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HIIIIIII i never touched your inbox but... Will you be on this year's artfight? Hm? Hm? Hm?????

YESSSS I will be! I am SO sorry I never saw this it never showed up in my inbox till now tumblr ate it up I fear.

but yeah! First time and I am roaringly excited!!!

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@winterbunz's (very cute) Turmfalke!

Turmfalke already has beautiful art so go and check winterbunz's acount right NYEOW

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Abhorrent Millie sketch

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Oh hi. Silly doodles I did for cool people

Alpha the mynah (@/sosadraws), krähe (@/agnar) annnd hoopoe (@/lynxfrost13)

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It's Cricket! ( she is in a constant state of suffering )

yap under the cut

Unprompted Cricket Yap!

Cricket is paranoid and scared. Constantly. Perpetually. Not to say she’s easily startled and not to say she’s got a lot to be afraid of of but that she’s authentically scared all the time. To her, reality is not permanent and is instead fully liable to fall apart at any given moment. The ground can cave in at any time and the sky is falling down to crush her. All the time. She's paranoid to the point of not trusting the world to continue existing. It isn’t something she can fix- there is something deeply wrong with there and there’s nothing she can do about it.

Kasuars react to fear with engagement and therefore violence. engaging via violence is control in a helplessly uncontrollable universe. It’s the only way they can exercise power between being the at the bottom ranks of the Eusan hierarchy and fodder in war. This is why Cricket is one of the most deadly kasuars one can ever find. She’s constantly trying to attain control- something she’s never felt nor understood. She’s strong, she’s fast, and she won’t blink while she tears her enemies limb from limb barehanded. She doesn’t die since she’s already in a constant state of clinging to reality and life. What’s the difference between convincing yourself the ground you’re standing on will keep holding you up and opening your ribcage just to remove shrapnel? The same way one in constant pain won’t notice another wound- Cricket can’t tell the difference between active life-and-death situations and just trying to stay even slightly stable while standing still. She’s in a constant state of adrenaline and fight-flight-freeze, only she's to never freeze nor fly. She's every single thing kasuars hate about themselves packed into weak mass-produced flesh protected only by a recycled shell: Scared, paranoid, insecure, angry, and helpless.

This leaves her in an even worse predicament. She’s commended for surviving against all odds and being a demonic killing machine that can destroy entire squads of soldiers on its own. Can’t slow it, can’t kill it, can’t stop it. Cricket is everything anyone wants from a soldier. Even if she could be helped, she wouldn’t be.

By some sort of miracle she has Jensen.- Someone who actually manages to help. Even if just for a moment, Cricket gets held and can breathe easier. Jensen holds her hand and tells her she's safe, but she can’t ever get Cricket to be fully comfortable. How do you make someone feel safe when they’ve never trusted the very earth to stay stable a day in her life? 

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I swear she's a sweetheart

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@raymoo--hackery’s Athena! Veteran storch my beloved

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Finally got her refs done! consider this Kasuar's reintroduction.

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Birthday gift to the wonderful @schwarzgeier!!! still alive as it turns out.

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Bringing this to the art blog because it's actually realy nice! There really are a lot of options and I never do get the option for kasuars hair in most Signalis Picrews, so I'm ecstatic about this one.

SIGNALIS OC PICREW !!! 5000+ PARTS!

More updates coming soon! Enjoy!

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sketch of the girlie <3

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Instead of working on artfight references (which i should be doing) here's @basil-does-arttt's Scwhalbe

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*Crawls into your inbox via your blog’s elaborate vent system like I’m in a spy movie*

HI JAY I just wanted to yell at you because I haven’t reblogged a ton of your art lately but don’t think I haven’t been seeing it no sir and I just wanna say ive really been enjoying seeing your art progression like I’ve noticed you playing more with detailing eyes and also doing more expressions (like a lot of playing around with mouth stuff that sounds weird but you know what I mean) and I’m eating it up and enjoying it very much.

Also I found a spare grenade I think you dropped it last time you visited my bloghouse so here you go I don’t think it’ll explode or do anything probably

LYNX THANK YOUUUUUU that means a lot actually goshhh you're too sweet oh cool a grenade you can have the pin if you want wait a seco-

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Big one little one

yappage under that cool-looking cut there

I decided to (finally) explain what imprinting is for the kasuars cause I mentioned it a couple (more than i can count) times and only gave the general gist.

Kasuars are used as soldiers for a couple of reasons like dying exceptionally slowly, high pain tolerance, and absolutely no aversion to violence. They're also intensely fast learners. They don't look it, but they're fiercely intelligent and resourceful. Imprinting is very essentially hyper-fast learning. Off the bat, they're deployed and begin learning from the very first thing they see and respect. Naturally, unstable as they are, this is the first person to offer them some sort of safety- like starlings, storches, schnäppers, and under really rare cases Falkes- whoever lets them feel at least somewhat loved.

They learn and swiftly adopt from whatever their chosen guardian is doing. Like using specific weapons, fighting styles, and even personality traits. This way, Kasuars can adopt a wider variety of roles. By stationing them with certain replikas or gestalts one can influence their performance, like having some specialize in trench defense versus urban warfare.

So yeah. It's basically hyperfast learning.

One can sometimes tell who a kasuar imprinted on via certain traits! Starlingers tend to excel in defense and do their eyeliner. Storchies are more aggressive but are oddly calmer (since storches do anger/sadism management and sometimes pass that on). There's room for variation as kasuars, circumstance, setting, and guardians vary but there's a general gist. They'll imprint on pretty much anybody but brass tries to keep them from imprinting on other kasuars- but that's almost the only restriction.

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LSTR is a land survey and ship technician model.

LSTR-S2301 Was involved in the excavation of the mines, specifically the operation of the survey equipment.

ELSTER IS A GOD DAMN GEOLOGIST. And i choose to believe she loves rocks in the same way people love small furry animals.

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Hello again, Jay!

I'm thinking of drawing some bugs in Hollow Knight's art style. I thought I'd consult you, the resident bug enthusiast/expert about this. What bugs do you suggest that I draw? You can recommend your favourites.

I've decided to pick the Starry Night Peacock Spider and the Diabolical Ironclad Beetle (this one can apparently survive getting run over by a car). I could use some more additions to the list.

howdy haiii

those are pretty good choices if I ever had to pick any! Other than that maybe the hercules beetle or even some isopods would work nicely with what i see- you've already got perfect choices though!