Paper Raven @paper-raven - Tumblr Blog

📌 birds & bots

👋 Paper Raven, she/her, 30+

🐦 Bird lover

🤖 Discord bot hobbyist

My current projects:

📷 @fullfrontalbirds, a Tumblr blog of birds facing forward

🌻 Harvest Chat, a Discord farming game

🐣 SQUAWKoverflow, a website where you hatch eggs to collect birds

#pinned #intro #realized i didn't have one of these

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I'm hosting a fundraiser for my friend, @kharti!

FUNDRAISER LINK HERE

My friend Birdie (or as most of you know her as Kharti) recently took in a lovely African Gray bird named Jivu, who needed someone like her for love, attention, and care.

And Jivu needs a lot of care right now. Not only does Jivu need necessities to ensure she has a comfortable life (a new cage, a carrier, etc.), but she also is undergoing medical treatment for her injuries. She's on medication and being seen multiple times for her treatment. This is my way of helping Birdie pay for some of these expenses. She is known for her immeasurable kindness, generosity, and willingness to help everyone she comes in contact with. Let's give a little back in supporting her and her new precious one, Jivu. (Mango will appreciate it, too!)

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO KHARTI!! I have confirmed this fundraiser with her, and she will be given the all the proceeds (total raised from Kofi sales minus production costs = proceeds for Jivu's care). The prices listed are the minimum prices - you are welcome to donate more, but it is not required to obtain the merchandise you select. I'll post the total amount raised at the end of the fundraising period on August 11, 2025.

If you'd like to donate directly to Kharti without getting any merch, her Kofi link is here: ko-fi.com/auntiebirdie

All items are preorder status. I'll place the order on August 10, 2025. Please allow a few months for everything to be made and shipped to you, which will be sometime late October (if not sooner).

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🥺 words cannot express how much this means to me. here is the obligatory bird tax of my two beautiful girls!!

#birdlr #birblr #birds #fundraiser #keychains #stickers

Favorite bird fact?

oh gosh FAVORITE. Favorite. Waagghh it's hard to pick a favorite.

This isn't very obscure and may not count as a fact per se but I cannot get over that kea parrots have a specific call for "play time" and will stop whatever they're doing to play when they hear it, even if it's just a scientist hiding in the bushes with a recording.

These New Zealand parrots are the first birds to demonstrate 'contagious' positive emotions – just like how humans can make each other laugh

#birds #birdlr #birblr

Auntie Birdie published a post on Ko-fi

I want to write all sorts of tutorials on making cool and interesting and random and useless Discord bots, but I struggle to commit because I'm never sure if there's an audience for them.

So, here's a tutorial from how to go from 0 to Hello world hosted in Google Cloud for free. It's not flashy or exciting, but it sets up the basics for later expansion.

Please let me know if you'd be interested in more tutorials, like how to set up slash commands, or how to build a minesweeper game, or a random bird image generator.

#discord #discord bot #tutorial #programming #node.js

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girlie that's not a shot

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oh there's another one

my guy why do y'all look like you're in duress. is someone making you do this?

#random #tumblr ads

girlie that's not a shot

#random #tumblr ads

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my absolute favourite thing about all the old star trek series is when the ship unexpectedly collides with something and, due to the lack of sophisticated special effects available at the time, everyone just throws themselves across the set as dramatically as possible

trickstertime

Wait, isn’t there stabilised gifs of these shots floating around?

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I FOUND SOME!!!

#star trek

Tried to take a photo of the night sky, laughed about how there were no stars visible on my phone screen, realized I took a perfectly cut 1-second video of me saying "no stars" into the darkness.