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encrypted-cryptid · 5 months

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hm. wildcard time. Altstrider & Qrohwe Lowyer for 10. I understand if you don't write/publish this one. but I have to ask.

10. a hand in the other's hair, not quite grabbing it

You aren't caught off guard by the hand appearing in your hair, since you'd seen it coming perfectly fine, but you tense all the same. Claws dig through strands to scratch your scalp, Corvid stepping neatly around you to lean a hip against the table.

ALT: The fuck are you doing.

CORVID: what's it look like? your hair's soft.

CORVID: not sure how, Considerin' all th' produCt you use.

ALT: It takes work to look this good. Something you wouldn't understand.

Corvid stares, jaw tightening as he ponders what kind of mood you're in today. Behind the shades, you keep your face neutral, though make no move to shake him off. You're curious.

Gently, he tugs your head back with the loose fingers curling through your hair. For some reason, beyond your reasoning, you let it happen, craned to meet his eyes where he looms over you, neck uncomfortable bared. Your throat clicks when you swallow, audible, and it leaves you cringing - internally, of course - when the smug fucker's ears twitch; Corvid chuffs, leaning in with a toothy smile. His grip tightens, just enough to feel.

CORVID: well. i ain't hearin' you Complain.

#asks #what do you take me for moss? a coward???#ive written worse. i will write worse again #hi alt hi corvid #written in the homestuck style as always

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victorianations-writer · 1 year

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Stories and Poetry 2022

It has been a fabulous year of writing.

“Scabrous” is a story about how pain and violence linger like ghosts. It appeared in A QUAINT AND CURIOUS VOLUME OF GOTHIC TALES, edited by Alex Woodroe, from Brigids Gate Press (January 2022).

“Cleaning Out Her House, As If She’ll Ever Be Gone” is a poem about the horror of exploring a mother’s dreams and madness after she is gone. It closes out MOTHER: TALES OF LOVE AND TERROR, edited by Willow Dawn Becker and Christi Nogle, from Weird Little Worlds (October 2022).

“Bury Me Under Fallen Stars” is a poem about the beautiful decay of Autumn, in the Autumnal Equinox: Harvest issue of Magpie Messenger Literary Magazine, from Curious Corvid Publishing (September 2022).

“An Empty Seat” is a poem about an unexpected clown, in the Halloween: Circus issue of Magpie Messenger Literary Magazine, from Curious Corvid Publishing (October 2022).

“Reasons Why You Can’t Go Out To Play Alone” is a poem about the horrors of grief and vengeance, in HWA POETRY SHOWCASE VOLUME IX, edited by Angela Yuriko Smith, from the Horror Writers Association (October 2022).

Thank you to my publishers and editors for including my work in their amazing publications. And thank you all for your support this year.

#horror poetry #poetry #short stories #awards #awards eligibility #writing #bram stoker awards #rhysling awards #nebula awards #shirley jackson awards #horror fiction #horror writer

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curiouscorvidpublishing · 2 years

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Curious Corvid is growing and changing but at our heart we are the same: A spot for the unheard, unseen, and unsung. We write from passions and traumas and somehow turn our work into beautiful words of destruction and hope. We create characters that emulate our misfortunes, our great loves, and our joys. We uplift the indie creative and give them a place to be themselves and write what is in their soul. Because that's what it means to be a creative. We create from our soul, from our hearts, and hopefully make the world a better place in the process. We are rebellious and bold and not afraid to break tradition, roles, or concepts if it means bringing light to the darkest of places. So, my Curious Corvid, do you feel out of place in the sun? We bring you the moon and the illumination of words that need to be written and need to be read. . . . . #indieauthor #indiecommunity #indiepublisher #indiecreative #writers #writerslife #amwriting #writing #books #novels #indieauthor #writingbooks #indiepoet #poetry #indiebooks #publishing #publisher #content #gothicvibe #healing #community #comingtogether #representationmatters https://www.instagram.com/p/CgO7m7WOXPt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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salemgreyauthor · 3 years

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the first round of editing on Stolen Hearts is finished! it clocks in at 33k total (including the bonus short story and epilogue) and now the next step is to beta read and prepare it for publishing! have another teaser:

“And why do you walk around invisible so often then? Do you make a habit of breaking and entering?”

“I do not!” Casey stuck his tongue out, earning a chuckle from Corvid. “I don’t use my magic much. I don’t exactly need it to be invisible.”

“Oh? And why’s that?”

Corvid leaned in, and suddenly Casey’s amusement died, withering uncomfortably in his chest. Corvid’s gaze was curious, even teasing, but Casey couldn’t find it in himself to laugh. He shifted, turning his eyes away with a frown.

“Because I am. Invisible, that is… I always have been,” Casey sighed, staring into his lap solemnly. “People bump into me in the street and don’t even notice, and I’ve never had a partner because no one looks at me that way. I’m just… invisible.”

The room became silent in the wake of Casey’s admission, only making the heaviness of his heart all the more painful. But then, Corvid’s hand dipped below his chin, moving his head back up to meet compassionate, ruby eyes. Casey’s breath lodged in his throat as Corvid held his gaze, his thumb stroking Casey’s jaw as he offered a soft smile.

“You are not invisible, Casey,” Corvid murmured. “Not to me.”

And at that moment, for the very first time, Casey felt seen.

I’ll be making posts soon looking for a crit buddy and/or beta/advanced readers (with a link to sign up to get an advanced reader copy), so if you’re interested, please let me know or stay tuned!

#creative writing #enemies to lovers #gay romance #urban fantasy #writeblr #stolen hearts #teasers #I may be changing the title but we'll see!#feel free to send asks too :O

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spongebob-connoisseur · 3 years

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i know this is mainly a spongebob blog but just curious what’s your other interests? 🙂

Oh I wasn't expecting this 👀 you've opened a can of worms anon!

Hmm spongebob consumes my thoughts a lot of the time but I do like anime. My favorite genre is the magical girl genre which I can't explain why but it's a lot of fun. My favorite magical girl anime was/is cardcaptor Sakura. I adored it as a kid. It got on Netflix during the summer and uhh it changed my opinion. Watching the original dub was shit, it cut out all sorts of details and stuff of the show but watching the true og show. Its messed up. It's weird because I'm between both liking it and hating it. There are still things I like about it but also left a sour taste in my mouth. If there could be a redub where they take out the weird shit would be nice. So anyways futari wa pretty cure is now my new absolutely favorite😔

Other anime I watched was soul eater, I recently finished it. I've been wanting to see it since I missed out seeing it back in middle school and well I adoooore lord death. Also I'm currently watching the 3rd season of Osomatsu-san. The show has been my favorite for years now. It's so rewatchable. My favorite trio of the matsuno boys is Karamatsu, Ichimatsu, and Choromatsu.

I also really like Jojo's bizzare adventure. I remember in high school finishing up rose of versailles. The ending was so sad and I wasn't over it yet. I was still attached to all the characters and my friend was like "you know what you should watch? Jojo" she now admits that was terrible advice and that she doesn't know what she was thinking but I think it was a good idea. Rose of versailles takes place in 18th century France I think? And Jojo begins in late 19th century England. The themes kinda felt close so it was easy to transition into except Jojo was really comedic and enjoyable. Speedwagon is best waifu.

I do recommend Rose of Versailles. It's so dramatic and extra. The sheer drama of avoiding talking to someone for weeks but then being forced to wish someone a happy new year and then having a mental breakdown?? Good shit.

I enjoyed cartoons a lot for a time. Like Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Adventure Time and Infinity Train, over the garden wall. I've sort of fell out of love with cartoons? The fandoms are so toxic that it makes it hard to enjoy. I know that fandoms don't ruin the show itself but definitely takes away from the experience. I enjoy discussions of shows and the vibe gets killed by the sheer bitterness and fake woke hot takes of people. I can talk a lot about this but I don't really want to.

I still kinda want to watch owl house. Maybe when it gets added to Disney+.

Some cartoons I liked a lot is Ruby Gloom and the 90s spiderman cartoon.

The 90s spiderman cartoon is crazy. I recommend watching. It has better continuity than most anime with the most craziest plot lines?? I can't believe it. The 90s marvel cartoons was the original MCU. The 90s spiderman finale episode is the original Into the spiderverse. I looove this show. It was my first favorite show before Spongebob.

I enjoy music, I've mentioned before my favorite genre is horror rock. I like the ghastly ones but I really adore creature feature. They're my favorite band of all time. I can go on talking about them or their side project Rufus rex. I also like oingo boingo. I like to draw Danny elfman in his oingo boingo days or his cool demon costumes. I also like Alesana? Each album is like a story that goes together so its fun to put them together and figure out the whole overarching story though I think they already published a book about it but I never came around to reading it yet. I also like Siouxie and the banshees, Leslie Gore, lemon demon, Cab Calloway, dead or alive. There are some bands I do like that are a bit problematic that I wouldn't recommend. I'm not paying for it but I feel like it would still contribute to them if I said I liked them or something.

I've mentioned before I liked a lot of Tim Burton movies which is true. I don't like him though as an individual. It kinda hurts how he said people like me don't fit the aesthetic of his movies and I grew up adoring his movies and aesthetic and everything. I think it's crazy. Anyways if you want to watch some for free just type "x movie name google drive" now you can enjoy all his movies without paying for it.

Anyways Danny Elfman made all his movies 💅 💅

My favorite movie from him was the live action Alice in Wonderland movie which I know isn't the best quality but nostalgia?? This movie hits different and I can't explain why. I also liked batman returns.

I like other movies like Coraline, and other movies.

Persepolis is one of my most favorite movie of all time. I also enjoy the persepolis comics. Idk it just hits so hard, its a biography of the author in comic form but her experiences was so relatable. I very much recommend.

I like studio ghibli movies, and anything under the genre of horror comedy. I'm a huge softie who likes soft cute things like I watched beetlejuice movie and I latched onto Adam and Barbara hard. Partially because I crushed on both but also because they were too cute. A couple that doesn't follow usual marriage stereotypes and genuinely loved each other? And how much they love their daughter Lydia?? How much they protect her like she was their own? My heaaart. I don't like the musical specifically because of how hard they nerfed them. I also watched the fly because Geena Davis was in it and she's just super pretty.

I like watching the Lupin the third movies.

I like vintage movies like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. My friend joked about how your parents introduce these movies to you because vintage movies were things they watched in their home country. Yeah that's pretty much it.

Also vintage horror movies. Have you ever seen the 1930s Dracula with Bela Lagosi? Its more funny than scary. Renfield got yeeted down the stairs.

I also like fashion. Some styles I like are from the early 90s, the 80s and 40s. I like the big shoulder look. I actually got my mom's leather trenchcoat from the early 90s with shoulderpads and I really love it. It's so extra but fun.

I also love cats, rats and corvids. Cats are free serotonin. Rats are super cute. Crows, ravens and magpies are all cuties. Its hard to pick a favorite from them. If you're friends with me then expect to be spammed with videos of crows, cats, and rats.

These are things I could think of off the top of my head. Its pretty much rambling but I hope you enjoy💜😜

#I went ooooon #Its a bit much but mmm yeah #Still it was a sweet ask and its fun #the spongebob connoisseur #Ask #Not spongebob #about the spongebob connoisseur

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everyendeavor · 4 years

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This was published 2.5 weeks ago. Anyone curious why there’s been next to no information in the press about the threat of Corvid-19 in the overcrowded migrant detention facilities at our southern border???Seems that I.C.E. has it under control with rubber bullets and pepper spray.

#migrant detention #texas #hunger strikes #coronavirus #ICE #lawsuit #hidden from the press

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paradife-loft · 7 years

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Impressed, the New Zealand researchers who conducted these studies wondered if the reward of seeing the food moving toward the crow might be enough in itself to motivate the next sequence of behaviors that leads to complex string pulling. Rapid learning of an association - pull equals closer food - would depend on the cognitive capacities corvids possess. ...Immediate and ongoing mental assessment could allow rapid, on-the-fly sculpting and fine-tuning of the birds' motions into a flawlessly executed behavioral sequence. This behavior is extraordinarily cognitive, to be sure, but it may not be reliant on full, immediate comprehension of a task and planning; the successful string puller may only need to make connections between its actions and an ongoing rush of good news - the food is approaching as expected by my action - to solve the problem. To know what is in the mind of a string-pulling crow, our colleagues in New Zealand used an ingenious apparatus to influence the immediate feedback to string pullers and therefore comprehend the degree to which insight versus observing and adjusting are used to guide pulling. The group of four experienced string pullers who solved their first exam in sixteen seconds was given a new test where the string holding food was suspended through a small hole in the floor of their cage. If these birds used insight to understand the task, then they should reel up the string, even though seeing the food at the end of the string was difficult. They did not. The error rate of these competent pullers increased tenfold, and they secured the meat on only half their attempts. The few successes scored by this group of crows seemed to rely on careful peering through the hole at the food during the retrieval period (they could have glimpsed the food through the hole prior to the start of the experiment to know a meal awaited). Even this poor performance was better than the near complete failure of totally naive string pullers on the test; only one of four crows whose first experience with suspended meat was with it hanging through teh hole in the test chamber was successful, and this bird succeeded only in half of her ten trials. But another group of naive crows was given a visual aid - a mirror in which they could watch the reflected food rise up toward them in response to their string pulling. The mirror itself freaked out two of these birds, but the other two faced the mirror to successfully solve the problem, each doing so on six of their ten trials. Overall this group of crows was as successful as other naive birds at pulling up the food through the hole. The immediate sensory feedback - action matching expectation - seemed to enable the complex string-pulling behavior.

John Marzluff and Tony Angell, Gifts of the Crow

The notes for this book list these string-with-mirrors experiments are published in the paper by Taylor et al. (2010a), and I think I’m probably going to have to look that up to read the methods in full because this description sounds fascinating to me. Particularly, I’m curious about the note that the crows who succeeded by looking through the hole might have seen the meat prior to the experiment starting - implying that the only reason in general these crows might have had to pull on the string, would be their history with food on the end of strings, rather than knowing that was the case specifically with regards to this string? Likewise, for the naive crows without mirrors, I’m not terribly surprised that they’d only get the food half the time, if they didn’t have any reason to suspect there’d be food available if they messed around with the string to begin with.

(Incidentally, the note about the mirror freaking out two of the crows is adorable. Animals and mirrors, guys, it’s a funny topic. Although I suppose what needs to be done as a follow-up now is to figure out whether the crows with mirrors are reacting to any visual input of food moving closer to a crow, or if they recognize that the scene in the mirror is in fact their own physical reality, and if there’s a difference, whether that would affect their prowess on this task.....)

And honestly in general this notion of “insight” and the search for it in nonhuman animals is one that I find interesting from a philosophy of science standpoint as well. I’m certainly not (yet?) willing to make the claim that the idea of “true insight” is not actually a reality of cognitive processing for any species, but I do think that the more we break down learning and problem-solving into these kinds of small, specific individual pieces, the less and less common “insight” will be found to be, in humans too as well as other species. Humans, I’m willing to bet, largely learn and modify their behavior in many cases in a manner similar to what’s described with the crows here as immediate adjustments based on sensory feedback; but because it happens so quickly and automatically, and we rarely are monitoring our own problem-solving cognition in such minute introspective detail, the extent to which this happens is largely overlooked.

Basically what I’m saying is, we need to get naive humans in a box with a hole that they can pull up meat on a string through, and test their behaviors. Or, more likely, the equivalent with some sort of video game tasks, because that’s an area where it’d be easier to design experimental conditions that people would have minimal prior relevant experience to draw upon.

#corvids #psychology #James liveblogs books #op #I took a class on comparative cognition my freshman year of college and I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN OVER IT GUYS #*bangs fists on the table* BETTER STANDARDS FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL STUDIES BETTER STANDARDS FOR -#(anyway this sort of thing is one of many reasons why ABA fuckers deserve flocks of angry crows messing up their workplaces)

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ntrending · 6 years

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We trained crows to pick up garbage, but can we teach ourselves?

New Post has been published on https://nexcraft.co/we-trained-crows-to-pick-up-garbage-but-can-we-teach-ourselves/

We trained crows to pick up garbage, but can we teach ourselves?

As you enter Puy du Fou, a historical theme park in Les Epesses, France, you might come across a curious new attraction: crows collecting trash in exchange for treats.

No, the birds aren’t the park’s newest cleanup crew. In fact, the performance is merely a training exercise. But Puy du Fou president Nicolas de Villiers says there’s an alternative motive to the workout as well—to send a message to park visitors: Don’t litter.

“We want to show humans that they should pick up waste by themselves,” he says. “People have been a bit shocked seeing the crow doing this game. We’re not educating the crows, we’re educating human beings.”

The whole thing actually started by accident. Puy du Fou hosts a number of live bird shows featuring falcons, owls, vultures, and crows. In one show, a crow is supposed to pick up a rose and offer it to a princess. But during a particular performance, instead of picking up a rose, the crow grabbed a piece of trash and brought it to the princess.

For Villiers, that sparked the idea for both a new game for the birds, and an educational program for park goers. To make it work, the park’s falconer taught six rooks to deposit cigarette butts and other small bits of garbage into a box in exchange for treats. Villiers says the crows now play the game for an hour or so four times a week near the entrance of the theme park.

Kaeli Swift, a corvid researcher at the University of Washington says she sees the trick as benign for the corvids and probably useful for us humans. Corvids, she says, are known to ravage through trash on a regular basis, but rarely, if ever, eat the cigarette butts and various other garbage items they happen to find.

“I think it’s sort of a shame campaign to encourage people to recognize that if a crow can pick up garbage, then we definitely can too,” she says.

Lessons in litter aside, Swift says it could also be a great way to for people to learn about corvids and how incredibly intelligent these birds are. Corvids are among the smartest birds in the world. They can recognize human faces, and have also been known to hold grudges against researchers who have short-changed them in treats. They also often hold funerals for their dearly departed. Recent research suggests they even have the ability to plan for the future. And now, they serve to remind us of our impact on the environment, for good or for bad.

“If you throw something dirty on the ground nature will answer, and the nature that answers is the crow,” says Villiers. “They are very smart. Sometimes I think they’re smarter than us.”

Written By Anna Brooks

#Animals

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