i believe that would be a baby cockatoo
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Oh gosh I love you, you ugly little thing.
much the same in Japan, men go with arms on shoulders, arm in arm and even hold hands.
In Istanbul, grown men walk together with their elbows linked. Schoolboys sit with a draped arm forgotten around the other’s shoulders. College students would ruffle one another’s hair. It was deeply affecting to be in the midst of a culture where men were allowed to touch one another in a way that was not sexual and not violent but simply fraternal.
Pigeon: Impossible – Neatorama
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m off to eat a bird.
John William Waterhouse St Eulalia (1885)
Saint Eulalia exhibited 1885
Oil on canvas
support: 1886 x 1175 mm frame: 2310 x 1610 x 180 mm
painting
Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
N01542St Eulalia was martyred in the fourth century, aged twelve, for refusing to make sacrifices to the Roman gods. Two executioners tore her body with iron hooks, and held flames to her breasts and sides until she was suffocated by the smoke. According to the account given by the Spanish poet Prudentius, which Waterhouse quoted in the exhibition catalogue, a white dove emerged from Eulalia’s mouth at the moment of her death and a miraculous fall of snow descended. This composition is very daring. The figure is dramatically foreshortened, and the snow contrasts with Eulalia’s naked flesh.