#western rosella

[branchflowerphoto]

moyadong {female western rosella}

there is a pandemonium of parrots on the farm right now

[redrcs]

First Sighting, Western Rosella

Near Manjimup

On my travels

[herpsandbirds]

Western Rosella or Moyadong (Platycercus icterotis), females, family Psitaculidae, order Psittaciformes, Western Australia

photograph by Jamie Angeles

[mutant-distraction]

Matt Laughton

Western Rosella

[daily-grian]

Mod Shrike is smart and apologized for accidentally drawing an American magpie but you still get western rosella Grian thrown at you

they're my favourite bird to ever exist no one will ever change my mind

Aussie backyard bird saga continues!

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

"What do you think of yuri/girls' love? Do you like it?"

"Of course, I'm a himejoshi!" ~ Marisol, Rosella, Ghaliaa

"Well...yes...I like it...a lot." ~ Itsuka

"Wait, who told you?" ~ Rosalinda, Ailani, the Duncans

"I really liked Bloom Into You." ~ Jennifer

"Of course, darling!" ~ Monique

"Nothing's better than reading yuri before breakfast!" ~ Naomie, Hitomi, Penelope

MY FAVORITE MEME EVER!!!!!

also I instantly read the last one with Naomie, Hitomi and Penelope in Applejack’s voice lolol (wait hold on IMAGINE A WESTERN AU-)

[awesome-animals-for-reference]

Parrots (pt 1)

birbas <3

Ochre Marked Parrot

very colorful.

Green Cheek Parrot

Hyacinth Macaw

Big Blue Birba

Spix's Macaw

Scarlet Macaw

Hardly the most obscure birba, but excellent nonetheless.

Western Rosella

smoll

Crimson Rosella

Black Lory

Black Capped Lory

Yellow Streaked Lory

Coconut Lorikeet

Rainbow Lorikeet

Biak Lorikeet

Pohnpei Lorikeet

[dreadfutures]

hello hi hello can I please have the directors' cut on Chrysalid mayhaps? 🥺👉👈

Fic: [Chrysalid]

Rating: G | Pairing: Cillian, Cillian & Solas | Multichap: 9/9

Cillian, once the First of Clan Ralaferin, set out to find ancient knowledge of the elven people. He discovered the path of the Arcane Warrior by meditating for many years in an ancient ruin; when the Breach appeared in the sky, he felt called to lend his skills to the fledgling Inquisition. That's all we know of his path, as a background NPC in Dragon Age: Inquisition, who appears solely in a war table mission and in the Multiplayer addition.

But how did he really get trained as an Arcane Warrior?

Honestly. This was Divine Inspiration at its finest. It was summer; I was missing my college town, where monarch butterflies go as a colony on their migration, stopping there to rest. I kept seeing a few of them flying by my current location on their way south. And I had the whimsical thought: isn't that magical?

I thought about how the inner sea region around Val Royeaux/western Orlais gives me California vibes, and the further south you go, the closer you get to the warm, nearly tropical Arbor Wilds. And I thought: sure, butterflies would work. But what do they lead to?

It was the Arlathan Exchange, and I had also been playing a lot of Multiplayer recently, and we were discussing Cillian one day and I said OH.

And the whole story just appeared.

It's my belief that "meditating in ruins" is either code for: Cillian read Elvhen writing and learned Arcane Warrior spec that way, OR, he communed with Spirits either directly, or by watching them reenact memories in the Fade. And honestly, teaching yourself to read a dead language with hardly a cypher to go off of, in a ruin, and teaching yourself this dead, historical martial-and-magical art that is like NOTHING ELSE IN EXISTENCE, seemed way more farfetched than "he found a cool Spirit."

@rosella-writes had just written a drabble of Valor, an ancient contemporary of Solas (Pride), being slain in a combat between Champions for the Evanuris. The way Rosella described Valor's body falling and lying in the center of the arena, dying, made me think: this must be immortalized, this must have left a scar, the very earth would remember, if not the denizens of the Fade.

Rosella and I have also often discussed how "pieces" of Valor might be left over, fragmented, and need to get pieced together again. How Solas might search for Valor after he awakens from uthenera, how he might miss her. So I figured, hey, I could leave a piece of Valor to be found.

Cuz boy, a spirit of Valor sure seems like a great teacher for this magical combat specialization!

Then it was just a matter of sprinkling in the luscious visuals in my mind, of giant hosts of butterflies and ghibli forests, of ruins that might be found in The Fall (2006), and of a magical circle of life and death worthy of Guillermo del Toro. Bring Valor back to life just as Cillian pieces together what the ruined temple is, and then handwave the fact that Valor teaches him as a ways to recover her own memories.

:)

[strictlyfavorites]

Western Rosella

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

the Himalayan monal is what they based Kevin from UP on!

But to add to the gorgeous bird list:

the magnificent Palawan Peacock Pheasant

the common bronzewing/bronzewing pigeon

the western parotia (which can only truly be appreciated in action: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwOxcOqlCA

my darling dearest, the forty-spotted pardalote

the absolutely stunning flame-faced tanager

And the green headed tanager as well!

And I’m legally obligated to include a parrot, so you may take a pale-headed rosella as well

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

[birdblues]

Western Rosella

[comfortspringstation]

Western Rosella (Platycercus icterotis) in Australia by Nathan Watson Photography.

[mutant-distraction]

Western Rosella

source: Matt Laughton

[whattheflockbirbs]

When you get a motion detection notification on your security camera and catch the intruders red handed 😝🦜

[thalassarche]

Western Rosella (Platycercus icterotis) - photo by Kylie Mulquin

[sideshowjimmy]

a splash of red