#birdybirdnerd

[serenefig]

Had a dream about @birdybirdnerd 's Perry the Parable being like an anglerfish and had to draw it

Edit: Below the cut is a version with no lighting for details.

Haven't broke out these specific skills in about 5+ years. Took about a total of 10 hours, all done on the Sketchbook app on my phone (cos I don't have a tablet).

[focsle]

Your art trademark to me is... facial expressions. So vivid! Much nuance in even subtle ones. Also facial hair you do really well

Ooo thank you…I pride myself in my microexpressions. It’s the one thing I feel…actually quite good at.

[crying-over-cartoons]

Trick or treat! I am dressed in a hyperrealistic blue jay fursuit and clack my beak at you

Happy Halloween! :)

just kidding, here ya go!

[planeoftheeclectic]

throw some more on that bad boy (tfp), happy wip wednesday!

Don't mind if I do ;)

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"Oh, you didn't, sir. Or at least, not directly." Columbo gave him a piercing smile. "Do you happen to remember who you did give this to?"

Edgeworth's gaze shifted away from Columbo's. "I...can't recall."

[aparticularbandit]

happy wip wednesday! why not do a snippet from 'it all happens so quick'?

WIP Wednesday Game

Thank you so much for sending this in!

This one has a trigger warning for eating disorders because there is brief implication of one and discussion thereof.

That was the thing about death, wasn’t it?  It hurt everyone it touched.  For all that Agatha had “moved on” (and yes, Eve would use air quotes if she could), she hadn’t really.  She’d forced herself to—

No, Agatha had moved on quickly because she wouldn’t have survived if she hadn’t found someone she could cling to.  Eve had been there for those first few months after Cian died, and Claire had tried desperately to get Agatha to stay with them.  Agatha had stopped eating almost entirely, had started living on broth again, had tried to bum cigarettes off of Eve despite the fact that Eve had stopped smoking when she was pregnant with Brendan over thirty years before.  It had been…it had been bad.

But that was death for you, that was the long-reaching arm of its effects – they didn’t just go away because Cian did.  Even now, there were things that Agatha wouldn’t—

(It is so much easier to think about Agatha and her experiences with the death of her spouse than it is for Eve to focus on the death of hers.)

[formosusiniquis]

stobin hivemind?? :eyes emoji: i dont even go here (stranger things) but youve got me intrigued, how about that one for wip wednesday?

welcome to the party i've messed with the hivemind before, but that one was definitely more shippy than this one is proving to be so far

WIP Wednesday | Make Me Write | boys in the band (other hivemind fic)

His thoughts are slower to arrive and more jumbled in these early days post concussion. His right hand curls, his fingers flex. First and third finger tap, then one and two, then none, one and two, and two, and none.

Robin’s knee jostles the bed as her leg bounces just a little.

“I think something else happened to us.”

“Wondered how long I’d have to tap your fingers for you before you got there with me.”

[our-blood-is-our-ink]

'idk' go girl give us nothing (teasing). lets to that one for wip wednesday!

Lmao, I named it idk because that fic is teeeeeeechnically only for myself but. I've been debating starting to put out some of my general headcanoned au stuff. I suppose I do need to find a better name for the fic, huh?

Anyhow, thank you for sending in! I happen to really love this fic, and where I know it's headed.

What do you mean? I thought the covens were still operating within the confines of the oaths. Claire Elizabeth asks.

They were, and they weren't. Ima unhelpful replies. It was mostly a precautionary thing. Nobody knew if they would be punished by magic for breaking the tenets of them, especially once Mama had been born. To be safe, everyone agreed to restructure the treaties between covens to match the basic laws of Atlantis.

For Mama, she had to pick up those broken strands of magic and not only fix them, but also rework them. She didn't want New Atlantis to go in the way of Atlantis, and in order to achieve that, she had to change some of what was fundamental to the oaths between the crown and the people. It was extremely draining.

Oh.

[heroonlybyblood]

lets doooooo 🙏 🎀 🍓 (something nonserious) and 💧 !

Muse talking about the mun | Accepting!

🙏 Do you think the mun would be able to survive in your world?

"Absolutely not. Unless Fig stayed in Bowerstone and never left it's walls, which let us be honest he would feel a call to explore, he would not survive very long."

🎀 What does the mun have for a music taste? Do you like it?

"There is a vast assortment of music that Fig will listen to. Currently he has been listening to ambient liminal-style music, as well as breakcore. I can't say I enjoy the breakcore, but the other is enjoyable enough. I tend to prefer when we listen to alternate rock, or even the soundtrack to my game."

🍓 What is something you and the mun disagree on?

"We have long since agreed to disagree on cheese, of all things. My favourite is a cheese made with balverine milk, a very dangerous process and yet the cheese is not all that expensive. Fig does not understand how I could enjoy the taste of something made from "the equivalent of werewolf milk."

💧 How often do you annoy the mun? And with what?

"I annoy him constantly, mostly by making fun of his music choices."

[pendragonthegreat]

Oh and also nevva! We all know how kleenex feels abt her but im curious how you do :>

ok lets go

My first impression of them:

again its hard for me to remember but i definitely never disliked her

When I think I truly started to like them:

weirdly enough when i read elli's before the war. i just made me think so much more about how she was just an abandoned little girl and everything that she did with sd made so much sense

A song that reminds me of them:

ahh i'm so bad at doing character songs i can't really think of anything ;;

How many people I ship them with:

we all know ajanevva and well that's it. she didn't get to meet many characters in fact she didn't even meet aja. so i got nothing

My favorite ship of them:

the aforementioned

My least favorite ship of them:

well her and sd i guess. i mean i think their relationship is worth looking into but i'm not fond of the idea of having a romantic side to it

A quote of them that you remember:

"i'm not a villain, courtney. neither is saint dane." ^^ i just like the way dufris delivers this line in the audiobook

Your favorite outfit of them:

i know the fit isn't actually described but i have always loved the idea of her 1930s dress when she's on first earth. i have a vision for it but i just made it up

Your least favorite outfit of them:

no answer . i think all of her outfits that actually get described are pretty good at least in theory

Describe the character in one sentence:

she did nothing wrong

What’s the first thing you think about when thinking about the character?:

the scene where bobby figure out she's telleo (it rules)

Sexuality hc:

lesbian

Your favorite friendship they have:

oh no she doesn't have any friends . well i mentioned this before recently but for her hypothetical friendships i think she would be friends with kasha but i couldn't explain why

Best storyline they had:

book10 (the reveal that she saved the exiles still makes me insane)

Worst storyline they had:

ohh i wish i had an answer but i think she is just a very well written character

A childhood headcanon:

this is kind of sad but i always imagined she was close with her father

How do you think they were as a kid? (Like, were they shy, noisy, wild, etc):

i think she was probably quiet.. in the sense that she was always observing the people around her and learning from them

The most random ship you've seen people have with them:

i think i've seen people ship her with bobby before

A weird headcanon:

not really weird but i think she would really like chocolate

When do you think they were at their happiest?:

to be honest i'm not sure she was ever happy

When do you think they were at their lowest?:

when her mom didn't come back home (starts crying everywhere) guys talking about nevva is so sad.

Future headcanon:

i will always believe in my heart she went to the black and met her father again

What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone?:

like. her true feelings. she's such a secretive person (remember the quadruple life she had on quillan) so i think she keeps her truest feelings hidden so deeply not even she knows all of them

When do you think they acted the most ooc:

again i think she is just so well written. i have no answer

When do you think they were being "themselves" the most?:

probably right before she dies help why is she so tragic

If they could meet a character from another show/movie/etc, who would be the most fun for them to meet?:

i know i used a sylo character in the last ask too but olivia from sylo

The most unnecessary thing they ever did?:

ehh i still have no answer here

How do you think they would be as a parent? (and if they are a parent, how do you think they would be if they weren't?):

oh gosh she would try so so hard to not repeat to mistakes of her mother perhaps to the point of being overprotective or smothering... i would hope she's go through a good amount of healing before becoming a parent though

The funniest scene they had?:

this is the only funny moment i can think of

i just laugh at the idea of sd being like embarrassed because nevva's breaking his character he has to keep in front of bobby lolol

[deedjre]

i love slow burns SO much but i need people to stop tagging their well paced ship fics with the tag because then when someone really feels like emphasizing the burn part it hurts a million times more and no a fic i'm reading did NOT just update with the mistaken first kiss chapter not at all i'm FINE ... it was also a blend of the drunk love confession chapter.

[serenefig]

if you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog!

no pressure to do, just a little fun :3

Oh geez uhhhhhh (has suddenly forgotten everything interesting)

1. My fifth grade science fair project was on why we need sleep, and how sleep effected you. Got special permission from my teacher and the principal to use myself as the tester. I kept a sleep log, since nights were planned for little to no sleep, some were planned for attempting oversleep. Mom even helped me interview my neurologist! I got second place.

2. I got into the Fable games because I mistook the cover of Fable 1 for Morrowind. I have told the story many times but it still amuses me to no end that faulty memory led me to the best damn thing that ever happened to me.

3. I am currently relearning how to write in Fable's runes.

[focsle]

Hashtag let's see his SQUAD

#squad: who’s friends with who? what are the squad dynamics like?

He’s bffs with @ourinquisitorialness’s assassin argonian Dances-With-Her-Shadow and princely orc-breton Oorthak.

He also thinks that his very discordant friends should meet each other because if they’re friends with HIM of course he can get them to be friends with each other. Shadow’s a lady of few words and Neris thinks she can be a bit spooky sometimes, but he’s fond of her and really tries to bring a bit of kindness and play to her life. She also tends to hold him accountable when he’s too glib or uncritical about things. She also tags along sometimes to make sure he doesn’t get himself killed in one of his silly situations. And Oorthak is Neris’s antiquarian buddy. He likes having adventures with the lad. Neris also thinks Oorthak should break the rules sometimes and not be soooo……Stately and straight-laced. He tries to be a little bit of a bad influence on him, but just a little. He basically sits in the middle of the spectrum between the two of them and tries to pull them both towards the middle with him.

He’s also got a ghost grandpa who lives in his house named Vendryth. Neris thinks he’s a little exasperating sometimes because he’s an unwavering Tribunal shill, but he’s grateful to have one family member who likes him and who he can go to for advice. Even if he’s Noncorporeal.

Also any time I meet the rare…. fellow harmless Telvanni fuckup npc, like Revus or Tilenra, I’m like ‘oh Neris would be pals with them’. He’d also love Rigurt the Brash…a well-meaning-cause-problems-on accident tourist duo.

[alexis-royce]

Illustration for @birdybirdnerd’s legendary fic Somewhere Else!

You are seriously not ready for where this fic will take you.

[saturnisfallingdown]

Like the thing about The Stanley Parable is that first and foremost it's a piece of art. And therefore it's pretty hard to fandom-ize in the way a long-form series with a multitude of characters is!! The Stanley Parable is a commentary on creating art and the tropes of story-based video games, and it's about the player and your relationship with a disembodied narrator. It's a simple premise that's made great with it's incredible writing, atmosphere, signature style of humor, and great voice acting. The game only has 2 real characters, with only one-offs (Mariella, The Curator, The Adventure Line) as the remaining "cast". And this is great! It's a fundamental element of the game! TSP is a great game and people loved it on release. And when it first came out, it was seen as just that!! A great story! It got analyzed and interpreted and that was the most interaction you'd see with it online.

I remember how the scene looked when I fell in love with the game! It had a small bit of fanart, and it was usually pretty abstract and a tribute to the game as a whole. There were certainly a few artists who treated it in a more fandom-y light (focusing on individual characters, headcanoning, etc. I remember @/missazura and @/mpils specifically, huge shout out to them I've loved their stuff for years and years), but I found they were more of the minority. Fanfictions were in a similar space. The number of Stanley Parable fics on Archive of Our Own was few when I first checked. And even then, a good number of them were of people applying the player-narrator dynamic into their other fandom's AUs, people having fun with crackfics, etc etc. The game just wasn't fandomized that hard, because it wasn't built with that kind of interaction in mind!

Eventually though, Ultra Deluxe was announced to the excitement of the larger gaming community as a whole. It was released years later in 2022, and the game was hit with a MASSIVE new wave of fans. And it was fantastic!! The new content got analyzed and torn apart and theorized on and people discussed the music and the new characters and the environments and the game got disassembled immediately, which is exactly what a game like TSP is meant for! It was incredible to watch!

And with this massive wave of fans, what followed was one of the fundamental truths of the internet. When a large number of people love a thing, they become a fandom. And fandoms behave in a very specific way! Suddenly the discussion centered more around the characters, around their dynamics, and often around shipping.

Pre-Ultra Deluxe, the idea of shipping Stanley and the Narrator was a bit more. Taboo? I guess would maybe be a word to describe it ? There were CERTAINLY people dedicated to the idea, but it was a pretty uncommon view on their dynamic, and many were also strongly against it. "Stanarrator" shippers were a small subsection of fans. But when Ultra Deluxe dropped, that changed almost instantly. Suddenly, as the fandom began to take the skeleton of a real fully fledged fandom, Stanarrator took front and center amongst fans on social media. The game had two primary characters, and they had a complicated relationship, and everything else fell into place pretty quickly.

As the initial discussion of TSP:UD died down, what was left was the fandom-y side of fans, and its since become the current Stanley Parable fandom. And the thing is. It's unrecognizable from a couple years ago!!! If you go into the tag currently, it's made of narrator designs and stanarrator and lovebug au content and it's almost unrecognizable from the source game at points.

The Stanley Parable fandom isn't a rare case, this happens frequently with media that only has so much content to give, so in order to partake in your usual fandom activities, fans have to make it up themselves.

And of course, I mean this all in the least judgemental way possible!!! I was here when you had to walk uphill both ways in the snow for fancontent for this game and I've made narrator designs and I've posted about the stanarrator dynamic for years and I have zero place to speak on anything. But still!!!

I've witnessed the full life cycle of a fandom finding a game without one and taking it apart until they can't anymore and then choosing what they want to focus on now. And I don't really have a point to this other than like. shits wild right

As someone who's been a hardcore stanley parable fan for like. oh god 5 or 6 years!! and has been here since the tag for the game was made of me and like 3 fanartists and the incorrect quotes blog. the way the fandom has evolved since then is sooo so fascinating to me

[aparticularbandit]

goddd that snippet from thrall fucks severely. do some more for it!!

WIP Wednesday Game

Thank you so so much! I'm glad you liked the snippet! Hopefully this lives up to that bit!

It is as Agatha sets the last throw pillow into place on her bed – who is she kidding, Agatha doesn’t believe in throw pillows, but she does believe in having as many pillows as she wants available in case she wants something softer for her back, on the days where she lessens the sorcery to use it for something else (very rarely, but it still happens, on occasion) – that she hears the doorbell ring.  She straightens up, presses her hands into the small of her back, and then makes her way down the stairs to the front door.  Her eyes widen as she looks through the peephole, and her brows raise as she opens the door.  She knows the name of the spindly blonde woman standing in front of her – knows the name Wanda gave her (Dottie) and knows her real name (Sarah) – but she doesn’t know why she should be standing there in the first place.

“Ralph told me I could find you here,” Sarah says after a few moments of silence.  She doesn’t smile; if anything, she appear so nervous that she could be covered with sweat without it looking out of place.  Her hands wring together in front of her.  “He said you were…you were staying?  Here?  With us?”

[incognita-soul]

It's been a wild first few months of the season on Lady Washington, full of uprig, field trips, dockside tours, and public sails. i swear the only way i'm getting through it is getting to bury my face into Marlin and Darrell's fuzzy bellies on a daily basis.

Marlin is doing well on his first season back on the boat as Chief Morale Meow Officer since 2019 and has as of yet not escaped to commit treason on navy bases again. Both bois are adjusting well to sharing space in the aft cabin and have started cuddling more (a few years ago when I brought Dary to the seaport during the winter they spent the whole winter cuddled up in the same cat bed in front of the space heater). During sails Marlin can usually be found sunning himself on the main hold hatch, often on top of a passenger's bag.

Darrell the Bosun's Pawsun's Mate has been gaining more confidence being on deck and exploring the boat, but he still prefers to stay below when passengers are aboard, especially when those passengers are rowdy middle school classes. His obsession with staring through the anchor hawes continues, and his new favorite things are curling up in the merch boxes in the main hold and hanging out in dark places so he can a) give me a heart attack thinking he's missing, and b) embrace the void.

photo credit for half of these shots goes to the incredibly talented and utterly ravishing Sydney @the-lone-star-state and the other, equally amazing Syd @birdybirdnerd