#the birds who smile

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: "Dark Nights: Metal" AU where Bruce adopts three of the Robins who once belonged to the Batman Who Laughs.

Author: @raberbagirl

[rocketbirdie]

we got a lot in common...

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

Enith first developed space travel around 500,000 years prior to the modern period. This early era of space travel, called the First Enlightenment period, is survived almost solely through it's planetary colonists.

The Corldaxians of Enlightenment period had one goal- to send as many people as possible to nearby habitable planets. Ostensibly, the purpose of this was to set up an extensive empire with infinite resources so that Enlightenment period civilization could exist, as it was, forever. The real motivation behind this was the fear of what they assumed to be an exponentially growing population, and of the internal collapse of the state.

Enlightenment Corldaxians sent out hundreds of colonial trolleys with thousands of people aboard, all to colonize planets their ships wouldn't reach for hundreds of thousands of years. The majority of ships used cryofreeze to keep their colonists alive for the journey, with a good bit of variation on the specifics. All of them, with the exception of the earliest ships, packed the materials needed to make a wormhole generator.

Enith had set up a wormole gate on the edge of it's system towards the end of the Enlightenment period, but it had the knowledge and ability to create them halfway through shipping the colonists. The plan was to have the colonists construct their own wormholes upon reaching the edge of their planet's solar system; then land, set up their colony, and contact Enith through a micro-wormhole com set. The ships that did not have the materials for this on their leaving had another ship sent following them.

Many of the ships did not make it to their destinations. But some did.

The surviving colonists woke up, set up their wormholes, and landed on their planets. Many encountered barely habitable planets that needed thorough terraforming to support a decent population. Some encountered planets that weren't habitable at all, or were habitable but didn't have any native life, and a rare few encountered planets with life already on it. A few of those were even met by sapient life.

The colonists were lucky that, when the first of them contacted Enith, it was once again going through a period of space exploration. The First Enlightenment had collapsed not long after the last colonists left, and Enith had been in and out of dark ages ever since. The wormhole generator, luckily, saw a fair amount of upkeep every couple of millennia and was able to be repaired. Then duplicated, then updated as Enith entered it's modern period.

When Enith was contacted by it's long-lost colonist, it quickly sent more colonists and supplies. The problem was... well... it had been 500,000 years.

The colonists were met by people who barely looked like them, who rarely spoke the same language as them, and who often chastised them for dressing or acting how they always have. They were similar, but that was all that could be said. Enith had changed and the colonists had not. Their way of life was dead and gone, and they were the only memory.

First contact had to have been funny though. I mean imagine you went to an exoplanet to colonize it and when Earth sent some more guys for you and opposite Homo Heidelbergensis pops out with a grey alien behind it.

Hilarious.

A colony ship contacts Enith every couple of decades now. Bitriem's colony was the first to encounter native sapients, and they contacted Enith around one and a half thousand years ago. Zornxia and Atiske were two other early contacts, and the most recent contact was with the Umblans.

The people who were sent to colonize Umblan are still alive in the setting of The Little Bird. Diaf is probably in contact with a few of them. But while they made contact with Enith, while they have access to the full network of planets Enith has made, they're still alone. Isolated, because everything they once knew is gone.

Humans had the same strategy.

Enith is on the Sagittarius branch, though the cluster of systems the Enithian and Teth Tias governments inhabit is just about the closet you can get to Orion.

Hán was on one of the first generations of ships to be sent towards Sagittarius. Cereza's two times great grandparents were shipped out later than her.

Earth didn't send them out with wormhole tech. No one has heard from Earth since waking up.

What would you do if everything you ever knew was just gone? Unreachable, unknowable for the rest of your life. Not just what was your life, but all of Earth. Of humanity.

What would you do if you were stranded, alone, quite possibly the last humans in the universe?

[semothekat]

me when im crazy about two characters that dont even know each other.

Thank you to @oathofkaslana for writing the id for this!!

[csphire]

Mmmf... helping him was fun and he makes it worth your time.

He Who Was from Act II of Baldur's Gate 3.

Edit: Added a few more... lol

[wildstar25]

That moment in Elpis...

[technicolourcowboy]

Finished drawing the babygirls… don’t look at me

CW: suggestive? I guess?? Those vines be climbin’

🌱😳🌱😳🌱

Just an insatiably horny plant demon and his farm boy(friend) Hanging Out!!! 😇

Fraternizing with a band mate is never a good idea 😔 have you learned NOTHING from Fleetwood Mac 😾

But Mallory loves to wind him up and watch him go 🤭🤭🌱💕

👆Tucking flowers into his hair… or trying to at least.. the romance of it all 🙂🫶

👇+ a closeup of Hally’s last 2 brain cells freaking the fuck out

That’s it thank yewww 😼🫰

[leclercskiesahead]

This is a really nice pic, their hairs kinda of match. But Rebecca needs the sunglasses to push her hair up like that while Carlos’ hair just does it on its own (+ some champagne)

[yakketymax]

Song Bird and Poppy

These two are still friends! They didn't interact very often and still probably don't, but when they do, it's always a blast. Song Bird thinks Poppy is a riot at a party and Poppy knows that Song Bird finds the best parties for him to be a riot at! Song Bird is already the loudest mother fucker he knows, but Poppy brings out the louder and noisier in Song Bird and makes it all deafening and wonderfully destructive, so these two are a nuisance and a half for the police when they go out together. Poppy loves to grab Song Birds hand and drag them from club to club, from bar to bar, and from party to party, blowing the roof off each place one by one until there isn't a pub left that they aren't allowed in for a week. They probably do panty raids together.

A change here is that Song Bird, who is now a lot more powerful and uncomfortably wise than previously written, looks at Poppy and sees right through the persona he's set up for himself. She can see right through his whole suave and sexy playboy act and view what's underneath- a punk rock orphan boy who is fighting not to lose what he has even when there's no chance it could be taken from him. He feels sorry for Poppy and does not express this pity because they know he would hate her for it, so instead they party with him and buy him drinks, hoping he'll come to his own senses in due time.

She is the protector of the rainforest, not the emotionally unavailable moshpit opossum boy.

[andy-clutterbuck]

"Do the dunlin." The Murmuring Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)

[birdinabowl]

I hate when teachers have that smile that’s passive aggressive

[korkietism]

You don’t understand tokotsume like I do.. audhd gf who wants to study you under a microscope and smells like metal + autistic goth partner who has never met a single emotion and calls her the sweet goddess of the moon..

[cobaltcreations]

@halfusek 's Magenta/Joey Drew is soo fun to draw <3 I've been chipping away at this doodle sheet for a bit as a warm up and he is sooo fun to draw <3 his little inky son too! Abomination is one of my favorite webcomics out there and I can't express how much I suggest every bendy fan give it a read! First issue is right here <3 I'm so glad to finally have some time to draw some fanart for it!!

Oh also I did a little comic with my own Joey n Magenta below

Is Magenta feeling bad or about to murder Showtime Joey? You decide! Either way I sure am so happy nothing bad ever happens to the drews <3

[grimalkinmessor]

Modern AU Matsulight hc where Matsuda has a tumblr where he posts and reblogs pretty aesthetic things and every other day he just posts like eight different pictures of Light

[agent-cupcake]

You should be a coomer about Raphael, he’s got like Ardyn rizz but worse. As my favorite Sad Old Man enjoyer I think he’d be right up your alley!

i know it is deeply disappointing but i literally cannot thirst for anyone else until i get over this dude

so pretty

after THAT, who is to say, i have the mental/creative consistency of warm cottage cheese and the emotional loyalty of a CW character. i'm holding out hope dawntrail will provide me a new toxic man but if not, all bets are off and i may have to look elsewhere SO the point is: maybe. we'll see

[wutheringheights78]

tagged a few times for my favorite albums of this year 🎧🤍 i love you music

honorable mention to the boygenius album :)