#troll ness monster

[mechanicchariot]

You seen the creature?

I've seen a few creatures in my time. You'll need to narrow it down a bit.

#trolls? yes #imps? yes #the moon people? yes #the loch ness monster? not yet

[lord-of-the-prompts]

A LEGENDARY/MYTHOLOGICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURE LIST FOR WRITERS:

(Please note that while I have included a variety of creatures, there are many many others that I haven’t been able to mention here. Had I listed every legendary/mythological/supernatural creature, I’d probably still be writing this post because let’s face it, there are thousands of badass mythological beings. Please also note that there are quite a few creatures that overlap in various categories. I hope that you all enjoy reading and that this helps with your writing!)

Animals:

birds (bird people, caladrius, griffon, harpy, hippogriff, luan, phoenix, roc, sirin, strix, thunderbird.)

canines (amarok, cadejo, cerberus, fenrir, hellhound, werewolf.)

felines (demon cat, griffin, merlion, sphinx, tigris, underwater panther, white tiger.)

fish (hippocamp, undine, water spirit.)

primates (bigfoot, yeti, yowie.)

reptiles/serpents (basalisk, dragon, feathered serpent, hydra, loch ness monster, rainbow serpent, sea serpent, wyvern.)

Elements:

aether (angel, demon, devil, elemental, elf, fairy, nymph, spirit.)

darkness (black dog, bogeyman, ghost, grim reaper, hellhound, vampire, werewolf, wild hunt.)

earth/subterranean (dwarf, earth dragon, gargoyle, giant, gnome, goblin, hobbit, ogre, troll.)

fire (dragon, hellhound, phoenix.)

light/rainbow (light elf, rainbow serpent.)

metal/gold (griffin, gnome, leprechaun.)

thunder/lightning (chinese dragon, cyclops, thunderbird, valkyrie.)

water (chinese dragon, drindylow, loch ness monster, mermaid/merman, nymph, pisces, water dragon, water spirit.)

Habitat:

cave/underground (dwarf, european dragon, gnome, goblin, troll.)

celestial/heaven (angel, feathered serpent, pegasus, grim reaper, swan maiden, valkyrie.)

desert (amphisbaena, chupacabra, cockatrice, ghoul, oliphaunt, sphinx.)

woodland (bigfoot, elf, unicorn.)

lake/river (chinese dragon, hydra, kraken, nixie, lake monster, ondine, rainbow serpent, warlock.)

mountain/hill (dwarf, griffin, hippogriff, hobbit, mountain giant, yeti.)

sea (dragon king, fish people, leviathan, mermaid/merman, sea monster, sea serpent, shen, siren, water dragon.)

polar/ice/winter (abominable snowman, jotun, yeti.)

urban/house (banshee, boggart, jinn, vampire.)

underworld/hell (cerberus, cyclops, demon, devil, earth dragon.)

Humanoids:

human skinned (brownie, dwarf, elf, fairy, giant, gnome, gremlin, jinn, leprechaun, nix, nymph, pixie, siren, valkyrie, vampire, vetter.)

monster skinned (banshee, boggart, centaur, demon, ent, goblin, imp, manticore, mermaid/merman, orc, siren, sphinx, troll.)

monstrous (baba yaga, boogeyman, cyclops, gargoyle, ghoul, giant/giantess, goblin, hag, jotun, mummy, ogre, oni, orc, titan, troll, yeti, zombie.)

Hybrids:

part human (angel, centaur, fairy, faun, gorgon, harpy, horus, meduza, mandrake, manticore, mermaid/merman, minotaur, siren, sphinx, tenju, triton, winged genie, werecat, werewolf.)

non-human (basilisk, capricorn, cerberus, chimera, griffin, hippogriff, merlion, pegasus, typhon, wyvren.)

Shapeshifters: (animagus, demon, kelpie, merpeople, nix, werecat, werehyena, werejaguar, werewolf.)

Undead: (banshee, ghost, ghoul, frankenstein, headless horseman, mummy, poltergeist, skeleton, spirit, vampire, wraith, zombie.)

#writing prompt #writing ideas #writing tips #creative writing #writers of tumblr #writers block #writing things #writers #writing advice #creatures #mythological creature #legendary creature #fantasy creature #high fantasy #myth #mythical creatures #mythical beings #mythical beasts #mythical animals #monsters #supernatural

[generationexorcist]

13 Places to Find Little Legends and Compact Cryptids: From grumpy water goblins to tiny trolls.

Many of the creatures from folklore or urban legends are large creatures that roam through forests or claim entire bodies of water as their homes. Part of what makes their tales so captivating is that these massive beings might be hiding right under our noses. But for every Sasquatch and Loch Ness Monster, there are dozens of smaller mythological beings, from fairies to water goblins, that are said to lurk in the more magical corners of our world…

Atlas Obscura

#cryptids #yokai

[princess-of-the-corner]

Personal HC: Chloe isn't a conspiracy theorist but she likes to debate so when Zoe comes, they argue over various cryptids (like Mothman ("bah, that's just Hawk Moth"), Bigfoot ("Uh, Roi Singe? Duh"), and Loch Ness monster ("that's just that old guardian guy unifying the turtle and snake"))

she's 100% just trolling her because sibling instincts.

[thenightling]

A little bit of linguistic mythbusting.

Cryptid does not mean "Lovecraftian." Eldritch doesn't mean "Lovecraftian" either.

Eldritch just means: Weird, sinister, or ghostly. In other words it just means "creepy."

Cryptid means "A creature that cryptozoologists think might exist." A cryptozoologist is a scientist who studies undiscovered animals and theoretical lifeforms and entities. This includes Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster but can also include things like werewolves and vampires.

When you associate these terms with H. P. Lovecraft you give him too much credit. He didn't coin the term Eldritch, it's just that word gets thrown around with his writing a lot, sort of like Anne Rice's over use of "preternatural" instead of supernatural. (It means the same thing...)

In fact Eldritch has its origin with a Middle English term for Fairyland so it can mean faery-creature, of the Fae or faery-like, which in European folklore is pretty diverse such as goblins, trolls, redcaps, Sidhe, Pooka, Brownies, Kobolds, Dullahan, etc..

[rainbowfic]

Today's prompt list is: ghost white

Theme: Paranormal 1. ghost 2. witch 3. werewolf 4. vampire 5. dragon 6. banshee 7. gaki (hungry ghost) 8. yeti 9. zombie 10. ghoul 11. goblin 12. kelpie 13. Loch Ness monster 14. youkai 15. doppelganger 16. psychopomp 17. Griggstown cow 18. troll 19. faery 20. lamia 21. sphinx 22. manticore 23. harpy 24. jinn 25. rakshasa

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#prompt list #prompts #writing prompts #rainbowfic original #color list #art prompts

[timetakeover]

[The Master's reddit activity is predominately based around the Doctor. There's as many in-universe Doctor Who subreddits as there are in our universe, possibly more.

The Doctor is treated the way the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot are treated in our real world, with groups of very dedicated conspiracy theorists obsessing over him and posting blurry evidence of his existence and personal anecdotes of that one time that they swear they met the Doctor but didn't get a picture but they really met him they swear.

The Master reads all of these posts. The legit sightings help him with his own Doctor stalking, and the lies and incorrect theories make him laugh. He rarely posts himself, but he comments frequently. Sometimes he offers up theories that are blatant lies to throw other people off, other times he offers up truths that everyone assumes are lies because how could anyone know what the Doctor's favorite food was ten regenerations ago? He spends more time trolling than contributing anything useful to the conspiracy theory communities, but his screen name is well known around them. He's known as a weirdo who spends all damn day reading every single thing that's been posted.

He spent a few years keeping tabs on subreddits dedicated to decoding and translating ancient languages until he found a small group of people with a handful of examples of Gallifreyan that they're certain is the language of an ancient alien race. He soaks up praise for being such a natural genius at decoding it, but makes enough intentional mistakes to not draw suspicion.

And in between all of this is the occasional post to r/relationships, r/vent, or r/amitheasshole. Always about the Doctor but never admitted to be about the Doctor. Just enough details changed to have plausibly happened to two humans; he's not great at it, though. He'll do things like claim himself and the Doctor are both 30, then claim it's been an ongoing fight between them for the past 50 years. A lot of people assume he's just making the stories up entirely. Really, he's expecting validation; for everyone to take his side and say the Doctor was in the wrong. In reality, the majority of the comments are "I hope this is fake. If not, she should call the cops on you."

He especially takes offense when commenters call him an incel, but it's difficult to explain in "I'm a human, really!" terms that he still treated the Doctor this way when the Doctor was a man, and when he himself was a woman.

Sometimes he gets in passionate arguments about what a great prime minister Harold Saxon would've been if he hadn't been assassinated and also that he was oh so handsome.]

#[he made the account as Missy but started using it the most as Dhawan] #headcanons;

[watfordgrimoire]

Creatures in the World of Mages

Aspssasin [WS 330]

Basilisks [WS 32]

Battering rams [AWTWB 39]

Brownies (can be part mage; can go to Watford) [WS 210]

Centaurs (can be part mage; can go to Watford) [WS 210]

Chimera [CO 5]

Counting sheep [WS 304]

Coyotes (can play poker) [WS 127]

Creek dryad [WS 160]

Demons (Do not talk to them; do not take their sweets; do not get in their vans; have to be summoned) (last demon entrapment case documented in 1800s) [AWTWB 18; 23]

Diphthong [WS 330]

Direhog [AWTWB 69]

Ditch Imp [WS 291]

Dolphins (Capable of speech) [WS 59]

Dragons (If dragons lose the use of a wing, the other dragons will kill it) [AWTWB 74]

Dryads (Hair “like moss” and dress “like one of those manga girls with the Victorian books and the umbrellas”) [CO 98]

Either/orcs [AWTWB 140]

Elf [WS 186]

Ent (Can be made of multiple types of trees; do not have faces; speak human languages; can engulf people in their bark) [AWTWB 205-207]

Fairies (live beyond the “fairy fog” in their own realm; have green wings that “shimmer in the moonlight”) [AWTWB 283; 569]

Fauns (can be part mage; can go to Watford) [CO 173]

Flibbertigibbets (Only takes two or three to kill a magician; make you lose your mind) [CO 113]

Fomorian (Chaos demon; Irish) [WS 138]

Fox Spirit [AWTWB 274]

Gargoyles [AWTWB 569]

Genie (Live in lamps; two rules - “You can’t wish for more wishes, and I don’t fuck with demons”) [AWTWB 141]

Ghost (translucent not white) [CO 79]

Ghoul [WS 127]

Giants (eat babies; hibernate for years at a time; have to be zoned for; have their own language; “Gog & Magog: World Tour 1993) [AWTWB 167; 169; 207; 207; 563]

Giant Eagle (there is a whistle that supposedly summons one) [WS 311]

Gnomes [AWTWB 207]

Goats of Watford (Have wings; protect Watford’s existence; only respond to select magic) [AWTWB 214-215; 340]

Goblins (green skinned; red lipped; handsome; can wear disguises; goblin who brings Simon Snow’s head back gets to be king; their gear is always cursed) [AWTWB 51; 53]

Gryphon (Conspiracy theory that the government is manufacturing them; give live birth) [WS 330; AWTWB 192; 447]

Gun demon (American only) [WS 127]

Harmadillos (not native to UK)

Harpies [AWTWB 146; 569]

Heffalump (Extinct) [WS 188]

Hell hounds (three heads; kept as pets) [AWTWB 307]

Hinkypunk [WS 160]

Imps (do not like to be confused with demons; make deals for children; play impdice) [AWTWB 369]

Jackalope (capable of speech) [WS 161]

Judas goats [AWTWB 39]

Lay-witch [WS 264]

Leach [WS 127]

Leprechauns (their gold disappears if you try to give it to other magicians) [CO 9]

lllamas (only one herd outside of South America owned by Malcom Grimm-Pitch) [AWTWB 39]

Loch Ness monster [AWTWB 565]

Magickal bees [Snow For Christmas 241]

Magickal swans (live in Oxford) [AWTWB 565]

Mermaids (can spread STIs between species; can have intercourse with humans; reproduce through fertilizing eggs) [AWTWB 184; 369-371]

Merwolves (do not like silver; blood takes like “gamy motor oil”; removed from Watford by Niamh) [AWTWB 317; 575]

Minotaur (Professor Minos; half-man half bull) [CO 81]

Mustkrat maiden (trick humans into trapping them so they can trade skins; have a thin layer of skin, both physically and emotionally) [AWTWB 204-205]

Nar-do-whal (one discovered in the Watford moat) [WS 329]

Ne’er-do-wolves [CO 132]

Night mares [AWTWB 39]

Nixies [WS 262]

Numpties [CO 132]

Otters with wings [AWTWB 184]

Paindeer [AWTWB 77]

Pegasus (Wings have “soft-white feather tipped with sky blue”) [AWTWB 109]

Pithbulls [WS 298]

Pixies (smell unique) (can be part mage; can go to Watford) [WS 210; AWTWB 25]

Prairie mog (American only) [WS 127]

Red devil [WS 139]

River spirit [WS 215-218]

River Phoenix (extremely rare) [AWTWB 150]

Sasquatch [WS 210]

Sea witches [AWTWB 496]

Sirens (can live in wells in America) [WS 127]

Sphinx [WS 162]

Spider-women (eight eyes; at least thirty fingers; four tongues; three hands) [AWTWB 248-249]

Spite sprite [WS 139]

Three headed snakes (can be killed by chopping off all three heads) [AWTWB 421-422]

Trolls [WS 329]

Unfairy [WS 204]

Unicorns (only capable of making small talk; can live on farms) [WS 58]

Vampires (need an invitation to enter every building; dislike the sun; need food and blood to survive; do not get sick; heal quickly; only immortal if they consume human blood; legal to kill them; Open signs and welcome mats allow vampires in) [AWTWB 59; 68; 285]

Vampire King [WS 290]

Venomous crested wood foul [Fangirl 101]

Were-adactyl (WS 139)

Were-pole-cat (live in surfeits) [WS 137-144]

Were-skunk [AWTWB 9]

Werewolves (After exposure, people must be quarantined due to the lupin virus; can be vaccinated against the lupin virus) [AWTWB 158]

Wosegers (worse version of badger) [CO 131]

Wraith [WS 127]

#not a spell #watford grimoire #carry on

[lovepeacestar]

My Trolls AU

Male Troll Physiology

They are bigger/taller than females (taller than the original). About 8 inches tall in troll size comparison. (usually only maybe 4x bigger than the average troll in the movie). They are more of a Goliath and appear more like beasts than trolls. In my head, they look like Nimona's shadow monster form minus the shadowy-ness.

They are ginormous (by troll standards), behemoths with thick muscle mass covered in fur. has longer and thicker fur, and has eight canines. They have paws and claws that are practically the size of dinner plates and I assumed the tail was longer.

Male trollings are born to be careful playing with female trollings; because of their larger size, heavier build, and increased strength. They use their newfound strength to protect and defend their tribe and families from outside predators or unknown enemies who wish to seek harm in the areas that the tribe is in. If not trained properly, they have a certain powerful, dangerous, and deadly transformation.

Male Troll Example (This art is not mine, credit goes 99kroi) :

They are called, Protectors and are known for being, well, protective. This overprotectiveness often is shown through many traits like high attentiveness. They actually have something akin to a sixth sense, which helps them locate pod members during times of great danger. They can also show more physical signs like heightened senses and increased physical strength. In this state, they are overprotective of the love and safety of young children and potential mates.

Feral Form Mode: Feral Form is the definition of fight, and sends male trolls into a blind rage when children, mates, or themselves are in danger. The Feral form is nigh indestructible physically, but are the most emotionally vulnerable in this state and are prone to fits of uncontrollable rage. The bigger, they get the more beast-like.

Feral Form Mode For Example:

#trolls au #Strange Magic AU #Worldbuilding AU #reference #Male Trolls

[sohannabarberaesque]

Banana Splits headcannon

So picture the quartet of Bingo, Drooper, Fleegle and Snorky en route to a day at the beach (complete with sausage roast by the fireside), even to the point of wearing divers' getup--enough to scare even the Sour Grapes Girls out of their wits to the point where this exchange ensueth:

BINGO, rather curious: So what exactly scared the heck out of those Sour Grapes Girls, to begin with? FLEEGLE: What exactly did they think we were, the Troll Ness Monster? DROOPER: Still, we were just wearing dive getup, to begin with ... and how could they confuse us with some class of sea monster, to begin with? Besides, it's not as if we were sneaking off to Danger Island for a weekend of diving--

#hanna barbera #vignette #headcannon #the banana splits #day at the beach #scared senseless #hannabarberaforever

[monsterfuckertarot]

The current list of monsters

I am an athiest (paganish) white man working on this project and I am doing my best to both be inclusive and not do cultural appropriation. I would love to hear feedback from people of other cultures on which monsters they would like to see added to this project and which ones I should not draw due to cultural conflict!

Ala

Amefurikozo

Ammit

Angel

Banshee

Basan

Basilisk

Bigfoot

Brownie

Centaur

Cerberus

Cetus

Chimera

Chinese Dragon

Cockatrice

Devil

Dragon

Draug

Dullohan

Dwarf

Fairy

Feldgeister

Gargouille

Ghost

Goblin

Griffin

Hellhound

Hydra

Ifrit

Imp

Incubus/Succubus

Kappa

Kelpie

Kitsune

Kraken

Kua Fu

Ladon

Leviathan

Lock Ness Monster

Makara

Manticore

Mermaid

Minotaur

Moon Rabbit

Naiad

Nix

Pegasus

Pheonix

Ponaturi

Preta

Sea Serpent

Selkie

Shadow

Skeleton

Sphinx

Spriggan

Taniwha

Tengu

Tiamat

Troll

Unicorn

Valkyrie

Vampire

Werewolf

Will o Wisp

Yokai

Zaratan

Zduhac

#tarot project #tarot cards #monster fucker

[whitepolaris]

Tessie, the Monster of Lake Tahoe

The state’s largest freshwater lake, Tahoe has long been rumored to be home to both an underwater Mob graveyard and a huge unknown creature. 

A story often told around Tahoe is that a few years back, a fisherman trolling off the south shore got his hook caught on something in the deeps. When he finally freed his catch from whatever had ensnared it, he reeled it back on his boat and found a well-preserved human ear on the end of the line. (Another version of the tale has the fisherman snagging a three-fingered human hand.)

According to local legend, the nine-hundred-foot-deep waters off the south shore served as a dumping place for Mob victims from the 1920s to the 1950s. Hundreds of gangsters’ corpses are suspended in the depths, they say, preserved from decay and prevented from gas-bloated surfacing by the near-freezing deep waters. So pervasive is this tale that many local fishermen refer to the area as the Graveyard, a Tahoe-boat Mafia execution was featured in the climax of The Godfather, Part II.

Even stranger are the tales of Tessie. Local maintain that a large, unidentified, serpentlike creature lives in the deepest parts of the lake and usually appears around June in even-numbered years. Dubbed Tessie in homage to Loch Ness’s Nessie, the beast allegedly appears in Washoe Indian legend and may have been spotted by nineteenth-century settlers. 

Tessie made headlines in the San Francisco Chronicle on July 12, 1984, when the paper reported that two women had seen the Lake Tahoe leviathan a month earlier. Tahoe City residents Patsy McKay and Diane Stavarakas were hiking above the west shore when they spotted the creature swimming in the lake. 

McKay said the beast was about seventeen feet long. She watched it closely and saw it surface three times “like a little submarine.” Her companion said that the creature had a humped back and seemed to surface in a whalelilke, lethargic manner. She was also sure tha tit wasn’t a diver, a log, or a large ripple.

Two years earlier a pair of off-duty Reno policemen had also taken a turn with Tessie. Officers Kris Beebe and Jerry Jones were water-skiing in the late in June 1982 when an “unusually large” creature swam by them. 

Another story about Tahoe asserts that there’s an underground river system that links the lake with Pyramid Lake, fifty miles to the north in Nevada. Apparently, the bodies of people who have drowned in Tahoe have surfaced in Pyramid Lake. This phenomenon, however, might be due to the corpses’ floating over the north Tahoe spillway onto the Truckee River and then downstream to Pyramid Lake. 

The closet anyone ever came to figuring out Tahoe’s mysteries were in the mis-1970s. Famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau brought a minisubmarine to the lake and did several dives in search of the bottom, 1,600 feet below the surface. When he came back up, he is alleged to have said, “The world isn’t ready for what is down there.” To his death, Cousteau refused to release any pictures or data from the expedition. 

What did the legendary diver find? Pinstripe suited, bullet-riddled corpses bobbing in the dark depths? A colony of living, amphibian dinosaurs? Or something even weirder? 

The answers still lie in the chilly depths of blue Lake Tahoe.

#weird california #type read

[beardedmrbean]

LOCH NESS, Scotland — The legend of the Loch Ness Monster has fascinated generations of curious minds. This weekend, 90 years after its first modern supposed sighting, enthusiasts descended again on this picturesque lake in a quiet corner of the Scottish Highlands in the hopes of turning myth into reality.

Organizers billed the past weekend as the largest organized “Nessie” hunt for 50 years.

And the hunters came armed with high-tech help: sonars for mapping the lake bed, thermal-imaging drones for scanning the surface and hydrophones to hear strange sounds from the depths.

The events were even opened to the global public — hundreds were invited to a live stream of the water’s surface to add more eyes to the search.

But even with all the machines and added manpower, the gathering at Loch Ness was as much about reviving old lore as settling hard science. Organizers said they planned the weekend to excite interest in the legend among a new generation of Nessie hunters.

“It’s about inspiration,” said Alan McKenna, the head of Loch Ness Exploration, an independent research group based on the lake’s shores that planned the event as a kind of call for volunteers. “For very selfish reasons I don’t want the Loch Ness mystery or interest in Loch Ness itself to diminish in any way whatsoever at all.”

Those “selfish” reasons don’t include a commercial motive, said McKenna, who added that he is also an unpaid volunteer. Though the legend could bring in as much 41 million pounds (about $52 million) each year to Scotland’s economy, according to one 2018 study reported by Scotland's Press and Journal newspaper, enthusiasts like McKenna say the search is really just about having fun, keeping faith and exploring the natural world.

Like the surface of a lake, the Loch Ness legend seems to reflect the hopes of those who gaze into it.

“I think she has babies and she’s looking after them right now,” said Alba Sydow, 8, as she surveyed the loch with her parents from the Deepscan, one of the organizers’ search boats. “So that’s why she’s hiding from us.”

Alba’s father Malcolm Begg, 47, a pharmaceutical company employee, had his own remarkably specific ideas about the monster.

“I think it’s like a diplodocus with fins,” he said, referring to a Jurassic-era dinosaur while lamenting that most images of the monster have been too grainy to discern a definitive shape.

The focus of the two-day event was at the Loch Ness Centre, which organized the proceedings in partnership with Loch Ness Exploration, a voluntary research team. The recently renovated center is housed in a former hotel where Aldie Mackay, a hotel employee, sighted a “beast” or “whale-like fish” in 1933, the first modern “sighting” of the monster that set off the global phenomenon.

But the legend dates back to writings from the seventh century in which an Irish monk reported having encountered a “water beast” that had mauled a swimmer.

Nessie has been so popular for so long, her myth can sometimes feed herself (if, like Alba, you imagine the monster as female).

Alistair Matheson, the skipper of the Loch Ness Centre’s Deepscan search boat that trolled the lake with volunteer searchers like Alba, showed how the boat’s sonar technology had recently spotted a perfect outline of a huge Nessie-shaped monster.

But the shape on Matheson’s radar screen turned out to be a sunken Nessie model that had been made for a movie about the monster and then abandoned at the bottom of the lake.

Even the Loch Ness Centre’s logo — the instantly recognizable picture of a sort of humped eel cruising through waves on the lake’s surface — comes from a fuzzy 1934 black-and-white photo that was later proven to be fake.

Still, Matheson describes himself as a “believer,” though he imagines the monster as “something from this earth or something a bit more realistic” than some kind of ancient, alien or supernatural being. Scientists have speculated that the sightings could be huge catfish or giant eels.

But short of emptying the entire lake, Matheson said nothing will ever truly disprove a legend that has become a matter of faith for so many.

“People come here, they’re desperate, they’re looking, they’re searching,” he said. “And they really, really want to be able to hope that there is something that us humans, you know, we think we can know everything, to an extent.”

The weekend in the Scottish Highlands attracted some for whom Nessie is more of a vocation than a hobby.

Ken Gerhard, an American cryptozoologist who researches and writes about “animals” like bigfoot, Chupacabra and Mothman that live on the fringes of our known reality, traveled to Scotland from the states just for the event.

“I’m 90% convinced she exists,” said Gerhard, who also seemed to believe in the monster’s femininity. “I’ve never had a sighting or an observation, but if you immerse yourself in the evidence, you have over a thousand good sightings that are very consistent.”

Beyond the shaky photographic “proof,” believers’ primary argument in favor of Nessie’s existence is that the lake’s immense size and dark, peaty waters make it impossible to rule out the existence of even a large creature. 

Several volunteers mentioned that Loch Ness contains more water than all of the lakes of England and Wales combined.

Indeed, McKenna said they had heard some “fantastic bizarre” sounds on Friday, but unfortunately the recording equipment hadn’t been plugged in. 

“It may well be gas escaping from the bottom of the loch,” he said. “It could be an animal.”

“Of course it could be the elusive Loch Ness Monster,” he added. 

So if any of the attendees were expecting this weekend to yield a revelation, they went home disappointed. 

Nobody found the monster — but maybe that was never the point.

For many, this was a pilgrimage of faith — a kind of rejoinder to the high-tech dictates of hard facts that have left us so little room for magic and mystery.

“I think there’s always going to be a small part of me that wants to believe,” said Craig Whitefield, 29, a medical administrator from Scotland who spent the weekend scanning the lake’s surface with binoculars.

Like other volunteers, Whitefield said that only emptying one of the largest lakes in the world and checking every nook and cranny of the lake bed would satisfy his curiosity.

“It’s the same with every legend out there,” he said. “It just takes one person to believe and it just continues.”

#nunyas news #how fun

[dreamyzworldlove]

is there a child of bigfoot in monster high

boy oh boy oh boy

tldr: yes but not in the way your thinking of

monster high had a cute little line of exchange students all representing different countries monsters for scotland (rottland) they had a loch ness monster and later a troll from goreway but their big foot character is named marisol coxi and she’s from monster picchu!

something i love in this line is that their diaries were formatted to look like passports <3

but she is described as being the daughter of the maricoxi or south scarmarican big foot

fun fact abbey is her cousin and they go skiing/ snowboarding together <3

ty glass <3

#send me asks :) #glass #glass amphibians #mutuals my beloved #mh #asks #asked and answered

[pleuvoire]

been picking agito back up lately and i think it’s funny that, agito being an attempted sequel to kuuga, tsugami and hikawa are really clearly patterned on godai and ichijou particularly in the early eps before inoue’s particular brand of characterization has time to set in. tsugami is the fluffy quirky easygoing guy who metaphorically came from nowhere and harnesses a mystical power to transform and fight, and hikawa is the serious straight-laced cop (and, this time, actual canonical secondary rider) whose mechanical means of fighting the monsters are insufficient against the new enemy. early hikawa even has the ichijou haircut before growing it out as the series goes on, and the police in ep 2 go through a similar “that looks like one of the monsters... but... it’s fighting the monsters???” process that the cops in kuuga went through, and they even go “hey that guy looks like number 4 from before”. so it’s really clearly working off the same template

except then the inoue-ness sets in, and 1) Inoue Identity Shenanigans mean hikawa doesn’t meet tsugami in person for a long while and when he does he doesn’t know tsugami is agito (gestures at faiz and kiva and donbros and probably more) whereas right from episode 2 of kuuga godai and ichijou’s relationship is defined by ichijou being one of the few to know godai’s secret identity and constantly working together with him about it 2) Inoue Characterization means that hikawa becomes an easily-flustered failmoe butt of jokes and tsugami just kind of a weird guy who also trolls him and takes advantage of his boke-ness. (at least from what i’ve seen of clips and screencaps lol) so the end result really feels like what if godai and ichijou got derailed into inoue-land and it’s funny to watch that happening

[weirdwyvern]

for the bingo how about uhhh [rolls dice] grandmaster dashi, papyrus undertale, and the loch ness monster (affectionate)

I don't project onto Dashi as much as other characters but I DO project my autism onto him, which is a high honor. Also qualifies for A Beast Unleashed bc although we only get to see him whip ass maybe…once(?), he's still the baddest bitch on the Xiaolin side. I love this ancient little troll AND his silly magic inventions AND his precisely detailed rulebook.

putting Papyrus Undertale in a salad spinner not out of meanness but bc i think he would have fun

and biggest shout out to nessie for achieving bingo!! truly NO one is doing it like them. i want to be like this one day.

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