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lair-master 2 years
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imagine, a non-acidic gelatinous cube. its ooze is like that oxygenated fluid mice can breathe. organisms inside it bob peacefully, harmlessly, inhaling oxygen-rich slime. the cube, in turn, absorbs respiratory byproducts that nourish it. it adjusts its atmosphere to soothe and pacify occupants and intuitively ejects unwilling ones. found in dungeons inhospitable to other life, like passages filled with poison gas, it seeks out adventurers to ferry across those areas, offering a mutually beneficial exchange of sustenance.
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2012 mutagen is what 馃寣馃馃
2012 Leo & MM Donnie, 2012 Raph & mm Mikey
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zetrystan 5 months
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Lil drawing of my friend @GoliathBouchard's dnd character, Oozemosis.
He has a big spiky armor... and an adorable squishy face, I couldn't resist. 馃ズ
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oldschoolfrp 5 months
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Lowlife (Helen Bedford, from聽AC09: Creature Catalogue聽for BECMI D&D, TSR, 1986) A section intro page for a monster sourcebook that could pass for an indie band's album cover
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Ultimate Word Tournament!
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panopticon (English) /p忙n藞蓱p.t瑟.k蓱n/ 1. A type of聽prison聽where all the聽cells聽are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched. 2.聽A place in which people are subject to聽constant聽surveillance聽at聽totalitarian聽command.
ooze (English) /u藧z/ 1. wet mud or slime, especially that found at the bottom of a river, lake, or sea. 2. (of a fluid) to slowly trickle or seep out of something; flow in a very聽gradual聽way.
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OOZEPUNK
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WHAT IS OOZEPUNK?
Oozepunk is the term I'm coining for the microgenre of urban heroic sci-fi horror-fantasy that first exploded in the mid-80s with movies, shows, and comics like Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Toxic Avenger, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hellboy, Street Sharks, and others. Lots of natural crossover with Biopunk and Cyberpunk, aesthetically and philosophically.
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Your childhood trauma didn't let you forget Roger Rabbit heavily featured colorful nightmare slime, did it?
A ragtag gang of weirdos (often horribly mutated--more on that soon) band together to save a city that doesn't understand them. Grimy sewers, abandoned buildings and graffiti'd brick walls are lit up by neon lights, streams of mysterious, glowing goo and/or the unearthly lights of futuristic particle weapons--ideally all of the above!
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Beyond the "cracked concrete and gutters full of liquid plutonium" aesthetic, Oozepunk prankishly asks "What if catastrophic aberrations of science, particularly DUMPING TOXIC FUCKING WASTE STRAIGHT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT created fucked-up monsters... but they're HEROIC fucked-up monsters!" These catastrophic aberrations of science grant the heroes incredible powers, but COST them their place in human society. (Ghostbusters and Roger Rabbit eschew character mutation in favor of discovering that the undead and olde tymey cartoons are real [and exploitable!], respectively. 'Busters and 'Toon sympathizers alike are treated like insane idiots and/or frauds in their respective universes.)
Oozepunk heroes are challenged not only by strange supernatural beings, but by human society itself. The Ghostbusters battle with local politicians as much as they do the undead. In the recent (and delightful) TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Splinter warns the Turtles of humans and their obsession with "milking" mutants for their blood--on top of the villainous mutants they're trying to thwart!
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Crank up the creep factor in Oozepunk and you get awesome anti-establishment goo-horror like 1988's The Blob, The Stuff, Street Trash, and probably a bunch more. Toxic Avenger is a batshit crazy splatter-comedy (i.e. classic Troma)... and still garnered sequels, a kid's cartoon and toyline!
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And there's a Shredder's Revenge-style Crusaders beat-em-up coming out next year??
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This looks dope as shit
Ghostbusters and TMNT are the only current, "evergreen" (or radioactive green!) Oozepunk franchises I can think of off the top of my head, but Oozepunk elements are buried in almost all of the stories and settings I love the most. Heroic kaiju like King Kong, Godzilla and Gamera paved the way for our freaky friends, but so did comics characters like Fantastic Four's Ben "The Thing" Grimm, The Hulk and Swamp Thing. Hell, I think I blame SESAME STREET of all things for starting me down the Oozepunk path.
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Surprise! I've loved screaming trash monsters with secret hearts of gold since I was a fucking baby, and they've ALWAYS been there for me!
But it's not just Oscar, Sesame Street as a whole is a proto-Oozepunk utopia, years before the big Ooze-splosion of the 80s. Muppets, monsters, talking animals and chill humans all live and work together to scrape by with a little dignity in a gritty-but-wholesome urban world!
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Sesame Street, a decades-long reminder that educational childrens' programming can and SHOULD be cool as hell looking and loaded with all kinds of friendly mutant freakuloids.
OOZEPUNK! Whaddya think?
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foldingfittedsheets 15 days
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So my friend @supernovasolace made a joke during DnD about getting caught in an ooze being "jello jail". With their permission I turned it into this funny design that I think will make a great sticker or an even better shirt.
You can find this design on my Redbubble, Teepublic, and Threadless! Sales go to support a small queer creator!
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fhtagn-and-tentacles 22 days
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OOZE
by Raphtor
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dailyadventureprompts 3 months
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Dungeon: The Seeping Tombs
The learned and pious council of the king's advisors concluded that if sickness was a sign of moral failing, that medicine was a form of ennoblement allowing the sinner to bypass suffering without repentance. By royal decree the healers were thrown in along with their patients, the gates sealed behind them.
Constructed during an age of ignorance, these now innocuous ruins were used as a prison for those who had committed no crime besides falling ill. Pestilence ravaged the land, and after years of failing or outright refusing to control its spread the old king and his pious inner circle began to resent the masses who suffered under under their misrule.
The building that became the tombs was already under construction, intended as the foundations for a great temple dedicated to the king's imperious patron deity. When the work crews grew sick their bodies were passed into the lowest reaches to prevent the spread of miasma, joined soon after by dead from the local villages, and eventually those afflicted but still living.
It was not long after the gates were sealed that something otherworldly come to dwell within the tomb, suborning the natural process of decay causing those interred within to rot into a sickening and malevolent sludge.
Adventure Hook: A new magical malady besets those descended form the king and his pious council, and though some have inherited their forebearers' zeal and callousness many others are quite innocent. When traditional cures fail, The party are hired to seek an answer, and whether through research or the consultation of oracles find themselves pointed towards the seeping tombs. Irony of ironies, this exact sickness was being looked into by talented physician condemned by the king's order, consigned along with her research to a squalid death among those she tried to save.
Whatever the source of the present malady, it has a sense of cruel justice that the party should be wary of.
Challenges & Complications:
Summoned by the prolonged fear, suffering, and affliction of those trapped within the tombs, Juiblex, demon sovereign of ooze, has consecrated the tombs as an altar to despair and wretchedness. The tunnels are overrun with its spawn, along with undead who's spirits cannot rest for all the cruelty that was done to them in life.
The longer and deeper the party explore, the more sick they're likely to get.
Early chambers of this dungeon are a great excuse to use the classic "what looks like a skeletal warrior approaching slowly down a corridor is actually a gelatinous cube & its last meal" encounter, which is a treat in and of itself.
The upper reaches of the tomb are controlled by a nest of ghoulish knights and footmen, who were originally tasked with driving droves of the sick into the dungeon, only to find themselves sealed inside along with the afflicted. As fearful and proud as their departed liege, they play at piety and honour willing to lend aid to the party for a chance to escape the tombs and run rampant on the surface.
The middle reaches of the tomb see the party exploring twisting, sticky corridors, their progress fenced in by portcullises and other defences that need to be opened remotely. These hurdles do not stop the level's guardian, a massive and inexorable ooze that will chase the party with relentless slowness once alerted. Expect an oddly paced chase scene as the party works on opening a path forward while trying not to get trapped in a room by the sludgy green tide.
The cure to the magical malady lays with it's source: the ghost of the masterful physician who's long simmering resentment has manifested as a curse. Having been denied the chance to save her patients, she must be convinced why she should allow her research to be used to save the realm's ungrateful rulers while the victims of their callousness go unmourned. Her counter-offer is as brutal as it is poetic: Let the sickness at the heart of the kingdom devour those who benefit from it, and let the future come as it may.
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mtg-cards-hourly 4 months
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Vile Bile
Artist: Tony Szczudlo TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link
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falgaia 7 months
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// alright, come close
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discount-supervillain 2 years
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dizzyhslightlyvoided 6 months
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Me: So "girlthing" is ... a consistency, like "goo" versus "slime". But it's also an "aspiration", like how "ooze" doesn't fully fall on the "goo versus slime" spectrum.
My therapist, nodding and trying to follow along:
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notzackforwork 7 months
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Izabella Ooze
A portrait of the Illustrious and Lovely Izabella Ooze. Gorgeous and a font of Charisma. Definitely a Goop with a lovely voice that makes my brain tingle. This and much more on: Patreon.com/notzackforwork notzackforwork.uwu.ai
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foldingfittedsheets 3 months
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My WIPS from the tiredest day. @supernovasolace made a great joke about being in jello jail after being sucked into an ooze in our last session of DnD, so I'm making a sticker design for them to list in their shop.
And then I sketched a giraffe.
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fhtagn-and-tentacles 15 days
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BIOGENIC OOZE
by Lake Hurwitz
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