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dduane · 1 year

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Birdwatching

It's a nice sunny morning over in Illkirch-Graffenstaden (outside of Strasbourg) and business as usual appears to be proceeding at the peregrine falcons' nest there.

The mother (or just "falcon": males are called "tercels" due either to being a third smaller than the females, or due to an old myth that only one of every three eggs hatches out a male) just spent five minutes or so fiddling around with the twigs and junk on the platform in front of the nest. These may have been brought by the idiot pigeons that keep trying to nest there even while the falcons are in residence. The falcon's attitude at that point seemed to be one of "Where the F did this stuff come from, I don't remember bringing any of this here..."

When she got bored with that she got back into the nesting shelter and scratched the nest materials around a little: then did a bit of a squat-and-wiggle and settled herself over the egg. (There seems to be just the one: you can see it there under her wing.)

...And there she sat for a couple minutes more, until something made her get up and start observing the space around the church spire very intently. Quite soon after that she plainly saw something that concerned her, went straight to the edge of the platform, and leapt off into the air to have a better look at whatever it was. She hasn't been back since. (That was about fifteen minutes ago.)

Here's the live cam on YouTube. WARNING: turn your sound DOWN before going there. The wind noise is genuinely deafening.

ETA, 1:07 Strasbourg time: And oh FFS, here are the pigeons. We've stumbled into a bird-based soap opera.

I'm going to be sooooo interested to see what the falcon does when she gets back and finds them there. It's going to amaze me if these dingbats don't get killed and eaten, sooner or later.

...And here the tercel (whose name is apparently Valentine) comes back and sees the pigeons off. ("Lou", one of the commenters on the feed, grabbed the video...)

...Valentine then stands there shouting in indignation for a couple of minutes. Well, who could blame him.

(Also, noting the red smudge on his lower breast feathers. Looks like he may have been hunting.)

(ETA: there's another view of the nest, from inside the nesting box and above, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99QErpXgXBU)

#Faucons Pèlerins Illkirch #Strasbourg #France #falcons #peregrine falcons #Falco peregrinus

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kiskivmiske · 1 year

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More hcs (most are also from ff)

— Mudwing dragonets aren't completely independent, and do receive education. Adult troops take apprentices to teach them their crafts. In capital dragonets are taught in family-owned schools.

— They believe in the afterlife: deceased dragons visit their sibs to comfort them appearing in the living world as birds.

— They are protective of sisters while they are pregnant with eggs. In some regions, prone to scavenger attacks, Mudwings keep guarding the nest until hatching

— They often put small venomous snakes like adders in their nests. Snakes get rats, martens, and other animals who try to harm the eggs and bite bigger animals like scavengers and dogs. Adders aren't that big of a threat to dragonets because of their size, and dragonets do not consider snakes nutritious enough to hurt, and they usually coexist, sometimes snakes are kept as a replacement for domestic cats.

— Mudwings, being omnivorous, have various festivals related to nature and earth in particular: opening of sowing season, honey and fruit fairs, harvest festival. The ones who live in the northern parts, selebrate awakening of the earth in spring and say goodbye to it in the first snow, as winter hibernation is also a part of nature cycle.

— They have rituals of welcoming loners into family as new sibs including special greetings, oaths, and exchanging gifts.

— While Seawings and Nightwings see in the dark, and Skywings see the farthest, Mudwings and Rainwings have the best color vision of all, due to having fresh fruits in their diet. They are better at differentiating hues. You need to see colors really well to tell good and ripe fruit from the rest. Former volcano Nightwings, who are primarily predators and scavengers, are more prone to colorblindness.

— Chameleon could carry Leafwing genes due to either his parents both being related to them at some extent or him being a hybrid. This was the cause of his lack of color changing abilities, as we see he was having enough rest during his short naps to keep himself relatively healthy.

#wof #wings of fire #wof headcanon #wings of fire headcanon

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chaos-in-one · 2 years

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Trying to use picrew as a person of color be like:

"Oh my God have they ever seen a black person in their life? Their skin isn't fucking GREY"

" Oh wow! This picrew has FOUR variations of a button nose instead of two! Such diversity!"

" Well it took forever but hey I finally found a picrew with an eye shape that isn't either east asian or eurocentric!"

"Oh my God why do all the curly hair texture options look like birds nests that's not what it actually looks like???"

" Why is this picrew so detailed yet they still couldn't manage to make the palms lighter for darker skin tones"

"Oh wow, 5 different jawline shape options and yet still none of them are mine!"

"Ffs a Pastel color pallette does not excuse washing down darker skin tones, people with darker skin can have a Pastel aesthetic too"

"Nose complaint part 2: why are there never options for noses that stick out more at the top jfc some people have higher nose bridges"

" The only skin tones in the world are not pale, tan, and ashy brown, people"

"Oh wow! Scars and freckles and other facial features just do not work right on anything but the lightest skin tones! Isn't that fun?"

"Why are the only lip shape options paper thin ass white person lips and large round lips for fucks sake"

#picrew #racism #native american #poc #person of color

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the-blaze-empress · 1 year

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What are your favorite things abt c!phil? i want to know his character better :3

OH ANON I WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO ANSWER THIS

god where to START hmmmmmm

okay ive stuck it under a read more because my god is there a lot. for anyone curious, i list off 10 of my favourite things about cphil (with explanations as to what an why), 10 of my favourite quotes, and also cover some more common fandom mischaracterisations

1 - his character design it's basic, but i need somewhere to start. i LOVE phils character design, idk, maybe its just something to do with birds and green and me being a cosplayer. especially his new skin! it has details, anon, and they all have meaning. i love me some details with meaning. and bc its minecraft, and because minecraft is pixels, theres SO MUCH ROOM FOR INTERPRETATION. anyone can go COMPLETELY ham with the design if they want to and they all look SO COOL.

2 - EMERALD DUO okay so ill say it outright; im a qpr emduo sorta person. at the very least im an ‘old friends/war buddies/ex emperors emduo’ person. dont get me wrong, techno is the eldest child, but in the dsmp, he’s not phil’s kid, they’re just really old friends. AND OH MY GOD I LOVE THEM. ‘for you the world’ NEED I SAY MORE??? the emeralds, the phil risking his life to protect techno from the butcher army, the techno worrying about phil participating in doomsday, the complete and utter undying trust they have in each other. theyre not perfect, they still disagree and still have differing opinions but they sort it out and compromise and make sure each other is always okay!!! them!!!

3 - birb cphil is a bird we all know this. and this is leaning more into fanon not explicitly canon, but im including it because i can. phil is bird, he has bird brain. bird instincts and bird features, like hollow bones, chirping, nesting, preening, all the good stuff. it adds a layer of depth to his character thats so fun to play with when writing!! there’s so much potential for both angst and fluff and i love it so much. also i just love birds so yknow. win win situation for me.

4 - family, its messy phil is part of what i believe is the biggest canonical family on the dsmp. there’s four generations ffs. he has a son, a grandson, even a great-grandson. and it’s not perfect. wilbur is. wilbur, but even though he went mad and even though he lied in his letters he still cared enough to send letters in the first place, phil still cared enough to read them. phil still cared enough to drop everything for his son. it was messy and it was heartbreaking but that is what it is to be a father, i think. sometimes whats right is whats hardest and its phils love for wilbur that was forever just so clear. its the way fundy fucked up, its the way phil fucked up in return, its the way they made up without properly making up but phil was always, always there for fundy, always cared for him at least a little, because that’s his grandson.

5 - leading on from the above, kristin!! ANON DO YOU KNOW HOW COOL IT IS FOR PHIL TO BE MARRIED TO THE LITERAL GODDESS OF DEATH?? phil is a trophy husband and you cannot convince me otherwise. his wife is SO COOL and SO POWERFUL and he loves her SO VERY MUCH. yeah sure hes a het guy in a homonormative society but i can forgive him for that because his wife is amazing. also less cphil, more ccphil, but i think its SO FUCKING COOL AND/OR FUNNY that ccphil literally just. wrote his wife into the dsmp on a whim. THATS how much he loves her that even tho shes not involved in this thing hes doing she’s still there in some sense.

6 - immortality yeah cphil CAN die, but here’s the catch; he doesn’t. hes functionally immortal and godddd i love it so much. hes so fucked up from it, but i love that about him (more on that point later). cphil has lived through so much and he has known so much and he has gained and lost SO MUCH but he’s still going strong, hes still loving and living and trying. who knows when he’ll finally die, not him and certainly not us.

7 - WOO TRAUMA mans is SO FUCKED UP. god where to even START with this. phil has not processed a single emotion in 500 years and he does NOT plan on starting now thank you very much. his sons death? nah lets build a country instead. watching his best friend be executed? nope not processing THAT lets find somewhere else to live oh yeah also i almost died. phils favourite thing is avoiding emotions and busying himself with some Other Task for Someone Else (new lmanburg, training room, various farms for techno, just to name a couple) so he Doesnt Have To Think About Anything. also perception of time? hell no he’s gonna be working for days without realising it. this is not healthy. he does not intend to stop. he blames himself for so much and rarely ever accepts help from anyone at all.

8 - kindness dont get me wrong if you get on the wrong side of phil you will find out exactly why some know him as the angel of death, but if ur not on that side of him, hes just. so kind and so caring. that one time when ranboo was deliberately trying to trigger the enderwalk out, and phil ran in and got rid of all the splash water bottles because he thought ranboo was getting hurt? yeah. that. protecting tommy without hesitation or question when dream was chasing him? yeah. that. building new lmanburg because tubbo had enough on his plate and he needed something to do anything to do he needed to keep his hands busy then it would be okay it had to be okay he had to be okay? yeah. that. visiting techno even while he was under house arrest to make sure he was okay? yeah. that.

9 - hes such a chaotic little fuck this is something a LOT of the fandom seem to. ignore. phil is not this sophisticated, calm, rational father figure. he can be sometimes (at a push) but thats not who he is. he’s an absolute chaos machine, and a fucking deadly one at that. he’s bored and you’re in the general vicinity? bye living! i think its well summed up in that one clip of phil and techno in a village, and techno’s grabbing a couple supplies here and there, and phil is just fucking gutting the place even if he doesnt actually need those supplies. he will murder (for fun), he will explode shit (for fun), he will cause mass genocide (for fun), he will fucking. idk he’ll do it all for fun.

10 - history imo, phil and techno are some of the best—if not the most—fleshed out characters in the dsmp. part of this, i reckon, is because of the history they have. you cannot talk about dsmp cphil properly without acknowledging smp earth and hardcore at the very least. the antarctic empire is there, phil and techno carry its shields and wear its colours. the angel of death is familiar to most if not all, the love for fucking freezing temperatures is there too. phil did decanonise the connection to hardcore, but a) many people who care ignore that, b) i ignore that, and c) it was there for at least a little, it had influence for at least a little. cphil is and old character, he didn’t just blip into existence in the dsmp, he has real, solid, pre-established history.

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and now for some of my favourite cphil quotes!!

1 - Things, buildings, they can be replaced! People can't be replaced. I'm not losing anyone else... I'm not losing anyone else. Not to this bullshit.

2 - (“Since when was this a Philza Minecraft thing?”) “Since I was forced to kill my own son, you idiot!”

3 - look i made this entire section to include One Specific Quote except i now cannot find that quote. fuck this fuck me. it was something phil said in chat at one point, he was talking to sam, saying how he [phil] was immortal, he had seen nations rise and fall, he had seen people like sam who craved power come and go with little consequence. its a good quote, trust me, ill put it here when/if i can find it.

4 - "I've seen this 'government', on this server... Everything to do with government has just been bad so far. (...) I've watched it completely destroy and tear down people's wills, and change people... I've seen it change the nicest people into complete and utter tyrants. So I think it's about time.”

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okay quotes over now for some common fandom mischaracterisations, since u said u wanted to know cphils character better

1 - bad dad phil this one really gets me. i hate it, genuinely. phil was never and is not a bad dad. im not saying he was perfect, but he was not a bad dad. it is not his fault wilbur went mad, it is not his fault tommy was hurt so much in exile (more on that later), none of this is his fault. phil cares so much about his family and does everything he can for them, he was never neglectful or absent or anything of the sort.

2 - sbi family dynamics THESE HAVE BEEN DECANONISED BY LIKE EVERYONE IN SBI FOR THE DSMP. MULTIPLE TIMES. tommy was never phils son, he was just some kid phils actual son knew. techno is phils old friend, not his son. wilbur, however, is his son

3 - calm collected eloquent father SOMETIMES phil can have good fatherly advice. other times he really fucking does not!! cphil is shit with words, if you want someone whos always expressing their emotion in elegant prose, look at techno, not phil. he tries, he really does, but his perception of normality is warped, and sometimes he just doesnt fucking care?? hes chaotic and fairly independent, and yeah okay he may have taken in TWO stray kids (tubbo, when he was a child, and ranboo after doomsday) but hes not the like. serial adopter some people make him out to be

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so yeah, thats cphil for you! im more than happy to go into more detail about any of the above things, just ask! that goes for literally anyone btw. ill happily talk about fanon and more fandom characterisations, but ive tried to keep it as close to canon as i can so far. what’s great is that despite what he claims, ccphil is an excellent roleplayer and general storyteller, hes always adding little details and explaining reasoning behind things, so theres so much nuance and so much depth to cphil and the section of the world he inhabits. can you tell that cphil is my favourite character perhaps.

#wisdom be uponeth ye #Anonymous #tha scrunkle <3 #dsm5 i meant dsm5 #anon i am so sorry this is almost 2k words #this probably isnt Quite what you were expecting asking me this but in my defence you asked and i answered #original thoughts in their natural habitat #tenobled #my favourite war criminals #giant woman #theyre fambily ur honour #i have spent like two hours writing this lmaoooo #deaths malewife

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ratsoh-writes · 1 year

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Masterlist 27

(****)= suggestive

Introducing:

Birdtale

Fallouttale

Theatretale

General:

optimists pessimists and realists (almost all)

SO dies and he eats their favorite food without them for the first time

his bestie takes a bullet for him (mf mt ms uf fsr )

thoughts on artists (st ss sf)

dealbreakers (ff of sf ss fs)

SO licks his cheek and runs (fsg fsr)

seeing SOs damaged soul (us uf mt ms)****

he wakes from a nightmare (red butch snipe wine)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN (ALL)

a coconut lands on his skull

sub dom scale updated (all)********

Updated What they want in a partner (ALL)

Worldbuilding:

dos and don'ts of birdtale

feathers on bird skeletons

sticking your hand in a ribcage

holding someone's kids explained

royal guard

what do they puke up if they burn their food right away

Side characters

more Gamma (fallout)

misty (seatale)

poppy (undertale)

kevin (who knows)

Interactions

Updated relationships chart (ALL)

Birdtale:

how protective are they

favorite flower

can they fight?

his bro gets sucker punched

his SO makes him a nest

someone yanks out a fistful of feathers

quirks

pet peeves

how'd he spend his anniversary

what he's attracted to

hissssss

clothing tastes

ticklish

Fallouttale

lens' dealbreakers

insecurities

most and least fav foods

fears

flaws

ideal friend

scent

ideal date

what they like in monsters

Theatretale

hiss and purr

thoughts on kids

ideal bestie

what they want in a SO

pet peeves

gaster and other parent

family relationship

love languages

deal breakers

getting catcalled

Hogwarts houses

poly?

instruments they can play

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elfyourmother · 2 years

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out of the blue random ask but what pets do gisele and the elfpile have?? mounts and housecats n everything

Gisele has two cats. Lady Belle Meowington (Fat Cat) was a tiny bedraggled little stray kitten that wandered into their camp one night on the road trip, and Gisele kept her. Mimi is much newer, a Yanxian cat that she got in Radz-at-Han; Ahewann’s cat had a litter of kittens and he was trying to find homes for them all so Gisele ended up with one. Belle washes her a lot. And then there’s Nosferatu the little bat, who flew up Gisele’s sleeve after her fight with Hesperos and followed her home through time from Pandaemonium XD I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention the Great Serpent of Ronka, who similarly followed her home from the First. Belle washes him sometimes too. And Gisele makes little outfits for all of her pets btw.

Simeon is Aymeric’s cranky old white Persian kitty who doesn’t like anybody except the elfpile. But Aymeric is a crazy cat lady and feeds all of the neighborhood strays and has named all of them. There are a few he rescued and brought to the Congregation, all of whom are honorary knights with names like Ser Whiskers and such.

Stephanivien keeps an orange tabby at the manufactory named Allan (after the wrench). He was a stray that Steph kept feeding and decided to keep him as a mouser. Even though he’s Steph’s cat he’s sort of the community kitty for all the machinists there, everyone spoils him (especially Joye).

Ysayle loves all sorts of critters, and specifically keeps birds; her family trained falcons for the Ishgardian nobility (it was what Falcon’s Nest was known for, hence the name) and so she was around them from a young age. But she’s especially fond of them because they were some of her only companions when she was in the wilderness as a child (she used them to hunt). Which you would think is not terribly compatible with all the cats around but 🤷🏾‍♀️ Anyway nowadays she has a small peregrine falcon named Anaïs whom she found in Dravania with an injured wing and nursed back to health.

Estinien doesn’t have any pets of his own and helps take care of the others. He loves animals and always has; he’s as much a Disney prince in that regard as Haurche but people never suspect it. He had a sheep dog as a boy on the farm but unfortunately lost him along with everyone else.

Haurche is similar; he did have a cat as a boy growing up but the Countess got rid of him after he clawed her favorite chaise and Haurche was quietly devastated by the whole thing and was never allowed another pet after that. It’s why he got so invested in raising the chocobo, that was a practical thing he could justify as knights needed mounts. But there’s an old mouser at Camp Dragonhead that he was very fond of, a Scottish Coerthan fold named Valiant. He “retired” under Emmanellain’s command of the fortress and enjoys a comfortable life in the commander’s quarters.

As mounts go, everyone’s got chocobos

Gisele: a white one named Kael’thas, ostensibly named for a dashing Elezen prince in one of her favorite romances, but is actually a reciprocal meta gag. In my Warcraft fics, Prince Kael’thas’ white hawkstrider (the WoW knockoff of chocobos) was named Gisele, ostensibly after a beautiful Quel’dorei sorceress in one of his favorite stories as a child. White chocobos ofc being historically associated with magic in FF because they used to restore your MP in the older games. Anyway the black chocobo Haurche raised and gave her is named Chretienne.

Haurche: another black one named Vivi, and this isn’t actually an FFIX reference but rather a joke about his pony play kink because “Vivi” is Gisele’s affectionate nickname for Stephanivien.

Ysayle: yet another black one. Victoire is her name.

Aymeric: a blue one obviously. Her name is Mireille.

Stephanivien: a yellow one named Parcival. But he tends to prefer his mechanical mounts.

Estinien: a black one named Reinette, for the Saint.

In addition:

Gisele’s unicorn from the CNJ quest is named Soleil and is her mount of choice, though she also kept the White Devil from Livia (she took it to get out of Castrum Meridianum after their duel).

Steph is the sort who names all his gadgets and such so has a manacutter he named Bleu (after Aymeric 🥰) and Cid gifted him a custom SDS Fenrir motorbike for his nameday that he named Silver (after Haurche 🥰). And he absolutely anthropomorphizes them too. He takes care of Maggie for Gisele, like she’s his child even, and sometimes rides her around (she loves him nearly as much as she loves Gisele).

Estinien hangs out with various dragons.

#this was so cute to think about ty #simeon the cat #lady belle meowington #gisele surana #the elfpile #kuroimarzipan #ask bisho

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