#gryphins — Public Fediverse posts
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Thinking about.... Tresh and Rorin this afternoon.
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While we have the intersectional pride shirts at conventions, @fleeks was kind enough to do specific pride variants of her gryphon pride shirt design, too.
So if you're always wanted trans or lesbian pride gryphons, you can get them here: https://kvalenagle.redbubble.com
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I turned on the TV and YouTube offered up a video by a popular author where he was interviewed by AI and its existence made me sad, so if you've ever had any questions for me, Ask Me Anything here and I'll try to reply to everyone until I'm back writing full time again.
Story, writing, personal, queer, feline questions: whatever is fine.
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Thinking about.... Erlock Startail today.
🎨 Cockatiel Forger
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Chapter Thirty-Four: THUNDER SPONGE
🎨 Pebbles Grape
#GryphInsFanArt #GryphIns #gryphon #gryphoninsurrection #sandgrouse #sandcat #Sponge
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Chapter Thirty-Four: THUNDER SPONGE
🎨 Pebbles Grape
#GryphInsFanArt #GryphIns #gryphon #gryphoninsurrection #sandgrouse #sandcat #Sponge
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Chapter Thirty-Four: THUNDER SPONGE
🎨 Pebbles Grape
#GryphInsFanArt #GryphIns #gryphon #gryphoninsurrection #sandgrouse #sandcat #Sponge
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Chapter Thirty-Four: THUNDER SPONGE
🎨 Pebbles Grape
#GryphInsFanArt #GryphIns #gryphon #gryphoninsurrection #sandgrouse #sandcat #Sponge
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Tonight I'm thinking about... Hatzel and Zeph at the start of their adventures in Eyrie, long before Saberbeak. The last saber-toothed tiger gryphon and a tiny little copperhawk with blue eyes, abandoned by the taiga pride. Who knew how far from home their adventures would take them?
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Thinking about harpy eagle gryphons this morning.
(Merin from Reevesbane, 🎨 by Risuquin)
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Gryphons should be longer, flappier, noodlier. We have the technology. We can make this happen.
(Chapter header by @Yotenotes ) #gryphon #GryphIns #seraphicopinicus
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The Eyrie Hearts sticker pack on Telegram has been updated to include the Gryphmas Gingerbread Cookie version of the owl gryphon chapter header by Kittrel =]
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Hmm, what's that over on Patreon? It's not a special cover variant of Eyrie as a Gryphmas gift to all patrons, even the free tier, is it?
I think it is!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/eyrie-fan-cover-144911470
(Featuring the fan cover everyone was gushing about last month by Sean C. Widjaja)
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I've said this many times before, but it's always a delight working with Jeff Brown on a new cover.
On the left, he asked me what I was thinking for The Ruins of Crestfall. On the right, Jeff being brilliant.
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While Kia has never had her own sticker pack, @Stupidshepherd would often draw fun group picks of the various characters they've done stickers for at the end of the year, and one year, Kia got a cameo in a Christmas scene =]
I love how Shep draws Kia so much<3
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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. The Strix Pride denmothers trying to take care of two very bitey saber-owlets and glaring at Grax every time she walks by like this is her fault.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Okay! By popular request, you can now use the Eyrie Megapack of GryphIns stickers on Signal, too, if you'd like =]
Sticker art by @Stupidshepherd @fleeks @aetus @meeteazy @Yotenotes and Kasey Snow
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Happy Ace Week / Asexual Awareness Week!
I realized there were no ace pride stickers in the Eyrie Hearts pack, so @Yotenotes was kind enough to create ace stickers for Chert and Xin =]
If you're on Telegram, you can add the pack here: https://t.me/addstickers/EyrieHearts
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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: https://books2read.com/rl/gryphoninsurrection
You can find the fan art page at: https://kvalenagle.com/fanart/
Banner 🎨 by @Yotenotes #GryphInsFanArt #GryphIns #gryphon
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It's 1am, the dragons are asleep, but I'm up doing author admin stuff, so let's have a little fun.
As the GryphIns series nears the end, what character are you really hoping ends up on a book cover?
I'll go first: the infamous Duckbill Murder Hen 🙀
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A year ago, Pridelord released. Full of mystery and intrigue, strange monsters and adorable ottergryphs, it was also the first in the series to offer a main cast transfemme gryphon. And Paysan has done a great job of reviewing it without more than very vague spoilers.
If you love gryphons, epic fantasy, creature protagonists, naturepunk, or adorable antihero+cottage core lesbian couples, check it out today!
https://books2read.com/pridelord
#bookstodon #books #gryphins #gryphoninsurrection #gryphon #griffin #griffon #epicfantasy -
2:30am. Time to rise and shine... and do some editing! And who better to summon in the new day than Sponge as a rooster?
Sponge fan art by pebbles-grape on bsky.
#GryphIns #GryphInsFanArt #Sponge #Crestfall #Sandgrouse #sandcat #gryphon #griffin #gryfon #griffon -
Who's up at 2:30am editing? It's me =]
It's nice and rainy, the windows are open, and there's time to get some edits done.
Please enjoy this @meeteazy fan art of Blinky.
#GryphInsFanArt #GryphIns #Blinky #OwlGryphon #Merteazy #FlockYouImAGryphon #gryphon #gryphoninsurrection #griffin -
Finally done, only... 11 days late for #pridemonth >.=.<
I don't typically do fan art, (or color, or sfw...) but I've done it this time. Anyway, on to the description.
It's Lei from @[email protected]'s Gryphon Insurrection series, which I highly recommend reading if you haven't already.
#furry #furryart #gryphon #GryphIns #GryphInsFanArt #GryphonInsurrection #trans -
It's always fun when a new group of readers start the series and are going through and talking about it at around the same rate =] Seems like for this batch, Stripes and her motmot bodyguards are the most popular.
A motmot art by Kieran/SmatterBrain.
#GryphIns #GryphInsFanArt #GryphonInsurrection #gryphon #griffin #gryfon #griffon -
Did you know patrons got a special variant cover of The Crackling Sea where Grenkin has his iconic eye patch?
It's true! And the ebook version with the eye patch is still available at the ebook and up levels at https://patreon.com/kvalenagle
As a bonus, you help out a trans author during Pride =)
#gryphins #JeffBrown #RangerLordGrenkin #gryphoninsurrection #patreon #gryphon
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"What would a Pride Parade be like in Belamuria?"
Well, it would definitely involve Cielle flying around in the various pride colors. That much is for sure. Naya and Biski would run a plumage-dyeing station for trans peafowl and cardinals to get the right colors. Whisper and Flicker would be there, and Flicker would tell everyone who would listen that she and Whisper are "Summer Friends."
🎨 @fleeks #pride #happypride #gryphonpride #cielle #GryphIns #Fleeks
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My goodness, I was looking for something in my media folder and stumbled across this photo of maybe our first table at a convention ever. We had copies of Eyrie and Ashen Weald... but not Starling yet! Must've been maybe July-ish 2019? #GryphIns
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Lei fan art by the CockatielForger!
You can see more GryphIns fan art at https://kvalenagle.com/fanart
#GryphIns #GryphInsFanArt #FantasyArt #GryphonInsurrection #Lei #TransPride #EmeraldPeafowl #PeacockGryphon #Opinicus #CockatielForger
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Here's a fun typo that's specific to creature fantasy authors. If you pluralize opinicus as opinici instead of opinicuses, do a search for "opinici" in your manuscript and see how often you accidentally used that form as an adjective. It should be "opinicus lovers" and not "opinici lovers."
I've edited maybe twelve gryphon-adjacent creature fantasy books at this point, sometimes just doing a proofread as a favor, and the moment I see an opinicus show up, I perform that search and I always catch something.
Funnily enough, I'm not sure where using opinici as an irregular plural began. During the early days of the pandemic, I replayed some old 90s video games for fun, and I was surprised to see the irregular plural even back then in lines like "Feral opinici and masterless golems roam the highlands. They would make a valuable addition to our army" in Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Caliber.
And if anyone doesn't know what an opinicus is, it's a different type of gryphon. The heraldry definition is any gryphon who lacks external ears, but it can also mean a male gryphon (in heraldry, that sometimes means without wings, or with light spikes for wings). Really, though, in modern fantasy, opinicus is the most common term for when you have two species of gryphons in the same fantasy setting.
In GryphIns, the series leans into the lack of external ears and makes opinici more-avian gryphons. In Feathers & Flames, it's the opposite: the opinici are fully feline gryphons and even have kitty ears.
It's a popular secondary gryphon species term for a reason: the other gryphon 'cousins' all have goofy names like keythongs or alces!
Anyways, if you're writing opinicus books, which you should, do a quick search for opinici and see if you accidentally used it as an adjective somewhere. Most likely, you did! And if not, you're a better writer than I am =]
#creaturefantasy #writingcreaturefantasy #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #gryphins #gryphoninsurrection #dire #feathers&flames #blackbeak #opinicus #opinicuses #opinici #opinipodes
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Here's a fun typo that's specific to creature fantasy authors. If you pluralize opinicus as opinici instead of opinicuses, do a search for "opinici" in your manuscript and see how often you accidentally used that form as an adjective. It should be "opinicus lovers" and not "opinici lovers."
I've edited maybe twelve gryphon-adjacent creature fantasy books at this point, sometimes just doing a proofread as a favor, and the moment I see an opinicus show up, I perform that search and I always catch something.
Funnily enough, I'm not sure where using opinici as an irregular plural began. During the early days of the pandemic, I replayed some old 90s video games for fun, and I was surprised to see the irregular plural even back then in lines like "Feral opinici and masterless golems roam the highlands. They would make a valuable addition to our army" in Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Caliber.
And if anyone doesn't know what an opinicus is, it's a different type of gryphon. The heraldry definition is any gryphon who lacks external ears, but it can also mean a male gryphon (in heraldry, that sometimes means without wings, or with light spikes for wings). Really, though, in modern fantasy, opinicus is the most common term for when you have two species of gryphons in the same fantasy setting.
In GryphIns, the series leans into the lack of external ears and makes opinici more-avian gryphons. In Feathers & Flames, it's the opposite: the opinici are fully feline gryphons and even have kitty ears.
It's a popular secondary gryphon species term for a reason: the other gryphon 'cousins' all have goofy names like keythongs or alces!
Anyways, if you're writing opinicus books, which you should, do a quick search for opinici and see if you accidentally used it as an adjective somewhere. Most likely, you did! And if not, you're a better writer than I am =]
#creaturefantasy #writingcreaturefantasy #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #gryphins #gryphoninsurrection #dire #feathers&flames #blackbeak #opinicus #opinicuses #opinici #opinipodes
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Belamuria is a continent where most of the terrestrial mammals have gone extinct, but recently, squirrels and capybaras have been reintroduced through shipwrecks. They've taken over the jungle and swamp, much to the chagrin of the local gryphon populations
#GryphIns #Eyrie #GryphonInsurrection #capybara
🎨 Kieran/Smatterbrain
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Writing and editing on Saberbeak tonight =] Been a while since I've been productive. It's good to write Satra again, and it's fun writing her and Silver together. Their leadership styles are... very different.
Satra fan art by Funkbun on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/funkbun/730486011009892352/gryphon-book-birds?source=share
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I feel like I just got rewarded for scrolling Tumblr instead of writing =] I should get back to edits, but it's a delight to see GryphIns fan art. Thank you, The Silent Saphira.
#GryphIns #gryphon #gryphonart #creaturefantasy #fanart #fantasybooks #creaturefantasy #griffin
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Today's #GryphIns fan art is inspired by the fact that I say the URL as "Biski dot App." As such, please enjoy this Biski fan art by Risuquin. When I was going through some tough medical issues, she sent me this medicine gryphon to keep me safe =]
Risuquin can be found on www.instagram.com/risuquin/