#stubtail

[herpsandbirds]

Bornean Stubtail (Urosphena whiteheadi), family Cetiidae, order Passeriformes, Sabah, Borneo

photographs by Yeray Seminario

[birdstudies]

September 26, 2024 - Bornean Stubtail (Urosphena whiteheadi) These stubtails are found in mountain forests on the island of Borneo. They feed on invertebrates, especially green aphids, usually foraging alone in dense undergrowth and on the ground. Little is known about their breeding behavior, though one of their nests was built in a mossy bank from reddish plant fibers.

[saint-nevermore]

a little guy, done as a study on feather textures in small birds. i had a really good time with this one. special shoutout to photographer Dubi Shapiro, who's photographs of the species i used as references for this beastie ^_^

[sugiichi]

Urosphena squameiceps [ヤブサメ,Asian stubtail]

あちこちで鳴き声が聞こえました。

[alonglistofbirds]

[1608/10977] Bornean stubtail - Urosphena whiteheadi

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Sylvioidea Family: Cettiidae (cettiid warblers)

Photo credit: JJ Harrison via Macaulay Library

[flawlessandmonochrome]

"Yabusame, Tsubakura! How's the anniversary?"

"Got booze, so can't complain much."

"Feels like we're missing something, though..."

[yabusame-houlen-official]

Cettiidae

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(Cettiidae includes classic birds such as the Cetti's Warbler, the Japanses Bush Warbler, aka "Uguisu", the Asian Stubtail, aka "Yabusame", and the Gray-Bellied Tesia)

[hideki-koga]

ヤブサメ（Asian stubtail）

[manicdream13]

redraw of one of my old warrior cats ocs hiddenface!! she’s the shadowclan medicine cat

under the cut is her (summarized) backstory

when she was an apprentice she was attacked by a dog by the carrion place and by the time she was healed enough to continue warrior training, she was too far behind the other apprentices and during her time in the medicine den she had become very close with the current medicine cat, stubtail so she decided to become his apprentice.

overall she’s just very goofy and silly and i love her a lot. let me know if you guys want more warrior cats art cause i got plenty of ocs

[singular-yike]

I must ask about Yabusame. Anything interesting about them? What are some neat secrets they might be hiding ~ ?

Ooh, Yabusame is quite the tough one, we really just know so little about them! Anyways, I'll try my best though!

It's the Flawless Thoughtlessness — Yabusame Houlen

Name: Yabusame Houlen

Since we're talking about their name, I'll be using the Japanese order here, Houlen Yabusame (鳳聯藪雨).

The first thing you might notice is the use of an L in the romanization of their name Houlen. Japanese doesn't actually distinguish between /l/ and /r/, so either is technically fine as long as we're consistent, but JynX does actually consistently use R. So why the L here?

It's so that when combined with Tsubakura Enraku, their names can combine to give Len'En!

In Houlen, "hou" (鳳) refers to the Fenghuang (鳳凰), a bird in Chinese mythology said to be the king of all birds. It is often paired with the Yellow Dragon to represent the Emperess and Emperor and China respectively.

Although rarely used on its own, "ren" (聯) carries the meaning of "link" or "pair". Perhaps used in reference to the title of the entire series "connecting chain".

In addition, "houren" is also the reading of 鳳輦, which refers to a type of palanquin decorated with a Fenghuang on the roof, used specifically by the Emperor. Nowadays it also refers to the same type of palanquin used in Shinto shrine processions as well.

In "Yabusame" (藪雨), "yabu" (藪) means "grove while "same" (雨) means "rain". Read together it refers to the Asian stubtail, given this name as their cries are said to sound like rain pattering on a grove.

Curiously enough, while Yabusame's name is indeed a Bird's Name, they are the only character so far with multiple birds in their name that are not related in any way, literally or through wordplay.

Titles

Yabusame is one of the few characters to have two titles. First, their default title: Flawless Thoughtlessness (天衣無縫の能天気)

天衣無縫 is a phrase that literally means "a celestial's clothing has no seams", which refers to something that is naturally flawless with no trace of artifice. So this is where "flawless" comes from.

能天気 refers to an easygoing person who never thinks deeply about anything, which is where we get "thoughtlessness from".

In their chef form in BotC, they're titled Chef Unbound in Any Direction (縦横無尽な調理人).

縦横無尽 literally means "vertically and horizontally endless", and refers to someone who acts freely and as they wish, hence "unbound". 調理人 simply means "chef".

Basis: Dimensions and String Theory

Similar to fellow protagonist Tsubakura Enraku, it's difficult to identify any particular figure, historical, mythological or otherwise, in them. However, it is fairly clear that Yabusame is based on dimensions and string theory.

Dimensions

Yabusame's most obvious tie to the concept of dimensions is their ability, "something like crossing dimensions". While Yabusame is indeed shown to be able to do so, like in BPoHC's tutorial where they crossed into an alternate Mugenri, how this is achieved is unclear.

Curiously, JynX personally considers Yabusame's ability the most dangerous in the series so far, although the reason remains unexplained.

The most common application of Yabusame's ability is their "hyper-dimensional pockets", portals that connect two different dimensions. They use them to send and retrieve things to and fro between dimensions, an example being their spell Confused Origins "Screen Shuffle", as seen below:

There are a number of possible curiosities possibly related to Yabusame's abilities, such as:

Yabusame is apparently only "technically human", whatever that means

Suzumi's abilities seem to have next to no effect on Yabusame at all, and even if they rewound time after killing them it would apparently still leave them dead, according to Suzumi

While Yabusame seems to have free control over their ability, EE's bad ending would imply that they need to fall asleep to truly transport themself between dimensions

JynX said that there are "no longer" alternate Yabusames across different dimensions, the Yabusame we see always being the singular Yabusame (Which raises very curious questions about BPohC, actually)

A popular theory as to why this is, is that Yabusame exists simultaneously as one being throughout all the dimensions.

It would seemingly explain why they are so very scatterbrained, as their attention is literally scattered across various dimensions; as well as why killing them would be a permanent action even if time was rewound, as time is a dimension itself.

If this were the case, then perhaps sleeping to travel between dimensions is merely for Yabusame to shift their main focus between them; and the fact that there are "no longer" distinct, separate Yabusames in each dimension would imply a fusion/takeover of some sort.

However, we should of course keep in mind that this is all a theory, and is nowhere near confirmed.

String Theory

Disclaimer: Physics is not my strong suit, and I know next to nothing about string theory, so while this is probably the juicy part I won't be able to say much here. All I can do is point out some neat little references.

Yabusame's birthday, 26 November (26/11) may be a reference to the dimensions required in different variations of string theory: The M-theory calls for 11; while the Bosonic string theory calls for 26.

The M-theory is also referenced in Yabusame's personal themes Wings that Transcend Spacetime ~ M theory and Feathers Flying off the Beaten Path ~ Eleven-dimensional.

EmEv Holdover: Serintsu

So I sort of, kinda lied when I said that we can't identify any basis for Yabusame. We do have one from Emergency Everyday, the dropped predecessor of Len'en from which our modern Len'en is based on. We should keep in mind, however, that JynX did not work on EmEv.

It is likely that Yabusame is somewhat of a renewed Serintsu.

A human with the ability of "something like crossing dimensions", from what we can see of EmEv's trial version, their story from their game is largely identical to that of Yabusame's in EE.

However, other than this, the two share no other similarities and it is fairly safe to say that EmEv's main influence on Len'en comes from its premise and story more than anything.

So! I think that concludes our little look at Yabusame. Truly a mysterious but extremely fun character, let's hope we get to learn more in the future~! Until then, I leave you with this early concept art of Yabusame, which I think deserves to be appreciated more! :)

[justcallmesolll]

Silly little Greystar AU i made a while ago but i wish to share it here :33

Yeen rambles #8

ok so grey is friends with fire in this au, Redtail is grey's mentor. Red gets killed, grey is sad, but he moves on. then Lionheart dies and grey is very sad about this, somehow tho, he is able to pick himself up again. THEN HE ACCIDENTALLY KILLS WHITECLAW and he blames himself. he can't possibly recover from this, and hes kinda just there as a depressed blob. fire is sympathetic to his friend, but he reminds grey that this has happened before and he can still do stuff to help the clan out. grey does so reluctantly and then meets Silverstream and that kinda makes him so much happier. he helps out a little more around the clan while also hunting for silver, etc. he becomes much friendlier and sociable. him and fire have their argument, and they fall out and they stop talking for a while. in this period, Silverstream dies and grey is absolutely destroyed. he ignores almost everyone ESPECIALLY fireheart since fire isn't exactly sympathetic towards him since he told Grey it was a bad idea to be seeing silver so greystripe hates him for that. he decides to keep his kits in tc, starting things up with rc. he's particularly nasty to fire for getting away with things that grey would never. he says that bluestar was picking favourites, and actually becomes friends with Longtail. He does the little things, like snitch on fire for meeting with princess, etc. when cloudkit was accepted into the clan, greystripe is fuming. his kits were belittled and everyone resented him for it but cloudkit gets it easyy and everyones ok when fireheart does it?? hes also mad about the fact that fire tells bluestar when his own apprentice was ready to become a warrior.

when the whole thing with tigerclaw being exiled happens, fire is made deputy and grey is beyond pissed. so when cloudtail gets his name and the other apprentices dont, since grey is very close with longtail, he's understandably mad. so HE organises the thing with brightpaw, longtail and swiftpaw. with longs permission ofc, they all go to fight the dogs, but realise that they're severely outnumbered. grey and longtail manage to climb a tree in time but swiftpaw and brightpaw go for the same tree, leaving bright to the dogs. immediately, greystripe and longtail try to help, they all survive, but bright is scarred the same, longtail loses his tail (get it im so funny) swiftpaw has horrible scars on his flank, and is missing some of his ear, and greystripe has scars around his muzzle and a long one on his back. they returned to camp where they were treated in the medicine den. fireheart insists the apps be given warrior names since their injuries were the worse and they were pretty sure they both weren't gonna make it. so bluestar gives bright paw the name lost face and swiftpaw the name stolenpelt. AND after grey and long have healed, she changes their names too. greystripe is now scarredstripe, and longtail is stubtail (we love our ablist qween bluestar!!!!) undertandably, grey and long are super pissed. grey fights fire over this, telling him to knock some sense into bluestar and change their names. fire says he cant do anything but grey doesnt belive him and is super annoyed. scarredstripe and stubtail now, really push for lostface and stolenpelt to become full warriors, not left to rot in the elders den. scarredstripe takes lostface to train with instead of cloudtail, because he resents cloud for being firehearts kin, and being literally the reason they are all horribly scarred.

so bluestar still has that thing going on with rc since grey decided to keep his kits in tc, which are now apps, featherpaw is mentored by fireheart, which grey hates. stormpaw is mentored by whitestorm. (He menored two at a time cuz y not) bluestar is convinced that it was a rc patrol that attacked them, so she planns the ambush on rc instead of wc. fireheart goes and tells them about the ambush, and how he wants peace, etc. but is CAUGHT by scarredstripe fire however, is unaware of this. so scarred goes straight to bluestar and snitches on fireheart. blue is obviously pissed bc she has her whole "everyone is a traitor" thing going on. she says shes still gonna ambush rc at fourtrees, fire doesnt know this tho, he thinks his plan is still working. so when ravenpaw comes to deliver the message, blue says she'll think about it (jk!!!! she's lying!!!!!) she brings a hefty amount of warriors to fourtrees and as soon as she arrives she orders everyone to attack. fireheart is extremely distraught about this and tells bluestar to think about their offer. bluestar snaps at him and says she knows he planned this meeting with rc. everyone is fighting, lostface and stolenpelt included since grey insisted that they could hold themselves in battle. instead the scene that bluestar has in the border skirmish happens now, but its scarredstripe who breaks up misty, stone and bluestar. hes about to fight them off, but fireheart steps in and tells them how bluestar is their mother. IN FRONT OF FUCKING EVERYONE. so anyways now literally all of rc and tc know. the battle was gonna escalate horribly but all of a sudden rc retreats. tc think they have won but NOPE. they retreated bc the dogs came and crashed the party. tc scrambles back to their clan immediately, where fire is demoted as deputy for tellin rc about the ambush and actually making things worse. she says that scarredstripe was right about a lot of things. lostface and stolenpelt can fight as warriors, dogs attacked him and stubtail, not an rc patrol like she thought, (even tho fire already said they were dogs she dont care) and she admits that fireheart did get special treatment, bc she trusted him, but she says that he cant just waltz around doing whatever he wants. SO THEN SHE MAKES SCARREDSTRIPE THE DEPUTY. now that he's deputy, he orders multiple patrols to go out and scan the territory. the scene where fireheart find the prey trail happens, and he goes to tell bluestar about it but scarred is liek "nuh uh gotta tell me buddy" so fire tells him his whole theory about how darkstripe told tigerstar aboout the rc battle and thats when he made the trail. so scarredstripe tells bluestar, but obviously takes all the credit. (absolute goofer) so bluestars like "what r we gonna do then?" and fire pushes himself in and tells her about his plan to lure the dogs off the gorge. so blue is like "ok if ur plan works u can be deputy again." so the same thing happens as it does in the books, fire jumps to save her bc he wants her to survive, (SPOILER ALERT: SHE DOESNT!!!!) so fire carries her body back to camp with misty and stone. since grey is lead now, he firstly exiles darkstripe for all he did yk. he also changes lostface, stolenpelt and stubtail's names to brightheart, swiftclaw, and longleap. silly cant change his name tho since hes literally leader L. he also makes longleap the deputy, god knows he deserves it. so he goes to the moonstone with cinderpelt and gets his silly little lives from bluestar, redtail, lionheart, whiteclaw, oakheart, yellowfang, spottedleaf, brindleface and silverstream so that whole thing happens.

wow that was long. this is literally only part one, and coming from someone who has only read the first arc, ill add more to it but this is the basic premise of it. oh also longleap and scarredstripe r mates bc i said so yea.

[yabusame-houlen-official]

I'm quite fond of the description for the Asian Stubtail, because honestly? They're right

eBird may have some funny descriptions but it tells no lies. this man is spherical

[sugiichi]

Urosphena squameiceps [ヤブサメ,Asian stubtail]

地鳴きしながら近づいてきました。

[alonglistofbirds]

[407/10,977] Asian Stubtail - Urosphena squameiceps

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Sylvioidea Family: Cettiidae (cettiid warblers)

Photo credit: Craig Brelsford via Macaulay Library

[flawlessandmonochrome]

Continued from...

It only takes a few seconds for Yabusame to put everything together upon seeing Hina approaching.

“Oh, right, the giant alarm bell. Forgot they installed that. Hey guys, it’s okay! It’s just Whirligig! She’s a friend!”

Seemingly forgetting what happened the first time the kaiju appeared in Mugenri, Yabusame tries to get her attention.

“Hey Whirligig! What’re you up to!”

[yabusame-houlen-official]

This is Asian Stubtail erasure

I really like small round birds that basically have no neck. The ones that look as if you selected a bird head, hit shift, and dragged it

it’s okay, we’re all friends here. you can say kinglets