Oh, Thank You!!

they're really neat, so thank you!!

i was going to tell a story about a neat encounter with a barred owl i had when i was young, but thinking about barred owls reminded me of spotted owls, which i will likely never see in the wild. so, may i ask for spotted owls?

Absolutely!!!

Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, found in SW Canada and the NW United States

Conservation Status: Threatened

photographs by Greg Vaughn, NPS, Frank Lospalluto

i got–and drew–my first wof ocs back in 2022 (i never made any when i first read the books?) and they've been floating around my brain for those two years. anyway, i decided to redo those first drawings i'd done back then

these three were designed by spiderz on flightrising!

Eeeeeeee, hello! I saw you were doing requests! This is my boy Argo:

wasn’t sure which colours to use, so i did two versions

his refs mostly look happy, so I drew him happy

(alt version and process vid under the cut)

This is probably the visual representation of

"I HAVE NO RESTRAINT". BRANCHES? YES! I can stop at any time. I think. Ok, maybe not, but it's not like I wanted to stop in the first place. <3

I painted the first version a while ago and never felt like it worked out. This weekend I picked it up again, and started to just paint branches into it. No idea where that came from, but I really think it works here. :D

Prints and Commissions HP - BSKY - Kofi 

First version:

Ooookay. Sculpting is completely done. Please look at how fucking magnificent he is in case I fuck the whole thing up.

Now I'm going to do something that might end in disaster, because you should never, ever try to make a mold from something like this without planning to destroy the original. I am going to attempt to make a mold without even slightly fucking up the original. I have been assured by several very skilled sculptors that this is going to be a nearly impossible thing. Point in my favour, I am working with silicone instead of plaster. I'll be able to do a very thin layer that I can peel off, and if needed I can add another layer after the piece is fired and more sturdy, because silicone sticks to silicone. Cutting this off is going to be an adventure, though.

free icewing/nightwing hybrid adopts :D

i was mostly just experimenting with how different variant hybrids would look

SpearWing/SwiftWing: open

SpearWing/StarWing: open

FrostWing/WolfWing: open

CliffWing/StarWing: open

RavenWing/WolfWing: open

PantherWing/SnowWing: open

??????: open

RavenWing/WolfWing: open

for more information on the variants you can look here and here :D

and for more adopts you can look here and here

my fav is 100% nightwings X3

Mountain Horned Agama (Ceratophora stoddartii), male, family Agamidae, Knuckles Range, Sri Lanka

photograph by Calynn

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.