#murrelet

[strflr]

Guadalupe Murrelet & Araripe Manakin #avianaugust!

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[felidaeng]

saltwater prince

[suzythesilkie]

I love Murrelets

[doomsdaybear]

It’s okay to let go, you’ve been holding on for so long.

Art trade with @felidaeng

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Marbled Murrelet

Photo: Eric Ellingson

"A strange, mysterious little seabird. Although it is fairly common off the northern Pacific Coast, its nesting behavior was essentially unknown until the 1970s. In the Pacific Northwest, now known to nest high in trees in old-growth forest several miles inland from coast. Even where numerous, it is usually seen on the water in pairs or aggregations of pairs, not in large flocks; pairs flush from the water in front of approaching boats, fly away low with very rapid wingbeats."

- Audubon Field Guide

[scottpartridge]

I love ur birds so much you capture their vibes so phenomenally! I saw you did the mourning doves based off an ask, if you have more in ya could you do a marbled murrelet?

Glad you like. Here are the Marbled Murrelets. Also, their figures from the AVE (Avian Vector Encyclopedia)

[dovesick]

california coastline

[alonglistofbirds]

[2720/11080] Craveri's murrelet - Synthliboramphus craveri

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Lari Family: Alcidae (auks)

Photo credit: Lizabeth Southworth via Macaulay Library

[honeyhobbs]

Posting some of my favorite Avian August works here :)

[rockwgooglyeyes]

Okay so I'm finally introducing everyone to Faisal! He is actually a 40th class grad like all of the season 40 babies but like Zhuli (@apriciticreveries), he's on the announcer prep track instead of the typical musician/ALNST participant track. His name is the Indonesian version of an Arabic name that means "arbiter" :)

animal: coyote/maned wolf

solar symbol: the moon (reflection of someone else’s light)

major arcana: the devil (resentment, freedom, temptation)

organ symbol: muscle but specifically the tongue (both a blade and something that can be used to connect and placate)

He is Dian's younger brother by about 3 years (Dian would be about 28 in season 40). He and Dian have never met, but he's been compared to Dian pretty much ever since he was born (which is part of the reason he hates being compared to other people)

Roommates with Murrelet (@pwippy) who he has a love/hate relationship with. Murrelet drives him up a wall but he loves him (not that he would ever admit that though lmao)

Part of the toxic yaoi love square with Ciaran (@starry-skiez), Murrelet, and Yume (@sotogalmo) (Faisal is the one with commitment issues. Mostly due to his rationality being, why would he commit to something that isn't real? then again. Murrelet knows the real him and still likes him- but no. Murrelet is just being nice. He doesn't actually like him.)

Tbh I going to go out on a limb and say that Zhuli and Faisal have known each other since they were kids, meaning that she knew him before he got jaded and started pretending to be someone else, which is the only reason she can probably stand his dumb ass.

Initially, I had him as arrogant and proud but now, I really just think that he's exhausted and he wants to be left alone because he has very little that's his- he has drawing and that's pretty much it. Still uses humor to deflect and distract but that humor skews morbid/deadpan

He pretends to be someone else for two reasons: 1, he knows that his true personality isn't palatable and it's easier to go unnoticed if you're "nice" and 2, he’s scared if he gives anyone the chance to actually get to know him, that they won’t like what they see.

He might act as though he's friendly and kind, syrupy-sweet demeanor, flirtatious and indulgent, but to be honest, he kind of hates everyone except Zhuli and Murrelet. He's fine with Ciaran, too, but everyone else he wishes would leave him the fuck alone.

He pretends to be a dog boy but in reality he is a cat man and he wants everyone to kill themselves. Most of the time his inner monologue is "i wanna kill everything" or literally just fire. or punching a hole in the wall.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

January in Juneau, Alaska

[imperfectnothing]

Thought of Fai and Yume for no reason a moment ago, and now it won't leave my head the connection I have made of them (+ ciaran & murrelet) with other characters in Danganronpa: Another Despair/DRA.............

!!!!!!!!! Incoming nerd ramblings but keeping them way shorter because I don't want to . Spoil the game. It's so good. So not nearly as ramblings but just me talking about aus tbh w/ the 4 Musketeers (this is just as long as my other asks on your main. Dear God I should mute myself)

First I had them as "Yuki" and Akane, but it would only work in chap6 when the masterminds are revealed (the boredness that MM1 has while Taira is just ecstatic and all about "hes so great, he saved me and I'll forever follow him"). But then I thought of it more and Fai is very Kinjo Tsurugi. Kinjo is so cold, a straight forward guy and such, (tho if in SDRA2, he would most definitely be Syobai. No doubts, only in DRA I see him being Kinjo, for the small things..). — but he's so open to 'Yuki'. He's only ever vulnerable around him (Ciaran can be "Yuki" in this context, but along with Murrelet)- the free time events you can have with him show that.

The memorable thing in my head of Kinjo and Akane is a similar slap scene to Togami and Aoi, and then the mastermind reveal (a bit too early in the chapters but DRA is FUN like that). And honestly the funny thing about Akane is that she is also, honestly a generic girl. So like- that ties well with Yume, and the switch up also ties up with him. The obsession, the devotion. Again, the whole he's so great, he saved me and I'll forever follow him.

With having Fai, Cia and Yume already figured out, I then I had to fill up the space of Murrelet, and I went with Haruhiko (might change if plip decides to do anything with murr). But for now, it's just because I see Murr as just some silly guy caught up in this square with three unhinged guys (again might change, and so he might also be... Shuts up before I say the name and spoil it all)

The thing that's super interesting to me about Fai and Yume's relationship is how utterly incomprehensible it is. Like obviously, from an outside glance, it doesn't really seem that way, it seems pretty straightforward, Fai is the person who is kind of gruff and mean towards Yume and seems not to like him and Yume actually kind of acts like himself around Fai but only because there isn't any expectation of Fai judging him for that. Maybe I'm misremembering, if I am, I'm so sorry but the thing about Fai, when it comes to Yume, is Fai actually cares about him a lot more than he lets on. When Yume dies, that is a catalyst in a downward spiral for Fai which ends up with him lashing out at the other two musketeers and isolating himself (commitment issues) because he views himself as someone who only makes other people's lives worse.

As much as Faisal is unsettled by Yume's obsession and his uncanny "generic" personality, Fai sees parts of himself in Yume (which is why he initially despises Yume so much) but what he sees that's different, he loves. He loves Yume in his own fucked up way and when Yume dies and is brought back as some echo of himself, Faisal is extremely not okay about it.

So yeah thank you for sending me a Faiyume ask this was very fun to mull over and while I'll admit, I've not played Danganronpa, the way you articulate it and connect our characters to it is very very fun

(I'm gonna tag Starry and Plip just in case they want to be tagged, since Ciaran and Murr are mentioned- @starry-skiez and @pwippy)

[many-formed]

Wet

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Beast

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Wednesday

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[sotogalmo]

11:51

4 Musketeers and yumdon brainrot with the song of How The Story Goes by xXantha-

"In the nighttime. Someone walks through the open door

The flash of eyes. Blade in hands that barely know what they're for

This place needs a hero; Are you the kind that runs or fights. You know she lies. Watching from a world that sits out of sight

Everytime you fail the world ends. Each and every fall her will bends. Everything there ever was or ever will be— So please don't set the monster free

Voices fill the air and leave you. Paranoid and cold and see through. Falling on your knees for one who deceives you

It's like she needs you

Oh how does the story go. How many ways do you think you know

A hero to save the day. And a princess to slay

In the silence. Trees unwinding against the sky. The planet cries. Frozen cold just like the look when it dies

We weren't made to fight. We were made to love and cry

We weren't made to lie. I can surely change your mind

What perspective do you need, To accept you're part of me

We weren't made to die. We were made to change their lives

Oh how does the story go. How many ways do you think you know

A hero to save the day. And a princess to slay

Oh how does the story end. How many ways can a god ascend

Together we'll rise above. Join me

my love."

This song is, to me, sung by the princess (The Shifting Mound). The ones that make me especially think of Musketeers & yumdon, is like—

"Falling on your knees for one who deceives you. It's like she needs you."; how Fai is like ...dog but 'bad' yk. But also about Cia, because. "It's like she needs you", is very Yume thinking of them as Ald (also Brandon, but that's way later)

"Oh how does the story go. How many ways do you think you know. A hero to save the day. And a princess to slay"; the main objective of the game is in the title. Slay The Princess. But it's the different ways of how you go about it. You go about it, it also affects her.

"Oh how does the story end. How many ways can a god ascend."; this lyric is more later in the song, but I think it's also fitting that like. It fits. How does the story go, to how does it end.

"In the silence. Trees unwinding against the sky. The planet cries. Frozen cold just like the look when it dies"; 'frozen cold just like the look when it dies', Yume killing himself.

"We weren't made to fight. We were made to love and cry. We weren't made to lie. I can surely change your mind. What perspective do you need, To accept you're part of me. We weren't made to die. We were made to change their lives"; Definitely just Yume towards the four. The first one for Faisal, the second one for Ciaran, the third one for Brandon, the last one for Murrelet

"Together we'll rise above. Join me my love"; weirdly Brandon and Yume. Only zombie and doll wise. They have that fucked up Izuru and Servant type of bond

Fai: @rockwgooglyeyes / Cia: @starry-skiez / Murr: @pwippy / Bran: @tsukacchako

[thalasseus]

hands you the ocean

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Guadalupe Murrelet

Photo: Tom Benson

"This small seabird nests on islands off the west coast of Baja, and rarely wanders north into California waters. It was formerly combined with Scripps's Murrelet under the name Xantus's Murrelet. These two are very similar in appearance as well as in habits, but the Guadalupe Murrelet has more white extending up onto the face, around the eye."

- Audubon Field Guide