This Is Such A Cute Idea I Gotta Do This Yall

I’m a MORON who is posting this 32 MINUTES LATE but happy birthday me 4/20.

MY FAV AND MOST GORGEOUS LIGHT FURY REDESIGN LITERALLY PERFECT!!!!!

LF redesign and Tooth

this is one of my favorite things i drew for artfight but aAAAUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH I HATE BACKGROUNDS SM I CANT DO THIS ANYMKRE

AMYYYYYYYY

amy doodles 🌸

“light fury redesign!!!!!!”

and then it’s grey night fury number three billion and one

I DID IT AND SURVIVED AND GOT EVERYTHING IN IN TIME!!!!!

I SAW I DID I CONQUERED I FORGOT THE QUOTE!!!!!!

i’m going to go rawdog four assignments, all due today. two essays, one test correction, and one assignment project thing that’s from Valentine’s Day.

i’m not surviving this

THIS IS ACTUALLY INSANE OH MY GOD????

Parallels.

[ID: Stylised, digital art centering Peril and Glory from Wings of Fire. They’re both shown from shoulders up, mirroring each other. Glory is placed upside down in the upper part, facing away from Peril, both frown with eyes closed. Kestrel can be seen above Peril, gently cupping her face, while snarling at Glory. Mirroring this, Scarlet is snarling at Peril, while cupping Glory’s face. Both their talons look ghostly and reach from offscreen. Particles of light, like sparks or fireflies, are all around them. The background is dark green, brightening in the center, where Peril and Glory almost touch. A light star outline can be seen there. Swirling clouds are drawn on the left, behind Kestrel and Peril, while tropical leaves are seen on the opposite side. Glory’s and Peril’s color palettes are almost identical, both using reds and teals, with their accent colors matching each others main colors. End ID]

Okay, consider this. As a chronic nail biter, I can't stand my nails having any noticeable length. So despite loving the idea of having claws, I always figured that in reality it would never work. But then I really thought about why I hate having nails, and constantly bite them down, and it's starting to make more sense.

Our nail's grow from the nail matrix located closer towards the joint of our last knuckle, the nail growing along the top of said knuckle. If my nails are long and sturdy, then the action of scratching or digging into something with them will apply a force upward from underneath, essentially giving the sensation of prying my nails off while putting pressure on the top of my finger away from the tip. And it feels so wrong. Plus nails get so dirty, I have to worry about dirt getting under them and trapped between the skin and nail. And to clean them? Yep, more of that sensation of prying the nail away. Human nails were meant to provide minimal scratching and combing functionality while keeping out of the way so our broad finger pads can grip things easily.

Claws though? The claw grows from the quick, located closer to the tip of the last knuckle on the underside of it, claw fully encasing the quick like a shell. Scratching and digging will successfully distribute the force along the knuckle a lot more broadly without it being pried away. Due to the shape, the claw beds also get a lot less filthy, and cleaning them won't feel like they are getting torn off.

By biting my nails as short as possible, I'm getting rid of any possible leverage of pressure prying my nail upward from beneath. Plus the way animals like cats usually clean and groom their claws is by nibbling away any dirt, so by biting my nails, it's like I'm also grooming all the dirt away without scraping under my nails to do so.

So yeah, after thinking about it, I totally could have claws without my issue of biting them. Sure it'd take some time to break the habit, but the underlying cause that has made it impossible to break in the past will be gone