Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆

virgil, lascivious author, onion hater ♿ EIC @GodZineSatan • stories in @MaudlinHouse, @press_roi, others • he/him

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

breaking: wackadoodle piece finally finds loving home with brilliant mag edited by author's favorite contemporary author

this is the highest achievement of my writing career thank you so much

[scaffold literary magazine @scaffoldlitmag]

scaffold #104 is out now, so take a read of the brand new micro, "gig work" by @veanimator!
https://t.co/Gz0p8bulkK

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

bandaid ✅
rest is still pending

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

i need a raise and a decent apartment and a big burrito and a joint and a hug from an old friend who moved far away and 12 hours of genuine solitude and a set of veneers and 2 new pairs of work pants and a rice cooker and a band aid and none of it needs to happen in that order

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

in the name of journalism i politely asked the grackle sitting on the highest branch in the work parking lot screaming his head off "hey man, what are you hootin and hollerin for?" and he said [heinous cardboard scraping on cardboard sound x5]

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

got a new lifer this weekend, NO i dont have pictures but i saw him TWICE !!!

[limpkin @acealeam]

girlfriend called... DECLINE! busy whore! busy with my CREEK

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

i have had such a good day. read in a hammock and looked for birds and then drank a lot of beers and went swimming in a river and ate so much pasta salad. im a blessed man.

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

halfway there babey

[😤GOD EMPEROR ADMIRAL BIG DICK TRACY ESQ.😤 @BitchWaifuu]

I def need to up my travel game

[Sarah 📸 @swrightCO]

Hope birdtwt likes this one: a heron rookery I found in a cell tower the other day

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

running outside to find cell service to google one more time how to pronounce chuck palahniuks name before your girlfriends smart learned brother notices the book youre reading at the cabin and asks you about it

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

anthony and i have been spanish learning buddies on duolingo for months and now every morning he texts me "buenos días virgilio"

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

lately life does feel a lot like everybody else is pissing in the pool around me and then laughing at me for not pissing in the pool too. i think they call this "maturing" but when i am alone i fancy calling it virgil's lustrum of no piss

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

@hantastic01 im not !

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

young male friendships are crazy there's this one really quiet guy i work with and we found out we're a) born a week apart and b) both really into one piece and now he's suddenly like overnight my best buddy and he shows affection by chasing me around with hammers

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

we have kind of an unspoken Wall of Fame at work for ways customers describe us to our coworkers on the phone such as "big white girl," "small latino," "old gay guy," etc
and i finally got one today
and it was "he was like a short white dude with big glasses and a chain wallet"

[iroh (and bumi) @irohthecat]

throwback to when I had the genius idea to put a plate of seeds out so that iroh could have up close and personal bird watching

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

the best dinner is a bowl of leftover veggie chili with some fritos followed by a square or two of high quality dark chocolate that's like 10/10 grub right there that's the shit that makes me wanna keep goin

[esoteric fat boy @xezirsalad]

i died while playing fortnite with my gay guy friend and he told me to call him big mama if i wanted to get my loot back and when he gave it back he said "ok now say thank you big mama" and i did and he said "big mama loves her big growing boy" and it gave me a boner

[PokéMar 𓅪 @PokeMarr]

They wanna be songbirds so bad

[Virgbert West: V-Animator 🧪🔆 @veanimator]

ordering no lettuce extra cucumber on my samch and getting no cucumber extra lettuce

[Boşverme @bosveryaaaaaaaa]

Böyle bir his tarif et

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

I have started predator avoidance training with Ajax this week since he is now officially in his fledgling era.

I downloaded the audio of a wild magpie alarm call and I play it when my cat enters the room. Ajax responds very well, immediately hiding or hopping onto my shoulder. We’ve done this drill four times over a few days, including in the garden. Full marks each time.

I’ll keep doing this, and after enough practice he’ll understand that the cat is the danger he’s being alerted to. This is the same way his parents would teach him in the wild. He has no instinctive fear of cats.

The cat avoidance training is easier because I have a cat, but repeating this process with dogs, hawks, and cars will take a bit of planning. Really makes you appreciate all the hard work that wild bird parents put in to the next generation.