#birds of a feather and all that right

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

#my art #feralnette au #birds of a feather #long tags #sorry I went apeshit in the tags #LETS SAY IT ALL TOGETHER NOW #I - M - A - G - OOOOOOOOO #its fun drawing marinette's back to Alya and having her appear stout and unstoppable and totally logical #and then you see her face and she's like two seconds from completely snapping and is keeping it together by a thread #as a note just because mari feels very certainly abt smth doesnt mean she's right. feelings can be valid and also irrational #in the throes of grief she decided it was better to be alone than to lose someone again so she started pulling away #and lila made pulling away very very very easy to do #shes also vaguely aware she's being unfair in pinning this on alya which is why she started spinning the drain on cockmoth again #legitimately all the shit that's happened to her wouldn't have been so catastrophic if he was never in the picture and she knows it #but the bitterness of her bestie choosing a fantastic liar over her at the worst of times stiiiiiings #alya's personal timing was bad but lila really took advantage of the fact that marinette had been acting off and weird #she basically clocked marinette as being unstable from SOMETHING and made up a lie about her #knowing she wouldn't have the strength to defend herself #between her social life going tachy bc of lila and losing fu in a way that felt like personhood death marinette was really put on the spot #and alya doing her thing of busting in there and assuming her bias is correct was a terrible combo #essentially marinette is highly unstable and alya is just realizing that #busting in and giving her a lecture when she's slightly hysterical and definitely delirious from exhaustion is NOT the way #to show her she's self sabotaging #cuz thats just gonna make her double down on self sabotaging. bc marinette will not accept that she is also a CHIIIIILD

[kedreeva]

I'm so sorry, I'm absolutely losing it. I went to my neighbor's today to find out what I would need to do to care for their puppy this weekend, and This Fucking Thing appeared ajgldfkjhfg she is a turkey hen. you know, the birds who quite famously look like this

with no feathers on their heads, or very little, mostly along the spine/top of the head... and this gal just rocks up with not only a LITTLE bit of feathering, but almost completely covered. Even her WATTLE had feathers.

I'mc rying

i said, what the hell is going on here? and they were like

her name's Fluffy

#turkeys #turkey #birds #bird #I can't #I wheezed laughing #MA'AM PLS #I have seen some hens with a LITTLE extra feathering #like a thicker mane down the spine #or a little extra around the ear feathers or something #but never like this #this gal heard “bearded hen” and got the SPIRIT all right #look at her little fuckin' eyebrows!!!! #GOD if I wasn't neck deep in peafowl breeding I would take her to breed feathered-headed turkeys #I would just keep picking the ones with the most feathers on their heads until they were plumed

[tizeline]

A Jackdaw dressed in Peacock feathers

(Happy Kaeya Day everybody!!)

#i'm bad at drawing feathers #and birds too as a result #AND i'm bad at drawibg side profiles #considering all of that i'm pretty happy with how this drawing turned out #tizel art #my art #genshin impact #genshin impact fanart #genshin #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #kaeya #kaeya alberich #kaeya fanart #kaeya birthday #someone pls notice that the jackdaw's right eye is blinded to parallel kaeya #i am big smart

[shima-draws]

Actually OBSESSED with this edit. To the point where I watched Rio again just to hear the song even tho I hadn’t seen it in like 10 years

#ALLLLL THE BIRDS OF A FEATHER!!! (WHOAAA-OH) #DO WHAT WE LOVE MOST OF ALL (OHHH-OH) #MOON AND THE STARS. SUN AND GUITARS. THAT’S WHY WE LOVE CARNAVALLLLLL #This song feels SO Wano to me even tho I’m not even at Wano yet. LMAO #One Piece #Also the editing for this is PEAK #There’s another one that’s to My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark and they have FIGHTING NOISES TO THE BEAT OF THE SONG #It’s fucking BONKERS bro #Like sword clashes and punches. TO the song beat #God video editors out here be wildin. #Shima speaks #Video #Anyway I downloaded the remix and edited it bc all the ones on YT were the wrong pitch. So I have the right pitched one now lol #Instagram

[front-facing-pokemon]

#one from slightly further away under the cut so you can actually see the rest of their beak. but i thought the closer one was funnier #starly #this is another one of those “default early route birds” to me. though i think this is one of my faves just because of the feather patterns #the design is pretty. if i saw a bird in real life that looked like this i would think it's pretty. and i've always liked the sounds it does #i dunno maybe it's nostalgia talking bc gen 4 was the game i played a lot as a kid despite gen 6 being my favorite gen #but i don't even remember what the early-route bird *is* for gen 6. off the top of my head. at this moment. i don't even know #i can try to list them all in order #kanto‚ pidgey; johto……… uuuuhhhh……………… fffuck i'm already having a rough time. gen 3 is taillow. i know that. gen 4 starly‚ gen 5 the uhhh #bitch that evolves into unfezant i don't remember their name. gen 6 who fucking knows‚ gen 7 who fucking knows #okay wow i just googled a list i didn't even think of half of these as early route birds. pidgey‚ spearow‚ wingull?? i dunno #taillow feels more like an early route bird to me. starly‚ #PIDOVE that's their name‚ fletchling which i LOVE but i always just remember the fucking pidgey you always encounter first #pikipek whatever i didn't play gen 7 very much‚ rookidee i remembered evolves into corviknight and then i knew wattrel. bc i was like #wow it's an electric-type! i probably look like a total fake pokémon knower right now and well uh #i am. not. a fake pokémon knower. i'm a pokémaster i promise this just isn't a category of pokémon i think about very often

[nobodieshero-main]

okay so i was thinking about ahuru, as one does, and i was thinking about how much i don't want her death to just. be keika's backstory, yknow??

like i don't want to reduce her to just the main characters motivation, which is why i try to give her so much life in any scene she's in. but i think i wanna like- so, ahuru's death literally shapes nobodies hero, right? there'd be no story to tell if she hadn't been killed. and that's kind of a Big Deal to me.

so i think i'm going to symbolise the fuck out of birds. foreshadowing or whatever.

like when keika first meets mattie- he's in priah and he still doesn't have his memories back. he decides to go for a walk, just wandering through the mushrooms and the woods and then all of a sudden a game bird gets shot with an arow right in front of him. and when he looks up, he sees mattie with a bow and arrow, and that's how they meet.

and then in the next book it's revealed that Mattie is, technically, responsible for ahuru's death. it wasn't personal, in the same way hunting that bird wasn't personal, it was just...self preservation. they just shot an arrow and watched it land.

#i want the first thing for keika to see when he leaves the mahina woods is a dead bird #just. for every wrong path keika takes there's a dead bird waiting for him yknow #when he's in the library in the palace in prota he can hear the birds. and when he kills sasha they dont sing for days. #it also helps with my idea for there to be 'stop go back wrong way' signs all over the place the entire time keika's on the quest #like he's CONSTANTLY being told he's going the wrong way. he's not where he's meant to be. and every step leaves feathers in his wake. #im trying so hard to properly convey what i want to do with the birds but none of its coming out right #i'll just have to write it ugh #anyway #ahuru my beloved you will haunt every word in these books if it kills me #oh my god what if all throughout two ghosts he hears birds but never sees them...... #i might have to adjust the title slightly to allow more wriggle room for more ghost metaphors #plot stuff

[chaos-has-theories]

Spill the beans on Black Raven! Spill the beans! Spill the beans!

(in regards to this ask game)

You are going for the THROAT, my friend.

Black Raven is the working title for a truly old, deeply teenage angst inspired power fantasy I haven't actively worked on in quite some time. It's based on me and my older sibling. It came to me in a dream. It's so old that I wrote it in German, okay, which should tell you something about how deeply I cringe when I have to go back through the earliest parts.

But it's also... kind of cool?

Explanation of magic system and my fucked up birdgirl of a protagonist under the cut.

First of all, there's the magic system. Creating new spells is a lifetime effort: They're personal things, confined to the bearer. They're also weak, powered only by the emotions and dedications of one person. But - upon the bearer's death they do get passed on. That's when they get stronger.

Noble families have Spells that have been passed on through countless generations. They're powerful and unwieldy and highly regulated. Lesser families might have developed a spell of their own: they can develop spontaneously, but they rarely reach the kind of strength that is cultivated in a family with preparatory studies and passing-on ceremonies.

It is possible - if dangerous - to hold multiple spells at once. They interact with each other in unpredictable ways, and can rip away your humanity as easily as make you stronger. It is therefore highly illegal.

It is also possible - if difficult - to force someone to pass their Spell on to you. If you are the only person present at their death, well. Who else could it go to? It might not work as well as a proper ritual, but it does work.

And there is one surefire way to ensure that setup, isn't there? You just have the one who kills them.

Unsurprisingly, being a Spellripper is even more illegal than just holding multiple spells. Of course, those who make a career out of it tend to do both.

Second, there's my certified little freak of a protagonist. Care's parents died young and she was raised mainly by her sister; until Aria was offered a job for which she had to leave the country. We know Aria only agreed to it because it gave Care the opportunity to go to school. We also know that that did not work out as well as they thought.

Fast forward by ten to fifteen years. Care is a quiet student of thaumaturgy; known to be a commoner whose family came into money late in her life. She rents a room from an old lady outside of Campus, who has decided to give the clearly anxious girl as much family time as she possibly can. When that lady figures out that Care's missing sister is the famous singer Ariadne, she tries to get the sisters to reconnect.

The problems, in order, are these:

Aria feels incredibly guilty about having ever left Care behind, and vows to take her along this time.

Now she feels incredibly guilty about keeping secrets.

This would be because Aria's work as a singer is only a cover. She was actually scouted as a spy all those years ago.

Care is very well aware of this.

Aria doesn't know that Care knows about it though.

She also doesn't know that Care ran away from school as a mere teen, turning instead from petty thievery to serious burglary, to full on Spellripping.

Or that at some point throughout this, Care was actually caught by the city's government, and force pressed into working for them.

Meaning they are now opposite sides,

only one of them knows about it,

and both are being eaten alive by guilt.

And that's that!

#chaos writes #ask games #flashing gif #nano tag #I might also mention #that Care is in posession of 1) a fake strength spell 2) an actual strength spell and 3) a transformation spell (bird; black) #and 4) a light spell. #...and that living with Amry (the widow) is very much a long con to get her illusion spell as well. #anyway care is the black raven aria is the white raven she wears a white feather cape on stage #and MAYBE she also has a spell #right. the fake strength spell is Aria pretending her parents passed one on to her and that she can give it to Care when she left #which keeps Care going for a decent while until she realizes that's not how spells work #which kind of starts her descent into. uh. murder. and all that #what else? ah yes. she's basically version 1.0 of my icon #:3

[modernminstrel]

These are my babies! Anyone wanna follow along on their journey with me?

I’ll post the update videos here, IG and TikTok (@eigethedeige on those) so whichever works best for you is cool with me. I’m just excited to have people join in with how psyched I am! 🖤

#conures #green cheek conure #birds #animals #eggs #baby animals #I’m honestly so excited #round 2 should be better #now that all three of us have experience right? #kana #Daisuke #kana and daisuke #parents #mom and dad again soon! #pets #parrot #feathered friends

[groundbreakingdot872]

Morgana’s little pet raven going back and forth in season 5 like ‘yes mistress I shall complete these tasks for you… 🥰’

Or ‘It would be my deepest darkest pleasure to inform this minion of their death 😉 and promptly!’

And ‘oh… I don’t know why you still keep that shriveled up lizard by your side (dehydrating it as a future rug ornament perhaps?) but no bother 😌’

And the classic:

My mistress says you will die in the next hour… 😃 have a good night now!

#her most loyal little supporter 💗 #fluttering by her ear saying ‘I think we should hang that blood soaked head and entrails by the fireplace actually… #or maybe the second hallway to the right? #don’t know if that would clash with the cobwebbed theme we have going on...’ #ruffling it’s feathers in distaste at everything oh! I wanna personify this raven so bad #😭 #bbc merlin #tw blood #tw death #morgana pendragon #acting like the host on ‘say yes to the dress’ every morning when morgana chooses between black and all black #preening it’s feathers like the self centered little bird he is #lol

[swaggypsyduck]

me: ya allah why do u make the men i love so embarrassing i cant keep defending them😮‍💨

also me: has no shame in committing to the bit so well i end up being the embarrassing one

#birds of a feather and all that #me: why would ramos do that? #also me: faked an accent in front of the new british kid only for a week for $50 and banana bread #(i thought id only get the banana bread) #he knew my accent was fake but was very surprised when i said ive never set foot in england other than the airport #bc i did so much research bc if imma do smthn imma do smthn right #anyways he still thinks im lying about not having a british passport #5 years later

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

#feralnette au #my art #birds of a feather #eheheheoeooehooohoehehahahaa #ok ok i feel i should add. editing in some tags here #in fairness marinette doesnt 100% believe her nemesis' of COURSE #but when the situation is bad and the intrusive thoughts are bad. of course you think They Must've Been Right #so when she's under these situations of high stress and peril her brain automatically jumps to the worst conclusion: #which is of course. that the people who are her current greatest threats were right all along #and right now marinette is in great peril

[kedreeva]

This tiny little barb feather is an ear feather! It is one of many that cover Bug's aural cavity, to protect it from getting dirt and other debris in it. They're also differently colored than the feathers around them, making the circle of the ear stand out in their face!

#peafowl #feathers #peahens #birds #my pets #bug the peahen #she's molting so I'm finding all the cool feathers right now lol

[outeremissary]

“Happy Valentine’s Day, Balthazar and Tristian!

I hope all is well in the once-Stolen Lands! The hardest part of moving back to Cheliax away from Mendev is the distance between my old diplomatic allies turned friends. On this day of love and friendship, I extend my most cheerful of celebrations to you two! Please take it easy today, the kingdom can afford one day of a break, Balthazar. I promise it’s not going to all fall apart. You’re lucky Tristian has the patience of a saint. 

Hopefully these gifts will give you an excuse to step off the throne for a little bit! The wine and cheese is local to Cheliax. Of course, I don’t know how it compares to what you guys produce over there, but I hope it at least is palatable enough for a date night! I’ve also sent along some books on ancient arcane rituals that might interest you - Regill would’ve insisted they be thoroughly examined for anything dangerous… which technically you can do. We won’t tell him. It’s wrapped in the fashion magazines last I picked up from Absalom - I hope I didn’t bend their pages doing so! I remember you also being really into that sort of stuff.  

I also sent along some balm I found when I was there for feathers. I can’t believe how soft it’s made mine, I really just had to pass it along to you too! I know what a huge pain it is to care for them, especially with your wings. Hopefully you find it useful! I’d love to come visit sometime - if you have any other world ending cataclysms, I’m just a Sending away!

-Warm regards, Minovae!"

My dear Minovae,

Though this letter falls into your lap a touch late for me to properly wish you well for the holiday, I can certainly send my hopes that you spent it pleasantly with that husband of yours. Though duty never takes a holiday, I must say you more than earned the rest. I can only hope you enjoyed a long and indulgent vacation for the holiday. Perhaps at the spas you have told me so much about, or maybe enjoying that evergreen Chelaxian theater scene (though I confess I can’t imagine Regill sitting through an opera without making his displeasure quite known). Tristian sends regards as well, and is with me insisting on knowing what I put down. He has doubts about some of the books, Minovae- you will have to reassure him when next you write.

As for us, you needn’t have worried. The toil of the realm is ceaseless, it’s true, but I do still know how to enjoy myself. Spending a day like that bent over petitions and tax documents… if that ever happens, I’ll be the first calling for revolution. No, we didn’t do even a little work on the date, I’m happy to say. Tristian even came back to bed after dawn prayer- the closest to sleeping in I think we manage. It was a fairly quiet affair this year (no travel or shows this time around), but the time in was well spent. I’m sorry to have missed your gifts on the day! I do miss the cuisine of the Inner Sea- the wine and cheese would have been an excellent addition to the evening. You speak far too modestly of your gifts. It will be a long while before anything as fine emerges here.

At any rate, between the fine southern vintage and the news of Absalom, you’ve awoken something of a nostalgia in me. You’re in danger of playing host rather than visitor if this continues. I only half jest- I’ve been playing with the idea of some “diplomatic tour” as excuse for a while now. But I suspect you can tear yourself away from your post somewhat easier than I, and we would be happy to have you again even sans cataclysm. Here- I’ve sent some things along that might tantalize you. That pendant should be a lovely complement to your eyes- though it’s been some time, I should think I remember their color well enough. It was crafted by one of the artisans near Lake Silverstep, who sought to capture the silver-blue of the mountains not only in the frame for the gem but that thread-thin chain as well. What a lovely coincidence that hue is also counted among your scales! The music box is Pitaxian and is from both of us- there have always been renowned instrument crafters in the city, but what a delight to see the songs themselves captured, yes? And speaking of the region… a lovely Sarain white. I’ve no local cheese to send to pair it with, sadly. At times like this I wish that Jubilost were still here. Much as he could be an insufferable ass, if you could sit through his scoffing at your ignorance there really was no one better at finding the right local complement for any vintage (Tristian wishes you to know he strongly objects to my word choice, though he cedes Jubilost could be “somewhat overbearing”). At any rate, the vintage is citrusy, a touch dry, and pairs well with something salty but mild. If you’re near enough to Westcrown, I’ve also heard it works splendidly with oysters.

Yours truly,

Balthazar and Tristian

P.S. The balm really is a marvel. You’ll have to tell me where you got it, as I’m already sure I’ll mourn its absence when it’s gone.

(author's note: I wrote the tags before the letter and now I'm too scared of them to change them whatever's happening down there is happening)

#what a coincidence to mention balms I've been reading a lot about wings lately #*pepe silvia voice* have I told you about the wings we need to talk about the wings let's talk about the wings #did you know that most birds have under their tail a preen gland that produces the oil used for preening? #the oil isn't necessary to waterproof the feathers (their interlock takes care of that) but it helps protect and lubricate them #they're largely dead structures so they can become brittle and if damaged can't be repaired quickly #oil from the preen gland helps to increase their longevity and carry them through between molts #“but emi!” I hear you say. “most winged humanoids don't have tails! surely this is an issue. where is their preen gland” #great question from the audience! I too was thinking about that #minovae spends significant time with protective salves and such for her scales I thought. perhaps such a thing is necessary. #it certainly amused me to imagine how difficult this must make their care and how painfully dependent on assistance one must be #for so much of the wingspan is out of reach! #or of course one could give a winged person a preen gland. relocate it. I couldn't settle on a place that felt right. #but then emerged a third solution #for while most birds have a preen gland “most” is not “all” #and the vast majority of the others (including some birds with large wingspans and slow molts like a number of parrots) #instead produce powder down! #powder down being a type of down feather that breaks down into a powder naturally #and when preened through the feathers adheres to them in a slightly waxy sometimes metallic looking coat #powder down can either grow in big patches on the chest and thighs or be scattered throughout the feathers #and as of the time of writing I /believe/ that can include the wings (although I have to imagine not the most A+ source) #isn't that neat? doesn't remove the need for preening of course but it certainly makes life a little easier to produce your own stuff #at any rate I imagine one might find bird dander inconvenient despite its advantageous properties #and between that and the limitations of production prefer to supplement with artificial products anyway! #really my rule of thumb with the wings is “if realism is funny or interesting they work in realistic ways” #“if not they don't or they meet in the middle wherever it gets interesting” #ask me emithing #balthazar lucienne #balthazar and tristian #minovae arangeir #silversiren1101

[aeide-thea]

my feeling abt ~bi vs pan discourse~ is that if the pan camp has to be accountable for all the bullshit biphobic ways some of its adherents define it, then the bi camp has to be equally accountable for all the bullshit binarist ways some of its adherents define it… OR we could accept that different ppl often prefer to view similar experiences thru different lenses, bc they feel comfier/more precisely described that way, and that any given individual probably means something more idiolectically nuanced by a term than we’ll necessarily immediately understand without getting into it with them, and not be snide abt how anyone identifies even when a subset of ppl who use any given label express it stupidly, as a subset of ppl always inevitably will?

#like SO many bi ppl talk abt being bi as ‘i’m really attracted to this really femme woman and this really masc man… i’m so bi’ #and then want me not to read that as binarist #and like. i’m willing to! but honestly if i’m going to extend that kind of good faith then can’t you #like the number of posts i’ve seen that are like ‘only non-bi ppl ever feel like bi is binarist’ and it’s like. i’m fucking bi!! #if you want to say bi is the right word for all multigender attraction i’m DEFINITELY bi! #but in that case you REALLY gotta understand that the complicated feelings are coming from inside the bi house #anyway whatever. love my bi friends‚ not saying bi is inherently binarist if you don’t mean it that way‚ etc. #i just don’t really see why we can’t all peaceably coexist #instead of the vibe i always get that like. special snowflakes are coining new unnecessary terminology #which just feels like. an uncomfortably conservative attitude frankly. #that said i absolutely acknowledge i’m bringing my own particular experiences and irritations to the table here. #not looking to pick a fight with anybody just like. shake my ruffled feathers out. bird bath time. #language #identity

[crowsyart]

Ritsuko is a verreaux’s eagle like her mother, meaning her feathers are naturally black Just like in the series, she uses dye

This is her usual pattern, since she goes for efficiency over all else

The parts that are blonde are usually the parts that are shown

If she’s wearing a dress or something or going out she’ll dye or shave her leg feathers (verreaux’s are a booted species, like golden eagles)

Also for my sake in this au the birds have sort of dinosaur-like hands on their wings

#yeah birds wouldn’t have breasts but #whatever she’s a bird person #people assume she’s a golden eagle #her bleached feathers are crunchy as hell #the black ones tend to be much softer #she has a bit of a habit of feather picking and doesn’t display preening publicly if at all #nge #ritsuko akagi #neon genesis evangelion #anthro au #also some self indulgence for a ship I enjoy #embarrassing I know but I think when misato sees her naked for the first time ritsuko automatically preens her chest feathers #it’s a compulsion she’s completely embarrassed #oh man right they both have black fur and feathers I can do something fun with that #noting it down in my brain #thanks whoever’s reading these

[crepusculum-rattus]

every time i see the birds up close at the wildlife center i am in awe… they’re So pretty

#and actually being able to see the details on their feathers up close…… amazing #and by up close i mean like. my coworker is holding the bird and i am standing right next to them #asking a million questions #bc i like knowing why the birds are at the wildlife center. bc. they’re only there bc something is Wrong #there’s a few with a missing wing and some who just have neurological problems #and our eagle who flies around the stadium sometimes.. she has a broken beak. but everyone knows that #<- she’s why we Have the wildlife center #we have like.. over 20 birds i think??? #and i got to see all of them today bc we were cleaning the bird barn #theodore rambles