#jay-jay-bird

[olives-and-lilies]

So there’s been something in the works, @malevolentbigbang has happened, the results are in!

I got to work with the lovely @jay-jay-bird, our writer with a truly wicked skill for tactile imagery and sneaky foreshadowing, and @butzenscheibe, another damn good artists (the color control, seriously!)

Here are my humble additions, to this beautiful fic

[ID: A digital painting of Arthur Lester leaning on a counter with a mug in hand. He has long brown hair, a goatee, and bright blue eyes. He’s wearing a white tank top that shows his freckled arms, and his head is cocked playfully to the side, mouth open, cheeks blushing. In front of him stands John Doe, seen from the back. He has slicked-back blonde hair and is wearing a striped collared shirt. He holds a copy of The New York Times open in front of him. The words, “I’d probably just tie you down,” are written across the top of the image, and a blue broken circuit symbol emanates from Arthur. End ID]

[ID: a digital painting of a close up of piano keys with two hands resting on them. On the left is Arthur’s right hand, and on the right is John’s left hand. They are not quite close enough to touch, but Arthur’s pinky is slightly extended toward John’s. End ID]

[ID Left: Digital painting of Arthur’s shirtless back from the neck to the waist. John’s hands are cinching the knots on a black shibari rope harness that wraps around Arthur’s torso and pins his arms back. The scene is bathed in warm golden firelight. End ID]

[ID Right: Digital painting of Arthur in profile, from the shoulders up. He is shirtless, and part of a rope harness is visible around his arm. His lips are parted and he is looking back at John, who has his mouth to Arthur’s ear and one hand wrapped around Arthur’s chin. End ID]

[ID: Digital painting of John and Arthur’s hands. John is reaching for Arthur’s wrist, which has a faint red mark around it. Text: “‘You are an uncompromising man, Arthur Lester.’ John caught hold of Arthur’s wrist, gently running his thumb over the marks left by the rope. His calloused fingertips caught on each slight indentation, a match-strike touch that sent sparks across his skin. ‘And yet you offer yourself to me, when you would yield to no one else in the numberless worlds. Your faith is more precious than gold; it tastes sweeter than any wine. To a god, there is no greater gift than that.’” End ID]

Shoutout to @genderfluid-draws for helping me with the IDs, they are not my strong point and druid is absolutely next level at them

[pnwander]

steller's jay

[heartnosekid]

a blue jay taking a bath 🛁 | source

[scottpartridge]

Trio of popular backyard birds - chickadee blue jay cardinal 

[ostdrossel]

They can be overwhelming at times but I totally adore baby Blue Jays. They have begun to emerge in the yard, and they are almost old enough to fend for themselves. But they are still begging for food every so often and play-fight with their siblings.

[mottemort]

Jason Todd as Blue Jay

[frownyalfred]

I know Jason was dead-set on revenge and sticking it to Batman in UTRH but now I’m making myself sad thinking about a Jason who finally sees Bruce as Batman again after so many years, and he sees Nightwing and another Robin but he can’t hear them. For the first time ever, he’s not on their comm frequency. He’s locked out of Bruce’s quiet field orders and status checks. He can see Bruce but he can’t hear him. All he gets is the mask.

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian Jay/nötskrika. Värmland, Sweden (October 19, 2024).

[nemfrog]

The blue jay. 1900.

Internet Archive

[lacrimosathedark]

There's one thing about Jason Todd that just gets to me. It's poetic, it's ironic, it's painful, it's mildly infuriating, and it's kind of hilarious. To me at least.

So. You know Jays? Like, the type of bird? These fancy fuckers?

Also these

Yeah, Jays. Jaybirds. [insert Roy Harper joke here]

Let me tell you a funky thing about jays.

Their scientific classification, do you know what family they're in?

Fucking Corvidae. JAYS ARE CORVIDS. Y'know, like ravens and crows and magpies. The kinds of birds frequently associated with intelligence, wisdom, and DEATH. The kinds of birds known for STEALING SHIT and HOLDING GRUDGES.

And the fact that NONE OF THIS WAS INTENDED IN JASON'S CHARACTER? I can't handle it. And my body can never decide if it wants to scream or laugh or cry when I think about it so I'm just sitting here vibrating over it.

[alexplantewpg]

cleaned up these sketches today 😌

blue jays are assholes but they’re so fun to draw.

[herpsandbirds]

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, found in the western US and Canada

photograph by Steve Pearl

[pnwander]

[pencilzart]

[ostdrossel]

Blue Jays are currently ruling the yard, and they all look pitiful in their various states of molting, which means that they lose older feathers and grow new ones. I love these scraggly babies!

[occasionallybirds]

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

April 18, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania