#bower bird

[arulia108]

valentines done for Mirth & Mire

[birdstudies]

February 15, 2025 - Tooth-billed Bowerbird, Stagemaker Bowerbird, or Tooth-billed Catbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris) These bowerbirds are found in rainforest in a small area of northeastern Australia. They eat mainly fruit, as well as some flowers, stems, leaves, and arthropods. Males clear display areas around one or more tree trunks, decorating them with fresh leaves. They begin their courtship displays hiding behind a tree trunk while singing, then perform visual displays and rush across the display area to the females. They may keep the same area for over 20 years. Females build the nests from sticks, twigs, and sometimes orchid stems, and incubate the eggs alone. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN due to threats from extreme weather and reduced resources caused by climate change.

[inestheunicorn]

Satin Bowerbird trying to seduce his lady 💙 To join our super secret club and get these, just check my Patreon here 🌹

[leafylit]

“You’ve collected all the blue you can find. — You’ve scoured the earth for every little scrap of blue. — And now all that’s left is for you to wait for someone to validate your work. — It might be that you’ve done it all for nothing. — It might be that your bower seduces no one — But you’re too compelled by the blue to care.”

- Antonia Angress, Sirens and Muses

[earthanthem]

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[wwyptt]

More teasers for my new pin-up poster coloring book Slow Fantasy. This time: the Druid!

The Druid only completes a piece or two a year, despite her mastery over nature and time, because no magic can hasten the arduous work of hand embroidery. Thankfully, while new amber ripens on her just-petrified bramble, she has a chorus of singing assistants and a treetop community to keep her company.

You can support Slow Fantasy with a pre-order here!

[theonceandfuturequeenoftarts]

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

Thank you for the ask! <3

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

So, I research a lot of things just as a matter of course. I like diving down rabbit holes so I better understand some esoteric little bit of knowledge that will never benefit me in any tangible way.

For fics (often for throwaway references...), I've spent hours researching film release dates, grocery store rivalries, what rides and foods were available throughout the 1900s in the UK at fairs, what circuses were like in the 1930s and what it's like to be part of one as a performer (thank you, randoms on Reddit), selective mutism, the historical and geographical availability of banana cultivars (this is probably the strangest?), representations of death and death gods in multiple cultures, and selkie lore.

Also, snake dicks, but I feel like that's a rite of passage in tomarrymort. Everyone eventually ends up in hemipenes territory.

Edit: Wait, I forgot about bower birds!! And interesting animal courting/mating rituals. Albatrosses remain my favourite.

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

It's really difficult to choose just one for HP/tomarrymort! There are so many talented artists, we're really lucky~ I'm going with this piece by ysaribi. The closeness, the implied care and intimacy, "my soul" <3 And, of course, how the characters are drawn is amazing. I dunno, I write a lot of fluffy slice-of-life where these two cuddle -- it only makes sense I'd like it in fan art too ʅ（‾◡◝）ʃ

For non-HP fan art, I also really, really love this piece of Link by eori-namo. Just, the colours, the softness, Link's contented little smile. Gorgeous.

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