Thursday Already?

[tealin]

One of my very few original characters - I used to be able to draw him rather well, but ... lack of practise again ... And the rest are just doodles.

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Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well... he used to have a name, but in the years since he wandered into my head I've realized that it's contradictory to some of the cultural perceptions amongst characters in the book, especially those who would have named him ... and also that 'Raven' is one of the most hackneyed, overused, and stereotypically 'fantasy' names in all of literature. (It's also commonly female, which I've never been able to figure out – yeah, nothing has more feminine mystique than a scruffy black scavenger with a grating harsh croak for a song. Helloooo?)

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Speaking of ravens...the short that was nominated for an oscar about a badger has these HI-LAR-IOUS ravens...ohhh, so funny! More on that later.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I don't have any characters called Raven. Not even the ravens, whose names are Corax, Huginn, Muninn (ooh, original) and Odin.

I once saw a raven in the Innsbruck zoo that sounded like a pig. When I was at the Tower of London I saw one pecking at what looked like a backbone.