#ghostbird

[cosmic-escapist]

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[lilgreenfox]

PokeCember Day 18 - Ghost 🪶💜🪭

[ghost-bxrd]

An important question about your user name; should I be picturing a ghost bird or a ghost bard?

And if a bird, are we talking dead bird spirit imprint, or a potoo?

Or

Pfpfpfpf valid question. I go by GhostBIRD. Somehow fitting for my Robin obsession I’ll admit, but coincidentally Batman or adjacent fandoms didn’t have anything to do with that choice in username.

I used to sketch a lot of skeletal/surreal animals (and birds) and was very into subtle horror. I ended up stumbling across a book (and later the movie) “Annihilation” by Jeff Vandermeer, where the main character had the nickname “Ghostbird” and… it stuck with me. Also it helped very much that when I googled GhostBird and found the very real bird, the Potoo, it ended up being a wonderfully silly looking bird that’s just perpetually screaming which… is very on brand ngl.

so yeah, that’s how my username was born. A combination of sketching literal ghost birds, a killer book (and movie), and a silly looking bird that looks like it had too many espressos (mood). 🦉

As for what to picture… I’d like to say please think of me as an eerie spirit bird but… the potoo is much closer to reality lol.

[gravesdotjpg]

Imgood at drawing normal & tonally appropriate southern reach trilogy fanart

[wimsee]

reflections are weird man. like i can be looking at the water and see the tree above me. and there’s no way i’d have even known the tree was there if i didn’t look up to see it normally, but there it is, and the birds are sitting happily in its branches. and im not looking at the birds, but i can see them. and through them i can see the fish in the pond. as if i’m only seeing the ghosts of the birds and the trees.

[carnivorelambkin]

sekiro.

[gold-and-ruff]

The Biologist

[hiddenportal]

mending my storms~victoria pettella