#the pointy ears!

[softquietsteadylove]

I’m sure that Thena loves Gil’s feathers in the Maleficent AU. Maybe you can do soft moments where Thena observes his feathers and wings without Gil’s knowledge? <3

"Thena!"

"Hm?" she blinked, looking over at Ikaris who huffed through his teeth in annoyance. "What were you saying?"

"I was asking if you are sure about this," Ikaris nodded his head at their younger brother, very visibly, very publically, offering Makkari a little trinket upon her return to the nest.

"Sure about what?" Thena mumbled, her eyes on the head of the guard, walking further into the nest from the stormy weather outside and flapping his sodden wings with displeasure. "We have known from the beginning that Druig was taken with that sentry. I think they make a very sweet pair."

"We do not live here, Thena."

"Don't we?" she countered, finally giving her brother the benefit of seeing how serious her expression was. "We have already extended our stay, brother. Druig is very happy with Makkari, and I believe you too have found companionship in Ajak's ambassador."

Ikaris flushed, whether by guilt or anger at her needling him. Or perhaps it was a truly emotional response to the bringing up of Sersi. "She is...pleasant. But I never would have expected to ground you and Druig here because of it."

"Do you think he does?" Thena argued again, gesturing to how Druig, thorny and disagreeable in nature, offered sweet and gentle smiles to the quick winged flyer. Her scarlet red feathers complimented Druig's pitch black ones.

They were different from Gilgamesh's, whose feathers were iridescent and dark, with earthy brown undertones.

Ikaris looked at her, "you want to stay."

"I wish for Druig to be happy." It was far easier to say that than thinking about any particular reasons she had for delaying their departure again and again and again.

Gilgamesh flapped his wings a little before walking further into the nest.

"And I do wish the same for you," Thena gave Ikaris a look that made him roll his eyes. She flicked his wing, "against my better judgement."

With that, she took off, letting her wings guide her gently down from the loft of her observations to the floor of one of the many entrances. She walked quietly, keeping her feathers from dragging behind her as she followed the captain of the guard into the mothernest's twisting tunnels.

"Gil?"

He turned, surprised at first but then offering her one of his very warm smiles he had.

"How was your flight?" she asked, regarding his still dripping and somewhat bedraggled wings. "Is the storm coming in fast?"

He nodded with a sigh, his wings sitting heavy behind him. "I think so. It'll be on us by tonight, from what Kingo spotted."

"Let me see."

Gil blinked, not catching on at first that she meant his wings, and their current condition. He fussed, "n-no, it's okay, really, I'm just-"

"Gilgamesh," Thena pursed her lips at him. Was he really embarrassed of his ruffled wings, like a young fledgeling. "I'm sure you need help at least with your pinfeathers. Allow me."

Gil simply went quiet as she took the liberty of turning him by the shoulders and examining his wings. He cleared his throat, "I, uh, guess you saw Druig and Kari."

Thena smiled as she brushed some of the beading dew off his shimmering feathers. "Indeed I did. I was the one who advised him on presenting her with something upon her return."

"Oh really?" Gil moved his wing to try and peek at her over his shoulder.

She moved it back in place to continue her work. "I want Druig to be happy. And it seems my fledgeling brother has finally chosen a mate."

"You think it's that serious?"

She smiled at the centre of Gil's back as she plucked an errant feather barely clinging on. "I think he asked me if he should serenade her."

"Ah." Gil's shoulders moved as she continued to preen him. It was a very intimate activity by sheer merit of how sensitive one's wings were, and how vulnerable any fae's back was. "You're right, the gift is way better."

They both laughed, the gentle sound of it echoing down the corridor one way and then out the other. Thena cleared her throat, "so, if you have any advice on courting rituals here, then I'm sure I would like to know for Druig's sake."

Gilgamesh moved his wing to look at her again, "hm, nothing fancy I guess. We don't have a lot of ritual to it--you wanna court?--court. If no one objects, then fine."

How easy it sounded. Thena moved his wing between them again. "I suppose it is becoming less common to have such archaic tradition. In the Isles, the trinkets and serenading are rather standard practices of courting. Many have mellifluous voices for song."

"Do you?"

She laughed again and pulled a feather more harshly, "certainly not."

Gil's shoulders rolled again, although his wings certainly seemed relaxed with her work on them. He sighed, "me neither."

Thena raised an eyebrow, not that he could see her, "I suspect that is not true."

He looked over, now lifting up his entire wing over her head, "I guess I could serenade you to test it."

Thena blushed faintly, his feathers still in her hands. "I wasn't done!"

"Sorry, sorry," he acquiesced, turning and offering his wing to her again. "I guess I've never really tested it out."

Thena pursed her lips. "Ikaris and Druig have no voice for song either. Trinkets are a much better language for them."

"And you?"

Thena blinked, wondering if she had heard him right. It seemed impossible, given their hearing ability and the general quiet of the caverns. But even a whisper could travel through the corridors, and Gil had such a nice, gentle voice.

It was most definitely suited for song.

"Hm?" she asked in not so many words, trying to focus on plucking any loose downy feathers.

"Almost done?" he asked more firmly, his wing still between them.

"Almost," she muttered, running her fingers over the smoothed out feathers only as far as she dared. He seemed much more preened and presentable, at least. She snapped her hands away, his feather pressed between her palms. "There."

Gilgamesh turned, lifting his wing up and over her again in their tight proximity. They settled at his back, sitting higher after a nice refresher. He smiled, "thanks."

Thena looked down at the sandals on her feet. The straps were wearing from age. "Any time."

"I, uh," Gil nodded his head behind him, "should get outta these wet robes."

Thena nodded. Indeed he should. "I'll make sure there's a plate for you by the fire."

"Thanks," he repeated, with a slight change to his tone. He tilted his head at her, "I'll see you out there, I guess."

"Right," she smiled, taking a half a step back from him. Her wings trembled nervously behind her.

"See you soon, I guess," he said finally, turning and continuing down the tunnel with his drier, lighter wings.

Thena looked down at her hands and sputtered. She still had his feather in her hands. "Gil!"

"Keep it!" he shouted back to her before dropping down into the lower tunnels, "a trinket!"

#Thenamesh Maleficent AU #I do love this au #the wings the horns the magic #the pointy ears! #preening is a very intimate action of course #I guess it's like giving someone a massage or washing their hair #what's something that's not illegal but feels like it #nothing untoward but it's weird if a stranger offers #these two are fLIRTING #Gil is really flirting #poor Thena's more used to faes with tall hair crooning at her from the tops of palm trees #remember she's from the tropics #it means colourful wings and crooning love songs and bringing fruit as gifts #she'll accept the fruit but everything else you can piss off #don't let Ikaris know tho #he'll lose his damn mind #I'm sorry my sister is WHAT with WHOM??? #Druig's here like dude it's just preening relax you're not our father #meanwhile Ikaris is pacing around in their nest pod like WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN YOUNG FAERIE?!

[ubekawateryam]

Spent this week on making a bunch of faux oldschool anime screencaps. Had a blast making these, I’m especially happy with the background in the third one. I’ll probably keep making these, so look forward to more of these in the future!

#art #my art #digital art #anime #anime art #anime screencap #oldschool anime #90s anime #fantasy #fantasy art #elf #elf ears #pointy ears #princess #Selet #Selet Adurag #Halastur #Marin #Marin Gasshan

[canisalbus]

I get questions about Machete's ear situation quite often so I whipped up a quick age chart.

#they're not cropped all dogs are born with floppy ears and for breeds with big pointy ears like this it takes a while for #the cartilage in them to harden so that they stay upright reliably #his whole design just gets progressively pointier #own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumblr #Machete #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals

[kuuwo]

Little boy Belmont.

#I can’t resist character with pointy ears and long hair #why do they have to make him look hot now I have to wait for next season now😔 #I want to choke him I want to rip him apart I want to bite him #olrox #castlevania #castlevania nocturne #illustration #my art

[mokimo-art]

Who doenst love some soft cat ears | yorumiiko

#art #artists on tumblr #pointy ears #demon girl #demon horns #long hair #sharp teeth #vtuber #nekomimi #neko #neko girl

[linktoo-doodles]

marcilley

#marcille donato #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi spoilers #my art #Linktoo art #that crazy poofy dress she wears changed so much of how i see poofy dresses... normally I'm not really a big fan of poofy dresses #like I preferred more long flowy dresses... but wow this really opened my mind more. the taste #that fit serves so hard... I love how her hair bandana frames her face how the wings (associated w the lion) cover her pointy ears #iconic fit

[tobytost]

the prophecy

#my art #star wars #star wars rebels #kanan jarrus #caleb dume #I gave him pointy ears cause I live in the delusion where every human sw character is actually only half human #anyway #I’m thinking big thoughts about kanan

[astro-go-ghost]

Best part of when the power grid goes out

BONUS: Do you like it? <:'3c

#danny phantom #danny fenton #phandom #dp fanart #trans danny phantom #fentonworks #my art #I shat this together because I was like ''ough I have not made any digital art in months I NEED to draw'' #then that turned into ''I NEED to finish a piece it's been so long'' #happy with how it turned out tho even if I forgot to make his ears pointy #and I just kinda #winged it for the background #but the space part looks nice #gotta love layer effects #Phanart #Dp fandom

[andro-dino]

I dunno what you’re supposed to visualize in this scene but this is what happened in my head

#obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me leviathan #ft my silly little demon mc design #you can tell I got lazier with each panel #also. haven’t drawn much obey me fanart but I’ve decided to give them different ears in their demon forms #bc you can’t give me demons and then not give them interesting pointy ears #<3

[marsoid]

WAH

#waluigi #super mario bros #or whatever #my art #he is so fine. that stringy mustache. those pointy elf ears. dreamy

[mewniemoon]

Sluppy Pebbs got the playful zoomies

All them bishes

#rainworld #rain world #five pebbles #no significant harrasment #looks to the moon #seven red suns #Suns has pointy ears and loafs because hes catcore #caterators #scugerators #my art #Fun fact: Mewnie is based on an otter and Sig is based on a poison dart frog uwu

[pit--rat]

dragon age lore: half elves just look like humans

dragon age fans:

#the amount of pointy ear alistair art i see gives me life #anyway this was an extremely dumb decision and having a spectrum of half-elf representation would've been far more interesting. #oh well #text post #dragon age #da

[odekiisu]

Vulcan Eyebrow Pointiness is governed by gene(s) in an imprinted region of the genome.

Imprinted genes are expressed differently depending on which parent they're inherited from; either the maternal or paternal copy of the gene is suppressed. On Earth, this can be seen in some human genetic disorders such as Prader-Willi/Angelmann syndrome (both caused by a large deletion on chromosome 15; which one presents is dependent on which parent the mutation is inherited from).

Another case where genomic imprinting causes noticeable differences in phenotype are lion/tiger hybrids. They have the same complement of genes, being 50% lion and 50% tiger, but ligers (male lion/female tiger) are absolutely heckin massive, being larger than both parent species and the largest feline in the world, and are lighter in base colour (more the colour of a lion than a tiger).

Fig. 1: Liger

Tigons (male tiger/female lion) on the other hand are about the size of a tiger and more tigery orange in colouration. This is because of growth-suppressing genes that are active when inherited from a female lion, but not when inherited from a male one, and corresponding growth-promoting genes that are only active when inherited from a male. Female tigers do not have the required growth-suppressing genes to counteract the latter, so ligers get huge, but tigons don't.

Fig. 2: Tigon. Note that both are stripey.

In the case of Vulcans, the maternal copy of at least one gene that governs eyebrow pointiness is suppressed, whereas the paternal one is active. Behold:

Fig. 3: Spock, half-Vulcan with a Vulcan father, has pointy ears and pointy eyebrows (obvious usage of eyebrow liner notwithstanding).

Fig. 4: Lorian, half-Vulcan with a Vulcan mother, still has pointy ears but round eyebrows.

As you can see, the eyebrow pointiness phenotype differs depending on which parent it is inherited from, whereas the ear pointiness phenotype appears to be dominant, much like stripeyness.

tl;dr: Spock is a liger and Lorian is a tigon.

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek enterprise #spock #vulcans #I am aware that if I'm comparing stripeyness to pointy ears #then that would make spock a tigon and lorian a liger #but unfortunately #I like it better the other way #so you'll just have to deal with my inconsistent metaphors here

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 168

So. Apparently halfas are like phoenixes or something, which Danny would’ve really liked to know. 

See, usually with ghosts if they’re forced to retreat to their cores they reform as was, but apparently, since they’re still partially living, schrodinger's people and all that, halfas have to regrow their body from scratch. At least that’s what he’s understanding from Frostbite. 

But how come he has to deal with it? It’s Dan’s fault for trying to pull such a stunt! Oh, it’s either him or Vlad? Well fuck, he might have calmed down and is going to therapy in both the living realm and the Zone, but he’s waaay not equipped to raise a child except for like, monetarily wise. 

Well dammit, how long will this core incubation thing last, he has his new job in… let him check which offer he accepted again… He has his new job in Coast City that he needs to finish packing for and then all the rest of the stuff to do. 

What do you mean it’ll take months?! He doesn’t have months?! Urgh, fine. At least being a mortician isn’t that exciting, nor dangerous. Just hand him Dan’s core and he’ll figure things out for the living side of things. He’s sure Tucker and Sam wouldn’t be against helping, if only to try and claim favorite aunt or uncle spots. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #Coast City is where Hal Jordan lives hilarious enough #I just chose a random city but honestly a green lantern city is hilariously on brand for where Danny would choose to move #He’s just a cheerful space core dude who is glaring down several ghosts & helping others move on while he’s working #He’s also slightly uncanny valley to people outside of Amity & doesn’t realize it #He runs into a reporter Wes at some point & okay the fact he looks like the lady doing math meme when seeing Dan? #Utterly hilarious #Danny holding a newborn with matching slightly pointy ears and claws :) #Wes who is *pretty sure* Danny is cis but is second guessing everything now: #Danny is going to do his best to avoid any hero BS #He’s trying to do his JOB #Who cares if he brings his baby to work he needs to eat and he isn’t going to hire a babysitter #Bby Jordan tried to set the house on fire during his last tantrum do you THINK anyone else can deal with him? That’s what he thought now ou #Ellie visits as well & straight up melts out of the wall sometimes like a horror movie #She has weaponized her goo powers and is also excited to show her dad her new gravity ones #Space Core Danny + Fire Core Vlad = Sun Core Dan #Ellie has a Moon core (something something phases of the moon & travelling across the night sky) #Danny is encountering so many rogues and heroes and just doesn’t acknowledge it because he has a literal BABY who can destroy the entire JL #He’s very tired and would like a nap now

[cupcakescrochets]

Provoke the blade and suffer its sting!

#it would have been fun to have a proper grey stone eye but I only have black eyes #and yes I gave him pointy ears #baldur's gate 3 #wyll #wyll ravengard #bg3 wyll #bg3 #crochet #amigurumi

[mokimo-art]

nice sloopy kiss

#art #artists on tumblr #pointy ears #demon girl #demon horns #long hair #sharp teeth #color #purple #red oni blue oni #kissing #lesbians