#poorwill

(do not say, "so does your mom" don't say it...)

Yes, I love watching them hunt!

Here's a favorite for you...

Common Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) getting a drink of water, family Caprimulgidae, order Caprimulgiformes, western USA

i agree, i really do, but not as bad as everyone's making it as.

for the second dream that ephiales gave will, it's about being unable to heal nico.

is it really about nico though?

will's fear is being unable to heal and save the people he loves and being judged by his fellow demigod friends. how could we blame him? his cabinmates died. some right in front of him!!!

and also being useless.

and maybe also be his fatal flaw.

The Common Poorwill doesn’t sing much when the mercury drops. But it can do something else that is remarkable. As the winter cold deepens, this petite member of the nightjar family can enter a hibernation-like state, and stay like that for hours—or even weeks!

hi!! thanks for the questions <3 i’m sorry i wrote so much in response, turns out i had a lot to say

colour-wise i absolutely adore bright saturated schemes in primary colours specifically (yellow blue red etc) with strong contrasting elements (mostly black tbh). but when it comes to character design, i tend to stick to conservative palettes for… some reason. i like the idea of someone looking at mayday and knowing that they’re a tabby cat, or seeing tar and being like yep, striped hyaena. so i have a hard time bringing myself to just grab bright and unnatural colours when designing characters. however when someone else has a character design that incorporates bright contrasting colours that looks good and well-thought-out, i absolutely love it. i’m not too hot on pastels and vaporwave/cyan-magenta stuff and my favourite colour is orange 

in terms of species, anything goes really! i have a bias towards mammals and birds (i’ve been toying with the idea of designing a seagull or penguin character!) in my personal work but if a design is good i literally don’t care what the species is.i love cats especially, they’re defo my favourite animals and i love drawing them… they are surprisingly difficult to get right. i also love seeing people’s feline characters. sabertooth tigers seem to be the most popular among ppl i follow but my bias is towards smaller cats (today i have been researching the lesser-known wild cats and i’ve literally fallen in love with pampas cats lmao so expect to see a pampas cat character soon)

overall though the thing i like most in a design, visually, is i guess a well-developed pattern?? that sounds weird. but i don’t like character designs where there’s like a few dots here and some stripes there and it all seems disconnected and ultimately it falls flat. this is also how i do costume design for my human art - i like a recurring motif and large dynamic elements rather than scattered small bits. if that makes sense. it’s hard to articulate, i’m not like an artist or anythin 

i also really really like it when the artist has put some genuine thought into the speculative elements of their design. as someone with a background in biology and medicine, my passion is spec bio and realism in creature design. i lose my shit when i find well-done original species where the creator has put genuine care and research into their designs, where logic is taken into account in each design decision. obviously it’s all fantasy art in the end so there’s leeway but hey, well-reasoned magical systems are amazing to see too. this might seem a little out of the blue since this is a blog for me to draw furrys and shit. but on my personal (which i will not link here) i engage in serious spec bio for multiple creative projects. all the art for those is kinda ugly because it’s mostly concept sketches lmao

uhh i think that’s it. thanks for reading