I don't think there's a wrong way for a trans person to pick their name, and I think it's good to try out a few and change as needed. For me, sometime in 2017 I realized that when I'd refer to myself in third person in my thoughts, I used Valerie. It just sort of happened with no conscious choice.

I found some of my old high school clothes... and they fit. Do people have retro 2000s parties? How do I get invited to one so I can wear these without it being weird?

*begins furiously scribbling notes for Mermaid Gunslinger*

hey are #gryphon -s still cool? Am I too late to the party? Anyways omg 😭😭im never doing this ever again, hats off to people who do this regularly, seriously #griffon #griffin

I caught this cat trying to steal something out of my purse and she just flopped over and looked really cute when she realized the jig was up.

a peacock dragon adopt! more info below If I'm honest I prefer drawing in this style. Don't misunderstand I like getting into a rendered piece every once and in awhile, but if I have the choice, something with some rougher edges and more freedom is more fun for me

The Gryphon Generation Book Five: Chimera Affliction by @reinbourne.bsky.social has been added to the Gryphon Reading List! Cover art by @redizak.bsky.social. Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gryphon-Gene... #GryphonReadingList: kvalenagle.com/gryphonlist #Gryphon

At the gym today thinking about the canonically trans characters in GryphIns (Whisper, Lei, Clamshell) versus the ones fans seem to have a consensus on being trans (Naya, Grax). It'll probably get cut, but I did write a scene with Grax's PoV that makes her explicitly trans for fun.

Binturongs got cool ears!!

I have been holding back asking for more assistance with my bills. But I still need help. I am still one month behind on rent, but have no more move in costs pending. I am also in the red on my account. I get paid Friday. Any assistance is welcome. <3 #mutualaid www.paypal.com/donate?hoste...

Being trans and being a girl with a catastrophic autoimmune disorder are mostly separate things, but very rarely, they conflict and life gets very exciting for a bit. Immunosuppressants and laser hair removal was my surprise conflict today. It's sorted now, but I am worn out.

Go vote today!

Gryphons updated! Major improvements! Fully crossplatform! manyblinkinglights.itch.io/fluffy-gryph...

Look for my ghost at Manatee Springs, Florida. Haunting the transphobes and protecting the local wildlife.

So this happens to me with a different word. So you're writing along, just like so, and so you don't notice how often you say so but it happens so, so often. That word? Preternatural. (Kidding, my brain defaults to 'so.')

I'm not usually hungry, but both healing from IVIG and HRT in general sometimes randomly make me ravenous. HRT usually wants something sweet, healing usually means protein type things, and I think today I'm getting hit by both. I wonder if I have the ingredients to make a ton of chili?

Godzilla 🦖🏙

there's almost no better feeling than this

go support wild wings bird sanctuary in mendon, NY ...there's some pins in the gift shop that i no longer sell online. they all benefit unreleasable raptors and go to helping their releasable friends get back into the wild. www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

Want a FREE digital copy (PDF) of Creature Sculpt, my book on sculpting? Donate $5 USD or more to the Larimer County Food Bank, send me proof of donation, and I will email you the book. 💵 Donate at foodbanklarimer.org DM me after donating and I will instruct you how to get your receipt over to me.

📜 FLOCK OF FABLES; a formline bestiary 🐉 (🔁) #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

Starting to have little moments of breaking through the fatigue of recovering from COVID. Like 15 minute stretches of my brain working the way it did before COVID. So that's a good sign. But just waking up and starting my day leaves me exhausted by the time I finish breakfast still.

PSA: Please remember to donate your leftover pumpkins to gryphons now that Halloween is over. Getting enough pumpkin goo is important for gryphons this time of year so they don't turn into silver-eyed zombie-like hordes roaming the land chittering and biting everyone. 🎨 @merteazy.bsky.social

Les Miserables but Inspector Javert is played by Flicker, everyone's favorite pumpkin farming cottagecore lesbian, and she's on the trail of famous gourd thief Jean Valjean, played by Younce. 🎨 @yotenotes.bsky.social

PSA: Please remember to donate your leftover pumpkins to gryphons now that Halloween is over. Getting enough pumpkin goo is important for gryphons this time of year so they don't turn into silver-eyed zombie-like hordes roaming the land chittering and biting everyone. 🎨 @merteazy.bsky.social

Experimental painting for @saber15.bsky.social and myself, featuring our gryphons #gryphons #griffon #pigeon #hummingbird #digital_painting

The fact that #gryphons are so strongly associated with both vanity and pride when they're flappy cats is part of what I love about them as a species. Plus, most epic fantasy protagonists don't cough up hairballs or randomly soak up puddles or bite each others' tails... to those story's detriment.

Some gryphons are so elegant and cool... me? I'm a gods damned train wreck on a good day xD A nevous potato of a creature that can't even get out of bed without feeling like everything is gonna go wrong... please handle with caution Gift from my friend @toddavali.bsky.social

Got cursed into turning into the gryphon from quest for camelot! Halloween everyone! art by @amethystbeetle.bsky.social

BlueSky-ass post.

serpentine whales serpentine whales !!

Hmmm, if I wrote a scary story set in GryphIns for Halloween next year, what would you want it to be about? Mally the Nighthaunt? Whisper and the infected starlings? The things in the depths? Serpentine whales? Terror birds? The Connixation or blood coast? Comment and weigh in now =) #gryphon

Comment for a chance to win a Potroast plushie dropping on November 3rd! We’ll pick a few winners from the comments! youtooz.com

Since it's October, I thought it'd be fun to do a quick thread of fan art for the bog witches who show up in the GryphIns series. You can find the books at: books2read.com/rl/gryphonin... You can find the fan art page at: kvalenagle.com/fanart/ Banner 🎨 by @yotenotes.bsky.social

Have fun with your trick or treat adventures everyone! #illustration #halloween #KidLitArt

my first novella, published in 2011 with a now-defunct small queer publisher, could be rewritten and be a hundred times better now. But I keep it the way it is because it taught me a lot of important things about how writing and publishing work, and that's important to me

Not any specific characters but I decided to draw a few of the dragon types

I absolutely get how hard it is to write a book when you know your skill level isn't high enough to pull it off the way you want... but the way you get better is by writing more books. Here's some of my learning novels that never got published. 1. Endangerous: killer manatees attack during a storm

Chocolate Turkey army assemble!

"Autumn Fun" -- Speedpaint done for Neitirite & Maoyuki over at VK with their characters frolicking in the autumn forest ^v^ #art #drawing #illustration #feral #wolf #canine #dogs #gryphon #autumn

It’s Halloween, so here’s a Griffin Siffrin! Does that make them a Griffrin? #isat Art by @kelponie.bsky.social

The @rpgamer.com Extra Life stream begins on November 7th! I’m excited to be returning to kick off a weekend of fun games while raising money #ForTheKids See the schedule and peep our new and updated donation incentives: rpgamer.com/2025/10/extr...

Do you like dragons? Epic fantasy? Complex world building? Constructed languages? Extra lore tidbits in the back of the book? Youth being forced to fix the world adults broke? Then check out the first two books in the Chronicles of Enayra series! Available in print and digital! linktr.ee/samaccardi

Idk if I went too crazy with the feathers but I had a lot of fun with this one 🦅🦁 Sewing pattern for patrons till Nov 5 www.patreon.com/NazFX_Studios [ #griffin #griffon #gryphon #fantasy #plush #plushie #plushart #fantasyart #sewing #dnd ] More info ⬇️

Happy Halloween! Which costume should Daxie wear? #ocanimation #dragon #toonboomharmony #2danimation #halloweencostume

A spooky Ripsaw Catfishtaur, just in time for Halloween.

Many people are correctly saying this!

My problem with Wings of Fire fan art is that everyone draws the characters as dragons and not as gryphons, which is how I imagined them in my head while reading the series.