pigeon appreciation zone

Non anime artist is into entirely too many anime fandoms

[aptericia]

Hi, I'm aptericia!

USA, she/her, 21 y/o. I draw fanart of varying quality and also reblog birds. You’re welcome to send me drawing requests, although it may take a while for me to get to them

I draw for a variety of fandoms, but primarily:

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Fire Emblem Tellius series (Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance & Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn)

Thunderbolt Fantasy

Octopath Traveler 2

don’t forget to check out #aptericia’s show off tag for some of my fancier/more finished art!

I tag spoilers and common triggering content, as well as nsfw/shipping. If you’d like me to tag something for you, please don’t be shy! :)

Feel free to send me asks on or off anon, but I won’t respond to anything I think is a troll. Please also do not send me bigoted content. This blog supports LGBTQ+ people, BIPoC, and disabled/neurodivergent people.

[redstonedust]

i admit i am getting wary whenever people vaguepost about a fandom being 'full of drama' because a lot of people seem to use 'drama' as a synonym for like. discussions of bigotry and bias in media. which is so very much not the same thing and it hurts my head to see it conflated with shipping wars and headcanon discourse.

[femboy-nation-rise]

I am so glad that I live in a world with trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and intersex people. Things are hard for all of us right now, but I love you all and I am wishing that things get better and easier for all of us! ❤️

[psychotic-gerard]

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[kiragecko]

[Image of text saying,

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

End ID.]

[galileosballs]

Games that let you pet dogs are a dime a dozen now, but let's not forget that Tales of Symphonia let you go a step further by having one of your party members personally assign a name to every dog in the world, with a reward for finding them all.

Note that you cannot name dogs when this party member isn't in your party (or when... she doesn't feel up to it, to put it in a spoiler-free way) and that once a dog is named its speech bubble will have its name in it. There are 30 dogs in total. Some are missable. The walkthrough has to include the note:

They just don't make 'em like they used to.

[tbalderdash-art-blog]

Tree Sparro! Shape is a bit off (the angle of the back), but... something something not conforming to society's expectations?

It's always really exciting seeing a bird that's like a common bird but a bit different and rarer (the black cheeks distinguish it from a house sparrow)

[bluerose5]

Thank you, Black people in fandom spaces. Thank you, Black creators and Black lurkers. Thank you Black artists, Black writers. Thank you, Black bloggers, Black influencers. Shoutout to those Black characters, both canon and original. Thank you, Black people, both queer and cishet.

Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

And since they don't get told it near enough, thank you, Black women especially!!!

[murfpersonalblog]

You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

[spider-gamer]

OC Week Day 1 - Alternate Universe

I decided to make Gertrude in a Modern Day AU, I think she'd absolutely slay

[bedupolker]

Has anyone else noticed that they do this?

[purpleheartemote]

You have no idea how good it feels to run into strangers who headcanon a character as aro. In spaces where ships are taken too seriously and around friends who just don't really care all too much about aromanticism, seeing a complete random person headcanon something that I am in real life brings me so much genuine joy

[kunaigirl]

Me: "Damn people are REALLY BAD at knowing when to tag their eyestrain art/images...either that or they just don't care about photosenitive epileptic people like me. I feel really sad now." Person: "But Allison, what if they just don't know or understand what qualifies as eyestrain and what doesn't?" Me: "You know what? That could be a factor...While it is always better to be safe rather than sorry (so YES people should always tag eyestrain even if they're unsure if it "counts" or not) maybe you've got a point?"

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

Full eyestrain AF page link

"But Allison! How were you able to screenshot that example if you're so sensitive to eyestrain?"

I dimmed the HELL out of my computer screen and looked away while taking the screenshot and did the same when putting it into this post, that's how lol. BUT YEAH ANYWAYS!!! Once again:

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

[rightdownright]

by the way this is medical. this could save somebody from a migraine all the way to a seizure. this has always been serious. treat this seriously.

[biocrafthero]

perceived skill

[bunnywand-z]

"the best laid plans" "i'm hatching a plan" so a plan is a type of egg ? 🥚

[cherrypikkins]

It was an honor to contribute to the Divine Pathways fe3horacledeck.bsky.social Fire Emblem 3H Oracle Deck project!

I provided the art of Petra for the Hunter Card :3

[trilobutch]

california quails they’re unforgettable. small and round, black feather on top.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Something Tumblr does get absolutely right is turning arrows "—>" into arrows "->". Like sure basically nobody will notice but it's a great great feature. And Tumblr doesn't turn :) into 😃 like discord does by default. There's no annoying autochange stuff that you have to disable. It's golden idk how to explain

[aptericia]

appie fun fact of the day is that I don’t colorpick from references. I literally just eyeball it 99% of the time, even when I’m trying to stay accurate to the original colors. Idk if it’s a habit left over from learning to draw with traditional media or what, but eyedropping colors feels so unnatural and I often end up changing them slightly anyway for the sake of lighting or emphasis