#birds are real

[herefore-art-thou]

Sketch for a painting I'm working on. If you've never read The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, I highly recommend it. That's a Top Shelf Book (tm) for sure, for sure.

I've been wanting to draw this scene forever, so I started some concept sketches and thumbnails, then decided to go back and read the passage on to find out it was COMPLETELY different from how I remembered. So I scrapped them all, and here we are.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Wait, birds aren’t real is a real conspiracy theory?

I thought it was from Night Vale..?

(Everyday I learn things I wish I hadn’t)

nope, it's a conspiracy theory, and like all of those someone has managed to blame it on (((my people))) bc gd likes to torture me I guess

[fshoulders]

I hate that people are posting fake wildlife videos.

Not just the ones spliced together from several different real videos to serve a glurgey narrative, either! I’ve seen two different videos with hummingbirds apparently digitally added to footage of other animals so they look like they’re “playing” or something. (I assume they’re doing hummingbirds because their flight is easy to model digitally, but they’re using a flashy southern hummingbird with northern ground fauna, so they’re not trying very hard.)

Anyway, it’s a weird flex and a bummer. Why are you making stuff up for clout when the actual natural world is weirder and more lovely than anything? If you have no ethics anyway, you could just be posting clips from the decades of fabulous wildlife videography that exists. Or…just don’t. Go outside. Touch dirt. Listen to a bee. Stop lying and love something real. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[zancorvid]

The Vote Guys @ Anime Los Angeles 2024 (Sun 01/07)

[chirrups]

nost-owl-gia moment

[hinamie]

shows up a day early with a nobara birthday tribute

[reunitedinterlude]

happy 15 years to the phex tape (1, 2)

[herefore-art-thou]

Sketchbook work tonight! BARN OWLS. They definitely get my vote for creepiest owl. Like, why are they wearing a mask? What are they hiding that's so important they needed to GROW A MASK.

Anyway, if you've ever read The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and you didn't picture a Barn Owl as the Owl King who graduated from the Parliament of Owls by eating the eyes of fate.... Here ya go. Gotta be.

[micaerula]

CELEBRATION ART FOR TODAY !!!! I JUST READ IT ITS SO FRICKIN GOOD HOLYYYY TATE BROMBAL I OWE YOU MY LIFE

[longingforrotkehlchen]

You can look at me like that all you want. I hate you too.

Graureiher (grey heron) am Max-Eyth-See, Mühlhausen.

[tart-miano]

we're a DUEL MONSTERS family you son of a bitch

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Bird person x cat person

[onstagesport]

Thinkin about that post that's like "If Hatchetfield wants to keep you, you can't leave. Emma always comes back from Guatemala, Alice always gets off the bus, Lex or Ethan can go to California not both" and Edward Hopper's painting of the diner with no doors

You know, his painting Nighthawks

[catatonicatnap]

Huge spoilers for Ghost Trick endgame in the sprite edits below. Proceed at your own risk!

Sissel-as-Yomiel's sprites are really expressive, so it bothered me right from the start that his cat sprite really... isn't. Here's my interpretations of all his sprites in cat form! Can you guess which one's which? (I tell you the answers in the alt text, so it's not that hard of a game! 😅)

Bonus: I doodled little Sissels to draft what I wanted each sprite to look like and I'm just really happy I got to draw a bunch of cats.

[violetsandshrikes]

[oddthesungod]

Reborn of earth and fire 🔥