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

She/Her.

www.kvalenagle.com
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November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'll get right on it!
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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.)
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It is!
November 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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
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.
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
(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.)
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
October 31, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed Eyrie. I hope Ashen Weald keeps you up late, too =]
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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
PoV: You are my therapist logging on to my video appointment at 8am on a Monday morning.
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Watching Doctor Who as I recover from COVID and decided I wanted to give the psychic paper thing a try.

Is it working?
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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
October 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sexy specialty vs. speciality us uk english rules
October 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Up late watching Dr. Who with Glenn.
October 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM