the champion fool among birds

mars/pigeon | they/them | 30+ | bark bark, bitch find me on ultros @ katja pekkarinen | icon @ thornb4ck / header @ empty-devils

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Went to the sea glass festival today at Mystic Seaport.

[drachenmagier]

scanned. :)

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

[fox-and-the-hound]

moon light and under water

[sobcat]

ready for what the next week brings...

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 3 days 22 hours

[jackkdaniels]

extremely good trope: injured character sees their own blood on someone else who's otherwise unscathed and gives a concerned "are you hurt?" double points if they're so injured they're barely lucid

[islamprotestan-blog]

only 5 seconds

[zanyflowerpizzatrash]

i wasn't ready for that..lol

[suffer-no-humiliation]

Immediately recognized that look

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

The subtitles do really good work at conveying tone and mood here, but it's worth having sound on just for the noise he makes when she gets out of it.

[beeeleenn]

today is the last saturday of 2012. reblog now or go @#!*% yourself because you won't get this chance ever again.

[draconym]

The kids on Tiktok were right actually

Making masks rules

[draconym]

I think the beads really complete the look

[draconym]

For the folks curious about templates, these are the shapes I cut from cardboard. I added a couple little pieces of cereal box cardboard as structural support in various points, like the bridge of the nose and behind the beak. Also, I ended up cutting the forehead piece a little smaller, which I marked on the paper, but I kept the template size in case you want to see how it originally looked.

@blackbearmagic made a bunch of cool templates for the workshop I'm going to do in December, too. I'll get a few photos of those later.

[mblematic]

love when the mutual takes the mutual bait. yes that post was for you. yes it was about our lil guy. thanks for falling for it. I love you

[did-i-do-this-write]

Writers of Tumblr, I have a query

Does anyone have any good resources for drawing a small scale map (i.e. a zoomed in map of a small town or one borough of a city)?

Links, websites, or resources and tips to draw and create the layout by hand? Anything is appreciated!

[caxycreations]

Inkarnate! It's a solid map-making tool.

[sometimesraven]

also fantasytowngenerator.com! It's made for TTRPGs so it's pretty in depth and although it pre-generates things based on your input you can customise to your heart's content right down to who lives where and what they do every day (though I don't bother w. that). Here's some town maps I've made:

It's also run by like one dude who is contactable through reddit iirc, I had a bug with the site and he DM'd me to talk me through it and fixed it for me

[did-i-do-this-write]

This is literally perfect for what I need!!! Thank you so much!

Might end up using it more as a template 👀

[vogelspinne]

Friendly fire against @thornb4ck !

[luna-azzurra]

Desire should make your characters a little stupid. Otherwise what are we even doing here.

[sugared-violetts]

does anyone know how to go to sleep

[deepspacepirate]

One of my favorite tropes is post apocalyptic towns being named after dilapidated signs with missing letters, like Novac (no vacancy) and Eaden (dead end). There’s something inexplicable about it

[togepipi]

catch me in the city of fre shavaca do

[tiktokstowatch]

[ambrosisanything]

[cc: Getting your mail in rural Virginia is always a fun time, because I’m over here getting my Micheal’s coupon out of the mailbox and my poor neighbor just sees:

(Spooky person standing near the roadisde of an empty rural road, waves.)]

[zine-e]

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[ID: Tags reading, ‘#not to be a lesbian but oh my fucking god. oh my god. fucking jesus fuck oh my fucking jesus fucking christ. god in heaven. holy [fucking] shit]’ /End ID]