#curbs

[alatoartsalot]

This little curb puppy was drawn for artfight!

[simstomaggie]

Hi, i love your cc and was wondering where u found the hat with netting in your abigail dress post? i'm always looking for new top hats and that one looks perfect! thank u -lori

hi!

first of all, thank you very much!!!

sorry it took me a bit to answer this, I had a bit of trouble finding the right links. I also wasn't sure which one you meant, since there are several in the Abigail post, so I included all of them.

there's this slightly crooked one by the late @elfdor: no slider version | hat slider version

and then this one with the veil around the face by @coloresurbanos: tophat

i hope this helps!

xx

[forvirresky]

art fight revenge for @ikrutt of their interpretation of curbs from hunters unlucky :D

it was really fun trying to make it detailed and atmospheric! ^w^ i felt it was only fair considering the fantastic attack you made :)

[alhilton]

G’day I’ve yet to read Hunters Unlucky yet I have a few burning questions. What is Curb social structure like, and how are hybrids treated in Curb society?

Also what inspired you to take heavy inspiration from thylacines when it came to developing them as a species?

G'day to you as well. :) You're asking for some mild spoilers. Do you want spoilers? Specifics regarding the curbs and their situation unspool for our protagonist (who is not a curb) over the course of Hunters Unlucky, and their struggles continue in the background of the other novels. I have not yet written a novel focused on the curbs. Broadly speaking, there are two subspecies of curbs on the island. They've been separated (mostly by a glacier that is slowly melting) for long enough to have significant anatomical differences. There has been no indication in the story that they are capable of hybridizing. The highland curbs have incentive to try, since they are on the verge of extinction. However, the lowland curbs are the main reason they are going extinct, so they're not very interested in trying to mate with them. I get a lot of millage out of what is sometimes called "the narcissism of small differences," which basically says that two groups who are very similar will have more conflict than two groups that are very different. This is because they compete for the same resources and occupy the same spaces. So lowland and highland curbs, while very similar in many ways, are intensely hostile and competitive. Likewise, ferryshaft and creasia, while not closely related, have more in common with each other than with any other sentient species on the island and yet are extremely antagonistic at various points in time. As far as social structure, both subspecies of curbs are matriarchal. Beyond that, they diverge. For much of their history, highland curbs have been almost eusocial, with a central breeding queen and her daughters calling all the shots. Males who are not chosen to mate function almost like drones/guardians/workers. However, they are smart and flexible, and they adapt when their queen is killed and their people scattered. The lowland curbs are also matriarchal, but they are the least cooperative of the intelligent species on the island. They are loyal to their individual pack, but will fight with other packs of lowland curbs for territory and resources. There's no high-level species organization. They are very clever, with a semi-opposable dew claw and can make simply tools. Unfortunately, they tend to reinvent the wheel a lot, because they keep their inventions as carefully guarded pack secrets. If the pack is wiped out, those innovations die with them. I have not delved deeply into lowland curb social structure, but I think of them as a little like kangaroos and a little like orcas. Both highland and lowland curbs will sometimes protect and manage flocks of sheep as livestock. Highland curbs have paws well-adapted to running on the sides of cliffs. Lowland curbs are less adapted for this, but they have that dexterous dew claw. They sometimes hunt with traps, either pit traps, or vine traps. They use the tendrils of a carnivorous plant that has a natural reflexive to twine tightly around prey. They use various techniques for preparing and placing these vines to entrap other animals. Lowland curbs were antagonists in the first book, but a couple of packs assist our heroes in book 4. As far as why I chose thylacines...gosh, why not? They're cool animals. My telshees are a kind of monotreme. Ferryshaft and creasia are placental mammals. The ely-ary are birds. I like to mix it up.

[itsmerickv]

[teddy-bear-naps-and-random-snaps]

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA Financial Times di Oggi mercoledì, 20 novembre 2024

[blackhillverse]

they said this is the cheapest marvel series ever produced. see, this is what happens when you focus on storytelling instead of unnecessary stuff no one cares about. i loved this episode so much. please, give me more low-budget marvel shows that care about the plot, the characters, and their target audience. i don't need another rdj blockbuster marvel movie. you can have that. give me meaningful stories with a low budget, made by people who truly believe in what they're creating.

[nighthawkes]

your daily walks wrapped

you soaked up 10,985 minutes of sunshine, rain, and other weather

you walked past 4,073 individuals you would describe as the most beautiful person in the world

you bore witness to 23% more of your local area than last year—good job!

you saw 3 of the weirdest dogs you will ever see in your life

you noticed 18 people visibly, tenderly in love with each other

you smelled 243 flowering plants & shrubs

you drank 267 delicious beverages

you were kissed invisibly and imperceptibly by 117 bumble bees and butterflies

you were witness to 87,441,289 gorgeous leaves

[st-hedge]

I hadn’t drawn the house of hades boys in years! Curse me! This isn’t exactly a remake of an old painting but it’s in the vibe of how I used to draw them all the time. Poetic and stealing kisses

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[sunsetcurveauto]

percy with road rage and blaring the horn of hermes's taxi. NEVER forget my boy is from new york

[alhilton]

Worldbuilding-ish question! Since this is a popular topic in xenofiction fanbases, I figured I'd ask what colors and patterns you'd think of first when someone considers making an "edgy" or "special-looking" fan character for any of the Hunters Unlucky species. Coden and Storm's pale gray and Roup and Teek's gold have already been noted in the books and you've touched on piebaldism in creasia before, but I'm wondering if there might be more, maybe especially among the species that seem to be more popularly-read as less visually diverse, e.g. telshees and curbs. If I wanted to make a fan character that looked really wild and unique without being utterly impossible, what sorts of looks would you highlight for that?

(Note: I'm not actually making any fan characters based on this question, but it's a consideration I really enjoy chewing on in a more general sense with both what I read and what I write in my own time... I definitely do think it would be cool to see some flashy-looking fan characters with rare traits around in the tags, though!)

Oh, let's see... Ferryshaft could probably come in most colors that foxes or dogs come in. Farmed foxes (sadly) come in an immense array of improbable colors. Creasia could probably come in most colors and patterns cats come in. In both cases, the variety of colors that already occur reveal that there isn't heavy selection pressure for color currently acting on the population. There was in the past, but creasia have gotten so much smarter than their prey, and ferryshaft have become so good at *not* being prey, that there isn't as much selection pressure for color as there once was. For curbs, the ones living on the plain would come under a lot of pressure to have colors that blend with grasslands. However, I've already mentioned that some of those living in the mountains look different. Dazzle's curb frienemies, Eclipse and Abyss are melanistic. Eclipse might even be chimeric. I describe them as "unusually dark in color, black in places, with white streaks and brindling. One had a completely black face and the other had a striking two-toned face, half black and half white." There's also one in Thrive (not yet published) called "Brokenstripe" because her stripe pattern is broken and might, in fact, look like spots. The mountains have more varied terrain, and I would think you'd get different colors. As for telshees, hmmm... I think of them as being mostly devoid of pigment. They frequently travel to great depths and dark places. But perhaps a pigmented one might pop up now and then. Or maybe they shape-shifted and got some color leftover, lol. They are magical animals, so less bound by the laws of biology.

[taxed-up-trotter]

#1: You are who you eat

[teddy-bear-naps-and-random-snaps]

[bbygirl-aemond]

the way ulf strolled right up to jace like "look at that hair" and "as dark as they say!" and "dragonriders both, you and i!" and "cut from the same cloth!" and i just know jace was standing there like