#ravens and raccoons🦝

[blackwoodbanshee]

if you could be any animal, which one would you be ? (picture optional)

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Can't decide, so a raccoon 🦝 a black cat 🐈‍⬛ a raven🐦‍⬛ a deer 🦌

#Thank you for tagging me #Everyone who sees this feel invited to tell me which animal(s) you want to be

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

VERMIN ASK GAME

source: https://todaysbird.tumblr.com/post/612934331593277440

frankly, i just wanted to fill them all out, heh.

rat 🐀 - What is a surprising but good quality about you?

Uhhhm... oh gosh, that’s subjective. Despite being ridiculously introverted, I’m pretty skilled at holding a conversation?

pigeon 🐦 - What do you know a surprising amount about?

........*glance glance* Raven.......... obvious answer is obvious

bat 🦇 - are you a daytime or nighttime person?

Also obvious, I’m sure, but a child of the night by far.

mouse 🐁 - what’s your favorite subject to study?

Freestyle “subject”? My hyperfixations! Teen Titans and Steven Universe especially. Also smaller fixations like the Finnish language, symphonic metal, birds (especially corvids and columbids), etc.

But subjects as in structured scholastic classes, probably... other languages?* Or digital art!*

raccoon 🦝- what do others consider trash that you consider treasure?

Maybe... Throwaway bits of Lore regarding peoples’ thoughts, or feelings, or lives? I like to Collect Facts, especially about friends. So, I have damn-near eidetic memory when it comes to conversations, especially when it’s with people I really like talking to. So someone else might discard the fact that you have a fuzzy blue sweater or something, but it’s stuck there, in my head, and my brain CAN and WILL use it as either a Random Fun Fact to Remember, or snark ammo.

* Rant on why English and Creative Writing AREN’T my favorite subjects below the cut.

Believe it or not, although I absolutely love reading, analyzing, and putting my thoughts into words, I didn’t enjoy “studying” English Literature as much as I would have liked. I HATE being told how to interpret something, or that my “read” on it is Wrong because I didn’t see the same arbitrary parallels as some scholar from the 1950s who wrote an article on the book once. The classes were so easy for me, I passed the AP tests with full 5′s and ran out of space to answer the essay questions. And when I was in Honors English in College, my teacher told me to stop overanalyzing and writing full responses to explain my reasoning. I dropped out of that class because A) I have ADHD and usually cannot trim my answers down to the Bare Minimum because to my brain, It’s All Essential and Relevant Information. And B) What the fuck did I spent 12 years learning how to write Long Thorough Answers for if she only wanted five words as a response??? I learned absolutely NOTHING, and even the class discussions were vapid and soulless. I was utterly WASTING my TIME in that class.

Also, in high school I almost got a C on a big-point project because I only wrote an outline and converted it immediately to my Final Draft. I didn’t write a Rough Draft. I told him, I EDIT AS I GO. For clarity, spelling, grammar, coherence, even goddamn tRANSITIONS. But he didn’t want to hear it. I literally Can Not Write a Rough Draft, I have to work all the kinks out as soon as I notice them, and I am an EXCELLENT editor. I assure you that if I’m using ~Improper Grammar~ or a spelling mistake on the internet, I probably kept it there for comedic effect and/or Emotional Expressionism. Like the lowercase t in tRANSITIONS there, that shift from lower-to-CAPS indicates gROWING EXASPERATION. I never did that with my formal writing assignments of course, but like... The bastard Would Not Give Me 30% Of My Points because I was TOO GOOD AT WRITING ESSAYS.

The only reason he gave me the points back was because I’ve always had MS Word set to automatically Track Changes, and I printed a document as Original Showing Markup, with all the tracked changes showing, and turned it in as both a desperate measure to revive my grade, and a silent little “fuck you, here’s the literal review history” to show him that I did, in fact, turn those bullet point into full grammatically-correct sentences.

Anyways, “Creative Writing” classes are also kind of bullshit because the teachers/professors try to get you to write A Certain Way or About Certain Subjects, and while it’s nice to expand your horizons, getting a bad grade because a certain literary tool doesn’t mesh with your individual brand of creativity is bullshit. My freaking Latin teacher understood when I told him I really struggled to write comedy better than some of my writing teachers!

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