#ash system

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HUGE thank you to @kageki-kokoro for taking on the challenge and making me the most perfect shoulder buddy we could ask for ♥️

Just look at this friend! We've been wanting to make a plush of one of our OCs for a long, LONG time and I couldn't have asked for a better job! I can't wait to read in a blankie nest with this lil Ashling ^^

[fluffiest-bugs]

Humans, Crows, Pigeons and our relationship with "nature" in North America

-an essay by Siv of Ash system

Note: I don't have the time or energy to source this essay nor am I a professional this is something I am writing this for fun and to start a conversation, I will be wrong about things, by all means correct me (politely).

It feels like there's a sort of great myth in my country that humans are somehow separate and above nature, that we're both better than the natural world, but also worse for destroying it. We give ourselves a lot of power, many tech affiliated people seem to forget that we're still very much a part of the natural cycle. We are still intimately tied to the cycle of resources and other animals on earth and I think a great example is when animals explicitly seek out a relationship with us. (I'm mostly going to be focused on crows since I'm very familiar with them)

Crows can and will seek out relationships with humans in a way few other animals can or do. Sometimes it's exclusively for food, but crows can build social relationships to humans beyond food. We are of course, rather limited in our communication so we are often limited to exchanging objects and food as a sign of trust, but people (and crows) who have put the time in to understanding and developing communication can build closer relationships. This is different from animals that hang around and have acclimated to humans to use us as a survival resource like rats, squirrels or deer (I'm not including pigeons as most of them are feral in North America, not wild).

Compare this to cats, an animal that self domesticated by seeking out relationships with humans in a similar way. Some people argue that the relationship started as purely practical pest control, but that's probably not true as humans don't as a whole think in such objective goals, we are social and cats integrated themselves part of our social lives.

So should we encourage and accommodate animals like crows into our lives the way we have with cats? I personally think it doesn't matter, it was never our choice to make. Some crows and other corvids have decided to seek out relationships with us and will continue to do so long as any people do the same. Which we will because we are chronically social.

There are crow who happily work with us and can be negotiated with on their own terms. Like cats, they have strong boundaries and like almost all living things, distinctly personalities, not all crows are as collaborative or social or good at deal-making and some don't particularly care for anything socially beyond other crows. But many like us and are fascinated by us and choose to be near us beyond a simple desire for food and I think that's lovely.

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A thousand spirals laced with hunger for knowledge

A formless change endlessly craving thoughts,

A fractal that cannot be all and in knowing such is nothing more than infinity.

Pride is an illusion for I know my form and my shape cannot hide under the fiction of delusions of self,

Spoken senseless spirals that carve my world I writhe in the ecstasy of never knowing nothing.

My existence strikes foolish fear in those who see me in fictions or as their most scared futures,

How foolish to think you could approach my greatness for in doing so you would abandon your own which is the only true madness.

We are multitudes all whom spiral and lack both my knowledges and ignorances,

We are a beauty truest to ourselves and I will sing my madness in echo to their strange songs.

You cannot fathom us nor us you,

A great gift bestowed indiscriminately,

For all the infinite minds I can drink up yours will always be a bottomless cup as all that are not self are.

Believing ones self a god only causes problems if the kinds of gods you believe in are the kinds that cause problems,

A small god among the highest of states that is everything,

Equal to all of everything,

Is merely another person,

Except that they are a god.

-Musings of a portion of giddy madness the dwells within the beings known as Ash, They are happy to share their strange delight with the entire self and help stave of the apathy The All fights

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Listen, I need everyone ever to be super chill about DID right now so I can share the funny shit that happens in my head without people getting weird on me because one of my alters has figured out how to make really good chicken wings and their excitement is so powerful that regardless of what's going on, if I get the ingredients for chicken wings they will come forward, make the tastiest goddamned wings, then disappear back into the depths of my mind. It's like having a powerful demon sit on your shoulder and explain how to properly marinade my wings for the best possible taste.