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Wof ocs: land-dwelling seawing and grounded skywing (aka Kelp and Osprey). It’s not like they Can’t swim or fly, but it’s a lot harder for them than the average joe.

I don’t have a whole lot of plot for them; they mostly just travel together avoiding the active battlegrounds and maybe help escort an ailing Mudwing kid to her family at some point. Par for the course with my ocs, they’re both losers. They initially only really hang out together for the mutual benefits: Osprey is intimidating enough to ward off most bandits by looks alone and has a more realistic approach to setting goals and general direction (filling in a leadership role and balancing out Kelp’s lack of a backbone or stranger danger sense and curbing her absurd fantasies ) while Kelp knows a little more about *how* to actually get things done and has a better approximation of people skills (filling in Osprey’s considerable gaps in knowledge about anything that’s not farm animals or military tactics and balancing out his aggressively distrustful demeanor that prevents him from asking for help. She’s also the one who can talk their way into and out of situations) they eventually figure out they’re a good team and more or less hang around each other

Right now I think the two are somewhere on the coast near the Diamond spray delta????(google map of Pyrrhia idk)

Some general info related to what’s on the page:

Every tribe has a lot of regional variety in terms of physical appearance. For skywings, the northern ones are the most populous and have united the other major aeries under the goal of pushing for imperial expansion on the side of burn. Northern skywings have the most dimorphism between males and females as well as the brightest colors out of the skywing region types (females have a very distinct reddish orange coloring while males have duller browns and yellows, as opposed to ospreys group where it’s switched to darker brown f vs lighter brown m) This is because they have the most unbalanced parental care system, where the male raises the chicks alone while the female leaves. No matter the type of physical difference, the social separation is ever present and more or less as extreme (completely matriarchal). An aerie is a nesting area for a group of related individuals, where there is one dominant female, a pool of married-in males (one is chosen every season to be the matriarchs pair), some other female subordinates, and the matriarchs kids (including some adult males). Females are leaders, hunters, and providers while the males do menial labor or domestic, and craft tasks. Among all skywing ethnicities, there are cases of males being born with female coloring or vice versa. Males with female coloring do not have a place in society according to their rules, since they look like a female but can’t lay eggs (meaning they are ‘broken’ in the eyes of their peers. They can’t even participate in making eggs because that would look gay and I’m deciding that theyre homophobic for fun/because of the sanctity they put on the hetero-ness of their everything). They’d normally just be driven out in bigger northern aeries, but Osprey is an exception because of his slightly different culture and because his group needed every worker they could get to survive on their land (he was kinda just treated like a defective female that has to work with the males. Not fun). A female with male coloring is more tolerated ONLY if they stay celibate and out of the way of the “real” females (often, they are just put in all-female homes as an attendant). Ospreys aerie was a small and rural one that practiced subsistence herding/hunting, so it wasn’t hard for a northern recruiter to strong-arm them with a little military coercion and cash into giving up their eligible youths for the draft. He didn’t really feel a particularly strong bond with any of his family group due to their previously described sentiments towards his condition, but it’s still a blow to the ego to know that they sold him off to die for not even one iron ingot. He got lucky with the force he was taken into (they got bronze swords and leather armor, which is more than some other skywing soldiers) but not so lucky with the area he was sent to (Sandwing ambush). After being badly wounded and finding out he was the only survivor, he fled rather than going back to a northern base and has been evading capture (and execution) since. The lack of depth perception/decreased vision in general means he can seriously mess up landing and taking off in crowded areas like a forest, and can’t do a lot of complicated maneuvers anymore. Despite already being jaded and cynical at his big teen age, he’s not really equipped to be on his own at all and has been thrown off the deep end in terms of experiencing the world for the first time.

Seawings live in pods of family members and some outsiders. Unlike other dragons, they are actually led by a pair-bonded male and female rather than it being a female-led harem type thing. This pair are the bulls, and they’re bigger than everyone else because of hormones (they’re the only reproductive members. This is enforced to varying degrees between pods, some larger more organized ones even have legislation about it. Homosexual activity is encouraged to prevent threats to the bulls (aka new kids or a new mating pair). Through interacting with other tribes, some of the more powerful “superpods” made up of multiple family lines have adopted a more female-dominant system where there are still physically distinct bulls but only the female does any governing. For trade and other stuff, too, pods will normally only send their female members since no one else would respect a male. Kelps pod was a mid-sized one that was technically a part of another super pod’s domain, but they only really interacted through some resource taxes and occasional new laws being delivered. Kelp was on the bottom rung of the social ladder and chafed a lot with her pod because of her general weirdness and lack of strong allegiance to her bull (her mother). She still feels sentiment towards them because they raised her, but was never able to fit in. The superpod they were under was allied with blister, making their territory a target for mudwings and skywings. Eventually, Kelp’s pod was affected by this when an ongoing battle between the superpod’s troops and some mudwings spilled into their land. The superpod forces lost and Kelps home was looted, in the process she was burned and separated from the others. For about a week she hung around tending to her own wounds to see if her pod would regroup somewhere, but eventually left to find a real doctor (trying not to think about the implications of them not coming back) it’s been about a month since then, and she has somehow been stumbling by using her craft skills. Shes been robbed several times and has only gotten away with her life thanks to the good ol tail slap+ massive seal teeth jaw strength combo (other than that all her health problems are 100x worse because she’s on land most of the time to avoid Mudwing-patrolled rivers and the hostility of other pods.) She’s never been outside her pods range before and the world is not so great, but she has a positive outlook (some might even say a foolishly optimistic one).

No matter what a post on tumblr tries to tell you, your moral and ethical stances will never be determined by what you reblog and what you scroll past. Don’t let manipulation tactics force you into doing anything you don’t want to do.

Design of an important lore character for a world I'm working on. This is the first pass for her design, and I'll probably end up changing some things.

[Start ID. A digital drawing of a reference sheet of a dragon character named Oblivion. She is mostly a light golden yellow in coloration, stands on four legs, and has two pairs of wings. Her eyes are blue, and she has two golden horns on her head. Flowing down from her cheeks are two pairs of ribbons. She also has two pairs of ribbons flowing from behind her wings. Along her spine are golden spikes, and at the end of her tail are two larger golden spikes. Floating above her head is a glowing star. In the upper right side of the drawing is the name "Oblivion", with the title "God of Order" underneath it. Underneath the words is a color pallet of the characters design. At the bottom of the right side is a watermark with the username 'TheCraftyDragonC". The background of the piece is a cool grey. End ID]

Here's her Toyhouse profile Oblivion: God of Order on Toyhouse

A very important question for today

[Start ID: A digital drawing of a small pink Wyrm with text above its head asking, "Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Wyrm?" The Wyrm has big pleading blue eyes with small heart shaped highlights. It has light tan horns and dark pink winglike ears, its forked tongue is sticking out in a little blep. The wyrms long serpentine body is pink with a light tan underbelly and deeper pink back spikes, with a heart shaped spike at the end of the tail. The wyrm is coiled in a heart shape. End ID]

Happy Valentines Day!

More Pokémon drawings! This time of my favorite little guys, Trapinch, Vibrava, and Flygon!

[Start ID: 3 digital drawings of the Pokémon Trapinch, Vibrava and Flygon. The first drawing is of Trapinch, a bug like Pokémon that is orange and white in coloration. It has a large round head with a jagged mouth, and black eyes with star shaped white pupils. Its body is oval in shape with a white underbelly. Trapinch has four stubby legs. The second drawing is of Vibrava, a bug like Pokémon similar to a dragonfly. Vibrava has a yellow tan body, with green and grey accents. Its head is oval shaped with two antennae, two large green eyes, and two white teeth sticking out of its mouth. It has four thin grey legs, Vibrava also has two pairs of rhombus shaped wings, which have a grey edge and green interior. Two similar looking fins are on the end of its tail. The third drawing is of Flygon, a slightly bug like bipedal dragon Pokémon. Its body is mostly light green, with darker green and red accents. Its head is round with two large dark green antennae. There is a large translucent red shield over both of its eyes. It has a pair of rhombus shaped wings which have a red outline and light green interior. Its arms are small and held close to its chest. Its legs have a dark green top and dark green sock pattern on the feet. Its tail has alternating light green and dark green stripes. At the end of the tail are three rhombus shaped fins like the wings with red outlines and light green interiors. End ID]

scolipede riding gear c0mm for @suprememeep !

Neil Banging Out the Tunes (2023)

Air-dry clay over foil and wire armature, EVA foam, acrylic paint, paint marker

Some Art Fight attacks from this year!

Characters belong to xX_Tortoiseshell_Xx, incowheerynt, and Galon on Art Fight