Corvids refers to birds belonging to the family Corvidae. Typically associated with birds in the genus Corvus, which includes crows, ravens, and loyalist primarchs, these "true crows" only make up 47 of the 135 current species. Corvids have native habitats in almost every place on Earth, and cover a wide variety of birds from the aforementioned crows and ravens to magpies, jays, and nutcrackers.
I'm gonna try and update the thread with a new corvid each day of the week, there's a lot of beautiful plummage on some corvids and also a lot of just like little gremlins, so hopefully that'll be kinda fun.
I hope everybody has a lovely week!
Monday: Little Crow (Corvus Bennetti) - Western and Central Australia
Tuesday: Hooded Crow (Corvus Corone Cornix) - Western Asia and Northern, Eastern, and Southern Europe
Wednesday: Azure-Winged Magpie (Cyanopica Cyanus) - Central and Northern China, Northern Japan and Mongolia, Southern Siberia, and Korea
Thursday (Late oops sorry): Northern Nutcracker (Nucifraga Caryocatactes) - Scandanavia, Northern Europe, Russia, Siberia, Japan
Friday: Western Jackdaw (Coloeus Monedula) - Europe, Central Asia
Saturday: Purplish-backed Jay (Cyanocorax Beecheii) - Northwestern Mexico
Sunday: Common Raven (Corvus Corax) - Deliverance
BONUS CAPSTONE BIRD : Transvolcanic Jay (Aphelocoma Ultramarina) - Southern Mexico
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SA, trauma
Is it ✨️problematic✨️ to wish wed gottenremovedd or had something similarly obviously rly bad happen to us so we could better justify to ourself why were such a traumatized messspoiler
My hot take of the day is that being trans is inherently traumatizing and should be recognized as suchThats only a hot take among cisppl tbh
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There was a bit of a discourse a bit ago when a trans girl directly compared testosterone puberty toremoved, and like we get why ppl didnt like that comparison but also tbh we get what she meantI feel like some people here probably disagree with me tbh
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Oh they do that all the time. I've seen a few victims of both say puberty was worse. I low key agree but don't say it because I'm not aremoved victim. Although I have been SAd and harassed and puberty was definitely much worse then that. I get what they mean too.spoiler
Puberty lasts for many years and you don't get the luxury of dissociating as easily and it consumes your entire life growing up.
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And consumes your life afterward, every second, every interaction. All the work and money you have to spend fixing it. Dysphoria is hell.Yeah true, it can be a hot take w trans ppl too, tho much less so
And yeah same, weve seen victims of both say that too
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Pretty much in the same boat. Certainly would take not being forced to go through the wrong puberty even if it meant dealing with more SA/harassment. And even more if it meant not having been born with the genitalia I was.re:
I don't think trauma is inherent to being trans. There are just many societal and personal reasons why it could be. Personally, I wouldn't say transitioning has been traumatic for me. Society and the healthcare industry have done their worst, but I'm at peace with my transition.It won't be the same for everyone, of course.
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it's not "inherent" as in, if we lived in a just world then they wouldn't go hand in hand. but in this world they do, at least for the vast vast majority of trans folks. im pretty at peace about the physical effects of male puberty etc on me personally, but social aspects of the gendered upbringing have left me damaged. i think this is a very common experience. that's not even getting into the general prevalence of transphobia and how it impacts trans youth especially. social norms often cause trauma. repressing is traumatic. for many the act of transition is where the healing begins so you are kind of missing the forest for the trees a bit. the damage often comes before.
If we lived in a just world where I got on hrt at 11
I wish I could have been on HRT at 11 but honestly even just a world were people were chill about me being trans and told me I'm doing a great job more would be nice.
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genuinely the only way to avoid this trauma
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I'm not saying it can't traumatic, I'm saying that trauma isn't inherent to every trans person. In the same way that you're speaking from your experience, I'm saying that it wasn't for me and I also recognise that my experience isn't universal.If someone feels that their experience was traumatic, then of course it should be recognised that way.
i understand. i think i interpreted your comment as speaking more universally than you actually did, that's my bad. i suppose i still struggle to imagine someone with literally zero trauma related to it just given the gestures at everything. just not an experience i can put myself in the mind of at all.
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I agree with you in regard to being trans isn't necessarily traumatic, but being trans in a transphobic society is absolutely traumaticdysphoria
I do not understand how living in the wrong body for years and years isn't traumatic.Society and healthcare are both excellent examples as well. How is there not trauma from being in a society that hates you. Surrounded by people who think you should suffer. Who deny your suffering. I literally can't imagine how that isn't traumatic.
My own experiences with being trans and growing up
It wasn't traumatic for me, because it was my escape. I grew up in an abusive home and spent most of time hiding away. Conversations with my guardians were always a risk and I kept friendships pretty surface level. Even the things I excelled at were co-opted and distorted by my guardians, who just wanted to live vicariously through me. It was a nightmare.All of that hopelessness changed when I realised I was trans. I started to understand in fourth grade, noticing that I wanted to wear the girl's uniform instead. Of course, that was something nobody else was talking about, so my hypervigilance paid off and I kept it to myself. It wasn't until middle school that I learned that people actually do transition, finding out from Myspace groups of all places. I was so inspired by everyone's confidence and everyone was so pretty. It felt like I had found purpose in my life for the first time ever. This was something that was mine, something I could always look forward to and no one could distort. I took the steps that I could while going through schooling and went full time just after moving out.
Ironically, part of my transition did get distorted thanks to past trauma, but it always a CTPSD thing for me. I really had a hard time trusting the world for too long.
Sorry to go on for a bit, but this is an honest answer to "how could anyone not find being trans to be traumatic?"
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I've often also thought that being trans isn't inherently traumatic. But honestly ... going through male puberty probably fucked me up in ways I can still barely understand.
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I remember reading in high school this piece of writing by an ostensibly cis women about as a teenager wishing she had had a dark trauma in her past to explain neatly why she felt her normal life was so awful.And I found it so deeply resonating. Because that was me, all the time. And in hindsight it was yeah because I was trans. And neurodivergent. And my dad was abusive.
And then I did get groomed and assaulted and didn't quite even realise because I thought I was a boy and my abuser was a woman. But like I had all those traumatised feeling before that happened.
Any chance u remember what the piece was? Feel like we might resonate w it too
Sadly I think the chance of my finding it are slim, my English teacher just gave a photocopied sheet to a dysphoric teenager like 20 years ago. But if I do ever find it I will post it.
Thats ok, ty!
What is the point of filtering that word, genuinely
iirc some people have expressed that seeing it can be triggering
Discussions of the topic certainly can, but can the word itself be triggering in a way where just substituting another word wont be?
Also, anecdotally we know survivors who find it v upsetting when the language they use to discuss their experience/trauma is censored/policed
apologies, i don't have an answer for you bc i'm not someone who finds content warnings and the like necessary or useful. i was explaining, not offering a personal opinion.
i understand where you're coming from but i have no dog in this fight. since i'm not sensitive or even really traumatized about my own experiences i have never felt it appropriate to try and influence the standards one way or another, either here or elsewhere
No worries
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I think the conditions that have traumatized you and have resulted in you wishing for that are far more problematic. I think it's natural people look for excuses to blame their problems on. For some people, for example, it's blaming vaccines.Granted, I just think such fantasies are hot and have since middle school. I don't actually want to fulfill them, but perhaps they're problematic in a similar way if your thoughts are.