The stars are listening.

The Universe leads, and it is made of love. (Name: Ray, 20+, Pronouns: Star/stars & they/them) (also see: @isat-weeping-god-au )

[articray]

blog masterpost thing

I'm receiving a very sudden influx of People here due to posting original content instead of just pure reblogs, so. Introduction time! (how do you do these? no idea and I don't feel like looking up an answer)

Hello, hello! I am Ray (primary name), occasionally known as Artic. I use they/them/theirs AND star/stars/stars pronouns with small preference towards star/stars/stars!

stars to @moonlitvoidfeathers moon <3

I MAKE: -Doodles -Writings -AUs -( #in cages and feathers ; ISAT AU ; Masterpost ) -( #isat forest dwellers au ; ISAT AU ; Masterpost ) -( #weeping god au ; ISAT AU ; Blog ) -Ideas that I throw out into the wind

Fan Content "Rules" * Just Make Stuff Did you tag me in fanart? Yes? If I don't respond within two days, and I respond to everything, please tag me again cause it got buried in my notifications.

I REBLOG: -In Stars and Time (Primary content at the moment) -Sky children of the light -Minecraft -Hollow Knight -Informational/Essay posts -Misc posts that don't have a defined category YOU CAN ALSO FIND ME ON: -@isat-weeping-god-au , a horror(?)/fluff au I write with @shyjinks we take Siffrin from In Stars and Time and turn him into a god. -Artic_Ray on ao3 where I write In Stars and Time and Minecraft -In Stars and Time discord

ALSO:

All of my asks are open!! Appear from behind my walls and whisper your nonsense!! I accept ALL nonsense! Random shit, pieces of wisdom, asks about my writing, advice about anything really, about fandoms I'm in, whatever! I truly don't care!

Just know I will either answer your ask less than a day or in several months, and there is absolutely no in between. I do not apologize for this behavior.

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[hydeandseek128]

i rarely reblog tumblr nonsense here, but a couple of my moots seem to have this setting on and im not sure if they know, so im reblogging it for reach!

[writingblus]

i dont "go on walks," i dont "use character sheets" and i dont "plot before writing," i raw dog it, and if it doesnt flow, I FUCKING CRY.

[3ntity-wandering-the-plane]

Mirabelle wishes everyone a happy pride month

[articray]

A collection of my favorite out-of-context comments ever received while writing In Cages and Feathers. My wingfrin ISAT AU.

or, at least, select parts of comments. For fun and sillies. All names excluded, you can read the series to figure out where things come from.

(Also I made sure to copy and paste the comments into the alt text thing with minor edits for clarity when using a screen reader. Let me know if I need to fix anything, pretty sure I got everything)

and, of course

You can read In Cages and Feathers here, and get some context for this nonsense. Or don't and be entertained with me.

Also, wow I did not realize just how many comments I have on this series alone. You people are incredibly nice out here, I'm glad to have you all, and hope you enjoy the utter ride that is my work and the horror that is my deeply inconsistent release schedule.

Hope to see you all next time!

[stormfarerao3]

Okay, checked AO3 to see which comments of these were mine, and I’m admitting them because I’m no coward. the William Afton one was mine

and so was the Russian family one

Bit sad that this line of mine from the theorizing comment didn’t get in: “Either I'm doing an Odile sus event or I'm a raving lunatic writing on the walls in a rat room with rats that make me crazy, your choice” But I get why it didn’t.

[articray]

oh my god I forgot the rats one. I have to amend this immediately, I don't know how I missed it

addition

also your snippet most recent comment because it got + two other friends I showed it to

[qcharlie]

please god watch this right now

[fangirltothefullest]

The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.

[wholesome-animal-images]

[articray]

A collection of my favorite out-of-context comments ever received while writing In Cages and Feathers. My wingfrin ISAT AU.

or, at least, select parts of comments. For fun and sillies. All names excluded, you can read the series to figure out where things come from.

(Also I made sure to copy and paste the comments into the alt text thing with minor edits for clarity when using a screen reader. Let me know if I need to fix anything, pretty sure I got everything)

and, of course

You can read In Cages and Feathers here, and get some context for this nonsense. Or don't and be entertained with me.

Also, wow I did not realize just how many comments I have on this series alone. You people are incredibly nice out here, I'm glad to have you all, and hope you enjoy the utter ride that is my work and the horror that is my deeply inconsistent release schedule.

Hope to see you all next time!

[vampireautism]

there is an IMAGE in my HEAD and i cannot DRAW IT. hatred and rage.

[flowerflamestars]

there is a CONVERSATION in my HEAD and I cannot WRITE IT. rage and hatred

[ocean-stuck]

there is a VIDEO in my HEAD And i cannot ANIMATE IT. hage and ratred

[y2kbugs-moved]

There is a GAME in my HEAD and I cannot CODE IT. Ratred and hage.

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

there is a SONG in my HEAD and I cannot COMPOSE IT. haged and rate.

[gender-luster]

there is a MOVIE in my HEAD and i cannot FILM IT. raged and hate

[yahooo-official]

there is a CRAFT in my HEAD and i cannot BUILD IT. snage and snatred

[the-haiku-bot]

there is a CRAFT in

my HEAD and i cannot BUILD

IT. snage and snatred

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[drawingden]

So how’s the art coming along guys?

[bumbleshark]

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[articray]

welcome back chat

to In Cages and Feathers, this time 1-3 months didn't pass for another update! ICAF is my wingfrin au, where I put them through the absolute ringer.

Today we're back with the final chapter of the Observatory, aka Orb 3!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

your silly sneak peek:

"Did you find something, Siffrin?" You do not nearly jump out of your skin or make any sort of startled noise, and Mirabelle and Isabeau do not giggle. No, you calmly look at Odile. With a calm expression. Super calm, didn't smack your wings against a shelf behind you because your first reaction was to fly away. You are not startled and you are not actively smoothing down your puffed-up feathers. And she does not chuckle at you, "Hello to you as well."

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[showertimeshmoopsie-deactivated]

[peridescent]

tuck him in Tuesday

[peridescent]

tuck him in Tuesday once again

[peridescent]

another tuck him in Tuesday is here

[onatuegrospatapouf]

Tuck him out 😈

[showertimeshmoopsie-deactivated]

WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM

[fellshish]

reading other comments on the fic you’ve just commented on is like. asynchronous book club meeting 🫶

[idrawgaystffs]

An analytical fanart of Siffrin from @articray ’s In Cages and Feathers ISAT AU; AKA: basically an excuse to research something for funsies!

Note: This is not a criticism, just my personal take on how to take more inspiration from real life creatures and their oddities, cause I like em a lot :)

A Mirabelle for good measure :3

Right so, getting into it, Ray’s drawings of Sif often have these spurs on the wings, which! Is technically true! Birds can have “spikes” on their wings as an offensive biological weapon, However! This is actually a very small minority of birds ~2%.

Here’s a paper from 1954 on kinds of wing spurs :)

I chose the Lapwings’ carpometacarpus position for the spurs since they match up with the size factor of Ray’s design,

Here’s an article of a fossilized wing spur compared to a living species; you gotta scroll down to Fig. 2 to see it!

What I think was misinterpreted as spurs in the first place is a bone called the “Alula” which is essentially the bird’s thumb! It has a very important role in aerodynamics and has to be covered with feathers to work, so I added that back in to this design.

Furthermore, I did sketches of how to interpret and draw bird wings, (here’s a post that I followed) One technique is to reference one’s hand, ‘S good for figuring out what the joints are doing, but the actual proportions are off,,,, and it hurts my wrist ¯\_(•v•)_/¯

My final take on the wing design and spur-placement, The two-feather floof is Very Important >_< /silly It denotes where the wing bends, the place where this “hand portion” begins!

Also Siffrin having a really scarred up throat from the repetition with the island name :( That’s gotta have some lasting impact on them wishcraft is not kind

I drew a couple of iterations for the cosmetic “feather” shaped pin Siffrin has, I think a version based on simplicity (one band across a Bulb-Gourd Style pin) is neat, also drew a way to simplify it with just a few lines.

I wanted to do more with the hat, especially considering that the typical wizard hat would probably just blow off siffrin’s head the moment he catches a gust of wind, so I thought it’d be neat to reference Wind Socks!

Purpose of a wind sock

1. Wind Direction: Wind socks are designed to align with the direction of the wind. By observing the direction in which the wind sock is poi

They’ve got stripes on em to measure the speed of the wind and hang loose to determine direction, things that come in handy when you fly a lot! Also gave them a chin strap, for obvious reasons, but they can hold it by that string to get some free movement in the sock, Maybe Frin can still take off their hat and determine the wind?

Anddddd Full sheet :)

[articray]

yknow, revealing you're a biology major suddenly makes a whole lot of sense now. Also seeing that tumblr decided to title this one "purpose of a wind sock" definitely threw me off when I woke up this morning. but either way holy shit you had fun with this and it shows. And you have citations for all of this.

...also there's real birds out there with spurs on them?? That's a real thing? I was bullshitting the original design for the wings. This is incredibly interesting I'm gonna spend a while reading this.

Also. Wind sock? Never heard of them. But that's fucking adorable for a hat design. That's so cute I'm kind of obsessed.

I'm also obsessed on how you draw Sif as an eepy little fella. Just so sleepy.

also wow you put a lot of thought into their pins and I'm lowkey really honored by that. Granted I'm really honored in general on just how much thought you put into this entire thing. Who does research for a fanfiction someone else wrote? You. You do and I'm honored to have you as part of my audience, hope you're here for a long while

[kyonarra]

so I wanted to read something before bed and then I found a cool wingrin au and it has been rotating in my head ever since and now there is a doodle for it sooo

the au is In Cages and Feathers by @articray

go go read it! it's so good! check it out! you can find it on ao3!

[articray]

I never saw this I am so fucking sorry for being six months late. also shoutout to my impulsive decision to check the tag for this au

but please know I see them and I love them dearly. my little guy. from the wings to the feather pins to the little feathers under their eye please know that I love them.