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K. Vale Nagle

@kvalenagle.bsky.social

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Creature fantasy novelist. Author of Eyrie, Ashen Weald, Starling, Reevesbane, Crestfall, The Crackling Sea, Opinicus, & Pridelord. She/Her. www.kvalenagle.com books2read.com/rl/kvalenagle kvalenagle.itch.io patreon.com/kvalenagle ko-fi.com/kvalenagle

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · Oct 11

Hey, Blue Sky has pinned posts now!

I'm Vale Nagle, and I write queer naturepunk epic creature fantasy novels. If you've always wanted a series with gryphons based on sand cats, vampire finches, saber-toothed tigers, giant otters, or hooded pitohui, I'm your author.

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The covers of the first ten Gryphon Insurrection novels by K. Vale Nagle, starting with Eyrie and ending with Saberbeak, portraying a wide range of interesting gryphons in interesting places from hawks to kakapo to snowy owls to diving petrels to starlings to hooded pitohui to sand cat hoopoe birds to white-tailed kites in golden armor to saber-toothed tiger gryphons. The first ten covers are in an illustrated style, but the last book, Blue Eyes, is a short story collection in a very stylized art that has a snow leopard in the snowy mountains.

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AxelBby (Grymphons <3) @axelbby.bsky.social · 5h

First time ever using patreon <3

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 18h

I hope you enjoy it! =]

Zeph, a Cooper's hawk + cougar gryphon with kitty ears and four kitty paws but a feathered tail, offering you an alarmed kakapo as a gift. Sticker by StupidShepherd.

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 18h

Grenkin, a blue heron opinicus or earless gryphon with talon prosthetics and an eyepatch, holding a blue heart in a chibi style. Art by YoteNotes.

K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 19h

<3

Me too. It could be a lot worse, but I'm worried that it's been a week and things're still getting worse and not better.

K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 19h

Tresh, a diving petrel fishing cat gryphon, hugging a giant salamander. Sticker art by Fleeks.

K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 20h

I greatly appreciate it with how chaotic life just became with COVID added in <3

Hatzel making a heart with her paws. Hatzel is a gryphon with a saber beak. Sticker art drawn by Aetus!

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · Mar 29

Heralds of the sun

#griffin #gryphon #fantasy #myth #mythology #mythical #creature #creaturedesign

A square, mirrored illustration of two griffins sitting opposite each other, their forepaws touching and wings tucked in. Their back legs are blue, scaled and clawed like a bird’s. Their tails are long, catlike and feathered with a tuft of white fur on the end. Surrounding them are decorative black chains and golden leaves on twisting vines to complement their forms. In the middle hangs a symmetrical branch of golden leaves pouting upwards. Above their paws, hovering between their heads, is a small golden sun with long stylised rays. The overall colour scheme is brown, yellow, cream and blue.

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 20h

Aaaaaaaaaw

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🩸 morteraphan 🗝️ @morteraphan.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, and I haven't drawn them like this for ages! [oc]

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 20h

Aaaaaaw

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⸎✦𝚂𝙴𝙿𝙸𝙰𝙵𝙻𝚄𝚇🦑🔞 @sepiaflux.studio · 2d

Rowan's making caramel apples, who wants one!

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 1d

Baby Griffin to brighten your day :D

#dragonage #berensart2025

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Baron! @baronboar.bsky.social · Jul 4

Down by the shore, regrets, regrets, regrets.

ATTACKING @inutiliacapra.bsky.social

A vulture gryphon skulks onto a rocky beach, he looks nervous and flightly as he approaches the foamy water.
In the distance near stone spires that jut out of the water two gryphons fly together.

#artfight #af2025 #teamfossil #artfightfossil #artfight25 #digitalart #vulture

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 20h

It's not Pride Month anymore, but if you want to help out a poor gryphon author struggling with COVID right now....

K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · Jun 15

Did you know patrons got a special variant cover of The Crackling Sea where Grenkin has his iconic eye patch?

It's true! And the ebook version with the eye patch is still available at the ebook and up levels at patreon.com/kvalenagle

As a bonus, you help out a trans author during Pride =)

A great blue heron opinicus or earless gryphon flies along stormy cliffs with a dark, stormy sea below him. Art by Jeff Brown. The Crackling Sea, Gryphon Insurrection Boon Six by K. Vale Nagle.

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · Jun 27

When I pick weeds near the saltbrush and rabbitbrush, a juvenile red-tailed hawk has started landing on the roof above me to see if I startle out any rabbits or nesting birds. Work smarter, not harder, I guess!

#CatgrassPrairie

A juvenile red-tailed hawk perched on a slanted roof in front of the solar panels looking down at a native yard with anticipation.

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 21h

!!!

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SHEP @stupidshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

WE'RE LIVE!!!!

#KICKSTARTER

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Floppy friends: KOBOLDS!

Soft and floppy plush kobolds (and potentially some other creatures!)

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 21h

Aw, so sparkly <3

Pink Sparkle Younce, a snow leopard gyrfalcon gryphon with green summer eyes who is sparkling pink while roaring. Somewhere, a flamingo opinicus has fainted in envy while another wonders if he's single. A merchant is stealing the feather dye recipe and dyeing feathers en masse to sell as "authentic pink sparkle Younce" feathers to the unsuspecting. Sticker art by StupidShepherd.

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 21h

The dread that overtook me when @lowbeyonder.bsky.social immediately liked this post has me reading faster to find out if Valerie makes it or not.

I should probably unpack why Athena liking something quickly causes dread next time I see my therapist.

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 22h

I've tied my recovery to what happens to the Valerie in the story, so here's hoping things go a lot better for my name-sister than they're currently looking!

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Lizzi 🐦‍⬛🌸 @spiritcrowart.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Lizzi, and I like illustrating birds and fantasy creatures. Sometimes I dabble in pixel art! 💜

🎨 Art-Only Feed: bsky.app/profile/spir...

☕ Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/lizzi
💸 VGen (Comms): vgen.co/spiritcrowart
🔗 Links: linktr.ee/SpiritCrowArt
✉️ [email protected]

Portrait of Gyr, a gryphon with white feathers that wears a silver winged helm with a unicorn horn, and a silver chestplate and wing covers. His eyes glow bright red as he casts magical lightning around him. (oc belongs to Severedfeather)

Artwork showcase of the characters I drew for a DnD manual: Lineages of the Long White Cloud vol 2. It features a ranger based on the harlequin gecko, a bard based on the kokako bird, a kakapo-bear creature, and a rogue based on the sacred kingfisher.

Playing card design featuring the two forms of Atlas the dragon (OC belongs to lyka-ios). In their default form, they have white feathers and golden horns. In their alternate form, they have black fur and dark horns.

Pixel art of Malzeno from Monster Hunter, in flight with its wings spread in front of a full moon. It has white scales, a gray underbelly, crimson wings, and golden horns, claws, and tail spikes.

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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 1d

(Like everyone else, I could not wait for the print editions to be republished so I'm reading the AO3 versions. Faye is my favorite, though I'm here for the whole pack of feral second years.)

The cover of Enemies of Dorley by Alyson Greaves showing a woman covered in a veil and butterflies.

K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 1d

Day seven of COVID. Rough night, but unless something hits me later, this is the first day I don't feel worse, so I'll take it =)

Here's hoping tomorrow I start to feel better finally.

Anyone needs me, I'll be under a blanket fort on the couch reading Enemies of Dorley by @badambulist.bsky.social

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JLMeyer 🐰 @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Quick doodle of meeting your costume’s inspiration.

-trick o treating and meeting the grand high witch.

#bunnies #witches

Dressed up like The Grand High witch as best as she could, the little bun went out Trick o Treating only to run into her idol. Adoring the new little witch she gave her candy. Adoring the grand High Witch so much, she never ate the precious gift. Some wondered if that was for the best.

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