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julianplum · 4 months
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🧡 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟✨ // for day 3 of folktale week 2023: sea! // gouache on paper
a little study of scales, texture, and light for a larger project I'm working on! also made this one into wrapping paper because I CAN'T be the only one who wants to wrap fish presents for people????
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ronkoza · 7 months
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more merfolk au
Tor belongs to @littleulvar
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ylieke · 2 months
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azulashengrottospiano · 5 months
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unpopular opinion but i dont think jade or floyd would give their s/o a matching earring that they share with their brother. those two have a special bond in those earrings that cant be replicated by anyone else because they fought that sturgeon. they won together. it just doesnt feel right to me that something so meaningful to them, something they wear every day, would just be given to someone else.
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lpbear · 1 month
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One of my best friends got married at the weekend and his closing words of his speech were “Free Palestine”, and I’ve been thinking about that a lot. Even on his wedding day, one of the happiest days of his life, a day that should be all about him and his bride, that isn’t the only thing on his mind. It can’t be. We’re all thinking about Palestine and the genocide of its people all the time.
All day I’m checking in on the journalists I follow in Gaza, my stomach in a knot until I see they’ve posted again today and they’re at least still alive, but then my heart broken to see what cruel injustice they’re showing us today. All of us with any scrap of humanity are behind Palestine, and passionately, even if the people meant to represent us are reticent or even adamantly refusing to actually represent our wishes. My friends and I are Irish, so we’ve grown up surrounded by pro-Palestine support: it’s huge here and always has been and our government is one of the ~better~ ones in this regard, but this isn’t unique to countries who are politically pro-Palestine. World-wide, I see rallies, protests, demonstrations, from huge crowds of regular people, even in countries whose policies and governments are deeply on the wrong side of history. Those regular people are what I think we should pay attention to.
Don’t lose heart. Don’t give up on Palestinians. Keep following them, keep listening to them, keep supporting them. Keep up the rallies, keep fighting, keep talking. It can be discouraging to see so few governments doing anything about this and news stories misrepresenting the facts, but don’t fall into thinking that nobody cares or give up. I believe people care. Regular people care. It may not be everyone, and it may not be the majority of the people in power, but I believe there are enough of us to help; we can pressure the people in power to listen if we’re loud enough and determined enough, and every single person saved from these atrocities would be worth the world. This is a dire situation. This is urgent. But it’s not over.
There is evil being done in the world but there is decency in humanity and hope is not lost. From the river to the sea, Palestine MUST be free.
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spindlewit · 2 years
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abridged stickbug looks
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figurecollection · 4 months
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No.21 - XXI 1/7 Scale by FuRyu, from Punishing: Gray Raven
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lgbtiwtv · 1 year
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god it’s soooo difficult to put into words but like. while lestat’s love and violence and emotional impulsivity could be stifling at times and even dangerous, it was his love and insecurity that was the problem. he didn’t want to keep louis on display, he wanted to love him and be loved by him. of course, problems arose because lestat is both a terrible communicator and has severe uncontrolled abandonment issues and rage and unresolved trauma, but his actions came from a place of deep, deep fear of being alone and wanting someone to love/someone to love him. he wanted to travel with louis, he loved louis for his hobbies, he loved sharing his interests with him and opening up when he could. he wanted him and louis to experience life, the world—together. armand is not like this. he’s obsessed and “in love” with louis the same way you become enamored with a rare bird, a priceless one-of-a-kind piece of art. he’s a thing to keep, to take care of, look but don’t touch, etc. like all of the art in his penthouse. he controls louis’ safety, his eating schedule, his time outside the house (which at this point seems nonexistent). he keeps the books out of reach. he keeps an artificial tree and light and pebbles to placate his deeply depressed lover. he doesn’t want to travel the world with louis, he doesn’t want louis to be out on his own, and he frames it all under the guise of protecting him. louis is reserved and depressed in a way that is so opposed to his depression in the rue royale era. whereas before he was incensed with guilt and anger and fear and grief and sadness, now he seems like an empty shell. his deep well of emotion, even negative emotion, has turned to apathy. and obviously this could very well be caused by claudia’s death and lestat’s disappearance, but armand very obviously is not trying to help louis. in this state, louis is at both his most vulnerable and his most likely to go along with armand’s whims, to sink further and further into that apathy because then his trauma won’t hurt so much. and it just plays right into armand’s hands…..
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mossymandibles · 1 year
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Yuna felt a massive shadow pass over her, small electric currents flitting through her body as the leviathan regarded her. For a second, she cursed her carelessness for getting caught off guard. It was unusual to see such a being stray this far up from the depths.
Luckily, it didn’t seem hungry at the moment.
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puppyeared · 8 months
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couldnt decide on drawing fish or horsies
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cypherdecypher · 1 year
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Animal of the Day!
Leaf Scaled Sea-Snake (Aipysurus foliosquama)
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(Photo from Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife)
Conservation Status- Data deficient (Data inadequate to determine a threat category)
Habitat- Western Australian coasts
Size (Weight/Length)- 60 cm
Diet- Small fish; Fish eggs
Cool Facts- After their discovery in 1926, it was believed that the leaf scaled sea-snake had gone extinct. Surprisingly enough, in 2015, a small population was discovered to be living off the coast of Western Australia in thick beds of seagrass. These snakes are in the top 100 most threatened species as only a few dozen remain. There is hope for more hidden populations around Australia and scientists are still searching. These sea snakes are venomous but their remote lifestyle means you’ll never come across one. Due to their extremely small population, little is known about the leaf scaled sea-snake’s life history or behavior.
Rating- 12/10 (Scaly sea-snakes by the sea shore.)
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flowerfairyboi · 6 months
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Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it’s the only way for your soul to breathe.
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
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its-rat-time-babey · 2 years
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So I realized something about Hunter.
You know how he’s immune to the heat of the boiling sea (and presumably the rain as well)?
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^(Man practically went swimming in boiling water and has superheated steam coming off him afterwards and he acted like it was nothing. We see steam coming from inside his mask so we know that some of that boiling water hit him directly in the face and yet he’s completely fine.)
That immunity comes from the fact that he’s a grimwalker. Probably the Selkidomus scales that were used to make his skin. Selkidomus live in the boiling sea so their scales must be immune to the extreme heat, and since Hunter’s skin is made from Selkidomus scales, he is as well.
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So imagine Hunter just casually walking through a boiling rainstorm like it’s nothing, freaking out everyone around him. Or swimming in the boiling sea for fun.
Now that I think about it, Hunter must be immune to most heat related things. He can already swim through water that’s so hot the steam alone causes third degree burns. He could probably walk through fire with little to no effect.
Imagine Hunter getting hit by a fireball and he just no-sells it. He doesn’t even flinch.
Combine Hunter’s heat immunity making his body temperature higher than the average witch and the headcanon of Vee being cold blooded since basilisks are all lizard and snakelike to get the ultimate sibling dynamic of Vee using Hunter as a heat lamp during the winter.
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alux-ulkan · 9 months
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Coho Salmon / Silver Salmon - Oncorhynchus kisutch
Scale Pattern, 07/10/2023
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mikufigureoftheday · 9 months
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🦞Today's Miku Figure is: 🦐
Good Smile Company Deep Sea Girl ver. 1/8
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rachaelmayo · 8 months
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Thi is Deep Rising 11, a fairly large piece I made in 2019. I wanted a challenge! The central dragon piece appears below the text block.
This project is 20x30 inches. It's all sea-creature-inspired colors and patterns around the outside, and mostly green parrotfish-inspired on the dragon.
In the center section, I used ink, watercolor, and Prismacolor pencil.
In the middle section, I used acrylics, then put all kinds of shiny bits on top. There are freshwater pearls, amethysts, and color-treated serpentine also.
The outer section is Prismacolor pencil over watercolor. It took as much time to color this section as it did the detailed dragon. I assure you, I had a lot of fun with both!
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