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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1335 on: May 30, 2023, 12:49:16 PM »
ApprenticeNerd, that was beautiful.
I don't know why, but all the songs I find most beautiful are sad ones.

Perhaps one of the internet-savvy folk here can help you link the recording? I'd love to hear it sung.

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1336 on: May 30, 2023, 04:29:37 PM »
ApprenticeNerd, spot on! Right to the Feels! It captivates the moment very well.



New prompt perhaps? I suggest Birds
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1337 on: May 30, 2023, 04:32:41 PM »
JoB there’s something!

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1338 on: May 31, 2023, 01:35:11 AM »
JoB, that is weirdly funny!
And ApprenticeNerd, your song is beautiful and sad.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1339 on: May 31, 2023, 04:34:54 AM »
JoB there’s something!
(I saw that one, and I remember Reynir once saying "thank you for letting me help" after he and Mikkel cleaned up the Cat-Tank, but the context didn't allow for the quote to be in the past tense ...)
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1340 on: May 31, 2023, 08:31:50 AM »
ApprenticeNerd, wow - that was beautiful and really fitting.
I write poetry sometimes.

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1341 on: June 10, 2023, 04:56:40 PM »
”It is… changed”   “Different”  “New? Growing?” “New, and old. Felt this before.” ”Yes, this has been before” ”Like before, this will come and go”
No. It must stop. We will make it stop.

“The forest … trees” “New colour” “No. More colour. Same colour than before.” ”Have known this. Name is forgotten”

”Word is spring” ”Spring is regrowth, renewal” ”End of death”
QUIET. This is vile, revolting, bad. We will make it stop.

”Sound” “Sound. Beautiful” “A thing… a living thing?”
Everything is dead

“Sound of living thing”  “Thing is… finch?”
QUIET. This is vile thing
“Robin…. Warbler… I have known this thing. Many of these things”  ”swans, ducks, seagulls…” “we had wagtails at… home?” “Word is birds. I learned about birds. At home. From my…” QUIET “I remember loving birds! My… my dad taught me to…” SILENCE


All is silent. Nothing moves. All dead. As it should be. As it will be.

ALL IS DEAD


We didn’t really have to kill ALL the birds? Did we?



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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1342 on: June 10, 2023, 04:57:38 PM »
New prompt please?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1343 on: June 12, 2023, 10:43:17 PM »
midsummer mebbe?

Legal? (in honour disgrace of recent events?)
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1344 on: June 13, 2023, 07:57:04 AM »
We can do mid-summer next week (it will be midsummer..where did the time go?....)

Legal is good.  I have to look up the news to figure out which "disgrace" (lol)

I have been so out of it lately...
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1345 on: June 14, 2023, 04:19:11 PM »
I somehow missed birds.  So here is birds..
https://archiveofourown.org/works/45121762/chapters/120711565

so legal this week and mid-summer (or mid-winter for southern hemisphere folks..)next week?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1346 on: June 15, 2023, 10:54:53 AM »
Great work, dmeck! I like the way it reads like an actual traditonal story!

Your birds had much nicer dealings with the dead than mine! Btw, do corvids actually do that? Lift carrions to trees I mean?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1347 on: June 15, 2023, 12:34:56 PM »
Great work, dmeck! I like the way it reads like an actual traditonal story!

Your birds had much nicer dealings with the dead than mine! Btw, do corvids actually do that? Lift carrions to trees I mean?
I have seen crows drop stuff to get them to open.  (Maybe eat some nice soft braiiiins...tee hee)
 I just took it a bit further.

They have been known to drop rocks

https://www.sciencealert.com/crows-ravens-corvids-best-birds-animal-intelligence
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1348 on: June 16, 2023, 01:07:12 AM »
I have certainly seen such behaviours from corvids. The people who were troubled by crows dropping things on their cars and houses should be grateful that there are no keas where they live! Many of the big parrots are at least as smart as corvids, and keas in particular form gangs to work cooperatively on projects. Those projects have included such things as dismantling rubbish bins, cars, motorcycles and exterior lighting systems.

Their beaks are like a pair of sharp-ended pliers. When I was prospecting in New Zealand many years ago I had way too much experience with keas helping themselves to my stuff, including both food supplies and small tools. While they could, and sometimes would, open the buckles of my backpack if they could be bothered, sometimes they would simply gnaw through the heavy canvas to get at things inside it. The experience I found most alarming was when a kea chewed its way through the solid metal handle of my geopick! Wavewright could probably tell you more about keas.

Corvids, parrots and raptors such as eagles will all drop things from a height to kill them or to break or crack hard shells. There was recently a case in Victoria where a dingo pup was found fallen into a backyard, having been dropped by probably an eagle. The animal survived. And accounts of creatures such as tortoises and shellfish being dropped to open them by birds are very common.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1349 on: June 16, 2023, 03:58:48 AM »
The people who were troubled by crows dropping things on their cars and houses should be grateful that there are no keas where they live!
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