Haven't seen a bird-pone thread in a while
pssst hey
>~coon~
got any breadcrumbs?
>>27763223
Hm.
I wonder why.
>>27763318
What are you getting at?
Aren't they just pegasi?
>>27763332
I getting at bird-pones aren't sexy enough.I may be starting to like them, but I still like browser pones better.
>>27763380
They're not extremely sexy but they are cute
They hold a special place in my heart because these were some the first threads I saw when I first came to this board
>>27763333
N-no, these bird horses coo and pester you for bread and stuff.
Totally different and necessary.
>>27763463
>anthro
Enjoy your vacation
>>27763332
I'm just wondering? What kind of question was that?
>>27763223
>>27763484
It seemed rhetorical but I didn't understand what it could be implying
This seemed like so much fun and had so much potential, then it became a general and went to shit
>>27763223
I didn't even know pigeon-ponies was a thing. if it's not, it should be.
>>27763672
It was a thing up until about a year ago I don't really know what happened
>>27763223
where's the porn
>>27763223
>You sit and watch the pigeon-ponies gathering around the park, chatting with each other and occasionally mooching off the tourists.
>You reflect on what you know about them.
>Most Equestrians find the nomadic bird-ponies annoying, since they have a reputation as lazy thieves.
>It's not entirely fair since they're willing to work incredibly hard when it's their idea, but they hate to feel obligated and don't like being hemmed in.
>They're incredibly flighty.
>bird ponies "flighty."
>kek
>They're tolerated but don't really take part in Equestrian society beyond their devotion to the Princesses
>They can cloud-walk but can't manipulate the weather like Pegasi.
>They're claustrophobic and hate being inside of anything with a proper roof, and don't build anything more substantial than an occasional tent for gatherings.
>they're physically almost as frail as moth pones and lack the physical stamina of earth pones or even unicorns, yet can still fly vast distances.
>they have a strange form of magic involving feather charms and music that no one really understands except themselves
>They're nomadic, and fly north and south with the seasons.
>You find them oddly fascinating
>>27763813
>One lights on the back of the bench next to you. She coos like the pigeon her coat coloration and markings cause her to resemble
>"Pssst...got any bread crumbs?"
>You snort
That isn't good for you, you know. Do you WANT to get too fat to migrate with your flock?
>You hand Amber Eyes a bag of corn nuts instead. It's still junk food, but it's got to be better than bread and it's lightly salted, and like all ponies, bird ponies are salt fiends.
>She grins. "Hold on a second." She flutters off, and...wait for it...wait for it..
>Yep, there it is, took her a full minute. A snack and soda vendor on the other side of the park is yelling angrily. A little while later, Amber Eyes returns with two sodas, and hands one to you.
>"I got you a Royal Sisters Classic, that OK?"
>You sigh.
You know, if you'd asked, I'd have been willing to pay for a couple of sodas for us.
>She grins. "Well, yeah, but where's the fun in that?" She takes a long sip of hers and starts munching on your offering of corn nuts.
I'll see if I can pay him for the sodas later
>She coos. "Schmuck. Oh well, it's your money. I cleaned his cart last season and he stiffed me when it came time to pay, so I'm just taking my money out in trade. One soda at a time."
>She munches a few corn nuts and hands you the bag, and you take a few for yourself.
>>27763972
>Bird-ponies do have a reputation for being thieves, and as you've just seen, that IS somewhat deserved.
>They've always lived on the edge of pony society and don't seem to have quite the same regard for "personal space" and "private property" that other ponies do
>they almost never carry more personal belongings than what will fit in a single small bag
>property is traded freely around the flock and anything too unwieldy to carry gets left behind, usually where someone else can make use of it.
>local constables tolerate them because their crimes are usually limited to minor pickpocketing and petty theft, often food items, but they're often valuable sources of information
>they're fairly talented musicians, singers and performers and often busk for a few bits, and they sometimes sell feather charms and small musical instruments or jewelry
>You met Amber Eyes last season, when she returned your wallet, which she had found
>In your pocket. When you weren't looking.
>Some of the money was gone, because she had needed some lunch for herself and her kid sister, but she'd left the rest there
>Bird-ponies rarely steal more than what they need at the moment.
>She'd brought you and Twilight some doughnuts back, even if they were bought with your bits, since she wanted a peace offering and bird-ponies have a sixth-sense for a soft touch.
>It was so weirdly amusing that you actually didn't call for the police.
>Twilight Sparkle had explained to you afterwards what other ponies knew about bird-ponies, and her advice was that you avoid the little thieves.
>You ignored her as you usually do and started hanging around the park where you'd first met the little imp
>>27764223
I'm liking it so far. Please continue?
>>27764223
>>27764223
>Between the two of you, you polish off the entire bag of corn nuts in a few minutes. "I don't suppose you have anymore of those, do you?" she asks hopefully
>Bird-ponies are bottomless pits when it comes to snack foods
Not right at the moment, but you don't need any--you just ate like a pound of parched corn and you're smaller than me.
>She scowls. "Hey, it takes a lot of energy being this amazing. Besides, I'm gonna need to pack on some more fat before fall migration."
Looks like you're ahead of schedule, then, since if you keep going like you are they'll be rolling you to Zebrica in a wheelbarrow
>You reach out and playfully pinch a bit of her flank while humming an old commercial jingle about pinching an inch, and she caws in surprise and swats at your hand.
You boop her nose playfully and both of you laugh. "You know, you're almost okay. For a groundpounder, I mean." she says, giggling.
>You know the term doesn't just mean "somepony who walks on the ground" to the bird-ponies.
>they regard the sky itself as their home, and feel as if they have an almost mystical connection to it.
>In their own language they call it the Mother of Clouds and Storms and claim that the sky is actually a bird-pony alicorn that made the world, and then ascended to its zenith with her herd
>Most non-bird-pones regard this as either factually wrong at best or borderline blasphemous at worst.
>"Groundpounders" are beings that, while they might fly sometimes, are connected more to the earth underfoot than the sky above.
>>27764463
And you're not so bad yourself. You know, for a snack-burglaring ratbird.
>She gigglesnorts and pulls a flute out of the small bag around her neck, where itt had been hidden by her mane. "So, got any requests?"
>You do. Absolutely you do.
How about "Twisted Nerve?"
>Before she'd left on migration last fall, the two of you had watched Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2 at your home in Ponyville, along with a bunch of other movies, which you can totally still watch because fuck you, science.
>You'd brought the DVD player and television out to the back porch, where she felt more comfortable
>She'd been enchanted with it, up until the burial scene in the second volume, when she'd actually screamed and hid her face against your chest, and she'd cheered like a Juggalo when Uma Thurman had punched her way out of the coffin.
>Afterward you had given her an extra MP3 player you had lying around and she'd asked for the music from the movies you'd watched.
>You had no idea how it was still powered more than a year later, but the bundles of feathers and sparkling jewels securely strapped to the back of the thing probably had something to do with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1NN9rnNpEQ
>>27764593
>And now, more than a year later, you could often hear variations of the music you'd squirreled away on her player being performed or sang by musicians, both singly and in little ensembles, in her flock
>It was funny, hearing bird-pone renditions of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida or Stairway to Heaven
>But Twisted Nerve...Amber Eyes had a fascination for the songs of Bernard Herrmann, and that piece in particular many other ponies found oddly haunting, or even creepy and disturbing.
>So how could she NOT like it?
>A few minutes after she begins, a few ponies are standing around, listening to her play it, and you provide a bit of a beat for her by stomping your feet.
>You honestly wonder if she weaves magic into her music, since you've heard some bird-ponies do that and your audience seems oddly entranced.
>Or maybe she's simply that good.
>A few of the listeners throw the two of you bits while she plays, and after a few minutes, the piece ends. A few of the listeners pound their hooves on the sidewalk as she bows, before they disperse. You help her collect her bits.
>"You should keep half of these, since you helped," she says. "I always get more bits when you're around, for some reason."
Nah, you earned it. But hey if you really wanna pay me back, why don't you give a couple of those bits to the vendor you swiped the sodas from?
>She rolls her eyes. "Mother Sky, that really bothered you, didn't it? Fine, I'll toss him a bit. But just for YOUR soda, though. For you. Okay?"
>You smile
Thank you.
>She snorts. "Seriously, though, have you ever considered doing this for a living? You've got good rhythm with just those hand-things and feet of yours. Didn't you say you used to play drums or something back in your world?"
I used to, but I haven't really done anything with it since I arrived here...
>yet another "X ponies" general
>>27764711
>A notion comes to you
Tell you what though...maybe sometime I can dig the drums out of the closet and I can join you out here in Canterlot Park. Maybe we can make a day out of it? I bet we could rook these stuffed shirts out of some major doshage.
>She perks up this. "Okay, NOW you're talking--we'll probably clean up. But you have to keep some of it, you feel me? You HAVE to."
>You know from your time with Amber Eyes that bird pones have an odd sense of obligation. Pilfering something from someone else is fine as long as they can afford to lose it, they'll do that and never bat an eye afterward
>A minor con-job? A scam is fine too, plenty of bird-pones do three card monte and other street hustles for some extra bits.
>But do a solid for one of them, and they'll move heaven and earth to return it.
>They're a study in contradictions
>A favor owed to someone who can't be repaid is like a little piece of hell for them.
>Honestly, you hardly need the money and she knows it--you get a stipend from the Royals to go with the title they ginned up for you, you made a shitload of bits selling the rights to the movies and books that came over from Earth with you and your house, you patented a butane cigarette lighter and the Clapper, among other human inventions--Applejack loved the Clapper, for some reason
>You write science fiction stories for publication--who knew that ponies would be fascinated by a world where magic doesn't exist?
>You even co-wrote a series of comics, because apparently zombies and the Undead are even bigger here than back on Earth
>But Amber Eyes is serious,and wants to make sure you keep whatever you earn.
>Bird-ponies are odd that way, and Angel Eyes is a little odder than most.
Alright, fine. Deal, I'll keep half. Satisfied?
More birbs
>>27764966
>>27764978
>>27763289
It's just "coo" that last one was just another one of these '~'
>>27764824
>>27764824
"Absolutely." She pulls the bag back out of her mane and begins rooting through it again.
>"Hold on, I've got something I made for you..well, my sis helped. She's better at this kind of thing than I am..."
>You marvel at hwo such a small bag can have so much crap. Women, amirite?
>DEAD_STARE.jpg
>Right. Moving on...
>She finally finds what she's looking for "Here," she says. She pulls out an...object.
>It looks a little like a dreamcatcher, but made of feathers and wire, and the rim is made of gems.
>it's about two inches wide, and it's attached to a band that clearly is meant to go around a wrist. It's beautiful, and you say so.
>"It's an Az'k'za," she says. 'We wear them to helps us find good weather, or places where we're welcome, or for protection. Or just all-around good luck."
>She pauses for a second. "You can't make one for yourself, it...just doesn't work then. Somepony else has to make one for you, and give it to you as a gift. Somepony who cares about you."
>She grabs your wrist in both of her hooves, and carefully she slips it over your hand and onto your wrist. You feel a slight tingle and feeling of warmth where it touches your skin.
>Most pony magic doesn't work well on you, but you feel oddly...invigorated.
>LEVEL_UP.jpg
>At that moment, you hear a commotion on the other side of the park. A few seconds later, a smaller bird-pony with similar coloration as Amber Eyes darts by you at ludicrous speed, followed a few moments later by several shouting Pegasi constables.
So,. uh...that your sister? Because I think she's gone to plaid...
>"Yep, that's her. I probably should go find out what she's gotten herself into. Whatever it is, I don't wanna be left out, It looks fun!" She looks over her shoulder at you just before takeoff. "You'll be here tomorrow, right?"
Ayup
>She grins "Make sure you bring more of those corn-thingies." She takes to the air and darts away, leaving you there on the bench alone.
>>27764824
holy shit, this is actually surprisingly good anon. i'm amazed you managed to pull off such an interesting character development and lore in such a short amount of time and with the limited reference content.
>>27765053
Thank you :) I found the character interesting.
Is there like a bird-pone pastebin somewhere or anything?
>>27765016
>BIRB OF PARADICE USES 'SEDUCTION"
>IT'S SUPER-EFFECTIVE!
>>27765316
>>27763223
You do realize that it has to be posted every time, right?
>>27763223
birds: not that important tbqh
>>27765380
>sometimes BIRB is IMPORTENT
Just not right this moment.
>>27763223
Bird ponies? wtf?
>>27765415
They hang around parks and pester people for food and chocolate and stuff.Like pegasi, only different. I dunno either.
>>27765023
Forget it, Anon, it's 4chan.
>>27765429
So..pegasi who beg for food.. nah.
>>27763700
ayy
>>27765429
They're basically hobo pegasi.
>>27763537
THAT IT'S SHIT
SHIIIIITT
Bumpan with sum green.
>Be Anon.
>Day Cheeseburger in Paradise.
>You've been in a world of multicolored ponies now for about six years.
>You've done okay for yourself. You've got an official unofficial ambassadorship from a world you'll probably never see again, but oh well.
>It comes with a fairly generous stipend.
>Your house came with you. No good idea how that happened, but you've sworn off making Okinawan doughnuts on an electric stove.
>Not unless you're sober.
>ponies kind of dig Earth fiction and you've been rewriting your huge collection of novels and stories for a new audience.
>Luna reportedly loved the one with the evil shapeshifting clown that lived in the sewers and awoke every thirty years to feed on fear and murder, even if it did make more work for her dreamguard
>Changelings staged mass protests, even though Penny Wise was clearly not a Changeling, but an alien abomination from Todash Space.
>Twilight still sucked no matter what you did with it--no, not the pony, even though she has issues. We'll come back to that in a bit, it's important here.
>the other one.
>the one with the sparklepires.
>Teenage girls still love it though.
>They sold well, and you're pretty much set financially.
>>27765989
>Right now, you're in Twilight Sparkle's Fortress of Spergitude, where she's examining the Az'k'za thing that Amber Eyes gave to you last week.
>And you. It should probably be mentioned that your eyes turned from their normal green color to the same amber-gold Amber Eyes and her sister share, and they're reflective to boot.
>Twilight is--concerned.
>To be honest, you are too, since you initially wondered if that meant you were turning into some sort of weird bird-pony-human hybvrid-thing, but Twilight seems to have mostly ruled that possibility out.
>Mostly.
>But your night vision seems to have improved like no one's business. Which is nice.
>"I don't really understand it, Anon," she says. "It doesn't appear to be transformative magic, since that leaves a signature I'd recognize, and biologically, you don't seem to be any different. Still basically a bald, neotonous chimp."
Other than having night vision like a hawk and I haven't slept in three days, yet I feel fine, which I'd say is biologically different...
>"Yeah, I'll say." The Princess of Friendship regards the Az'k'za the two bird-ponies had made for you. It's sitting on the table. Taking it off doesn't seem to have had any kind of effect--or reversed the eye-color thing.
"You know, no pony really understands bird pony magic except them. I couldn't find many references to this under any spelling in any of my reference guides. Even Star Swirl the Bearded didn't seem to know very much"
>"Maaaaaaybe...you shouldn't wear this."
Why? You said you can't find any evidence of anything except some low-level protective magic, right? Honestly, I not only feel fine, I feel better than I have in years...
>>27763575
No way, like every general you say?
How new are people here to have so many "WHat? BIRD HORS???" responses to this thread? Have you guys seriously never seen bird pone threads before?
>>27766095
Anon please, who do you think still posts here during hiatus?
Bored underaged and students, who else.
The others just come to shitpost and circlejerk. Cloppers (aka the cool people) moved to /trash/.
>>27766059
>>27766059
>>27766059
>"I'm not saying it was intended to be harmful," says Twilight. "I'm saying that Equestrian magic reacts strangely to you, and bird-pony magic is stranger than most."
"Strange" doesn't mean "dangerous," Sparkle.
>"No, but in this case it COULD. I'm saying that you probably shouldn't put this back on. >"And frankly, you'd probably be better off keeping your distance from them after this--"
Okay, before I let you go on--have you ever actually TALKED to one of them?
>"Yes, I--"
I don't mean a casual "hello," or a few words in the street, but I mean a real conversation. At length. Not forced pleasantries, real, actual conversation?
>"I.. uh, no." She looks distinctly uncomfortable.
>It occurs to you and not for the first time that, for such a brilliant scholar, Twilight Sparkle has to have the least amount of curiosity and the most narrow focus you've ever seen.
Then...how much do you actually know ABOUT them?
>"I've got an entire shelf devoted to them, and I've read everything about them--just like I have every other intelligent race we share a world with." She gestures at the massive pile of reference books on the magic flashy-table...thing.
>You pick one up at random. "Bird Ponies and Other Pests: The Parasites of Equestria." Seriously? Wow. Just...wow.
>"What's to know? Look, they don't build things, they don't farm, they don't have a writing system, they migrate when they overstay their welcome.
>"They steal everything that isn't nailed down and while they might talk a lot, but rarely *say* anything." That seems to finalize it for her.
Yeah? I wouldn't either. I can't believe it, the irony's so thick in here I can cut it with a knife and serve it like bundt cake.
>She frowns. "Irony? What in Tartarus are you talking about?"
The Princess of Friendship is a bigot.
>>27766145
>her jaw drops. Nice
Hey, it's fine, lots of the people I know are, it's cool, why should it surprise me that ponies are, too?
>I..." she looks lost, and just a little angry, and that's going to get a lot hotter. You struck a nerve? Interesting. Let's troll Sperglord a bit.
I don't actually GIVE a shit, mind you, but I just want to make sure you understand where it's coming from. It's cool though, no hard feelings.
>"Get. Out." Her voice is flat. Wow, that DID strike a nerve, didn't it?
>Seriously, though, what's got her so worked up about them? Did a bird pony bad-touch her when she was a kid or what?
>You pick up the Az'k'za and turn around.
Oh, just so you know, I'm working on a project--I'm writing a book about bird ponies, a definitive ethnography, and I'll dedicate it to you.
>"GET OUT!" she actually explodes into flames.
You saunter from the castle.
>>27765377
>hey coon
That pic ruins my sides every goddamn time...
>>27766556
>off by one
MUST COMMIT SUDOKU
page nine bump
page 10 bump
>>27765048
Huh, this wasn't bad actually.
This is a nice thread.
>>27765380
>>27765429
>>27765478
>>27765724
in my headcanon,and my storiesthe birdpones are just mixes of pone and griffon, but instead of hippogriff shit, they gain bird characteristics andsometimes carnivorous diets. they make nests, can call as birds do, and sometimes bob their heads
so, birdpone.
>>27770486
I kind of like this.
>>27770486
Someone draw a bird pony bobbing its head
>fun old general comes back
>thread is drowned in content
>Bird pone
So a pegasus?
>>27765016
>>27764978
>>27764966
these are so fucking ugly holy shit
>>27770728
I thought my thread was going to be dead when I got back home. Today was a good day.
>>27763223
Best birb
>>27770728
>Original content
>TFW it's good
>>27763459
And they definitely do things we couldn't just use gryphons for. Absolutely. No question.
>>27770972
I'm pretty sure they're just being colored after actual birds
>>27771390
>brand new birb
sweet jesus yes
Birb is the word
>Be anon
>You're wandering around the little city of brightly-colored tents and nests outside of Camelot with Amber Eyes
>Pigeon-pone ghetto
>It's surprisingly clean and organized. You don't really know what you were expecting, but bird-pones are fairly tidy.
>It's temporary, like nearly everything else bird ponies construct, since they move from one place to another and can't carry much.
>they'll break everything down at the end of the season when they migrate to warmer climes
>Bird ponies can't stand cold
>But Amber Eyes says that far, far to the south, in Zebrica and South Amareica, there are real cities, but just a few
>Built into the tops of mountains, and temples to both the Princesses along with Lady Cumulus, the Mother of Clouds and Storms.
>The combined flocks gather there, on some occasions.
>Twice each century, the Alicorn Princesses come to them for some sort of remembrance ceremony--the next one is one year from now
>They're kind of excited that Luna will be attending this one for the first time in a thousand years
>Apparently this has been going on for a long time.
>You're recording everything you hear on a digital voice recorder. You'll transcribe notes later
>You wonder at the precise nature of the relationship between Celestia and the bird ponies, and wonder also at why it never occurred to Twilight to ask
>there are foals and fillies running around underfoot, playing and laughing
>Some of them are staring at you in curiosity, or even a little fear; to be sure, you're probably weirder than they're used to seeing.
>You can hear singing and musical instruments. With some amusement, you notice that you recognize some of the songs
>They've worked the rhythms and melodies from your gift of music to Amber Eyes into their own music, and changed them in interesting ways
>You wonder if the Beatles would like what they've done with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," but it sounds amazing to your ears
>>27766556
Watch where you're pointing those digits, Anon!
>>27772975
>The conversation drifts randomly
>You're chattering animatedly about hoofball--Amber Eyes is a major fan of the Canterlot Colts
>heh...pony...Colts. Much lols, many keks. Wow.
>Bird-ponies are sports fiends, in addition to snack fiends. Stereotypes aside, at least this one is, and so is her sister, White Thorn.
>the air is filled with scents and sounds, of bird ponies chattering in languages including Equestrian and their own language--they tend to speak a mix of all the languages they find in their travels..
>They have a scent somewhere between beeswax fresh from a hive and something almost floral
>It's a pleasant, dusty sort of odor, hard to describe unless you've ever smelled a beehive
>And then you both smell something you haven't smelled much of since you came to Equestria
>cooking meat. Whoah.
>Your stomach growls, and so does Amber Eyes'. Loudly. She looks a little embarrassed.
>"Oh...wow, have you eaten? No, you haven't, we've been talking all day and--wait, do you eat meat?"
Uh...yes, I DO, when I can get it, but that isn't often, since most ponies can't stand the smell of it when it's cooking. I keep some at home and I cook it for myself sometimes. Do you have griffons or other omnivores around here?
>She smiles. "Heh...nope, follow me."
>>27773187
>inb4 giant worms being cooked
>>27773187
>She cuts through the crowd ahead of you, playing icebreaker.
>You see a few pegasi and unicorns here and there, presumably there to buy whatever it is that bird-ponies only make
>but as you make your way through the hanging sheets that divide the "streets" up, they pretty much disappear altogether
>You arrive at a small vendor's tent, with a fire and racks of cooking...meat.
>Bird ponies apparently eat meat too. Okay, that's beyond interesting.
>You knew that ponies sometimes ate fish, but it never went beyond that.
>Some pegasi were supposedly trained to eat meat, Twilight had said, but only in an emergency when literally nothing else was available.
>Pegasi need lots of energy. You know you've seen Rainbow pack away the food,
>then clog Twilight's toilet.
>You both thought it was hilarious
>The proprietor is a birdpone mare with the brightest gold eyes you've ever seen, an ivory mane,coat and face and intricate black markings on her muzzle and wings.
>Helping her is a small filly, with the same gold eyes, but with duller colors almost like a baby quail
>Amber and the vendor talk for a few seconds in their own language. They converse a bit, and the vendor smile and nods.
>A few bits are exchanged from the pound Amber keeps around her neck, and the vendor and her filly carefully pick up four of the roasting
skewers
>Your actually mouth waters at the scent.
>they carefully transfer the meat to flatbreads and top them with some cooked vegetables from one of the kettles nearby.
>Amber Eyes and the vendor talk for a few moments, and then she flutters over to you. "Just trust me, you'll like this."
>You take two of them, and you find a place to sit down a short distance away.
>You bite into yours--and experience the gustatory equivalent of an orgasm
>It's tender, somewhere between pork and chicken in taste, with that faint taste that tells you it's something wild, not raised as livestock
>>27773230
We're getting there :)
>It manages to hit all the right notes between sweet and savory and its flavored with rosemary and woodsmoke and something you can't identify
>there's at least two different meats, both with their own unique flavor.
>TASTES_LIKE_CHICKEN.jpg
>No, it totally fucking doesn't, Brainon, I don't know what this tastes like, but shut the fuck up and enjoy it
>LOL I TROLL U
>Don't make me come up there. Anyway...
>The vegetables are crisp and spicy, and there's several beans in the mix
>the flatbread you could eat as a friggin' meal all by itself, you gun get you summa dat waht for taking home.
You've tasted some awesome things in Equestria but this has to be in the top ten
>Sorry, Applejack's apple fritters, Anon has a new love.
>With amusement, you note that while you're halfway through yours, Amber Eyes has wolfed hers down and is starting on the second one
>And they're substantial.
Geez, where are you putting it? Wanna slow down so you can taste it?
>Amber belches. Cute. "Hey, I was hungry. Sue me. Migrating, remember?"
So, uh...out of curiosity, what exactly am I eating here? Should I even ask?
>You're not altogether sure you want to know the answer, since you're enjoying what may be the single greatest meal in the history of great meals
>Why spoil the magic?
>"It's tatzlwurm and basilisk," she finishes wolfing down the second one and licks the juice off her hooves.
>Oh. Wait, what? Big, ugly wormy-snakey thing that combines all the worst traits of a worm with a snake.
>It spreads diseases. Major equestrian pest. Which probably explains why they're tolerated.
>but the meat-eating probably creeps out some ponies even so.
But you don't think that's really Twilight's problem here.
>You've seen petitions circulated among canterlot elite to close down Griffon and Minotaur restaurants.
>Oddly enough, Ponyville is much more tolerant in that area than Canterlot
>>27773618
>But anyway, the food..
>okay, you've eaten some weird things. You've never felt an urge to eat snake.
>Or worm.
>Or snakeworms.
>But you've eaten alligator, which wasnt' bad
>and a basilisk is basically the uglier mutated crossbreeding of a chicken with...something
>And it's also kind of a pest.
>You look at the rest of the flatbread. Well, you liked it before, and it still tastes awesome, why stop now?
>You resume munching on it. yes, it still tastes fuckawesome. No, we're not gonna dwell on it being snek
>LOL UR EATING SNEK MEAT ANON
>shut up, brainon, or I swear I'm coming up there.
Seriously, though, you guys eat meat?
>She seems a little surprised at your question. "Yeah, sometimes we have to find any food we can.
>Sometime's dinner's whatever you can trade for or scavenge or gather in the woods and fields. Sometimes dinner's whatever you can catch and kill. And meat's good, rich food
>"We try to get as much as we can before we migrate. You need all the fat you can pack on, you know? We don't eat a lot when we're moving north and south.
>She shrugs. "Usually there's no time. When we're over the ocean, there's usually noplace for a pony to stop and land.
>We'll stop and make camp for a few days, when there's an island or something or somepony's ill or hurt. But usually it's a nonstop flight.
>You finally finish the flatbread-thingies.and marvel that not only did they STILL taste good when you knew what they were
>You were probably gonna wind up coming here again
BIRB is LOEV
>>27763223
and we were doing so well without it
Blue peacock pone.
>>27772689
What type of bird is the stallion supposed to be?
>>27774914
I think it's based on a bearded vulture.
>>27763459
Also, they eat corn and things. Which is nice.
>>27775161
Regular horses eat corn, heck, it's like candy to them.
>>27775170
>Corn
>Candy
>corn candy
Candy corn?
Here is pone, eating bird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JOD3Ecej40
Ponybird folder have run dry.
All this thread and no Blue? For shame, Anons...
>>27775603
>>27775615
>>27775617
>>27775621
>>27775625
And with that, my folder's empty.
>>27775630
Much appreciated anon, gotta refill my bird folder.
Postin more birb
>>27775603
You say Blu?
>>27775031
>>27772689
Incredible. It's rare that combining two of the coolest things in existence ends up being a good idea.
>>27776374
the filly in >>>>27772689
is literally the cutest thing I've seen all month
Oh shit bird ponies are back. Guess I should draw more fanart. Well, if the thread is still alive when I get back from work
>>27772689
>>27763813
>they're willing to work incredibly hard when it's their idea, but they hate to feel obligated and don't like being hemmed in.
Am I actually a bird pony?
still best bird pone. Shame we didn't get many stories about her
bird pone a cute
>>27779208
Very very true
>>27778810
this is wonderful, friend!
>>27774008
And remember anons, the Peacock is a trap.
>>27778204
Will try, drawfriend!
Are there any mythical bird pones?
Like phoenix, roc, thunderbird, etc.?
>>27778368
Depends. Do you like corn nuts?
Kinda wanna produce gryphon content for this thread.
>>27780577
That sounds rad. Drawfags pls
>>27764815
this general has probably been around longer than you've been on this board
back from work and ready to art. Any requests?
>>27781631
how about anon investigating a dummy while peep steals his sammich?
>>27763223
>Thread back from dead
>mfw
>>27781693
well I'm shit at humans. So here, have a Blu and Pumpkin sketch instead. I'll finish it after din
>>27781881
neatnow we need porn of all the birbs
>>27781881
that writefag was so good
Oh wow, it's been a while. I remember drawing for these.
>>27770972
Yeah not my best work. Thank ya though, anon. Opinions are always appreciated.
nuthatch birbpone is best birbpone
>>27782161
that anon is shit. Owl pone is best
>tfw no /rk9/ O'o bird pone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaC2Rx3BVY
>>27781631
>>27780577
Make these a reality please and thank you
>>27782724
nigga this just made me sad
>>27764815
you can leave anytime you want
>>27782273
I forgot someone drew her! Still super cute.
>>27780577
I could probably try.
>>27781631
Could you do a pony mare based on the hooded pitohui?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_pitohui
...maybe with her saying, "Uh...I wouldn't get too close, if I were you" to the viewer?
>>27780577
I didnt know i needed a huge as fuck roc birdpone but i do now
Been sitting here trying to write another bird pone green, but brainon seems to be dead tonight.
C'est la vie...
fug, why'd the lewd drawing get deleted?
Started a pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/u/Speaker-to-Birds/1/?o=a2
>>27783130
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_pitohui
>It is one of the few known poisonous birds.
> A neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin, found in the birds' skin and feathers, causes numbness and tingling in those touching the bird
>The hooded pitohui may acquire its poison from part of its diet, the Choresine beetles of the Melyridae family. These beetles are also a likely source of the lethal batrachotoxins found in Colombia's poison dart frogs.
Wow.
I actually had no idea that something like poisonous bird existed, although that makes sense, given that it eats.
But that it makes it also poison by touch? Kinda insane, given that its something acquired by diet and not born with trait.
Does it shit and piss poison too?
Would it stop being poisonous after removing those bugs from its diet for a few years?
I kinda want to know.
4chan - teaching you shit you didnt know in extraordinary ways.
>>27783763
Are those harpy-pones?
>>27784133
I honestly don't know--I just know they were cute lil' buggers and this seemed to be the thread for 'em. I can post bird pone pics if nothing else.
>>27784126
I actually don't know that, either--just that handling them is a really, really bad thing and the locals only eat them if you're absolutely desperate and after basically skinning it out and charring the bird to destroy the toxic alkaloids. They're basically like feathered poison arrow frogs and they get the poison the same way the frogs do--by eating poison beetles.
They sell poison arrow frogs which aren't exactly poison anymore, so I figure it would work the same with pitohuis.
We live in a world with actual poison dinosaurs. It's pretty amazing :)
>>27781693
![959952__safe_solo_oc_monochrome_clothes_pegasus_sleeping_sweater_hoodie_bench[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/tgrfCow.png "959952__safe_solo_oc_monochrome_clothes_pegasus_sleeping_sweater_hoodie_bench[1].png")
>>27778466
locku pls
Why no love for blue bird pone?
>>27783973
I decided I was just gonna finish it first. Soon Anon, soon.
so where are all the birdhorse greens at? there seems to be a lot of pics, but no pastebins or anything
>>27785187
Okay, that's just adorbs.
>>27786333
they're all cuties
>>27786419
Is that a magpie?
>>27786626
Yeah it is. Don't trust them, though. They may seem friendly, but they're dickheads.
>>27786666
>filename
thanks for the tip, super satan
>>27784280
aw yiss, based Neuro
>>27786709
oh shit kek, i didnt realize it was that edit
>>27784280
daww
>>27766095
Have to admit, I've seen these threads before, but this is the first time I've entered one. I am thoroughly enjoying it so far.
Needs an annoying seagull pone.
>>27787131
I bet a seagull pone would suck your dick for a french fry
Birds can't be trusted
I tried. I'm not that good at nsfw shit.
https://derpiboo.ru/1191245
>>27788357
the ass was fat
>>27788357
I'd fap to it.
>>27788357
I made it sfw for you
>>27788357
o-oh dayum.you're gonna do more, r-right?
>>27788686
Thanks. way better than the sonichu version
>>27788728
I'd like to get better at pron, so probably.
>>27788754
aw yiss, im hypepuffy pony pussies are the best, m8, you'll get there
>>27789309
What a sneaky beaky
>>27789309
oh i love ya man, and your anons are definitely improving!
>>27790601
woo, nice save anon
>>27787247
I want a greentext story of this desu
>>27789309
Sandwich pony is success!
Bamp
>>27791361
why the fuck was a desu added to the end of this. I didn't write that. I'm not a weeb I swear
>>27792375
senpai
>>27792375
Newfag detected.
Page 8 bump
>>27792375
jesus fuck your summer is showing
bumpu
>>27794677
just let it die. Bird ponies still live on in the strange waifu threads
>>27794691
no bitch
>>27794847
>boop
>>27795122
>>27795621
You can't make me~
>boop again
This thread is top cute. Needs more of the one writefag.
>>27795677
Ahahahhaa I DID IT. I searched through at least 7 archives until I found it, but I DID IT.
Official paste is at http://pastebin.com/hDMU1njE
Use desuarchive.org everything else is dead
>>27796830
But they are just pegasi.
>>27796830
Doing God's work, anon
>>27796939
No they're different because shut up
>>27796830
I also compiled a list of a buncha threads
all desuarchive links, in order from oldest to newest i could find.
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24196617/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24230691/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24299563/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24411423/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24473032/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24554935/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24700654/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24740008/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24825750/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/24951061/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/25073266/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/25250273/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/25323035/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/27106067/
got anygrapes?
>>27796412
oh shit we're reaching maximum overboop
boop once more to cancel the process
that's how it works, right
>>27797293
>>27764824
>Angel Eyes
Freudian slip?
>>27783130
I made one. It's pretty shitty though. I'm still learning how to use my tablet
>>27798812
aay nice. I'd fuck it
>>27798869
...anon I don't recommend that
>>27798869
might do some traditional art of her later.
We got any raptor birdpones?
More birbs
Happy Hooves is a qt
>>27799541
Toggaf would give good succ
Pigeons smell like dog shit when they are wet.
Bamf
>>27800132
Bump
>>27798596
Actually, a careless error, but we can go with that. It might actually give me a hook to work with at some point in the near future.
Bumpan with content
>>27773800
I love the world building in this story, Anon. You're making me want to eat some kofta now.
>>27804099
You better put garlic in the meatballs anon.
>>27765023
>>27763223
>mfw I instantly remember
>>27765377
image
>>27803582
Oooh super cute. Would cuddle
>>27804663
Shiiiiiiijeeeeeeeeeeeeet
>>27804663
This image disturbs me.
Why would a nigger just be sitting there instead of rioting and screaming about muffins or how his life matters?
>>27804663
You a bit late
>>27765377 already got it
Would you make homemade suet so birdpones have something healthy to eat?
Are there crow bird pone ?
>>27806885
yes
>>27765016
>>27770460
>mrw I drew these about a year ago, and they're still being used*
Feels fucking amazing, man.
>>27780817
Just do it, coon.
be careful on fireworks day
Bald Eagle pone when?
>>27808013
I think there was one in one of the character charts, but I don't think there's been any further stories or art done of himhopefully 'merica day'll bring an end to that
Is there an established Sparrow birbpone yet?
Because I had a few ideas for a design and a personality.
>>27808228
the only real birdponies we have a personailty for is Peep and...
well, Peep.
>>27808276
wasn't there that tsun-tsun blue jay, jackdaww, and whatever this thing is supposed to be?
>>27808276
>>27808282
Alright, I haven't missed out on anything new, then.
Those three were the "biggest" last time I checked, Peep beeing the most popular one.
>>27804099
>Be Amber Eyes.
>Anon called the little gadget an "empeethree player." He said that it could store music--well, information--in a compressed form.
>unlike some bird ponies, you can write and read well. Your family made sure of that,Celestia and Lady Cumulus bless 'em.
>Anon had helped relate to you the amount of space on the little player, and what it could store.
>A dozen libraries the size of the Royal Archives of Canterlot, or the Runevault of Red Sun Aerie City could fit on it with room to spare
>And the entirety of this was filled with...muslc.
>Anon had seen it as a nice gift for a treasured friend. But...he truly had no idea what it meant to you
>What music itself meant to the Folk.
>After more than a year, you still hadn't listened to even a third of the contents of the little device, and you still discovered music on it that stunned and delighted you
>When the power ran down, you and your sister had pooled your talents to make it live again
>the Cumulus Charm you had jointly grown and then grafted to it fed the little thing exactly what it liked the most
>And the simplest of protection sigils made it weatherproof--simple for White Thorn, genius that she was.
>The Greatspeech Rune gave it the ability to play iits music to a crowd--and the flocks had listened with awe and wonder to the rhythms and melodies that it contained.
>through it, you and your flock had glimpsed the world Anon came from, its chaos and wonder, its joy and sadness and its sheer depth.
>Equestrian was so limiting. If only Anon spoke the tongue of the folk, he would understand the magnitude of the gift he had given you
>And for this alone...there were no words for your gratitude.
>>27808585
>As you watch the couple on the other side of the great park, you sing softly to yourself
>"Hey Jude...don't make it bad...
>take a sad song, and make it better...
>Remember to let her into your heart...
>Then you can start...to make it better..."
>You know Anon doesn't approve of what you're about to do, but that's fine, you won't tell him
>After all, it would only worry him
>The Folk ARE thieves--Lady Cumulus and her stallion Lord Noontide gave the Folk quick wit and even quicker reflexes, that you might find sustenance even in a world hostile to your kind .>And the discernment to understand when to use it, and who could afford to lose just a bit, and who could not.
>And who would forgive, and who would not.
>And that heavy purse the wealthy Unicorn mare was carrying was just too tempting a target to pass up.
>>27808610
>It might inconvenience them just a bit today to lose some of their bits, but that was fine.
>Their bad fortune would buy a good meal and a gift for Mama, and rune components and maybe a nice doll for White Thorn
>And you were absolutely determined to try to show Anonymous a good time, if you could.
>You'd probably have some leftover bits, from the looks of things. You'd probably wind up buying at least a few pounds of corn nuts
>You'd come to adore those things.
>Seriously, the pony who came up with the idea to parch little corn kernels and salt them and flavor them was a genius and deserved a temple to him- or herself.
>Aaaaand, there she goes, talking. Not looking at what she's doing or paying attention to what's going on around her.
>Gotta love rich, gossipy airheads.
>The feather charm around your hoof is warm. You coo the song snippet that triggers the magic contained within
>It's not proper invisibility. That's way harder to make than a simple There/Not There charm.
>Everypony around you suddenly feels the urge to look elsewhere.
>Those who look directly at you feel, to the core of their being, as if whatever they're seeing is so mundane and boring that there's no need to pay any attention to it at all
>Just as intended.
>It'll only last a few seconds, half a minute at most, but that's way more time than you'd ever need
>With the speed the Folk are known for, you dart across the park, and snatch up the heavy purse.
>the unicorn mare pauses in her gossip for a moment as she feels the breeze, and then you're gone. You flutter upward, to the roof of one of a nearby inn and land just as the charm is drained.
>You look over the edge, and your sharp eyes show the mare still hasn't realized her coin-purse is gone.
>Alriiiiiiiight.
ANON, OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES, THEY ARE JUST REGULAR PEGASI!
>>27808691
continue later, maybe, if the thread's still here. Just got off from work, too frickin' tired now. Brain's wrapped in a blanket. Shit.
>>27808879
Even if thread's not here, I've still got the pastes. I'll continue some other thread if anyone's interested.
>>27808706
Right, a subcategory of pegasi that takes specific feather patterns and behaviours from respective species of birds. Then, as a content creator, you could easily come up with more traits to separate them from 'regular' pegasi like egg-laying and tail feathers.
From an extradiegetic point of view, they're all pegasi designed around the theme of "Birds", which means they can be put into their own thematic category of ponies and be discussed. You could easily come up with more thematic categories, like "pegasi with yellow coats", "elemental unicorns", "furniture earth ponies", etc.
>>27788357
unf
>>27788686
thanks
>>27789309
cute!
>>27808885
That's good to hear! I know I'm enjoying the hell out of this.
>>27808885
We'll keep the home fires burning, Anon.
>>27808888
>elemental unicorns
That's an interesting idea, Mr. Quads.
>>27809241
Wet water unicorn
Hot fire unicorn
Dirt-y earth unicorn
And wind unicorn that blows you
I made a thing
>>27809507
this is a very important thing
