Mythicalvoid - Friendly Neighborhood Fae

self care for : a grim reaper from the 70s/80s with items relating to their interests with a femme flair requested by 🩵🧷🥀anon

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Aviankin culture is making a nest on your bed with pillows, and dragging friends up for snuggles <3

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Taking the time to make a little nestling space for yourself.

The urge to curl up in blankets and relax on the warm moss-filled floor of a twiggy, dimly lit nest corner and recede into the feathers of your wings.

Imagining yourself soaring out over the tops of mountainscapes and lakes. Brushing your fingers along the grass or water surface.

Taking time out of your day to indulge in your own self-image. Your true image.

Okay my life got unexpectedly busy so I dont have art for this, but:

10 concepts for architecture, furniture, and minor lifestyle details when writing societies of winged people (any wing type)

1. Since people fly all the time, most of the buildings are probably up higher, with walkways between them. Winged people would invent amazing suspension bridges long before they invented a wheel (see also: the mountainous regions of central and south america, where wheels are not very useful, but bridges are extremely important)

2. Doorways would probably be wider and taller to better accommodate wings, no matter how they're held at rest (ex: if you want fairies with dragonfly wings, their rest position is out to the sides. So wide doorways would be important.) And doors would more likely be sliding doors rather than hinged doors (so you don't have to worry about stepping back and aside for the door, you can just walk through and not risk having your wings bump stuff)

3. Speaking of wings bumping things! Tall ceilings, wide hallways, and absolutely zero breakable objects at potential wing bumping height. The walls are basically bare from shoulder height on down.

4. Hammocks and nests instead of beds. Any form of sleep furniture must be built to let people comfortably sleep on their stomachs, possibly curled up into a fetal position with their knees beneath them. Lots of pillow piles. In the same vein, any lounging furniture would be built with either no back or a very low back. Maybe things like couches and chairs that just have a single armrest to lean against, but no back. Lots of sideways lounging. Any tables would have stools rather than full backed chairs.

5. Wing care is important. This will vary based on the style of wing you're using. Feathery wings will more likely lead to a culture of social grooming and feager combs. Maybe every bedroom has a wall with a feather comb to rub up against. Chairs that seat two so they can help each other groom their feathers. Bat wings would need regular bathing routines, probably some very nice large tubs in their homes for a proper washing, also a social grooming culture around that. Insect wings, I'm not sure exactly. They don't need cleaning the same way. But they are easier to damage. And we know from real life that they can be repaired and replaced! So perhaps a society of people with insect wings would get very very good at prosthetics and wing modification.

6. Wing flapping creates wind. So maybe people would hang up windchimes to hear when people come and go. Theres a lot of wing flapping involved in the landing process, so wind chimes would be an effective way to notice when someone has just landed at your doorstep.

7. Big windows, easily opened. Sometimes you just dont want to use a door. The door is the formal entrance, but windows and skylights are the causal entrances and exits.

8. Consider nomadic winged people who migrate seasonally: they would probably develop a lot of lightweight gear to help them migrate with all their belongings. Hammocks, communal huddling, possibly advanced cartography skills, special devices to distribute weight between multiple fliers carrying a large object together. Special carrying devices to hold children, elders, and the injured.

9. The outsides of every building would have many perches, especially social buildings. Rooftops are just another social space. Ladders are commonly used by anyone who cant fly for any reason.

10. Pretty much anything they make is going to be lightweight but hard to break. More carved wood dishes than ceramic ones, archery more than swords, very light clothing with open backs. But paper maybe not so much. It blows around too easily. Maybe they invent voice and image recording devices sooner than other people so they can more reliably record information in flight.

And that's 10 ideas for world building with winged people! @wolfeyedwitch I hope this is helpful to you! And to anyone else who may have been having trouble thinking up little details for their own winged folks.

"not looking at someone when they're talking to you is rude"

okkaaayy welll i cocked my imaginary ears in your direction to communicate that i was listening so whose fault is it really

Foods for a veela (birdlike fae)? I love soups, noodles, and korean food, so feel free to include that in there! Mild spice, please, I can't stand spice. Kimchi's ok, tho.

Here's some soba for the korean noms!

But Veela / Vila are a Slavic fae, which would sometimes be offered food and cakes for luck, so here's some foods from different Slavic countries that you might like:

A Bunch Of Neat Various Pastas!

A Soup Info Primer for Some Slavic Soups!

A ton of Slavic noms!

A Kimchi-Like Soup from Russia

Okroshka, a Summer Veggie Soup

Slovak Sauerkraut Christmas Soup

Sorrel Soup

24 more soups!

Slovenian Mushroom Soup - Gobova Juha

Here's some cakes/sweets:

Oladyi Pancakes

Syrniki Cheese Pancakes

Vatrushka Pastries

Medovik Honey Cake

Makowiec Poppy Cake

Ptichye Moloko - like a cheesecake

Krofi - doughnut-like rolls

Bled Cream Cake

Monster Monday!!!!

For my fellow incomprehensible horrors ^^

PSA to any nonhumans/otherkin/voidpunks who want a fang piercing to affirm themselves!!!

Do NOT do this:

This is a “smiley” piercing (a horseshoe bar through the frenulum); fang bars are NOT proper jewelry to wear in them! Their size and shape can increase the risk of gum recession and tooth chipping (and are at a higher risk of being torn out by mistake!), plus they’re difficult to live with when it comes to eating, drinking, and sleeping.

Do this instead:

These are vertical angel bites (AKA “angel fangs”), using a standard curved barbell with a spike on the bottom. They don’t extend into the oral cavity at all, which means your teeth won’t be damaged and there’s a lesser risk of injury. This piercing is also easier to live with so you can keep your fangs full-time (as long as the spikes you use aren’t TOO long, I’d recommend 3 to 4 mm).

Pls remember to affirm yourselves safely (especially with body modification), and only wear jewelry that’s meant to safely go in your piercing! 💕

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Enderman stimboard

Requested by @3dimensionalsystem , for @sillystringsys, with dirt, grass, and purple&green sparkly things