Bluebird鈥檚 High-Wire Act
This is a pretty sharp picture of an eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) on a powerline.
"Eastern Bluebirds occur across eastern North America and south as far as Nicaragua. Birds that live farther north and in the west of the range tend to lay more eggs than eastern and southern birds." - allaboutbirds.org
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So I've been under the weather today, here's what I've been up to in the last hour.
I really wish DC would let me write Harper.
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Eastern Bluebird聽(Sialia currucoides), male, family Turdidae, order Passeriformes, western U.S.
photograph by聽JCWings
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Vesuvia Weekly: Animal Shenanigans
(for @vesuviaweekly 's "How things went wrong, featuring the familiars" prompt. Also featuring very sketchy doodles I did while playing DnD)
Chandra and Skye
(Nadia and Chimalus' familiars)
There aren't too many shenanigans as far as those two are concerned.
Chandra took sort of a motherly role to Skye.
And Skye is a very sweet little bluebird... most of the time.
Chandra tries. She really does. But she can't completely keep Skye out of trouble.
When not doing her self-proclaimed duties keeping Chimalus company and sometimes acting as a seeing-eye bird (the scar over Chimalus' eye left them half-blind) Skye loves going Places where Small Birds Should Not Be.
She particularly likes to hide inside teapots.聽
Especially when said teapot is on the tea tray of anyone unlucky enough to annoy Chimalus.聽
Chandra will sit by whatever table or shelf said tea set is on and hoot incessantly until someone finds Skye and coaxes her out.聽
Skye is mildly annoyed by this. But she forgives Chandra every time.聽
(Now if only Chandra could get it through her head that small birds do not need to eat anything like mice...)聽
Malak and Oswald
(Julian and Damian's familiars)
Oswald is a little fruit bat, a rescue from the Red Market.
He's very smart and dedicated, a Firm Supporter of everything Damian does.
Malak is... well, Malak. He's the worrywart. But he's doing his best.
Oswald helps Damian with his potions and alchemy projects whenever he can, and it鈥檚 adorable and Oswald is very good at it.聽
Malak has occasionally tried to fetch things for Julian in the same way, but this is a bird who refuses to wash his claws, so Julian won鈥檛 have it. It鈥檚 unsanitary.聽(And thank you Brainrot for that amazing headcanon!)
Which inevitably leads to Malak trying to help Damian, which in turn leads to disaster.
Malak does not know what he is doing or what he is grabbing.聽
And Malak, by nature, is both very suspicious of strange mysterious liquids and distracted by both shiny things and things that smell nice.
Both of which are abundant in Damian鈥檚 alchemy work.聽
So not only does he always fail to grab the wrong thing, but he also drops stuff so he can go inspect The Latest Shiny.聽
Damian is endlessly patient with him. Oswald is not.
(Malak don't do it don't drop the berries into the potion--)
Julian has needed to clean up after Malak's "help" on more than one occasion.
The most infamous one turned what was supposed to be a burn salve into a pile of stinky orange goo. 聽
It took a while to clean that up. And even longer to cheer up the very remorseful Malak.
Faust and Forge
(Asra and Meleia's familiars)
Forge is an adorable little fennec fox that Meleia rescued during one of her travels with Asra.
He's a shy little guy, and an absolute sweetheart. He doesn't usually get into trouble.
But he does have a "burrow" under Asra and Meleia's bed.
And he loves to hoard blankets to make his burrow more cozy聽
Faust wholeheartedly encourages this. ("Crimes!")聽
There was one day when Asra and Meleia found a very fancy blanket in Forge鈥檚 nest
Far fancier than anything they owned.聽
Asra and Meleia had to use magic to find where it actually belonged.聽
Thankfully the blanket was just from the palace, so they could easily return it聽
Nadia and Portia ended up gifting the blanket to Forge anyway.聽
Faust was rather smug about that. The whole mess was her fault and she is very pleased with the outcome.聽
(No one knows how she managed to steal an entire blanket from the palace in the first place)聽
Faust: "Teehee!"聽
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