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Simply no other buildings?
Jeeze, I must be pretty naive. I thought when you said the first one wasn’t going to work that there would be others…
Looking for houses and buildings is heck. I really do hope things do get better. 🙁
Um yeah, I thought the same thing as Quill- I had heard the horn of a unicorn being referred to as an “alicorn” and used that in my stories. D:
But YES they are very very popular. At least the sheer number of alicorn/unisis/whatever glass figures my mother has been given should indicate so. I don’t think many people know their name, or that they really care, I just know most would probably see a winged unicorn and buy it up for their fantasy collection. Or for their realtive’s fantasy collection. P:
I just had a thought- what if you gave the blue metallic Poads royal blue eyes like the Rainbow dragons had? Fremen poads. 😯
I’m not sure if that would actually look good or if those eyes would fit, but it’s an interesting thought. 😛
(I also know light blue would probably just be no fun at all. But I may be picky.)
Heh, sorry Skylover, I think we both kinda goofed up. XD I understand what you mean now. I had seen pictures of the peacock orientals before I stumbled upon mine and didn’t really like them, but when I saw the peacock sun dragon I had to lift my jaw off the floor. He changed my mind.
I guess I’m one of those people who don’t really like the more monochromatic colour schemes like Ruby on dragons…(although I’m softening up to that too…P: ) Who knows. I may not be seeing in my head what you guys are seeing. 😆
Meh!I think the lighter peacock orientals are PRETTIER in person. I’ve thought a couple times of selling my peacock Sun dragon after all the hoo-ha you guys made over the moon dragon, but I honestly just love him too much. He’s way too beautiful with all the subtle shifts into green on his shoulders and purple belly scales. Wonderful. <3
I know other people have them, tell me you agree with me!
The first thing I thought when I saw the photos was-
“They’d have a heckuva time fixing that thing.”
Why? The top half is the bigger break. It’s WAY bigger. That little bit with the hind legs and the base is going to have to support a LOT and the only thing keeping the top from wobbling is glue or expoy putty- and while I swear on the wonders that epoxy putty works on Windstones…well…who knows. I think this would be a serious repair job to undertake simply because of the places it was broken, the shape, and the weight.
Sorry, that’s me working out the logic in my head. I’ve trained myself to visualize how things would react in obedience to simple physics (which is the only type of physics I know. P:)
Good luck, whatever you decide. You’re holding up better than I would. I would be frustrated as heck.
EDIT: Yes I know I’m being a downer today with my logic. Sorry. 🙁
Heh, don’t get me wrong, when I was young I read Jean Craighead George’s books, and often they were about kids who raised baby birds. I wanted to do that so badly. 🙁 Then when I grew older and read things on real life situations (especially when the baby mockingbird was at our house) I just disappointed to not only find out it’s illegal, but that unless you really don’t know what you’re doing it’s a bad idea.
Now, if I remember correctly, Nam has worked at rehabs, so I’m sure she knows what she’s doing. XD
We did an odd thing with the food for our baby mockingbird, but it worked. It was dogfood and eggs and vitamins, as a site we hurridly pulled up suggested (in case you’re wondering what happened to the mockingbird, he was a victim of our dog…no serious injuries…just shock, but the ants getting to the wound made us worry). We were keeping it in a plastic bag, and my mother snipped off one of the corners to make a makeshift piping bag, and she would squirt out the food into the baby’s huge gaping yellow mouth. Looked pretty wormlike coming out. XD Maybe it was just silliness on my mom’s part…but the mockingbird seemed to like it. 🙂
I was 14 when I saw my first Windstone in Solvang, CA…grabbed my attention right away because well, he was a black gryphon! I wanted to take him all the long way home right then right there, but alas, I couldn’t.
I actually bought my first Windstone, a gryph candlelamp, in 2004. It took months of watching auction after auction, but I finally got my black gryph months later.
I’m 19 now. 😀
Egg tooth? Dear lord that is way too young, poor thing!
Are you sure it’s a sparrow? As in the forigen house sparrow? Because if it isn’t, it may be illegal for you to be raising the poor little thing. : US laws are kinda diffuclt that way in the fact that a) baby birds at that young an age are so hard to tell apart and b) well…who doesn’t want to try to rescue a poor helpless baby? Yet the laws are in place just because it’s next to impossible to raise a baby bird. Even for a rehabber. Not to sound all doom and gloom, but that’s just the way it is. 🙁
And THANK YOU Ski for clearing up those old wives tales. A lot of baby bird’s lives would be spared if idiots didn’t think fledgling robins that are already able to explore out of the nest need to be “rescued” or that a baby is doomed if a child touches it. 😕
Actually, I think robes that were iridescent and shifted colour like Windstone dragons would be really, really cool. Mmm…em pea robes…with purple…:b
We could all parade around like The Polyphonic Spree. Wait…you may not know who they are. They’re a band. They did songs that popped up in a lot of movie trailers like “Light and Day” and were on Scrubs once. They wear multicoloured robes. And there’s over 40 of them. 😀
Hey, I already KNOW I’m weird…and I like it that way. Normal is overrated. Normal people think only geeks like fantasy and they probably don’t even know what a griffin or kirin is, and would laugh at a cat or wolf with wings. They’re really kinda boring. :b
Long live weirdness.
Ha, when I saw that picture on LJ I also thought painting the same things over and over drove you to drink, too. XD
Maybe since nobody in my immediate family drinks it’s easy for me to joke about it, but as my father says- BOOZE: It’s what’s for dinner.
They do remind me of the gyrfalcons you’d find up north. Very very pretty. I love that icy blue on white. 😀
(“Cloning Jennifer Miller so we can have more labradorite griffins? BRILLIANT!!!!” I luv those commercials…)
Ski, you’re still going to have to wait to see if you can make fun of me. I broke my heel so I won’t be taking any driver’s tests soon. XD (You could make fun of me for breaking my heel but then I can tell you HOW and WHY I broke my heel and then you wouldn’t feel very good at all.)
(And yeah, I know a lot of my problem revolves around me being a bundle of raw nerves. 8D)
On topic…
Drawing is my main hobby. Most of my other hobbies evolved around drawing. I took up webdesign (which I haven’t done in forever) so I could display my art online (Kiwiberry Freezy is my personal site if you want to see my design work…it hasn’t been updated just because it’s the design can’t fit anymore content) and I adore writing…sometimes I wonder if I’m more comfortable writing than drawing. My characters mean a lot to me <3 (My two PYO gryphons were painted after two of my characters.)
I try to make a sculpture once a year or so…they’re fun…but they’re waaaaay easy to get lost in. I’ve stayed up all night working on Super Sculpey sculptures.
Used to play trombone, but that was a long time ago. 🙁 Want to take up guitar. Maybe someday…
OKAY enough babble.
I dunno, I like how the Wolf griffins look in the photos at the Astral Castle site:
http://www.ccgs.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=AC&Category_Code=1210
I dunno, I was oogling at the female for days. I have my male griffin next to my computer now (I’m upstairs because I had an accident which is keepin’ me off my left foot and my room is downstairs…but I missed my griffins and my dad was sweet enough to bring them up for me) and he probably thinks she looks pretty nice too…*sigh* Can’t afford her anytime soon. Hospital bills, not to mention other atrocities that happened last month. *faint*
Ditto Zorse- I have a Sun dragon in light (newer?) peacock- he had minor chips and flakes but I don’t regret it because I LOVE that colour on the Sun dragons.
I think a lot of my Windstones, including my Sun dragon, have this look on their face that just says “Heck yes, you KNOW I’m pretty.” 😆
As a Lion King fan and fanartist I have to say I respect Tezuka. He fully said his inspiration for Leo, as Kimba was originally called, was Bambi. Funny thing is, those huge “anime eyes” that we know today are originally inspired by Bambi’s huge blinkers.
As much as I admire the artists behind TLK, I know there is no chance in heck that there was no inspiration going on behind the scenes and I just wish, like Tezuka did all those years ago, they coulda just OWNED UP to it. Gosh.
My $0.02. I have a lot of friends that like both Simba and Kimba/Leo.
I think I already said this, but flionesses would be awesome. I like Pam’s idea of the lazy flioness, ’cause she’s right, they do spend about 20 hours a day sleeping. XD
I gave up waiting on tan griffin chicks. Could not stand to wait for cute little griffin chicks with their cute little faces…:(
