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I have some simple color icons:

+couples icons: flags are: lesbian, pansexual, pansexual, and bisexual

+the alley outside Medusa's club

Freddie x Grace dragon AU / crossover -- Farishta and Grace-Pitch

So stoked for Year of the Dragon y'all. I am absolutely going to abuse the hell out of "I drew a dragon because 2024 winkwink".

(As if I wasn't going to anyway)

Also: Calliope in this AU is named Moss Emerald so that's why Grace's powers are green instead of yellow.

Had the dumb question "do the Muse’s powers work through a phone? Like if (muse)Freddie started singing on one end of the line, would she and Grace be able to visualize each other in the same room because musical number logic???"

@stargazing-zani came up with the scenario/dialogue btw

Vox

Birds have co-opted our anti-bird weapons in a genius counterattack

Humans install spikes so birds will go away. Birds steal them and do this instead.

Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

She wasn't Freddie for that

I really turned to my friend and said "I've never played a visual novel game before, but I'm glad the protagonist for my first one is so damn fine".

No trouble paying attention here, officer

sen-sational🎉

"How I wish to tell you so"

It was super cool to work on this ;; ♥ Audio is from Taylor McNee's Cameo (Penny's VA), it's a fun/not canon Nuts and Dolts confession.

Anyway now I can be a worm for the holidays, have a merry Christmas !

Link to watch it on Youtube HERE if you want :)

Paper sculpture created by Brittney Lee for the Wonderground Gallery at Disneyland (2015)

“This piece is titled "One with the Wind and Sky", and it is my love note to her. It is my love note to Frozen - to the people who let me be a part of this wonderful film and for the two years that I was allowed to help craft it. “

my chemical queerplatonic relationship. my chemical alterous. are you seeing my vision.

Visual development for Frozen II by Annette Marnat

When I was designing these dresses, I found both options interesting. So I kept them as alternatives.

Penny's VA (Taylor McNee) took another commission on Cameo of....... Penny singing Skibidi Toilet LMAO

I stopped everything I was doing to make this and I think it was worth it.

If you went back in time by two years and told my past self that a character who was killed by Cinder in the Volume 8 finale would eventually be brought back in a part-human, part-robot body, and then you told me that that character is Watts, I probably would have immediately exploded right then and there in front of you

I don't know what, but there's something about how it was specifically Penny's blades that separated Ruby from Crescent Rose here

In my own little 'I can help *this* one' scream into the universe, I've been de-stringing the feet of the pigeons that live in the park across from my office.

Pigeons (rock doves) are feral, and they live in our cities. With our rubbish. They get string (human hair, fishing line, threads, etc) wrapped around their feet when they do their little circling dance, or from their nests, and they can't get it off themselves. So they limp along as best they can, for as long as they can. They're pretty tough little guys! If you start to look, you'll probably notice a lot of them are missing toes or have strictures holding their feet in painful positions. Some even have both feet bound together.

But the good news is - it's actually SUPER easy to help them!

This little guy had thread around one foot, and wire and nylon line around the other. I removed it on my lunch break on Monday, and now he's already walking easier and won't be losing any more toes.

The photo is from the next day, because he came back to hang out again without hesitation. They're very friendly.

People really hate pigeons, which is a bit unfair considering we are the ones who brought them in to our cities in the first place. If you want to make a world of difference to some lives that don't get a lot of love any more, check out the below for everything you need to know.

Stringfoot Pigeon Help

What is stringfoot?

What is stringfoot? A brief overview.

this is for all the people who enjoy simply looking at pigeons doing their thing

“I love you”

Inspired by one of @/kabo_cha0726′s art on Twitter, and by Rebirth from Ok Goodnight ♥

Neon Lights - Nuts and Dolts comic [PART 3/7]

Movie and bed time let's gooo :] ♥