#it's birds all the way down

[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

[fyncherly]

I had to put everything down and make this

Imagine Shilo (who is actually Emizel) wearing this to the tournament?? Imagine it covered it blood??? Do you see my vision??

Here's a version with a more ~Emizel~ expression idk how this guy is gonna fool anyone

Should I make a bloodied version should i

#jrwi the suckening #the suckening fanart #jrwi #jrwi shilo #emizel tucker #shilo bathroy #the suckening #my art #I was in the middle of making a lil comic and then the comic sparked this idea and I had to put it down to draw this first #Not to mention all my other ideas and projects that got put on hold to do the mini comic #I wish I could draw faster I'm going insane #Also the bird pendant is supposed to be a pheasant but I spent way too long on this as is #Now it literally looks like the hunger games bird oh my god #And I made lighting up here I'm sorry

[galadrielspeaks]

when i say cringefail legolas sexy gimli i don’t mean legolas is some ugly incompetent elf while gimli is some suave alpha dwarf. i mean that when the dwarfs of erebor travelled to mirkwood for a week to discuss gimli’s engagement to their prince, legolas tried to wear his hair loose and unbraided like his father in a bid to seem more regal but in the middle of a training exercise he shot off an incredible bow shot at the expense of getting a handful of his hair caught and launched with the arrow to his Complete embarrassment & everyone else’s mirth- and gimli was just like “ach… would you look at that… like the golden leaves from the most beauteous autumn tree flowing in the air, there goes his fine hair, flowing in the breeze- nae a sight more beautiful to be seen seconds before death than those golden strands flying.” and all the dwarfs start “oooing” and “ahhhing” at his poetry while legolas is standing there with a chunk of his hair sticking out of his head like 🧍

#legolas #gigolas #gimleaf #cringefail legolas au #lotr #gimli #lord of the rings #legolas thranduilion #gimli son of gloin #mirkwood #ashrambles #thranduil: legolas my son why a dwarf… of all partners? legolas: *giggling kicking his feet* he just has this way with words #*slams my hands down on the table* gimli is WISE!!!!! AND IS HIGHLY REGARDED AS WISE. AND POETIC. RAAAAAAAAAAAH #so what if legolas stargazes naked or accidentally attended three meetings with bird poop in his hair HES STILL REGAL!!! AND A MASTER ARCHER #when will i ever be free from the ach nae i love him post. WHEN!!!!

[necessarymeanstoanend]

spade represents the tip of a pike; an implement for killing

alex’s

white void of doom

sketch and background element/scribble that isn’t really visible but i’m sharing just in case anybody did notice it.

other details

#now i have to draw one for alex *sobs* #how tf do you guys come up with backgrounds for EVERY DRAWING?! oh my god. i’m not creative enough for this bullshit #two things i discovered with this drawing: 1) birds are hard af to draw. 2) wet black hair is hard af to draw #you guys have no idea how many purple hues are actually in this art piece #this is like if dream and jessamy happened to have met under way worse circumstances #anyway let me know if you guys have any ideas for alex’s (i have no idea when exactly i’ll actually get around to it but still) #bones and shit #a majority of this one was inspired by The Locked Tomb fanart and symbolism #6 hours and 34 minutes but i’m gonna guess that roughly an hour and a half of that was me trying to figure out a background #tom sturridge #like minds #murderous intent #like minds 2006 #nigel colbie #art #fanart #drawing #digital art #nigel colbie fanart #artist of tumblr #like minds art #nigel colby #<- including the old tag bc why not #somebody get this movie out of my brain #scoop it out along with all the other useless shit i keep in there #i was thinking maybe alex’s should be the complete opposite of this #like instead of his head being turned down it would be turned upwards #maybe he should be wearing the clothes he did when we first saw him with sally rowe (or maybe his school uniform) #i ​definitely want both of them to be side profiles and the theme is going to have to be somewhat consistent as well #<<‹ these tags are mostly so i remember my own thought process but feel free to leave your two cents

[twitteringthings]

Just a 40 year old ex yakuza boss sitting on the toilet reading his daily newspaper. Nothing to see here…

#the way his pants are all the way down to his ankles is sending me #How long does it take you to use the bathroom to the point you need to light a cigarette #twittering birds never fly #saezuru tori wa habatakanai #saezuru #yashiro #bl manga #casually in the middle of his daily pipe cleaning #yoneda kou

[freaky-flawless]

Well...damn.

I finally watched The Phantom of the Opera, and now I have to grapple with how much Operetta makes absolutely no sense.

Like I'm wracking my brain, and the only conclusion I've come to is that she'd make sense if she wasn't a ghost at all, but a siren.

Maybe after years of being cast out by his fellow humans, Erik finds refuge in the monster world which welcomes him with open arms, and also gives him the chance for a new start.

And given his love of opera, he falls in love with a siren and they have a child together. Thusly making Operetta half human, half siren.

This way, she can keep her hypnotizing voice, since she sure as hell wouldn't have gotten it from Erik.

#monster high #operetta #before i had the deniability of not being familiar with the source material but thats just gone #now im grasping at straws trying to make her work #i do appreciate certain details of her character tho #like i always thought she knew her way around the catacombs because she was down there a lot but no #thats something very much inspired by the phantom which is cool #and im not sure if this is a detail thats in all the adaptations but the movie at least suggests that he's of romani heritage which is neat #were they tactful and respectful about it? hell no #her design wouldn't even have to change that much #just add some fishy or bird-like features and bam! #couldnt even tell she was a ghost anyway #its funny that she's a ghost and invisibilly isn't lol #text post #this feels like a stretch tho #“that phantom of the opera's daughter who isn't a phantom at all because neither is he”

[skyberia]

magpie

#disco elysium #harry du bois #drawings #artists on tumblr #bro this man is just birds all the way down #alt text in image

[fleshdyke]

absolutely obsessed w the differences in not only his plucking but the body language from april compared to now. i love him sm

#like he’s so much more content in the second photo #like tbf in the first picture he had just spotted a dog being walked in the park but still #i think a lot of that contentedness is from me letting him on my shoulders. he just wanted to be close to me <3 #tia’s always been a hard to read bird bc of trauma and the way he was raised but these pics make it so much more stark. hes so happy in the #second pic :) if anyones curious i can do a whole body language analysis n break it all down #rambles #birds #tia

[solarpunkani]

Y'know someone's probably waxed poetic about this already but it's on my mind so I'm gonna do it again.

When it comes to encouraging people to learn about native plants and habitat and involving themselves and their yards in the wider ecosystem, you gotta meet them where they're at.

And maybe that means they won't go as far into it as you are or would like them to in your wildest dreams. But even small steps count towards the bigger picture and I think we need to appreciate that more.

An example from my own life is my mom and the current gardening project we're working on. We're planning out the garden beds in the front of the yard by the mailbox--my mom's previous plantings for the most part haven't worked out, so I'm taking a crack at it.

I'm a pollinator gardening enthusiast who cares more about attracting as many butterflies bees and hummingbirds as possible than keeping things 'neat' and 'tidy'. However, not only do we live in an HOA neighborhood (though not as intense as some other stories I've heard), but I know my mother--an interior designer who has a deeply vested care for making sure the exterior of the house looks as Nice as possible.

We're still getting a pollinator garden in the front though. How? I'm meeting her where she's at, I'm making some concessions, she's making some concessions, but ultimately we're making something that works for the both of us. She doesn't want the plants too tall and messy? We'll trim them back in fall and winter--the insects can use the backyard garden to nest in. She doesn't want things too wild and bushy and weedy? We'll add a nice mulch to the beds, keep things a bit spaced out until they grow in to their larger sizes. She doesn't know the latin names for the plants I'm asking for, let alone how to pronounce them to ask for them at a garden center? That's fine, I don't know the Latin names for most things anyways, let's just use common names.

Does she care that the garden will attract butterflies and hummingbirds? Not intrinsically--she sees it as more of a bonus, if anything. She just cares about what color everything will be and if it'll be easy to maintain. The fact that they're native plants barely registers as a plus side to her. And honestly? That is fine.

If I approached this problem with a hardheaded attitude on how I wanted it to be just as wild and free as my backyard garden? There wouldn't be any native plants in the front beds. It's not like I didn't teach my mom things, but I didn't lecture her like she was lesser just for not knowing or caring as much about native gardening as I do. And that, ultimately, made her more open to the idea than she would've been if I looked down on her like I've seen too many people do to others.

Not everyone is going to develop a deeply seated care about native plants and Latin names and I don't think it's reasonable to expect that. Meet people where they're at and you just might get a lot more done. Meet people where they're at and you just might find they'll get excited enough to learn more--but if they don't want to learn more, that is fine.

We can't expect everyone on the globe to suddenly become plant experts rattling off Latin names left and right and professionally ID'ing native and invasive plants. In the same way we wouldn't expect everyone to suddenly learn the ins and outs of learning code, or how to synthesize medicines, or how to properly build a house. And that is fine. Because we can lean on those who do know when these things come up.

I lost track of where this was going but. Y'know????

#out of queue #ani rambles #may delete later #like idk between the CPBD channel and some posts ive seen on here #it feels like a lot of people expect EVERYONE to learn ALL the Latin names for everything and thats just not realistic #Latin names make me fuckin dizzy just hearing them out loud 99% of the time #we can't admonish your everyday homie for referring to things by their common name and not knowing the ins and outs of native gardening #you attract more flies with honey than vinegar. don't look down on people for things they don't know and instead lift them up #thats the best way to get people curious about wanting to learn more #and lead by example. show good results and people will be interested. #i put up a bird feeder for the first time like 2 years ago and just this weekend my mom decided to buy a window feeder because she likes #seeing the birds. does she care about providing habitat for wild creatures? no she just likes seeing the pretty birds. #im not gonna lecture her for not putting up a birdhouse and birdfeeder and just wanting to see the birds??? thats stupid #if she wants to get into more then she'll get into more and if she doesn't even a small contribution is still a contribution yknow? #like if someone's doing something actively/with risk to be harmful by all means talk to them about it but like #dont be fuckin rude guys #im going to bed

[minecraftbookshelf]

At this point the only thing keeping me from adding other characters from mcyters into this world is the fact that it would, eventually bring me to the point of "Xornoth and Scott's little sibling, Aimsey" and at that point there is no salvaging the original storyline.

It's a whole separate au that I'll have to come back to after this one is more or less done

#rivendell siblings #rivendell siblings extended edition #i have to talk myself down from this every other day or so on average #xornoth #aimsey #guqqie would be an axolotl hybrid from the ocean kingdom for the record #who ends up being somewhat awkwardly courted by the youngest prince of rivendell and its v cute #owen is scott's only non bird or sheep friend #lauren is his only OTHER non bird or sheep friend #and also a member of the rivendell council #xornoth hired her specifically because she will yell at them without hesitation #look i have put THOUGHT into this okay #martyn is doing SOMETHING im afraid to think too hard about it tbh #hes probably harassing jimmy whatever else hes doing #honestly just might make a oneshot for all this #the au of the au #Beky would be in the swamp because osmp lizard origin lives rent free in my head #Eloise has won the soup eating contest at the rivendell county fair for five decades running #Michela is Aimsey's partner in crime the way Owen is Scott's #i can keep going but this tags essay is getting long rip me #rain rambles #smajor1995 #marriage of state au

[sciderman]

if Wade wore a corset for like, a long time with no breaks would his body set that as the natural and heal his ribs and stuff to form to the corset so essentially he always has a snatched waist? or is that now how it works?

um. i don’t think that’s how it works, no.

#sci speaks #if it did work that way you know wade would be doing all kinds of weird shit with it. #he’d make his arms longer so that he could reach taller shelves. #hed make his middle finger longer so he could flip the bird harder. #i think wade doesn’t get any biology get out of jail cards no sir #he gets old and he gets fat and he gets weak just like anybody. and his healing factor slows down over time. #I don’t think his healing factor gives him any sort of advantage in life at all except that he survives it.

[chrasilla]

do you ever see a piece of media so emotionally haunting and brain-chemistry-altering that it leaves you physically incapacitated like someone yanked your spine out of your back

#the piano 1993 #lady bird 2017 #little women 2019 #greta gerwig #grave of the fireflies #studio ghibli #what's eating gilbert grape #a clockwork orange #george orwell 1984 #turtles all the way down #chrasillasss

[archduke-enver-gortash]

mmm essay about sally and kid gort in the tags (cw for child abuse, mentions of suicide, animal cruelty and a murder attempt. i always hope i don’t have to say this but just in case: i don’t excuse or condone any of her or gort’s behaviour at all.) this is literally not even touching upon everything i have to say because i hit the fucking tag limit lmao. NOBODY READ IT’S BAD BRAINSTORMING I JUST NEEDED TO GET IT OUT SOMEHOW

#thinkin too much about gortie side characters again. #sally this time and why she specifically talks about him the way she does #like dravo is obviously still shitty but to me he was. ‘just ‘neglectful #while sally actively hated and even felt terrorised by her own child #like. it’s not like i don’t understand her at all. #imagine you and your love don’t have much besides each other and your shop and you get pregnant and ready to raise a child #only for it to not be a child he didn’t and doesn’t cry ever and he learns everything so much sooner than most but then he never calls you #his parents and it’s not just a petty thing kids do sometimes you feel that he doesn’t see you as family and the worst part is that you #agree deep down #and as he gets older he doesn’t have any friends and actively rejects the notion of the entire concept #but then as time passes you hear about how he has entire groups of children following him and then several of them commit suicide #and that thing coming to sit with you and dravo at the dinner table says that he did what you did last week when the axe to chop wood broke #and you discarded it and got a new one #and he has these habits of ripping out flowers and making sure that they don’t regrow #and then you hear rumours about a friend’s daughter’s cat disappearing and think nothing of it #until you visit his tree house a month later and find a declawed cat and birds with clipped wings and crushed bugs that he keeps fondly #and then you see him with other children and they don’t know and his face is different and body language is entirely different #and were it not for the fact that you know better you would never see anything but a normal child #and you know that you are one who painstakingly brought this thing that should not be into the world and so you decide to end it all one da #and go to him as he’s asleep with the knife shaking in your hand #but he cries when you’re above him! screams at the top of his lungs! #so you beg for forgiveness even though you don’t deserve it through tears but as soon as the knife is put away you see the act drop and fee #his clever fingers having twisted your brain inside and out and you know that you can do nothing #and so the opportunity arises to at least remove him out of your life if not everyone’s lives and you take it immediately. #but you heard him talk. how he will close his fist around the world one day. and you know that it is not a matter of if but when. #like. imagine that. jesus dude. #like i hc her as someone that is messy and does not know a lot about life and she certainly wouldn’t have been a good mother but the love #or at least desire to love is there somewhere. and believing that having a child is really the only somewhat meaningful thing she can do #with her life. she’s not some hero or rich or anything of note. so there’s a lot obligation and not genuine desire for family here. #but she never really got the chance to be an actual mother in the first place so. who knows what that might have looked like

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

ive never drawn a horse in my life dont talk to me rn

#ieytd #commander solaris #i picked up a pen (art) #my horse art...... she looks so pathetic all burnt and scabbed like that #i have put way too much thought into. everything abt her. #mostly the name and where she got it. but also like. how do you get a horse autistic about lasers #couldn't fit it on the page but i think it would be funny if wherever she came from was just. dangerous as hell. #the roc thing just like. happened every tuesday #sometimes a giant bird swoops down and picks you up and carries you away to eat you. that's just how it goes #also: zor is a dragon. that's why she needs to climb mountains. their cavern house.

[hawnks]

my neighbor has all these plants that keep getting blown off her balcony, like at least a half dozen so far, a whole bunch of fledgling greens in terracotta pots that fall twelve feet to their doom.

but what she doesn’t know is that most of them survive, rooting in the soil underneath, growing and blooming there. she doesn’t know her wayward zinnia somehow managed to make it into a pot of mine with a dead lavender, that what’s growing there now isn’t even what I planted, that I’ve been watering a guest.

#squawk tag #it’s not really a balcony but a lofted porch so it’s like very out of the way down under it sjdjdjjc #idk why she keeps putting plants in such a precarious location #I’m the only one who’s noticed them growing down there because I thought about…..taking one of the live ones and reporting it for myself #mamdkdnfnf #but when I investigated it was ROOTED rooted #so I leave them all be now #there’s a birds nest a few feet away #three seperate birds have built nests in that same place #the new one was built with little white wildflowers

[enchanting-grom-fright]

did u know

#i don’t know when i but i’m taller it must be something in the water #i grew up here til it all went up in flames except the notches in the door frame #my recurring dream i’m at the movies i don’t remember what i’m seeing the screen turns into a tidal wave #when the speed kicks in i go to the store for nothing #the house where u lived with snow white i wonder if she ever though the storybook tiles on the roof were too much #the drugstores r open all night the only real reason i moved to the east side #and here everyone knows ur the way to my heart hear so many stories of u at the bar #either i’m careless or i wanna get caught #i can’t open and forget how to talk bcs even if i could wouldn’t know where to start wouldn’t know where to stop #close my eyes fantisize three clicks and i’m home #when i get back i’ll lay around then i’ll get up and lay back down #i know i know i know #like a wave that crashed and melted on the shore not even the burnouts r out here anymore #either way we’re not alone i’ll find a new place to be from a haunted house with a picket fence to float around and ghost my #friends no i’m not afraid to disappear the billboard said the end is here i turned around there was nothing there yea ig the end is here #and now my feet can’t touch the bottom of u #of somebody who loves u more #so i will wait for the next time u want me like a dog with a bird at ur door #and there’s something i’m supposed to say but i can’t remember what it is #and if and if i could give u the moon i would give u the moon #u r sick and ur married and u might be dying #i would do anything for u i would do anything i will do anything #laying down on the lawn i’m tired of trying to get in the house i’m thinking out loud #i’ve been playing dead my whole life #i hate ur mom i hate it when she opens her mouth it’s amazing to me how much u can say when u don’t know what ur talking abt #i feel something when i see u #bcs i don’t know what i want until a fuck it up #i’ll climb through the window again but rn it feels good not to stand #day off in kyoto got bored at the temple looked around at the 711 the band took the speed train to the arcade i wanted to go but i didnt #called me from a pay phone they still got pay phones it cost a dollar a minute