yall scrambling to find all the homestuck colors now that we have colored text here, you mean you dont have one of these bad boys saved in the depths of your homestuck tag??
credit to @autonomousprince bet you thought this was buried forever
i don’t mean, do humans give them names. of course we do. we name everything. we name frogs and fish. i mean, do corvids recognize names and answer to them?
and also, do corvids have specific sounds they use to refer to each other? that one’s maybe a bit more esoteric, i don’t know if anyone’s even done the research. but this is for a fantasy novel, so if it looks sorta plausible i can go with it. i just want to know if it’s within the behavior set, you know?
thank you for the responses! it seems crows do indeed have the concept of names, and use names, and distinguish between individuals that way. they reference people who aren’t present! that’s pretty dang advanced for an animal!
next step: figure out what crow names are like.
so far i’ve been writing casimir calling his crows ‘hey asshole’ and ‘you little pirate’ and ‘smartass’ and it occurs to me that those are pretty good crow names. but if crows give each other names he’d use those.
i feel like crows probably have names that sound like 1930′s gangsters. like ‘knuckles’ and ‘bugsy’. except crow themed. ravens have Very Dignified Names and then shorten them in awkward ways. like a raven called Steals Fire From The Clouds would get called Cloudy. there is definitely a raven that the crows named Moose.
I have to quote you a bit of The Raven and the Reindeer by T Kingfisher:
“Do you have a name?” asked Gerta. “I do,” said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. “I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God.” Gerta blinked a few times. “That’s…quite a name.” “I made it myself,” said the raven, preening. “I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having. Sound and God were particularly well-guarded. Crunching I found in a squirrel nest, though.” “May I call you Mousebones?” asked Gerta. “It’s…a lot to say all at once.” It was hard for a creature with a beak to scowl, but the raven managed, mostly with the skin around its eyes. “I suppose,” it said. “If you must.”
that raven is a lot more dignified than the ones i’m writing. 😀
are you keeping in mind that crows hate ravens and will bully them wherever they can? it’s entirely possible that the only names crows give to ravens are variations on ‘hey fuckface!’
whether or not you like pacific rim, you can’t deny it dropped some of the rawest fucking dialogue ever spoken in cinematic history
“fortune favours the brave”??? “numbers are the closest we get to the handwriting of god”??? “TODAY WE ARE CANCELLING THE APOCALYPSE”????? pacrim knew it was extra af and embraced it with open arms
That’s just how Guillermo Del Toro talks in regular conversation.
ok im trying to find my screen shot of it but tbh one of the most Fuck You moments firestar ever had was when he was finding out abt how skyclan got kicked out of the forest and bluestar said something like ‘there have always been four oaks here in the gathering place, maybe its bc there was only meant to be four clans’
fucking immediately firestar was all in her face like, this boi was angry and then he said something along the lines of, “you fucking kicked out a whole clan of cats out of their homes because there werent enough fucking trees??”
and Christ i felt like my mind descended to the moon when i read that lmao
does anyone have that old post with a john/dave msparp log that was like dave trying to tell john he’s in love with him and it ended with something like:
dave: i’m in love with you john egbert
john: yeah! see? exactly like that. if you tell them like that and they still don’t get it, they’re just too dumb for you dave.
i cannot BELIEVE people remember my dumb pesterlog oh my god.
anyway yeah i deleted the post a while back when i had to remake my Tumblr.
just moving along like everyone else 