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I write and draw and do screenshot edits | Mainly The Dragon Prince with lots of Rayllum | Blog is kept PG-13/T above read-mores but not completely free of adult content | Asks are open | Commissions are closed | Don’t repost my art without asking, please | @NumptyPylon on Ao3, Instagram, Twitter

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[numpty fic tag]: everything to do with my fanfiction - fic posts, related art, teasers

Fics with their own tags: [Down to Earth], [Down Below the Ocean], [Downtime in Wartime], [Upside Downtime], [Downtime’s Up], [In the Middle], [Drawn Out], [Mess of Things], [Home Free], [Homeward Bound], [Eurail 2021: Our Track Record], [Where the Heart Is], [fic: resist], [fic: surrender], [Reunion and Intersection]

Fic verses with own tags: [Down to Earth], [In the Middle], [cottage cuddles au]

Tumblr exclusive drabble series: [kiss prompts], [homeward bound rayla pov extras], [drabble series: carry the one]

Fanfic teasers: [wip wednesday], [six sentence sunday]

[numpty art tag]: umbrella tag for all my visual art

[Screenshot edit]: edited screenshots, opposed to art I do from scratch

Screenshot editing series: [Tdp flower crown series], [Tdp shirt series], [Jammies for all], [Species swap]

[Daily art challenge]: drawing practice, to see progression in a specific medium

[Primal light]: series of Rayllum kisses/lighting practice, using the primal sources as light sources

[tdp-whump-week]

Hello fellow humans and human fellas of the Dragon Prince fandom! I'm excited to announce

Later today I'll share a more formal post with prompts, rules and guidelines. This event will be using the tag #tdp whump week 2026 so you are welcome to follow if you'd like to stay appraised, or block the tag if you'd prefer not to engage with this type of material.

Time to start devising your evil plans! 😈

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

Hey, fellow fan creators in the Dragon Prince fandom! Would there be any interest in participating in a Whump Week (prompts provided)? Perhaps mid-late May?

[numptypylon]

[numptypylon]

Downtime’s Up 27

“Callum?”

“m’ awake.” He realized his eyes were closed, his breaths slow, his body relaxed, that it was just his brain that was very awake and Rayla fortunately couldn’t see into his brain. “Up n’ at ‘em.”

“Good. I have to clean you up a bit, so don’t sleep just yet or your wake-up call will be prompt and unpleasant.” He felt her cold fingers examining his face, pushing his tangled hair away. “Most of these are shallow scratches, they’ll heal fast enough, as long as they’re kept clean, but this-“ She grazed along his brow. “The skin split from impact, that’s deeper. I can’t stitch it, I don’t have what I’d need, but I’ll use a kind of Xadian wound-glue, it’ll be enough, I think, to keep it from scarring-“

“Not so bad-“ He opened his eyes to look at her beautiful face, reaching up to trace the tiny white scar too close to her left eye. “If it did-“

“Well, you don’t have to look at you, do you? You’d be far too dashing with facial scars, how would the rest of us ever get anything done, huh? Did you think of that?”

He snorted.

Oh, how he loved her.

Read more of Downtime’s Up chapter 28: Where He Lies, wherein Callum and Rayla deal with the aftermath of the Finnegrin's Wake trauma olympics

[numptypylon]

Downtime’s Up 27

He had had everything he needed.

Something of hers. The letter, her tears on the paper, places where the ink had smudged.

A piece of her heart. He felt that should matter, even if it wasn’t technically a spell requirement. It had, for Manis Pluma Volantis.

A vantage point. The chimney at the top of the library roof would have done; she was fast, but that same morning, it would only have been a few hours, she would not have made it that far on foot.

Moon moths had been everywhere around the Nexus, gathering in clusters on the tree trunks by the lakeshore after moonset.

A way to get to her, once those prior things gave him the trajectory. Mage wings at his command.

He had had everything he had needed except words on a page he had been eighty-two days out from reading, that day.

Callum didn’t have to wonder if he would have done it, if he’d read Viren’s research before rather than after they had gone to the Moon Nexus.

He would have done it in a heartbeat.

Read more of Downtime’s Up chapter 27: The Dark, wherein Callum is alone in the dark, below decks on Finnegrin’s Wake…

(I’m sorry this update has been 84 years coming! Happy New Years, folks!)

[numptypylon]

I did a few quick changes to Rayla’s face because it bugged me a bit. Added epicanthic folds, added shading to give shape to her nose and lip, and moved nose way down.

[numptypylon]

I betrayed the stache faction bc I was curious what he’d look like minus the beard, must forever atone for my treachery 😭

[numptypylon]

People have asked for a middleground, so I tried to oblige and also started on my road to stachedemption

[numptypylon]

I betrayed the stache faction bc I was curious what he’d look like minus the beard, must forever atone for my treachery 😭

[zuppizup]

Baby Sarai: Em, I’m right here, guys.

[kurizeria]

[bat-snake]

I can't believe Rayla gave birth to a whole three month old

[zuppizup]

Strongest woman in the franchise

[numptypylon]

Hips of steel!

It’s so common it’s an actual trope though

Three-Month-Old Newborn - TV Tropes

A subtrope of Dawson Casting, one specifically about newborns, or at least TV so-called newborns. Whenever a supposedly just-born child appe

[numptypylon]

I’ve been mia for a while, trying to get back into the swing of things and through my months of backlog, but for now, have a happy summer rayllum surrounded by voyeuraburrs ☀️

In my head, the burrs are us rayllum fans and I added some specific references

[rayllum-mini-month]

Welcome to Rayllum Mini-Month!

We are pleased to offer the fandom an alternative Rayllum Month event this July. Rayllum Mini-Month will feature 4 prompts—1 per week, with a suggested posting date of Wednesday each week. (Don’t worry—we’ll be reblogging all month, in case you fall behind 😉). Use #rayllum mini-month 2025 when you post your work…and check out the tag to see everyone’s fantastic fanworks!

Fanworks of any and all kinds are encouraged as a part of this event, including mature and explicit works. We anticipate fanfic, fanart, meta, edits, playlists...or anything else you can come up with! Please be sure—as always!—to appropriately tag your works with warnings for potentially triggering content so that everyone can choose what fanworks they want to engage with.

Our aim is to provide another space to celebrate Rayllum Month, not to discourage participation in any existing fandom events. Not so sure about creating something yourself? Cheer on participants with comments, reblogs, and support!

Ready, set…RAYLLUM! See you in July!

[numptypylon]

NumptyPylon Fanfic Masterpost

It’s all under the read-more, since it got long. I’ll edit this post to update it periodically, so it’s up to date as a reference. Everything not specifically mentioned otherwise is rated G or T

Keep reading

[0luna123]

Nyx is like a pigeon to me...

this is the same image

[lunanightriderofthecove]

I've seen her called "overgrown pigeon" in the fandom and just adopted the name 😆 don't remember where I saw it first tho 🤷🏼‍♀️

[konmaao3]

I for one took it from @numptypylon's Downtime in Wartime.

[numptypylon]

I didn’t take it from anywhere, so maybe I’m the origin or a least AN origin, haha. I did first write it in Downtime in Wartime, but I’ve referenced it since in other fanfics. It just fits her, on both a physical and metaphorical level!

“I am not a pigeon!”

“No, it’s a metaphor.” Ezran explained, as if that was an explanation.

“That’s not what a metaphor is! I’m not a metaphorical pigeon either! I just have wings! That’s not enough to make me a metaphorical pigeon!” Uncultured swains, the lot of them!

“Oh, Callum said you were a pigeon because you liked to root around in the gutter and also make annoying noises that interrupts private conversations. Nothing to do with the wings.”

(From Crash and Burn, my old wedding-crasher Nyx fic)

[konmaao3]

Was Ethari's scarf originally Runaan's, and Rayla inherited the husband's-scarf-stealing from him? 🤔

[numptypylon]

I tweaked my own arc 3 character design tool and made Rayllum from my cottage cuddles verse, wherein they’re mutually pining housemates in modern day rural Scotland. Rayla is a pub worker/physical therapy student, Callum dropped out of art school and is working as a meals-on-wheels delivery driver, it’s a very lowkey au.