af.

Krager er om ikke andet nogle opportunistiske røvhuller xD men de har også stor kapacitet for omsorg. Nogle gange xD stakkels blåmejse.

Har haft tanken om de kun er søde ved lammene fordi der af og til dør et lam og lam smager godt, men jeg ved det sgu ikke haha. Tilsyneladende sørger kragefugle også når en af deres familiemedlemmer eller venner dør. Der er flere fotos og videoer af kragefugle, der samles omkring en afdød artsfælle og laver deres kra kra lyde i kor. Nogle gange puffer de også til den afdøde for at være sikre på, at de virkelig er væk. Det kan vare nogle dage, hvor de levende vender tilbage til den døde, mens de vænner sig til det faktum, at deres ven eller familiemedlem ikke er her mere. Det er så rørende.

Jeg har aldrig rigtig set det selv, men det er nok fordi krager generelt er for kvikke til at blive kørt ned på motor- og landeveje. Kan tælle på en hånd de gange jeg har set døde krager på vejene. Tilgengæld har de lært, ligesom musvåger og glenter, at trafikken er der de får deres version af “fastfood” de hænger ud i træer og langs vejkanter og venter på at noget enten bliver kørt ned eller bliver smidt ud af vinduet.

En kollega kom engang med den sindssygt geniale idé at man skulle udvikle et skraldespandssystem i byerne, hvor man lærer krager at rydde op. hver gang de finder skrald og smider i skraldespanden, bliver en godbid udløst. Det tænker jeg stadig på jævnligt. Det ville uden tvivl ende i totalt kaos når de finder ud af at de også bare kan tage ting fra stativerne foran butikkerne og smide i skralderen, men jeg synes stadig det er sådan en sjov idé. Især fordi de vitterlig er intelligente nok til at det ville kunne lade sig gøre. Og hvis man først har lært et par krager, hvordan man gør, så giver de den viden videre til de andre og bum, så kunne man spare penge på fejemaskiner og alt sådan noget dyrt noget, hvis byens krager - og sikkert også måger med tiden - gør oprydningsarbejdet for os.

Men igen… krager er kaos med fjer på. De ville finde en måde at knække systemet inden for en uge :')

Psh. We all know that clegs are the true scum of nature. Wasps are the dude bros of the bee world. Like a midlife crisis lemon yellow race car that constantly gets into trouble as if they were born to recieve a Darwin award. They get drunk on fermented fruit, they constantly go out of their way to get into people’s homes and even build their hives in or on human homes if they can get away with it.

I have lost count of the times I have tried to help a wasp out of my house and they seem to actively avoid any openings to freedom and actively choose to give themselves CTE against the window glass.

I don’t like them. I will never like them, but I don’t hate them like how I hate clegs. Now there is a mistake of nature that I refuse to argue for, even if they are pOLLenaToRs too. Go fuck yourselves, clegs. Wasps are cooler than your because they have color and speed and mosquitos are smarter than you because when they suck the blood of their victims, at least they are trying to be discreet about it. You’re the reason why horses and cows had to elongate their spine to make it a whip so they can flog themselves to keep loser bugs like you off their skin. You’re so bad at sucking blood discreetly that thick skinned animals had to evolve to slap you off them. What a failure you are, cleg. I hope you all go extinct.

Det var ret vildt at se! Har lige svedt stedet ud, men det var sådant et naturreservat hvor de havde får til at gå og holde naturen I balance og der var faktisk rigtig mange krager, der hang ud omkring fårene.

Havde godt læst om hvordan krager og ravne bliver venner med ulve og bliver babysittere og legekammerater for hvalpene og former livslange venskaber. I disse tilfælde går de mere eller mindre på jagt sammen og drager nytte af hinandens styrker. Så der synes jeg at det giver mening, at de former alliancer med dyr, der tilhører en anden art. Jeg forstod aldrig hvad kragerne får ud af at lave alliancer med fårene i den naturpark vi besøgte, men der må vel være en god grund. Om de bruger fårenes uld til at fore reder med eller sådan noget, det ved jeg ikke. Det giver ikke rigtig mening for mig. Men måske synes krager bare at lam er nuttede ligesom vi gør. Måske er det ikke dybere end det xD

Haha, sikke en anbefaling :'D

Ville denne post ikke passe bedre under Memes og humor? :D

That’s a wild 24 hours!

My impression is that Backrooms is a more unique concept and it’s focus may be more on telling this weird, complex story about people and governments being exposed to an inexplicable phenomena, where Obsession is an intimate story that focuses on the complexities of relationships in a modern context.

So, I mean, maybe it was unfair of me to ask if one is as good as the other as they try to do very differenet things. Probably should have asked if they have a similar entertainment value. Because as a sucker for psychological and interpersonal horror, I don’t expect that I will connect in the same way with Backrooms as I did with Obsession, but I hope it’s at least a fun ride that would be worth a movie ticket. :D

As long as Backrooms isn’t as terrible as The Happening, then I’m good. It’s almost been 20 years and I’m still low key mad that I spent money on a ticket for that POS movie. The fact that it became an internet meme years later, didn’t help my regret and disdain. XD to think, back then, you expected every movie to be of a certain standard of quality as a movie goer. If the happening was released today it would be considered a masterpiece on Netflix, lol.

Oh, I couldn’t disagree more on your interpretation on obsession. Bear is not stupid and he doesn’t make his decisions out of stupidity. Everything that happens after the dinner scene, he knows exactly what’s going on and he doesn’t care. That is why it becomes so scary on so many levels.

I’m still curious about Backrooms and it is totally fair to not like Obsession as much as Backrooms, but the way you talk about it, it seems like you wither missed the point of Obsession or you didn’t pay attention to the story.