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@mineralshine

Idk what I'm doing

Welcome :D

Things to know:

• He/him pronouns

•Socials

• I reblog things I wanna save but I wanna start posting my art and just have my chaotic thoughts here

• You can find my art using the tag #my art. Wallpaper can be searched with #wallpaper

•My art has mainly been nature subjects (animals, plants, landscapes) but I wanna learn how to do people. I also have some phone wallpaper art.

• I use Procreate for most of my art but also some traditional mediums.

Idk what else to add... I'll remember it later....

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Crows are scary They

  • use tools
  • Can be taught to speak (like parrots)
  • Have huge brains for birds
  • like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee
  • They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things
  • they are scary smart at solving puzzles
  • some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies
  • they can remember faces
  • SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.  They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows.  Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag.  But the nice guys with masks they left alone.  THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight.  THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.
  • They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.

Guys I’m really scared of crows now. (q

Yeah but have you seen this 

A colleague of my dad’s lives next to a lake, and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice. A crow swooped down. “Oh hell,” she thought, expecting carnage, because crows are opportunists. But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free.

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dansknapp

Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once ,they’re bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill

I love crows so damn much. When I was fifteen, I hit a pretty serious bout of depression, to the point I was in my room for months. Well, a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window. There were two parents and two chicks. One chick was healthy and strong. One was weak, and had a caw like something being strained. It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him ‘Buck’.Well… months passed and Buck’s sibling was taught to fly. His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong. The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck, but I saw him try to fly, fail, and crash to the floor. His father helped him back up into the tree.

Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well… near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped… and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.

That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like I’d lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him. 

Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree. 

That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck… and one from his chick.

Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring, summer, and fall on our property. Buck still greets me every spring.

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aph-romania

that last reply made me wanna cry. that’s so beautiful.

Don’t forget the Russian Crow SLEDDING DOWN A ROOF not once, but twice. 

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rassoey

this one morning i kept hearing really loud caws, i remember it was like 5am, LIKE REALLY LOUD AND ANNOYING AND AGGRESSIVE, so loud that i could hear it through a closed window, and i eventually went outside to check it out. there was a crow on my front lawn, it had an injury on its head and couldn’t fly and there were two other crows circling right above it, and they were cawing like mad. 

i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me. so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance.

a few more times later, very soon after, they could tell i was trying to help, and did not attack me. i was “allowed” to walk up close and pick him up, he couldn’t drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth.

i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared, i thought he recovered and left, but he came back the next day and lands on me, and i see him around the block quite often, and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again. i feel like i’ve adopted a son.

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spookyrawr

Best birbs !!

your son is Beautiful and Strong

every time I see this post it has different crow stories and every time I reblog it again because all crow stories are good stories

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betheothergirl

Like, I wouldn’t want to be on bad terms with a crow, but they are a really smart animal, they aren’t scary You just want to be nice to them because they will know and they will remember, and they will pay you back if you treat them a certain way.

As a side note, I volunteered at a rehab (Hope for Wildlife), where they were rehabbing a crow with a broken wing–who was named Russell Crow. He kept pulling his bandage off so a sleeve was cut off some old clothing and put on him like a little sweater. 

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chamfrons-checques-n-champignons

!!!!

I don’t think I’ll ever not reblog this. This posts makes me cry and smile at the same time.

He’s so handsome!!

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randomnightlord

I would trust a crow with my life

This is your regularly scheduled crow appreciation post

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fanvergentinexistentialcrisis

many east indians respect crows and lowkey worship them and now i know why :)

fucking superb you funky little death omens

Damn now I want a crow

Goal in life- befriend crows or ravens

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jimthecitizen

that’s quitter’s talk

you have to crouch and then press a to do a backflip

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thephilosophyofnope

use whirlwind sprint

climb on the desk and double jump from there

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azaleecalypso

hookshot to the ceilight lamp then move the pad back and forth to swing

Hang onto the tiny ledge on either side and shimmy across.

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sarakitten

Fuckin triangle jump

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acearoruby

Wallrun and jump to it

There’s a secret vine on the outside of the building that connects to the window and you open from there

There’s defiantly a secret switch somewhere to allow you to cross. Go and break as many objects as possible until you find the button!!

you’re just not thinking with portals.

They intended to dummy it out, but you can still access it if you strafe into the corner at the right angle.  Doing this will bypass 3 nights of your stay and glitch out your room service to read 244 pizzas (the pizzas are actually infinite-use, the counter will not decrease).

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strawberryr

Just go outside and punch the ground a couple times. Go back inside and build a noob tower up to the sitting area, it can’t be higher than 3, 4 blocks.

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termanal-velocity

jump and then hit control

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salty-mcfly

paint the entire wall and then just swim in the ink

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therealfeedback

Get a rocket launcher and shoot your feet

Build a remote-controlled sentry gun, aim at your feet while crouched, then fire the SECOND button.

It’s for spiderman, when he visits on vacation.

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pokemanaphy

Press the switch to activate the ring path, then light speed dash

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usagihime89

Flash step to the area.

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xphilosoraptorx

First you need to get the spider ball, then there’s a hidden morph ball power outlet behind the front desk that activates a spider ball track. You can reveal the outlet using the x-ray visor. Getting up there will earn you an extra energy tank.

Pull the lever, Kronk.

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urbanfantasyinspiration

You jump, pop a grenade below your feet, the blast carries you over

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nonbinarypotatofromhell

if you press jump shift and crouch all at the same time it glitches you to be able to walk on the wall over to the area

drink a monster-redbull-energade drink concoction and yeet yourself up with pure willpower

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thecomicaloverlord

You just have to nerdpole up dummie

Ladder.

open the door while standing in the space of the open door, jump twice, and you’ll be able to get there

jump while crouched to do a bullet jump, should get you up there

You could use a couple spears, do a backflip, do an explosive jump, grapple worm, ascend yourself…

Also there’s several valid names in this thread.

Wavedash

Jump to the lamp then jump to the siting area

Find a Hanged Man card if you don’t have any flight items already

Use an Elytra and rockets to launch yourself and smash into the wall.

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gen z: *blurry stock photo of lemons with the caption “lemn”*

Here have this

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futurebound-vertigo

Lemon/lemoff erasure

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anomalous-heretic

i need to save “lemn’t”

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a-honking-great-idea

(short) story time

so we’re reading shakespeare in english class rn, and at some point the class went off on a tangent about comedy

my teacher said something like “comedy is always at the expense of someone else, it just depends on how overt it is”

i, of course, disagreed, and spent like 5 minutes explaining the concept of modern surreal/absurd humor while trying not to die laughing when i described the “me when lemon” meme

you know

[transcript: a stock photo of a man holding a flashlight on a gradiented background of white to yellow. the flashlight’s beam is shining at a floating lemon, and the word “lemon” is written next to it in red text. a caption at the top says “when lemon”. end transcript]

this one

my teacher didn’t find it funny at all

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nonbinarypotatofromhell

this was saved to my computer and i found it when i searched lemon

now you all have to deal with it

this was saved to my

computer and i found it

when i searched lemon

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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