it is SUCH a pet peeve of mine that a lot of artists/writers will mention wing/feather preening as a form of fluff and they ALWAYS mention plucking pin feathers. You don’t pluck them! Pin feathers are the process of new feathers growing in, and if they’re ready, they’re covered in a dry, flakey keratin sheath that originally provides blood to the feathers so it can grow. Preening a pin feather involves cracking this sheath and aligning the barbs on the feathers so they interlock and provide insulation/flight. Generally, plucking isn’t a needed thing, and you only see feather plucking in stressful situations, or other factors like infections, boredom, and hormonal imbalances. It’s usually written as just Character A plucks the feathers and smoothes them out for Character B.

If you’re plucking your friend/partner/family member’s wings, unless it’s needed, you are ruining them!! Feathers naturally shed when they reach the end of their lifespan! If they’re loose, sure thats okay, get it out so its not annoying them, but otherwise its always mentioned and it BOTHERS ME.

It feels like the phighting community has become so much more plagued with proshippers, or maybe its me ripping the walls and seeing the roaches beneath finally. Maybe its the specific new gif site that discord uses, maybe they’re just coming more into view. I see edits of like SFoTH shippers all the time now. I saw darksword, i saw firedagger, i saw venomheart, i wanna say illuheart was in there, idk

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firebrand x icedagger

takes 200 psychic damage