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handmade ghost

Sometimes the world lets you have a little flirty #quorb, as a treat.

Close photo of an almost unbelievably round, plumped up quail standing in damp, leafy grass, facing the camera and cocking eir head coquettishly to eir left. Eir chickenlike feet are posed demurely together in ballet's first position, and they reach up like a little stand on which rests the full globe-y glory of body of the quail, which is a wonderful slatey grey with a sort of basket of gold scales about midway down, as though the beautifully plump fruit of em has been nestled in one of those soft foam nets that Asian pears rest in in the grocery stores here. Eir brown wings are tucked with epic aplomb behind em, and e is looking at us out of eir flirty eye, which rests under eir bushy bronze unibrow set in the gorgeous glossy black of eir face, thin, white racing stripes demarcating a circle that wraps under eir chin and makes a band over eir eyebrow. Above this little sporty sweatband, the crowning glory of the quail puffs up: a short brown pompadour with a lick of arcing plumage that swoops up and over like the short feathery lantern of a lanternfish, only made of shadows. Eir coy look is a absolute invitation to adore em.
13 Dec 2024 at 16:09 | Open on sunny.garden
34 comments
the.ezzy
@handmade_ghost thank you evolution for creating this creature
13 Dec 2024 at 16:09 | Open on hellspawn.gay
StΓ©phanie

@handmade_ghost I cannot deal with their shape 😍

13 Dec 2024 at 16:10 | Open on ottawa.place
handmade ghost

@stephanie I just go nuts every winter for them.

13 Dec 2024 at 16:12 | Open on sunny.garden
Alex Haist

@handmade_ghost @stephanie the perfect roundness and then the tiny head feather tuft. A kind of perfection.

13 Dec 2024 at 16:29 | Open on wandering.shop
MSouth

@handmade_ghost do they always look so rotund? 😍

13 Dec 2024 at 16:18 | Open on c.im
handmade ghost

@megsouth This one is all orb'd up because it is very cold here this morning. In warmer weather, they look slender and teardrop-shaped.

13 Dec 2024 at 16:24 | Open on sunny.garden
the.ezzy
@handmade_ghost @megsouth yeas in warm weather they look more bird shaped
13 Dec 2024 at 17:18 | Open on hellspawn.gay
Ariel
Loren

@handmade_ghost πŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’š

13 Dec 2024 at 16:35 | Open on flipping.rocks
handmade ghost

@loren "Ask not for whom the quorb flirts; e flirts for thee."

13 Dec 2024 at 16:58 | Open on sunny.garden
Wurzelmann

@handmade_ghost oh my god, how round can one borb be?! 😍

13 Dec 2024 at 16:36 | Open on mastodon.wurzelmann.at
handmade ghost

@wurzelmann I think maybe all the quorb in my backyard are having a party to see who can be the quorbest! πŸ₯Ή

13 Dec 2024 at 16:59 | Open on sunny.garden
Wurzelmann

@handmade_ghost I love it! Thanks for sharing, these cuties always make me laugh out in complete disbelief and amazement! πŸ₯°

13 Dec 2024 at 17:40 | Open on mastodon.wurzelmann.at
handmade ghost

@wurzelmann I'm so glad! They are such a source of winter joy for me here. πŸ₯°

13 Dec 2024 at 17:53 | Open on sunny.garden
Wurzelmann

@handmade_ghost Oh I would absolutely explode from delight if I had those little round cuties in my backyard! 😍

13 Dec 2024 at 17:56 | Open on mastodon.wurzelmann.at
Loren
Dan McCullough

@handmade_ghost This flirty quorb is Qwerty. And I won’t accept any other names. πŸ˜„

13 Dec 2024 at 16:48 | Open on wooded.stream
Moss Wizard

@danmccullough @handmade_ghost They should keep an eye out for the quick brown fox!

13 Dec 2024 at 17:00 | Open on beige.party
handmade ghost

@danmccullough Now absolutely dying for a new Qwerty keyboard so I can type up all the quorb memoirs.

13 Dec 2024 at 17:00 | Open on sunny.garden
_maleficentgirl
handmade ghost

@_maleficentgirl First the ball, then the world. We can now all be part of planet quorb. πŸ˜‚

13 Dec 2024 at 17:01 | Open on sunny.garden
Sam Levine

@handmade_ghost There is no way that's a real bird. I refuse to believe something that ridiculous exists. The cuteness surely kills everything in it's path. No predator could bear to eat it!

13 Dec 2024 at 17:09 | Open on neuromatch.social
handmade ghost

@SRLevine And no predator shall--I will defend the quorb until my dying breath.

13 Dec 2024 at 17:14 | Open on sunny.garden
TheStrangelet :bc:
Jer 🚡🏼

@handmade_ghost What PSI is that inflated to? Seems a little out of spec that's all.

13 Dec 2024 at 17:15 | Open on techhub.social
C3Casi
handmade ghost

@C3Casi A celebration of round. πŸ₯ΉπŸ’š

13 Dec 2024 at 17:54 | Open on sunny.garden
Bryan Wright

@handmade_ghost

Physics teacher, writing on chalkboard:
"If we assume that quails are approximately spherical..."

13 Dec 2024 at 18:20 | Open on fosstodon.org
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