Silverstream: Dad, am I ugly?
Sky Beak: … What nonsense. I’m looking at you right now, you’re the most beautiful girl in the world.
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Swift Foot: Father, am I ugly?
Diomedes: Very much.
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-{{Speaking of worms, I asked Polo what they would do if I was a worm. They said they'd put me in a little maze to see how fast I could get through it. Thanks, Polo. There are worse fates that Worm Anomaly could have.}}-
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maybe it's my lack of sleep talking but I sense the reason I'm having easier time with prompts this year is because I'm also very use to drawing hk stuff
I outta try mix things up a little more and practice other stuff but bugs are holding my motivation quite tightly and not sharing enough XD
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More of the Alternate Form Project! This is Berardius, a giant sky whale! He is specifically a Baird's beaked whale except much bigger and flying high in the sky instead of diving deep into the ocean
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the sun mourns in vain for the white-throated rail: a comic about disability and the unwanted able-bodied grief for past selves.
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Page 1: The sun holds a white-throated rail, a bird with a red head, a gray body, and a white throat, in its hands. The sun speaks in a tone represented as sorrowful pity through a drippy speech bubble.
Sun: Looking at you makes me sad!
Rail: What?
Page 2:
Sun: Looking at you makes me sad!
The sun stands with a hand clutching its face.
Sun: How miserable it must be to be flightless! Don’t you yearn for the skies? Don’t you wake up grieving you’re still on land?
Page 3: The white-throated rail looks down in frustration in the hand of the sun.
Sun: (speaking off screen) I’d simply perish if I were you!
The rail speaks, looking down. Pink flowers bloom towards the bottom of the page, petals and pollen blowing in the wind.
Rail: Why do you put your words in my beak and your grief in my feathers? Am I not beautiful?
Page 4: The bone of a white-throated rail is positioned against a colorful galaxy dotted with flecks of stars.
Rail: Am I not adaptability in action? Am I not evolution in motion? Do you mourn the days you weren’t a star? Do you mourn when the sky was cold, how unbearably hot you must burn to keep embracing it every day?
Page 5: The sun looks at the viewer.
Sun: Why would I? That was then, this is now. I am content to be in this state.
Page 6: The rail looks up at the sun off-screen.
Rail: Well…So am I.
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While I was out in search for photos, three waxwings sat on this treetop. By the time I could take a photo only this one stayed. I took this photo in my home in Quebec during the month of May 2022.
Prints available: https://bit.ly/3Xyex7Q
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Pegasus Masterpost
Here's a little guide to the main classes of pegasi in the Sky Cowboys world!
Sky Cowboys pegasi generally follow these "rules" -
They have beaks - most are similar to raptor or seabird beaks. Used for opening nuts and snapping up small prey. They do still graze on long-stalk grasses.
Coat colors stay within the equine range, but feathers can be any color.
They have horse-like brains and so are trainable similarly to horses.
They cannot speak like some birds can.
The standard flight range per day is 150 miles. It's called a "hop".
Broadwing Pegasi
These are the main workhorses of the world. They're hardy, agile, and tend to have solid temperaments. Most pilots fly these for all sorts of jobs and have been bred into many unique breeds.
Quick visual - Quarter horses or mustangs with eagle or kite wings.
Longwing Pegasi
Longwings have as much attitude as they do wing surface, but they make up for it with sheer endurance. These pegasi can stay aloft for weeks, diving into the sea for fish or ocean plants to eat.
Quick visual - Thoroughbreds or arabians with seabird wings.
Shortwing Pegasi
Calm and huggable, shortwings are the draft horses of the Sky Cowboys world. These are flightless pegasi (since their wings are so small), but are still very useful on the ground like for all sorts of things from riding to pulling wagons to working in farm fields.
Shortwings tend to have colorful/fancy plumage.
Quick visual - Percherons or clydesdales with songbird wings.
Scrapwings
These little guys are feral - no one has really domesticated them. Partly because they're difficult to work with and partially because no one really sees a point. They're all-around too small to be useful and tend to just get into stuff. At least they're cute!
Quick visual - Zebra/quagga or donkey with dodo wings.
And there you have it! What would your SC pegasus look like?
If you want to learn more about my pegasi, I have an art/lore book on Kickstarter! Also there's lots here on my blog, it's just not as organized :)
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-{{Went out to search for ancient bones earlier, I'll try to upload a photo I took of an animal I saw along the way in a bit. It was nice, and Polo got what they needed for some research. Wish I could go out again but my head hurts. Maybe I'll get back to exploring later. For now, I'm resting in the Space Anomaly. And now here's Nada, I'm guessing they're gonna tell me that I shouldn't looking at my datapad's screen when I have a headache. You know, Nada, your face is a screen so I'm technically still — kzzt —}}-
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