Rex Igneus is secretly my rock daddy 😳

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Also, don't bother trying to message them, they clearly know this is from Kisa and don't care. They will block you no matter what. I won't be surprised if this post doesn't show up to some people.

I'm not here to publicly humiliate this person. I'm hoping to educate them to be mindful that this kind of behavior will hurt an artist, most of them depend on their art to survive.

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Rayla in a dress 💜💫 I loved designing this outfit for her!

It's dark under the castle. Callum'd been going out of his way to stay out of the tunnels, if only because the atmosphere down here puts his teeth on edge and makes the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. There's too much unfriendly history; too many reminders of the previous high mage and the less-than-ethical ways he tried to solve everyone's problems.

But Rayla had insisted, and even as awkward as things are...

How could he say no?

She's got a bow strung over her back now, and a quiver of arrows clutched in her hand, and he can see the discomfort in her posture, and in the way her knuckles shine white around the leather of Runaan's quiver. He wants to say something, to ask if she's okay, but the quiet feels heavy and the words get tangled up before they ever make it into his mouth.

Then they hear something in the distance. Footsteps. Something—someone—hurrying away.

Callum's breath hitches. The back of his neck prickles. His stomach writhes uneasily in his gut, because the only others who know how to navigate the tunnels are Ezran, and...

"You don't think—"

Rayla holds out a hand. "Shh," she hisses. She unsheathes one of her blades and inches ahead of him, her feet light against the floor.

"Rayla—"

"Shh!" She glares at him. "You'll give us away!"

"But what if it's—"

"They wouldn't have come back here," says Rayla. "That would be stupid, even for Claudia."

"But if someone else is down here—"

"I know." Rayla flicks her blade into its sword form, and dimly, Callum remembers a comparatively simpler time, a finger pressed against his lips, magic humming in his hands. "Stay here."

"But—"

"It'll be fine," she says. And she's right, it's probably no one, or nothing, but still. Callum's been hesitant to let her go off on her own since Umber Tor, and she'd come back, of course, but he's grown to dislike watching her walk away. And weird as everything is, they must still share a link of some sort, because she smiles and adds, "I'll be back."

"I could just come with you?"

"And give us away?" She smirks. "Just stay put. I won't be long."

A pause. Callum hesitates. Rayla does too. And then, she leans forward and presses a kiss to his cheek. There's more in it than they've talked about: her longing, her regret, her apology for putting him through what she did. But it's a promise too: that she means what she says, that she will be back, that she loves him still.

"I always come back, don't I?"

So I’ve been reading a lot of fics lately where people are either

A) Putting wings onto canon characters

B) Making OCs with wings

So I decided that, with the influx of people who are writing winged characters (and therefore the influx of errors that come with writing winged characters), I’d make a little thing to help you slap a pair of wings onto anyone!

This is also a bit personal, too, because the MC in my upcoming novel has wings!

1. Know that there are a lot of types of wings to choose from

Part of being a writer is the desire to take something (whether it be a pre-existing work or an idea in your head) and make it into your own. So, instead of just going with the classic bird wings, why not spice it up a bit? If your character is an angel, you certainly don’t have to stick to the classic depictions of angel wings. Why not give them butterfly wings or dragonfly wings?

Here’s a small list of different types of wings to choose from:

Bat wings

Beetle wings

Bird wings

Butterfly/Moth wings

Dragonfly wings

Note that these wings are for animals who can fly. There are also animals who can “fly” that actually glide, such as sugar gliders and flying squirrels.

Yeah, so the options are pretty limited, but feel free to make up your own kinds of wings that aren’t necessarily based on a pre-existing creature’s wings!

2. Be familiar with the anatomy of your character’s wings and their limits

If your wings are completely unique, draw them out. A diagram or picture is key when it comes to things like description. I’m not gonna tell you what everything does and give you Animal Wing Anatomy 101, that’s for you to research. Know that there are different types of wings and that they have different uses, strengths, and weaknesses.

3. Never use the full extent of your research! 

Surprise, surprise!

“But wait, Maddy!” you cry, writing utensil in hand and poised to stab me. “I thought we were supposed to were supposed to show our research!”

Well, you are. Technically that’s not wrong. But, readers don’t want to know ALL of it. Over-described wings are sometimes worse than under-described wings; what sucks more than not knowing what a character’s wings look like is having to look up wing anatomy in the middle of the chapter!

Only use the most basic of vocabulary when it comes to describing the parts of the wing. Most of the time, you just have to say “bat wing” or “feathery wing” and the readers get the basic idea. (Like seriously, do you think the readers know what a dactylopatagium brevis is????? It’s a part of skin on a bat’s wing btw)

4. Don’t bring your character’s wings up only when they’re needed!!!!

Unless your character’s wings can fade away when they’re not needed, wings are a 100% real, 24/7 thing! It’s bothersome when writers mention the wings in one chapter and then only bring them up when there’s a daring escape that needs to be performed! Most of the time, I forget that the characters even have wings at all!

There is also the fact that wings aren’t all pros and no cons. If they’re functional, they’re probably big, and if they’re muscular, they’re probably bulky. If your character is clumsy, they’ll probably knock things over constantly, and if they’re not clumsy, they’ll still knock things over constantly.

Your wings are two (or four, or five, or six quintillion) extra appendages; they’re a part of your character! You don’t have to spend every second reminding the readers that they’re there, but don’t go long stretches of time without even mentioning them.

5. Your character’s wings can be a good way to indicate their mood or to provide for that little bit of description that you think you make be lacking

Why wouldn’t you want to describe the wings? I mean, you don’t want to describe every minute detail over and over again, but it’ll boost your word count a lot more than you think. They can also be used to convey your character’s feelings without explicitly telling the reader! It’s like a new set of facial expressions!

See? You can tell he’s wary and ready to fight from the movement of his wings! Also he’s crouching next to a dead body but that’s not relevant right now

Here’s a list of wing language (?) that you can incorporate into your story that will not only increase your word count, but will also add to the sustenance of your story!

Nervous

Twitch

Flutter

Ripple

Fold tightly

Fidget

Flap

Angry

Flare

Bristle

Fluff up

Ripple

Beat

Raise up

Snap open

Happy

Flutter

Curl up

Ripple

Wave

Flap

During Battle

Bludgeon

Smack

Bat

Clout

Whack

Kick someone’s legs out from under them

Snap someones neck (only for muscular wings like bat and bird wings)

Problems that may come with having wings

Poke out from under blankets and let all of the cold air in

Stepped on

Get pins and needles from being folded for too long

Squashed on chairs/ in beds/ in crowded hallways

Vulnerable in battle

Molting (for bird wings)

Some sketches / drawings that I..