#Cave Geoff
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The Stranded and The Scaly.
Chapter 10: Exploration
Day 8
The first thing he noticed when he woke up was that Ezekiel was gone.
No big deal, he was probably out foraging.
He went on his hands and knees and stretched down until his chin was nearly touching the ground in a downward dog pose. Geoff sighed in satisfaction, there was nothing better than a good morning stretch.
His shorts were fucking killing him, though. They ripped during his mutation, and they barely fit him anymore. The fabric was digging into his scaly skin. Unfortunately, he didn't have any other kind of pants to wear, so ripped shorts it was.
He got back into a sitting position and looked around the cave, it might be fun to explore a bit. After stretching his legs, he got to his feet and walked towards an exit to the part of the cave he was in.
While he expected the cave to be big, this one was HUGE! Geoff wandered through the tunnels and admired each cool-looking stone he found.
After a bit, he came across what looked like a cliff edge. As he looked over the edge, he noticed the large body of water beneath. It looked deep enough to dive into! "Natural pool, sweet!" Geoff grinned and took a couple steps back.
He charged forwards and jumped into the water.
There was a loud splash as he landed in the cool, clear water.
The water rippled as he rose to the surface and combed his soaking wet hair out of his eyes. Being submerged in water had never felt so good before. Geoff sighed happily and floated on his back for a few hours, feeling relaxed and rejuvenated by the fresh, slightly glowing water.
After an hour or two, he climbed out and shook himself off. He had to bring Zeke here sometime!
It turned out that exploring the cave without Zeke wasn't a good idea.
The many caverns and winding tunnels weren't doing much to help him get back to his and Ezekiel's little hideout. As much as he hated to admit, he was lost. Terribly lost in this labyrinth of stone.
He took a seat on a boulder so he could stop and think of a plan to get back to where he and Zeke had been staying for the past few days.
Wait a minute, Ezekiel had to be back by now! Maybe if he called out for him, he'd come find him!
With a deep breath, he called out for his friend. "Zeke! Buddy!!! I'm completely fine!!" He yelled. "Are you there?? Anywhere???"
No response.
The only sound he could hear was his voice echoing throughout the walls of stone.
Time to keep walking.
There were other things that lived down here, right? Maybe he'd run into one of them, he wasn't scared of becoming prey anymore. He knew he could easily overpower anything he came across with his new size and strength. Was he getting a bit cocky? Maybe.
However, that thought was forgotten as he saw something further ahead. It was about the size of a sheep and kinda looked like a gopher, but it was pink and slightly fuzzy. It seemed to be squeaking and looking around in a panic. Geoff felt kinda bad for it, but he didn't know how to help the thing.
His ears perked up as he heard a soft rumbling noise. It sounded like an earthquake? Wait, AN EARTHQUAKE?!
Geoff barely had time to think before a part of the cave wall collapsed a couple feet behind him. "Holy shit, dude!?" He exclaimed in shock. The cave was collapsing, had there been any explosions or mining in here?? Geoff looked back at the creature up ahead of him, if he didn't act fast, the little thing would get crushed, and so would he! In a moment of pure adrenaline, he ran forwards, snatched the mutant up into his arms and charged through the tunnel as it collapsed behind him. As he leapt forwards into the cavern connected to the tunnel, the fallen rocks sealed the pathway shut.
He tumbled to the ground and used his body to shield the squeaking beast in his arms.
Even when the dust settled, he continued to hold the creature close to his chest.
While he opened his eyes and let his night-vision adjust to the darkness around them, he only had one question.
"Where the hell am I?"
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#Geoff lost in a cave with a baby gopher mutant#i really am putting him in situations#I'm putting out filler content while trying to give this AU a decent story#trying to find new silly plots#oughhhhh#anyways#GEOFF!!!#get that boy some new JORTS.#he seriously needs them#total drama#td geoff#td ezekiel#feral ezekiel#mutant ezekiel#geoffzeke#geozeke#geozekiel#geoffzekiel#fanfic#total drama au#total drama fanfiction#The Stranded and the Scaly#really sorry if this is all starting to sound like filler content
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college au.
gwen - art history
courtney - pre-law
bridgette - marine biology
duncan - "mechanical engineering"
dj - veterinary science
geoff - communications
#also i will cave and accept blue eyes gwen but ONLY in the aus where she and duncan are siblings#beck rambles#the grift#td duncan#td gwen#td geoff#td bridgette#td courtney#td dj
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‘cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride
trying to catch the devil's herd
across these endless skies’
[vid this is from]
#geoff castellucci#digital painting#voiceplay#ghost riders in the sky#my art#crawls out of my cave for a spooky cowboy :)#also thanks clipstudio for the oil brushes you saved my LIFE on this
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After TSR died and was brought back to an undead half-life by Wizards of the Coast, there came a set of adventures that returned to classic 1e adventure sites. The first was 1998’s Return to the Tomb of Horrors box set (which I covered a while back). It was followed a trio of “silver anniversary” branded books and modules, first of which was Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff (1999). I know Geoff is a dutchy or whatever in Greyhawk, but I still have a hard time with the title because it sounds like it should be a novel about a guy named Geoff’s sexual awakening, possibly written by D. H. Lawrence.
Anyway, Geoff was invaded and subjugated by giants. You need to kick ‘em out. The first section of the book presents the original G-series modules, updated to 2E. That’s followed by a general sort of sourcebook on Geoff, which is further divided into a collection of adventure sites which are basically towns subjugated by various evil humanoids — orc town, ogre town, wererat town. The three main locales (each accompanied by a couple minor locations) form up three additions G-series modules, sorta. There’s G4: Mount Rungnirheim (more frost giants?), G5: Castle Thrasmotnir (more fire giants?) and G6: Cloud Islands of the Sakhut (cloud giants). It is odd to me that we got more frost and fire (god, just typing that out, I heard it sung by Cirith Ungol) when the stone giants and storm giants are out there, getting no love. The second batch of frost giants at least are prone to having multiple heads, which seems weird but also I like it.
And that’s…basically it. If you want more giants, you got more giants! The book mostly shrugs at the original G-series sub-plot involving the drow — if you finished G3, the plot’s been disrupted, the caves collapsed, the drow in retreat for however long it takes them to build up their nerve again. I’m OK with that!
Brom on the cover. Wayne Reynolds inside. It’s a good looking module.
#tabletop rpg#roleplaying game#dungeons & dragons#rpg#ttrpg#d&d#Against The Giants#Liberation Of Geoff
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“average kon is 50% clark 50% lex” factoid actually just statistical error. average kon is at most 0.3% lex. retcons geoff, who lives in a cave and doesn’t understand genetics, is stupid and should not be making character decisions
ive decided actually every time someone fixated on that whole 50% dealio says something annoying to me about this, im docking another 50% of lex's potential contribution. since we're on the 3rd ask and counting, he's actually at most 0.0375% lex now!
anyway retcons geoff cracked me up. so true thank you crow
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I'm not replying to those posts because contrary to popular belief I'm not THAT much of a killjoy, I get that there's some degree of tongue-in-cheek, blah blah blah, but. just my two cents.
I'm seeing a lot of attention to jason & alfred's dynamic lately that's all "oh alfred HATES jason, thinks he's the worst, jason's the one that considers alfred family but alfred's classist ass hates him" and listen, by all means, insult alfred, I don't want this to come across as me looking like I give a fuck about how you talk about his character lol. he is not just classist but straight up praises feudal England as the "better days" ajskkdkd. but alfred was perfectly nice in his interactions during jason's time at the manor, telling bruce unprompted that he likes having the kid around, helping him with & praising him about school assignments... and there's "the delusions of alfred pennyworth" in gotham knights #34 aka that adorable, bittersweet story where alfred sees jason's ghost playfully mess around the house.
my point is that alfred is not a consistent character in the comics. you could say that about many people in detective comics comics but imo alfred is a particularly malleable character that functions more like a prop than an independent entity. I think you can unite all of those things into a compelling picture, if you cared to. that compelling picture is not gonna be "lol alfred hated jason and wanted that street urchin gone from minute one 🤮" like that's just... flat and banal. similar to the "lol tim hated robin!jason for replacing his Idol, Dick the True Robin, he hated jason and celebrated his death!!". it's just taken a fanon trend you don't like (alfred behaving grandfatherly with jason or being a Jason Understander, jason being "tim's robin" and all the titan's tower tropes that come with it. I get it, I find those boring as hell too), and going so far in the other direction in the name of "canon compliance" that you actually just land into a particularly baffling, irksome caricature that ignores canon just as much (not that I think it's going to take off, fic wise, just like I don't think "tim hates jason" has. because again, there's nothing there to pull from in a creative way, while the uwu fanon, like it or not, at least enables some level of inventiveness).
meanwhile, look. I don't incorporate whatever prime earth!jason does into my belief system as a general rule (unless it's good and I like it. that happens rarely), and either way at the current point I'm at there's very little to say about jason's view of alfred (which I'm sure will change when alfred is killed and gets canonised). there's that scene where he and tim shit talk his cooking only behind his back (waffles, iirc??), or one scene where alfred scolds jason for not seeing how much he was mourned or something, and then geoff johns tries to convince me it was alfred who put up jason's memorial case in the cave, as if there's a universe where that makes any goddamn sense. and to my knowledge, there's not even an equivalent to alfred's shitty inner monologue about kid!jason in UTRH, so those things don't even exist together (UTRH would have to exists in the first place lol).
regardless, focusing on new earth!jason, post-resurrection... I don't think he mentions alfred once. the very few times we get a peek into his mind (lost days) there's zero attention paid to alfred. he seeks out ways to connect with dick or tim (incredibly unhinged ways but, hey). and obviously bruce is the most important person in his world. but he never seeks out alfred, and jason was someone who reached out to people he wanted to connect with (again, in fucked up ways, we're not discussing that at the moment xDD).
I don't want to turn this into the reverse myself ("lol jason couldn't care less about alfred, it's alfred who has the messy feelings here"), which would be equally flat and banal. there's, again, a wide array of options to be taken with this information to put together a compelling dynamic. it's just that "jason holds alfred in the highest regard, over everyone else in the bat clan, and alfred thinks of him as nothing but a pest he's glad to be rid of from the get go" is not something that I see compatible with what I, personally, know and believe of canon.
#talking to the void#my thoughts#fandom nonsense#dc#dc comics#i need to sort through my dc tags and put things in order smh#dc thoughts#jason todd#alfred pennyworth
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I think after Prehistoric Planet the next big high-budget dinosaur doc should actually be a mockumentary in the style of the “making of” things for Planet Earth depicting a time traveling film crew attempting to make a dinosaur documentary and just having a nightmare of a time trying to get footage of the cool flashy things they’re actually trying to film. Not necessarily anything super dangerous or dramatic like in Chased By Dinosaurs, just the silly and frustrating parts of filming wildlife but with dinosaurs.
Like trying very very hard to get footage of a T. rex hunting, but constantly being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The animal they follow keeps scavenging, they know this species hunts but they’ve found a Lazy Geoff and they have huge territories so it’s hard to track down another. The one time they lose track of the rex for a day it finally makes a kill.
Like trying to film baby hadrosaurs hatching from close up but the adults have the attitude of five-ton Canada Geese and keep chasing them off.
Like wanting to get a closeup shot from inside a termite nest or a mammal burrow or something of a dinosaur feeding and spending a MONTH trying to get the shot because the animal never goes where you put the cameras.
But also all the human-animal interactions that get left out of the final product because it was supposed to be showing animals’ natural behavior without human intervention.
Like you know the story of the photographer who had a leopard seal trying to feed him penguins? Imagine a predatory dinosaur doing that even there’s no good evolutionary reason for it to do that with anything but its own offspring but sometimes animals just decide to do whatever.
Like the crew having a goddawful time filming the “Secretary Troodontids” because they’re fascinated by the scientists and keep doing things like perching on top of the vehicles and using them as observation platforms (like cheetahs), or messing with trail cams because they’re shiny objects, or hanging out around the campsite all the time and the film crew assumes they’re attempting to steal food, which might be true, but it’s not until the fire-front-patrolling and fire-spreading behavior is caught on film that anyone realizes that they were attracted by the fires and waiting for them to spread.
Like a severe storm hitting that’s too dangerous to really film in so everyone just assumes it’s going to be a whole day of being stuck taking shelter and doing nothing, but a couple people are taking shelter in a cave to get away from a flash flood zone that has them cut off from base camp, and a dinosaur just comes in and chills there and they just film it taking a nap and preening itself. Just three earthlings that are just visiting this planet and are ultimately at the mercy of the power of nature.
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No. 2 - G2, The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl (July 1978)
Author(s): Gary Gygax
Artist(s): Erol Otus, Dave C. Sutherland III (cover), David A. Trampier
Level range: Average of 9, preferably 5+ players
Theme: Standard Swords and Sorcery
Major re-releases: G1-3 Against the Giants, GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders, Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff, Dungeon #199, Tales from the Yawning Portal
On the heels of being more impressed with G1 than I expected, will G2 be similarly impressing? Time to find out!
The intro blurb is mostly a repeat of the text of G1, including admonitions that running stock is for villains. Our motivation remains: figure out why the hill giants did that, no matter how fucking dangerous it is. Interestingly, the other main objective of G1 (give 'em a bloody nose) is not relevant here, because that teleport means that the frost giants aren't a threat to the villagers themselves. In fact, the room teleportation schtick kind of means G2 is filler? Like, the big reveal that the G series leads to the D series is not really impacted by the events of G2. So, oops!
Conveniently, the magical chain teleports out outside the rift so you can once again have a secret cave HQ. I feel like you have a responsibility as a GM to have a giant counterattack to at least one of these caves.
I really like the imagery of the descent into the rift here. I mean, I don't think this illustration really does it justice, imagining the deep blue color of light barely passing through the ice and how that gives the area beneath the surface an eerie oceanic glow at all times other than noon -- that's some good vibes. Gary opts for green, which is a fair enough choice. Unfortunately, Gary is more interested in simulating the mounting climbing than vibes, which means that at least one of your party members is going to fall face first into the snow drift below. Gary "generously" caps the damage at 10d6 (avg 35 dmg) -- a level 9 fighter, to be clear, has 9d10 hp (avg 45 hp) and a level 9 magic user has 9d4 hp (avg 23), so that's not ideal. Also recall that you recover 1hp per full day of rest normally, so if you fall and survive you're probably still fucked unless your cleric has a lot of spells left. I'm also pretty sure your cave HQ is above the cliff face, so, risking the descent seems like suicide to me. You're going to lose people and even leaving to heal them back up is simply taking another chance at oblivion. Take the stairs.
If you have the audacity to slow fall down, you will be blown 75ft off course in a random direction. Very cool Gary!
Another interesting detail: monsters in classic DND have a pretty short attention span and will lose you fairly quickly if you flee around a corner. This is particularly amped up here to a breezy 4 in 6 odds of success, due to blizzards blocking chase.
Anyway, we're into the room by room, so let's do some room by room shit.
There is a kind "spiked heads of our enemies at the gates" situation, with corpses mutilated and frozen in transparent ice as a warning to not intrude. Honestly that's badass. What's not badass is if the players have the wherewithal to try and free the corpses (for loot or kindness), most routes lead to the treasure being destroyed and the roof collapsing -- probably instantly killing your squishies.
The hill giants from G1 are lolling about waiting for an audience, so points for continuity. I have to imagine they're freezing their asses off, though.
There are yetis here? Which, going on the graphic and the listed intelligence score in the MonMan, I have to conclude are sentient bipedial apes but like, NOT like the Frost Giants. Actually apparently the average yeti is smarter than the average frost giant, so I guess it's a Diogenes situation where they choose to live in a shitty cave when everyone else has a nice cave?
The 5 hill giants visiting the Jarl have 1k to 6k gold fur cloaks, which like. Imagine a 6,000 gold cloak. Not only is it got to be huge (Hill Giants are 10.5ft tall), for it to be worth 6k to a vendor that's got to be a one-piece fabric cloak off a particularly rare and good condition animal. I guess the players could use it as the world's fanciest comforter?
The official appearance of a Remoraz! These are awful creatures. They swallow you whole and then superheat their insides to cook you. Nasty side effect: its outsides become furnace-hot and destroy nonmagical items and burn people to death. Look at this horrible thing! And of course it's guarding the swankiest loot to date -- a +2 Giantslaying Sword and a 3 Wishes Ring. It's been a weird trend lately that the best loot is, not owned by the leader of the Giants? The best hoard seems to always belong to Some Guy. Naturally this awesome loot "sinks into the ice" if you use a fireball, because this adventure has an addiction to telling the wizard to fuck off. Note that the sword being lost punishes the fighter for the magic users' decision. Note also that the Remoraz going into superheat mode doesn't do the same thing? It sucks. This clause sucks. Cut it. The actual room itself is kind of neat, the implication is that the Remorhaz melted a spherical hole into the ice to make a den, which is awesome.
Another iconic Garyism: ". They have had audience with the Jarl, and after a special wassail to be held on the morrow they will depart for home with a treaty scroll." Translation: They're goin to have a drinking party tomorrow to celebrate a treaty signing.
And like, one room later, we get "leman", which means lover, and "durance vile", which means long imprisonment. The text implies that basically, she's a hot butch storm giantess being held in chains until she agrees to fuck the Jarl. Gary, simply ask a tall woman out. You don't have to be weird about it.
Rather than torches, the feast hall is lit with jarred fire beetles, which is kinda cute
There is a thick iron bar that "transports whosoever is standing on the floor to the entrance of Snurre's Hall [G3]". The iron bar is a lever, obviously, but is this a lever-operated teleporter? An elevator that goes straight down? G3 eliminates the elevator theory, since apparently you can arrive here via pegasus and there are caves one can access overhead. So it's a literal teleporter, and at least how I'm reading it makes it sound more science fiction than magic. Weird.
On the whole, G2 is a massive step down from G1. G2 lacks the factionalism of G1, punishes players for damn near anything attempted, and is broadly less imaginative than G1. It's a pity, really, because it's a far more interesting locale on paper, but the reality is that you could generate a cave like this by scribbling randomly. Meh. Next time we poke G3, and hope hope hope that it's more like G1 than G2.
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Honing in on the Honduran White Bat
The Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba), as the name suggests, is a species of bat native to the rainforests of Honduras, as well as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and western Panama. They are one of four leaf-nosed bats endemic to Central America, and if that wasn’t special enough they are among 6 species bats with white fur, out of 1,300 recognized species.
E. alba is fairly small, as are most New World leaf-nosed bats. Their wingspan only reaches about 11cm long and they weigh at most 5-6g. Aside from their white fur, the Honduran white bat is also distinguished by its bright yellow nose and ears. This is the result of carotenoids, pigments commonly produced in plants like pumpkins and carrots, and E. alba is the first and perhaps only mammal known to build up enough of them to change the color of its skin.
The source of the Honduran white bat’s pigmentation is its diet; they are totally frugivorous. Their primary food is a species of fig, Ficus colubrinae, although they are known to feed on other species figs throughout the year as the fruit-producing season cycles. This adds another distinction to the Honduran white bat’s list: they are one of the two smallest species of frugivorous bats in the world, and biologists are still trying to understand how they get all of their necessary nutrients from such a small dietary range.
E. alba does most of its foraging at night, as most bats do, and during the day they roost in colonies of up to 15 members. Unusually, rather than roosting in caves or hollow trees like other bats, the Honduran white bat builds its own roost. Members will cut the broad leaves of the Heliconia plant in order to form a draping ‘tent’ which they then hang under to keep dry and warm, as well as safe from predators like possums, snakes, owls, and monkeys. These tents last for about 6-8 weeks, at which point the leaf dies and looses structural integrity, and the colony moves on to another plant. A single colony can maintain a network of roosting Heliconia plants which they rotate through throughout the year.
Within the colony, there are usually groups of one male and several females with which he reproduces. It is unknown whether males preform any courtship behaviours or fight over mating rights. Breeding occurs from May to August, and females all give birth synchronously to a litter of one pup each after a pregnancy of about 3 weeks. These pups take about 20 days to wean and learn to fly, and at 35 days they become completely independent. Male offspring will leave to join ‘bachelor’ colonies of other independent males, until they are able to form a breeding colony of their own. Females stay with their mothers, and in reproductive colonies will care for other offspring when their mothers are out foraging.
Conservation status: The IUCN has rated the Honduran white bat as Near-Threatened. The current population is in decline due to habitat loss, which is especially threatening to E. alba due to their reliance on only a few species of figs for food. However, some groups have been found roosting in agroforestry habitats, indicating the possibility of cohabitation with humans.
Photos
Christopher Jimenez
Minden Pictures
Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera
Geoff Galice
#honduran white bat#Chiroptera#Phyllostomidae#New world leaf-nosed bats#bats#mammals#tropical forests#tropical forest mammals#tropical rainforest#tropical rainforest mammals#central america#biology#zoology#animal facts
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"Favourite Parts of Me"
The world is a library of so many interesting books
many now however beyond their shelf-life, dusty with fading looks...
Others are more current and in the "relationship" genre
"Fresh" rather than "cliched" their appeal, so much stronger.
I could mimic those romantic but predictable novels
my cover might be glossy, but my plot's a "tease"; on the imagination
I've only recently been given shelf-space, but I'm already
making progress in the race to be a number one seller, and steady.
I guess your favourite parts of me, will be my "intangibles",
you'll have to indulge in my relationship story, it's so fanciful.
Yes it has a hero and a heroine between its entertaining pages
and what they get up to at times, verges on "outrageous."
I'm one of those books you need to get progressively lost in
allowing your imagination to be fertile and not blinded by overt sin
Whilst I'm no competition with the '50 Shades of Grey,'
my pages contain seriously adult material, and fantasy play.
I'd say I was good choice for a sexy bed-time read
Where privacy becomes a pre-requisite, a satisfaction need
There are no pictures included it's all your imagination
Your willingness to handle controversial infidelity.
My ambitions are not merely stylish x-rated material
but a relationship explored with innovative originality
A whole world of possibility is being launched right here
where the plot and characters explore temptation's sphere.
I want to be in this brand new novel that fascinates you,
the one you fondle and caress with insatiable curiosity.
Let my fingers run down the length of your spine,
your love plot will grow ever stronger, and resonate.
I observe now an increasing arousal in your eyes,
savouring my innocent skin, in a lustful expression.
I lick my fingers, as I fumble through your remaining chapters
exploring all your intimate nooks and crannies.
I want to be your favoured reader, your most sensual companion,
fondling your emotions, giving them the ultimate attention
We can now become the central theme of intensely loving moments,
the most passionate of romances our love and its recognition.
Each page draws me closer to you with divine sweetness,
transporting us both into as yet unknown territory
You kiss my moistening eyes as they're drawn to your being,
making your passion grow ever firmer, feeling new mastery
In your new book, I'll discover a myriad of treasures,
unforgettable encounters, sensational orgasms
You'll transport me away to your world of darkness
where true love can be discovered in every hidden chasm.
You become my refuge where my emotions truly blossom,
The mirror reflecting your physicality, passion and soul.
I want to lose myself in you without ever needing to hold back,
together, let's create our ultimate destiny.
I want to now become your most cherished chapter,
the paragraphs you'll reread with passion and never tire of.
Our stories are now starting to intertwine tenderly,
creating our own intoxicatingly unique novel.
In what remains of our shared crumpled pages
we'll find even greater strength to make love to each other.
I want to open my pages up to you, exploring your every word,
And together, produce an epic about truly paired lovers.
I'll join you in your favourite chapter, as your precious treasure,
making the pages golden, your love now alchemical.
Dive into your world and without hesitation,
let me guide you into the cave of our shared fascination
So I'll then properly be a part of your favourite novel,
a captivating journey you'll want to read over and over again.
In every word, and every sentence we exchange,
we'll write about our love for all eternity.
© Geoff Stockton in close collaboration with his co-writing Muse and poetess
© Myriam Ghezaïl Ben Brahim
G.P.S. 21st December 2023
(Graphics courtesy of Tumblr)
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Geoff is just the Little German Boy AFTER he went into the weed cave
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TGAMM cast Represented Through Mythological Creatures
Molly Mcgee as Kinnari (her Wraith self as Hongsa)
Kinnari are celestial musical beings with the head, torso, and arms of a woman and the wings, tail, and feet of a swan. They reside in the Himalayas and watch over people who are in danger. Completely friendly in nature, they are well-known for their musical talents, and are the symbol of feminine beauty, grace, and achievement.
Hongsa are celestial swans with flowing tails, beautiful crests, and long bills and beautiful singing voices. Little is known of their origins, but they frequently appear in architecture and serve as the mount for lord Brahma. It is said that Lord Buddha himself was once born as a hongsa.
Scratch as an Imp (The same applies to Geoff)
Contrary to what many would believe, imps are more mischievous and troublesome than outright evil. In earlier depictions, imps are actually lonely creatures who utilize pranks to win over human friendship, though this often backfires.
Libby as Chalkydri
Chalkydri are sub-species of archangels with the colors of the rainbow head of a crocodile, the tail and paws or a lion, with twelve wings. They are described in the Second Book of Enoch to dwell the sun alongside their counterpart the Phoenix, and break out into song at sunrise while the birds rejoice a new day.
Or possibly Estries (art by Samantha Mash)
(This mostly stems from Libby’s love for the macabre and also cause who doesn’t love vampires.)
Estries are female vampires from Jewish Folklore and are stated to be beautiful yet deadly. They are said to come out at night to feed on blood to survive and are capable of shape-shifting into various animal forms at will. Estries can also fly utilizing their hair, provided it remains unbound. If an Estry is wounded, it must either drink to blood or eat the bread and salt to the individual who harmed them to survive.
Pete Mcgee as Gnome
Pete gives off this kind of gnome vibe to me.
Gnomes are depicted as friendly, virtuous earth dwelling spirits that guard mines, treasures, and other precious resources. They are described as ingenious friends of man, and never ask for any reward for their kindness. Gnomes also hold the title of the earth elemental as they are described as being able to “move through the earth as man moves through the air”.
Sharon Mcgee as Naga Serpent
Naga are serpentine creatures that originate from India in Hinduism as well as Buddhism, and thus have spread across Asia. They’re many variations of the myths depending on who you ask, but the “classical” Naga are depicted as being able to shift between a human form, a serpent’s form, or something in-between. They are often depicted as having multiple heads and are described as powerful and dangerous, however they are just as capable of good and evil as any person.
Darryl Mcgee as Kappa
I struggled to find a creature from Thai mythology that matched Darryl's delinquent and crafty personality, but the Kappa from Shinto mythology fit the role nicely.
Grandma Nin as Byangomi
Byangomi are legendary (typically human faced) birds from Thai fairy tales that are said to be wise seers that bring guidance to those deserving of it.
Andrea Davenport as Mermaid
Mermaids are a staple in modern day media, they’re as synonymous with fairy tales and folklore as dragons and unicorns. Given Andrea’s self-centered and vain nature combined with the her wealth and popularity make this a perfect match.
Jilly and Billy Mcgee as Trolls
Trolls are typically large burly creatures that live in small but tight family units in caves or mountains far away from humans. Their appearance varies considerably depending on who you ask, ranging from being short goblin like creatures, big hairy brutes, to being completely indistinguishable to humans.
Howling Harriet as Banshee
Lost spirit out in the woods? Check. Feared by all who enter her domain? Check. Lets out an absolutely spine-chilling wail? Check.
Jinx as Tsuchigumo
Tsuchigumo are fearsome spider yokai that similarly to the more well-known Jorogumo, use illusions and trickery to ensnare unwary people. However, unlike their more seductive counterparts, they utilize more diverse means of deception, and are far more ambitious.
The Chairman as Tatarigami
Tatarigami are vengeful malevolent yokai born from either fallen gods or especially powerful people who died in anguish that bring about death, calamity, famine, and destruction in retribution. Examples of Tatarigami in myth are Emperor Gozu, the Bull-headed God, and Yamata no Orochi (yes, the Orochi).
#tgamm#the ghost and molly mcgee#tgamm molly mcgee#molly mcgee#tgamm scratch#tgamm libby#libby stein-torres#tgamm jinx#jinx#japanese yokai#yokai#hindu mythology#trollhunters#norse mythology#hebrew#monsters#dragon
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Once Upon A Dream — VoicePlay music video
[WARNING: This video contains a jumpscare at 1:22]
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Musical arrangement is an amazing art. Disney added lyrics to an iconic orchestral ballet score to create a wistful love song. Lana Del Rey took that sweet, romantic ballad and turned it into a haunting, melancholy torch song for Maleficent. VoicePlay transformed it further into something both beautiful and unsettling. Then they used it to jumpscare their friends and family, like the true Halloween tricksters that they are.
Details:
title: Once Upon a Dream
original performer: Lana Del Rey for Disney's Maleficent (2014)
written by: melody composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for the 1890 ballet The Sleeping Beauty; music adapted by George Bruns, with lyrics by Jack Lawrence & Sammy Fain for Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959)
arranged by: Layne Stein
release date: 13 October 2014
My favorite bits:
the extra reverb on the opening whistle and Geoff's growl note, which creates an atmosphere of being in a vast cave (or dragon's lair? 🐲)
the dramatic black-and-white style with everyone filmed separately, and constantly moving cameras
alternating between slight slow-motion and sped-up visual effects to keep the viewer off balance
all of the breathy, gasping sounds in Layne's percussion
the skittering audio panning of Maleficent's nails
those rising harmonies in the bridge
that techno remix at the end
Trivia:
Maleficent is portrayed by Alejandra Martinez, who has reprised the role in several of PattyCake's "Villains Lair" videos. She is also one of the American Sirens singers who appeared in Geoff's solo video for Mele Kalikimaka.
The jumpscare victims include Layne's step-daughters and parents, as well as VoicePlay's friend and collaborator Emoni Wilkins.
Those scoundrels encouraged viewers to "watch with your headphones on and see if you can hear Tony whisper a secret message to you right after the bridge", just to set them up for the jumpscare, too.
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hey i wanna gauge my attraction to geoff rickly if any of you are geoff fuckers can you rb this post with photos of him that make you wanna suck his dick until his stomach caves in like a caprisun thanks
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the deep sea is a haunted house | 2h15 | link to playlist on spotify
Introduction: Sea Spray
Fortress Inquisitorius - Stephen Barton, Gordy Haab (Jedi: Fallen Order)
Islands - Cosmo Sheldrake
Caves - CLANN
Moonsea - PHILDEL
Carrion Comfort - aeseaes
Water Witch - The Secret Sisters, Brandi Carlile
Mermaids - Florence + the Machine
Rusalochki - Go_A
Hugsja - Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik
The Ocean - Clinton Shorter (The Expanse)
Interlude: Rolling
Pliocene - Cosmo Sheldrake
Mermaid - Skott
What the Water Gave Me - Florence + the Machine
The Deep - PHILDEL
Mountains - Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)
Her & the Sea - CLANN
Aquarius - Lor
Sunset - HiTnRuN (Ad Vitam)
Jedi Starfighter - Stephen Barton, Gordy Haab (Jedi: Fallen Order)
The Beach - Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow (Annihilation)
Come Away to the Water - Glen Hansard
Shallows - Daughter
Inner War - The Rodeo (Ad Vitam)
Waterbound - Michael McGoldrick
The Ghost on the Shore - Lord Huron
Black Moon / Silver Waves - Phosphorescent
Interlude: City Rain
Salt and the Sea - The Lumineers
We Sink - Of Monsters and Men
Never Let Me Go - Florence + the Machine
Deep Water - Lyves
A Mermaid in Lisbon - Patrick Watson, Teresa Salgueiro
Conclusion: At Sea
Hype week continues. The playlist actually originated as a Spotify mix, literally called 'Ocean Mix' that was hilariously about 30% thematically appropriate songs with the word ocean/sea/water in them, 30% random songs from my own likes, and 30% ocean sounds. The mix is actually great, I still listen to it, but I wanted to wrestle this into something more coherent for sharing. While there are just some sort of random selections just based on themes/lyrics, I think, with some shuffling around, that I got it to mirror at least the mood beats of the two fics. I'm actually pretty proud of that. Occasionally when I really hated my writing, I'd be like 'well, at least there's the playlist'.
(And apparently adding Florence + the Machine to fandom playlists is cringe, according to the youths, but these aren't even all the songs she sings about drowning so...)
#dark ocean duology#hyping myself up because I'm the only one who can!#thanks to the 4 people who have already liked it#one is me lol (this is clearly not my premium account with like 10 years of history made a separate account for fandom)#but the other 3 people! I hope you're enjoying it sorry for all the shuffling around#things should be pretty set in stone now
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