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Pick-Me-Up magazine, September 25, 1897

Holy shit there are so many birds

Because the whole incredible vertical gloriousness of this needs to be seen to be appreciated!

Another bird in the Maniculum Bestiaryposting Challenge: The Raggfong (which I think is one of the coolest-sounding names so far)!

From the entry, I assumed it was some kind of seabird. Being also described as condemning its children "not in a harsh manner but with the honesty of a judge", I decided on an albatros. Mainly because they have the "regal" bearing described in the entry, but also because their eyes seem a bit judgy. This specimen is in the process of testing its chick (if you haven't seen albatros chicks before, look them up. They do look Like That), but I did depict the entire life cycle of the raggfong under the cut:

Do you love the color of this guy? (I had to. Not sorry)

I originally wanted to upload this as a full picture, but tumblr wouldn't let me do it without scaling it down too much. If anyone has tips on how to get around that, please let me know! I hope this shows up more or less the way I intended for now. You can see the fully grown raggfong flying up to the sun to fry itself, the judgement of the chick, the fried raggfong flying towards a spring, the fallen chick that could not maintain a fearless gaze into the sun, the rejuvenation of the grown raggfong in the spring, and the place where all the forsaken bird chicks go.