#crow gift

[bigmeatpete69420]

Was refilling my crow feeders today when I found a new crow gift

I have never seen this die before and it was placed very carefully on a rock pile I have next to their water bowl

[bonesandpoemsandflowers]

the crows have left you a

✨gift✨

it is--whatever this thing is! congratulations!

[lahdeedum]

30. PEARL

[rosewind2007]

Oh! A funny thing that happened to me this morning:

I have friendly local crows

This morning some were cawing as I walked along & then a bird (I assume a crow, they were the birds around) dropped a chunk of crusty white bread in front of me, on the pavement

Thanks crow!

It was a nice gesture!

🖤

I didn’t eat it, but I did say thank you

[razorberries-art]

“Shedding Light” • 8x10” • watercolor & ink on paper

[torpublishinggroup]

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[pauls-mescal]

"My soul for hers" Bill Skarsgård as Eric Draven The Crow (2024) Dir. Rupert Sanders

[jkriordanverse]

Nothing, just thinking about how (hc) Inej getting excited each time a crow brought her a "gift" because she feeds them so often that Kaz started to litter the area with trinkets and presents so that the crows would pick them up and carry them to Inej-

[kassgender]

THAT'S IT JOKER!

PT: That's it Joker! Matching ShuAke Discord layouts for a pal on Discord! F2U. PSD used

[bigmeatpete69420]

New crow gift, a very rusty lawn/sod stake they put these in when installing turf or sod but based on the fact this looks like it was hit by a lawn mower makes me think it was most likely real grass.

[pausegame]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)

[eracrow]

🫧Soap being soapy🧼🫧

The full version is here

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

A few interesting parallels in the SoC duology that I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about yet

(Analysis/discussion of these parallels/quotes may come later if anyone's interested)

“These creatures were made to be weapons” - Jarl Brum on Grisha, Six of Crows chapter 35

“He looked like what he truly was: a weapon” - Jesper Fahey on the Khergud, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“Welcome to the Hellshow” - Kaz to Nina, Six of Crows chapter 6

“Welcome to the Ice Court, Nina Zenik” - Matthias to Nina, Six of Crows chapter 34

“Is this a play?” - Alys Van Eck “Yes love, and you’re the star” - Jesper Fahey, Crooked Kingdom chapter 8 when Alys is taken captive

“What was this but a play Kaz had staged, with that poor sucker Kuwei as the star?” - Jesper Fahey on the auction plan, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“he looked like a priest come to preach to group of circus performers” - Inej on Kaz’s appearance in comparison to the rest of the Barrel, Six of Crows chapter 2

“started to preach” - Inej on Kaz leading a coup against Per Haskell, Crooked Kingdom chapter 27

“Whoever he had become, Matthias was not going to shoot someone unarmed. He'd not yet sunk so far” - Matthias Helvar, Six of Crows chapter 29

“I am unarmed” - Matthias Helvar, Crooked Kingdom chapter 38

"I didn't even know the rules of Makker's Wheel" - Jesper Fahey on his first night gambling in the Barrel, Six of Crows chapter ()

"He knew his guns better than he knew the rules of Makker's Wheel" - Jesper Fahey on the concept of aim and its relationship to his life and his zowa/Grisha abilities, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“a tiny voice inside him said he should offer to take the drug as well […] maybe he could have helped to draw the parem out of Nina’s system and set her free. But that was a hero’s voice and Jesper had long since stopped thinking he had the makings of a hero” - Jesper Fahey, Six of Crows chapter 44

“Matthias gave you the remaining parem, didn’t he?” “So?” “[…] I can’t let my father down again. I need the parem as a security measure” “No” “Why the hell not?” - Jesper and Kaz in discussion about the auction plan, Crooked Kingdom chapter 30

I'll probably be back to add more, feel free to add your own as well

[fangirlwithasweettooth]

me whenever someone gives inej explicitly south asian jewelry/clothes/etc in fics 🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭 like YES give my girl maang tikka, give her saris and lehenga choli and bangles and jhumka 🥹

[thesummerstorms]

Okay, but what if Lucanis does buy Rook de Riva an important (mage)knife.

He gets knives, he has a good weaponsmith, but mages don't use their knives as much for stabbing/slashing directly as channeling elemental magic to stab with, so he goes to Emmrich and asks for the simplest, most paired down explanation of crafting materials' effect on magical frequencies that is humanly possible, specifically as it applies to knives.

Emmrich reminds Lucanis that he is in fact a stave user, but Rook would be a good person to ask.

Lucanis grits his teeth because he can tell from the older man's smile that Emmrich is having some fun at his expense. Of course Emmrich knows it's for Arsinoë. Lucanis hadn't wanted to be that obvious, but he can admit that it is.

Unfortunately, even when sincere, Emmrich is incapable of simple. Poor Lucanis knew this going in, of course and decided on Emmrich anyway because Neve would catch on too quickly and spoil her own gift and Bellara was equally incapable of simple and more prone to distracted tangents. It doesn't mean he's any more prepared to make sense of all this, and in the end he has to take Emmrich to meet his weaponsmith directly.

(The resulting "collaborative brainstorming session" almost scared Lucanis, put his favorite weaponsmith in a mind to possible shift specialties entirely, and cost House Dellamorte the price of a fully functional forge. It's still worth it.)

The end result is a beautiful piece of everite that feels vividly like the air in a storm in Rook's hands yet looks deceptively crystalline and fragile. It immediately becomes her favorite, unlike the vanished knife he gave Viago all those years ago, and from her shy smiles, he likes to think this time he's been understood.

Altogether, things are going well for once. If he feels more pride than maybe is reasonable every time he sees the everite blade in her hands alive with magic that cuts through a Venatori, then that's between him and Spite.

And Arsinoë. And Neve. And honestly everyone else because he's so terrible at hiding it.

All is going well, for once.

Until Tearstone Island, when he wakes up to Neve's anguished face, purple shards like crystal that cut through his gloves as he reaches for the snapped blade and severed hilt, his blood mixing with the sand, and-

and no Rook.

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

Exactly