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Source: Dorohedoro MUD AND SLUDGE Artbook

by Q Hayashida

Link to the full Artbook

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I think if i put into words how happy this type of image makes me I would get diagnosed with something

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The Onion really ain’t fucking around.

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by danielmercadante

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FROMSOFTWARE@fromsoftware_pr

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エターナルリング Eternal Ring (PS2, 2000)

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Second batch of pre-inked sketches.

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Something I’ve been stewing on for a handful of months now has been wanting to make birgs’ reproductive cycles weirder. My friend @primalmuckygoop suggested the fantastic idea of giving them “external wombs” or “eggs with legs”, and the result was…. These.

Essentially an overgrown tick that contains within itself the actual embryonic birg. Like a tick, it latches on to the host (typically the mother or a relative, but they can be attached to ‘midwife’ animals as well) and feeds on blood until the infant birg is ready to emerge.

This is by no means the only reproductive strategy seen in birgworld fauna; for some animals the process is mostly or entirely internalized, for others the “larva” exists as an independent creature as distinct from its parent as feathervanes from their walking seeds.

The fun begins when you consider the cultural implications of such a life cycle, from folklore about witches and vampires to ingrained concepts of “cuteness”, but I’ll save that for future posts…..