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K. Vale Nagle
@kvalenagle.bsky.social
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Creature fantasy novelist. Author of Eyrie, Ashen Weald, Starling, Reevesbane, Crestfall, The Crackling Sea, Opinicus, & Pridelord.

She/Her.

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Nighteyes, a violet-backed starling white housecat gryphon, in a chibi cute style holding a pink walkman, art by Kittrel AKA YoteNotes. Her head and wings are sparkly, with white ears, body, and cat tail. Her paws have pink paw pads. There are stars in her eyes.
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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My other surprise was heath aster. Sometimes, plants just... sit out a year. So 2024, no bee plants. 2025, fields of them. I was out walking early October and there were frost aster everywhere, and I was making notes to grab seeds later, but I got home and some had found their way here already.
A white flower with a yellow center, frost or heath aster. I say frost aster because I'm a fantasy author and can't help myself.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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These're from a month ago =) the purple with yellow is the Bigelow's aster. The yellow hiding along the fringe are dwarf/rubber rabbitbrush.

#CatgrassPrairie
Between some rabbitbrush, a flower of purple with a yellow center is in focus, the Bigelow's aster.
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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While Kia has never had her own sticker pack, @stupidshepherd.bsky.social would often draw fun group picks of the various characters they've done stickers for at the end of the year, and one year, Kia got a cameo in a Christmas scene =]

I love how Shep draws Kia so much<3

#gryphon #GryphIns
An illustration in a cartoony style like a Telegram sticker pack of Kia, a red-shouldered parrot plus tabby cat opinicus, reaching out to accept a gryphmas present. Kia is wearing a red santa hat, has painted green into her tabby cat half to make it match her parrot half, and she's mostly light green with darker ont he edges and then blue and red worked into her plumage, especially around the shoulders. She looks happy with sparkly red eyes.
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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If you read all of this, thank you, and please enjoy this drawing from the margins of the first draft of Eyrie, scribbled in 2017, where I considered "What if Erlock Fantail was more like a fantail pigeon..."

And thank you to my patrons for keeping us alive this year.

www.patreon.com/kvalenagle
What appears to be a grumpy fantail pigeon gryphon with the name "ERLOCK FANTAIL" written underneath her from 2017. The artist is K. Vale Nagle.
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I'll get right on it!
A picture of a sleepy kitten with the text "I would be unstoppable if not for the tired sleepy."
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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I caught this cat trying to steal something out of my purse and she just flopped over and looked really cute when she realized the jig was up.
A fluffy black cat flopped down next to a purse that's open with a pink face mask being pulled out.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The Gryphon Generation Book Five: Chimera Affliction by @reinbourne.bsky.social has been added to the Gryphon Reading List! Cover art by @redizak.bsky.social.

Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gryphon-Gene...

#GryphonReadingList: kvalenagle.com/gryphonlist

#Gryphon
The Gryphon Generation Book Five: Chimera Affliction by Alexander Bizzell showing two bat-winged gryphons fighting over a city and one is holding a double bladed weapon and the other has dropped a sword.
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Pictured: A starless spotling, apparently.

Alt text is hard when your brain is COVID mush =(

(The Newmoon Pride are all spotless starlings. Well, originally. With many adopted members running the gamut from spoilery to extra spoilery to Taloncrest.)
A screenshot of the alt text for Whisper's chibi heart art in the previous post, showing that instead of "A spotless starling" it reads "A starless spotling."
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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At the gym today thinking about the canonically trans characters in GryphIns (Whisper, Lei, Clamshell) versus the ones fans seem to have a consensus on being trans (Naya, Grax).

It'll probably get cut, but I did write a scene with Grax's PoV that makes her explicitly trans for fun.
Whisper, a starless spotling maine raccoon cat gryphon with gooey silver eyes holding a trans pride heart. Clamshell, a cerulean kingfisher giant river otter gryphon holding a nonbinary pride heart. Lei, a jade peafowl North American cougar (dyed green) opinicus holding a trans pride heart with blue, pink, and white fisherfolk markings on his body and wings.
November 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A skeletal gryphon wearing Christmas ribbons guarding a bowl of leftover Halloween candy — all peanut butter snickers.
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It is!
Golden autumn leaves in Colorado.
November 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Les Miserables but Inspector Javert is played by Flicker, everyone's favorite pumpkin farming cottagecore lesbian, and she's on the trail of famous gourd thief Jean Valjean, played by Younce.

🎨 @yotenotes.bsky.social
A strawberry finch bay cat gryphon with a gardening hat holding a pumpkin. Flicker from the novel Pridelord by K. Vale Nagle, chibi heart by Kittrel AKA YoteNotes. A pink snow leopard gyrfalcon gryphon with sparkling green eyes holding a pumpkin. His beak is open like he's gonna bite it. Younce from the novel Ashen Weald by K. Vale Nagle, chibi heart by Kittrel AKA YoteNotes.
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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PSA: Please remember to donate your leftover pumpkins to gryphons now that Halloween is over. Getting enough pumpkin goo is important for gryphons this time of year so they don't turn into silver-eyed zombie-like hordes roaming the land chittering and biting everyone.

🎨 @merteazy.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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The fact that #gryphons are so strongly associated with both vanity and pride when they're flappy cats is part of what I love about them as a species.

Plus, most epic fantasy protagonists don't cough up hairballs or randomly soak up puddles or bite each others' tails... to those story's detriment.
Sponge, a sandgrouse sand gryphon, looking happy while being sopping wet. This is the face my cat makes every time I ask "Why is your head wet???" Younce, a snow leopard gyrfalcon gryphon, with a pumpkin with a bite taken out of it. He is vomitting orange goo. Ninox, a rufous owl melanistic leopard gryphon with red underfluffies, coughing up a squirrel who reaches out a shaky paw to reclaim its acorn. Zeph, a Cooper's hawk North American cougar gryphon, squawking with disapproval as Younce, a snow leopard gyrfalcon gryphon, bites Zeph's tail. Snow leopards are known for biting their own tail with the onomatopoeia "Homph!" And the previous sticker in this series shows Younce biting his own tail that way... before moving on to biting Zeph's.
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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(For a day where I planned to spend all of it in front of a computer, it is now 3:23am and I am about to go to bed and finally got a moment for a Nighthaunt Heart.)
Mally the Nighthaunt, a gryphon-esque creature with pale fur and feathers tipped with deep red, black eyes, and long whiskers plus an elongated body and feathers coming out of his forearms and back legs in addition to his wings, holding a black heart. Chibi art by Kittrel AKA YoteNotes.
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Soggy sandgrouse gryphon hugs.
October 31, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed Eyrie. I hope Ashen Weald keeps you up late, too =]
Thenca, a wingtorn mockingbird (or is that shrike?) and maine raccoon cat gryphon leaping through the air. She has bracers on her forelegs with feathers on them. Art by Merystic.
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I'm glad you're enjoying =] I went to see if I had any Jun the Kjarr fan art lying around, but no dice. Instead, please enjoy this Satra by Merteazy =]
October 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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PoV: You are my therapist logging on to my video appointment at 8am on a Monday morning.
A tabby cat wearing a hands free set next to a sign that says Very Real Human Being.
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Watching Doctor Who as I recover from COVID and decided I wanted to give the psychic paper thing a try.

Is it working?
A tabby cat looking a bit suspicious with a piece of paper that reads Very Real Human Being with a kitty smily face emoticon after the words.
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Okay! By popular request, you can now use the Eyrie Megapack of GryphIns stickers on Signal, too, if you'd like =]

Sticker art by @stupidshepherd.bsky.social, @fleeks.art, @aetusart.com, @kaseysnow.bsky.social, @merteazy.bsky.social, and @yotenotes.bsky.social!

signal.art/addstickers/... #gryphon
Ninox, a black and red owl gryphon, getting into cat-like antics.
October 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Sexy specialty vs. speciality us uk english rules
Your Halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you searched. This year, I'll be doing as "sexy bus schedule."
October 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Up late watching Dr. Who with Glenn.
A tabby cat on a couch tucked in with a red blanket that says love in several different languages.
October 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Happy Ace Week / Asexual Awareness Week!

I realized there were no ace pride stickers in the Eyrie Hearts pack, so @yotenotes.bsky.social was kind enough to create ace stickers for Chert and Xin =]

If you're on Telegram, you can add the pack here: t.me/addstickers/...

#gryphon #GryphIns #AceWeek
Chert, a jaguarundi oilbird gryphon, holding an ace pride sticker. Xin, a black-billed magpie melanistic leopard gryphon, holding an ace pride heart.
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM