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choilacanth · 3 days
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Happy TES 30th! I will share a drawing soon but for now, I have questions.
One day, while bothering mudcrabs for alchemy writs in ESO I thought "wait I had this guy with chili garlic sauce what's he doing in Skyrim" and have not looked back since.
I'm sure someone has already explored crab biology in TES but I constantly wonder why the dominant crab of Skyrim and the whole of Tamriel is the humble mudcrab, beloved Southeast Asian food mascot, alimango of mangroves in warm Indo-Pacific waters. In general, these are crabs belonging to the Scylla genus, with Scylla serrata in the picture beside an ESO mudcrab.
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(Picture: Pincer, Old Salty, and the Mudcrab guardian spirit, some of Skyrim's named mudcrabs. Images from UESP)
I don't know what's going on with Old Salty's shell, but there was a still a deliberate choice to include a mudcrab with big claws, small legs, and a wide, domed shell in both Skyrim and ESO. I suspect the mudcrab holds some semi-terrestrial charm along with the impressive claws that leggy crabs don’t really have, and I am tickled at the abundant SEasian representation in TES. I am also delighted that, like my family members around a crab, the citizens of Skyrim are able to devour abundant mouthfuls of meat from mudcrab claws.
Do you see your local crab in Tamriel? Feel free to share crab and mudcrab thoughts! Happy TES day!
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Addendum: I am not a crab expert and do not know what Oblivion's and Morrowind's mudcrabs are. These are entirely different genera of crab. I suspect Oblivion's is some pelagic crab and Morrowind's is some box crab (Calappa) with the claws oriented strangely.
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(id: Oblivion mudcrab, Morrowind mudcrab)
Crabs also get very diverse with the special crabs, including Clatterclaw, Titanclaw, and other named crab bosses. Also, there can be no discussion of crabs without Skar. RIP Skar, you are an icon and I have no idea what you are supposed to be.
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(id: Skar in ESO, Skar in Morrowind)
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the-evil-clergyman · 8 months
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Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse (1892)
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idolomantises · 5 months
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Whatever She Says
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darksilvania · 1 year
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PARALOUSE (Bug/Water), SQUAKER (Water) & PARASCYLLA (Bug/Ghost) PARALOUSE (Parasite/Louse/Perilous) is a small bug type pokemon that lives among the corals, it awaits for a fish pokemon with a mout big enough to jump in, where it will eat and replace that pokemon's tongue. Once it has gained enough strenght by weakening its host it will evolve
PARASCYLLA (Parasite/Scylla) the "Mermaid" pokemon. It emerges from its host's mouth, the one it completely fills. At this point its host is competely taken over, becoming PARASCYLLA's new tail. To further keep its "tail" in place, it will stick its lower legs through the fish's gills, securing it in place.
SQUAKER (Squawk/Cracker) is a parrot fish pokemon that inhabits the same coral reef where PARALOUSE can be found, they love to feed on coral using their strong beaks to cut and swallow large chunks of it, which sadly makes it the perfect victim for PARALOUSE. How ever if SQUAKER manages to avoid becoming infected by PARALOUSE it can evolve into the dangerous PARROTEER (Parrot/Privateer)
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PARROTEER (Water/Dark) is PARASCYLLA's natural predator, it preys upon PARASCYLLA with extreme prejudice, using its massive size and hard-as-rock head to knock them out, it then uses its bolt cutter-like beak to cut them in half by the waist, feeding only on the upper bug half and leaving the tails to sink to the bottom
PARALOUSE is based on the cymothoa exigua, a type of parasitic isopod that attached to fishes mouths replacing their tongues
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PARASCYLLA is based on a twisted version of a mermaid with some inspiration is the Greek monster Scylla, a creature with the upper torso of a woman, but a lower body made out of heads and tails
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SQUAKER is based on the Steephead parrotfish and its colors are based on the Scarlet Macaw
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PARROTEER is based on the Humphead parrotfish and its colors are based on the Dracula Parrot, as well as being based on a Pirate
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PARROTEER hunting and feeding only on PARASCYLLA is a reference to Pirates hunting mermaids as represented in some myths and popular media, like Peter Pan or Pirates of the Caribbean
At the moment, SQUAKER is the only suitable pokemon available in PARALOUSE's habitat for it to attach, but, if more pokemon were avaible it could attach to them as long as they met certain criteria: -Being a Fish (No mammals, reptiles of crustaceans) -Having a big enoug mouth Here are some examples of PARASCYLLA using other fish pokemons as its tail
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The only exception to this rule being Gygantamax PARASCYLLA
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jedi-valjean · 11 months
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Odysseus' Strategy Notebook
PLAN TO DEFEAT THE TROJANS
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
PLAN TO DEFEAT THE CYCLOPS
Build giant wooden horse spear and hide inside it stab the cyclops with it
PLAN TO ESCAPE THE CYCLOPS' CAVE
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build giant wooden SHEEP and hide inside it
Build a bunch of normal-sized sheep and hide in those
Skin real sheep and use them to make incredibly realistic sheep costumes
Ride the sheep out of the cave but upside-down so he doesn't find us
PLAN TO DEFEAT THE LASTER LAESYTR LESTRYG CANNIBAL GIANTS
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build giant wooden cannibal giant and hide inside it
Build giant wooden RUN
PLAN TO DEFEAT THE WITCH
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build giant wooden pig and hide inside it?
Build giant wooden d go with Hermes' plan
PLAN TO DEFEAT SCYLLA
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build wooden decoy sailors and hope she eats those DID NOT WORK
PLAN TO STOP MEN FROM EATING SACRED CATTLE
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build giant wooden cow and trick the men into eating it
Take a nap and come up with a better plan
PLAN TO ESCAPE CALYPSO'S ISLAND
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build wooden decoy statue of me and put it in her bed
Build giant wooden d
PLAN TO KEEP ODYSSEUS HERE FOREVER
Steal strategy notebook
Check for splinters just in case
PLAN TO SNEAK BACK INTO THE PALACE
Build giant wooden h
Disguise self as giant wooden beggar normal old beggar OKAY I GET IT NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A GIGANTIC WOODEN REPLICA I GET IT ALREADY sheesh Athena
GET THE SUITORS OFF MY BACK, PLAN B (THANKS A LOT MELANTHO)
Announce that I will marry whoever can string my husband's bow and shoot through wait this isn't my notebook
PLAN TO KILL THE SUITORS wait who scribbled in my notebook
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littlepplofthemoon · 9 months
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‘Circe Invidiosa’ 1892
John William Waterhouse
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balloonpup · 3 months
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Expressive Monster
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Meet Scylla, a very shiny rubber monster from under your bed. She's new to being a monster (and to being made of latex), and is super eager to, well, bite you. Or gobble you up, I suppose.
Absolutely beautifully drawn by @ectodrool
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ex35life · 2 months
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I’m having so much fun with this. Odysseus.
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ruubesz-draws · 1 year
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Merry Christmas!!!🎅
As a gift, I deliver you the cringe as promised ;)
I mean, Godzilla and his gang tried... at least? Poor Santa
(Can you guys guess which present belongs to whom? If you can guess correctly, I'll give you a cookie!)
Initially, this comic was going to abt something completely different, but then I changed it cos it didn't make any sense. It was also supposed to have a different ending but I didn't have time and effort.
Anyway, hope you still enjoy and appreciate it!
Enjoy Christmas everyone🎄
*DO NOT REPOST MY ART*
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pelideswhore · 10 months
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after long consideration of the limited information available to us, i happily present to you
THE ODYSSEAN CATALOGUE OF THE SHIPS
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please behold my masterpiece
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4dango-the2nd · 3 months
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SCYLLA
Drawing remurian dragon king in bodysuit during lunch with extended family and my parents didnt even bat an eye bec they already gave up on me lmao
Anyway my fandesign of Scylla's human form
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furiouskettle · 1 year
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my gaggle of villain(?) ocs that i got too attached to
Cowboyninjapirateman: His backstory is that he had a Really Weird Day where he got bitten by a radioactive cowboy. and a radioactive ninja. and a radioactive pirate. Luckily, he survived and gained the powers of all three.
Scylla: Using a forbidden knitting pattern, she created two sockpuppets that gave her the ability to control yarn. But who is puppet and who is puppeteer? At the very least, Scylla herself doesn’t seem to mind too much.
Stachemeister: This man has facial hair so glorious he can control all moustaches in the area to do his bidding. His own moustache is prehensile, and he can use it to fly.
Some Nerd:  they aren’t associated with these people, why are they even here
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idolomantises · 5 months
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Hellhound Bodyguard
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ryuko · 1 year
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nike
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jedi-valjean · 11 months
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Based on this post
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lucky-fy · 6 months
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Scylla!Marcille’s coloration.
+ bonus
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