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[welcometoyouredoom]

A book crystallized in the ocean

[blluish]

oh mood

[raychleadele]

NO NO NO.

This was not crystallized by the ocean. People. No. This is why artist credit is SO DAMN IMPORTANT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE MISINFORMED HERE.

Alexis Arnold is an artist who creates crystallized books. Her work is amazing and beautiful, she’s made dozens of these.

This particular one was not made by her, however, it was actually created by Catherine McEver - who was inspired to try it after seeing a show of Alexis Arnold’s work. It’s literally the first picture on Google image results if you search for “crystallized books” and she posted about it on her blog showing other process shots as she made it.

TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN ARE BEING DEPRIVED OF CREDIT FOR THEIR CREATIVITY BECAUSE THIS FALSE INFORMATION IS BEING SPREAD. FUCK THAT.

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[bluekitsune]

Erthe upon Erthe

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[cloudvelundr]

I’ve been seeing a lot of threat posts lately and honestly? Fuck that shit.
People could have made nice posts but no - y’all gotta go and give people anxiety.
No-one needs to reblog bupkis.

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[catchymemes]

For Caturday

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

They are a GIFT

[between-stars-and-waves]

XD

Adorable goblins

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[nesft]

#CROW NO

Crow: CROW YES!

[notcuddles]

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.

[pardonmewhileipanic]

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

[red3blog]

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:

[pardonmewhileipanic]

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRB KNOWLEDGE

[whitmerule]

BECAUSE IT IS FUN

[littlemissbloo]

This speaks to me on a molecular level.

[askfordoodles]

birbs just wanna have fun

[huntersonthewing]

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.

[danni-rants]

@neurodivergent-crow

[neurodivergent-crow]

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

[thespectacularspider-girl]

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

[dovewithscales]

Gotta respect that level of guts.

[atheologist]

I’ll add that I don’t know if it’s “how much of a dick you can knowingly be,” but rather having the intelligence to be able to take calculated risks. Every time a crow does something like this, it has to anticipate how the recipient will react and how to avoid being injured or killed during the reaction.

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[recoveringgayfish]

ok guys so i just had a breakthrough 
so in the beginning of the song pompeii by bastille it sounds like theyre saying eheu a bunch of times well eheu is latin for ‘alas’ or ‘oh no’
and iM STILL LAUGHING SO HARD BECAUSE ITS CALLED POMPEII AND MOUNT VESUVIUS DESTROYED THE FUCKIN CITY OF COURSE THEY WOULD BE SAYING OH NO 

[thegingerbatch]

[bambicalifornia]

Latin nerd moment

[agrippasuggestions]

Fuck

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[pixie-and-momo]

Perfection

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