#jaybrd

Everybody meet @naimahtaylor ! They are a super awesome digital artist who has literally so many OCs and I want to draw all of them. I have requested an art trade a little while back but I'm still waiting a response because like I said, I want to have a valid excuse to draw their characters, but I also love their art style and I am honestly curious how my own characters would look.

The Butterfly People of Joplin Missouri (but I drew them to look more cryptic and like an actual human-butterfly hybrid)

Below is a piece of an article about the Joplin Butterfly People. The article is titled 'The Butterfly People of Joplin' by an unknown author published on Paranormal Catalogue.

"Not long after the tornado had dissipated the people of Joplin began sharing stories of the strange things they had seen during the disaster.

Most of the stories came from small children who told eerily similar stories of seeing beautiful humanoid creatures rescuing people and protecting people from the storm. Some reported seeing the creatures take people up into the sky to “heaven”. Others saw the creatures covering people with their wings to shield them.

The stories came from people all over the city from different ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Mason Lillard suffered life threatening injuries during the tornado as the truck she was in was thrown 300ft by the tornado. She was pinned inside the vehicle with an inch wide metal rod that came through the roof of the tuck, penetrated through her shoulder and exited out the side of her body piercing deep into the truck seat.

As the storm was approaching Mason recalled seeing the butterfly creatures walking about in the streets. After the tornado had passed and she was pinned inside the truck she recalls feeling a touch on her shoulder and assumed it was her cousin. When she turned around to look she saw two angels in white robes, one with dark hair and one with blonde.

In another account of the butterfly people a mother and her daughter fled their vehicle to try find shelter from the tornado. They jumped into a culvert and braced themselves. The mother recalls seeing their car flying towards them as the tornado approached and closed her eyes expecting to be killed.

A few moments later she opened her eyes to see that the tornado had passed and her and her daughter were miraculously unharmed. The daughter than says “Weren’t they pretty?”. The mother was confused and asked “Who are you talking about?” The daughter replied “The Butterfly People. They saved us!”

Another popular story tells us of a grandfather and two young boys who were stuck outside during the tornado. The group huddled together on the ground and the winds were so strong that the soles of the man’s shoes were ripped off. They boys reported seeing butterfly people hovering above them, protecting them from the winds.

A Mural in Joplin painted after the disaster titled “The Butterfly Effect”.

Since the events of the 2011 Tornado a mural of the butterfly people has been painted in downtown Joplin. Butterfly artworks have popped up all over Joplin and the butterfly has become a symbol of hope and recovery after the tornado."

If you want to read more, here is the article:

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I am like so hyped rn cuz I live in southeastern Michigan near Detroit and northern lights aren't supposed to be this far south