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 <airhorn noises>: Transvolcanic Jay (Aphelocoma Ultramarina) - Southern Mexico
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fuck this is bad. i want to go to raves, kiss girls and explore my sexuality now that im actually somewhat comfortable in my own body, but i also can’t imagine a life without them; i love them so much. this feels like something where im fucked either way, if i never bring it up and lock in on building our life and our future, it could fester and be worse later, i could develop unfair resentment over something i never told them. if i bring it up, it could be the end of our relationship on the spot, i can’t imagine they would take it well given their preference for monogamy. they’ve mentioned before that i could talk to/meet/sleep with other people but that was in a really rough patch where my addiction and dysphoria were tanking our relationship, so it felt more like a last ditch attempt to keep us together rather than a situation they’d genuinely be ok with long term.
i’m so fucked. i guess i have to talk with them about it at some point but goddamnit i feel so guilty and awful. greed you read about in the bible type shit, i have a perfectly lovely long term t4t relationship and i have to ruin it by being selfish
in my case i have chosen to discard that potential happiness for the relationship i value because i believe the amount of bitterness/resentment i’ll suffer would be less than the amount she would if she was the one to compromise. as a cautionary tale i have also gotten the “maybe you can go be poly and it would be fine” offer during a rough patch, and i found that even the suggestion from me that i was considering it ended up being a landmine that seriously damaged our relationship. this is…not advice (because i don’t feel i can offer any) but in my personal situation i’ve come to believe that being open about this was a mistake. it’s only caused my partner pain. i can’t say that will be true for you! i cannot emphasize enough that i am not trying to steer you any particular way. but for my part, i do wish i had simply dealt with my feelings quietly on my own.
and yes our greed sickens me
(but seriously i hope you find a happy medium where everyone wins)
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This isnt an easy path forward. Either the mono person has to be ok with the poly person seeing others, or the poly person has to be ok not seeing others. Anything less than genuine acceptance and peace-with-oneself-making-processes (regardless of what way forward is chosen) means its just gonna fester into something bigger and more painful later on.
Point is, youre not a dumdum dipshit person, youre facing a real difficult thing where your and your partners needs/wants/desires are incompatible. You sound solid in your choices genuinely I’m sorry its a point of contention between you two. I do think its better to bring such things up; I know if I’m partnered with a person I want to know not just the parts of her that are nice, but the parts that will bring me pain, I want to know her, not just select parts of her.
Anyway, its tough and I’m sorry youre facing it. I was in a similar situation, and took a similar path as you, and uh it didn’t work (for other reasons, mostly around transness and my mental health and our goals in life diverging heavily; I wanted to be a girl, she wanted to date men, and I was incredibly mentally ill at that point which wasn’t easy for her, and she said she was ok with everything when she kinda wasn’t, at least to my perception).
it feels like i’m adding a wound that could never be healed if i said “hey fyi i want to explore other people but i wont out of concern for your feelings,” like i feel that’s insanely unfair to them and would just have them worried about me cheating all the time. if i genuinely come to terms with reality and accept it, why introduce something that would cause pain? for honesty’s sake, i guess, and i have guilt over that too, but it really does seem like it would either be bad or they might pretend to be ok with it to make me happy, which would be worse
That makes sense, idk maybe I’m was selfish with it.
no it’s definitely valid, like i’m definitely holding a lie of omission and that’s its own danger. nobody’s selfish, we’re all trying to maximize happiness between ourselves and our partners. in your instance it sounds like there were a lot of other factors involved, and i’m sorry it didn’t work out
no worries this is very helpful. thankfully i havent brought it up since and never used the explicit term, so we’re good unless i decide to make it an issue. probably best to let sleeping dogs lie in this instance. a happy medium seems… unlikely. my wants vs their needs, the needs gotta come first and i don’t want to ruin the trust we have. thanks again comrade
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