Sphen and Magic are raising their own egg!!

Sea Life Sydney Aquarium

People are falling in love with these gay penguins hatching an egg together

It's just like 'Parks & Rec.'

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Posted on Oct 12, 2018   Updated on May 21, 2021, 4:18 am CDT

Sydney Sea Life Aquarium’s first gay penguin couple is on their way to becoming parents and the duo’s egg-rearing saga is taking over Twitter.

Gay penguins Sphen and Magic, or “Sphengic” if you will, are a staple at the Sydney aquarium as the resident gay penguin couple. Granted, the two penguins aren’t capable of reproducing on their own, but that didn’t stop the two from grabbing ice pebbles and creating a nest for an egg.

At first, aquarium staff gave Magic and Sphen a fake egg to take care of so they could learn how to incubate together during this year’s breeding season. But the two gay penguins were so good at egg-rearing that staff decided to give them a real egg from a straight penguin duo who had an extra one to spare. That’s right, Sphen and Magic are on their way to becoming parents.

Oh, and don’t worry: Sphen and Magic are already performing their egg duties quite well. In fact, the two are so skilled at their jobs that there are days at a time where visitors can’t even see their egg, which news.com.au calls “good for penguin breeding.”

It didn’t take long for the news to hit Twitter and take over the site.

https://twitter.com/smallestvalerie/status/1050706163736739840

https://twitter.com/alyzzabel/status/1050616848494915587

Everyone is falling in love with the gay penguin parents, despite the fact that their name is kind of weird.

https://twitter.com/mitchfel/status/1050540429748269056

On the other hand, Twitter fears the gay penguins will become the next battlefield in the West’s ever-looming culture wars.

https://twitter.com/ViciousValkyrie/status/1050717070084726784

Turns out they were right.

https://twitter.com/jmstrv/status/1048859019601801216

https://twitter.com/Leouniii/status/1050703036421672961

Once again, Parks & Recreation predicted the future.

https://twitter.com/anthonysegaert/status/1050533972046823425

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1050534629919191042

H/T Twitter

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*First Published: Oct 12, 2018, 8:31 am CDT

Ana Valens

Ana Valens is a reporter specializing in online queer communities, marginalized identities, and adult content creation. She is a former Daily Dot staff writer. Her work has appeared at Vice, Vox, Truthout, Bitch Media, Kill Screen, Rolling Stone, and the Toast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and spends her free time developing queer adult games.

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