Zai

I'm Zai,
An Amethyst Starling, Snow Leopard Gryphon with a Phoenix under the hood.

Addicted to Transformation, purple, and a fan of sturnids. Sometimes a writer and also a general pain in the tail feathers (in a silly kinda way)

This account is 18+ It may contain NSFW talk from time to time, which of course will be CW'ed

Headspace associate of @KatSteelwing or @Feroquill

Every time the baby opens their mouth for food, the song with the screaming cowboys in the sky comes into my head...

AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
AAAAAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA!

Have a baby sturnid loaf.
It's post-feast nap time.

A common starling nestling, huddled up on a towel.
Zai boosted:
Laura 🇵🇹l_a_ferreira
2025-06-27

Estorninho-metálico (Aplonis metallica), Austrália.

Metallic Starling (Aplonis metallica), Queensland, Australia.

By Denise Denham.


I wonder if Aarakocra have avian or humanoid anatomy?

We need to go to a con and room with gryphon suiters again so we can recreate the tree of judgment!

LB: Every time I see pictures of Albi, I remember when we roomed with them and Velux at Anthrocon and we had the "tree of judgment."
I have a 4 place fursuit head drying tree I used to bring to cons, and we had it set up next to a chair in the room and if you sat in that chair, you would have 3 gryphon fursuit heads glowering down at you.
That was a fun year.

@yksteldus @KatSteelwing back in the day I had a tendency to hijack it. That's the main reason I have my own account now.

Zai: neurodivergent gryphon with a special interest in starlings/mynas and a TF kink, or eldritch being bent on blotting out the skies with metallic feathers and countless wings? By the time you find out, it may be too late!

@KatSteelwing Zaiposting at its best.

So we have this headmate who goys by Gryph who identifies themself as the essence of gryphonhood. Their form is based on the oldest description of gryphons, all black with a red patch on their chest.
They've had a really hard time coming up with a cooler name than Gryph but I think they are starting to like the name "Tempest."

I feel a powerful need to commission such a picture now.

Happy starling gryph with a firefly friend

Walking back from playing disc golf with our friends and I caught a lightning bug. The mental image I immediately got was me as a gryph, holding a paw up and looking in absolute delight as a lightning bug is just taking off from it.

Zai boosted:
infinite love ⴳtrwnh
2025-06-14

the follow up

a google assistant notification that's been truncated by ellipses due to the screen not being wide enough. the title says "talk to tour ass..." and the body content says "just press and hold the action butt.."

I really should have been a European starling.
Probably would have been if amethyst starlings weren't so dang pretty, AND our favorite color.

I will be your bard for this adventure.
Be warned, that as a starling all of my music will be dubstep.

Zai boosted:
2025-06-11

Reading book about sentient bots make me want to share again this very special puffin lady edition made by @ThomasNoppers

A robotic puffin standing on the edge of a cliff in the center of the image. Her eyes are doing a faint green light ray while she is looking to the right, the rest of her body is directed to the left. She is holding her right hand equipped with some heavy duty massive skull crushing level of claw and overall look to be in a heroic style pose. In the background directly behind her head a pale orange moon can be seen light up the scene in a warm glow, scattered distant birds silhouette are visible over mountains.

Trying desperately to find the log of the first dream that we actually saw "me" in gryphon form, instead of just a voice/personality.
Starting to think we never logged it and I think the Antar chat Ripley and I discussed it in got lost.

@yksteldus hi! *zooms off*

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