Straightway cross the field and to my heart's desire

[sovay]

Since the equinox occurred around a quarter after three in my part of the world, I spent the first day of autumn with rushthatspeaks. We got dinner from Mamaleh's and he showed me an episode of One Piece (1999–) chosen to illustrate the show's worldbuilding and capacity for simultaneous comedy, numinous, and WTF. Before and after that we mostly lay around on the couch and occasionally Rafe, the elder of the two cats, tried to eat my head. Rush sent me a lovely conversation about the care and feeding of skeletons. It was a good start to the season.

This turkey made an elegant harbinger, too.

Comments

[asakiyume]

My oldest is a HUGE One Piece fan. He'll be pleased when I share your words about it!

[sovay]

He'll be pleased when I share your words about it!

I suspect it of being too much TV for me to watch, but I have been greatly enjoying rushthatspeaks' reportage and am by now extremely invested in the mysteries of the world!

[asakiyume]

Oh, it's definitely too much for me too! And Rush must have a better way of talking about it than the tall one, because although I can understand that he really likes it, somehow his way of talking about it hasn't quite drawn me in. It just seems too big! Plus, I remember the art from when we had a subscription to Shonen Jump, and I wasn't a super fan of the style. But I *do* appreciate how involved and involving it is--and the fact that Rush-that-speaks is into it too makes me think that if I *did* find an entry point, I might like it.

[sovay]

Plus, I remember the art from when we had a subscription to Shonen Jump, and I wasn't a super fan of the style.

Speaking from one episode's experience, the art switches disorientingly between a more or less normal animation style for its era of anime and sudden cartoonish grotesquerie which seems tied to comedy and/or emotionally high keys, but I acclimated to it with surprising rapidity. I've been informed the art style is also capable of extraordinarily weird and beautiful things, which I would believe. The plot as it is being told to me is brilliantly intricate and compelling while looking surface-level like a goofy-violent picaresque.

[asakiyume]

The plot as it is being told to me is brilliantly intricate and compelling while looking surface-level like a goofy-violent picaresque. --I am smiling and laughing because this is exactly what the tall one says. CONFIRMATION FOR THE WIN.

Episode 151?

[asakiyume]

The tall one wants to know if episode 151 was the one Rush-that-speaks shared with you, and if not, which episode.

Re: Episode 151?

[sovay]

The tall one wants to know if episode 151 was the one Rush-that-speaks shared with you, and if not, which episode.

I believe it was 61, with the great whale Laboon.

Re: Episode 151?

[asakiyume]

Thank you; I will let him know!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, that's good - and I love the turkey pic!

[sovay]

Aw, that's good - and I love the turkey pic!

Thank you!

It just looked so peculiarly numinous for a turkey.

[cmcmck]

Given the potential shortages, that turkey needs to be careful! :o)

[sovay]

Given the potential shortages, that turkey needs to be careful!

My brother has actively offered to hunt the rabbits in my parents' yard. The neighborhood is overpopulated—we are bereft of foxes—and they ate a young tree my mother had planted last year.

[cmcmck]

No shortage of rabbits hereabouts for sure!

[choco_frosh]

...I might have to hit up your brother for rabbit.
(Probably not til after I move, tho'. Unless E. was away for the weekend, I guess.)

[sovay]

...I might have to hit up your brother for rabbit.

If this plan is seriously undertaken (one impediment is the existence of Sugarbunny, the plush and elegant otter-coated not-for-eating rabbit with whom my niece has been raised), I will let you know! There are so many rabbits in my parents' yard. So many. I'd eat them.

[watervole]

It's nice to see what wild turkeys look like! Very different.

[sovay]

It's nice to see what wild turkeys look like! Very different.

We have a fair number of wild turkeys roaming the streets. One of the local exemplars even got his own song.

[watervole]

The song was fun. Shame they didn't include any actual sound of the turkey.

[teenybuffalo]

That turkey harbinger is beautiful. I'd believe anything it told me.

Thank you for relaying the post on the care and feeding of skeletons, too. I'm feeling a little smug because I often pick up cool shells and usually have some in the bottom of my tote bag at any given time, so I'm amply prepared without knowing it. I should do what I'm always saying I'll do and add a small container of cracked corn or similar bird feed, in case I have an opportunity to feed waterfowl too.

[sovay]

That turkey harbinger is beautiful. I'd believe anything it told me.

It was so beautifully poised between sun and shadow.

Thank you for relaying the post on the care and feeding of skeletons, too.

You're welcome! I'm glad you are already set for any skeletons you may encounter and I second your idea of accommodating birds, too.

[pameladean]

The turkey's significance seems overdetermined. My goodness.

We've had flocks through here from time to time, though they are more numerous closer to Minnehaha Creek or the river. My favorite sighting was a group of about seven who had discovered that the neighbors on the corner had planted their boulevard with native grasses, which had gone to seed. The seed heads drooped over the curb into the bike lane, so several turkeys set up their table there. The inevitable reaction of every biker was to slow, slow again, stop, and either take out a phone immediately or walk the bike very stealthily forward and then take out a phone.

I've been frightening to juvenile turkeys in the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, but adult ones don't seem remotely alarmed by people. But I liked that the bikers didn't want to startle them.

P.

[sovay]

The turkey's significance seems overdetermined. My goodness.

I saw a coyote for the solstice once, so why not a turkey for the equinox?

The seed heads drooped over the curb into the bike lane, so several turkeys set up their table there. The inevitable reaction of every biker was to slow, slow again, stop, and either take out a phone immediately or walk the bike very stealthily forward and then take out a phone.

That's a wonderful image. Thank you.

[alexxkay]

Turkeys frequently roost in the trees in our neighborhood. A young girl in the house behind us has taken to having conversations with them as they ascend in the late afternoon.

[sovay]

A young girl in the house behind us has taken to having conversations with them as they ascend in the late afternoon.

I like that!