#bird itching

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Scansoriopteryx is itchy

[untitledgoosegay]

as funny as it is to say, "there's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true

"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true

"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't

"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.

where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.

[ricky-mortis]

Howdy hello- guess who made a wings au :)

More to come with this eventually- I’m working on my designs for other characters at the moment, but for now we’ve got Red-Tailed Hawk for Curt and Eagle Owl for Owen.

For DMA I had Barn Owl wings because a) Barn Owls are beautiful and I wanted to draw the wings for them, and more importantly, b) Owen would probably want to disguise his wings, and it would make sense if it was as a different type of owl. I just assume he’d dye his feathers in some way or another. Look- just don’t think about it too much.

[souenkun]

Pokémon Masters EX spoilers ahead!

Kabu likes to play TAG with his pokemon... and he's shown to have a much softer side beneath his strictness in pokemas too... he's so grandpa-shaped to me 😭💖

[zytes]

oblique omen

[monster4monster-bracket]

Our first three way poll! Whichever two ships have the most votes will compete in a bonus round and whoever wins that will go on to the actual round 2!

Propaganda under the cut

Carrion x The thing - The thing (1982) and Carrion videogame (2020)

They are both body horror shapeshifting biomass queens.

Bloodborne bosses "Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos" and "Rom the Vacuous Spider" (Ebrietas/Rom) – Bloodborne

Ebrietas is a god-like otherworldly being of immense power, alien and unknowable. Rom was a human uplifted to be Ebrietas' equal. When Rom is slain, Ebrietas can be found mourning her at the Altar of Despair - one of THE most emotional moments in a game that deconstructs the themes of Lovecraftian horror. Ebrietas' sorrow over losing Rom invites the player to find compassion for the monstrous, to relate to the "other" - what's more thematically relevant for a monster bracket than that? Now imagine if they were LESBIANS.

Princess x slayer/hero (Bird Hero x Princess)- Slay the pricness

It’s cosmic horror as a love story - you kill and betray and love and fight for your freedom together - Eldritch beings deeply in love but forced to fight in a tragic loop

[bugcatz]

The STATE of this fucker

[hellouniversehowareyou]

[skyheld]

what if i. added the da witch of the wilds/daughter of flemeth oc i was going to make before i went on hiatus. but made her primarily a bg3 muse and a daughter/"daughter" of auntie ethel instead. what then

[bloombirdreads]

Imagine after being Geronimo's bodyguard, Kornelius discovers how much crazy s##t happens to Geronimo and not to mention the how Geronimo's friends and family treat him.

Kornelius: . . . Is this how you live everyday?

Geronimo: Ahaha.. yeah

[omophagic-beast]

im thinkin of changing my games name... grey jay games is good but i dont think its my Brand

i did a whole buncha potential names w/ logo ideas in affinity publisher the other day and my favorite is Hartshorn Press, but a friend mentioned how its hard to tell if its Harts Horn or Hart Shorn but also how much does that matter

idk what do yall think

[farosdaughter]

Thorn Birds anon here again and I was wondering if you had any songs that you associate with Ralph and Meggie? I kind of love to think of Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah in relation to them because of an edit for them to that song.

Hello again, Anon! The edit you mentioned is definitely one of the most beautiful I’ve seen for these two🥹 (here it is, in case anyone’s interested). The song is so evocative and describes the delicate balance in their dynamic so well, thank you for sharing it🩷

So far I’ve listened to The Thorn Birds OST an embarrassing amount of times, but beyond that the only song I consider 100% Ralph x Meggie’s is Shrike by Hozier. Not only is it a beautiful song, but the text also bears an uncanny resemblance to their story to the point where I wondered if it had been written with the book in mind (which I couldn’t find any proof of).

I’ve also been listening to this playlist for Meggie, because I love the Carpenters and incidentally it also features Hallelujah!

[zincbot]

been playing dredge! i really love it

[nationalcleographic]

im going to get back into the silt verses. good show but i just havent been listening to podcasts lately

[kiddokori]

trailer was baller im not even sad about no bird <-lying

[entropy-sea-system]

Was somebody going to tell me the names of pigments in the irises of the human eyes? Or was I supposed to find out after googling 'lipochrome' because Dulcinea Septimus mentions it in Gideon The Ninth??!?