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I’ve become a bread crumb dealer to 4 crows in my local lake. And they pay me with a bit of everything. Shiny stuff, fabric, pens, etc. But recently they paid me with 20$ they’ve found somewhere. So i decided to buy them some more expensive bread. They loved it. So they understand what to do. Give me dollar notes. And i’ve problamy racked up 200$ at this point. Is it morally wrong though, i mean. They’re the ones who steals it from someone. Or perhaps they just got a big pile laying somewhere. Should i keep on doing this?

cahsmere-sweaters:

fun-with-colors:

kellyplier:

ironwoman359:

thespectacularspider-girl:

neurodivergent-crow:

danni-rants:

huntersonthewing:

askfordoodles:

littlemissbloo:

whitmerule:

pardonmewhileipanic:

red3blog:

pardonmewhileipanic:

notcuddles:

nesft:

#CROW NO

Crow: CROW YES!

It’s actually impossible to measure how many fucks a corvid give because there is no device sensitive enough to register such a tiny amount.

science/animal side of tumblr… explain to me the birb thing

Tail Pulling is a behavior noted in many corvids. The practical application is to create a distraction that will allow the birb to make off with the target’s food. Imagine being in the lunch room and a large fellow has a Twinkie you covet. You can’t just take it from him because he’ll defend his Twinkie. But if you thwap him on the back of his neck and then dash around to snag the Twinkie while he investigates, you stand a decent chance of enjoying spongey goodness. This is basically that in birb form.

Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRB KNOWLEDGE

BECAUSE IT IS FUN

This speaks to me on a molecular level.

birbs just wanna have fun

Sorry to hijack a little, but to put it bluntly, corvids are also pretty BALSY. They are more than prepared to harass other huge birds of prey which could deal them a lot of damage. There’s plenty of cases of corvids ‘riding’ other birds as well. It’s often to harass the larger bird out of the area, but as @red3blog said, they quite often (in layman’s terms) enjoy fucking shit up for fun.

‘Where the hell is the seatbelt on this thing?’

I mean they deserve a medal for having such huge bird balls imo

Literally no fucks are given by corvids. Ever.

@neurodivergent-crow

I haven’t seen this post in ages but it’s my fave corvid post.

Intelligence is rooted in how much of a dick you can knowingly be.

I love birbs, and this is a wonderful birb to learn about

Me: *sees the pics of crows riding bigger birbs*

My asshole brain: I CAN SHOW YOU THE WORLD

is that a faint rainbow in the background of the last one?

@thiscityneedsyounow

*glares at documentary they’re watching* Biological sex is not any more than gender is binary, and your insistance on using a binary is very irritating.

*watches more, while crocheting so there is not reaching through phone lines to shake someone until their teeth rattle*

*documentary continues to be very very annoying about insisting on a gender binary*

*cue not-so-internal screaming*

Let’s see how much more screaming I am willing to do before I nope out of the rest of this documentary and see if something else in my queue is less frustrating. (There’s some really awesome stuff in this, too, which is why I haven’t rage-quit yet. But they’re getting there.)

It’s Pre-Order Time!

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

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Last year, while I was dealing with the cloud of Editing Doom, there were many of you who told me before, during, and after publication of Ashlesha that you wanted to see this book spread far and wide. The reason given was that you all felt, as readers, that the sort of representation Ashlesha (and Awaken the Stars) offers should be seen by as many as possible, especially given how rare that kind of representation is.

I’ve spent the last month doing my best to give you all the chance for us to do exactly that…but to pull it off, I need your help.

The PG13-ish version of Ashlesha holds all of the representation, all of the action, affection, romance, safe sex advice, acknowledgement of the LGBTQAI spectrum, respect for mental health and differences, and badassery as the original printing. The only thing it doesn’t hold is the glorious smut, a difference of ten pages from the original 1st printing. It already has Responsible Adult Reader approval as being appropriate for teenagers.

Plus, thanks to the magic of editing to get the Justification of text to stop mucking things about, there is a reduced page count, which lowered the printing cost…which of course lowers the selling price.

This version of Ashlesha is listed under Action/Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction, and LGBTQAI Fiction. For all of us who were worried that people we wanted to give the book to would be fine with everything except the outright sex, this is now the go-to-version–well, it will be really soon.

The official release date is 21st November 2017, next Tuesday, which is New Release Book Day and when sales counts begin for a book’s selling week. It also happens to be my 38th birthday.

I know it’s short notice (thanks a lot, Amazon) but:

If you can convince a friend to buy a version of this book; if you can convince five friends; if you can convince anyone; if you buy a copy yourself: if we can get at least 5,000 copies of this version of Ashlesha sold, Amazon will put it out there on their best seller list. People will start paying attention…and those of you who cheered this representation being recognized are going to get your wish.

That is the kind of thing that would make a most awesome birthday present, and I wouldn’t be the only person benefitting. It would be all of us.

It would also be sticking it to the Publishing Industry Dinosaur Complex, which claims to want Diversity but rejects all the Diversity it receives unless it is White Man Saving The Day with Diversity in the background or dying tragically. (Or Strong Female Protagonist! White Woman, but only as long as there are lots of men involved.) Then they throw up their hands and look so confused when asked about printing diversity, saying they never receive any. Fabulous excuse, right?

Let’s change their minds. Let’s change the Dinosaur Industry. Reblog this and spread the word.

Let’s change everything.

This is the Amazon Listing: Ashlesha by Jer Keene. It’s not as complete as it’s supposed to be, but if you click on See All Versions, you can find the 6×9″ paperback. It’s currently also the only way to see the Mature 2nd Printings, but that is a fix in progress by the printer. The Mature printings have a new Header over the Description specifically stating that it’s For Mature Readers, so if you can’t see the cover, the information is still there.

You can also search by ISBN until Amazon.com gets their act together:

6×9″ Paperback/TPB $16.99:
978-1-945932-18-2 

6×9″ Hardback $26.99:
978-1-945932-09-0 

4×7″ Paperback/Pocketbook $9.99:
978-1-945932-10-6 

eBook $3.99:
978-1-945932-58-8

If we REALLY want to have fun and push the best seller button on both sides of the Fiction equation, the ISBNs for the 2nd Printing, now labeled Mature Readers version of Ashlesha and listed under Erotic Fiction, are here:

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Mini Nano Day 15

morgynleri:

Continuing from yesterday.

@norcumi @theotherguysride @cuzosu-blog

Fandom: 15th Century RPF, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
AU: Blade of the Force
Word Count: 636
Characters: Margaret of Lancaster | Margaret Princess of Wales (OC), Sabé, the handmaidens, Owen Tudor

A young woman in a brilliantly orange and yellow gown is waiting outside the cargo hold when they have finished seeing to their horses and armor, and Obi-Wan is absent. Perhaps seeing to what accomodations might be made for them in this ship.

“Her Highness would like to meet you, Your Grace.” Her voice is quiet and diplomatically soft for all the watchfulness in her expression. “If you would follow me.”

Margaret tilts her head with a small smile to acknowledge the invitation that she had no doubt would be a command if given to any other. “I will be glad to meet Her Highness, and my companions with me.”

The young woman’s lips curve in something that begins a smile, before she turns to lead them through the long corridor to the cargo bay, and to a small room that moves once the door is closed. Another strangeness of the ship, like the doors which require no hand to open or close.

“How is it that rooms move, and doors open and close without someone to move them?” Owen sounds as curious as Margaret feels, though he can more readily ask such questions than she might.

Their guide looks puzzled a moment. “A lift is meant to move, to take people from one level of a ship or a building to another. And I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a door that isn’t meant to be powered.”

“Powered by what, though? I can see no mechanism for ropes and a wheel, nor any other means of which I know to allow an unseen servant to move door or this room.”

The door of the lift opens before the woman can answer, and she leads them out, and through a room which has a disassembled something in the center, pieces laid out around it in some order which Margaret cannot discern. Even what it might be is beyond her. There’s another door at the far end, where the woman stops.

“You might ask one of the pilots for an explanation of how the ship and everything on it works.” She smiles a moment at Owen, before pressing something on the wall, the door opening to reveal what is clearly a throne room, with a woman dressed in an elaborate outfit primarily of black on the throne, her face elaborately painted. There are more women in the same outfit as their guide arrayed behind the throne, clearly some kind of highly-placed servants.

“Your Highness, our guests.” Their guide moves to take her place among the rest. “Her Grace, the Princess of Wales, Margaret of Lancaster, and her companions.”

Margaret steps through the door, bowing as she would to her father, rising at a nod from the woman on the throne, and coming closer.

“We would know the names of your companions as well, Your Grace.” Her voice is deep and rich, a careful cadence in her words. Trained to speak to her people so, Margaret thinks.

“My cousins, John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, Thomas Beaufort, and Richard Neville, and Owen Tudor, Knight of my household.” Margaret allows herself a polite smile, though she wants very much to ask if the women who attend upon the queen are themselves soldiers, and too, if the queen herself is, as Margaret has come to be. “I am afraid no one has told me who you are, Your Highness, that I might thank my host properly.”

“I am Queen Amidala of Naboo.” Amidala smiles a little, though it is the same sort of polite diplomacy that Margaret has learned since Robert died and left her her father’s chosen heir.

“Your hospitality is most gracious and welcome, my cousin of Naboo, and I am grateful for your offer to come aboard your ship.” Margaret bows again, smiling a little more genuinely.

Notes:

Whether or not it’s historically accurate, I’m using the convention of referring to other monarchs as cousins or siblings, which I picked up from Shakespeare adaptations and other costume drama set in roughly the right era. It’s fun, and it isn’t a convention of the GFFA, so it has the possibility of making people at least have a moment of “… wha?”

I did look at a layout for the Naboo royal yacht, and made rude gestures at it and decided to just do what worked for the story and doesn’t imply a too much larger than the ship actually might have been layout.

Next day reblog.

jabberwockypie:

So Jer’s birthday is on the 21st.

An awesome thing to do would be to order your copy of the PG-13 edition of Ashlesha because we’re shooting for 5000 copies that first week – November 21st – November 27th – to try to make it a bestseller.  https://www.amazon.com/Ashlesha-Jer-Keene/dp/1945932090/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510841069&sr=8-2&keywords=ashlesha

But if you wanted to get something ELSE, this is her Amazon wishlist.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/JS0BYXY3F2E9/