Kevin Sonney @ksonney - Tumblr Blog

Hey everybody, this weekend I’m going to

✨ ANTHROCON ✨

Since I get the impression it’s acceptable to dress up as an animal person at AC I took the opportunity to make a costume out of Rue, my D&D character, which I’ve been wanting to do for a while. If you see me, please feel free to say hi.

I will also be attending the Homestuck meetup on Friday at 5pm. I’ve kind of kept it on the downlow but I am the Director of Environmental Art for Hiveswap. I’ve also done a bunch of work for Homestuck itself. If you have any Homestuck/Hiveswap questions feel free to ask and I’ll answer as much as I can.

Hope to see you guys there!

starkweather-moore

WITCHCRAFT

solarbird

okay this is fucking amazing

thenoisyfrog

@tkingfisher, you and @ksonney should totally be on the lookout!

ksonney

Totally going to be watching for them!

#Snake

beachdeath

Mark Hamill speaking to fans at Oxford Union.

iheartcrows

Wendy Davis on facebook

ksonney

CROW!

proudstar81

Colossus and NEGASONIC TEENAGE WARHEAD by shamserg

poboh

eliseeatydendivu

The Seven Ravens, 1903, etching, Vojtěch Preissig. (1873 - 1944)

tkingfisher

This is awesome.

ksonney

I need a print of this.

crc-rehab-blog

And then our lives were complete. #tuvunestlings4life

(Patient #18764)

ksonney

Isn't he/she/it lovely! And local-ish too!

wingsofblue

Flat mode engaged.

ksonney

Flat angry owl will cut you.

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nesft-deactivated20180108

#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

queenbloo-blog

This speaks to me on a molecular level.

askfordoodles

birbs just wanna have fun

huntersonthewingarchive

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.