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i am still technically on hiatus (will i ever not be??? idk lol) but the brainworms are ALIVE AND THRIVING so there's still a chance of posting.

this post is also gonna serve as a lazy directory for me via tags yay yippe wowie

#:) art tag #:) oc art #:) lonicera tag #:) hawthorne tag #:) cypress tag #:) clover tag #more tags to come when i make more #:) personal tag

Hawthorne getting a "hands-on" demonstration. eheheheheheheheheheheh. hehe. hehehheh. hah. hahahahah.

anyways Lonicera can change size because she's a plant and i said so and i can't be bothered to check the wiki to see if thats actually possible for affini (it probably is i think??? right??)

#:) art tag #digital art #:) oc art #affini #hdg art #human domestication guide #:) lonicera tag #:) hawthorne tag #sfw g/t #g/t #g/t art #giant/tiny #affini art #every day i secretly worry that im gonna tag something wrong and accidentally make two communities collide #but then i remember that i have like. 50 followers (just hit 50!!!! hi guys. thats actually so cool) and i probably will not cause a riot if #if i tag something in a slightly strange way #giant/tiny art

back at it again

consistent proportions arent real and i've decided if this doesn't match my old ref sheet its just because lonnie is made out of vines and she does whatever she wants (and whatever annoys hawthorne more)

#:) art tag #digital art #:) oc art #affini #hdg art #human domestication guide #:) lonicera tag #:) hawthorne tag #human domestication guide art #affini art #floret

Lonicera half "asleep"

haha i'm back to thissss the brainworms have returned and are thriving

#:) art tag #:) oc art #digital art #human domestication guide #hdg art #affini #i dont know what to tag this aughghhhhhh #makin a new tag for record keeping purposes.#:) lonicera tag

me when im normal and definitely not getting into anything new what no way that would be crazy

(introducing cypress (the cow) and clover (the mouse) she/her for both)

usual nonsense under the cut

#:) art tag #:) oc art #:) cypress tag #:) clover tag #the use of dedicated tags implies ill post these two again. hopefully.#g/t #sfw g/t #g/t art #hi hello do you guys like. anthro art here. i hope so.

oozingcool

Scandalabra doodle based off a candlestick my friend @snuurp got me

#friends art!!!!!!#:) reblog

todaysbird

there’s been a really bizarre trend in the past couple years of TERFS/radfems getting pissed off about biology posts. posts about the bilateral gyandromorph cardinal (one half male, one half female), posts about older hens beginning to crow and act like roosters, posts about animals being animals. and it’s hilarious because they interpret these posts as some kind of agenda. no! these are animals not choosing any gender identity or sexuality but being born into bodies they have no control over. weird how that happens in nature huh

butchosprey

never tell terfs about white-throated sparrow or they will lose their fucking minds

tkingfisher

Do you want to hear about white-throated sparrows?!

Of course you do, they’re fantastic. They come in two models, one with tan head stripes and one with white head stripes. But the gene that controls stripe color also has a bunch of other effects! It’s a supergene!

To briefly sum up a grueling amount of fieldwork by people who were probably not getting paid nearly enough, basically the tan-stripes are nurturers and the white-stripes are fighters, across both males and females. White-stripes chase away intruders more, tan-stripes bring more food to the nest. Tan-stripe females bring more bugs to their chicks than white-stripes, white-stripe females are more aggressive and sing more.

There is a reason Jordan Peterson picked lobsters, not sparrows, to get all MRA about, because the sparrow ladies are ALL about the tan-striped males. Sexy nurturing tan-stripe males are immediately grabbed up by the more aggressive white-stripe females (who are also dead sexy if you’re a sparrow.) Then the remaining birds pair off, so you get tan and white couples reproducing in virtually all cases—nurturing male with aggressive female, hyper-aggressive male with hyper-nurturing female.*

And this is good!** Because it turns out that they can have a tough time if they don’t mate across stripes—white x white sparrows often come out undersized if they come out at all. There was some cool recent genetic sequencing and one particular chromosome is way funky, inverted, and scrambled in the white-stripes. So now every white-stripe has a funky chromosome and a normal one, and every tan-stripe has two normal ones.***

This is all really unique and means that white-throated sparrows effectively have four sexes, because they now only reproduce with a member of the opposite stripe and sex chromosome, and their offspring may be any one of the four sexes. The stripes have essentially become a second sex chromosome.

The geneticists involved think the funky chromosome probably showed up as a weird import from somebody gettin’ jiggy with another sparrow species. Presumably this created a hypersexy female whose white head stripes brought all the boys to the yard, and very unusually, that bred true.

Is that cool or what?!

*No word on whether there is a resulting sparrow tradwife media genre.

**Leaving aside the impact on the emotional health of the non-sexy sparrows.

**A population solely of tan-stripes can reproduce safely, they’re just not that into each other.

krakensdottir

I reblogged this a minute ago but I’m going to reblog it again, because I want to add another non-binary bird species: the ruff.

First of all, look at it.

That’s a male ruff, specifically. You can see how they get their name. The females don’t have that fancy collar. They just look like sandpipers, which is what they are.

Like other sandpipers, these are wading birds, but they live in wet meadows and marshes instead of by the seashore. During the breeding season they gather together and the males hold territories, called leks, in which they display to attract females.

At least, some of them do.

Some male ruffs do not display in leks. They have plainer, often white, neck ruffs, and they sort of wander around the display grounds courting the females wherever. The interesting thing is that the territorial males tolerate this. Research suggests it’s because females are more interested in a display ground that has both kinds of males. The ladies like variety, it seems.

But it gets even more complicated. In 2006, a third male form was discovered. This form is extremely rare, and doesn’t have male display plumage at all. It looks just like a female ruff in the field. The other birds, however, can tell the difference, judging by their behavior. These female mimics travel with other males when the sexes split for the winter, and during homosexual mountings (which are common, as they are in many other animals), they often top.

What’s really interesting about these ‘cryptic males’, or faeders, is that they are apparently super sexy. Seriously. Females and males both prefer mating with them. And it’s believed that, like the satellite males, the presence of a faeder attracts more females to the area, which benefits all three forms.

And the thing about these forms is they are fundamentally different from one another. The plumage and behavior differences last throughout a bird’s life, and are determined by genetics. They are functionally three different genders - one of which shows natural intersex characteristics. All three can breed with females, and females are more interested in breeding when all three are present. They know that diversity is the good shit. Which makes them much, much smarter than TERFs.

carolofthebell

I think this post could at last bring unity between the a/b/o writers and the wing!fic writers. At last they shall unite to create the ultimate Sparrow-verse.

muffinlance

what have you done

#I REBLOGGED THIS TO THE ART BLOG ON ACCIDENT OOPS #im leaving it here but that was. not intentional lol #:) reblog

i've gotten a lot of new followers lately so i figured it's reasonable to make a disclaimer but i'm probably not gonna be posting for a little while. i would call it a hiatus if i posted regularly enough to justify that but i don't, lol. i love hdg and it's not just a three post flash in the pan for me i swear :)

PRECAUTIONARY UPDATE: if the one singular person i've shown my art to with the watermark still on it somehow remembers the username and is here. um. don't scroll any further unless you're willing to be real cool about a bunch of stuff very extremely quickly. please.

#:) personal #im at a school with um. no wifi access in the dorms so it's a little hard to do stuff rn lol #once i've adjusted and figured myself out i'll start posting again (or i'll post in december when i'm home on break and have access to #my big tablet) (right now i have a magic drawing tablet and its. something! i guess.)#pinning this too #i do also plan to write something #whether or not i post it is entirely a tossup rn

back again with more :) somewhat lazy drawing of Lonicera + some refs for Hawthorne (subject to change)

#:) art tag #digital art #hdg art #human domestication guide #affini #floret #the fun thing about making ref sheets is that i can now copypaste the flowers from lonnies ref bc i cannot be bothered to draw that many lo #im gonna use the hawthorne refs like paper dolls for more outfits eventually #other fun things to note she gains some weight after being florted because i heart weight gain as a sign of a healthier environment #also thanks for almost 200 notes and double the followers i did not expect that wow #:) oc art #:) lonicera tag #:) hawthorne tag

first redesign of probably like. 12. but i'm pretty satisfied with it tbh. like with some of my older unrelated stuff i'm going to start rambling under the cut and not in the tags so i can use commas lol

also hey look she has a name now!!! crazy. Lonicera is the latin name for honeysuckle :)