Huh! The Creation of Adam! It's so funny - we think the same, I've prepared the next space YCH by referring to this painting! :D

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yup.

I really, really had to look for that Kermit cameo, but I got a huge thrill when I found him. Cute detail. : D

Nice to see the juxtaposition of something as serene as flying with the destruction of her wings/mechanical aspects - Really enjoying the concept of this piece.

it didn't take me long to find him... if ya have a hunch where to look that is XD

he had to be in the green, or he would have stood out. 🤣

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Yeah, this was a key point in the (still incomplete) comic.

I hope the comic artist gets well soon so we can continue where we left.

Really awesome artwork ......... Where to find the (still incomplete) comic , please ?

oh, in my gallery several of the folders are comics, here is the quickest link: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....-Moon-Children

That's a stunning piece of art! Props to the artists.

yup ❤️

i love your characters so much i faveed it 2 times

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Cool and lovely!

painted in a lovely way indeed ❤️

Was it Frett's last flight as well?

I just read in a footnote to Aristophanes' Birds that Procne was the nightingale and Philomela was a swallow.

that... uh... contradicts all i know. I based Philomela's story on The Clockwork Nightingale and also the Myth of Philomela. True. She turns into a demon rather than a nightingale. But that is only because she already was a nightingale. The base Wikipedia page sums her story better than i could. If i remember correctly.

I thought it might be an editor's error in the footnote, but later in the play, around line 670 (don't know the exact line because this translation only puts line numbers at the top of each column) Procne actually makes an appearance onstage dressed as a nightingale. Aristophanes was a classical Greek, an Athenian of the 4th century BC. How could he have made such a mistake? Furthermore, his plays are neither secret nor obscure; a century or more ago, every well-educated person would have been required to read them in school and even today I would expect a Classical scholar to be familiar with them. So now I wonder where the compilers of mythology got their information. Why do they say Philomela was the nightingale? J.A. Coleman in the Dictionary of Mythology says there are different versions of the story, but also states definitely that Procne turned into a swallow and Philomela a nightingale as if that part of the tale was beyond dispute. Coleman does not cite his sources. Aristophanes flatly contradicts this account.

Sorry i answered while working and did not notice you were naming a specific author.
Okay.
So.
*inhales and prepares tipey fingers to write*

"Nightingale" is usually Philomela because that is literally what the name means in ancient greek.
Okay, the name actually meant "she likes apples" which... well... neither nightingales not swallows actually are particularly fond of.
They are carnivorous birds of prey... uh... okay, insect prey... but still...
The problem comes with Prokne whose name actually means "the one with the black marks" which... you know... nightingales are usually just sepia-colored things, i mean, you commented on that too when making Philomela, and it's the main reason why the comic was drawn in sepia colors. 😅
The only nightingales with black spots are the american ones all european nightingales are the same sepia color.
Meanwhile all the swallows and the martins in general tend to have "tactical camouflage" kind of plumage.

So... "historically" the myth goes "Philomela is the thrush thingie, Prokne is the martin thingie".
This is because female nightingales, unlike the males actually do not sing, they tend to stay as quiet as possible, while swallows sing loud and clear (both sexes).
Myths were made to teach to kids and in this case the teaching goes "female nightingales do not sing" (and i guess also "if you get raped you better not sing, or you will get silenced" 😅)
The story itself comes as an offshot/modification of the story of Medea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7WH30_8vos

Then... we have the playwrights.
Which, aside from being really bad at knowing anything about bilogy... they like "originality" and adding "a twist".
You know how people like to be "original" so... uhm... king arthur might be a woman in a "knightly" armored french maid dress?
Yyyyeah.
Same reasoning.
The myth was not written by Aristophanes, and he wanted to be original.
Sophocles turns Philomela in an hawk because "all she could do was scream" later playwrights use the hawk as the bird in which Teres turns into as it can be seen to prey on trushes and martins.
Eusthasius has Procne be the one that gets raped and then silenced because "swallows have no song" which... uh?!?! whatevs.
I myself gave Philekdikisi no mouth and no music box. Though she still speaks... via magic.

So... yeah... the answer is: "originality". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

According the comic , Philomela first flight was her last too ; or maybe not . Future will decide

Actually it... kinda is. After that one she was rebuilt but never flew again if not "after" the comic.

So , i wait until the comic is finished ^_^

Yus... i hope the artist gets better soon, she has basically been prevented from arting for more than 1 year and has been slowly trying to re-teach herself how to use a drawing tablet.
She does not feel like she can draw for me yet, but she has done quite the progress.

I hope it too , even if she decides to leave the comic

She does not seem like a quitter, or would not be re-teaching herself how to draw after what happened.

*nods*

"I TOLD you peroxide wasn't a stable oxidizeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrr...." xD

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Beautiful style and amazing work. I would try to catch Philomena in my arms, but it is sure that I break my bones for it if we take into account that she is made of metal XD

I better hope she falls to the ground and I drag her away.

she does weigh about 550 kg.

I'll take her with a wheelbarrow, somehow I must get her XD

It is a beautiful work of colors :)

❤️ yus.   Shwonky did an incredible job here

Out of curiosity, what exactly happened to get both of them thrown into the air?

A friend says that philomena has a beautiful realistic design.

oh, it's a scene from the (still incomplete) comic. https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....-Moon-Children