#wyvern tag

[llyfrenfys]

PLEASE TELL US ABOUT Y DDRAIG TRAWS!

Certainly! I'm more than happy to oblige.

First though I'm gonna need to tldr: the history of Y Ddraig Goch before we get onto the (accidentally) canonically trans part.

A brief history of Y Ddraig Goch:

(The modern Welsh flag)

Y Ddraig Goch first appears in the tales of the Mabinogi (Charlotte Guest version) in the tale of Lludd and Llefelys where it is fighting a white dragon. The fight is also described/expanded upon in the c. 829 AD text Historia Brittonum (attributed to Nennius) - where the red dragon represents Wales and the white dragon represents the Anglo-Saxons. In the story the red dragon triumphs over the white. Of course, Geoffrey of Monmouth also covers the story c. 1136 in Historia Regnum Brittaniae in which he introduces the concept of the red dragon heralding the arrival of King Arthur.

Geoffrey of Monmouth claims Arthur used a banner featuring a golden dragon. But we also know the accuracy of Monmouth can be questionable at times. Owain Glyndŵr did use a banner with a golden dragon called Y Ddraig Aur - raised in 1401 at Caernarfon - Glyndŵr chose this banner as a nod to the supposed banner of Arthur and his father.

Later on the Tudor monarchs (being a Welsh family) adopted a red dragon on a white and green background in their heraldry. Eventually Y Ddraig Goch on a white and green background became the official badge of Wales in 1800. The design became the official flag of Wales in 1959.

Y Ddraig Traws:

Now for the thing you're all here for -

So, as outlined, the history of the dragon as a national symbol of Wales goes back a long way. If we're just talking post-1959, there's some interesting implications for Y Ddraig Goch's depiction.

This is what the Welsh flag (and Y Ddraig Goch) looked like in 1959 when it was officially adopted as the flag of Wales. It looks broadly the same as the first flag and has some common features - such as not having a penis (or, as in the correct heraldic terminology - a pizzle). Meanwhile, in the arms of the Tudors (specifically Henry VII)

(Tudor dragon with pizzle) vs (dragon on the flag of Cardiff - pizzleless)

the penis is almost always included. So much to the point that the present royal family still includes the penis. While pretty much 0 depictions of the dragon in Wales include a penis. So you could interpret this as the dragon is seen as male only by the British royal family and as female everywhere else (which kinda implies that at some point the Tudor dragon had an mtf transition in Wales and she keeps getting misgendered by the royal family every time she is depicted in (mostly) England).

So much to the point that in 1995 this pound coin was made by the Royal Mint featuring the pizzle on the dragon with all four feet touching the ground as opposed to standing up (passant rather than rampant).

But in Wales you'd be hard pressed to see a pizzled dragon anywhere. Ergo, we can only conclude Y Ddraig Goch is trans and she transitioned in Wales and keeps getting misgendered in England.

[note: This is mostly tongue in cheek - but I do think it's fun to extrapolate that the Welsh dragon is trans because of the differences in depiction between Wales and England. Like many things Welsh, it is misrepresented by England and the idea of the Welsh dragon being misgendered only in England is, I think, a good metaphor for a whole lot of English treatment of Wales.]

Unrelatedly, there is a gay Welsh flag held at the National Museum of Wales which has a very wonky dragon which I find very endearing.

(cleaned up version I made)

So much so I made it an emoji in my Welsh bilingual LGBTQIA+ Discord (requirements for joining are - be 16+, either speak or are learning Welsh and identify as LGBTQIA+ in some way. Dm for link!).

(triaist ti 'you tried' emoji)

~ Completely unrelatedly ~ never forget the time someone was trying to homophobic to me by suggesting that I was disrespecting all the soldiers who died 'for the Welsh flag' by making it rainbow colours and not red - arguing that any change of colour of the dragon was disrespectful. Reader, my bus pass at the time for Mid Wales Travel had a purple dragon on it.

#cymraeg #welsh #cymblr #cwiar #trawsryweddol #traws #trans #trans dragon #y ddraig goch #welsh dragon #welsh history #dragons #wyverns #last tag because technically Owain's golden dragon is technically a wyvern

[duskydrawings]

Quick frillneck dragon with semi-hooves

#don't mind me forgetting my own tag #dragon #wyvern #dragon art #dusky.art #creature design

[rwyvernarts]

Two best friends hanging out after a long day’s work of training the new recruits and tending to an ostentatious mountain cat

#schrödinger’s cat au #dojoshipping #ingo #warden ingo #zisu #pokemon legends arceus #wyvern art #shipping tag but I am applying my hc that ingo is aroace #he’s just happy to be making friends :)) #zisu zunday

[aquamarinebling]

the only character that matters and it’s trainer

#cookie run #royal margarine cookie #buttercream wyvern #buttercream cookie run #Does it? have a tag? unsure ?! #digital art #cookie run kingdom #crk #art

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 272

You know what could be fun for Ghosts Are Dragons? How to Train Your Dragon Crossover. 

Like, both seafarers and vikings were incredibly superstitious people, even if we don’t see that a lot in the movie series. 

And Danny well, he might’ve managed to convince Clockwork that you know what? They do deserve a vacation, fuck the Observants, let’s find a world where we don’t have to worry about the GIW and just vibe! 

Now Clockwork, as anyone with eyes can tell, has a soft spot for the little ghost, there are even bets on when he’ll finally bite the bullet and properly adopt the little hatchling. In fact it’s so obvious that several others, Pandora and Frostbite included, borderline kick him out, telling him to yes, do go on a vacation, remember what happened when we all told Pariah to have a vacation and he didn’t? Exactly! 

So there they go, a pair, er a trio, um, alright Clockwork currently has six hatchlings with him. Alright. Okay so he’s never had a vacation before (nevermind with his future vision mostly turned off) and is maybe a hint wrong-footed but that’s fine. It can’t be that hard, and really, he easily dwarfs even the biggest dragons in this world, so what’s going to mess with him, hm? 

Ah.

Perhaps he should remember how idiotic humans are at times. 

#DPxHTTYD #HTTYDxDP #Prompts #HTTYD Crossover #Danny Phantom Crossover #Ghosts are Dragons #I have art of both Clockwork & the Dannys under that tag too lol #But I don’t have art of team phantom rn #Valerie is a western-esque dragon that is a walking tank even while bby #Sam is a wyvern with branch horns & twin vine tails w/ barbs at the end #Tucker is a tusked amphiptere dragon with a cobra hood & six wings #The Vikings get 1 glimpse of Clockwork and start screaming about the World Serpent and the end of days #Dragon hunters have dollar/gold signs in their eyes when they see several unknown dragons #Clockwork: How hard can it be to watch six hatchlings? #Random thing but ghost dragons’ horns look like they’re made out of crystal/gems

[sleepinglionhearts]

With no words, with no song

I’m gonna dance the dream

And make the dream come true

I’m gonna dance the dream

And make the dream come true

[part 1]

#doodles #fe art tag #fire emblem three houses #fe3h #byleth #edelgard von hresvelg #claude von riegan #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #sothis #kate bush #thank you to everyone who put the idea in my head to fit more of the lyrics to imagery #this has also been in my sketchbook a while but i think i got it done faster than the other one #it was just a creative frenzy #once again i did all the lines in my sketchbook by hand with a .38 muji pen #and then filled in the black and the light amount of color on sothis in procreate #i think the only panel i really worry about is that claude getting shot off of his wyvern is still hard to distinguish #but! if i eventually rework this i'll try and improve it #for now i just want to get this out there bc i am SO EXCITED with how it came out overall! #i'm now also kinda considering reworking that sylvain and pomegranates piece but that is for another time #for now please enjoy the artwork ehehe #might put this one up on redbubble too just depends on how i feel about it

[aschenprince]

"Rathalos will guide the way."

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Doodle of Lio that turned into a quick painting - haven't drawn him as a rath in a while and felt like it! Vague redraw of that one scene from MHST2, since Lio kind of takes over the role of Ratha in Raisa's lore / the crossover stuff.

I wanted to portray the transformation of his wings as they healed from his injury, kind of? idk!

#monster hunter #monster hunter stories #rathalos #dreadking rathalos #wyvern #monhun #ash's sketchbook #lio tag

[spacerockband]

tea dust wyvern

#dragon #wyvern #ceramic #ceramic art #ceramic sculpture #dragon art #yaaaaay #art tag #ceramics #this is actually the first piece i made since getting back in the studio! i’m very glad i got to take him home today

[tinyflything]

kicking my artblock by drawing my dragon >:D

#rotarr #dragon #wyvern #myart #feral #do not tag as kin

[nigelpuppy]

the skulls of Veynekian dragons

#my art #my characters #the tales from veynekan #speculative biology #dragon #wyvern #skull #digital art #vulture culture #nigelpuppy #2023 art #gallery tag

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Dragon Poppy would probably just be a giant bird with low spikes running from the top of her head, down her back.

She looks a lil intimidating, but she's still a sweetheart! :3

the spikes dont show up here well but Absolutely Fuck Yeah Including That

#BIG OL BIRD WYVERN LETS GOOOOO #she probably puts like... cork & styrofoam on the tips of her horns/spikes #constantly filing down her claws and such #oooo we're mixing the dragon & puppet sauces tonight boys #hold on i need a tag for this dragon 'au' apparently #bc im drawing them more than like. twice #wh dragon au #welcome home #scribble salad #dragons

[dragons-daily]

#dragon #dragons #if i see you tag this as wyvern i will find you #it's got Shrödinger's forelegs

[wyvernstuff]

Forest Wyvern Stimboard 🌳🍃

🌿 - 🌲 - 🌿

🌲 - 🐲 - 🌲

🌿 - 🌲 - 🌿

#otherkin #therian #alterhuman #nonhuman #dragonkin #wyvernkin #dragon kin #forestkin #otherkin aesthetic #stimboard #kin moodboard #hearthome #forest wyvern kin #okay to tag as kin/id #wyvern posting

[vyronnes]

Khele

They are watching you 🔥 Prize for twitter raffle winner I couldn't choose which form to draw, so I ended up drawing both xD

New art raffle coming soon on my Twitter, join!

#artists on tumblr #art #sexy breast #character art #original art #my art #illustration #artwork #digital art #digital artist #mirror #naked female #sexy content #sexy titts #sexy pose #gorgeous #succubes #dragon art #dragon oc #wyvern #scalie #bootie peach #perfect butt #big round butt #girl butts #artist on tumblr #art tag #original illustration #digital illustration #illustrative art

[dragonskulls]

GIRLY GOT A GLOWUP!!! this is Plum from those wyvern species i mentioned i was working on. I drew her once before so idk if y'all remember her (do NOT look for that drawing it's ugly as fuck

More under the read more lol

had mentioned the wyverns a few times and YES i am (slowly) working on them. there's probably dozens of species but i am obviously not doing them all, just think of them as like dinosaur bird things with different families and abilities and such

moor runners (yes i stole from warrior cats and yes this is the name im giving ashwings from the vast moor) have been using wyverns as hunting partners, pets and even food sources for hundreds of years. some species are more "domesticated" than others. pygmy wyverns are the most common to see, and they're used in something similar to falconry, and are even selectively bred to have different colorations, like Plum here; normally wild pygmy wyverns come in more dull brown/gray colors

wyverns are generally very social and smart creatures, which can make them great as companions or horrible pests, for example death spitters are one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) wyvern species and probably the most dangerous. They're able to spit form 3 to 5 shots of burning blue acid, though their size, strength and deadly sharp beak and talons as well as tendency to live in large groups make them very dangerous in itself

pygmy wyverns are very receptive to noise commands, so that combined with moor runners incredibly large vocal range make them a perfect choice to have as a daily life animal. they're also tagged with a small band on the leg which showcases the date of hatching, sex, and owner

i plan on showing more wyvern species someday since i already have some concepts

#wof #wings of fire #dragons #wof fantribe #ashwing #wyvern #oc: thinwing #oc: plum #new tagging lol

[owls-ocs]

Lily!

#Artnatomy errors included #ID in Alt #Described #Lily #Lily Jones #wait. huh. that’s already a tag #OC: Lily #OC #OCs #Dragon #Dragon OC #OC Dragon #technically I could tag this as wyvern? #cuz his species has legs #he was just born without them #look at Lotus and Layla for example #wyvern #Lotus and Layla are his sisters :3 #he’s their baby brother