#thank you for flying with us

[roosterforme]

I am freaking out!

I hit TWO insane Tumblr milestones today! 5000 followers AND 4000 notes on my fic Red Flags, Green Flags!

Thank YOU for making my day! I may throw a tiny celebration this weekend to say thanks!

And thank you for making me a little Miles treat @beyondthesefourwalls !!

[kimtaegis]

JIN HUGS JIN HUGS! for @jinstronaut ♡

cr. namuspromised, dwellingsouls, 0613data

[bacchuschucklefuck]

this has been a roller coaster of a design journey but finally I can present you: class swap artificer!adaine and rogue!fabian

[lowpolyanimals]

Starling from Fly Like a Bird 3

[procrastiel]

The benefits of ignoring personal space:

[ricky-mortis]

Howdy hello- guess who made a wings au :)

More to come with this eventually- I’m working on my designs for other characters at the moment, but for now we’ve got Red-Tailed Hawk for Curt and Eagle Owl for Owen.

For DMA I had Barn Owl wings because a) Barn Owls are beautiful and I wanted to draw the wings for them, and more importantly, b) Owen would probably want to disguise his wings, and it would make sense if it was as a different type of owl. I just assume he’d dye his feathers in some way or another. Look- just don’t think about it too much.

[kiwisoap]

how long will you train hopscotch before taking him out on a hunting trip/what does hawk acclimation look like? so happy to see you birdposting again!!

Hi!! I'm glad you like the birdposting haha. And it depends! Usually it takes about 3-5 weeks of training before a wild-trapped red-tailed hawk is ready for free flight and hunting (though it depends on the individual bird! I was at a falconry meet in January with a guy who had a hawk that was only 16 days off the trap and was already hunting, and this was with a big group of strangers ALSO out in the field with it, which was CRAZY).

Anyway, the process is roughly broken down into:

- Feeding on the glove: getting the bird accustomed to eating meat on the glove, accepting that the falconer isn't going to harm them or steal their food. This usually takes about 2-5 days.

- Jumping and then flying to the glove: teaching the bird to jump or fly to the glove for meat, while they are tethered so they can't fly away. The first stages take place indoors or in the mews usually, then you move outside on a long line called a creance (usually abt 100' long). Once the bird is reliably flying 100ft on the creance, you can untether them and start free-flying them!

- Manning: this is just getting them used to you & everyday sights and sounds that they'll encounter and happens concurrently with the jumping/flying to the glove training. Usually it involves walking around with them on the fist (often with a tough piece of meat to work at to keep them distracted from the new stimuli) and/or sitting with them in an area where they can see other people or animals in a calm setting.

With Odyssey, it took exactly 4 weeks before we had our first free-flight, and then I just practiced flying him around the field for another week or so before actually taking him out to a new location for hunting. I'm on day 7 with Hopscotch now and since he's been doing good about eating on the glove, I've been taking him out of the mews for short walks around the field and sitting with him in the open so he can watch the cars go by. He also did his first outdoor jump to the glove yesterday which was a big step!! I'm hoping to get him free-flying within the next 2 weeks so we can get started hunting :-)

[imeriayapping]

The fallen idol

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

niche ass post feel free to disregard:

as a linguistics nerd, it’s always fascinating to me how dan and phil both manage to mispronounce so many words but always in a different way to each other. like “consummate” in the most recent dapg vid? dan pronouncing it consjumate/consyoomate and phil pronouncing it conʃumate/conshewmate and neither of them acknowledging they said different words? adding a palatal approximate (/j/ or “ya”) i can excuse kind of but i cannot find a single instance of adding a postalvelar fricative (/ʃ/ or “sh”) being accepted pronunciation. oh to be a fly on the wall in the phouse getting to gather linguistic data on them, then making a corpus of phanology (phorpus, if you will) <3

[ratatatastic]

"would you jump on a plane w ekky and go somewhere after a roadtrip?" "uhhhh i think i would actually i trust him hes my partner so i gotta trust him though"

you can see the cogs in his head turning as he decides on whether he would risk his life for his crush in a slumberparty-esque hypothetical like uhhhh i mean i should? no no yes i should yeah i would trust him yes thats what ive decided i mean i have to trust him he is my partner if i dont trust him with my life on a flying death machine in the sky how will i trust him on the ice? very extreme way to go about it but i respect it all the same

also his smile at "idk if ekkys at that lvl yet"... bunny teeth...

NHL Network | 3.14.24 (x)

[roosterforme]

Did I spy a *Bob* fic on your masterlist?!?!?! Please, please tell me my eyes aren’t lying to me 🥺

[moeblob]

Oh that's a dwagon! (they're so cute!)

Siblings that hoot and holler together, stay together. (thank you so much!! I love these silly lil kids)

[silverskye13]

For the first time throughout RnS, I have slightly shifted my opinion from "Tanguish needs to be protected at all costs" to "actually someone needs to talk some sense into this headless chicken of a self preserving punk" and I mean this with so much positivity. I live Tanguish as character a lot because he at a glance is harmless and kind, and while he is pretty sweet, he's also pretty self serving at his core. A survivalist who will use whatever tactics he can to make his life as comfortable as seems feasible. He's just a little guy whom I love, but also needs a bit of insight into other perspectives and I'm so excited for the next chapter.

He's just a little guy! He's just a little guy and he needs people! Needs-- like he needs-- like it's a problem he needs people.

But you're absolutely right! He is trying his best, that's evident. Everyone can sympathize with the idea of loneliness, and of not wanting other people to hurt themselves, and of needing companionship. The issue is when his need for companionship overrides both his ability to be comfortable alone, and everyone else's ability to live their own life. He's really good at figuring out how people work, why they do the stuff they do, and right now he's using it to feed his codependency problems.

But! He's learning.

[butwhatifidothis]

Genuinely can't understand how people can legitimately say "trying to argue that Crests are powerful and useful and writing Crests as being powerful and useful proves Edelgard right about how people wrongfully fixate on them" when Edelgard herself says she thinks she can only use her signature heavy armor because of Crests (study requests), and when she herself uses a Relic that was made specifically to be compatible with her twin Crests to use in fighting. Nearly her entire visual language as a character relies on her using her Crests, so the people trying to argue this just kinda point out how hypocritical she is lmao

[vroomian]

Well that was the most disgusting hour of my life! I need seven showers and a memory wipe!

[james-spooky]

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