#lovely plumage

[mikailborg]

"Our researches into the business practices of 20th-century humans have not uncovered how this man expected to get away with selling a deceased avian as a household pet, but we gather it was an unusual practice; the recorded irate complaints of the customer demonstrate this clearly."

If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.

[cloud-ya]

hi

[notbecauseofvictories]

I fucking. love birds. I love them so much. "what if there were small friend-shaped beings who could fly" phenomenal!!

(and also sometimes a squirrel is there)

[ornithological]

rook (corvus frugilegus), ireland

[orisretr0]

yo wth it’s a master post

anyhoo, call me Oris! She/Her, I’m an artist, all that jazz :b

my main fandoms are comprised of

Undertale,

Deltarune,

Dungeon Meshi,

Jibaku Shonen Hanako Kun,

and just about anything else that I make Fanart of.

I made Floratale, which you can find the comic for here (send me asks for it on my main!! Which is where you're currently reading!!! I may draw them!!!!) as well as a few uh…literary fiction works. (My ao3 :D check it out if you want) I also made A-00, which I probably won’t post very often for.

anyways, that’s about it. If you’re a moot, welcome to the Pit. If not, make sure to look before you jump ;))

oh yeah forgot to put out my oc whoops

it’s MEEEEEE

Also!!

Ask my boys!! Unlike me, they’re not shy!!!! I try to do one ask a day, since I am, ha. Lazy :’))

you can also DRAW YOURSELF WITH THEM!!! Because apparently two hundred people follow me??? Idk either

Make sure to @ me! I wanna see it!!

[doctorwyvern]

we as a community should be giving dr ahem feathers send post

[goryhorroor]

day 30 of horror: giallo horror + title cards

[neonfretra]

baseball art truly making me feel like a snail being given an entire cucumber… i shall survive the winter

GOOD LUCK WITH THE OFF SEASON... SURVIVE...

you know whats really funny is that i up and ran a hockey blog when i have had more IRL run ins with baseball than hockey. this isnt saying much about either sport. between all these run ins is a physical object that i think of as a religious effigy. just as dusty as one too! ill let you guess which sport that is LOL

[beedreamscape]

I was searching for what type of sexual dimorphism Cerrit would present, being a Phillipine Eagle, and this is what the wiki says:

The level of sexual dimorphism in size is not certain, but the male is believed to be typically about 10% smaller than the female, and this is supported by the average length provided for males and females in one source.

This is reverse sexual dimorphism. Females are not only heavier but have a wider wingspan!!!

Wrayne is (very likely) bigger than Cerrit!

(And even if she's another type of eagle, this rule still applies. The difference can even be higher than 10%.)

[libelelle]

on the topic of the Rogues you have any good pics of birds molting? 😂

IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED. HERES SOME HAWKS

Dont worry they can still fly. Jet cant though. Heres some other birds

Some of these are dramatic examples of juvenile molting, aka babies getting rid out their down. Please imagine baby Jet like this

ALSO ALSO. ALSO. MY FAV EXAMPLE EVER. THIS IS A NORTHWRN CARDINAL, WHO DROPS ALL THEIR FEATHERS ON THWIR HEAD ALL AT ONCE

[masckarlach]

pathfinder wotr is SDOOO GOOD GUYSSS

[peachyhoneyadventures]

Don't worry, guys. I got you some bird pics.

[churchyardgrim]

my extremely heterosexual coworkers are passing around pics of the most generic looking magazine model girls and i’m just sitting here like guys if you saw the women i want to fuck me you’d start crying

[multishipper-baby]

Random thought before I go to sleep but, if Eak had wings, Ray would have to have wings too... I just don't know if those wings would look just like his dad's or if they'd be blueish purple and black like the animal he's inspired by. Or what.

[b-blushes]

tragically backlit starling (so they are a little washed out but still beautiful)

[wild-at-mind]

It's actually really adorable that my birdtrack app switches up whether the little icon depicting the bird species is male or female.