#bird articulation

[jaketeachesdeath]

I finally finished up the Willow Warbler!

It has a neat little twist and eagle eyed viewers may notice a mistake which is now unfixable.

Ill add a new post later about the twist, comment if you notice either the mistake or the twist

01/11/23

[dragonskulls]

made this for oomf but you can have it too. a little breakdown of my process with bird wings if anyone finds it useful

[skull-hoarder]

Small skeleton of zebra finch

This is the smallest skeleton I have articulated, it was cleaned with dermestids, degreased with amonia and whitened with peroxide as usual

The worst part was without a doubt the feet and the wings, all those microscopic phalanges almost drove me crazy 😵

[fallow-foot]

Something something cucurucho would sometimes set up little puzzle room thingys ether in or around q!jaidens room with different little things but the last time the reward and puzzle was her train ticket puzzle.

[birdinabowl]

One of my favorite things about “I’d Rather be Me (With You)” is how the first few lyrics compare to “Let Me Drive My Van into Your Heart.”

Because the fact Steven starts his song with, “I’d rather be tall, I’d rather be smart” while his dad’s song starts with, “I know im not that tall, I know im not that smart” is such a cool detail.

It highlights Stevens insecurities about himself and it shows he doesn’t think he’s good enough.

[birdmenmanga]

@raventhekittycat

hi okay so I've been mulling this one over for the past day or two and I think I have the answer. not to be using hamburger to explain anything to an american but you're my detco mutual so I'm going to try and explain it in detco terms

There's a post going around recently about how if you've read detco and only detco, the first time hakuba shows up you're going to be totally flummoxed, because damn this guy is clearly important, he gets to be even cooler than Shinichi, he's got a half-page shot of him (in such a panel-dense series such as Detective Conan, no less!!) and he's got a fucking hawk. he's CLEARLY important. everything about the narrative is indicating that you need to PAY ATTENTION to hakuba and that he's the coolest guy and he's important!!!! and then he dies in the case lol (not for real. but still.)!! and you're like huh??? what was that. why did aoyama do that.

But with the context of magic kaito this totally makes sense. He's a beloved character that people have been waiting decades to see again. Of course Aoyama is going to hype him up!! It's his big moment after years of being locked in the backrooms!!!

Anyways reading birdmen for me was kind of like that. The author's previous series, Kekkaishi, was pretty one-dimensional at the beginning, and even after the main plot started picking up at around volume 6, it still felt quite understandable. I knew what she was trying to get at, and the spectacular job she did with the anthropocene and climate change metaphor towards the end of that series really made me interested in the rest of her works. That and the way she writes familial relationships is absolutely DEVASTATING. (I mean this with the highest of praise)

But when I read BIRDMEN for the first time, I was probably in... middle school, maybe? And I read it, sure, but I didn't get it. I could see what was literally happening on the page but the narrative choices were absolutely baffling at times. Why skip over the entire part of the plot where they figure out who the birdman that saved them was? She blatantly doesn't care about that. What does she care about then?? I knew I didn't get it, I knew there were parts of it that were important and I couldn't figure out why and THAT'S how it dug its pretty little claws into me. Even after I finished catching up it nagged at me a little bit, not often at all, but enough that every once in a while I go, huh, right, that was a thing, let me go read it again.

For the record this type of story haunting has happened to me twice. First time was the Heart of Thomas, second time was BIRDMEN. I think the thing is that these are both stories which are not what other people say they are and I think I came into both of these stories with a misconception, trying to look too hard for things that weren't important and therefore missing the things that were.

Because sure, BIRDMEN is about mental illness. Yeah, it's about an evil scientific organization growing mutants in a lab. Yeah, it's about what it means to leave your humanity behind. That's all technically correct, on a surface level, and the fandom at large likely agrees with these takes for the most part, but in my opinion none of that really delves into what the thematic messaging of the story is about.

There are cryptic conversations about authority and human extinction and peculiar outfit and ability choices. You can tell these choices weren't made to serve the purpose of "writing exciting shonen manga" because that was what she did for the most part in Kekkaishi and you can tell she wasn't putting her whole pussy into doing that here. So what was she doing? What's like. All of this. Waves my hands at this.

The short answer is that it's really about the interplay between capitalism (represented by humanity) and communism (represented by birdmen), and explores the role institutional white supremacy (EDEN) plays in enforcing capitalism. It is ALSO about queer liberation and the importance of community, but hey, that double-stacks conveniently with the communism metaphor.

But also take this opinion of mine with a grain of salt. As far as I know I'm the only one who really truly deeply believes that it is not only AN interpretation of the work, but one that was fully intended by the author.

So basically, I like it, because I think it says something true and beautiful that I also believe in, even if I didn't have the words for it the first time I read it. But I don't really think that's what people really look for in a media recommendation.

Do I like it? Yes, I love it. Will I recommend it to others? Yeah, sure. But do I think it's deeply flawed? Yeah, absolutely. It's flawed in the same ways as The Witch from Mercury— a rushed ending, too many threads that were opened and never tied together. The pacing and characterization is perfect in the beginning, and too rushed at the end. There are prerequisites you basically HAVE to read in order to understand the story (tempest for G-Witch and the communist manifesto for birdmen). I think a truly good story wouldn't have any of these things so if people don't like it I never blame them.

It's my personal experiences that make birdmen so profound to me. If you are not queer I just don't think Eishi coming out as a birdman to his mom will hit the same, just as an example. Sorry that I wasn't the kid you wanted me to be. I know you love me and you just want the best for me and that's why you're so controlling, because you think I can be saved by conforming to societal expectations. But I can't live like that. I can't be like that. And that's why I must go. etc.

Aesthetically I do love birdmen a lot. If I had to describe it in a few words it would probably be "chilling", "beautiful", and "powerful", which nicely coincides with the type of things I personally like to draw. It's also silly to a small degree but it's so serious and I know Tanabe can be way way way funnier (read kekkaishi for this. kekkaishi and hanazakari no kimitachi he were foundational to my sense of sequential art humor) so that's not really the standout trait of this series.

I can't let it go because I'm chewing this series like a bone. And it's taking me years but I am getting that sweet sweet marrow. By god. We are on year 3 of this shit and I am GOING to understand this series. and I'm going to make 3 video essays about it

[radioactivecatboy]

sorry i cant come to the party. yeah im gonna be thinking about jang uk and mu-deok’s jade eggs. yeah its gonna be an all day thing. yeah im also gonna be thinking about the parallel between seo yul disguising his visits to naksu as visiting his pet bird and mu-deok referring to herself as an egg in a nest to jang uk. yeah its gonna make me lay face down on the ground and not move for twelve hours. yeah. yeah. thanks

[sparksetfire]

going through all of anna calvi's new album for s5 and i'm expected to be normal about the fact that this is the title of the song in the background of this deleted scene?

[funnyscienceman]

i think one thing i'm never gonna get over about the movie is that the memorial wall full of art — some of the drawings are of shadow nimona. i can't get screenshots right now but like. shadow nimona smiling. beaming. getting hearts and smiles and hugs, from the kids, from other shadow creatures. it's just. it's so sweet. like it's the kids who drew that taking all that raw hurt and vulnerability from the final act and giving it the hug and empathy and solidarity it needed. and it's like, look at nimona's line after the kwispy incident, look at the cereal ad, the board game billboard; look at gloreth being taught hate, and then look at the drawings. and i just lose it every time i think about it

[laevanders]

So the Lords in Black eldritch forms anyone?

I was just sketching, and boom a drawing

It's very messy but I like it, specially when they're in _the black_

[jaketeachesdeath]

This was finished days ago but the Sparrow was added to the Sparrow Tree 2.0.

You can see why we tried a dynamic pose.

This little one came from our own garden after an unfortunate window strike

18/06/23

[backfromtwitterforw]

Of course I hope my favorite teams isn't eliminated but honestly my only dream tonight is that everyone enjoys the event and that no one has to deal with twt misinformation, drama and harassment.

May the odds be ever in your favor and wish you all the most of fun tonight !!

[skull-hoarder]

A small quaker parrot skeleton that I finished a few months ago

I wanted to give it a position that reflects the behavior and character of the animal, and place it as if it just tried to bite you haha

[amaritheartist]

FATHER DEMARIOUS?

STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING FATHER DEMARIOUS SKY DAMN FOOL MAGIC COLLECTING DUST EATING RAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT AVATAR OF THE WHORE BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE CIRCUS LAUGHED OUT OF TOWN COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING FATHER DEMARIOUS

STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT FATHER DEMARIOUS I HATE HIM SO MUCH WHY DOES HE HAVE SO MANY FUCKED UP FOLLOWERS WHY DID HE DECIDE TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT JUST SET THEM LOOSE IS HE DEAD IS HE A BASTARD MAN HAS SUCH A VISCERAL AFFECT ON ME NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS MANS FACE AND I KNOW HE HAS THE WORLDS SHITTIEST HAIR GET AWAY FROM ME

if i wanted to get into the celestial city and sun said father demarious is waiting inside i would piss on suns feet for the sole purpose of getting sent back down

if i have to deal with father demarious speaking one word in person on page in book not only will i close the book i will remove my bookmark out of spite and have to reread the entire story again for the experience of being able to skip all the times when he is mentioned or alive

i dont even know why i hate him so much. he collects magic but i am just mad because i am angy

he better have some fucked up backstory to explain this if hes just some rich shithead whos a fan of the traitor and wanted the modern version ill go ham

BETTER have had an amulet make him kill a man cuz if he didnt Im going to make him

paypal.com/IFuckingHateFatherDemarious

episodes not even about him. vaguely mentioned what is supposed to maybe be his cult and I lost it

where the fuck is father demarious if hes still alive im going to so deeply wish he wasnt

crusty old man

ill punch demarious and his sad frail bird man twig bones will simply flake apart under my epic huge meat fist and he will disintegrate until all thats left is one final amulet he kept on him at all times simply engraved Now You Fucked Up in ancient idoven

im not breathing im hyperventilating at this point

i hope theres a date given for when demarious died or will die so i can make it a reminder on my phone

everyday once a year i will see it and do anything but pay respects to the man who had so many fucked up if fulfilled plans

[joeyisourranger]

[cyeayt]

being autistic in the mormon church

being autistic in the mormon church was, for me at least, a weird experience. because i wasn't excluded or mocked very often, just smothered in that strange warm beige obligation. because they could tell, they knew i was different just like i did. so they held my hand, told the other children to be nice to me, to make sure i felt included. and my peers did, cause they didn't have a choice, raised to be polite and kind no matter what just like i was. so i was included and invited places, always as an afterthought or a checked box but invited nonetheless, injected into conversations and games by adults that my peers wouldn't dare contradict. 'well meaning' adults who ask me if im okay or if i want to join the group, talking down in the sweetest tones. every christmas and on every birthday they still track me down to give me a card about how much they miss my 'unique perspective', even though i always tried my hardest to fit in and say the normal things.

"Look at that one. it's different and broken, but you must be kind to it. help it stay in the light of god, because god is the only way to save it. we're good, and righteous, and its so lucky to be in the church because we're the only ones who'll ever tolerate it, because that's what god wants."

and i miss it sometimes. standing on the edge of people who i desperately want to be friends with, flitting around in the back of stores and staring at concert posters indecisively until the date has passed. never finding the right spot in a conversation to talk, never working up the courage to ask if i can come too, i miss the people who had to be nice. who had me on a little list in their mind of what they need to get to heaven.

but im never going back. because even i could feel that it was fake. i felt watched and judged and pitied at all times, by peers who would ask me if i was coming then talk amongst themselves about jokes i didnt get and shared friends i didnt know. and i may be lonely now, but id rather do the work and be awkward and sick with nerves and find people and spaces that i actually want to be in who actually want me to be there, even if it seems impossible now. id rather that than go back to that warm suffocating place, familiar like the worst kind of family.

also telling that all the adults im talking about are either women/afab people or members of the bishopric, people whose 'job' it is to be welcoming and nurturing, though these experiences are mostly from young womens so that would also be it, but even women who arent involved in the yw leadership are raised and taught and obligated to do this and i dont blame any of them but its always made me wildly uncomfortable. never as much as random men who would sit down next to me and just start talking like we knew each other tho so eh