Those are actually not spiky feathers at all! They sure do look like it, though, and that's likely the point- if I were a raptor looking down upon a pincushion, I would think twice about grabbing it with my bare feet.

However, it's a ruse! Just a marking on a feather

the coloured version of a sketch i made last week for the front page of htn's chapter 53 💀 i would love to be able to illustrate an actual book someday hheh

closeups under the cut 🗡 prints!

“...So I dropped to my knees here, right … I scooped dirt into my mouth … ate until I vomited. I gathered up the bloody earth … I realised you were too much for me. This is the problem, the incorporation, this is the hardest part … It’s the human instinct, to take. When you burn your thumb, you stick it in your mouth, right? And there was still too much of me that was just a human being.”

- John 1:20, Nona the Ninth

YES THANK YOU