Anonymous asked:

Fawkes the Phoenix was based on a harpy eagle, howmcute would a kestrel phoenix be with a peacock tail and train?

iguanamouth answered:

this is a Good Opportunity considering i was never a big fan of fawkes’ movie design how about

[roachpatrol]

 ok but what about

[chaoskirin]

@triruntu

[mrkltpzyxm]

@elodieunderglass uhhhhhh… Birb?

[elodieunderglass]

I Suggest we Consider:

AQUATIC (penguin)

• No wait
• this is terrible
• put it back
• the poor thing
• why would anyone do this
  

[keire-ke]

I dunno, I kinda love it… :D

[english-history-trip]

It’s a fine line to tread when you’re breeding your phoenix. A swan is good:

• Elegant
• Classic
• Like Cleopatra, he burns upon the water
• Equal parts beauty and danger
• Full of Secrets

But take it a few genes to the left and you’ve got a GOOSE

• A raptor if raptors were total idiots
• Neither beauty nor grace
• Full of Hate
• Has so much poop for you

(Make no mistake, a swan will mess you up just as hard as a goose. But it is the difference between being slain with a katana and getting whacked with a bag of old potatoes.)

[pendragyn]

It got better

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

Oh my God someone actually drew a Good Version of my Dubious Penguin????? And THEN someone added a sweonix (swan phoenix)? Oh man, this is the stuff you miss when you’re in the middle of a reblog chain.

@english-history-trip that is some powerful art, and I respect the trip that it represents from the sublime to the absurd, for in this journey we find enlightenment.

@keire-ke your magnificent penguin art represents the other side of the journey, which takes us from the absurd to the powerful. In this journey we find truth.

[iconuk01]

According to some sources, the legend of the phoenix might be derived from another bird noted for it’s striking appearance and who, indeed, are of the order Phoenicopterus

You know what birds those are?

FLAMINGOS!

Just saying…. if someone wanted to try ANOTHER take on Fawkes….

[joasakura]

This is terrible and I feel like I should apologise, but really, it’s @iconuk01‘s fault.

Also I am not a certified Birb artist.

[elodieunderglass]

Never

Apologize

For

Shaming

Herodotus

[bunjywunjy]

so I’m speaking hypothetically here but is there any reason we can’t move the whole Phoenix thing backwards up the dinosaur family tree a little bit?

T-Rex Phoenix. that’s where I’m going with this.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Bunjy I think that’s a Dragon.

[bunjywunjy]

I know but please let me cross the streams just this once

[gallusrostromegalus]

HEY BUNJY.

CONSIDER YOUR STREAMS CROSSED.