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Alexander Nedviga

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Vale Nagle 🏳️‍⚧️

Here's a fun typo that's specific to creature fantasy authors. If you pluralize opinicus as opinici instead of opinicuses, do a search for "opinici" in your manuscript and see how often you accidentally used that form as an adjective. It should be "opinicus lovers" and not "opinici lovers."

I've edited maybe twelve gryphon-adjacent creature fantasy books at this point, sometimes just doing a proofread as a favor, and the moment I see an opinicus show up, I perform that search and I always catch something.

Funnily enough, I'm not sure where using opinici as an irregular plural began. During the early days of the pandemic, I replayed some old 90s video games for fun, and I was surprised to see the irregular plural even back then in lines like "Feral opinici and masterless golems roam the highlands. They would make a valuable addition to our army" in Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Caliber.

And if anyone doesn't know what an opinicus is, it's a different type of gryphon. The heraldry definition is any gryphon who lacks external ears, but it can also mean a male gryphon (in heraldry, that sometimes means without wings, or with light spikes for wings). Really, though, in modern fantasy, opinicus is the most common term for when you have two species of gryphons in the same fantasy setting.

In GryphIns, the series leans into the lack of external ears and makes opinici more-avian gryphons. In Feathers & Flames, it's the opposite: the opinici are fully feline gryphons and even have kitty ears.

It's a popular secondary gryphon species term for a reason: the other gryphon 'cousins' all have goofy names like keythongs or alces!

Anyways, if you're writing opinicus books, which you should, do a quick search for opinici and see if you accidentally used it as an adjective somewhere. Most likely, you did! And if not, you're a better writer than I am =]

#creaturefantasy #writingcreaturefantasy #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #gryphins #gryphoninsurrection #dire #feathers&flames #blackbeak #opinicus #opinicuses #opinici #opinipodes

A Valentine's Day Card with Foultner, a house sparrow brown tabby cat opinicus or earless gryphon, and Henders, a peregrine falcon North American cougar opinicus, with the text above them in the clouds reading "What if we opini-kissed?"
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DoomsdaysCW

#UK: Warning as #BirdFlu found in dead gull

by Sarah Turnnidge, April 2, 2025

"A warning has been issued after a confirmed case of bird flu was found in a wild herring gull.

"#Devizes Town Council has urged dog owners to take care after the bird was found dead in the town with H5N1 Avian Influenza as part of ongoing surveillance work.

"In a post on social media a spokesperson for the local authority confirmed #Wiltshire Council had been notified of the finding by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (3APHA).

"The public have been told to avoid touching dead or sick wild birds, their #feathers, or surfaces contaminated by #BirdDroppings.

"#DogOwners should keep their pets on leads and use footpaths, the APHA said, with people who keep poultry or other birds advised to wash their hands and #disinfect footwear after handling.

"The Health Security Agency has said the risk to public health is very low. [But remember -- it is deadly for cats, and can be passed from humans to cats].

"A spokesperson for Devizes Town Council said: 'We will continue to monitor the situation and keep the public informed of any developments.'

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bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2xx0j
#HPAINews #AvianInfluenza #AvianFlu #PetHealth #WiltshireUK #WildHerringGulls

A sign up next to a lake in Devizes. The sign says, in large letters 'BIRD FLU HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THIS AREA, DON'T RISK SPREADING IT!'
www.bbc.comDevizes: Warning to dog walkers as bird flu found in dead gullDog owners have been advised to keep their pets on a lead.
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