I have One Thing Only and that is angels. A demigod can be like an angel, maybe. The mood of this wound up almost the polar opposite of my original idea.
I like the line art better than either color version, so it's under the crop.
The sketch went through about a dozen changes to both expressions and face positions, and in the end I'm still not really satisfied even if I like how Asperia came out.
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i'm cooking up a transformers s/i it's actually so over
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it's important to remember that dogs are predators (some of them large predators) that can be dangerous and to treat them accordingly. yes, even dogs you know. yes, even dogs you know really well. yes, even your own dogs. if you ever take it for granted that a dog couldn't hurt someone then you're putting the dog, yourself, and other people in danger.
but you can remember that and live by that without it damaging your relationship with dogs. in fact, it makes the relationship even better: instead of treating them like babies, you are meeting them in a place of respect. this is especially helpful whenever you get a new dog, because you go into this new partnership knowing that you have to take certain steps (training, socialization, etc) that will not only make things safer and easier for everyone involved, but will also help ease any anxieties or fears the animal might have.
people take just about any animal for granted, especially animals you can purchase as pets, and dogs get a lot of shit they don't deserve because of it. you are not entitled to dogs. they're not human babies. treating them like they are makes their anxieties worse, encourages reactive behaviors, and unnecessarily puts people at risk of their reactive behaviors. meeting them where they are and being willing to put work into them if you are their handler and if you're not listening to their handlers' wishes in regards to them will give them much happier lives in the long run.
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Moooore hummingbird facts? I'm actually super interested in this
ABSOLUTELY
i already said hummingbirds can fly backwards (and they’re the only birds that can do so) but they can also fly sideways and straight upwards or downwards, and it’s because their wings have a ball and socket joint which lets them move 180° and therefore up, down, forwards, backwards and also in a figure of 8. the figure of 8 thing also lets them hover (they’re also the only birds that can properly hover). forwards, they can fly at over 60 mph and backwards they can fly at over 30mph
hummingbirds are on average 3 to 4 inches long and weigh about 3-5.5 grams. the BEE hummingbird is about 2 1/4 inches long and weighs like 1.6-1.9 grams (and a penny weighs like 3.5 grams so these things are TINY)
hummingbirds aren’t social and usually live solitary lives and they only get together to mate (the mother usually does stay with the babies though until they’re old enough to survive) bUUUT a flock of hummingbirds (which will probably never be seen, but still) can be called a bouquet, glittering, hover, tune or shimmer which sounds so pretty
they don’t have a sense of smell but their eyes work like a humans so they’re drawn to bright flowers, and their brain is larger in comparison to the size of their body than any other bird which makes them really smart. they have a really good memory and can like recognise and remember people. also they can’t walk or hop on their legs, only shuffle (poor little things)
their metabolism is so high that if a human had it they’d have to drink a can of coke every minute to stay alive. their hearts beat like 10 times a second (and their heart is like the size of the rubber on the end of a pencil) which is like 1200 beats a minute. BECAUSE of this they have to visit like 1500-2000 flowers to feed from for energy and they sleep for like 12 hours a day, and can enter a coma-like state called a torpor where their body temperatures and heart rates drop (about 50 beats per minute) and they wouldn’t wake up even if you dropped them. also ON FEEDING, they eat/drink nectar but we don’t think they have the dna for being able to taste it and they might have adapted their umami gland to be able to taste its sweetness
okay okay finally hummingbirds have a mating dance—it might have a name but i don’t remember that—and the males dive up to speeds of like 60 mph and they tweet, but not with their beaks, with their FEATHERS because of the wind ripping through them. humans can’t really hear it all but it’s apparently really complex when slowed down
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Personally I think Fang has a spider for a head because Kitten did that to him herself because she was mad at him. Broke into her dad’s mutagens and used them. Drury’s disappointed it’s a spider rather than a moth but also proud that she is taking after his scientific endeavors. 😌
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im gonna need to make some gay ass fucking knight ocs before i lose it
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