#integration ask

[flock-talk]

Are conures generally ok with other birds or was newt just really well socialized? I own a GCC and she’ll be my only bird until I graduate college. She’s only a six month old baby, but it’ll be another two years before I can get her a friend which I want to do when I can. Will her being an only bird for the next couple of years make that hard? She did grow up with all her siblings until she was weaned and ready to go home, so she at least has that experience with them.

Conure is a very broad term, in general pyrrhura conures tend to be quite social. Most species live in large flocks and some can be seen socializing with different species of birds with low conflict.

I don’t know much about Newt’s actual upbringing, in his previous home he wasn’t well socialized but his actual raising I know nothing about. He was a solitary bird for at least a year before he came to us.

Newts species, maroon bellied conure, is known for being pretty friendly and sociable with both people and a variety of birds. His sociability is largely fuelled by those genetics.

Captive parrots in general tend to lack social skills, many aren’t parent reared and get separated from their flock at a very young age which prevents them from learning critical social skills. Even when wild counterparts may socialize with with other birds the lack of social learning they get in captivity greatly affects their sociability. As a result even if a bird does really want to engage with another bird they may end up in a lot of fights, tension, and conflict purely because they don’t know how to communicate well. Most captive birds need to be taught how to socialize and communicate clearly in order for them to successfully get along with another bird.

In captivity you also have the issues of space and choice, they don’t get to pick their friends and they’re limited on how they can escape and move away from the new bird. Not every bird gets along with every bird they meet and with reduce space it makes conflicts more likely to happen.

All in all there’s a lot of factors that can influence sociability, and a lot of work that goes in to a successful birdly friendship. Them spending a lot of time alone can definitely make that process slower and more difficult but not necessarily impossible. Their individual personality, your matchmaking skills, development and genetics will all play a big role in whether or not they as an individual want to socialize with other birds.

[dancingdewey]

say what you will about P&F, but they were so fucking real for this. I just know disney was constantly breathing down their necks to give perry a girlfriend and they stood their ground the entire time. they were so based for that.

[cryptidmickle]

shadow milk finding pv when he was healer cookie is so interesting to me, and full of drama

[chloesimaginationthings]

Oooo I love the way you draw Jeff he's cute <333

I hope I did Jeff justice.. gotta love tired men

[agdreamtale]

[ VOIDWALKERS ]

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Meanwhile, as Chanon is dealing with Error…

@duskfel - Integrity @sour-apple-studios - Horror Sans @rahafwabas - Killer Sans

[deerspherestudios]

Hello! I just wanted to say that your new peoject Astronought is such an awesome and well-made game! Atom is just so so adorable omg, they are such a cutie patootie

Anyway here is my question! So, I’m guessing the reason the ship got damaged in its rear was because of Atom, right? But, like… can I ask how they managed to do that? Did they turn into a massive ball and shoot themselves down in an incomprehensible speed like a meteor or something?

I'm so sorry but that is literally what happened,,,

It literally came in like a wrecking ball. //lyr ref

[allastoredeer]

Had a thought. Alastor would likely be the "final boss" in terms of redemption, and I wonder if Viv would ever consider giving him a reincarnation ending.

Imagine Alastor, finally running out of luck and/or spitting on every chance of conventional redemption. Only for Charlie to argue that if he had another chance from the start, he might make different choices. Which he tacitly agrees with, but as he says in the pilot: The chance given was the life he lived before, and there is no undoing what is done.

In much the same way as we found out in the stinger that Sir Pentious was redeemed. We get a stinger of a kid who looks very similar to a human Alastor in the modern day, someone calls his name and he gives a grin to the person off camera.

So, I read that very first line and this is what immediately popped into my head.

But also! Reincarnation 👀 that sounds so cool!

[theartingace]

A question for the centaur back-pocket, but what, if any, do your centaurs do when it comes to courting and romance? Do they have any particular traditions that stand apart from the mixed rider or non-centaur cultures?

always love a back pocket centaur question for when I inevitably wheel back around! So thank you! I don't have TOO much specific thoughts when it comes to courting centaurs, as the main two-ish cultures in my world generally have pretty loose courting rituals that vary primarily a lot by individual and culture. The Merchant culture in particular is pretty rangy and depending on location and social status it's going to look very different- higher echalons of city folk are most often poly while successful outlying settlements are matriarchal holdings with migratory bachelors, those lower on the totem poles are usually more human standard monogamous but larger groups are preferred so families are often heavily blended. Riders are more family and rider-pair oriented in regards to customs with romance and creation of children largely left to individual preferences and just fuel for the family spinners to gossip about while watching the goat-pull games. There's not so much many hard rules in the overarching cultures? The only one that probably WOULD have stricter rules around courting would likely be the mountain folks, who are a bit more conservative and structured in their daily lives and lovers of rituals- but they don't like to tell me of such private things, i need to get to know them better!

The one thing I do know across almost all centaur cultures is that courting always involves some measure of dancing!

In my mind dancing is a large part of centaur culture at large, with large syncronized dances being at the heart of most large celebrations, and those dances are a PERFECT place to show off to the hotties, establish new bonds, and generally connect with a crush!

and then synchronizing steps and movement is the base of centaur dancing, like dressage but with multiple horse bodies in a small area, so it's generally regarded as a way to get your body in synch with a partner along with your mind and heart!

It's not just for lovers, like us it's for self expression and connecting with other folks, and definitely some centaurs really like dancing and some hate it! But overall for my centaurs it's an important tentpole of all their cultures and a large part of that is it's role in connecting folks to both a partner and their community

[squidpedia]

Hi

The color palette doesn't fit Clover's Memories at all :D

Hah it doesn’t! More like Lilac’s memories if anything

[ask-indigo-park-swapped]

when an eel bites your thigh, and you bleed out and die... thats A Moray :))

<happy chapter 2 trailer drop!!>

[h-yellowfell]

How good is Clover's aim?

-Clover takes pride in having never missed a shot in their entire life!-

please be nice ive never done something like this before

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - The Caribbean

[ovrrdogg]

Hfjone au where instead of kidnapping people for his reality show he accidentally discovers twitch and starts a stream and becomes the most popular twitch streamer ever. People love tuning in to watch forest man and his wacky antics. They love the “larp.” Twitch keeps trying to get him to come to cons he can never attend. People make wildly popular edits and gifs of him to share on stan twitter.

Instead of getting people to entertain him, he works to entertain people.

[gremlinshatephilosophers]

Markiplier defending ChatGPT and using Ai instead of a web search… big fucking yikes bro.

[love4hobi]

J-HOPE & BOOGALOO KIN Hope on the Street (2024)

[squidpedia]

Not sure if you had this question before but what was Lilac's reaction when they watched Clover meet Axis for the first time?

every bad feeling all at once probably

Also yeah lilac did has a small change in design for the au, as long as im drawing charas ghost with buttercups in their hair it only makes sense to add some sort of damage to lilacs ghost

I like to think the scar shifts around a bit depending on emotion