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SallyVinter — A Pause in Flight
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Been a while since I've done one of these. So, here's a bat~!Art (C)
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You have such a great eye for this style of work. It comes out brilliant.
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I love the NWC Native style. It's so much fun to work with
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I love it! Would it be OK if we added it to the gallery over at #Gunalcheesh?
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Yeah, you may 
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I'll have to change that. Let me see what I can do.
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I love bats. They get such a bad rap because of the whole vampire association but they are really quite gentle creatures.
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Me too! And of course they just have to put them in horror movies and video games as cheap scares and annoying enemies. They just make it worse. I've loved bats since grade 2 when I first read a book called "Stellaluna." And in Grade 3 one of my classmate's parents worked in the national parks. They took care of two baby bats that had lost their mother and I got to see them up close. SO CUTE!!! I also remember going to the Calgary zoo and seeing this crazy Flying Fox Bat who liked to put on shows for the visitors. He was an oddball
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OMG you read Stellaluna too! <3 Yay! When I was little, maybe in third grade, we were on our way out to eat when we noticed our cat Kit-kat stalking something in our yard. Dad went over and found it to be a momma bat and her two little babies clinging to her back. They had fallen out of the tree in broad daylight, which of course she didn't like so she was just frozen there on the ground. Dad got a 5 gallon bucket and placed it over them to keep the sun and the cat out and we called in the wild life department. They came out an hour later to pick up Momma and Babies and said that aside from a little shock they looked fine and they would be rereleased after they had a chance to rest. So it was a happy ending. But that was my first introduction to bats and I've loved them ever since. We have a number of them that live in our yard and I'd like to build a bat house to encourage more because they eat the bugs. I don't mind bugs but I very strongly dislike spiders and they like to hang and drop down from our two acres of trees. But since we've done some stuff to make life easier for bats to live in our yard there has been a very pleasant drop in the spider population. DIE SPIDERS DIE! FEED MY LOVELY BATS! Muh ha ha ha ha >:3
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lol, we seem to have quite a few childhood parallels. 
We had spiders as big as rats in my dad's house growing up....I remember once when I was changing one ran across my foot. I FREAKED OUT!!!!!!
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Well, we live in a small city that still has quite a few trees. We've had coyotes and raccoons come out and ravage our trash cans and have even had deer try to hop fences (that ended sadly) When we moved further south to where we live now we moved closer to the city limits and thus to the wildlife. We had a den of foxes in out pile of wood (we have to make a pile of wood from branches and trees we've had to cut and once a year Dad goes and burns it) They were adorable. In this house we have a ton of bats because we have a 2 acres of land that had over 300 trees on it when we moved in now it's down to a more manageable 100. With the trees and the land comes lots of bugs and around here if you have bugs and trees you have bats. My brother and I benefitted from having so much nature around us. Because of being brought up around wildlife I can say I don't dislike many creatures. They only things I don't like on land are things with less than two legs with the exception of some snakes and things with more than six legs. I have been traumatized by arthropods. Had a horrible encounter with a rather large wolf spider. It wasn't the size of a rat, possibly the size of a small mouse if you aren't counting the legs. If you count the legs in the size it was the size of a small china saucer. Anyway it ran up my arm and I screamed like a little girl. It wasn't squishable at that size so after calming me down a bit Mom got a jar and scooted it in with some cardboard and then released it outside. Then when I moved to Chicago I had a centipede infestation in the basement of my apartment complex right under my apartment so they came up through the floor and would bite me while I was working out or would just randomly crawl up things like my furniture or my legs. Kirara helped deplete their population though. She thought they were marvelous toys. :3
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You know...I don't think I ever saw a Raccoon around my town. We had skunks tho, and deer, and geese, ducks, etc. In the summer we'd get bears and the odd cougar. I remember when a moose and her calf came through town. It was so awesome! I didn't know they were that big! Moose are like the Elephants of Canada! THEY'RE BEASTS!!
Snakes are my favourite animal. X3 I love the scales and colours and their eyes. I remember when in Harry Potter they revealed Harry was a Parselmouth. I thought that was awesome! I want that power! I don't consider that to be dark magic :\
lol, I bet she would. I'm usually fine with bugs as long as they don't sneak up on me.
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Yeah Raccoons, skunks and deer tend to stay south of town but we've had them in the city as well. Along with possums XD I have never seen a wild cat except in captivity but there are rumors of them. And we don't have Moose here or Bears. Eek! They seem like such big animals. Maybe that's why they don't live here, there's not enough room for them.
I do like snakes, most of them anyway. I went crazy when we got a little baby garden snake in our house last fall. I was working on a hat and Kirara got all tense and I looked where she was looking and saw this little black skinny thing and I thought, "gees I'm a slob I dropped a piece of felt on the floor." Then I saw it moving, slithering across the floor. I was on the ground pinching it behind it's head with one hand and holding off Kirara with the other. Anyway Kirara got locked in the bathroom by Mom and I was able to get the little guy into a show box and took him out to some nice warm bushes for him to hunker down in. He was so cute, he licked his teeny weeny little tongue and tried to bite me with his wittle teeth. Bless him. I was ready to throw him in a tank and adopt him on the spot
Yeah the whole parselmouth thing never seemed terribly evil to me either. They're just snakes.
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Deer became our town's strays pretty much as I got older. I rarely ever saw a stray dog or cat, but white-tails were EVERYWHERE. Usually they'd just watch you walk by and wouldn't bother you, but you still have to watch out for fawns and their psycho moms. I remember one time I was walking along and they crossed my path.
Me: *walking along*
*Deer jumps over fence into my path*
Me: hmm, whatever
*Fawn jumps over fence*
Me: O___O *freezes stock still*
*second fawn jumps over fence*
Me: X_____X *crying inside*
Doe: *leads fawns away*
I've come across bears and cougars before, but I don't think I was ever more scared than when those guys walked across my path. Because growing up in school they told us how to deter both bears and cougars, but when it came to does and their Fawns...You just don't go there. They will mess you up.
Awwwww! I have a friend who had two garter snakes as pets. They were awesome snakes - Church and Tucker (LOL!) They were both so friendly and inquisitive. I kinda wanna draw a little story about a baby snake now
Indeed. And that first snake Harry talked to was nice. I think I would have liked to see the parseltongue used more, because I think a snake could be an interesting conversationalist. Yeah the Basilisk was evil, but it was kinda bred to be that way 
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Hm. I hadn't heard that about deer but it makes sense. Most animals are insane when it comes to protecting their young. I've been dive-bombed by Bluejays before because they wanted me to get away from their nests (pretty but evil birds)
Seriously they were named after Red vs Blue characters? That. Is. Epic! I agree and little short comic about a baby snake would be adorable, you should do it.
Yeah Rowling gave snakes a bad rap. Mean B@#$% *shakes fist towards the UK*
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DAYUM Nature! You scarreh! lol
Yeeeeeesh. There's this one old Swedish myth about the "Serpent Prince" that I like. At least, I like the first two parts of the story. The third part is kinda "meh" except for one part that builds upon the Serpent Prince's character and makes me luv him 
At least she isn't as bad as Meyer.
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Hm I need to look up this Swedish myth... [link] is that it?
Anyway yes a story about a baby dragon would be awesome with a side of woot sauce (sorry I had to say it)
Yeah I'll admit that Rowling was better than Meyer who doesn't seem to even care about good literature. Whereas Rowling with her background in English and what not seems to have at some point read good literature though she couldn't quite imitate the result.
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Nope.
*ponders and doodles* Let's see what I come up with...
And her characters were actually characters for the most part. They weren't cardboard, blank-slates meant to act as avatars for the ill-content, know-nothing, preteen readers
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YAY! Baby snake story!
Well put. I have to agree I mean I think that's why I attached myself to characters like Lupin and Tonks so securely, because they were actual characters not just a bunch on Mary Sues of the different aspects of her life.
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WOO!
Reaaaally enjoying Pendragon right now. I'm a little over halfway through the series and the characters have changed so much and will continue to change. M'gonna be sad when I'm completely done it
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Aww. Well you can always re-read it. :3
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I probably will. There are a lot of scenes I want to draw out. They just sparked my imagination X3
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I reread my favorite books every year for the most part but this year I haven't had enough time. *sigh*
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I reread my favourite books whenever they pop into my head.
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there are so many books I have reread recently that I really want to reread. Jackaroo being at the top of the list.
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It's by an author named Cynthia Voight. It's really not mainstream but it kind of gives a really good look at how life was in the middle ages. It's somewhat political in nature but it has a fantasy element in it as well (I swear it's not about princesses or dragon slayers) I guess you could also read it as coming of age as well. I highly recommend it if you can find a copy of it.
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*adds it to list of books to look into*
Hey, don't diss books about princesses and dragon-slayers! There are some that are really good....Although, the ones I like are parodies/comedies. They're also modernizations. I like seeing old stories mixed up and given a (proper) modern take. I think my favourites are still the one about the princess and her quest across the land with her escort...the royal accountant (who looks like a frog btw); The Red Riding Hood retelling, which, despite it being really dark and sad was REALLY WELL WRITTEN; And the one about a Dragon named Ransom (hehehe) and his dealings with a stubborn knight.
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No I have to say I like phantasy a lot. And I've read the unicorns and princesses stories and liked them. I just know a lot of people don't like them so I was trying not to turn you off to the book. It's just a slight element of phantasy but mostly is about coming of age and politics and learning to cope with a government you don't understand and hate. It's one of my all time favs. I actually used a scene from it for a pantomime piece I had to do for acting class.
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I love books that have a bit of fantasy sprinkled in. Like the Pendragon books - the main character is traveling through dimensions, but aside from these lead characters (Travellers) the worlds are mostly scientific. Each passing book introduces a little bit more of the magic, but never fully explains it. In the end it will be explained (which is why I'm avoiding spoilers like crazy!!! DX) and it will all tie together. I love it when sci-fi and fantasy is mixed (When done properly).
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I so want to tell you more but it would ruin the plot and I know you're sensitive about that so I'll hold out.
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Actually it depends when it comes to spoilers for me. Sometimes I want to know what happens so I can determine whether or not I want to get through it. Other Times I can judge for myself early on if it'll be good so I avoid spoilers like crazy.
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Well. I'm rereading Jackaroo, just talking about it with you made me really want to read it again. So I've been reading it the last week or so. I'll give you a hint there is a Robin Hoodness about it
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