I love raptor-dinos, but I also *adore* birds of prey! & corvids! So Lights features a bunch (I even managed to sneak in a snowy owl on my revision🦉), oh & there's some macaws🦜... Hm? Oh what does it have to do with the art post? 😏 So like I was saying, birds of prey are pretty cool... #Critterary

Day 20 Today should be a hoot, it's time for birds! 🦅🦚🦜 (Keeping it short n sweet before I add in more terrible jokes😅) #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary

Go the distance.

cap means peak #ウマ娘 #umamusume #art

#Critterary 19. Free Monday. Have a snippet of the MC describing a Diagonian.

#Critterary 19 #Writing #WritingPrompts I have the Peerie; a small, hairy Fae fuzzball with big amber eyes, short but pointy snout, bird feet, yellowish hirsute, leafy wings, & twiglike antlers. They can't fly very high but can turn invisible & breathe fumes of lethargy. Shy, cautious, brave & nice.

#Critterary #LicoriceAndMint #QueerWriters #lesfic #sapphic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts Snippet from Raven Feathers and Cat's Breath - Innani's experience via her familiar.

Lorelei ⚜️ Fifth Seer of Dominion [ #art #ocs #ocsky #angel ]

The entire 2nd Act has been a struggle to rework for me 😅 I have so many action scenes to keep it exciting, but the parts in between those with character chemistry and growth is where I've had the hardest time to keep it interesting and flow properly. Hopefully I've got it this draft! 🤞

a Pokémon a day keeps artblock away #384 Rayquaza

Quimeras are cool.

#Critterary Carbunclo-the Chilean mythical creature and NOT the skin condition. Beware of your Google searches. Hopefully you find Final Fantasy. Ah hem! Anyway, in my books they have luxurious fur like a chinchilla and enchantable jewels in their backs. They are furtive conjurors.

#Critterary -Tommy getting a look at trophies of mutated animals #Writing

S The tendency of the Rift to randomly mutate shit over generations doesnt apply just to humans - The term "Chimera" has ended becoming a turbo rainbow label for "What the fuck is this creature" - and any specie that isnt catalogued kind of gets called that

I suppose I will share the Heart Fae for today. They arent in any WIP at present, but they are in my personal bestiary of creatures. Basically they are adorable little chubby fairies that eat nothing but fruit. The thing is, if you aren’t pure enough in heart… you can die from a single touch. So-

#Critterary I want to talk about the sky fish today. Munil is a crescent-shaped land mass. From space, it looks like a crescent moon. In the 'middle' of that moon is the Shallow Sea- air you can breathe AND swim in. Here we have the kuukoi, kuurage, kuuni, kuujira, and more

A unique creature? I suppose that the giant geese ridden by the Wild Hunt in Re: Shattered Memories might count, but they are inspired by the fact that the Wild Hunt was often associated with the noise made by geese in Welsh folklore. #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary

There are a few natural chimera that appear such as griffin or hippogriff, but then there are also the far less pleasant un natural chimera made by wizards. Some wizards will use their magic to turn animals or people into twisted monsters to serve their will, or even corrupt their own bodies.

#Critterary Trolls! Another creature that only gets an offhand mention in the fantasy, but they are actually almost as foundational to the situation as angels and nephilim. Trolls are massive creatures. Or were, actually. They are likely extinct now. I don't know what sparked... 🧵 1/6

#Critterary How about this? In my main series' lore (Tales From The Night Garden), the different factions of vampires come from different elemental strains of magic, which were gifted to the progenitors after they trapped death and demanded immortality (or cursed, depending on your view.) 1/3

#Critterary 19 #TheDragonblood: Today, we're talking about fungus! In Nemoria, there's a nonmagical mold that causes encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain which can lead to confusion, memory loss, seizures and other nasty symptoms. It also tends to grow on cannabis leaves. (1/8)

#Critterary Oooh, hybrids are really fun! I don't have anything, but I absolutely want and need to change that. I grew up obsessed with Greco-Roman mythology so I'm surprised I've never given it thought.

#Critterary #HelpDesk I realized this morning — what if Yorica's sister Yasmine can now hear #Moonshine's thoughts? and can scribe for Moonshine?? It's different from giving narrative ability back to Gtarmigan. But that may be the better path so he can be an unreliable narrator. Advice?

#Critterary Sigh. Monday.

Terra Nova, being entirely synthetic, has no native fauna. But I wanted a way to demonstrate the horror of such a thing. Thus, Chitterlings. Mutated rats struggling to survive in the bleak conditions. And gaining frightening levels of intelligence. #Critterary #MindWalkers #YA

#Critterary 19: It's Free Monday, and so the next Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) creation I'm going to share is actually a plant: the honeyed noniel of the Isles of Atmoriel. The honeyed noniel is a fruit that grows on large, wide trees, with the fruit itself roughly the...

#Critterary 19. Though I talk about the dĩn'huei the most, Edenia has various other half-flesh, half-plant species. And some of those are more plant than flesh, such as the kâo'imë, which are essentially big living mushrooms, and the lõn'obïn, faun-like creatures, and of course, the dĩn’ay (1/2)

#Critterary - 01/19 Spinarak aren't exactly "creatures," per se, but the kingdoms of Kaledon hold many strange and wonderful sights like this. #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #QueerWriters #ButchFemme

Courtney the Liliphunt! Based on the very real extinct elephant species (Palaeoloxodon cypriotes). These tiny pachyderms experienced insular dwarfism after being trapped on an island. Annie named her Courtney after learning she had more cortical areas than modern elephants. #Critterary #Writing

#Critterary Free Monday: More about my mum‘s uncle At age 7, a🧚‍♀️child wanted to take him to their realm The🧚‍♀️left bribes: Gold, silver,💐& fruit. Spoke to his parents in dreams, threatened to curse him if they didn’t agree His mum kept refusing. The gifts eventually stopped cont. nx Mon😉 #writesky

#Critterary Ethan Harris in my WIP, TRAILER TRASH ZOMBIES, lives in a crappy apt. complex, has a job writing for porn sites, & hangs out at Zomnibus, a zombie rave in Salem, MA. It's owned by his lover, Ambrose Fletcher. He teams up with Ambrose and a neighbor to battle rednecks who want them dead.

#Critterary There are ⭐tropical griffins⭐

#Critterary Well, have some nightmare fuel. The walking woodchipper/downsizing monsters of Infernal Resource in “Hell Is Work.” After all, the slips aren’t pink until they’re splattered with blood! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Don’t laugh at the critter that lives in the woods, it might come for you and take you away. It stalks at night when the moon is bright, its eyes all stony grey. @serraleta.bsky.social‬ #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary

Fun Last Train to Blazes fact: The chunes are an older race than humans, evolving an extra couple hundred thousand years earlier than humans. There are some odd artifacts of the age. For example, domesticated Aurochs.

Ignore all the bits that need context - I just wanted to share some of the throwaway creatures I put in this paragraph for fun. You get extra internet points if you know where jubjub birds are from. #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary #writingcomminity #writingprompt #writesky

Time for the snakey Vakohr I mentioned on reptile day! Very rough sketches😶. No reason why 7 eyes (yes, very scratchy) but wanted enough to look creepy if they moved around in different directions. Also a forked tongue that separated out more seemed neat! In the 2nd pic, I wanted 1/2 #Critterary

Day 19 It's time for the cuuuutest Monday in the whole wide world! Actually no, no it's not - we gotta pack it away and mail it off somewhere, and get ready for a fun Free Monday!! #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary

WIP 1: There are monster hybrids of various monsters and animals. The most common hybrid type is monster + human though. Both because they’re the most powerful result, because the monster king and queen see it as a reward, and because the mad scientist prefers test subjects that can beg.

#Critterary 18. Hybrid creatures The Jacmana are a small Limbo dwelling species. They are the devoted workerbees of the Undulav. They have a small rabbit body, upright canine legs, with tree bark horns that seep gray smoke, they can enlarge themselves from their normal pint size for larger tasks

#Critterary Any Tinorkk who might appear to be a mix of more than one species would be extremely offended if you suggested as much. They don't like being compared to nonmagical animals in general, the way most humans wouldn't appreciate being told they look like a bat or turtle. Tinorkk can't-

#Critterary As of now I have no amphibian character, but I have many characters of undecided species. There are not as many amphibian Tinorkk species as other types, in part because amphibians are often the first to go extinct due to environmental stressors. They don't do well in Tinorkk cities,-

#Critterary Though many Tinorkk are very close to nature both culturally & biological needs wise, there are no literal nature spirits. I'm considering having Shades that are something Other than human or Tinorkk that kinda pop in and out of the world, but it would just be background worldbuilding.

#Critterary The Duo (whose names or species' name I haven't decided on) are a brother/sister twin team of chaotic good crime bosses, & the descendants of dragons. When other creatures first started to become sapient, dragons realized they had 2 options: eat a LOT of sapient people to survive, or-

I've written mostly apparitions and ghosts.

green noodle

I haven't

I have this idea of some sort of tribal merfolk that are half human half dolphin

#Critterary Arcanafauna: Magical creature Chimera: A classification of arcanafauna where it's made of many critters. I have a lot of mixed up beasts in my world, most notably are calygreyhounds! Here's Thalia trying to explain what one is to a drunk circus patron in Sigils of Malice Chapter 1.

#Critterary #LicoriceAndMint #QueerWriters #lesfic #sapphic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts I would say the usual array of amphibians are in Licorice and Mint. As there are beast humanoids of all kinds so now I'm thinking up how and where frog-kin and axolotl-kin would fit in. Damn.