Huma Bird Design!

Huma bird design!

I tried to find other birds from cultures that aren't just Greek, Roman, or English, etc and this was a really cool one I found.

My brain saw it and kinda went !!!!colour!!!!

Apparently the Huma never lands, and blesses those its shadow lands on with good fortune. I'm not an expert by any means- that was from a 5 min google search- so please correct me if you know more!!

Stymphalian bird design!

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If I can be bothered to write again I’m definitely using these prompts... Thank you, wonderful soul who has ideas

Here are the prompts:

Road trip 

Proposals and weddings

Birthday parties 

Sneaking around at school 

Alex brining the gang to Freya 

Camping 

Deep confessions at midnight 

Couples planning surprises for each other. (Kailex, Jordix etx.) 

 Alternative ships, and side character shipping. (seriously this fandom needs more than 3 ships) 

Adding to canon about things mentioned in passing (like when the core four ruined Bear’s birthday cake) 

(From readstoomanybooks)

– alternate scenes to any of the Gate options (we only saw 6 out of like 18?? so many opportunities) 

– AU for Aven actually getting deaded and not just tossed into a painting (@ anyone who writes Alex literally beheading him, i WILL write you fic of your choice) 

– alternate perspectives for iconic scenes, yell at me if u want specifics – other characters reacting to alex’s change of physique post draekora (bitch she would be ripped as shit?? + got all these scars?? resident sapphics at akarnae would lose their minds, fight me) 

– i want to see alex and jeera full on beating the shit out of each other tbh 

– kaiden using his gift to full capabilities bc guy can do pretty much anything 

– OOO OOO but either dark alex or dark kaiden wouod be cool as shit 

– somebody close to Alex selling her out to Aven

from @revelationinthelightofday-writes

Okay-

Here are a horse and a pegasus.

Obviously, the pegasus has wings and the horse doesn't.

And so instead of drawing the Fairy Queen, my brain demanded I figure out how to ride a pegasus.

As you can see from my highly anatomically correct diagrams, a pegasus cannot have a saddle. A saddle fits pretty much exactly where the wings would connect, and the flap of skin connecting the wing and the body is pretty essential for flight and takes up any other space for a modified saddle. Not to mention that the keel bone, also very necessary for flight (as it allows the wing muscles a place to connect), would prevent the girth from fitting correctly.

So. How do you ride a pegasus? You can't go bareback, because putting your legs in front of the wings would restrict their movement, and you wouldn't have any control or balance. The same goes from putting your legs behind the wings.

My solution? A kind of crouch-y saddle! I really don't know what to call it. Or describe it, really.

Basically, it would consist of a harness, as shown in my even-more-anatomically-correct diagram above, that goes underneath the pegasus and connects in front of the forelegs and behind the hindlegs with knee and foot holds along the back you'd strap yourself into. A kind of handle poking up from the front connection you can hold onto would connect to the reins so you'd have control, and you'd use them and your feet behind the wings to steer.

Do I think this would actually work? Probably not. The pegasi would have to be specially trained to be ridden and to respond to foot commands similar to leg commands on a normal horse (but higher up, pretty much on their back where it would be more difficult for the pegasus to feel and near impossible for the rider to actually control the pegasus with) and the riders would need very good core strength.

But not only is it the only solution I could come up with, I reckon being able to pull out this abomination of straps and using it to actually ride a pegasus would be pretty cool.

If anyone has a different solution, please tell me! I really want to figure this out.