#squirrel fox

[kitsuna-mi]

Did a 4 pc fan art set for Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky.

I definitely love this movie a normal amount. TwT

[chalkrub]

been doodling some bri'ish wildlife - love seeing these guys. because they are the classics aren't they?

[iasminomarata]

Sonic Mania Adventures 2 - Part 1 🏖️

[schweizercomics]

It's the 40th anniversary of the release of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind!

[kindestegg]

without looking up anything about this, performing reverse image search etc, looking at the notes... is this a fox or a squirrel (poll explanation may be unlocked afterwards)

[reesieroo-spark]

Forest creachures

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

pride flag but it's color picked from sonic the hedgehog characters. because i can lol

[tanuki-kimono]

Freaking CUTE squirrels (and fox) embroidered clothes by Juno embroidery. I love how those squirrels look like they are going down the vests shoulders, much like they would clim down a tree!

If you like her art, OP published a book showing step by step of a few of her models.

[antiqueanimals]

Florida Wildlife; vol. 10, no. 10. March, 1957. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.

Internet Archive

[blistexenthusiast]

fuzzy woodland animals, manufactured by Sandylion

[beastlyworlds]

A gouache parade of critters to wish you a very happy October & autumn time 🍁🎃🦔⁣⁣

[bonefall]

Bit of a random one but rereading the parable of the squirrels got me curious: how would clan cats (or just thunderclan in particular) view black/melanistic squirrels? Have any of them ever seen one? Im not sure how common they are in the uk, but i know they can be relatively prevalent in areas that have them sometimes

Black squirrels are nothing more than a simple morph! They get common in areas that have melanistic genes present as a result of simple genetic drift, though I've seen it proposed that black fur is an advantage in cold areas.

The gene is rare in the populations the Warriors come across, so they almost never see it. In spite of ShadowClan's unwillingness to control the gray squirrel population, ThunderClan is so aggressive about it that the pool stays shallow. Red Squirrels (pishkaf) do not have this gene. Only Gray Squirrels (chakchak) do.

So every time a black squirrel manages to occur, it's treated like a dire omen. Even ShadowClan takes it seriously.

Black as a color is associated with day and night cycles, because of Moon Shadow, Sun Shadow, and Shadowstar. Gray Squirrels are associated with war and benefit at the suffering of others. These things together herald great upheaval-- so cataclysmic that it would likely not be an "honorable conflict."

If you came to your Cleric with this omen, they would be struck with a look of terrible alarm. They'd be interested in its context, what it was doing, if it was eating anything, what its surroundings looked like. Someone like BB!Runningnose, interested in supporting Brokenstar's ambitions, might spin it as a positive sign.

Most Clerics would announce that the squirrel needs to be killed IMMEDIATELY, and launch a massive hunt to destroy it. What would come next would likely depend on the culture of the time, but for the most part I can imagine some sort of mass "purification" ritual. The whole Clan trying to identify how they can avoid the cataclysm, one of the few times where they see a glorious war as a bad thing.

The cat who kills the squirrel would likely earn an Honor Title. It's also very likely that the body of the animal is treated as a very powerful material-- burned to ash to prevent its use in forbidden magic or carefully preserved and made into something special, no in-between.

(Thinking about it... thanks for the idea I'll totally do this for Brokenstar's Cataclysm lmao. The sinew of the black squirrel is probably used to re-string Runny's acorn necklace.)

[plusie]

[iasminomarata]

Sonic Mania Adventures 2 💎✨

[artofatomic]

i might as well give you guys a full page of my Sonic and friends!

i'v got more in the works but this is most of them i really like.

i do have a story in the making, kind of a re-write sort of thing.

but i call it "Legacy of Sonic the Hedgehog"

what you guys think? i need to add more to it for sure.

[glassshine]

pick your fighter