aviary of mana

I’m Birdy, an artist who cares a lot about telling stories, building worlds, designing creatures, creating mythologies, and making OCs kiss. about and tags ✷ carrd ✷ art-only sideblog

[marzipanladyart]

commission of Gaetana for @birdyaviary, thank you!

[sugar-petals]

hot take in a roundabout way i think that's also why so many of us opt out of becoming parents ourselves

[normalwomansstuff-deactivated20]

HOT AUTISTIC ADULTS IN YOUR AREA ARE UNSURE IF YOU WANT TO TALK TO THEM...CLICK HERE TO ESTABLISH CLEAR INTENT

[prokopetz]

Turns your texture resolution way down because you're only visible at a distance.

[theodorepython]

I think this is what happens to Bigfoot

[devs-games-2]

bigfoot is actually a mesh rendering above LOD 1 which is why he always looks crunchy. They forgot to add LOD 0 so he's just invisible if you get too close.

[mossworm]

recorded myself drawing and lightly animating an airplane mimic creature. I use MS paint to draw and an open source program called Pencil 2D to test basic animations

[agnesmontague]

i love the word jumbotron. the most american word, beating out any sad contender the likes of “burger”. immediately you get “jumbo”, the most american size; land of the Big Gulp. “tron”, like the movie, implying some vague cybernetic concept that hints at its purpose. then you find out, oh, it’s the giant screen at football games. the thing that sometimes puts you on blast for the most mortifying 45 seconds of your life, if you are so lucky. feel like (or become) a star, however briefly. get your affair blasted on national tv. everything about the word speaks to such an american way of living. huge fan

[agnesmontague]

#hate to break it to you but uh#Jumbotron's from Sony#Sony's from Japan#It was invented by a Japanese person

even better! it's an immigrant

[climbingthefloors]

good god.

[ekjohnston]

Sometimes you write four books with demisexual protagonists before you realize that's a thing. Then it becomes your thing.

[ekjohnston]

ANYWAY, you can buy them all in various bookstores or request them at your local library.

[whooooomp]

The mortifying ordeal of being known. The mortifying ordeal of telling someone about all the ways you've been hurt. Telling them about all the words they could say to break you. Showing them exactly where and how to push to make your body crumble like a house of cards. Placing a knife in their hand and pointing it directly at your artery, having to trust that they will not slice it open.

All the while your brain is wailing at you in panic, begging to stop talking, please, just please stop baring your neck when they could bite at any moment.

[louises-belcher]

[storm-of-feathers]

a severe thunderstorm warning that doesnt follow through is worse than orgasm denial

[t4timekeeper]

[bourtange]

i am so tired of hearing politicians talk about california high-speed rail like it was a huge stupid mistake. the reason it hasn't gone anywhere isn't because it was a bad idea, it's because politicians aren't investing in it because they don't give a shit. it took twelve fucking years after it was approved by the legislature for it to even show up on the ballot, and it's been another eighteen since then. thirty fucking years to barely break ground on one fucking train line!!! transportation in the united states is decades behind every other country of remotely comparable size and it's not for any reason other than a complete lack of political will. to get from my home in san diego to san francisco—that is, to travel between two of the largest destinations in the country, which are about 500 miles apart in essentially a straight line—takes me about 7 to 8 hours of driving, but when i enter it into amtrak's trip planner the shortest route it gives me is over 13 hours, and most of the options it gives me require me to spend over half the trip on a bus. (lest anyone think i'm deliberately nerfing the numbers by picking san francisco, whose geography makes it tricky to reach directly by train, i also ran the options for sacramento, which is about the same distance but more directly accessible. there were more options, including some that don't require buses, but the fastest route is still almost 12½ hours long, and even those without buses still require transfers because the only amtrak route leaving san diego ends in san luis obispo 🙃)

meanwhile, to get from paris to barcelona, which is approximately the same distance as the crow flies and probably even a little bit longer than sd–sf on the actual route, takes less than 7 hours. beijing to xi'an, which is actually a bit longer of a distance (closer to 650 miles), has trains taking as little as 4 hours and 10 minutes. it is extremely doable. politicians who call it a "boondoggle" are lying. (where do you even hear the word "boondoggle" outside of politicians complaining about spending money on anything other than bombs?) california high speed rail isn't a wasteful pipe dream. it is a vital necessity that is being needlessly murdered by a political system that does not serve the public good

[mysteryoctober]

𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖗-𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙? 𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓!

[mortuary9]

someone's pissed off

[expressions-of-nature]

by Zhou Hong

[animalids]

Rockweed gunnel (Apodichthys fucorum)

Photo by Marlin Harms