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mochamoth · 26 days

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Birds 😱‼️‼️‼️

(There's more but it probably wouldn't fit..)

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cattimeswithjellie · 2 years

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Bird Grian Behaviors

So I've been binging a ton of Hermitcraft/Traffic Series fanfic lately, and a lot of them have worked in an "avian hybrid" concept where some characters, most often Grian but also Jimmy or others, have feathery wings and tend to exhibit birdy behaviors. Some of them are very popular and appear in a lot of fics (wing preening, nest building, shoulder perching) but there are so many more things that birds do! Have you considered:

Poking colorful bits of paper and other decorations into their feathers because it is pretty!

Taking baths by rolling around in powdery dirt!

Attacking mirrors that surprise them!

Angry head-bobbing and mock-lunges to show aggression!

Napping on one foot with head tucked under one wing

Constant, constant, constant chewing! (This is beak maintenance behavior and most bird bybrid characters don't seem to have beaks, but still! So much chewing on toys, mineral blocks, snacks, friends, etc.)

Seeking the high ground in any given situation because they like to feel tall!

Also a couple of considerations about wing-preening, for those who might be interested. Birds spend up to 30% of their awake time preening their wings! It's a big job and very necessary for flying. Part of preening is cleaning, but the bigger part is keeping the feathers in order and properly waterproofed. Feathers are super-complex little structures and the beaks of birds are designed partially to keep the barbs and barbules properly zipped together and in flying shape. If you've ever played with a feather, you probably know how you have to very carefully smooth them out to get all the little pieces properly stuck together and feather-shaped. Birds also have special glands that produce a waxy, oily substance that they spend considerable time working into their feathers to keep them healthy and resistant to water. A bird hybrid character without a beak and talons or oil glands might need tools and products to help them stay in good flying condition.

When a bird grows a new feather it comes in as a pinfeather first, basically a feather wrapped in a keratin tube so it can push through the skin. They eventually groom off the tube bit and the feather spreads out, but a bird who is molting and has a lot of pinfeathers coming through is likely to be touchy and crabby. Birds who are very stressed, anxious or bored may resort to overpreening or feather plucking as a maladaptive behavior, starting first with the small downy feathers of the chest and under the wings. Birds can also pluck or overpreen one another if they live together.

Now please note that none of this stuff is supposed to be proscriptive, or the One True Way to write bird stuff. Part of the fun of fantasy characters in fic is that you check logic and basic biology at the door, and once you do that you can do whatever you want. And it's not like I'm being particularly scientific myself here, I'm just mostly sharing what I know from living with small parrots for a decade. All this stuff is just throwing out ideas for fun things to do with bird characters. Write what makes you happy!

#hermitcraft #traffic series #fanfic ideas #grian #avian hybrid characters #bird characters #honestly no idea how to tag this well #but i have Ideas and i'm going to make it tumblr's problem today

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confusionwolf-doodles · 2 years

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My ttrpg character Terron Goldtalon he’s a pirate parrot I have a few doodle pages of him so look forward to those

#anthro #furry #bird characters #pirate character #pirate #parrot #drawing #cute #ocs #original character #my artwrok #traditional art #doodles #doodle #oc

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karamidaydreamer · 2 years

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Oh my God... Drawing all these motives, 7 in total, absolutely destroyed me. I really underestimated how long it took to sketch, line, color and shade these all and I probably spent 60hrs+ on it.

Anyway here's the DAE Squad but as birds!

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honestlyprettynotsomuch · 2 years

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a sketch from a comission for raxi i really liked!

#comission #bird characters

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lucians-post · 2 years

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Time - 2:54:07 :)))

#digital art #original character #red winged blackbird #bird characters #wings #fairy art

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ashs-hellhole · 2 years

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forgor to post this a while ago but hav stupid bird gang<3 birds include (in order from left to right): blue jay, peach faced lovebird, eagle, dove, crow, and owl!

#art #bird sonas #bird characters #bird #blue jay #peach faced lovebird #eagle #dove #crow #owl #holy shit this took a while to finish #theres so many characters #6 in one drawing???#along with that 12 wings in total? :flushed: sounds like alot #it is #why did i say that?#idk man

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hypotheticallad · 2 years

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More Australian animals assignment work! These are the other model sheets I drew for Robbert and Rebecca, I’ll be sharing development for these designs on Wednesday!

#Character Design #original art #original character #expression sheet #model sheet #bird characters #bird art #frog character #frog art #australian artist

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somfey · 2 years

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First ever post? Woah!

#art #digital art #artists on tumblr #drawing #digital painting #winged oc #bird characters #glitch effect #my oc art

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bigolialragu · 1 month

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i like thinking that laios would go crazy on birdwatching after the [SPOILERS] curse

#*gestures* he's like the character i have identified most with EVER #and i love birding and seeing cranes #i know he would love it #and kabru would only be slightly annoyed #my art #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #dunmeshi spoilers #dm spoilers #laios #laios touden #kabru #kabru of utaya #kabru dungeon meshi #laios dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi fanart

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juleteon · 6 months

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you missed.

#digital art #animal art #bird art #raptor #mythical art #fantasy art #original character #oc art

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stromblessed · 5 months

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Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1: