#cheevwut

Sorry, but despite everything, Cheevwut is too much of a normie have a woke opinion about carnalists. Microdosing avian cocaine at work is normal, but "sex drugs" (sex hormones and spring inducers) are for weirdo perverts.

Avians don't really chew their food and have a poor sense of taste, so a lot of the experience of meals for them is visuals, texture, and after-effects. Recreational drugs are a very common additive to normal foods. Most psychoactive drugs get filtered from an avian's bloodstream very quickly by their large hepatokidney, but this doesn't prevent dependency from forming. Addiction is major problem in modern avian societies.

Avians also had a global warming crisis, but its scale was more comparable to the human ozone depletion crisis. Their lack of land certainly made things more urgent to those with the power to stop things, but because their planet has much less accessible fossils, their transportation and energy systems were less dependent on them overall. Switching to alternatives was easier because large-scale alternative infrastructure already existed.

(struggled finding a good still image so you get a gif again!)

Cheevwut is an avian alien who works in administration and has been slowly climbing up the chain of command through their bizarre psychosexual relationship with their manager, Ohwitiil, who they pair up with every spring despite their mutual disdain for each other. Otherwise, Cheevwut is fairly un-ambitious and quite content with the way their life is going.

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A snippet taken from the hypothetical dirtball groupchat.

The tail on the speech bubble there looks (to an avian) a bit like a lip corner. Or, if the whole thing is interpreted as a super cartoony earless head, the tail is a neck.

I don't normally respond to excessively broad or dense topics for AMAs but this one nerdbaited me.

Saturated light blue/cyan has about as poor contrast for avians as yellow and white has for us.

Somehow I forgot to post the chapter 4 character AMAs for Runaway to the Stars back in March. So um. Happy September, here they are if you didn't read them on the comic website.

If you make Idrisah's recipe, I recommend substituting feta cheese with a tablespoon of water for brined yeast curd, white wine vinegar for green vinegar, and canola oil for spira oil. And parmesan cheese for nooch, if nutritional yeast frightens you.

Uunraashi City is the same place Sirawit was born, btw.

Avians are typically considered adults at 10 years old. That's in Terran years. The Dominion of Tiiliit does not have mandatory or government sponsored educational programs, and childhood education is considered the responsibility of the dunparent and their "house," a social housing block funded by a bright "alimony" tax. As adults, Tiilitian citizens are often narrowly educated in the field of employment they enter unless they pay for a wider education at a university. Brights will often sponsor the education of children they believe to be good candidates for employees or financial successors, with first pick going to the children of their dunsiblings. A bright sponsoring their direct children is a Tiiliitian taboo, except for the highest echelon of royalty. The taboo is fueled by bright anxieties about the duns they mate with discarding their eggs, mating again, and then lying about the child's parentage to secure their sponsorship. Your siblings' kids are considered a better guarantee of kinship.

Avians are way too big to be on the menu for omnivorous simiformes from their homeplanet like Eswii, but those animals use hunting strategies similar to this to capture smaller flying prey. Since humans are massive, it's an easy place for an avian mind to wander... helped by the fact that videos of humans restraining avians in a similar way frequently circulate through avian social media. Sometimes the context is positive (rude avian starting fights gets OWNED by giant security guard!!!) and sometimes it's negative (human ruthlessly attacks innocent avian!!!!) but either way, most avians find humans physically intimidating. It's similar to fearful human attitudes about centaurs, and can have negative consequences for humans working with avians.