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Tassie Dave, S&L Historian
(last edited Sep 30, 2019 01:50AM)
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Sal the Cacophany by exmile
https://www.deviantart.com/exmile/art...
Sal by Eric Martin
https://twitter.com/ericmartinDOOD
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Sal and Liette by Banished Potato
https://twitter.com/BS_artsss
https://twitter.com/BS_artsss/status/...
Sal by Banished Potato
https://twitter.com/BS_artsss/status/...
Sal by Pulp-Punk
https://pulp-punk.tumblr.com/post/161...
Sal by Anna @starrymurmurrs
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Some Sal pixel art by @Nazareth_STGposted by @SamSykesSwears
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I was having trouble picturing Congeniality until I found the art. It is basically a mean Chocobo ;-)
Congeniality, a large flightless bird...???
Love these! Thanks for posting them here.
Yeah really nice work. Thanks for posting.I am surprised, however, to see that several show Sal smiling, which hardly seemed to me as a common expression for her.
Being an Aussie, I had imagined Congeniality as basically an overgrown Emu!
Sal smiled a lot. Evil smiles, wicked smiles, mean smiles, sweet smiles... It’s Liette who never smiles.
Cameron wrote: "Being an Aussie, I had imagined Congeniality as basically an overgrown Emu!"I pictured her as a terror bird.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoru...
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/201507...
The first time I encountered one in SFF was in Alan Dean Foster’s 1983 novel For Love of Mother-Not, with a gorgeous Michael Whelan cover. I always wondered why more people didn’t use them.
https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleri...
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(last edited Oct 22, 2019 11:40PM)
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Australia has the closest thing still living. The Cassowary. They are dangerous SOBs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary
This is a cassowary's foot
Thankfully they are not native to Tasmania or any mainland place I visit.
Yeah you're right a cassowary is probably a better match, however since we missed seeing them when we visited those parts of Queensland, I didn't really have the image in my head, hence overgrown Emu :-)
Trike wrote: "The first time I encountered one in SFF was in Alan Dean Foster’s 1983 novel For Love of Mother-Not,"Also in Michael Moorcock's The Dancers at the End of Time from 1972-1977
And in Jane Gaskell's Atlan books, beginning with The Serpent, published in the 1960s, there are cavalry troopers riding some kind of large, flightless birds.
Cameron wrote: "Yeah you're right a cassowary is probably a better match, however since we missed seeing them when we visited those parts of Queensland, I didn't really have the image in my head, hence overgrown E..."Of course you missed seeing them as you are still alive...
Erm... So I have just now finally finished this book, and somehow, until seeing this thread, I had totally missed that Congeniality was a flightless bird. Like, this whole time I imagined her flying. There was even that cool sky battle with the other birds that I now realise took place on land. I feel dumb.
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I've been looking up some of the artwork that has been done for the book. It is amazing.
I will link directly and give credit to each piece I show below.
Here's one of our unpleasant, whiskey-chugging jerk,
Sal the Cacophony! by Chandra Pandhita
https://twitter.com/PhotonBetamax
https://twitter.com/SamSykesSwears/st...
Her erstwhile companion, book lover and occasional purveyor of explosives,
Liette by Chandra Pandhita
https://twitter.com/PhotonBetamax
Cavric Proud by Chandra Pandhita
https://twitter.com/PhotonBetamax
"Congeniality and Sal" by twitter.com/BeanyCoffee
http://beanycoffee-illustration.com/p...
https://twitter.com/SamSykesSwears/st...
"Sal, Liette, and the cantankerous murderbird Congeniality! " by Shardanic
https://twitter.com/Shardanic_Art/sta...
https://www.deviantart.com/shardanic
Sal by M.Lee Lunsford
https://twitter.com/MLeeLunsford/stat...