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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby cmsellers » Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:59 am

Me: "Well shit, it's almost Halloween, and I don't have an avatar."
Me: *googles "black and orange animals."
Me: "red ruffed lemurs, that could work. How about this picture of a red-ruffed lemur looking like it's trying to raise the dead?"
GIMP: No way you're getting a decent 1:1 crop out of that.
Me: "Guess I'll keep looking."
Bond villain-looking lemur: "Come at me, bro."
Me: "Aha!"

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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby KleinerKiller » Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:16 am

Returning to last year's Marceline the Vampire Queen avatar for personal reasons (and because I tried to go back to my old Kyoko Kirigiri one but it magically changed sizes to be slightly too big and it's late and I'm too lazy to resize it or hunt for a new one right now).

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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby cmsellers » Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:32 am

This is a starry owlet-nightjar. Owlet-nightjars are a small group of birds found mostly in Australia and New Guinea, with one recently-extinct species in New Zealand, one possibly extinct species in New Caledonia, and one extant species in Wallacea. Their closest relatives are the hummingbirds and swifts. Being shy and nocturnal, they're rarely seen.

The New Zealand and New Caledonian owlet-nightjars are the most divergent ones, followed by a New Guinea clade with two species. One is called the feline owlet-nightjar because with rictal-bristle whiskers and "ear" tufts it resembles a cat. You might expect it to look like a cross between an owl and a cat, but it really looks like some weird alien.

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The other is the starry owlet-nightjar, which also has the rictal bristles and looks like a cartoon of a Victorian gentleman.

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