Nov 9, 2020
I just felt like showing you my bone collection, do with it what you want
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from Japan
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from China
seen from Singapore
seen from Germany
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from Singapore
seen from Singapore
seen from Greece
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from South Korea
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
I just felt like showing you my bone collection, do with it what you want
This is my first time cleaning and ‘’reconstructing(?)’’ a lil tiny mouse skull. Found in an owl pellet, mostly intact which is pretty rare in my experience. 5 Eurocent for size reference :) a really delicate little thing.
Gerta: Mousebones?
Mousebones: Aurk?
Gerta: Are you a he-raven or a she-raven?
Mousebones: I am a raven, and the rest is none of your business, as we’ll not be having eggs together.
Gerta: Sorry. I just… it’s awkward thinking of you as ‘it.’
Mousebones: Oh no, a human feeling awkward. How terrible.
xxxxxxx
Mousebones: It is a certainty that you are going to die. All living things die. Then we eat their eyes.
Gerta: How nice. Are you going to eat my eyes?
Mousebones: Well, obviously. You’d want a friend to do it, wouldn’t you? And it’s not like you’d be using them.
— The Raven and The Reindeer.
Hey I just met my first fave fictional character in 2018.
“Humans,” said Mousebones, with deep disgust. “You can’t even figure out how to mate properly.” He stalked away into the snow with as much dignity as a walking raven could manage.
The Raven and The Reindeer.
He is my fave okay ❤️❤️❤️
lady bone diorama necklace🤟🏻 #fake #plasticpeople #bone #vertebrae #mousebones #roserybeads #discovery #moseyroseglass #salthairobx https://www.instagram.com/p/B85U2TCgrkQ/?igshid=zrqi2lltvpv8
From the small snippets you've posted, Mousebones sounds exactly like my kind of asshole. I'm so glad.
I don’t know if I’d necessarily call him an asshole---he does care about Gerta!---but he is very snarky and also very proud of being a raven, and both of these things make him an absolutely delightful character.
Mousebones flew up out of the tunnel and landed well out of reach of the otters, who were instantly fascinated.
“A raven!”
“We speak Raven!”
“Ark! Ark! Ark!”
“That is not speaking Raven,” said Mousebones severely. “That is saying ‘Ark’ and you are saying it badly.”
“Can you fly, raven?”
“Of course I can fly!” said Mousebones.
“So can we!”
“When Herself hitches us up to her sled.”
“Then we fly like ravens.”
“No, we don’t. We fly like clouds. We don’t flap.”
“Flapping would be undignified.”
“It would be if you lot did it,” agreed Mousebones. “Otters aren’t made to flap.”
“Do you have a name?”
“Ravens always have the best names.”
“They’re so long and they take them so seriously.”
Mousebones looked offended. “I have an excellent name and I don’t think I will tell you what it is if you’re going to act like that.”
“Oh, don’t be like that.”
“We’ll tell you our names.”
“We will.”
They sat up, one after another, with their tails wrapped over their feet like cats.
“Glint.”
“Glitter.”
“Ur.”
“Frost-eyes.”
“Misting.”
“Fish-eater.”
The raven looked unimpressed. “Typical. And short.”
“We have to take them off sometimes.”
“Sometimes we trade them with each other.”
“It’s easier when they’re shorter.”
“Tell us yours.”
“I am The Sound Of Mousebones Crunching Under The Hooves Of God,” said Mousebones.
(Gerta translated this exchange in an undertone for Janna. “Good lord,” said the bandit girl. “They could talk the legs off a wooden goat.”)
“Ooooh!”
“That is an excellent name.”
“I want a name like that.”
“But taking off a name like that would take so long.”
“I do not intend to take it off,” said Mousebones. “I may even add to it. I believe that after this mad adventure into the north, I shall be The Sound Of Frozen Mousebones Crunching Under The Hooves Of God. Assuming that I am not dead, which requires a different sort of name.”
--- The Raven and the Reindeer, pg. 182-3, by T. Kingfisher
Really cool find today. 🐀💀 inside an old trap, there were 4 mouse skulls and one body. This means there was either a 4 headed mouse who died too soon, or a battle to the death in which no one actually won. 😂 Perfect addition to my shelf of “small bones” and looks great next to my “mouse rug” who I discovered totally flattened and perfectly preserved in my office a few weeks ago. 😍😍😍😍😍 (when I was cleaning the bones and skulls, I ended up pulling a huge live caterpillar out of the mouse’s eye socket! 😱 I screamed. Cause I hate bugs. But #ilovedeadthings #mousebones #bonecollector #skulls #bones