#corvid's bs

[knight-of-heart-and-art]

i like how i've gotten spoilered on like. everything in dunmeshi. except what the fuck is up with thistle. i don't know what they're doing. i don't know if they're a dude or a girl. i think they're like several hundred years old. i'm reasonably sure they're not the same as the elf with one eye but i'm not SURE sure y'know??

#corvid's bs #dungeon meshi #i'm watching with my mom lmao #so we are SO behind.

[regenerated-reedjumper]

ah. okay!

#corvid's bs

[corvidgender]

I'm banned from commenting on this subreddit but like. Something that stuck with me from some short story I read when I was a kid was that stretches of time seem longer when you're younger. Like, if you're coming out at 16 (which is the actual age listed in the post) and you realized that you were queer at 12, you've been in the closet for a quarter of the time you've been alive. More than that, if we only count the time that you've been reasonably self aware and can remember. Like yeah, sure, technically someone who figured it out at 18 and didn't come out until they were 25 might have have been closeted longer, but I really doubt it'd feel like it.

#corvid's bs #idk that one annoys me

[child-of-crows]

actually i am literally fucking seething about the "oh docrot who is the only shw that gets better as the gets smaller" BITCH SHOW ME ONE SHOW THAT GETS BETTER AS THE BUDGET GETS LARGER. what the fuck have you been watching that's getting better with more money!!!!

#corvid's bs #i have subjected a discord chat and my beloved sibling to this #look up how much the star wars movies cost. you're fucking insane if you think funds = quality #passion = quality #also with docgtor who is REALLY is about who's in charge #is it moffat? you will not get anything of worth #i can't think of any good ones because i'm so mad but like. look up who was in charge when and you decide #AUSUSGUGUGUGUGHHHH. AUGH. AUGH.

[truetealtears]

Another thing that I realised about why the how to train your dragon finale doesn’t make sense, and this one really annoys me; is that apparently, Toothless is such a main character specialist little boy ever that when he becomes a simp and goes underground with his flock, all of the dragons in existence everywhere just follow him???

Which I mean, no??? Ignoring the fact that he just automatically becomes the alpha of the underworld (which is total bs in its own right), him deciding to stay there somehow sent a broadcast to all dragons to come join him? Did he @ everyone in the dragon discord or what?

Also for a character so smart how did Hiccup think that sending all of Berk’s dragons away would get rid of all dragons. And since it apparently did, how did he think that would be a good idea? They’re a well established and key part of the ecosystem (nvm his society but that’s different), do you know what happens when you remove, not just a species, but an entire fucking Order of animals from the environment??? I’ll give you a hint: it’s bad, really bad.

There must be other colonies around the world, with other alphas. Like that’s literally the plot of the previous two films; we had the red death as a sort of queen bee, and then the big guy as the ‘king’ but called the alpha cuz the 2nd film was where they coined the term and made it into a whole thing. These colonies are scattered all over the place but somehow the Berk colony (not even the only group of domesticated dragons, as the 3rd film likes to show, but not tell, us. What happened to those societies?) packing up and leaving made them all decide to leave too (again how tf would they even know, pheromones and broadcast calls and what ever else don’t travel across the entire planet).

So even if that did happen, you’re telling me Toothless just walks in with his little prosthetic tail (which will eventually decay, causing his death because he is a disabled dragon that would not survive without it) and new gf (my issues with the light fury are worthy of their own post someday), comes face to face with the other colonies alphas, (aka the equivalents of other red deaths, big dudes, etc) and just wins??? A red death alone would, and nearly did, eat him alive. He survived that fight (chase sequence honestly) due to Hiccup’s brains, allowing them to exploit the previously established (but then never mentioned again) weaknesses of dragons. Not Toothless’ strength and certainly not his brains, because he is a dragon, but then ofc the third film had to make him disturbingly smart.

Like that’s not a dragon anymore that’s a guy in a fursuit. He becomes far too humanised over the course of the series. Take the first film; where he was a surprisingly clever animal, but still an animal, and compare that to the 3rd. Like the jokes in the first are that he’s a big goofy animal trying to imitate Hiccup/ communicate with him in his own dragon way, in the third he’s literally acting and emoting like a human (which he shouldn’t be full stop). There’s a difference between an intelligent animal picking up on some of the behaviours they see constantly (spending all those years with Hiccup) and him straight up acquiring a human brain. That scene w the bird dancing can be funny but why tf is Hiccup gesturing and communicating with him in a way that would only work with a person. Try that shit with the original toothless, or literally any other dragon, and see how that goes.

In fact, put toothless (and the light fury) next to any of the other main dragons in the 3rd film and watch the difference in behaviour. The 2nd film started to push it with him and cloud jumper, but it was still somewhat at a level where it was believable that some dragon species were smarter like that, eg the intelligence of corvids vs other birds. The best example of being well trained and in tune w their human without becoming an almost uncanny valley human/dragon abomination is stormfly (cloud jumper is close but like I said they’re pushing it)

Honestly even at the end of the second film they were starting to main character-ify toothless; that scene could’ve still played out the same without making him glow, it annoyed me then and it just got worse in the third. Night-furies went from a unique but still plausible species (as in still an animal) in the context of this world to almost mythical beings who keep coming up w new bs powers.

The way the conflict was resolved in the first film was plausible and believable for the creatures they just spent the entire run time analysing (fire proof on the outside, not so much inside. Plus all the other stuff the kids were doing. Ik it might have felt a bit cliche and childish like ‘look we’re all using the tactics we told you about earlier!’ But that’s literally why they were taught them, to fight dragons). The second wasn’t totally far off, it explored dragon social dynamics and explained the concept of alphas and how they work (also clearly intending for you to look back and realise the red death was the alpha, they even play basically the same buzzing noise for when they’re under control) but then they made him glow at the end. It would’ve been so easy and plausible to say something like ‘oh most of these guys were part of the red death colony, which they watched toothless kill so they already accept him as their alpha’ but instead he had to have a mc power up moment. The third just went ‘fuck it he’s an anime character now’. Like think about it, basically none of the tactics and things we were told/shown were facts about dragons in the first, come up in the later movies. Like yeah ‘they don’t need to explain all that to us again’ but there’s a difference between that and just completely erasing it from the world building.

Night-furies are the equivalent of like some deep sea species we didn’t know much about back in the day because they were only seen when they came up to the surface on rare occasions, then we got a hold of one and everything checked out when compared to related species but unlike them it’s capable of bioluminescence which is like ‘oh cool, interesting.’ But then a couple years later it turns out if you stress it out it can somehow become a superconductor for some fucking reason. A couple more years later and it seems it’s capable of fucking teleportation. Can you see what I’m getting at here?

Ik the films were always going to end with the dragons leaving. Like in both book and film the first line is: ‘ONCE, there WERE dragons…’ I just hate how it ended up being done. As a Zoologist it has me screaming, crying and throwing up.

‘Oh well of course it’s bad to you, you’re putting a kids movie under professional scrutiny’ NO BECAUSE THEY DID IT SO WELL IN THE FIRST FILM. Watching it told me they knew how to do this right and then the sequels were worse instead of better. I’m not even saying they had to go further in-depth and stuff for the sequels to be good, what I’m saying is I was at least expecting them to keep to the same standard instead of letting it fucking plummet.

Idk man the first film was so good at establishing the dragons as actual animals and exploring them as different species but then it felt like with each consecutive film they fired more and more of whatever zoologists they had on the writers team for the first.

#httyd fandom #httyd #httyd 2 #httyd 3 #httyd critical #httyd toothless #httyd the hidden world

[corvidyus]

Hello there. I’m Corvidyus. It’s a pretty sick name for myself in my opinion, but you can shorten it however you like - Corvid, Dyus, Crow, whatever you will.

They/them pronouns for me please. This crow’s a mystery indeed.

Please, if you ever so desire, send me an ask, a comment, a tag. I love them.

Find me on ao3.

Current obsession: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Main fandom tags, for your blocking or browsing convenience: btvs (buffy the vampire slayer), st (stranger things), dn (death note), rotmnt (rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles)

Tags of my work: raven writing desk (writing), raven drawing desk (art), croaking (my general musings, thoughts, reviews)

current running tab of fic ideas

btvs

buffy getting her tattoo removed after 2x08 … just a funsy little fluff piece mostly focused on her and giles and maybe her mother as well

i really want to write a sort of spiritual continuation of buffy around the s3 ~ s4 time period, and make my own pseudo season. Particularly, I want to talk about her whole self sacrificial stuff and lack of direction in life (which I… heavily relate to)

Chosen 3 (Kendra, Faith, and Buffy) AU

More content with Kendra in it (set nebulously before her death / in an au she doesn’t die)

AU where angelus is even worse to Buffy; toys with her while pretending to have a soul and be Buffy’s BF for a bit

AU where Buffy comes back as a vamp at some point in the series, and struggles to keep herself under control (possibly after she was in heaven to add insult to injury?)

Some kind of fucked up animal reincarnation AU - buffy is cursed to live and reincarnate as many animals, all living at once. It’s hard to get back to Sunnydale (she has extremely bad luck the closer she gets), and hard for her friends to find any instance of her due to the amount

Some long and introspective s7 thing about Buffy and depression

Into the buffyverse (comics?)

some kind of thing where dawn and buffy have an introspective conversation after it’s discovered that she’s the key. I’m talking like, basically Buffy finds inconsistencies in her memories when she really looks; for example she can’t justify why she ran away over the summer between seasons 2 & 3 with Dawn in the mix, because none of her justifications or thoughts either way even involved her (even tho if she were “real” they def would’ve)

buffy sees a counselor (maybe au where that one guy doesnt die) but has trouble sharing her feelings so willow helps her open up with a spell focused on emotion sharing, which of course backfires as usual, and forces buffy to overshare

buffy heist fic. no reason. Purely vibes. Inspired by this edit

s4 rewrite (starting around hush, or within the next handful of eps) that does a better (read: more threatening and manipulative, and maybe not laughably easy to break into) initiative, with deeper parallels between adam riley and buffy

some kind of pre-chosen (possibly even pre-s5) original thing, involving like a slaypire big bad and maybe some magic ritual bs. Maybe i’d call it blackhole sun to be edgy 

Furry Buffy AU bc I’m giving into my terrible urges

stranger things

maybe a little introspective piece on steve. I don’t have much to add that others haven’t gone over… but I find him so neat

Arcane

vi hurt comfort sniff sniff sniff?

Death Note

Rather than kill L, Rem partners with him to take down Light … this one’s mostly finished, I’m just struggling with the end

[thinkingoftrashisfun]

I cannot BELIEVE this is an actual problem. I know game hunting is sometimes important but NOT for this

These people want to protect birds that DO NOT BELONG there just so they can protect their "livestock"? Just so they can have fun shooting something live?

They are essentially saying crows and ravens are wolves (also protect the wolves cause damn, I rather have less meat compared to having not having an environment to produce meat)

Not to mention this will cause environmental problems if the native populations disappear. You know, the ecological collapse that comes from a part of the food web that isn't there anymore. Cause you are gonna be missing a lot more than just these native birds. Birds are already struggling with all the shit we put in the environment why do we need to add to this.

Article for those who want to read it: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/03/law-change-allows-wild-birds-killed-protect-game-birds-england

Activist Group that advocates for the native wildlife in the UK: https://wildjustice.org.uk/

They are really willing to Corvids (Crows, Ravens, Rooks). They may be common now but we thought about the Passenger Pigeon and guess what? It's extinct.

#environmental justice #birds #help i am tired of this bs #uk #england #corvids #ravens #carrion #activism

[padawan-historian]

So I just assume that if the 🍑 is calling Covid-19 the "Chinese Virus," we're also calling racism "white people syndrome" and bail outs "socialism for corporations + rich white dudes" (see how rude that sounds)?

#our world #personal post #see how rude that sounds #coronavirus #corvid 19 #wash out racism #racism #corporate racism #chinese virus #gtfo with that racist bs #current events #bail out #politics #donald trump #evil princess peach

[b0bthebuilder35]

Facts! Y'all didn't have to hoard toilet paper like that!

#covid 19 #covid #coronavirus #toilet paper #facts #true #true shit #truth #reality #real shit #no bs #no bull #no bullshit #toilet paper shortage #hoarder #hoarding #corvid hoard

[knight-of-heart-and-art]

pokemon fans what the fuck is this thing

#corvid's bs #pokemon #i'm weirdly entranced by them #what is it.

[regenerated-reedjumper]

do we think i'll be getting invisibility cloaks on monday

#corvid's bs

[corvidgender]

hmm i really do like being referred to with masculine terms and he/him a lot of the time but also i look very very feminine and for some reason (i know exactly what the reason is) i have issues with getting past “you are allowed to be nonbinary and want to be referred to with specific pronouns beyond they/them”

#corvid's bs

[t-underneaththeradardancing]

 a daze - early not the super tho i gazed a good bit thru night - early ish - blue sky change - birdsong and murder await - a kitty curl in other room - a good one - always - been depressed af - reasons always life terms  - imma try to anyway a hallelujah tho passive aggro man baby bs sez not  today  - t - iz u - sulking - it aint appealing in a child and u the adult in the room - maybe - some mansplain cheer u up - mix in  some philosophy - a dash of surreal for flavor - marley on speaker  - every thing is gonna b alright  - imma try believe - ffs if a hatter can impossible before breakfast - biscotti then something healthy - another check for and a quiet corvid - waiting as if knowing - and after gull squawk quiet yes - birdsong

love

#poetry i guess #sacred art productions

[thelonelybrilliance]

following my own rules for fandom BS I don't think I can say I'm really a fan of a show where I loathed the MC with the fiery passion of a thousand suns BUT I had fun with the rest of it!! so I guess I'll read that half-dozen corvids book now

#fandom wank #i guess

[itsclydebitches]

One of the worst parts of the entire Volume 7 clusterfuck is that by not saying any of the truth about Salem team RWBY has actively helped Salem more than any other person or group in the entirety of the show through a single action and even with the Ace Ops and Ironwood "turning" on them there really is no acknowledgement of the sheer horror that should be had at what they did. They chose to let an entire nation of people blindly march off to their deaths and they have the moral high ground?

It really does confuse me. So many people are insisting that Ironwood is the one causing division because: 

He's taking resources from Mantle... to build a means of uniting the whole world, an action that he believes will eliminate the Salem problem completely. 

He refuses to work with Robyn... even though he doesn't refuse, merely points out that they both need to find common ground for an alliance to work, while she's the one proving that he was right to mistrust her (stealing supplies, spying on his projects, trying to use her semblance in front of Jacques, immediately abandoning Ironwood the moment he makes a decision she doesn't like).  

He arrests Team RWBY... because they made it clear they wouldn't support him first. They're the ones who broke this alliance, telling him in no uncertain terms that if he didn't do things their way they would stand against him. More importantly, they broke that alliance weeks ago by lying to him and keeping secrets right at the start. If RWBYJNR doesn’t trust Ozpin because of those lies why in the world would they expect Ironwood to trust them? Throw in Blake and Yang betraying him again and it’s clear that they were never willing to work with him. They’re only willing to use him as a resource that follows their orders, free of compromise. 

The only thing Ironwood has done to arguably divide people is decide to leave with Atlas and, as I've pointed out extensively elsewhere, that's a matter of trying to save some in the face of inevitable destruction. What does it matter if the Kingdom is divided if the entire Kingdom is dead? That's the same issue we've seen in regards to his supposed dictator choices, like having a curfew and letting his robots roam the streets. Does that feel like an unpleasant thing that may infringe on people's individual rights? Yep. Is that helping to ensure that people don't get eaten by grimm? Yep. If you want a current semi-comparative example, look to the regulations in place due to Corvid-19. There are people going, "You can't make me stay home. It's my right to go wherever I please. It's not right to demand that I stay indoors/give up my vacation/not leave the state/etc. because I am entitled to those freedoms.” But of course the obvious push-back to that is, "These rules are in place to help keep everyone alive." Sometimes people in power claim that there are justified reasons for their infringements on peoples' rights when in fact those reasons are total BS, but I don't think Ironwood is one of those cases. It’s a matter of, "You might not like having robots in the street but they're there so they can at best take out grimm and worst buy you time to run away," which is precisely what we saw when the group first arrived. If Ironwood wanted to be a dictator he would have declared martial law ages ago. Instead his thinking has always been balanced between what is right and what is practical: what do I need to do to keep my people alive? They can be pissed at me all they want, but at least they exist to be pissed. Like we're going, "Yes, we will fine you for leaving your house without a permit so you don't contract and spread this deadly disease.” Ironwood is going, "Yes, I will require that you keep the streets clear so that you don't draw in and get eaten by these deadly creatures." The blurry line between protection and infringement will always be debated, but to my mind Team RWBY's perspective is far too much on the other side of things. It’s dangerously naive. They want to win this war without anyone going through any hardship and, while noble, that's just not possible. They can wish and strive for that all they want, but so long as that keeps them from making logical decisions---like saving at least some of the Kingdom when you have no plan to avoid total annihilation---then they're hurting more than they're helping. Ironwood, like Ozpin, understands that winning any war, let alone a war against an enemy like Salem, is going to be rife with hard and messy choices. Which means that there will always be division. Always! There's literally no choice in existence that keeps everyone happy and safe and never feeling any negative feelings about the shit storm raging around them. Salem wins in that regard simply by virtue of the fact that life is hard and life isn't fair. Accepting that hardships will exist and trying to mitigate the damage from them doesn't make Ironwood a villain and it certainly doesn't make him as bad as Salem. The person causing division as an inevitable byproduct of trying to save the entire world is not the same thing as the woman trying to wipe out that world. 

#rwby #rwde #mymetas #Anonymous

[skelavender]

6 & 16

no body, no crime - what's your relationship with your best friend like?

i have two best friends! corvid ( @7crowsinadress ) and i have known each other for 11 years, she’s the person i go to first when something is wrong, we bring each other food when the other is sad, we have inside jokes out the wazoo including a list on my phone of her most chaotic moments and lines, she understands when i’m overstimulated or too tired to talk and treats me normally when it happens which i endlessly appreciate i’m shocked she puts up with my bs after this long and i love and appreciate her so much

cassie ( @sl33pybear ) and i have known each other for ~10 months and met online, but I feel just as close to them as I do to cor, we have calls that last hours even if sometimes we’re half silent (right now for example, lmao), we have a list of our funniest messages and we’re so fuckin iconic, we’ve written together and reference each other in our fics, they are so fucking smart and usually the first person i go to if i need someone to beta read a fic or look over an essay for me. i love them endlessly

right where you left me - if you had to spend a year in one place, where would it be?

at this point in the pandemmy, anywhere but my parent’s house lmao. back at school where i can overlook the city from my dorm room, new york (which i’ve only been to once) where i can float through the street and be anonymous, somewhere in europe or new zeland so i can escape the current hellscape that is the us right now. i’m not really sure, but just not here. 

send me an ask based off a song from evermore!

#asked and answered