#haha wing like the vulture

[spyderschaos]

Today I bring doodles for I just finished my first two finals

[bochedogmeat]

I hit chilchuck with harpyfication beam for 500 mana and blow him into one million pieces. Drivel below vv

I think chilchuck is some kind of likeeee wren? Chickadee maybe? Maybe even a cardinal? Some kind of small songbird, i just wanted him to have some kind of warm-colored wing with white speckles (my lazy ass did NOT use a reference for these shitty little doodles but if I ever end up making solid refs for them I’ll do more research), I thought about maybe hummingbird wings butttt idk I couldnt get the shape right and I wanted him to have more of a traditional harpy look. I combined elements from my harpies (wings and arms, jewelry/piercings, feathered tails) and canon harpies (FEATHER TIT WINDOW‼️ kind of feral, sharp teeth, etc) and kind of mashed them up. I TOTALLY FORGOT to give him jewelry on his arms and stuff but maybe I’ll go back to that laterrr idk like i said these r quick shitty doodles. So i guess hes kind of half harpy. I was like MANNNN wouldnt it be funny if he got his soul fucked up and had to navigate the rest of his life as a chimera. Lol. What if he had to relearn how to be human. What if laios had to teach him. Haha would that be fucked up or what. He could have also just been like that when they first met him and that would be cool too i think. What about the Implications??? Are his wings sensitive? What abt his tail? Are his senses even sharper?? Does this change his diet? Are his taloned hands still clever enough to pick locks? THEN i started thinking about the others…. Laios n Falin r some kind of owl. Snowy owl probably their northern asses but I also like the idea of them being some kind of seabird. Big ole albatross Touden sibs. Senshi is probably also sone kind of owl, maybe even some kind of chicken? Vulture might also be cool. Marcille is definitely a duck or swan tho (GASP unless SHES the hummingbird!! I will come back to this later). Izutsumi is already a cat, but if she had wings too shed be a corvid of some sort fo sho. Idk about yhe others because I cannot lie to u idgaf about them. ANYWAYS i love to talk about wings and harpies and how that affects team and overall social dynamics so if anyone has anything to add please do‼️

[comfymoth]

i love the way you do wings! what type of wings would the mall gang have?

i’m so sorry, i had this finished a week ago and just completely forgot to post it ToT thank you so much though!! :D i’m kinda just. haha. winging it with wings, so i’m glad somebody likes them!!

i might end up drawing more of the mall guys with wings though, cos i had a lot of fun with these :3 ravi’s a cinereous vulture, leon’s a melanistic barn owl, quinn is a bluejay and milo is a loon!

[post-punk-revival]

What sort of parts of being a bird aren't that obvious?

Not sure at all what this means so I have to assume you mean like, things you wouldn't think about if you weren't a bird (therian/holothere)?

Idk. I think in trying to think of what being a bird would be like a mammal alterhuman would probably imagine having feather or beak phantom shifts or flight urges or something but not consider how frustrated they would get at the subtle ways people talk about or think about birds which you'd only feel are off if you are one. Growing up I had a lot of people think I was a freak because I would get mad at things like "vulture eating a dead chicken? haha cannibalism" or "cartoon birds that have teeth and hold things with their flight feathers" or "the entire concept of Maximum Ride" and it wasn't that big a deal. Which for my part I never considered other people didn't care and couldn't get why I did because I was understanding my own mind and body in a different way than they were. And I mean both a different way than they understood their own, and a different way than they understood mine.

Birds are just recognized in a way that's different from how mammals are, mostly re: the sweeping generalization where like, all birds are Birds™, except for Specific Birds, which are owls or swans or pelicans or etc. before they're Birds™. But even in the cases of animals that (most) people would look at and say "this is an owl/swan/pelican" before they'd say "this is a bird," the way mammals (not just humans) tend to understand them is only through the lens of their own behavior and physiology. Which is why I get so frustrated, personally (not saying judgmentally toward fellow bird alterhumans physical or otherwise who do have these experiences), when people seem to just assume if you're any kind of wingéd nonhuman, that your back must feel strange from the big fluffy angel wings, or that it would be totally weird to have a talon ph-shift and feel a claw on your heel, or being a common raven is like, poetic or something for me.

That annoyance, to me, is a part of being a bird that's less obvious than the fact itself that my wings and arms are homologous, or that having talons would probably feel closer to home than mammals might think because birds are actually digitigrade, or that ravens (and doves and swans and eagles and every other bird that has Symbolic Significance) are actually just wild animals and there's more to do with apricot cravings, instinctive echolalia, and misunderstanding social hierarchies when I hang out with humans or canines, than there is with gothic poetry.

Also our tails aren't just big fans of loose or stiff feathers omg there is like a whole flesh and bone structure how do folks still not realize this—

[thunder-opossum]

Hello once again Thunder 👋

Could you possibly doodle my lil gremlin thing, Copycat? They kill other creatures and use said creatures body parts to aid them in surviving (more than just vulture masks, I'm talking vulture wings, using lizard skin to look like a lizor, etc (they've even pretended to be an iterator at one point))

Refrance images (I know, there's quite a lot lol) 👇

The campaign I'm imagining in my head would take place maybe post-Saint (haha no iterators 4 them >:3)

Also, there's a chance they were iterator-made so.. lore maybe? Who knows..

Anyways, I hope you are having an amazing day and continue having amazing days forever because you deserve nothing less than amazing days forever. And ofc, you don't have to draw the lil gremlin thing if you don't want to :3

They are about to sneak into a yellow lizard den and steal a bunch of slime mold >:3

I don't have a color pencil for their fur color tho

[violetlunette]

Heyo!

Idk if you do chats and yaps

Or asks etc

But that one post you made got me thinking a lil lol. Thinking about how Vil's two vultures fit in. I think they're like rook in that they mean well and they have their quirks and passions but they freak people out haha! Anyways yeah I'm also thinking how they would fit in to that! I know that birdbeastmen are canon (they're just not common) and i know some folks defo make different types- like harpies and winged students etc- plus there's canonically mentions of "monsters" that are also just sentient creatures that deviate from the humanoid body plan. Plus Taking into account how faes were once considered monsters to be hunted, i think it would not be too much of a stretch to add on harpy like students lol. So Vil can totally have his spooky sillies who hang out in the air currents and swoop down to try and either hang out/uplift vil. Vil nags them about it- same way with Rook- but he also doesn't shoo them away and makes sure they're in tip top form. I kinda wonder how they would fit into the pomefamily. Probably the crazy cousins/chaos uncles to Epel. Rook loves them and i just know they all geek out about weird stuff lol

Anyways yeah i love your thoughts

Sorry, it took so long to respond! I got up in other projects! ^^;

Anyway, when I made the post I imagined the sidekicks in their original forms, though I do have my own TWST OCs based off them. (I won’t bore people with details.) Like, in Vil’s case I imagined him with actual pet vultures who he’ll randomly see watching from a window while he’s in class.

That said, it’s fun to imagine TWST version of the spooky vultures in Pomefiore, the house famed for beauty, as they’re an interesting contrast to the projected image. I think they would be gothics who showed the beauty in darkness, something harpies would know very well according to myths.

Like you hinted on, their presence as harpies or bird folk would present some interesting world building. (Something we don't get a lot of in the games.)

Anyway, I'm glad my little post inspired your little imagination train!

[tinylongwing]

top five birdiest locations you've been to?

Oooh good question! I don't have like, hard numbers on these so they're not super well ranked except for by vibes.

First is NE Queensland, Australia. I did a semester abroad there in undergrad and my god the sheer number of new birds all around! I saw so many absolute treasures! From birds of paradise like Victoria's Riflebird, to absolute icons like the Galah and the Southern Cassowary. 10/10 bird destination.

Second I'll put southern Nicaragua. All the diversity of Costa Rica, with birds like Scarlet Macaw, King Vulture, and Keel-billed Toucan. Hundreds of amazing species. Absolutely unforgettable. I'm so thankful that I've been able to work there on and off over the years. I've traveled most of the country but the southern portion has the highest bird diversity from what I've found.

Third, let's go the US Southeast. I think generally it's accepted that this has the highest bird diversity in the US. I've spent plenty of time in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Florida and seen so many excellent birds there! Florida in particular gets a special mention for endemic treasures like the Florida Scrub-Jay.

Fourth is just a smidge to the west over in Texas, particularly the portion along the whole Rio Grande. Highlights for me include Whooping Crane, Aplomado Falcon, and all three US kingfisher species! Plus Plain Chachalaca which is just hilariously noisy. Big fan.

For five... Man now it's hard to pick, I have several places sort of on par with each other. Hawaii is goofy because of all the introduced species, giving it a ridiculously inflated diversity on top of the absolutely amazing native species. South Korea was really fun, though I went in winter when diversity was relatively low, and still got to see fun birds like Azure-winged Magpie, Eurasian Goshawk, and Varied Tit without even leaving Seoul. And then of course like, California has a ton of species and some of the most incredible vagrants that just show up at random sometimes.

I think that's eight locations now so I'll just stop, haha.

[coalitiongirl]

Oh my god, I just read Markless and I love it so much! The characters, the mark system, the SCENERY— AGGGHHHHHH. So excited for you and sending so much love <3 And the dedication… 😭♥️🫶

I’m wondering if you can explain what some of the gods are! I think I got leopard, snake, and lion, but I wasn’t sure about some of the others like Winged One, Scaled One, Toothed One, Horned One etc :) Was it bird, fish, shark, and I had no clue for Horned One (not a big animal person haha). I wasn’t confident about it being just “bird” or “fish” because I didn’t know if you had something more specific in mind like heron/raven hehehehehe

Thank you!!! I'm so so happy <3

I had so much fun with the names of the spirits ngl. I'm actually trying to remember if I ever explicitly made it clear what the Winged One would be– it was either hawk or vulture because I contemplated both. The Scaled One was the crocodile, the Toothed One the hippo, and the Horned One was the owl!

[leaves-and-inks]

🦇SOME ARE BORN TO THE ENDLESS NIGHT🦇

The last piece in this series!! I love watching the bats fly about in the summer, they're just so neat and cute!! I drew this one on the back of the failed possum piece I mentioned in my vulture post haha

leaning on calling this series "The Cycle" but I may workshop it a little, maybe incorporate something with the song titles in, but I'm not so sure yet. This was a fun project though, so hope y'all enjoyed it as much as I have!! :D

I have a few ideas for more series in the works, and want to resurrect some old ones too, I feel like sticking to something with consistency can be good for me, but for now I've got a few WIPS that need a little polish :)

[ID: A hand holding a black and white illustration on tan paper with uneven edges. behind it is a white tapestry with a pattern made up of illustrated green leaves, slightly out of focus. The illustration is a large brown bat head drawn in black and white ink, looking down and to its left in 3/4 view. All the details and the eye are sketched in with white, the inner ear is left mostly tan, and the illustration itself sits within a white circle. the bat's mouth is open, showing it's teeth, and the ends of the wings are folded up at its sides. The illustration crops at the base of the neck, its ears, neck fur, and the clawed ends of its folded up wings overlap the shape. There is a larger circle surrounding the head, filled with vines with aster flowers, stylized leaves, and blue foot mushrooms. Most of the plants and fungi are colored in black, but some are just a white outline. Some plant material breaks out from a larger circle behind them and the shad drawing, Over top of the plants and fungi are radiating out from the center of the fish head are sketchy white lines. the paper is thin, and has a slight scaled pattern to it.

Image 2: cropped version of the previously described illustration. the photo goes to the edges of the page, and the illustration is centered. the radial lines on the top and bottom of the page are slightly cropped.

Image 3: Crop on the bat's face, details in the white ink becoming more apparent. The image crops right after the end of the snout, the beginnings of both ears, and just short of the neck

Image 4: Crop focusing on the plants and fungi, along with the bat's left ear. it crops midway through the eye, the right, closest ear, and features the top right quarter of the illustration. /end ID]

[kathren-is-here]

Armoured Brass (wings included!!)

Shout out to the Au me and my friends are making on the side to kickstart this design, this is Brass when he gets a little too much magic >:D

Another idea is that Lena or Magica tries to cast a spell on him but because Brass did some magic last second he turns into Harpy Brass, overwhelmed by magic! And he’s looking more like a vulture now! With the sharp talons and yellow eyes to match Bradfords!

OH plus long hair and ofc the obvious vulture wings on his back haha

[penisbilt]

saw you mention the scavengerverse and i got curious,, what's your favorite thing about it? ^^

hello and thank you so much for the ask!!!!!! i will also use this ask as an opportunity to pitch scavengerverse in general since i havent posted much concrete details about it yet haha

so first, a brief introduction since most of its development has been offline thus far, but anyway scavengerverse is the name @llatimeria and i gave to our superheroes+villains oc headworld that originally centered around my boy vinny, also the masked hero known as The Scavenger. he, along with many others in the original cast, are, basically, humans with genetically modified animal hybrid traits that are, you guessed it, escaped (or otherwise originiated from) a dubious science lab.

vinny, for example, has bearded vulture dna, as well as being part of the approximately 1 in 4 population of human-animal hybrids that have awakened superpowers. his superpower is the power of flight, but that is technically entirely coincidental to him having giant bird wings (there are other human-bird hybrids with wings that cannot fly, bird wings cannot support a human body in flight on their own. flight powers can manifest regardless of which specific animal dna)

the vinny angle on scavengerverse was conceptualized back in 2018, revisited during uhhh 2021? and in like 2022-on, latimer and i have been fleshing the hell out of all the other characters, and incorporating blorbos past with new life here in scavengerverse. on that note unfortunately we might have a bit of a homestuck cast type situation going on in that regard. but thats okay because its actually really fun to have a project without a single defined core protagonist group, and trying to make a cohesive and effective storyline while navigating that challenge

all this to say, as far as answering your question: my favorite thing about scavengerverse is that this is the first time ive been able to have complete and absolute fun with the creation and ideas we're putting into this. even tlh (the last human, my previous main sci-fi oc headworld) got concepts toned down when i thought i was being too silly with it. at one point niyt was going to be forced to operate a mecha, and it was going to be so cool and dramatic and gihr would have to like climb the mecha to save them and it wouldve been so cool. but i was like Nah.. thas too silly. the mecha thing really comes out of nowhere, it's clearly been included just for the rule of cool. so basicly. whay if Nobody take me seriously . because i added a cool robot scene without good enough reason

But so now, with scavengerverse- well, i haven't had any particular ideas in mind for introducing a minor mecha component to sv yet, but if i ever do, we're actively making the kind of world where, yknow what, Yeah, there probably would be at least some mecha action, happening somewhere in this world, at some point - so sure, why not here, and now, within the story actively being explored?

and like, this story started with misunderstood escaped lab experiments with cool powers, so sure, why not go ahead and add whatever else is fun to play with - we've added witches, aliens, devils, psychics, a mafia, hell even one of our biggest oc blorbos right now in our biggest oc blorbo ship came from me re-reviving my old as fuck bisharp oc, from back when i roleplayed pokemon on deviantart in like fucking 2011. it is never too late to return to the playground my friends 🧡

[reinekes-fox]

Hey again! I was wondering how much freedom will we have to progressively change our MC's stance about the cult? My MC is loyal and believes in their ideals at the start, but he isn't fanatic or anything, and basically thinks some things are up to interpretation. Like for example he considers vultures are still ultimately birds and he doesn't feel too bad for his orientation and stuff like that. But ideally, I'd love for him to realize while in contact with the "strays" that up until now he wasn't truly living his life - that it's no way to live, basically.

So yeah, just how much will it be possible to make it a progressive thing? And how much will characters comment on the change, rather than just commenting on MC's new mindset without necessarily referencing it wasn't like that before?

Does this even make sense? I don't know if I was clear heh... Anyway, thank you!

Thank you for the question!

Yes, this does make sense no worry haha!

I am planning to write reactions to changes in the belief, however how detailed they will be is something I will think about when it occurs ingame.

I.e. I am tracking three stats directly tied with the faith: devotion, doubt and meh aka not caring. (However doubt will be viewed more as a „cares so much about the belief that Wing MC wants to better it“ rn and it will take some time for characters to realise that nope, Wing MC is actually anti cult) And if there is an option for a devout answer while Wing MC has so far never really cared about their faith (let’s say „meh“ is at 90) than the cast will react to it!

While I do plan to add things like „actually Wing MC used to be a fanatic but is now anti“ (just like mother dearest), I think the best way to do those kind of commentary isn’t tracking stats.

[fellhellion]

Hi! What are your thoughts on Miguel's abilities shown in the movie so far? That vulture wing cutting is cool as hell but arm blades seemed kinda overkill? He already has home-grown knives on his hands and feet, and I think him slicing the wing off with his hands would be just as cool. Also I read somewhere that his webbing is ATSV is tech-based instead of organic, but (to me) the organic webbing was one of his more signature abilities (and I think him accidentally spraying webbing when not in costume in the comics is really funny)

hiya! im personally a fan of the red blades because im just a basic bitch for how they look fskjdfhjkds i see some cool looking shit and my brain lights up lmao. and yeah i've seen the same thing about the tech based webs. personally a bit bummed if they have ended up completely doing away w his organic webbing as i think it's supposed to be one of his really unique traits compared to other spideys :( the red webs are extremely cool and i like their look but eh, until confirmed otherwise i'm pretending he's using the red webs to not think so much about. the intrinsic bodily change of it all haha.

[comfymoth]

bird anon (wildlife person) here! first of all, i am also obsessed with the way you do wings; their forms are pretty spot on most of the time, and the colors (considering you seem to stick with more muted colors) are also just... ough i eat them. i showed those latest doodles to a coworker whos in europe and knows more about cinereous vultures than i do, and she was immediately in love. the bird nerds approve :)

lovebird leon and parakeet quinn is just such a nice image in my head too

AWWWW WHAT THE HECK?? THAT’S SO COOL!!!! i’m so glad you guys like them, haha, that really is high praise :,]

[summer-solo-day]

54/?? Childhood TV Shows You Should Watch

Title: Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Episodes: 17

Run Time: 22 Mins

Synopsis:

In Germany, Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the villains from Wacky Races, are now flying aces in World War I-styled airplanes and members of the Vulture Squadron, on a mission to stop a messenger pigeon named Yankee Doodle Pigeon from delivering top-secret messages to an opposing army. The other members of the Squadron are Klunk, an inventor who speaks an unintelligible language, and Zilly, a panicky pilot whose main role is to translate for Klunk.

Each story features variations on the same plot elements: the Vulture Squadron sets out to trap Yankee Doodle Pigeon. Inevitably, either the plan is flawed, or one or more of the Squadron messes up. By the end of every story, Yankee Doodle Pigeon escapes while the Vulture Squadron is often left in backfiring predicaments.

The show also featured Wing Dings, short clips with jokes, and Magnificent Muttley, where Muttley encounters Walter Mitty-esque daydreams.

My Rating: 8/10

To be honest, I don't quite like this spin-off as much as the Wacky Races itself. It's not that it's bad at all, but there just aren't as many characters or dynamics between characters. So, I guess, in that way, it's not as entertaining to me.

I still love Muttley the most haha. I do like the concept, but it seems like it could have been fleshed out a little bit more. (off-topic: but does anyone else not like that word "flesh" haha)

Anyway, I do believe you would enjoy it. Especially if you like Wacky Races. So, check it out.

[katerinaaqu]

Girl girl GIRL! 💖💖💖💖💖🤯💖💖💖💖💖

You can't just casually drop masterpieces around you know! The world is not ready! 🫶✨️

Gosh that vulture is fantastic! The way her wings spread all over him and protects him! And those colors! 👏🔥🙌 it was a great idea to use a lesser known bird for her bird form! So many creatures to choose from! It looks ominous and yet hell no it is sweetheart protecting him! And man I love Caleb sleeping like an old school cowboy or bounty hunter hahahaha I love the hat man! That hat is everything! Haha and of course fluffy Caleb again hahaha 😆

Oh man that cloth she is wearing! Man that royal crimson/purple and the long clothing that is still soft and comfortable that is so her! And all the golden details in her clothing! ✨️ oh gosh! And of course Caleb's twiterpated look hahaha oh gosh he thinks he is dreaming! And gosh she is caught hahahaha she is a powerful immortal goddess and the cheesy boy got her hahahaha 😆 😂 💕

Gosh details like the rain drops are amazing! Or her bronze skin and muscles as opposing to his olive complexion and the way he looks at her oh gosh! Hahaha ❤️ silly duo can never have enough of them hahaha 😆 😂 🤣 I love your little text there dear! 💕 it soooo fits them!

More Mythology AU✨ Caleb sleeps as Goddess Dilla (shifting between her bird and human form) shelters him from the rain. ❤️

As he stirs awake his eyes widen in wonder, captivated by the ethereal being before him. Without thinking his hand reaches out to touch her, desperate to know if she’s real.

In that tender, fleeting moment, Dilla's heart races. This mortal, with his simple gesture, awakens a feeling deep within her, something she has never known in her long, lonely existence.