#ask quail

[4th-make-quail]

also 11. 12. and 23 for ff12 🤟😌🤟

11. if you’re a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud of making? gonna be very predictable here and say my CidVayne fic, the structure of love haha, it came out how i wanted it to, and upon rereading it the other night, yeah it still fucking slaps!!!

12. compliment someone else in your fandom @ff12-ultimania for doing the fuckin lord's work with their translations!!! you're awesome, and I love getting little patreon snippets in my email regularly :DDD

23. the fandom you’re curious about because of a mutual difficult to say! i want to at some point try my hand at writing Kirk/McCoy, because it's been my love FOREVER now, but that's more from people I follow than mutuals I think! i'm a bit of a single-minded single-fandom at once kinda bitch, so although it's been bg3 for a bit, i'm due to cycle back round to xii sooner rather than later :DDD

[quails-adventures]

“Huh.” Takes out her journal to go over the names and frowns. “I swear I thought the Straw Hats only had 9 members. Are you some new addition the government doesn’t know about?”

"I just want to find my crew, dammit! Quit lying to everyone, Straw Hat!"

[The Bounty Hunter]

[kedreeva]

I didn’t know there were different species of quail?! I thought all males had the silly (cute) forehead feather. If you want to tell us all about quail, I would love to hear, but I also possess the Googles. Anyway, your birds make me smile. Thank you for posting about them.

oh there's like a million species lol I don't know much about any of them, just names and I can recognize a lot of them. I raised Bobwhite quail (my favorites) for wild local release since they're native to michigan.

I'm raising Celadon quail now, which are coturnix with the celadon (Ce) gene, which strips their eggs of the splotchy bloom coating, leaving them blue.

Here's what the wild type looks like:

There's a species of coturnix called a rain quail:

The ones with the little head doot you're PROBABLY thinking of are valley quail (California quail, I think they're also called?).

And the really similar Gambel's quail:

There's button quail

blue scaled quail which have a crest, not a doot

Montezuma quail which honestly may be a very big hoax I mean look at these fuckers:

Which are different somehow than the ocellated quail which are just as ridiculous:

Mountain quail which couldn't decide if it wanted a crest or a doot I guess:

the elegant quail:

there's a bunch more too, but. yeah quail come in all sorts of Shapes and colors. they're neat little birds. I think the bobwhites, valley, gambel's, scaled, mountain, and uhhhh montezuma quails? are native to the US, but not all of them are in every state.

[shirecorn]

*raises hand*

does nightmare moon ouccur in this fancy lore version of mlp? if so, how?

Yes, and there is an area of equestria with craters from stomping hooves and a massive valley where one of the goddesses was thrown to the earth. It's a fertile river valley now with a huge blooming city (idk which city. pick one for me)

I havent decided if the battle is going to be a painting or a fic, but I made a playlist that will inspire me when I do get to it.

These songs are picked on vibe rather than lyrics.

Please picture you are a pony watching the sky catch fire and burn, darkened by choking, star-filled smoke, split with sunbeams that char the ground on which they hit. None of it is aimed at you. None of it is aimed at the village where your father lives. None of it is meant to destroy the land or leave chasms where there were once people.

The gods aren't angry with you. But there is a hole where there used to be a town. You know no one survived.

As they cast beams of magic into the sky that rip the atmosphere to shreds, you wonder if the next earthquake will land closer or further from the place where you stand.

You close your eyes and pray it takes you next.

It includes at least one song from an MLP au that I don't know anything about except that the music SLAPS. And that's Infinite Eclipse songs by JC Row

[echoes-in-echoclan]

QUAIL (??) LOOKS LIKE CREEK OH LOREEEEDDD

You were right, that is Quail! And yeah it’s SO HEARTBREAKING WAAA

the RNG gave me a Creeknettle 2.0 and it just absolutely destroyed me

[fruchtfleisch-art]

Quail came in and stanced firmly before them. He was of solid build and exuded health and power, and his eyes were dark and penetrating. He had one feature that made him most remarkable, and most frightening. His head, which was large and round, was quite devoid of fur, as was much of his body. It was blue-pink, shiny, strange. It appeared smooth and unlined until any expression passed across it at which point a thousand tiny wrinkles formed and made a mole realize that there was something dead, something rotten, about the smooth skin.

Senior Brother Inquisitor Quail, from the Duncton Chronicles/The Book of Silence! He has one of the most repulsive character journeys in the entire series, but I wanted to draw him the way we first meet him, powerful and menacing.

[prinx-quail]

Could I possibly interest you in this? I give you, owl white, in full owl form, the fluffiest form I have to offer, the finest floof and warmth

Oh i would pay 400,000,000 sunflower seeds for this absolutely ADORABLE Diligence!!!?!

For now, though.... i will settle for providing them with a fellow owl to chill with

Please excuse me why I sob over world's most ADORABLE Diligence.

[andorshitdaily]

I love the mirror between "The best way to keep a blade sharp is to use it!" (Linus Mosk) and "The axe forgets, but the tree remembers" (Arvel Skeen).

these really are mirror images huh.....i will have to sit and think about that.....

Tell me your favorite Andor quote or screenshot because I'm bored and I miss it!

[rozugold]

requesting osmp crimeboys 👉👈

Bird bros!!

[nutnoce]

my moominsona would be a quail with a flower/plant for its head plume, and maybe a fancy little collar :) fun to think about

A whole lineage for you

[littleladymab]

personal -

my mom passed away at the end of may last year, and i'm still not sure how to structure myself around that sudden change. so here is an ever incomplete list of things i have inherited from her:

a voracious appetite for reading

the ability to eat an entire can of black olives in one sitting

a flannel shirt, given to me in december when i asked my dad for a jacket

a weak chin

rings that are too small to fit on any finger other than my pinky

50 books of clip-art filled with post-its and flags but no discs containing the art files

a box of tea samples that i bought her for mothers day that she was never able to try

a set of silverware that she received as a wedding gift and never used

the inability to ever tell someone when something is wrong

boxes of beads, trims, findings, embellishments that have been sitting untouched for years from unfinished projects

the same shade of blonde

several necklaces, including her amethyst pendant that i remember her leaving out on the full moon to charge

It's a list i'll never update or finish because things will always be popping up and it's so many things of me that will have been because of her

anyway, nothing really meant by this beyond trying to process emotions. if you have a good relationship with your mom, tell her you love her for me! if you don't, tell someone dear to you that you love them instead!

[4th-make-quail]

vayne solidor. 5. 6. 7. 10. 11

5. What’s the first song that comes to mind when you think about them? i'm really shit at associating songs with characters, but I had this song on repeat while writing my fic and welp, now it's cemented entirely as cidvayne song in my head sdh'gdfg Structure of Love II (Renholdër Remix) - VOWWS, with Chino Moreno I know, I know, I'm immensely predictable. I have a playlist for them and it has literally this single song on it, because I haven't found any others yet ahahaha

6. What’s something you have in common with this character? We both have curly hair!

7. What’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like? I'm not gonna lie, I haven't read that much Vayne fic because *cough* I don't trust people to write him IC and I especially don't trust the xii fandom at large's takes on Vayne lsdfdh'g butttt my immediate fandom fam has excellent Vayne takes, and my favourite thing is how we can examine that man from every possible angle and still come up with new shit to wail about

10. Could you be best friends with this character? Probably nottt, I'm not smart enough LOL

11. Would you date this character? Oh sure, but it'd be a loveless marriage where I waste away in the palace alone as he spends his time machinating and politicking and-

[sneez]

my oc tervis hanging out with @silenthillmutual's chestnut and @shogoakuji's quail :-D they are looking for small beasties

[id: a coloured digital drawing of three people sitting in the grass. in the centre is an older person with receding grey hair and a sallow, gaunt face; they are wearing red and brown robes, and are holding something cupped in their hands. on their right is a child with brown skin, hair, and clothes who is crouching down and peering at the unseen thing in tervis's hands. on tervis's left another child is bending down to look; they have curly brown hair and a freckled brown face, and are wearing a red scarf, a greenish-grey sleeveless shirt, and patched trousers. all three are barefoot. end id.]

[kedreeva]

So I live somewhere where certain foods aren't readily available. I'm looking to buy a house - smallish house, biggish land is an option(cheaper). I've never kept anything more ~interesting~ than snakes. I went to a restaurant in a city a few years back where I tried duck for the first time and it instantly became my favorite food. Would it be weird to uh, keep ducks for eating? I've no problem with butchering but I'm worried I'd get attached to MY ducks.

I can't really answer if you'll get attached, because I don't know you or your penchant for getting attached. I can answer that it's not weird at all to raise ducks for meat. There are entire breeds of ducks that are great to raise for meat (like muscovies or pekins). Personally, I prefer the muscovy breed because I find them to be adorable (lots of cool color morphs! they do a little butt waggling dance in a circle!), GREAT moms who take on HUGE clutches no problem, they don't require or play in large amounts of water the way pekins do, and they're not as noisy (they hiss, they don't quack). The boys also get quite large, without getting super fat the way proper meat pekins do.

Like that's just. Terrible. I assume they get belly rub sores. The meat is probably good, the fat is probably good cooking. But at what cost?

I can also say that most people do get somewhat attached to animals they raise for food, but I think that's an important part of it. Part of raising animals for food is understanding that you're giving them the best life you can up to the point of butcher, which is often better than whatever life they would have in a factory farm. Part of raising food animals is caring enough about them to do well by them, as the only gratitude you can show to them in exchange for their life. Part of raising animals for food is understanding that you are going to take the life of another creature, and I think that attachment is how we understand the weight of that decision.

Personally, I think that it's right and good for people to get attached to their livestock. I think it helps them remember that they're caring for a living creature that has needs and feels pain. A creature that is deserving of excellent care while alive. I see a LOT of people allowing animal suffering in the fowl world because "it's just a chicken" and the babies "only cost a couple bucks," and "they can be replaced." IMO, it's a particularly callous attitude to have, toward an animal whose life will be taken to provide for you. Even one whose life is dedicated to providing for you while living (eggs, milk, wool, honey, etc) deserves better than to be considered a Thing that can be allowed to suffer merely because it is replaceable.

Lastly, I can say that (for me at least) there's often a major difference between the attachment you feel toward a pet and a livestock animal. Part of it is expectations going in, part of it is time. For pets, the expectation is that you will have that animal for the duration of that animal's average life expectancy, and you can plan accordingly for allowing yourself emotional investment. For livestock, the expectation is that you will only have the animal until its butcher date, which is often quite early in their life. A healthy, well-kept dog you can probably expect a good 10 years from, a cat nearly twice that. The average butcher age for a pekin duck is 3 months old (for comparison, they have an average lifespan of 5 years before their bodies give out from growth and weight issues), for muscovies 3-6 months (with an average lifespan of 20 years). There's just not as much time to get attached in the first place, unless you're getting attached to your breeders.

So, is it weird to raise ducks for food? Absolutely not. Are you going to get attached? I hope so, at least a little bit. And I hope that you feeling that connection to your food source helps you to take excellent care of them until their time comes, and that it compels you to make their end as quick and painless as possible.

[shirecorn]

I'm in love with your designs! Applejack especially is so SO good. Big chonky draft horses are adorable. 💕

I love drawing big chonky horses. they are my favorite! Here's some flutterbirds

[tinogiehd]

dream wants to tie george up so bad

that’s his birthday gift