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Please consider: Urban Fantasy Werecats

Wouldn’t be controlled by the phases of the moon, so as long as they have the energy for it their transformations are much more controlled

Transforming just to take a nap, because honestly, what kind of nap is it if you can’t curl up into a ball

Sneaking around wherever they want because cats are small, quiet, and common

Making friends with a weretiger from Indonesia and treating this enormous, majestic beast as a kitten because “I don’t care how big and stripy you are, you’re younger than me”

Having random, violent bursts of energy. (*crash* “Teddy you better not have pulled down the curtains again, or so help me—”)

Being kind of weirded out by people who keep pet cats

Being found hanging out with previously mentioned pet cats

Being very quiet or very loud (“Kaja, honey, could you please do your singing in human form.”)

Fond of chin scratches and group naps

But most of all: keeping their cat behaviour in human form:

The playful paw-swat. (They end up accidentally slapping people in the face)

Slow blinking

Friendly, possessive headbutts

“You take out that laser pointer and I will scratch you.” “But you like the laser p—” “I do not.”

Soft ‘prrrt?’ noises when being woken up

Pushing objects off tables when annoyed

Just, so much purring

(Bonus points for all if they’re friends with the cat-werewolf)

Those were my feelings about werecats, thank you for your time

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Bird people culture/Avian headcanons:

Giving up your ability to fly- something almost seen as the most important thing ever in the society- for someone you love is considered a very devoted way of showing your love (generally done between romantic couples, generally in tales)

Avian's form of dancing is either very simple or very complex. Dependent on wing size as well! Hummingbird/hover types will spin around, the movement more on complexity and their humanoid bodies than their wings. However, when it comes to birds with large wingspans, a lot of their "dancing" is twirling in the sky, flaring their wings, interesting acrobatic stuff, etc! Winglets are commonly "tossed" between people in these dances, helping them get used to how their wings feel in the air!

Birdsong is a common sort of code, but not commonly spoken! generally groups will follow the "common" tongue or a language of the society they work the closest with.

Preening each other's wings is a common gesture of trust! this is consistent for most grooming mannerisms!

Commonly in public, instead of kissing, couples will press their foreheads against each other (sometimes wrapping their wings and arms around each other in a hug) (this is based off of "beaky kisses" that some types of monogamous bird pairings do)

Individual tastes vary, but generally as a whole avians lean towards more folk-ish, semi-celtic, and music with festival vibes!

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Stuck on the idea of vampires as a kind of reverse fae, or like someone's twisted, perverse attempt at moulding humans into fae.

They're repelled by liminal spaces.

A vampire could never enter fairyland, not just because they'd never be welcomed, but because most of the usual entry-ways are naturally barred to them.

They can't cross running water. They can't be seen in mirrors. They will wait forever at a crossroads, unable to pick a direction to go in. They can't even step over a thresh-hold unless there is absolutely no ambiguity about whether they are welcome inside.

They crave human blood, iron and salt, but are repelled by herbs and plants. They are supernaturally prevented from harming you unless the rules of hospitality have been invoked.

A fairy may replace your newborn child with something unnatural and ever-hungry. A vampire will do the same, but with your grandmother's corpse.

The fae are typically associated, even in stories where they're the bad guys, with flourishing and purity. Vampires, even in stories where they're the good guys, are typically associated with decay and corruption.

The fae turn ancient human burial mounds into fancy halls for their courts. Vampires take ancient human castles and let them grow mildewed and cobwebbed, exchanging the beds for coffins, turning them into burial places.

Fae don't tend to live among humans, but can generally pass for them with relative ease if they so choose. Vampires nearly always live among humans, but tend to find not revealing themselves a huge struggle.

I can't think of many stories I've read where fae and vampires even exist in the same universe, let alone ones where they actively interact. I feel like their enmity is almost more inevitable than that between vampires and werewolves, however.

The rivalry between vampires and werewolves is, essentially, the rivalry between two apex predator species who share a territory. (Even in stories where the werewolves aren't actually hunting humans.)

The vampires hate the werewolves because the werewolves interfere with their access to prey. The werewolves hate the vampires either because they consider themselves aligned with humans (the prey species), or because they are also predators and the vampires are competing with them.

By comparison, I think there's some story potential in the fae finding something genuinely creepy and uncanny valley about vampires.

They're immortal, like them, but also dead. They can be beautiful, like them, but that beauty is something they actively require humans to sustain. They like to inhabit beautiful and ancient ex-human dwellings, like them, but they actively work to make those places dark, damp and empty.

Fairies who are unflappable in the face of all sorts of Otherworldly monsters, can look an eldritch horror in the eye(s) without blinking, and have never been phased yet by any human, but will recoil from even the weakest vampire.

Vampires who hate fairies just as much, but in a more envious way. The way that the creature for whom immortality is a curse is bound to hate the creatures for whom immortality is an eternity of sunlight and laughter.

Maybe their touches burn each other. Maybe vampires can't stand physical contact with anything so alive and vital. Maybe immortal fairies become ill from too much exposure to the undead.

Maybe they fight over the human population when their territories overlap. The fairy need for servants and people to make deals with, competing with the vampire need for thralls and blood to drink.

Just… fairies and vampires. We need more stories about them interacting.

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Titania & Oberon

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I literally don't know what possessed me to make an 11 page comic over these sad old men! bon appetit <3

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happy pride

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pachow! tumblr is so intimidating, how does this WORK

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my oc quinn!

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Punk fairy cover illustration

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Some poor suffering gobs!!