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vethbrenatto · 2 years

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@quiddie’s direct series of events:

#dimension 20 #a court of fey and flowers #exu: calamity #the ring of brass #critical role #loquaerryn #captain kp hob #delloso de la rue #laerryn coramar-seelie #loquatius seelie #creations #parallel #acofaf spoilers #it's about the feathers... i guess?

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firbolgfriend · 3 months

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Follow up to this post, good god this blew up on tt

#mlp #my little pony #twilight sparkle #discord #discord mlp #mlp discord #mlp infection au #mlp infected au #mlp horror #mlp:fim #18k views and 300+ followers when I posted on tt they eat infection au stuff up I GUESS #one comment already figured out what I was gonna do to fluttershy booooo #feel less cringe and more free about the dialogue after the warm reception #sweet feather diet

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uncanny-tranny · 10 days

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So much love and recognition to the people who don't know how they feel about recovering. To the people whose scars are fading away, and there's a sinking feeling, despite knowing that it's a good thing. To the people who miss when they were "worse," when they felt "broken." To the people who mourn losing their coping mechanisms, even the ones that were destructive, scary, or unpleasant. To those who feel guilty they're healing because their past self wasn't ready.

Whatever it is, there is nothing wrong with any of those feelings. It's a natural reaction, something you don't have ultimate control over. There is nothing shameful about yourself, and I admire the strength it takes to recognize how you feel, even the parts that do feel like the "wrong" reaction to a Good Thing.

#mental health #self harm tw #self harm mention tw #sh tw #mental health recovery #mental health support #i love you i love you i love you #i admire you and empathize with you and want to be your fellow man. i want to share this wold *with* you #and that includes sharing a world that you aren't sure you deserve or are ready for #the world can wait. humans have been here for hundreds of thousands of years. it can wait #when i think about all this what makes me feel better is remembering how many billions of people have lived #and it makes me feel better to know that there has never been a problem too big to have - to uniquely awful #i have my own conflicted feelings about this because objectively i am healing #but it feels like i have boarded on land after surviving the worst trip to sea ever...#...a trip that was plagued with my ship being flung through hurricanes and lightnight and i'm only manning a sailboat...#...and i have found land and that land is good...#...but my legs feel like they will give out underneath me because this is solid land that i have never stood on...#...and you get used to the constant seasickness and sealegs and wondering *how* you'll make it out - If you will...#...the peace feels like a ruse at times because all you've known was chaos. but it's a good ruse and a comfortable one #and so you learn i guess to sink into the comfort like a spft feather pillow

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smilesrobotlover · 9 months

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Why is Sidon the most gayest straight character ever

#I guess he could be bi it’s perfectly reasonable #but his whole character makes me laugh cuz he’s engaged to Yona a lovely lady #but he has a statue of him and Link in Zora’s domain #and he talks about Link so much #like #I love him #maybe Sidon just tries to express his love and appreciation for someone cuz you never know when you’ll lose them #oh now I’m sad #this was meant to be a joke post 😭😭#tears of the kingdom #tears of the kingdom spoilers #sidlink #sorta #I don’t personally ship it but it doesn’t ruffle my feathers #totk

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heylittleriotact · 3 months

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I have never been more emotionally catapulted by a video game than I am from hugging a vampire. This is ridiculous.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 astarion #astarion #astarion ancunin #usually my trauma gets projected onto my PC but larian was like guess what we have for you!#I remember *exactly* how it felt when I realized that this person genuinely gives a shit about me and wants me to be happy #oh I’m not just a feather in your cap? that’s so nice.#what? you mean my own desires and autonomy matter and you’ll actively encourage me to draw boundaries and say no to things?#you mean you’re not going to get upset and pouty because I’ve been sex averse for like a month and you’re not getting laid because of it?#I’m sorry - you’re just going to hug me and tell me not to worry about it and you’re not going anywhere?#I fucking married that person #im going to give him the biggest hug when I get home 🥲

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cozylittleartblog · 1 year

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Do you have any tips on drawing the Swatchlings?

frankly i am happy that i have gotten good enough at drawing these bird boys (gender neutral) that someone wants my opinions. anyway

i see a lot of fun ways to draw swatchlings tbh and i don't really know what you want tips on Specifically so i will just make notes on a few of the main things i think about when i draw them, most importantly: just make them bitches broad and fluffy, man. they're all canonically Ripped, but an important thing to remember is that they are likely completely covered in feathers! that's going to smooth out those muscular details, so you wont be able to see them, just the broadness of them.

my style is all based in gesture and shapes, so i use a lot of blocks so they look nice 'n sturdy. it's okay if you don't nail the anatomy on the sketch, i am constantly nudging things around all the way into the coloring phase trying to get the shapes right. frankly i would probably bulk out even this Example Bird if i were drawing them all the way. i usually add more fluff or muscle or chub or whatever when i detail them but the absolute bare bones of them is dedicated to blockie

i give mine these sort of vestigial wings on their arms to make them look softer, and i think about how feathers move and stick out on real birds to help inform how they'll sit on these birds, too. and i carry the soft, pointed feather shapes into the fingers so they also look soft.

tip for drawing Soft: don't get caught up making too many individual strands or feathers, soft things tend to come together in big tufts. you want big gentle shapes, not a bunch of little ones. unless you want your bird to look wet or scared in which case you're doing a great job and you've probably just drawn spamton instead

their faces are really tricky so i think of them as these kinda... non-euclidean semi-hollow pentagonal cones. there's five "planes" with the top two dedicated to eyes and the bottom three dedicated to mouth placement. sometimes you can see the far eye even though, in real life, you would not be able to see that "plane" of their face. you don't always have to understand things sometimes they just look cool, especially when characters are cybernetic birds made out of Magical Darkness. there is no rule about when to draw one or two eyes. it's just whatever looks better.

biggest and bestest tip of all about drawing swatchlings! very important! write this one down in your most favorite gel pen and Really Big! give them either tails, or tail coats. i don't care that canon has neither, canon is wrong. you can switch it out, even - my birds have tail coats as part of their standard uniforms but they can wear their real tails out on special occasions.

lastly, if you want to stick closer to a canon interpretation, i would not try to make the birds too unique, when they're on the job anyway - they like being coordinated! tasque manager is very particular about keeping them coordinated as well. but if you just want to have fun then you can make your birds as fun and unique as you want :) even though i draw them all about the same i personally love love love seeing super funky swatchling designs, making them different colors and species and such.

course summary:

make them Large. make them Fluffy. use really broad, blocky shapes and draw big, thick tufts of feathers instead of trying to detail them too much.

their heads are silly magic nonsense. draw a triangle and get funky with it. no rules, only vibes. if it vibes it stays

they always need some kind of tail or tail equivalent and i don't care what Anybody else says

if you want to follow canon, draw all the birds except swatch just about the same. if you're just here for a good time, throw that out completely and have fun with it.

#deltarune #swatch #swatchlings #tutorial #art #ask #anonymous #anon #and now everyone knows about the funny little flap birds have on the back of their pants to fit their tails through #i have explicitly gotten better at broader bodytypes just by drawing birds and i am thankful for it every day #i guess there's some other smaller stuff like i try to make their uniforms more on the fitted side #because the birds apparently like to be Looked At and be Showoffs so fitted uniforms are better for that #but im not sure if my style is detailed enough for that to come through on anybody but swatch #specifically tailored their vest to accentuate the Donbonhonkeros 👌👌👌#aaand it's okay if they lean a little more chubby than tanky sometimes because practical muscle and fat can look a lot alike #but either way those feathers are gonna smooth out those shapes #and they're wearing many layers of clothes on top of that!#once again i am not the Utmost Authority On Birds and this is just some stuff *i* think about when i draw them #if anybody does it differently or You want to do anything differently that's totally okie dokie :)

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somehowmags · 2 years

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statement of fundy soot, regarding a falling out with his father

(another @pinchhitsfromthevoid, this time for salem-is-tired, who requested a tma au!)

#dream smp #dsmp #wilbur soot #fundy #dsmp wilbur #dsmp fundy #tommyinnit #or. his shoes. i guess #fanart #my art #blood tw #body horror tw #ok so. explanation:#so. there is a very good analysis post by nightsferns that shows evidence for the fact that #tommy kinda. helped sabotage wilbur and fundy's relationship.#ill reblog it after i post this #so the story i thought up for this comic was this: tommy is an avatar of the corruption #(because the corruption is all about love)#and for a while he's staying with wilbur and fundy #and slowly wilbur and fundy get sicker and sicker and fundy starts throwing up feathers #and somehow wilbur in his paranoia starts believing that Fundy is the one causing the sickness #when in reality tommy is the one causing it #is tommy doing this on purpose? thats up to you to decide (probably yeah)#but my thought here was mainly that the corruption is fundamentally about love- and fundy is a character starving for love #anyways! hope u like it!

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onboardsorasora · 8 months

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I just saw a tweet calling Lando the Hulkenberg of his generation and I ....💀

#this is fucking hilarious #love and light I like lando but hes also hella annoying sometimes and I'm not about that life #im actually here wheezing #lando no wins #i guess this is anti lando #I'll tag it that so i dont ruffle feathers #anti Lando

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suaimhneas-gairid · 2 months

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I'm compiling a list of details about Vax so I can draw him accurately, including armour/gear/items, and I'm sure I'm 7 years late to this joke but..

boy does he have a lot of cloaks

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incorrect-league-of-villains · 2 years

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Sako: Bottoms up!

Hawks: [lifts Dabi above his head]

Dabi: HEY

#incorrect lov #clinks dabi against shot glasses #debating whether hawks would try to lift dabi with his arms or his feathers #is hawks buff enough to do it with his arms #i mean he obviously has to be strong to some extent #and dabi is malnourished half the time #bruh yall remember the buff natsuki meme.#can we get buff hawks now #fuck now im thinking of an lov ddlc au #dabi is yuri?? toga matches the knife thing and the repression though #hawks is monika for reasons i cant explain #i wanna say shiggy is natsuki also for reasons i cant explain #mmmm i guess toga’s a mix of sayori and yuri #cant think of anyone else who matches sayori #maybe twice but twice as sayori sure is a mental image #forgive me i got into a dumb ship with monika and now i have ddlc ob my mind 24/7 #plus i watched dan salvato play ddlc a while back and he was talking about yuri’s psyche and it was fascinating #like i still think of what he said about her and natsuki’s thought processes even now #and by a while back i mean like. last year #the dokis are fuckin interesting dude i like exploring their characters #aaaaaaaand i rambled again whoops #on such a short post too pfffff #bnha hawks #takami keigo #dabihawks #mr compress #sako atsuhiro #dabi

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musubiki · 9 months

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Summoning old backlogged memories in my brain rn and… does mochi like turn into an actual cat and get extra snuggly once a year or did I fully make that up in my mind?

NO THATS A REAL THING!!!!! once a month she gets the ears and tail and becomes extra cat-like!!!

(true for all witches. during the new moon they take on features of their familiars and lose magic for appx 12 hours. the actual lore/myth/legend behind it has something to do with the gods of the stars-- the moon is thought to be the primary goddess (despite not being an actual star) and something about her not being in the sky equates to no magic or something)

but YES she becomes extra snuggly but also in the same spirit of cat-likeness, shes snuggly for like 2 seconds and then starts biting you

#gods of the celestial bodies i guess is the better way to think about it #or so mochi says #she also purrs #and has to endure excruciating harassment from lime because hes always trying to get her to purr #or is using the fucking laser pointer on her #or feather toy #SPEAKING OF WHICH I HAVE AN OLD WIP ABOUT THIS MAYBE ILL DO THAT TONIGHT

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pearl-kite · 4 months

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WIP Wednesday

How long has it even been. I wasn't tagged, it's just Wednesday and I'm using it as an excuse

I should work on the background before I lose too much steam. Why did I have to pick goshawks??

#wip wednesday #I DO hav an iea for the backgroun I just.... don't want to do it #I think the iea is beyond my skill level to successfully pull off but I guess I gotta giv it a try anyway #so focused on thee feather details that now I'm not as excited about shading the amn birds but what can you do

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mydetheturk · 10 months

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oh fuck its's sunday six sentences time

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Vash did something with his mouth that could be considered, if Wolfwood were generous, a smile. Not a nice or particularly pleasant smile, but a smile. It was more a baring of teeth than anything else, a reminder that Vash wasn’t human.

Wolfwood slipped the rosary off his neck, pooled the beads on Vash’s throat. “Don’t move,” he said. The wooden beads clicked together, vibrating slightly as Vash made a noise deep in his vocal cords.

#trigun #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #myde writes #i have been #working on this fic #for what feels like months #and its still only 1200 words #all i want out of it is wolfwood making vash come so hard he sees shrimp colors #thats all #maybe vash glows or sprouts feathers because of said aforementioned shrimp colors #also any excuse to write wolfwood having religious quandaries about having sex with an angel is always a good excuse #maybe i'll work on this on my day off this week #haha my tags are longer than my sentences #fuck me i guess

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furrama · 8 months

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Remind me to have nothing to do with dinosaur/paleo folk on here again. I know they're always fighting misinformation and tired of jerks needling them to death over feathers and such to the point where they'll fight their own shadow, but theirs is a combative energy that I cannot deal with. I don't like the passive aggressive offs over precise language or dealing with the well actuallying. There's no room for humor or light deviation for illustrative purposes.

#I know they mean well but yeah #I used to love drawing dinos but I saw people being ripped to shreds over the tiniest things #So now I don't draw dinos #Unless it's Agumon or a dragon and it's allowed to be wrong on the Internet without having misinformed all future generations #And I'm not bitter about feathers or pronated arms I'm pro science here #There's just no room for humor or accidents #The threat level is too high for that I guess #And even if I apologize and defer over it's never going to be acknowledged #Better to just not interact tbh

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sophieswundergarten · 8 months

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I can't stop thinking about that Wing AU and Sticky plucking his feathers...

(Weird, angsty ramblings that might require some knowledge of bird anatomy to fully understand to follow)

(Basically, when birds grow feathers they start as "blood feathers" which are basically just little sacks of blood and growing cells. After this, they are "pin feathers", and the blood is all inside where it belongs, leaving the feather all rolled up and covered in this papery stuff that rubs off and leaves a fully grown feather. Also, Primaries are the big "pointer finger" feathers at the tip of the wings, Secondaries are the medium sized ones from the "wrist" joint to the "elbow", where they get smaller and are referred to as Tertiaries. That should be it :>)

Because, in real life, it's quite common in pet psittacines (Parrots: so, macaws, cockatoos, budgies, lovebirds, etc.) especially when they are stressed. And it can get out of control really fast and take a long time to train the bird out of even though it's very obviously hurting it.

And I just keep thinking about how young he was when he started being on TV. And for a while the fluffy little baby feathers were cute but an entertainment industry seeking engagement instead of connection demanded he grow up too fast.

And so the make-up/wardrobe department for any competition he was on started pulling some of the downy feathers. There weren't that many left at this point regardless, but they assured him it would make him seem more mature and appeal to a wider audience. And it would be fine, it wouldn't really hurt him, especially since he was growing in big feathers anyway.

So it went. With Sticky being so self-conscious and anxious anyway, he probably kept his wings tucked in tight behind him no matter what people thought about them.

He had never put that much consideration into how he looked, but now he can't stop thinking about it. He doesn't know why it's so important, but apparently it matters to people. He doesn't want it to matter. He doesn't want to be seen or recognised. He just wants to be left alone.

He starts fidgeting with the pin feathers that will one day unfurl into adult primaries, and even though he knows it's counter-intuitive because removing the casings will only free the feathers sooner, he can't help it. A few times he goes too far and starts picking at blood feathers, and even though the red coats his finger tips more often than he'd like, he still can't stop his hands from scratching and pulling and yanking as he grows more and more agitated.

And then he ran away

He ran and he couldn't keep his hands off his wings for more than a few minutes. Tugging and raking his fingers through the feathers in a futile attempt to calm down. The first couple of times, it's an accident.

The first couple of times he's so caught up in soundless panic and all he can hear is his own breathing, it's only later that he notices a small cluster of secondaries, close to his body and almost never seen with how rigidly he holds himself, are missing. Small pieces of the night sky littering the alleyway ground where he'd been hiding.

His wings are so dark in colour, not to mention unkempt after a few weeks hiding and running and flitting from place to place trying to find safety, that the other kids don't even notice anything wrong.

It isn't until a few days later, when they're all in the backyard attempting to practice their Morse Code, and Kate does something that startles him that they really see what kind of a state his wings are in.

Most birds, when scared or on edge, will carefully spread their wings. Maybe not a lot, but they are preparing to fly away or make themselves look bigger in hopes to scare off the threat. (I imagine Milligan having great big owl wings that he puffs up to try and guard the children when the Recruiters come after them in the maze)

But Sticky just draws them in closer to his body. When he is scared, which Constance would note is often, he holds his wings so tightly to his back that they seem half their size. This would be considered odd and in some ways handicapping himself or keeping him from being able to react properly.

But this time, as Kate wobbles unstably out of her cartwheel and lets out a shriek of laughter, landing on the ground right next to him, Sticky jumps. He starts off the bench he had been sitting on, hunching his shoulders and reflexively spreading his wings.

And instead of the fully extended mix of fully grown flight feathers and occasionally wayward piece of down the other kids have, Sticky's wings are a mess. They have a skeletal quality, with just enough plumage that when they are folded in it's hardly noticeable, but when they are extended it's clear there are significant gaps. The remaining feathers have the dull, stunted quality of someone who has been under an incredible amount of stress without nearly enough nutrients to fuel them, and indeed Sticky looks rather like a feral cat in that moment: Spooked and curling in on himself as if expecting a fight.

He quickly realises his overreaction, and then processes that the girls are staring at his wings (Reynie's eye did dart up, but quickly returned to looking at Sticky's face), so he jerks them back into a resting position. Though there's nothing particularly restful about how stiff his posture is, back ramrod straight and muscles so tight he's beginning to shake.

However, this is something that the others know he doesn't want to share yet. And he doesn't need to. Not until he's ready.

So, Kate grabs the flashlight from where it had fallen to the ground, a sheepish grin on her face as she apologises for scaring him.

Reynie suggests they all go inside, take a break and get something to eat before they begin again.

Constance glares at Sticky suspiciously, but right as she opens her mouth she seems to think better of her questions and simply shrugs.

And Sticky is grateful for his friends, grateful that he has these people who love him enough to trust him with his secrets, even though they don't know each other very well yet. So he follows them inside, and if Kate dumps a little bit more food on his plate, and Constance doesn't try to swipe his juice glass this time, and if that night (for the first time) Reynie shyly asks if the two of them could take turns preening each others' wings, when it's just the two of them alone in the room, Sticky thinks he might be able to trust them too.

#Anyways #I wanted to get this idea out of my head so I could actually think about other things #Because it has been crowding out a lot of other thoughts lately #That's what I get for getting all excited about bird anatomy I guess :/#I hope it isn't too annoying or weird #But it's a super real thing that lack of proper nutrition can mess up a bird's feathers too #Birds are kind of ridiculously delicate #In other ways aside from the hollow bones I mean #But at least they're not as bad as horses #All this is mostly based off my own experience with anxiety and doing stuff like pulling on my hair or pinching myself?#I don't really know anymore if that's a common anxiety thing or something I should tag as a 'trigger warning'?#I thought it was normal but if anyone has an issue with it please tell me #Anyways like I said #Lots of feelings about wing aus and birds and a TON of feelings about Sticky #Whoo I finished that now I can retreat to the safety of my phone and leave the clown behind #the mysterious benedict society #mbs #sticky washington #mbs wing au

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stellerssong · 3 months

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3. and 6. for the new years ask >:)

3. Do you anticipate writing for a new fandom this year? Which one?

might break into awake alan at some point, if only because at this point i have basically no faith in fandom-at-large's ability to acknowledge that woc have souls, brains, hearts, characterizations, or, indeed, major plot-driving storylines. same with blue eye samurai, with the added caveat that there's no way i would ever publish in that fandom, because AS a queer mixed race asian woman with a specific interest in japanese history. i just knoooooooooooooow people are already out there somewhere making strong statements about sexuality/gender divorced from race and historical context that would instantly transform me into an earthly vessel for the infernal powers of satan himself. and i'm not trying to get mixed up in that shit.

realizing this answer makes me sound extremely mean and jaded about fandom. hm! well! so it goes.

6. Which yet-to-be-started fic is first on your list?

well, i've got a lot of wips that need to be cleared off the docket before i can seriously think about starting anything new, especially since i'm really trying to have revisionsverse be truly donezo this year. HOWEVER i was vaguely talking to @eri-223 about some kind of character study of Kiran Estevez immediately pre-Control that brings in both her ill-fitting mentee/mentor relationship with Helen Marshall and her crackly but also sorta sexy antagonism with/towards Emily Pope, and i thiiiiiiiiink there's just enough canonical justification for her to end up talking to both of them and maybe even The Federal Bureau Of Control's One And Only Singin' And Dancin' Man. so. wheels turning, etc.

#ask games #chatter #now do i have any ACTUAL plot bunnies about bes. no not really #but i do look at mizu and think to myself ''i could creechur her so good'' so there you have it!#on god mizu we're gonna give you feathers. or a tail. or some such weird shit just give me a second to think #as for kiran.........god i do not want to do fbi-adjacent procedural fic even if it's in the secret supernatural fbi #BUT i do so love a woc who is extremely fucking tired and having a very bad day; week; month; year; maybe even lifetime #and i guess it falls upon me to unpack the structural racism at work in the upper echelons of the fbc #tragic. everyone go read katabasis.

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