#cw: bones

[lixbethi]

// Spoilers for JRWI riptide post 109

+ CW: Skull + bit of gore what's good chip enjoyers?

[Based off the 3rd Dragon Age Magekillers cover]

[papiliomame]

X-Ray

Tucker: " Danny, do you remember when you said you forgot where you put the thermos with the Box Ghost?" Danny: " Yes..." Tucker: " I think I found it."

Headcanon that Danny's skeleton is glowing green.

[lemon-russ]

"I'm here. I'll stay with you. I'll protect you."

[yolk-the-joke]

i finally did a design of twisted shelly that i like yippee! also heads up bones, body horror, blood, and rot not drawn the best but it's implied below the readmore

so, i spinned a wheel to see who to work on next and shelly got picked. the dealo of endless is that gardenview got distorted and corrupted by an ichor creature the only one who didnt get twisted is dandy and shrimpo. the corruption made gardenview center into a whole world with fragments of garden view mixed with like minecarft inspired biomes. there's dungens for all the twisted toon and the mains twisted are not the only one with more fucked up form, and they each have their own fighting mechanism. shelly's dungen location is in a badlands, the enemeies are based on fossils, bones and dinosaurs. shrimpo must defat her and take her to dandy so he can use ichor to mend her wounds and go back to her og form. i'll design her after everything later.

[maniculum]

Maniculum Bestiaryposting Results: Miscellaneous Snakes

We have snakes!

Surely y'all know the deal by now, but in case you don't, here's a link: https://maniculum.tumblr.com/bestiaryposting.

To see the entry on which these pictures are based, click here:

To see the one on which next week's will be based, so that you can participate if you like, click here:

Now, art below the cut:

@silverhart-makes-art (link to post here) decided to draw these four snakes. I think they all turned out pretty interesting -- the Kramlengga looks rather elegant, and I think the Mlegtugwam is kind of cute.

@citrvsdrake (link to post here) has done five separate drawings for five separate snakes. All of them are quite good, actually, but I do think the Mlegtugwam hiding in its cave up at the top there is particularly delightful.

@cheapsweets (link to post here) has drawn all of them. I like them a lot -- the Zriggwanto continues to be very funny visually, and the Krefemklog strikes me as particularly well-rendered here. My favorite, however, is the Thagolgrom entirely because he's in a mazer and I'm fascinated by those. They're a deep research dive waiting to happen to me. (Also, thank you for providing alt text.)

@coolest-capybara (link to post here) had the excellent idea to borrow the concept of the "wound man" diagram for this, so we can see all the dangers of the snakes at once. All of this is fantastic, but I think my favorite is the Samgleshti which has somehow burrowed into the gold-foil background as if it were sand.

@wendievergreen (link to post here) has done this really cool-looking thing with black paper. I love it. the Thagolgrom and Kramlengga look especially striking. For information about the real-life snakes that inspired all these different depictions, check out the linked post. (Also, thank you for providing alt text.)

All right, let's take a look at the Aberdeen Bestiary.

Mlegtugwam

... so that's not a snake. That is our Default Medieval Wyvern Thing. I think anything serpent-adjacent has a habit of turning into these when our artist is bored.

Anyway, it's an asp. Looks just like one, too. Note that it's plugging its ears, but I'm not sure that defends against being Hit With Stick.

Girtranaeg

Come on. I know we keep finding out new layers of England's shocking lack of animal species, but I know you know what a snake is. I'm 100% sure England has snakes. Adders, at least.

I have to hand this one to the artist, though, they did a good job making the scales look visually interesting.

On the other hand, this is the scitalis, which is not a real snake, so maybe it does look like this. What do I know.

(I'm glossing over a lot of these not just because there are a lot, but also because there really isn't that much more written about them than what we've already read.)

Hrukgolklo

I'm sure at least one of y'all clocked this one, and if nobody did, someone probably just realized when they saw the illustration. This is the amphisbaena, and the above is possibly the most famous illustration of one -- seriously, I see it everywhere.

Which is kind of annoying actually, because again that is not a picture of a snake. There's also this thing going on here, which CheapSweets seemed to reach on their own from first principles -- it's really easy to read the description of the amphisbaena moving in a circle as it rolling along like a hoop snake. You can even see that kind of happening in the illustration, with the head gripping the tail. It comes up in multiple illustrations of the thing.

Now, I've always read it as... when the amphisbaena is crawling along, the heads are right next to each other and moving in the same direction, so the body forms almost a complete circle. I have no idea if a snake could actually do that, but bestiary authors aren't anatomists. Because, like, okay: of all the snakes, the amphisbaena is the least equipped to do the hoop snake thing, because if it grips its tail with its mouth, it's also gripping its other head, which should be more difficult and less comfortable, right?

Sorry, this is something that's bothered me for years.

Oh, also, the amphisbaena is of course fictitious, as is the hoop snake.

Thagolgrom

No illustration for this one, because it's "a kind of asp", so it's rolled into that entry. This is the (as far as I know not real) dissa.

Shabalrang

As above, except this is the appropriately named ypnalis.

Tafmiwukri

This type of asp is called emorrosis. Which... also has a familiar ring to it. I'm tempted to start looking stuff up to see if all of these asps are named after the effects of their venom, but it's past 11pm and I don't have the time.

Krefemklog

This asp is called a prester, and rules over a country of obscene riches far to the east... wait, no, that's a different thing. This kind of prester is just a cool snake.

Kraehozdim

This is the boa. Which threw me, because I thought those were New World snakes. Turns out, though, the genus Eryx is found around the Mediterranean and in various parts of Africa and Asia, so okay then.

Nrogklongo

Another asp with no illustration! This one is called spectaficus, which sounds cool.

Samgleshti

For some reason this one also doesn't have an illustration, which makes me feel cheated. It's the cerastis, which also makes an appearance in the Wonders of the East, though I think they call it corsia or something. Not a real snake, in case anyone wasn't sure about the horns.

Zriggwanto

... huh. Well, okay, that does look like a javelin snake. This one is the jaculus, which I was ready to dismiss as another imaginary thing, but apparently there might be a grain of truth to it? It seems that the boa species Eryx jaculus is so named because of a claim that the ancient Greeks used to throw them at enemy ships during naval battles to cause fear and confusion among the opposing crew. Maybe. I don't have the time to look into the veracity of that one right now.

But how 'bout that, huh?

Kramlengga

You'd think that one of these snakes being distinguished by having wings would have discouraged the artist from putting wings on the rest of them, but... well. See, now they don't have anything neat to do with the illustration for the winged snake.

Anyway, this is the siren. No, not that one, those are separate and turn up in other bestiaries. This is the snake kind of siren. It's also not real, which is a trend in snakes apparently.

Galwinglik

This is the closest to "snake", even if it has a fox head. It is the seps, which is also not real.

Yeakrindra

No illustration for this one. It also didn't get a header; the text just segued right from "seps" to dipsa. Might have been a scribal error somewhere maybe? Anyway, the dipsa is also fictitious.

And... that's all of them.

Goodnight; dream of danger noodles.

[marmoladon]

Back to da grindd

[clonerightsagenda]

The floods brought me a gift

[latentclan]

Rest under the cut.

Cw: eyestrain, body horror, bones (ask to tag.)

Read on comicfury.

[howlinginsolitude]

(My Personal) Hellhound Turned A Image

This is shamelessly inspired by fl0atingtherian's symbol designs, but since I've been leaning more into figuring out my own Hellhound identity I figured it would be fun to make. This is based off how I personally see myself and the symbol in the back is the Turned A. I hope you all enjoy.

[bubblehead-02]

ghost arm! Instead of a prosthetic, you get a skilled magic user to summon your lost limb back from beyond the grave!

[d20-dimwit]

I've had this book for a few years. I loved the inside cover so much and have been wanting to turn it into a dice box. Now that I'm prepping for my Mystery Flesh Pit game, I was finally inspired to get it done. It's a medical encyclopedia from the 1950s, very outdated but interesting to read through as I flipped through for pictures to cut out. The pictures on the bottom of the cut-out were found from inside the book itself.

[lawful-evil-novelist]

oc outfit tag

tagged by @foxboyclit and I was gonna do my Durge, Scourge, but I think we all deserve more Izze.

and a no pressure tag for @babymillennial and anyone else who wants to do it

[psysucker]

summon a friend

[kachavashka]

I visited the town of Serpentine, Noongar Country (South-West Australia) in February this year.

It was the height of the Bunuru (second summer) season, so it was very hot and everything was really dry. Although that particular day that I went was cooler than usual, reaching a maximum of 27.5 so it was quite pleasant to walk. Just for comparison, the day before reached a maximum of 41.7, and the day after was 37.4

The hill in the first photo is part of the Darling Range/Katamordo, which is the ancient continental shelf of the Yilgarn Craton.

The bordering Perth Basin is mostly flat except for a couple of ancient sand dunes here and there, so it's so strange to see the land just rise seemingly out of nowhere.

It felt so weird climbing to the top, knowing that the rock that I'm standing on is literally billions of years older than the bottom of the hill.

It also marks the end of the Swan Coastal Plain bioregion and the start of the Jarrah Forest bioregion.

I still haven't properly identified the skull in the 6th picture. When I found it, I thought it was a cat skull seeing as there are so many feral cats here. But upon closer inspection, I realise that it's most likely from a juvenile kangaroo.

[toothstealingpossum]

Bf gave me his bone collection hehhe

[qoldencrowns-art]

Another redesign concept, this time of an old oc called Ebony (from 5 years ago). She was a rainwing who's egg was cursed by an animus, causing her to have dull scales and parts of her to turn skeletal. She wore the flower crown because she thought it would distract from the horror of the rest of her appearance. This new character is...entirely different! Yay! They're a dracolich with Decay and Thorn magic, who resides in a forest of undead.