#their birds guys

[kingbyx]

So, bsd avian au.

I just finished ‘how to raise your Ranpo,’ and now it’s time for a time skip and Fukuzawa to adopt his third. Kunikida time! (Or maybe I’ll do a bit more with Yosano & Ranpo & Fukudad first, who knows. Either way kunikida soon)

I’ve been debating on his species and am here to see if anybody had ideas. Right now I have woodpecker finch. They’re cute little brown/yellow birds know for using and creating tools for foraging, a feature typically found mostly in corvids, so a finch doing it to such an advanced level is really amazing! They basically replicate woodpeckers, often using small branches, cactus spines or rocks to dig into trees like a woodpecker would, getting bugs from under the bark.

I mostly chose this because of the tools, because it fits the backstory I have kinda planned, but I’ve been wondering if there are better bird options out there for Kunikida. If anyone has a cool idea please share :D

Anyways, I now have most species picked, I’m super excited to start introducing more characters!

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[monowires]

i can’t say “angry birds ratios a transphobe” was on my 2023 bingo card, but i’m not disappointed

[deimosatellite]

o yea bird guy

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

[sampersonsworld]

Making the corpse dance

Ten years ago, Dong Nguyen killed a chart-topping game. After realizing it had become "an addiction" for players, his guilt became so bad that he couldn't sleep. Today, Gametech Holdings, LLC has revived this game but with *more* dark patterns, loot boxes, and predatory design. This is cool.

"But why would Nguyen sell the Flappy Bird Trademark??" "Hope he got his bag!"

Looks like he *didn't*. It seems like it's been long enough that the trademark was considered abandoned, so Gametech Holdings LLC filed against him, and just. Grabbed it for free.

You can see all the court docs here: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam The funniest (and saddest) part is... we're so much worse than Flappy Bird now. It seems *tame* by comparison.

In a better world, the story would have ended with this tweet.

[cha-melodius]

Gray Catbird by Kristy Brig, ML609429271

[crabussy]

asian glossy starlings are severely under utilised Scary Birds. I see crows and ravens and vultures where is the love for these freaks

oohhh you want to put them in your art so bad oooohh

ID: three photos of iridescent black-green birds with bright red eyes and small black pupils, with long crow-like beaks. END ID

EXTENDED ID: three photos of glossy iridescent dark green birds, feathers almost black asides from where the light makes them viridian green. They have bright red eyes with jarring black pupils set into their head like precious stones and seem to be staring directly at the viewer, and their beaks are similar to crow beaks. The first photo shows a group of six starlings clustered on a wooden pole, presumably on a wharf. The second photo is two of the birds perched on branches, and the third photo is a close up of a starling's face from profile view. END ID

[dappermouth]

Is it just me or does some of your new work seem ai generated? At the very least the composition seems a bit artificial. I’ve noticed that with a lot of artists not just you so I was wondering.

yeah it’s just you dude

[applestruda]

*redesigns my grian the night before the new hc season*

[fiomeras]

Swagless and dripless . Just an average normal guy . Looks like you can move his white ass with the arrow keys. Nothing wrong with him

[axoqiii]

🐦‍⬛ crow

[dimetrodone]

Wasn’t expecting Hans Christian Andersen to have written a story about how wonderful aphids are

[delicourse]

end of spring🌸🧶🌱🧵

[creatureimages]

look at the absolute size of this archimantis!!!!!!!!

look at the mantis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!