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K. Vale Nagle
@kvalenagle.bsky.social
Creature fantasy novelist. Author of Eyrie and the Gryphon Insurrection (GryphIns) series.

She/Her.

PFP by @merteazy.bsky.social

www.kvalenagle.com
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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.

books2read.com/rl/gryphonin...
Still the energy I'm trying to bring to this week.
This is your annual reminder that there is, in fact, a GryphIns Discord server, and if I leave them alone for fifteen minutes, they decide Sponge's theme song is "Hydrate Jirate" and @merteazy.bsky.social draws a masterpiece like this.

Feel free to poke me if you're a GryphIns fan & want an invite.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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🌄 What's true for you doesn't have to be true forever...

#SongOfTheSummerKing #SKC #SummerKingChronicles #Gryphon #Wolf
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Four times over the weekend I noticed a new author following me, go to check their timeline, and oh hey, look at all that AI art you’re using for marketing

*clicks the block button*

If👏you👏write👏real👏words👏
Also👏use👏real👏art.

If you use GenAI to write, go away and take your slop with you lol
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hmmm. Who wants popcorn?

(Glenn needs snacks for a trip with family tomorrow, and stove-top popcorn tends to be a popular choice.)
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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I really wanted to do research as a 16-year-old freshman and the only professor who would let me join his lab did NMR of peptides from rattlesnake venom.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Oh, via Instagram Jody A. Lee has listed prints and merchandise (including T-shirts!) with her lovely artwork for sale including many book covers for Mercedes Lackey, Madeleine L'Engle, and a ton of the DAW covers I grew up with! I love her color palettes and Art Deco design details!
fineartamerica.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Ah yes, chipping sparrow season in Colorado: the time of the year where we get bombarded by cartoon laser sounds when I walk the cat in the morning.

This is not a serious bird.
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I don't own a 3d printer, but if I did, I would probably spend all my time designing 3d-printed cat armor inspired by Dino-Riders.
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If you ever say "Sounds like a good idea!" there is a 15% anyone in my family will mutter "Of course, the tractor beam seemed like a good plan at the time, too," because of how often my brother watched the cartoon for these toys.
Random cool trivia; there was a very short lived toyline about futuristic soldiers arming dinosaurs with high tech weaponry and using them as vehicles.

Among other cool aspects of this; the dinosaurs are VERY detailed, and look pretty great.
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Does anyone have a list for trans positive fantasy? Or even weird west or steam punk etc?
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Maybe there's no universal writing advice out there that applies to everyone, but "make it trans and gryphons" seems to work most of the time.
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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I just wanted to doodle a Rankin Bass Smaug adjacent Ancalagon being struck down by a trident probably the size of a house. Maybe Earendil had a huge spear launcher on his flying boat.
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Monsterfy commission done for Floofcheeks/Dove back in October! 
Mmm cronching some delicious bones~

#furryart #furry #monster
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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A quick one tonight.

Gryphons look pretty strange in heraldry, maybe I will look up some examples and try a more accurate version. Bonus Black-bellied Plover speed sketch.

#gryphonchallenge
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Completed YCH for Elwyr

#gryphon #art #furry #fantasy #commission
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Just the way Thyra and Aadhya look at each other is <3

What do you think they’re talking about?

You can read about these gals in
The Gryphon Generation!
GryphonBook.com

🖼️ Nat127
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Borb loaf
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The advantage of going off my immunosuppressants for a week every 1.5 months so they don't interfere with another treatment: can eat as much ice cream as I want.

Disadvantages: My body feels like it's on fire five days in.

(I forgot to buy ice cream while I could eat it, ha.)
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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This is your annual reminder that there is, in fact, a GryphIns Discord server, and if I leave them alone for fifteen minutes, they decide Sponge's theme song is "Hydrate Jirate" and @merteazy.bsky.social draws a masterpiece like this.

Feel free to poke me if you're a GryphIns fan & want an invite.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is your annual reminder that there is, in fact, a GryphIns Discord server, and if I leave them alone for fifteen minutes, they decide Sponge's theme song is "Hydrate Jirate" and @merteazy.bsky.social draws a masterpiece like this.

Feel free to poke me if you're a GryphIns fan & want an invite.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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chromatic dragons pt 2, 2021ish commission set
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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chromatic dragons pt 1, 2021-ish commission set
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Getting the appropriate music going to write Sponge. It was either this or Hydrate Gyrate.
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Writing time!

It's my first real go since getting COVID, so wish me luck.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Fight under the Sun
Watercolor illustration for ~Coffee-Mutt and ~e921626
2021
October 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM