#bluejay rants

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fuck it, if this post gets 200+ notes I’ll actually finish the technoblade cosplay

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id also like to apologize for [points to my entire group of friends]

i’d just like to formally apologize for like… [gestures to all of myself]

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just so y’all know, if your ever mean to me this is the dumbass your being mean to.

(Low effort dream cosplay for y’all)

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reblog if you wanna stargaze with prev

<3

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CRINGE IS DEAD, GENLOSS SELF INSERT APON YE

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seepy boi

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my fyp on YouTube reminded me that Matpat did a food theory on DSMP about killing someone with a potato and now I’m crying laughing and my family is in the other room. Help.

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DOODLE JEANS CANNON

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told my friend i think furries are cool and that i’d be one if i was actually good at drawing them and she got super weird about it?? like telling me they’re all weird sexual animal abusers and shit like that. FUCKING OBVIOUSLY NOT WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT. the majority of furries are literally just lgbt autistic people expressing themselves in a unique way making anthro animal ocs and dressing up like them FOR FUN. ITS NOT FUCKING WEIRD. i hate cringe culture SO much and my friend just got so weird about it :( and she was not listening to anything i was trying to explain. like obvs there are real freaks but people who aren’t furries can also be freaks like that and like 99% of furries are just being silly and having fun expressing themselves dude. srry for rambling about this but it’s so annoying and frustrating when my friends judge people and think they’re weird and cringe just for silly misunderstood interests like that. those people are just having fun expressing themselves without caring about being judged by people and i admire that. and it’s hard to be myself around someone who makes fun of people like that because it shows how they would really view me. idk if this makes sense but yeah i just really fucking hate cringe culture. furries are cool as fuck. stop fucking making fun of mostly autistic people for their their weird or different interest when it’s not even hurting anybody and just having fun and expressing themselves.

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I didn't want to run a tag essay on someone else's ask post just because it touched on my apparent Rant Button Topic and I kept going, but it's always so important to me to stress that deciding you can Tell who is part of the in-group and who isn't based on immediate first impressions is how you get outright accusatory gatekeeping, without even a middle step in between point A and point B. Not just with alter/nonhumanity‚ but with everything. When you do this, you implicitly think yourself immune because you know your own identity and it's obviously real‚ source: you—so you are the standard‚ it's obvious‚ and those who don't match up to it just wouldn't get it, just won't ever understand the complexity of your lived experience as part of an in-group they're not in-. If they insist, they might even be faking.

Can you tell I'm tired of other autistic people assuming I'm not autistic because we didn't relate to each other or me to their self-inspired understanding of how to define autism? How many other neurodivergent people have had a different experience of it throughout their life or to begin with, those whose autistic traits I couldn't relate to and therefore mine are just annoying or me being stupid, not autism? When someone decides they "know their fellows when they see them," they have already decided that their outspoken directness (for example) is the default autism, and someone else's inability to verbally explain complicated things disqualifies them.

You cannot smell the nonhuman on someone! If you think you can, you may be someone who has decided that your nature is the default and outside of that circle is everything orthohuman, facing someone quietly deciding the same thing about you, more than you'll ever know. In a community that's already by nature comprised of so many different species who are never going to instantly click and relate to each other because some of us are dogs and some of us are fish—what makes you confident you'll always know another alterhuman when you see one if you're a bluejay and you're interacting with fucking Count Orlock? See also: This guy claims to be autistic, but struggles to verbally explain complicated things and uses reticent or confusing language; clearly he's an obstinate neurotypical refusing to just speak in a clear manner about things, as everyone knows they're like. Don't consider he might be semiverbal or psychotic or traumatized or that that can even just be a trait of autism on its own.

Point of order 2: this mindset almost-always leads to a superiority complex. It's not about the misanthropic ideals, it's about feeling like you are the arbiter and when you sweep everyone else outside of your specials circle, they're whatever word your particular community uses for what Reddit has compassionately dubbed NPCs: every single other person on the planet who isn't you and your friends. Don't you just hate humans? Don't you hate looking at ugly humans being loud and obnoxious all over the place? I, too, love arbitrarily deciding which people are part of the out-group based on how aesthetically pleasing they are to my nonhuman eye. (How often, I wonder when I see these sentiments, are they being thought in the moment about a disabled or homeless person in public.)

This isn't just an alter/nonhuman thing, it has been a huge problem in the autistic community with people deciding "neurotypicals" are the root of all evil, transmascs especially deciding cis men can just never understand anything true and real, and since knowing I'm aro I have adamantly refused to engage with the "we're better because we're enlightened for being ace/aro" thing that is surprisingly common, but since that was the topic of the previous post, this goes out to the alterhuman community: I am once again asking you to stop making assumptions, let alone extrapolating from them the in-group's exceptionalism and the out-group's lack of an inner life.

Somewhere there is a bluejay being a stubborn human again for being oblivious to Count Orlock's intricate fictionkin experiences.

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@sabellabella I dont mind at all!! I hope u dont mind me answering in a post becuz im gonna YAP agdsjagd

to be honest I don't.,, know yet? im only about 46 episodes into 5ds so a lil ways into the dark signers arc, so im hesitant to make up a particular meeting scenario if I haven't watched like MOST of 5ds :''3

which might seem silly!! and I know I don't have to make my characters 100% follow the in show arcs but a nagging voice in my brain says I do-

TL;DR Im not sure yet! I don't think sticking her in the dark signers arc would be my favourite but that might change! ((i do have a dark signers design of her just for funsies tho teehee))

DAMN im talkin a LOT. I have some other thoughts under cut!

I do however think she'd have ties with Carly!! Bluejay is an upcoming turbo dueler trying to climb her way to the top, in my head she does a lot of street racing duels and smaller circuit races and probably got interviewed by Carly a couple times, so they'd've interacted so through Carly -> Bluejay -> Jack. Bluejay acts very big on camera so she'd probably have said she wants to go beyond Jacks "King" title. Jack n Bluejay would butt heads they both think the other is insufferable but thats what makes it FUN

off-topic but I'm ranting anyways, Carly/Bluejay can also be a thing bc I love Carly SM shes bisexual failgirl to me and she deserves a gf too :]c

TLDR AGAIN, I need to keep watching and digging in wikis until i come out covered in blood and gripping a cohesive timeline for Jay! ((I have a bunch of individual ideas bouncing in my head AND another 5d's OC I need to flesh out too!)) For now I just play with her like a doll hejkhskjhs

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[the jay, sunny & aqua lore]

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JUST SAW YOUR ASK ON HELLSITE-GENETICS AND NEEDED TO SEND YOU AN ASK!! /POS

you are like literally the person i want to be with the bird stuff i absolutely LOVE belted kingfishers they are so pretty. they are also one of my favorite birds (i have too many favorites i cant just pick one) but birds are so smart and their feathers are so cool like omg i love birds

im currently a small senior in highschool/sophomore in college and want more people who like birds in my life :))

anyway whats your favorite thing to study about birds? mine is how smart they are but also like how bluejays have the feathers that reflect the sun to show the blue :))

[id: screenshot of two text messages that say "oh good i get to get [sic] explain this to you" / "you will regret this" followed by the ellipses of someone typing. end id]

FELLOW BIRD ENJOYER SPOTTED

(sad my ask to hellsite-genetics didn't get me a bird tho but i did get the added satisfaction of knowing the goofy goober song is a member of the genus i exalted in my ask so all in all it's a solid win)

let me preface all of this with saying that while a lot of my experience with birds and learning about birds has been in a classroom setting i've also spent *checks watch* three summers now (including this upcoming one) doing field work working almost exclusively with birds in the midwest united states, so honestly a lot of the things i've learned have been incidental knowledge i've obtained working in the field. i'm not an *expert*, i just have a BS in environmental science and a lot of birding experience.

full slapshod essay rant of me going on about birds (edit: i just reread it and good GOD i went on for a while) of me talking about birds below the cut bc i already know this is gonna be far too long but you asked about my favorite thing in the world so this is on you my friend (affectionate)

i'm definitely ENRAPTURED with how smart birds are. They're so fucking intelligent it's almost scary.

since you brought em up imma talk about bluejays first!! i did part of a project my last year of college on bluejays!!

blue jays will often mimic the calls of other birds, esp predators like red-tailed hawks, with such accuracy that even bird id apps like Merlin (shameless plug) will mistake a mimicking bluejay for a real red-tailed. when i was doing audio surveys for northern bobwhites we had to have a separate training day where the only thing we focused on was how to tell if a mockingbird / thrasher / blue jay was mimicking the distinct bobwhite call and how that wasn't to be counted as a sighting.

(in my experience a lot of it has to do with pitch, repetition, and completion of what's considered the 'full song' of the NOBO, since a lot of mimids won't do the 'full song' and will just handpick bits to weave into the rest of their noises. bluejays especially will do this. mockingbirds will sometimes do the full song, but NOBOs have a pretty measurable repetition gap between their songs, at least in the areas we were doing surveys).

i remembered learning in a class that some bluejays will find bird feeders and spy on them, then mimic red-tailed and red-shouldered hawk calls to get the other birds to scatter, so they can then fly down and eat without having to fight for the tastiest bits.

when i was working with birds over the summer, one of the things we did was setting ground traps for mourning doves so they could be banded and then tracked for hunter take (they're a game species in my state). there were always blue jays in those traps. they're so fascinating to see up close, with their heavy bills and tough little feet and they're so full of rage. and they're loud.

also the thing about their FEATHERS - YES. it fucked me up to learn blue jays are naturally brown. iirc it has to do with the way the barbs on their feathers are put together with modified cells, which scatter the light in a special way to make them appear blue. If you get a bluejay feather in your hand it's only blue at certain angles and the undersides are almost usually completely brown unless you hold them in the light just so.

blue jays are part of the family Corvidae so it makes sense why they're so smart, in the family with other birds like ravens and crows.

well i didn't mean to go on for so long about blue jays. they are wonderful tho aren't they?? <3

my favorite thing to study about birds??? hoooooo boy what a question. everything?? is everything an option??

habitat effects on population size and habitat selection at the individual level is fascinating. i've done a lot of work with population studies, basically doing audio-visual surveys (point counts) of how many of x and y and z target species live in this area at a given point in time, then using that data to extrapolate potential population numbers in an area as narrow as a few square miles and as wide as the whole state (i worked for the state department of natural resources so we were focused only on our state obv).

in that effort, using that information to both directly and indirectly learn what environmental factors affect which bird species and how was so so interesting to me, and some of them are things so small we don't even think about them sometimes!! if there's as few as a handful of pine/cedar/evergreen trees in a field or grassland, you're far more likely to find cedar waxwings and indigo buntings, and you rarely see them in areas dominated by deciduous trees. red-winged blackbirds love wetlands, and while they aren't (iirc) specifically wetland-dependent, something as small as a single pond is enough to attract them in droves.

behavior is also such a cool topic to me, which i've learned more and more about just by birdwatching and attending bird-related conferences and working with wildlife biologists.

birds like the brown creeper are bark foragers that almost exclusively move upwards along a tree. they'll start at the bottom and move up, and once they reach a point they deem 'too high', they'll fly to the bottom of the next tree and move up. conversely, birds like nuthatches, still bark foragers, almost exclusively move down trees in the same way - they'll start at the top, forage downwards, and when they reach the bottom, they'll fly back to the top and do it again.

the yellow-bellied sapsucker (woodpecker family), as the name implies, eats a lot of sap, so they drill holes into a tree, like woodpeckers do, but they lay them down in 'bands' that run horizontally around the tree, often with multiple rows on top of each other, leading to a grid-like pattern of shallow holes only an inch or two apart from each other. that's often the best way to figure out where to look for sapsuckers when you're birding!! (apart from actually seeing or hearing the little guy, obv.)

incidentally, i learned that it's really really hard to put backpack trackers on henslow's sparrows, not bc they're so small and hard to catch, but because they're smart enough to realize there's a thing on their back and will, somehow, pull the backpack around to their front and completely mangle it beyond repair, and that's before they chew it off.

god i could go on forever. kestrels. ospreys. owls. nightjars. songbirds. fisherbirds. albatrosses. puffins. kinglets. sparrows. starlings. they're all so good and perfect and wonderful and fascinating and if i could learn everything about all of them forever i would.

in an extremely roundabout way of answering your question, if you're still reading and haven't run for the hills yet, i can't pick just one thing to call my favorite to learn about birds. everything about them is so interesting and makes me so excited to learn and see and talk about.

belted kingfisher lovers unite!

edit: I DIDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT TURKEYS EITHER I'M DOING TURKEY RESEARCH TOO -

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On today’s edition of “ELSIE WHY”, we’re back to wicked again!

Okay so there’s this period of time we keep vaguely alluding to existing where Dusk and Sun are frenemies and don’t entirely like but don’t entirely dislike each other. This is proooobably right after sun comes back the very first time. Right after the Bluejay thing.

its existence can mainly be attributed to a single line and a plot hole.

“Duuuuusk, loosin’ up a bit…” (from the “dusk hears too much suffering” long post with mix)

How does Dusk know of the bar?

I propose, since i listened to “popular” again lol, that Sun spent some time trying to help dusk be a goddess and just being the WORST influence on her. This is probably what really sparks up her fear of alcohol. I’m not entirely sure how sun would do all this, since…I ain’t exactly the sun mod lol. So I leave that bit of Elsie rant to you.

*hands you the Elsie rant pass and giggles excitedly*

Sun would probably be a bit drunk when she helped Dusk, which would already give Dusk a bad impression...

I feel like she'd show her around and show her all of the places and stuff and how "simple" it is to be a goddess while having the biggest slur in her voice and the loopiest dizziest walk of all time. Very much attributing to: It is not simple

During this she'd probably show Dusk where the bar is, OR Dusk would ask Sun about being a goddess and she'd find her there, which stitches up that plot hole nicely

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my version of that is the dumb high buns so i cant put on my gaming headset

ADHD pro tip: Use psychological warfare on yourself.

For example, in order to do long tasks, like folding laundry, I put on the Mario Hat:

The main feature of the Mario hat is that my headset does not fit over it, so when The Bees™ try to put me back in front of the screen, the headset issue forces me to remember why I put the Mario hat on, and back to the task I go

As a bonus, the Mario hat is also a very clear indicator to my housemates that business is getting done, and they have learned not to distract me when I'm wearing the "goofy-ass cosplay hat"

It's not stupid if it works.