#i'm in physical distress

[allthewhumpygoodness]

Big fan of when a character's grief/trauma/guilt manifests as physical symptoms. Big fan of characters keeping things so tight inside them that it makes them sick. Big fan of when the line blurs between a character's mental trauma and physical illness until it's hard to tell which is which anymore.

[sass-squat]

Part 6 of the Linked Universe Winged Au! After many requests this time around we've got our Veteran, Legend!

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As always we have to start off with a bird fact, so did you know that male White-Winged Crossbills have unpigmented barbules that mask their red color and are what make them appear pink in the fall? However, as these barbules wear off, the bright red is able to show through leaving them a brilliant red in the spring and summer!

Anyways, I found this fact to be very interesting especially considering Legend's adventure throughout Oracle of Seasons. Just the mental image of his plumage slightly shifting with the constant changing of the seasons was very funny to me and I couldn't NOT make it canon. Plus, I enjoy making his life more difficult than it already is because I also headcanon that when he was younger, his wings were constantly stuck in a half molted state because white-winged crossbills usually molt in the fall. In other words, turns out messing around with seasons and time has consequences so he was a very scruffy, fluffy looking kid growing up.

As for how he looks and acts now, he has many similar characteristics and behaviors of a White-Winged Crossbill. For example, he is a very strong flier, and his unique way of flying has given him a very aggressive and abrupt fighting style both on the ground and in the air. His style of fighting is especially effective in forests with a lot of trees because it allows him to dart between foliage and foes alike.

While his flight and fighting styles were influenced by the sheer number of quests he has gone on as well as his young age when he began, other characteristics and behaviors of his were also influenced as well. For example, when he was still just a kid thrown into his first adventure where just about everything in the world was bigger than him, he learned to bristle and fluff his feathers to appear bigger and more threatening to enemies. While somewhat effective at the time, nowadays it means he still has the unconscious habit of doing it whenever he is irritated or embarrassed.

In addition to his tendency to "poof" when upset, he also has a habit of picking at and pulling out his own feathers when especially stressed. He picked up this habit mainly because of his constant molting as a child but then continued it as he was went on more and more adventures. Doing it is second nature to him now, but it's a bad habit he's actively trying to break by fiddling with his rings instead. It's also part of why he's so insistent about preening the others because helping them quite literally stops him from pulling out his own feathers.

Anyways! I could go on, but that's all for now folks! Thank you again for all your support and kind messages! I really treasure them and they are always the highlight of my day! As always, feel free to let me know who or what you would like to see next! Thank you all again!

Bonus Doodle Feat. Wind taking a photo of Wild taking a photo of Legend inspired by this masterpiece:

[multiverse-singularity]

The Book of Bill has sunk in for me and I think Bill should've been killed more than once, one time is simply not enough.

Stanford Pines deserves his happiness and family, so glad he got it at the end of the series.

[jeanmoreausautismstickers]

the riko apologist / the baby girlification of riko that has happened since tsc needs to be studied

[caspersickfanfics]

Question Time! What do y'all think it would take for Tighnari to cry?

[appalachianapologies]

wrote so hard that google docs crashed on me :(

[chicago-geniza]

It is 47 degrees Fahrenheit at 4.51 am I have the balcony door flung wide open to the night vespers I am in a cotton t-shirt and linen pajamas and I can't sleep because it's TOO HOT

[thesealfriend]

Love when the ambulance tech would rather argue with me for 20 minutes about the fact that i can't breathe, vs just quickly steth my back and confirm that actually my lungs Are full of something and i Would in fact benefit from actual medical care instead of just being told to calm down

[deathandthesoul]

The way people act as if Toreadors are hard banned from taking any dots in combat skills

[ghostzzy]

i have a question. is it Necessary. to Feel Bad. So Much.

[daz4i]

did y'all know that apparently i'm a good dancer. who'd have thought

[gardenstateofmind]

it see a lot of awful shit at work, but something that always gets to me is just how neglected elderly people are in this society.

i remember seeing a post on here that was like "we need to abolish the family" and my immediate response was what the fuck bc it was like purposely worded in an instigative way, but then the op explained they meant that your blood/legal relatives are expected to be your only social support system and how that inevitably leads to abuse

and like i get it now, bc even when it's not malicious, just not being a priority in someone's life can mean you end up with nothing and no one. i mean this is an issue all around. i guess it just hits me extra hard bc i see people with dementia being literally abandoned at our doors all the time.

[robinsnest2111]

doing more laundry, the cookies have cooled off and they taste very good, more tea and ordering things online and painting my nails left to do, feeling a bit dizzy and the headache is still going strong...

[smile-files]

today i'm going home so i can get my flu shot and vote with my family... hopefully both go well

[hauntedkeys]

I'm talking to this person and they're super sweet but something about the way they talk (especially about affection and relationships) is really reminding me of my ex and ngl I'm realising now that she actually lowkey traumatized me because it really should be distressing to hear someone (with the best of intentions) talk about how much they like me

[mariocki]

Fat Man on a Beach (HTV, 1974)

"I'm going to read some more poems now. Erm. It may be that if you want to go and have a cup of tea, this would be a good time. I know that's what you masses are like. The mention of poetry and off you go."