Swan Maidens & Other Birds!

Swan Maidens & Other Birds! 🦢🦉🦜

❥ Types of Wizards prompt

❥ Hello everyone! 👋🏽 I know it’s been a long while since I wrote anything, but I am trying my best! I recently got back from vacation too so that was super fun! Anywho this post might be short but it seemed like such an interesting idea. Have fun & enjoy! Thank you!

Okay! So for anyone that doesn’t know, swan maidens are a lesser known mythical creature from European origins. ‘Though I think they come from French origin? But I could also be wrong lol but anyway, swan maidens are women who can turn into swans & back again via a cloak of magical feathers.

I wanted to create a few headcanons of what they might be like, but also what other birds would be like too!

Swan maidens are considered the most elegant and charming due to their snow white feathers. However, they can be quite vain creatures if you’re not careful. Much similar to fairies of older tales, these maidens are vain and will take any opportunity to be noticed. Even if they’re undercover.

Flaunting their feathers and fair features as they swim back and forth. Hoping to catch the eyes of other bird maidens or even humans. Or taking the opportunity to gaze at their own reflections. But, if you decide to ignore them or turn down their pretentious antics, be prepared for a mean trick or two. Expect a fair amount of shoes to go missing, your garden gets trampled or eaten, or they might just try to chase you off.

Owl maidens, unlike swans, are far less sensitive about their appearance and even towards humans. They are more curious than any, but you do not want to mess with them. Residing among tall treetops and mountainsides, they guard their domains from vicious predators or anything else that decides to make trouble. They are usually much larger than other bird maidens.

Those big intelligent eyes of theirs are always on the lookout, however, you might be able to catch them during the daytime if you’re careful enough. Considering they’re nocturnal like their feathery counterparts. However, they’re more like gentle giants and wouldn’t hurt a fly. They actually like to people watch at times, preferring to sit back and enjoy themselves than start something.

Raven maidens are not necessarily elusive creatures, but they are definitely the hardest to find due to their timidity. Plus, their dark feathers usually help them blend in with any shadows or other darker places. They usually fly solo or can be seen in pairs, but it’s best not to get near them. Else they’ll run or fly away!

However, if you get too close or prove to be a scoundrel, they’ll might to trick you! Mimicking voices and other sounds is one of their many talents, and will often use this ability to hide their presence. Mimicking the sound of a running stream, rustling leaves, even other animals. But if you’re up to no good, you might end up at the wrong place. As they can mimic human voices too.

Parrot maidens are probably the most flamboyant creatures other than swan maidens, if not more so. Painting the sky with their vibrant colors makes for a wonderful display, and they can often be seen in a big cluster together showing off their looks. However, they are incredibly loud! That’s usually what gives their identity away in the first place….

They sound more like clucking hens than parrots, chattering away from sun up to sun down about who knows what. However, due to that they are quite knowledgeable! Exchanging talks of various things is in their nature, as they are quite social, and you could gain something useful if you tried. Just trade them a story or something really pretty and they’ll tell you whatever you want!

This community is awesome! This is so adorably sweet!! 💕

Reasons I love the Bad Batch fandom community…

A Fandom Appreciation Reblog Challenge

Reblog this post to share with your followers reasons you love being a part of the Bad Batch fandom community! Let’s see how far this reblog chain can go 🥰

Here are just a few of mine:

The sweetest fandom community I’ve ever been a part of *hugs*

Encouraging of fanart and fanfic creators…new and old, experienced and inexperienced alike…y’all are wonderful.

Absolutely hilarious – I love that we don’t take ourselves too seriously, and can laugh together.

Creative minds unite!! So many head canons that add depth and joy and angst and happiness and sadness to this fandom.

Hard working creators – y’all create quality content not because you have to but because you want to and you freely share it with the community. THANK YOU!!

Filling plot holes like it’s your day job…although, I prefer to think of plot holes as ✨opportunities✨ to read amazing fanfics and see amazing fanart that fill in these gaps 🥰

Character development!! I love the show, but you know what made me love the show even more?? The way this fandom has given the characters so much depth! It’s like I jumped into a puddle that is the show and fell into the ocean that is the fandom community 🥹

Tada!! Redo of my old sketch for my Zorro AU! Also I’m finally drawing again yay!!

I am planning to redo my AU soon, but I figured it’d make more sense to start with the outfits first. Although, while this is a basic sketch, I just feel like it’s missing something again?? I honestly don’t like the boots very much but idk what to do with them? 🤷‍♀️

It could just be me lol, but feel free to place your thoughts if you want! Thank you! 🙏

Hello there! 👋🏽 I just need a hand!

So this is just a small random post, but I was just wondering which art platform to use? I’ve been using Ibis Paint X for only a year, but I’ve heard there are other good ones out there!

Clip Studio Paint & Procreate are the big ones, and while I’m not super concrete about switching yet, I would like to know which might be a better one to use! It doesn’t have to be a super big comparison though, I’m only asking for fun 😅🙏 Although one little problem I have with Ibis Paint X is the quality of the canvas sizes? Sometimes you get a glitchy workspace if the canvas is too big? It throws me off sometimes.

But thank you and have a good day! 🌸

Hi guys! I’m finally back! So I’ve been pretty busy recently, especially the last couple weeks with graduation parties or special events, but hopefully my posts go back to normal!

⚠️ Please do not repost or steal! ⚠️

I’ve also been trying to study up and improve my artwork: I’m currently testing out different apps and techniques! This one I made on Infinite Painter, but I really wanna try Procreate! But I hope you enjoy this little piece for now!

Oh my gosh this would look so cool for a fantasy world! Like if you’d walk towards a royal palace or something and you first see these! 🌟👑🌳

Tree roots following the pattern of concrete footpaths