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Hannu Sarvipöllö of the Halfstack SMP. A young Tengu man wandering the runes of a spruce forest kingdom. Where did he come from? What he do? He so birdy heehoo.

Cygnus Hollola, of the Hollola mage bloodline. Cousin to Hannu Sarvipöllö. Friend of Saiorse Vangard. Follower of Lyhyt, The Ephemeral. Half cursed but living.

The Hollola bloodline of mages is an odd one given their tendency to explode. After a mass exodus of the family (During which Veeti Hollola, first of the bloodline, invoked the blessing of Lyhyt, the ephemeral.) The Hollolas continued to gain the temporary blessings of Lyhyt. Unfortunately this has become more of a family curse as the magic granted to the Hollolas fades before their 17th birthday. For some it fizzles out but for others, it explodes. As such, the Hollolas are often transorigined. So despite being a Tengu family, a good portion of the Hollola bloodline are other origins.

Cygnus Hollola is for the @halfstack-smp

God doodles ft. My work notebook. This is more Halfstack SMP content! Giving you guys a sneak peak at some upcoming blorbos.

The blorboing be upon ye

Top is Lyhyt, The Ephemeral. They appear as a tengu with a starry trail behind them and wear many bells. It's a god of Fleeting moments, passage, and things not meant to last.

Bottom is simply and vaguely titled "The Beastmaster" due to not having a solid design, name, or fully fleshed out concept.

Enjoy

Sarvipöllö-Hollola family redesigns and lore updates (Part 1)

Hannu Sarvipöllö-Hollola

[ID: The image shows Hannu, a Dog Eared Tengu with ginger hair and feathers. He's tall and wiry and wears teal pants and a shawl over a high necked tank top. His eyes are solid yellow with small pupils, and he has a large scar across the bridge of his nose. :END ID]

Hannu Sarvipöllö-Hollola is now the current owner and manager of the Sarvipöllö-Hollola Family Luumuseo. Once a museum meant for showing off the bone collection of the family, the Luumuseo has expanded into archeological and anthropological recovery, restoration, preservation, and archival purposes. Hannu is in charge of keeping the Luumuseo running and making sure that everything is properly archived and accounted for.

Undead origins, particularly revenants, finding themselves missing their things are always welcome to stop by the Luumuseo's lost and found to see if Hannu and his small team have dug anything up that may have belonged to them.

Hannu is often described as "chipper" if a bit intense and takes great pride in what his family does.

Hannu Sarvipöllö-Hollola is for the @halfstack-smp

Sarvipöllö-Hollola family redesigns and lore updates (Part 2)

Cygnus Sarvipöllö-Hollola

[ID: The image shows Cygnus, a tall dog Eared tengu with white feathers and hair. She dresses in a pink and blue tank top/skirt outfit decorated by bells and uses forearm crutches. Half of her body appears burnt black, changing the pupil color of one of her deep blue eyes from black to white. :END ID]

Cygnus Sarvipöllö-Hollola is the current owner of The Down Feather, a small Teahouse located close to her family’s museum.

After partially magically exploding due to her family's bloodline curse at age 17, Cygnus elected to take a career path that would be easier on her body, and so she spends her time blending tea, brewing potions, and tending to the small shrine to Lyhyt and Vartija she keeps in the back.

The Down Feather is rest and respite for all who come and provides drinks for those who can have them. Cygnus is currently working on developing a Kelpie Safe tea alongside others.

Cygnus is in a QPR with Equinox Sage, a Tonttu/Imp hybrid who spends half their time at the teahouse and the other half traveling to gather more ingredients for Cygnus.

Also, she's trans now.

Images are described in Alt Text because they would've been too long to put down here!

The Eldest Living Sarvipöllö-Hollolas, Juha, Ensi, Reiju, and Inka. (Order of the individual images. The Top Image in order from left to right is organized Ensi, Inka, Reiju, and Juha.) Great aunts, uncles, and grandparents (in Reiju's case). They all remember the founding of the Sarvipöllö-Hollola Family Luumuseo, with most of them being born before it was even built. Juha currently works as a caver, having passed his prime of archaeological expeditions. Ensi is a fashion historian. Reiju is the co-founder and current co-owner of Waxcoat ships. And Inka is a weapons restoration expert. The Sarvipöllö-Hollolas are for the @halfstack-smp

[ID: Maarit Merikeiju is an elderly selkie/tengu hybrid. She has plentiful freckles and deep brown eyes and her brown hair has greyed to nearly almost white. She wears a cream colored shirt, a warm grey sealskin, and a Hannunvaakuna medallion necklace. She has one earring with a ruby and a shark tooth strung up on it. :END ID] Another member of the @halfstack-smp and Reiju's wife. Reiju, Maarit, and a few of their kids started an avian friendly ship construction business in the 70s named "Waxcoat Ships". They're still technically the owners of the business, but Tuulikki, Olavi, and Pyry have largely taken over the business end of things. Maarit still takes care of most of the drafting and planning for the ships that Waxcoat produces, with a majority of them being personally designed by her.

[ID: Tuulikki is an elderly Tengu with greying red hair and feathers. She has several freckles, deep brown eyes, and dresses in a blue turtleneck tanktop and sunhat with gold jewelry. Most notably, a bell necklace, a nose ring, and a triple piercing in one of her ears that contains a sapphire. :END ID]

[ID: Olavi is an elderly Barn Sparrow colored Sirin with a very humanlike face. He wears a cream colored shirt with a ruffled collar that sits open on his chest and a straw sunhat tied around his neck with a red ribbon :END ID]

[ID: Pyry is a middle aged Sirin/Tengu hybrid with greyish-blue skin, ice blue eyes, and black hair and feathers with grey streaks. They have a gold lower lip piercing and gold piercings in one ear with a black chain. Faer other ear's piercings are black. Fae wear blue lipstick and a little blue eyeshadow which contrasts with their red shirt. :END ID] The current co-owners and faces of Waxcoat Ships, a business inherited from Maarit and Reiju. Tuulikki, Olavi, and Pyry. Tuulikki and her husband Olavi have taken over their parents business, Waxcoat Ships. She runs it in tandem with their kid, Pyry. Tuulikki is the primary manual labor force in the business due to being the strongest. She's had to get a couple other workers recently due to (accidentally) blowing her back out, but has been getting back into the swing of things.

Olavi can't do much of the actual building due to Sirin wings and so mostly helps Reiju with the schematics.

Pyry is the most people-forward of the Waxcoat Ship staff, mostly taking care of orders, issues, and selling folks on ships.

Fae don't do any of the building because that isn't their specialty. They are, effectively, customer service. Tuulikki, Olavi, and Pyry are for the @halfstack-smp

The rest of the Sarvipöllö-Hollolas (Minus Aimo)

Finished up the rest of the Sarvipöllö-Hollolas (Minus uncle Aimo because I do not have his colors yet). More about them under the cut because I wrote a lot. Massive post. Images are described in alt text! As always, these folks are for the @halfstack-smp

In image order

Sampsa was born into the Waxcoat ships business but never enjoyed all the sights, sounds, and smells of the sea quite as much as their sister Tuulikki. They broke off from Waxcoat ships in their early 20s, traveling to the Luumuseo to take up their residence there, though never becoming the owner.

Sampsa's entire arm was blown off while he was firing a bow due to the family curse, causing more than one catastrophe that day. The arrow caught a rope connected to the main mast of one of the docked ships, setting the balance off just enough to cause all the sails to unfurl the wrong way into strong winds, immediately tipping the ship all the way over onto its side. Nobody died luckily.

Sampsa wasn't aware they were queer until one of his grandkids introduced the concept to him.

Sampsa currently works as an archival assistant at the family Luumuseo. Hannu makes sure to give them easy but interesting work and has made the space accessible to account for his missing arm. They have a prosthetic, it's just itchy and he doesn't need it constantly, so Sampsa will frequently go without it. He is married to Ilona.

Ilona was born to 'Tengu' parents with some questionable hybridization back in her lineage. She's married to Sampsa.

Ilona is an art historian and conservationist, spending a majority of her free time cleaning, repairing, and re-framing artworks sent to her for her conservation efforts. She's got an excellent eye for detail and can likely tell you who made what piece in what era no matter the piece she's shown. She's also excellent at spotting fakes or forgeries of original works, as well as legally reproduced copies. Ilona has amassed a small collection of artworks she's taken in for study and research purposes.

She dabbles in a little bit of painting herself and all of Sampsa's prosthetics have hand-painted details from her.

Severi is a fashion historian and regularly works with Ensi. to reproduce and preserve old fashions and sewing patterns found through the Family's archival efforts. Most gifts from either of them are immediately recognizable given that they're a handmade garment 90% of the time. Hannu's Shawl was a birthday gift from Ensi and Severi.

Severi does not have a personal clothing brand but does sell some of the things he sews or crochets on the side that she doesn't want to keep.

Severi's legs exploded slightly due to the family curse shortly after her 17th birthday. She uses a wheelchair to help him get around now. He let his kids decorate her wheelchair when they were all young and still lets them do so if they ever want to. She lives close to his great aunt Ensi and the two of them regularly swap patterns.

Saana is a talented linguist, specializing in the discovery of old languages, their reconstruction, as well as the creation of conlangs. Saana has created more than a few conlangs for her husband Janne's books and is always credited in the back.

Saana developed her passion for linguistics from a young age, spending most of her free time learning anything and everything she possibly could about all different languages from the resources her parents could provide. She's fluent in at least 5 languages and regularly makes up new conlangs for fun. Saana sometimes teaches linguistics courses at the same college Hannu graduated from. Janne was born to tengu parents in a spruce taiga home. He is married to Saana Sarvipöllö-Hollola. He writes fiction and fantasy books mostly aimed at child and young adult audiences, telling grand stories of worlds that do not exist like their own. He has a science fiction publication but that one was enough for him to decide that he never wanted to write sci-fi again.

Columba was born to Tengu parents in a birchwood forest home. He has no siblings and is married to Severi. He came out as trans at age 13, allowing that experience to be a part of their fashion concepts moving forward. He'd already begun taking sewing classes several years beforehand and started to make clothes that would both bring him some comfort and look spectacular.

Columba creates and sells 'designer' style clothes under the brand name Dove and Raven. Dresses, skirts, blouses, shirts, all made by hand and fit to each origin's particular requirements on sizing and shape. He occasionally gifts clothing to his family members but it's a bit difficult to get them all done in time so he mostly offers sewing classes.

Corvus is an avian origins weaponry expert and, as such, spends quite a bit of time around Inka. His kids love it there because Inka shows them cool sharp things they usually aren't allowed to touch. She spent quite a bit of time around her great aunt Inka as a child, leading to him developing a passion for avian origin specific weaponry. It keeps an unsafe amount of claw extending knives around the house but doesn't seem to see the issue with having them, much to the delight of her partner.

Emille assists her with with reproduction copies of old avian origins weaponry, some to send to the Luumuseo, some to keep at home, and some to bring to fairs for entertainment's sake. Aquila is an avian origins architecture expert, focusing on the preservation and restoration of Tengu and Sirin ruins. There's been some debate as to whether or not feathered draconis count as avian, but Aquila includes them in xir research anyways.

Aquila spent most of his time sketching as a kid, drawing building after building and floorplan after floorplan. Once he found the original building plans for the Sarvipöllö-Hollola Family Luumuseo, Xir love for architecture only grew. One of his notable contributions was the addition of disabled avian origin friendly architecture in both the Sarvipöllö-Hollola Family Luumuseo and The Downfeather, calling on older blueprints for similar structures that had fallen out of modern usage.

Emille reproduces both actually dangerous and child-safe versions of historically avian origin produced weaponry. The dangerous reproduction stay at home, go to Inka, or go to Hannu at the Luumuseo. The safer reproductions are sold at fairs for entertainment's sake for younger audiences and also occasionally given to Raine and Siv as both education and a way to entertain them.

Emille picked up their love of blacksmithing from the local Daystone population, being taught by a smith that they remember as having iron inlays and strong but gentle hands. As such, most of their crafts are intricately detailed and tend to resemble the works of a daystone rather than the works of a faun. Raine fancies themselves a writer and is working on their own vast, interconnected web of lore for their 37 magical wolf oc's. Ae has always been a particularly ferocious reader, regularly demolishing upwards of 40 books over the course of a few months or so. Currently ae's obsessed with aer uncle Janne's book series, A Dance of Stars and Storms. Siv is going about her life as any 10yo child does. She is ABSOLUTELY convinced that she's an aspect of Aelrys. She isn't, but she has horns and wings and so does Aelrys so she's 100% convinced she is.

If you've somehow read all the way down here, thanks! I'm going to go dunk my head in cold water to cool off my brain.

RAHHHHH PATHFINDER CAMPAIGN IN THE MAKING

I'm actually in love with him already

Mr. Bad Luck

Day 6: Tengu

A little lazier but I always enjoyed the bond between the suit and the Tengu like… screams over the fight so loud

AUGH it’s so cool

This is Honey Amber and she’s the character I’m playing on a pathfinder Campaign. 

She’s a crazy old Tengu who smokes all the time 

Today I had my first session playing her and I had a great time I can’t wait for the next session :D

Introducing Kunio Yoshioka, the MC of my novel, The Tengu And The Angel!

Art by @yhelsstuff

Kunio will be starring in The Tengu And The Angel, my debut romance novel, which will be releasing in December 2023! His character bio:

Name: Kunio Yoshioka

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Occupation: Antique store employee/artist

Likes: Tabletop RPGs, birds, especially crows, Japanese mythology, particularly tales about tengu, his artwork, his grandfather, and his cooking

Dislikes: His mother, being touched, especially by women, boy bands, British food, and food waste

Blood Type: O

Ethnicity: Japanese-British

Sexuality: Gay. Homoromantic homosexual lol

Relatives: Ryunosuke Yoshioka (Grandfather), Nozomi Yoshioka (Mother)

Personality: Passionate, sanguine, and hot-tempered, Kunio knows exactly what he wants in life, and he'll stop at nothing to get it. Having suffered through an abusive childhood, he feels entitled to a perfect life now that he's officially an adult, and he'll do whatever it takes to make it happen. He doesn't have many loved ones, but he's very protective of the few that he has, especially his best friend and crush, Nathaniel. He is highly imaginative, and thinks of himself as a tengu to cope with the after-effects of his childhood. He thinks of his child self as having died, and his adult self as being reborn as a strong, confident tengu, but hidden emotions and trauma lie behind Kunio's strong, passionate exterior.

Want to hear more about Kunio? Read his story, The Tengu And The Angel, in December 2023!

I made an aesthetic board for Kunio And Nathaniel, the MCs of my novel, The Tengu And The Angel. Of course I had to include a tengu and an angel, their respective symbols, as well as white rose tea (They're both big tea lovers, and Nathaniel loves white roses), apple pie, because Kunio makes it twice in the novel, and a shot of the Taihei River Festival, because it's a major plot point near the ending lol

Sometimes I talk to my IRL friends and family, and they say something, or do something and I'm like, 'Oh, that reminds me of something Kunio and/or Nathaniel would do!' and then they get confused because I don't know anyone with those names IRL. Aaaaand then they're like, 'oh, you mean, the characters from your gay tengu book?' Yes, mom, the characters from my gay tengu book.

Thanks for the tag! I love your lines BTW, ugh, those are so raw, but also kind of sexy. Ok, before I do this, tagging...@tabswrites and @lady-grace-pens

And now, I'm going to share the literal last line from my upcoming debut book, The Tengu And The Angel!

In becoming a tengu, he had lost his humanity, but he had found everything, and everyone, that he would ever need.

Last line tag

Thanks to @oh-no-another-idea for the tag!

This is from Spin Cylinder (Brett's POV)...

What could you do in that state? How far could you be pushed? How far could I push you? You with a hand at my throat. You with a gun against my teeth.

Tagging new friends @alinacapellabooks, @goldxdarkness, @lordfenric-writes and @nemaliwrites if you'd like to do it, with an open tag for anyone else who wants to share a last line 💜

Thanks for the tag @madi-konrad! This was quite an easy one. Anyone who’s read even a little bit of my writing will know that I love using out-of-pocket similes. The more ridiculous, the better. Things like:

I look at him like he has a dick glued to his forehead.

Everyone’s looking at me like I’ve farted in church.

(Those are actual similes you can find in The Tengu And The Angel BTW.)

Mythological imagery is also something I’m big on. I seem to have a thing for angels in particular, as I keep giving angelic names to my characters (Nathaniel, Azrael, Raphael, Ariel and Raziel, to name just a few.). I would like to use more tengu imagery in my writing, as I’m completely fascinated by tengu, but so far Kunio is the only character I’ve been able to apply it to. Maybe in future I’ll write characters who are actual tengu…

Oh, and metaphors too. Mythological metaphors, and out-of-pocket metaphors. I like to use a healthy blend of both.

Tagging @corvys-clover and @pcm-vandermeer!

writers reblog with your three favourite literary devices mine are repetition alliteration and metaphor

Thanks for the tag! My tengu boy, Kunio has been dying to come out to play, so here’s a quote from him! (Seriously, I keep having dreams about him!)

“That’s easy. I want a husband who kisses the ground I walk on, like, someone who would throw himself under a bus for me.”

Tagging @mauannacreates!

✨🏴‍☠️Personality Through Quotes Tag 🏴‍☠️✨

Thank you for the tag here, @the-letterbox-archives ! I’ll do Peter Hart’s character through a quote:

“Well, you see….I lied.”

Going to (gently tag, no pressure): @gioiaalbanoart , @wyked-ao3 , @smellyrottentrees , @rotting-moon-writes , @jev-urisk , @ominous-feychild , @davycoquette , @cowboybrunch , @lavender-gloom , @sableglass , @noblebs , @indecentpause , +open tag ✨

All the drawings of my Hakuouki OCs (featured in my fic "A Friend Like You") that I made over the course of Drawtober 2023! ✍🌸

#21 Maiko Furukawa Kohana #9 Tayu Ba Makoto

#19 Tengu Tani Sanjuro #5 Furukawa Chie & Yokai

This artwork was entirely painted in MS Paint! I hadn't drawn in MS Paint since 2012 so revisiting it was both fun and nostalgic! ✍🎨

Kohana is a half-tengu (yokai with a crow-like appearance 👺) maiko from the 19th century, so I used a style similar to Japanese Ukiyo-e portraits. 🌊

Kohana's name also means "Little Flower" so I included many flowers around her, the farthest ones in black as homage to her supernatural self. You can also see the Japanese spelling of Kohana's name above my signature! 🗻🌸