#vol pigeons

[toutplacid]

Chantier de pose de la nouvelle passerelle de la gare, avenue Maréchal-Juin à Périgueux, à l’angle avec la rue du Bassin. À l’arrière-plan, un des deux clochers de l’église Saint-Martin (visibles depuis l’ancienne passerelle), le second, à gauche, est caché par la grue et les cheminées – gouache format A3, 12-13 janvier 2023.

[nikkilover-miraclenikki]

【 Miracle Nikki CN 】

New Journey Vol.3 Ch.4 “The Lost Scrolls”

【 Miracle Nikki CN 】

New Journey Vol.3 Ch.4 “The Lost Scrolls”

In the new chapter of the story, Nikki and his team accidentally meet Tu Tart in the wasteland.

After learning that the destination of their trip was the Wind Valley Tribe, Tuta expressed his doubts about the abnormal behavior of the current "Wind Talker" Inanna.

Behind Inanna, perhaps there is a bigger secret hidden...

Suit Display ::

The lemonade is cool and sour, and Ruola's feelings are as green as limes.

The thoughts that cannot be hidden are like the bubbles in soda water, gurgling and churning.

P.1 :: Lime Soda (清柠苏打)

It is indeed very difficult to find clues from the few words and phrases reported in the past, However, when Al really wants to do something, she will use all her patience to figure it out.

P.2 :: Whispers (曦光絮语)

The colorful colors can always bring her many new ideas.

The girl's eyes lit up, and she wrote down her inspiration in the notebook.

What will the bouquet look like tomorrow ?

P.3 :: Wild People (肆野群者)

The wonderful magic show undoubtedly attracted everyone's attention.

The magician Liti has a pair of mysterious and beautiful eyes, as if she can see through the secrets in people's hearts.

P.4 :: Magic Fantasy (奇幻魔术)

In order to rescue her knights, the real princess Tiya put on military uniforms, held up her sword, and led the well-trained royal knights to declare war on the devil.

P.5 :: Royal Knight (皇家 骑士)

Countless happy memories drifted away, and the bubble master shook the bubble machine briskly, sending more happy wine into the air, creating a beautiful phantom

P.6 :: Bubble (煦风泡影)

The girl who is usually not good at talking has always been fond of chocolate, not only has a lot of experience in tasting, but also is good at making it into various flavors

P.7 :: Passion (情衷热巧)

Collection ::

P.1 :: Lilith Kingdom

P.2-5 :: Pigeon Kingdom

P.3 :: ​Wasteland Republic

P.4 :: Apple Federal

P.6-7 :: Gallery

Type ::

Journey Suit Vol.3 Ch.4 “The Lost Scrolls”

Date :: 18/08/2023…..

[orangecatty-shiningnikki]

【 Shining Nikki TW+CN 】

Main Story “Pigeon Forest”

Volume 2 Chapter 16 “The Gate of the Old Days”

【 Shining Nikki TW+CN 】

Main Story “Pigeon Forest”

Volume 2 Chapter 16 “The Gate of the Old Days”

The old door, a new mainline chapter update.

The dark purple mist shrouded the carrier pigeon forest, waiting to welcome the return of the gods amidst the suffocating noise.

All hymns shall be dedicated to the gods, and all vile snoopers shall be rejected by the forest,

Human beings are never allowed to step into the feast of the return of the gods.

Is the end of the fog and nightmare a fork in the road or a way back?

On July 20th, follow the moonlight with Nikki to explore the truth of the past.

Suit Display ::

Original :: Chengtian Poetry Ceremony (澄天诗礼)

Recolor :: Childlike Poetry (童心诗礼)

Collection :: Pigeon’s Glory

Designer :: Modric (莫笛)

Rarity :: SR

Attribute ::​ Elegant

Date :: 20/07/2023…..

Type ::

Main Story • Vol.2 Ch.16

(Workshop Design) (Journey Suit) (Chapter Sets)

[age-of-moonknight]

“Blood Moon Rising,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #19.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Federico Sabbatini; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[thefugitivesaint]

Louis Icart (1888-1950), 'The Pigeons', ''The Tatler'', Vol. 98, #1271, 1925 Source

[petaltexturedskies]

I have just stood before the open window of my bedroom and I have breathed in deeply all the honeysuckle-perfumed air, the sunshine, the snowdrops of winter, the carouses of spring, the primroses, the crooning pigeons, the trills of the birds, the entire procession of soft winds and cool smells of frail colors and petal-textured skies, the knotted snake greys of old vine roots, the vertical shoots of young branches, the dank smell of old leaves, of wet earth, of torn roots, and fresh-cut grass, winter, summer, and fall, sunrises and sunsets, storms and lulls, wheat and chestnuts, wild strawberries and wild roses, violets and damp logs, burnt fields and new poppies.

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin vol. I: 1931-1934

[gardenvarietygay]

A moment of context and hope for all my nervous conservation-minded friends.

I was looking through a Book of Knowledge, published in 1926, and found this passage which I thought was rather important:

"The present scarcity of all five of these most beautiful of water birds [American flamingo, roseate spoonbill, white egret, snowy egret, and glossy ibis] is owing to their having been killed, ruthlessly and incessantly until recent years, for the sake of their exquisite plumage. That any remain is to the credit of the National Association of Audubon Societies. This organization not only has obtained protective laws from state legislatures, but has paid for guarding the birds while rearing their young."

And another on the next page:

"The British colonists in New England imported [domestic turkeys originally from Mexico] with their chickens and cows; and in this roundabout way our barnyard turkeys got back to their native soil, very little changed from their wild brethren, which are now rare except in thinly settled parts of the United States and Mexico. Another bird that formerly was to be seen in the central part of the country in enormous numbers every summer was the Wild, or Passenger, Pigeon. It is now extinct. Its story is so well known that it need not be repeated here."

None of the five water birds in the first passage are considered at risk today. All have either breeding or non-breeding resident populations in the US* and are relatively common.

Less than 100 years ago these authors were grouping the fate of these water birds and wild turkeys with passenger pigeons. The last passenger pigeon died in captivity in 1914. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act was passed in 1918, eight years prior to the writing of this book. The authors had no idea that it would be considered landmark conservation legislation that would save hundreds of species and be the cornerstone of conservation law in the US. For them, it seemed entirely appropriate to warn children that they might never see a wild turkey and that most game birds and shore birds were as good as gone. Today wild turkeys are common throughout the US and snowy egrets aren’t even ICUN listed.

Conservation work is slow but worthwhile. I sure as heck hope that in 100 years someone finds a piece I’ve written eulogizing rare plants and laughs at me for worrying about species they see everywhere.

Mee, A. (Ed.). (1926). The Birds of North America. In The Book of Knowledge (4th ed., Vol. XIV, pp. 5018–5020). London: The Grolier Society, Limited.

*The American flamingo is a slightly odd case. We know that it was always relatively rare in the present-day US, even prior to colonization, but that there was a breeding population in south Florida. Now it is relatively common along the East coast but there isn't a breeding population in Florida, at least not confirmed.

[kermit-coded]

an alien vampire in guadalajara (11776 words) by kermit_coded Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: X-Men (Comicverse), Marvel (Comics), X-Force (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Julio Richter/Shatterstar, Blade | Eric Brooks & Julio Richter, Blade | Eric Brooks & Shatterstar Characters: Julio Richter, Shatterstar (Marvel), Blade | Eric Brooks Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Character Turned Into Vampire, Comic: X-Force Vol. 1 (1991), Autistic Shatterstar (Marvel), Julio Richter Has BPD | Borderline Personality Disorder, Blood Drinking, Canon Queer Relationship, Blood and Violence, Major Character Injury, Angst and Romance, Friends to Lovers, Attempted Murder, POV Alternating, mostly ric but there's a single scene from blade's pov, Vampire biting kink, Gay Mutant Road Trip, mentioned safron/blade, Team Up, Serial Killers, blade: do not let your boyfriend use you as a human juice box, Human/Vampire Relationship, Food Issues, minor animal death, star eats a pigeon, Horror, Internalized Homophobia, implications of mojo-typical exploitation, extremely unsubtle paralleling of vampirism and queer desire, Emetophobia, First Kiss, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, this is a fundamentally unhappy fic, Demiromantic Demisexual Shatterstar, Abandonment, Break Up, Unhappy Ending, spot the critical role reference Series: Part 1 of vamp au Summary: There's a serial killer in Guadalajara, and Rictor and Shatterstar meet them in the dark. They don't walk away unscathed.

[drconstellation]

The Altar of Eccles Cakes

(updated 21 Oct 2023, for Grain Offerings example) (updated 21 Nov 2023, for link to First Temptation)

The mysterious plate of Eccles cakes. Are they really to "calm people down?' And why do they just ...disappear? They must be there for a reason?

Yes, they certainly are. They are just the first course of a fascinating meal on offer in S2.

So far, most of the meta around the Eccles cakes has focused on the meaning of their name. Eccles is an old name for church. We could view it as Aziraphale trying to calm Crowley down. They are also known as "squashed fly cakes." The white outside and the black inside could be seen as a metaphor relating to Gabriel. Or it hints at the Roger the Stunt Fly, that contain Gabriel's memories, flying around the book shop, who's purpose we don't find out about until the end. There is even a link to the 1650 Sorry Dance that Aziraphale mentioned, in that were banned by Oliver Cromwell for being pagan! (Did I get that right? I've not kept the post link.)

[Edit: They also represent the First Temptation as Jesus fasts in the wilderness for 40 days before the Entry into Jerusalem at the start of the Passion narratives, where bread was made from stones.]

Take another look at the blocking in this shot. The dark horse statue, representing Crowley - even wearing his sunglasses! - has the placating plate of Eccles cakes placed before it, in supplication. Yeah, it didn't work this time, but it's the thought that counts. What we have here is Aziraphale making an Sin offering to the altar of Crowley, to ask for atonement in advance for what he has done (taking Gabriel in.)

Once you frame it in that reference, you realize its not the only altar offering made during S2. It also adds a bit more depth to some of the other scenes, where they have all been mentioned already in some way, but it certainly helps to explain the Eccles cakes!

Firstly, we need to mention the main types of altar offering that are made:

Burnt offerings - for general atonement of sins and for expression of devotion to God. It could be a bull, a ram, goat, or a bird in the form of a dove or pigeon. Such as this magnificent example in the Job minisode.

Aziraphale certainly devoted himself to the sin of gluttony on that occasion. (hang on, that didn't come out the right way, did it...?) But he was still devoted to God, despite his nocturnal conversation with Crowley while they waited out the storm in the cellar.

Grain offerings - a voluntary expression of devotion to God. This was grain prepared in different way, but always seasoned, unsweetened and unleavened. Recall at Gomorrah Lot offered to prepare the visiting angels unleavened bread as part of a meal.

Originally when I wrote this post I didn't think I had any Grain offering examples, but a few days later as I was writing my post on The Ineffable Ducks I realized where the missing S2 Grain offering was - in S2E1, when Crowley yells at the Azerbaijani spies in St James Park. The ducks are usually offered bread, which is leavened with yeast, so technically not quite correct, but when you review all the instances of feeding the ducks crumbs or bread crumbs it certainly fits. Unless you are Crowley, and you'd rather have the current state of quiet "frozen peas" between Heaven and Hell. See my Ineffable Ducks post for an elaboration.

Peace offering - This could be cattle, sheep or goat without defect, but the main purpose to was consecrate a meal between two or more parties before God and share that meal in a fellowship of peace and commitment to each other's future prosperity.

You know where we see one of these? At the eldritch ball!

I did see a nice meta about the vol-au-vents recently, mainly about their name, but I don't seem to have saved it, and can't find it again. They are usually filled with chicken (a bird) and the eldritch ball is ostensibly the shopkeepers monthly meeting, after all, where they are there to talk about their mutual prosperity in the future. Just so happens its also an opportunity for Aziraphale to talk to Crowley about their future...oh, and Nina and Maggie's, as well, of course!

Sin offering - atonement or unintentional sin. It would have the elements of a Burnt offering, as well as a Peace offering, but not be shared. These are what the plate of Eccles cakes are, so they were never meant to be eaten. They were an olive branch to Crowley regarding Gabriel, but he turned it down. So they softly and suddenly vanish away, never to be met with again.*

There is one more altar offering that needs to mentioned, another Sin offering. The one Crowley consumed in Elspeth's place in The Resurrectionists minisode in 1832 Edinburgh - the laudanum.

It pretty clear to most observers that Crowley did a good and "kind deed" for Elspeth here, which angered Hell in the process and then he was dragged forcibly downstairs to be duly punished for it. There is a post here from atlas-hope that suggests this is a parallel of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, drinking the cup of God's wrath to absolve Christians of their sins. They point out the laudanum is even poured into a goblet. Crumbs, that's a hefty bit of spiritual lifting, dear demon. What were you thinking, Anthony J. Crowley? It might cast that conversation you had with the carpenter back on the mountain in a new light, or least make us look back twice at it. (Plenty of time for contemplation before S3 arrives...)

Remember, a Sin offering has elements of both a Burnt offering and a Peace offering: a giant Crowley gets Elspeth to promise to devote the rest of her life to being "properly good, not just pretendy good" and the money Aziraphale is forced to donate to her ensures her future prosperity. Sounds like a win-win situation there, Elspeth!

[*OK, if you don't get the ref, its from the Hunting of the Snark. The Snark represents happiness, a most elusive thing to find, and more often than not its a fruitless search, and you find the terrible Boojum instead. During the third verse the Baker recounts the lecture his uncle gives him about how to hunt the Snark, and to be aware of his fate if he is unlucky enough to encounter a Boojum. It kind of fits in with S2, I feel.]

[histsciart]

Happy Feathursday!

Pheasant pigeons (Otidiphaps nobilis) are natives of the rainforests of New Guinea and surrounding islands.

SciArt by John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter for Gould's Birds of Asia, Vol. 6 (1850-83). View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

[electricskelecomics]

Draw The Squad: Irratino Edition

Beach days: love 'em or hate 'em, they're definitely a unique time.

Around three weeks ago (give or take) I started working on a love letter to the Murdle fandom. I grabbed as many Irratino designs as I could (one per creator) and threw them all in a Draw-the-Squad template. Today, I am finally done.

This was my first time doing a Draw-the-Squad, so hopefully I did it right! I also wanted to challenge myself to represent the styles of everyone I put in there: that includes line color and shading. I think it adds to just how creative everyone here is: all of our designs look so different from one another, even though we have the same info to go off of.

If you didn't see your design, then I'm sorry. Eleven characters is a lot to work with, and I really tried to include everyone I could.

My sources are under the read more, along with a little blurb for each one:

@itzr4v3n. This is a mix of her Gacha design and non-Gacha design. It was too hard to choose!

@coconutvoid. I really hope I did the red outfit justice. I love this design's facial expressions.

@dreaming-mushroom. Super sweet person: when I showed the first WIP to the fan discord they helped me out with the colors.

KitKat (Discord). Pigeon Irratino! I went with Kat's Vol. 2 design: I'm a sucker for scars.

@snozzlefrog: specifically her mermaid AU. A lot of the memes I found early on in my Murdle hyperfixation can be traced back to Snozzlefrog, so I knew I had to put one of her designs in here.

Me! My three-eyed, triangle-headed guy.

@marble-running. The only art of him I could find was on paper, so I decided to emulate that. I think it looks great.

@ruburnz. This is such a unique style, and any excuse I get to pull out the opacity brushes I will eat right up.

@berrypass-de-murdler. I think a goat is a really fun spin on things, and everyone I know just adores the design.

@puffydove. I was told Dove's design has a glitter phone case, and who doesn't love that?

@greenunless. I have this one listed in my file as "Fun Glasses." I LOVE this design.

Draw the Squad Source/Base by @copperyy: https://copperyy.tumblr.com/post/142089297465/happy-april-fools-day-heres-a-draw-the-squad

I really cannot emphasize enough how much I LOVE all of your designs/work. If I did we'd be here all day!

[toutplacid]

Pigeon à l’angle de la place de la Réunion et de la rue de Terre-Neuve, Paris 20e – mine de graphite, carnet n° 125, 22 mars 2019

[cnovelartreblogs]

More new licenses from Seven Seas!

Vol. 1 of The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish is slated for release in April, 2024.

Vol. 1 of You've Got Mail: The Perils of Pigeon Post is slated for release in August, 2024.

[orangecatty-shiningnikki]

【 Shining Nikki TW+CN 】

Main Story “Melson”

Volume 2 Chapter 14 “Urban Forest”

【 Shining Nikki TW+CN 】

Main Story “Melson”

Volume 2 Chapter 14 “Urban Forest”

“Follow the Wind's Path” City Forest, a new mainline chapter update.

Human beings living in an industrialized civilization,

After being away from the protection of the God of Nature, maybe I realized the beauty of the first inch of sunshine,

When praying devoutly to the hand-painted tree of life in the gathering place isolated from the hustle and bustle,

Is it possible to get a real response from the gods ?

The swarming crowd screamed and angered, and the order and rules gradually failed at this moment.

All of a sudden, a gentle breeze blows in, and the noise passes by like a tide receding suddenly.

A figure walked down slowly against the crowd, looked over from a distance,

There was a moment of surprise in his eyes, and then a gentle smile slowly appeared

"Get out of here with me."

On February 16th, go to Myerson, the capital of the Apple Federation, with Nikki to investigate the truth behind the chaos.

There is also a beautiful chapter set [Forest Light Sound] waiting for you to make.

Suit Display ::

Original :: Forest Melodies (森之轻音)

Recolor :: Wind's Lament (风之晚吟)

Collection :: Pigeon’s Glory

Designer :: Aloysius (阿洛伊)

Rarity :: SR

Attribute :: Fresh

Date :: 16/02/2023…..

Type ::

Main Story • Vol.2 Ch.14

(Workshop Design) (Journey Suit) (Chapter Sets)

[sojirosteacup]

It's their notebook scribbles! There is one in each of their profiles (+ Tsukushi's)

Tsukasa

Tsukasa: "A bird does not let go of the pigeon it's about to leave"

(He meant to write "立つ鳥跡を濁さず A bird does not foul the nest it's about to leave" He confused ato (behind) with hato (pigeon) and nigo (uncleaness) with noga (let go) )

Akira: "Consult a dictionary"

Soujirou: "Idiot!!"

Tsukushi: "Pigeon..."

Rui: *drawing of a bird* pigeon.

Rui

The arrow says "Makino". Yes, that's his depiction of her lmao

Soujirou

"Bronx. 23:00"

(Bronx is the name of the club Soujirou takes Yuuki to get revenge on her ex)

Akira

I don't really need to translate this one, do I? "Imperial" is the name of the hotel Akira meets his married affair in vol 1. "Sweet" is probably meant to be "Suite". The number is probably the hotel room number? Idk.

Tsukushi

"Time Service 17:00

Radish

Chicken thighs

Get!"

It's a shopping list lol

[ripeteeth]

I have too many danmei options! Do I go for Guardian Vol 3? Ballad of Sword and Wine Vol 2? Stars of Chaos Vol 4? Peerless Vol 1? You’ve Got Mail: The Perils of Pigeon Post Vol 1? How to decideeeee?