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local mockingbird still hasn't gotten a mate

good news for me because that means i get to listen to a bird in the middle of the night

Hello! I’m opened for Pride Icon Commissions!

Each icon is $15 (more if a very complicated design). Feel free to PM me over Tumblr. The icons include a full-colored character bust, pride flag background, and a border if you want! Matching icons are $25.

I do require a visual character reference of at least a bust, colors included. Art can be done by anyone, so long as it’s not NSFW, but I need visuals and color. Even dollmakers works!

Payment is in USD and made through Paypal! The final product is given to you after payment. You get a confirmation sketch, and once you like what you see, I ask for you to pay, then finish and give you the piece.

I’m Okay With:

> Canon Character > OCs > OC/Canon > OC/OC (with reference)

I’m Not Okay With:

> Mecha > Furry (not yet sorry) > Incest/Pedophilia/Rape > NSFW-themes

ayleid fashion, in general, was dramatic and striking, with a tendency towards what other races called decadence. focusing my thoughts on nobility & royalty here, who expressed trends in fashion the most & took them to the extremes.

feathers were a mainstay of ayleid attire, popular for their ethereality & association with the sky. feather cloaks were common among nobility, with the rulers of the greatest cities having feather cloaks that reached the floor & rustled when they walked. the most common colors for these cloaks were multi-hued and shimmering (favored by certain followers of meridia), or pure white. iridescent black feather cloaks (as the plumes of roosters) came to denote followers of hermaeus mora, and at least one pure purple cloak was known, belonging to a powerful sorcerer-queen devoted to vaermina. many cloaks had trimmings or inclusions - beads around the end to clink and jangle, glittering gemstones (one hermaeus-mora devotee inset the top of his cloak with star emeralds). smaller feathers were used to decorate the clasps of cloaks or add flare around the eyes.

welkynd stones, precious as they were, were an ostentatious statement when used in jewelry. popular among mages, welkynd jewelry insured an emergency supply of magicka, and highlighted the wearer's magical ability. they were most popular as pendants or as the centerpiece of (ceremonial) breastplates, though one particularly ostentatious flesh sculptor took to wearing two welkynd stones as earrings. this trend was alternatively viewed as reverent and blasphemous. it wasn't unheard of to use the dust from crumbled welkynd stones to highlight one's features.

a trend that came & went over the centuries was using blood-red jewelry to represent wounds that should've been mortal, as a jab against the attacker & a testament to the wearer's resilience. the bigger the jewelry, the more severe the wound & the bigger the statement - sorcerer-kings who survived a major magical attack were known to cover entire halves of their face in rubies.