#ancient crab

[blasphemousfabrications]

The perfect man

BOW DOWN TO THE ANCIENT ONE

[thursdaylast]

finally figured out a Bdubs design! not sure if i'm happy with it yet but oh well! he is extremely glare coded to me but like in a scary shadow creature way and I love that for him <3

[sarafangirlart]

Did Ares and Hera get along?

When Ares is obedient (which he usually isn’t) then yeah

[aisling-saoirse]

Horseshoe Crab Breeding Period, Brooklyn, NYC - May 24th 2025

[swan-swanno]

@farceargon

~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

Medium: Ceramics

[spineless-lobster]

Yapping to my friend about ancient greek instruments and I can tell they’re getting just a little bit sick of it but I cannot stop YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT THE GLORIOUS CROTALUM!!!!!

[cow-cowson]

My favorite crabby coin, a 2,450 year old Hexas

425 BCE Akragas (Agrigento, Sicily) AΣ Hexas. Reverse, Crab with pellet and fish facing right. SNG ANS 1051, Calciati 73.

Obverse, eagle standing atop a fish.

[bed-buge]

MARCH 28TH MARK YOUR FUCKING CALENDARS ‼️‼️‼️

[twilightofthesandwiches]

[blowery]

Look at this beauty.

Crab Vessel with Double Spout

Colombia, Calima Region (Ilama Period), Calima Ilama, 1500 BCE–100 CE

5 1/2 × 6 × 5 in. (13.97 × 15.24 × 12.7 cm)

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Also my archaeopterix fossil that I definitely didn't end up sculpting mirrored on accident has been finally polished and now I just gotta figure out how to paint it

[mochifowl]

If I had a nickel for every time I got a blue crustacean dragon in Dragon Adventures I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[tanuki-ticks]

"Limulus...they're still here. We're not so unalike... they've just been here longer."

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

The Wild Robot Protects

book 3 in the wild robot trilogy, middle grade sci-fi

A strange poison tide infects the sea and surrounds the island, and Roz ventures out into the ocean to try and find a solution

she explores flooded underwater towns and meets lots of new creatures, until a wise Ancient Shark tells her that the poison is caused by a human mining station, and she’ll have to find a way to stop it

[ghostriderslade]

Adventures in the Crab Crotch Nebula Chapter 22 - "A Grand Finale".

Princess O-Mahma Pa-Jhama had merged with the Sun Saphire and was transformed into the living embodiment of light and hope for her homeworld of Saphira. As one, her all-female Space Siren Squad fell to the ground and prostrated themselves in homage to their newly risen queen.

"Gosh," Captain Boomer Thrice said in sheer awe and admiration. "You're as pretty as the newly risen Sun."

"Flatterer." The Space Princess gave an embarrassed smile even as she lit up the entire palace with the soft blue and pink light that radiated from her perfect body.

"We have to get back to the ships and complete the mission." Princess O-Mhama said reminding herself of their stated mission to the home planet of the Crabs.

"Already ahead of you." Boomer spoke into his wrist Space Communicator. "Jimmy, me and some very lovely ladies need a ride. Can you pick us up? Tell the Princesses ship that she is safe with me and she has what they sought. Tell them to start slathering the planet with the Secret Anti-Crabs Space Sauce."

Boomer, Princess Pa-Jhama and the sexy Space Sirens ran from the palace of King Crab Chachaka. The evil crab had slipped away, but he would get soon get his comeuppance with a steady stream of white bacterial ointment squirted from the heads of the twin alliance rockets.

As the group raced on, their path was suddenly blocked by the most horrific giant crab crotch monster they had encountered yet.

"Let 'em have it, ladies." Boomer said, and the Space Sirens began blasting the beast to pieces with their space laser guns. The princess of Saphira and Captain Boomer of Earth heroically joined in the fight. The crab monster was vanquished without any losses.

Boomer led the Princess and the women to the spot where his best friend and first officer, Jimmy Kricut had set their space rocket down.

"All aboard," Jimmy called out as the beautiful ladies jumped onto his open gang plank. Then, when he saw Princess Pa-Jhama in her new celestial form, he nearly fainted. "I've never seen anything as beautiful as you."

"Isn't she something, Jimmy? Nothing like her back in Muenster, Wisconsin."

When everyone was aboard the Secret Space Force Rocket, Jimmy quickly blasted off and got the ship into orbit. The ship struggled to break free of the crab planet's atmosphere.

"Captain." Lieutenant Jimmy called out. "I've got some drag. There's something attached to the main shaft of our rocket."

"Pull up external view cameras, Jimmy. There! Look it's that puss-filled leech, the Crab King himself. But he's grown to giant size and is clinging to our shaft like a tick!"

"Shall I squirt him, sir?"

"By Uranus' hairy eyeball, give him both cylinders, Jimmy!"

Everyone aboard Boomer's rocket cheered with joy and excitement as a giant glob of sticky, white goo shot out of the rocket's ports and splattered all over the King of the Crabs. The crew could almost hear the Crab King scream "nooooooo!" as he was swept off the smooth red rocket and into the cold vacuum of space.

The twin ships from Saphira and Earth joined together and began shooting their collective anti-crab loads all over the planet's atmosphere. Their mission would end the Universal crab infestation and a trillion men and women from a thousand planets would be free of crabs at last.

----

Doctor Spector met Captain Boomer at a little cafe outside the main headquarters of Space Force.

"You did good, son. You saved Earth and the galaxy one again. Are you sure I can't sweet talk you into staying one for one more adventure?"

A stunning young lady, perhaps the most beautiful woman Doctor Spector had ever seen, looked up and smiled at them.

"Eyes over here, Doc." Boomer laughed. "That's my girl. You'll have to get your own."

"Oh ..." Doctor Spector looked back and forth and then whispered, "Princess Pa-Jhama?"

"Shhhhh, Doctor," she smiled again as she came over and took Boomer's offered arm. "Even celestial space princesses need a vacation with their best guy sometimes."

"Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle." Spector whistled. "You kids do deserve some time away."

Boomer tipped his hat as the very handsome couple began to walk away.

Then he stopped and turned and walked back, "ummm, about that other little thing, Doc?"

"All taken care of, Captain." Spector returned the whisper, reassuring his number one asset. "You are not a crab baby daddy. The Crab Queen was lying. She wasn't pregnant."

After Boomer and Princess Pa-Jhama had departed, Spector flipped open his space wrist communicator. "Have the human/ crab hybrid babies ready. I'll be there in 15 minutes. Amazing! The first known examples of two alien species being able to procreate."

Someone spoke back to the Space Force Commander. Spector shook his head.

"No, Captain Boomer need never know about this. Space Force will keep this secret to ourselves. No one one will ever believe such a thing to be real anyway. They would have to be a ridiculous conspiracy nut to even suggest such a thing to the public. No worries. We can experiment in blissful secrecy and build a grand hybrid army. Doctor Spector out."

[miirshroom]

A theory about Lhutel and Ensha

In the Weeping Peninsula Lhutel is found in the Tombsward Catacombs, dropped by a Cemetery Shade. Her ashes read the following:

"Lhutel sacrificed her life so that in Death she could continue to protect a soulless demigod until their revival, earning her the hero's honor of Erdtree Burial."

If her ashes are held by the Cemetery Shade, she is protecting nothing, at least not in ashes form. So how is this meant to be interpreted - did she fail in her duty and become captured by the Cemetery Shade? Was her spirit improperly severed from the body and the body in Erdtree burial was corrupted by decay caused by insects? Is she on another plane of existence protecting the soul of the soulless demi-god before we gain the allegiance of her headless form?

Anyways, it is one of my less grounded theories that the soulless demi-god who Lhutel is meant to protect is "Ensha", but also not exactly the Ensha who is in the service of Gideon. The Royal Remains armour set includes bones studded with gemstones in a manner that is reminiscent of the Catacomb Saints of 16th and 17th century Catholicism. Essentially what happened is that some people in the 1500's stumbled on a Roman catacomb dating to the 3rd century and the Catholic Church declared that all of the bones were holy relics belonging to martyrs, regardless of who they actually belonged to. Literally, they couldn't know whose bones were in the mix - they just wanted more holy relics to inspire the faithful.

Royal Remains

"It is said that the bones belong to an ancient lord - the soulless king. The lord of the lost and desperate, who was known as Ensha."

So, the convoluted theory is that an unplundered catacomb dating to the time of Nokron & Nokstella was discovered relatively recently and believed to hold the ancient soulless demigod, and the mausoleum knights were formed to guard the tomb. Or multiple speculated tombs. But despite their best efforts, some guy plundered the catacomb, declared that he found the bones of "soulless king Ensha", fancied them up and crudely fashioned them into an armor set, and told everyone to call him "Ensha" now. Even if he did find a full and correct set of bones, he probably doesn't even have the original head, because it is a trend with the mausoleums that "soulless" is equated with "headless".

It is also my guess that the soulless demi-god referenced by Lhutel's Ashes and the soulless "Ensha" could be Miquella's soulless companion mentioned by the spirit at Castle Sol. Either that, or Miquella fancies himself king Ensha reborn and his soulless companion is a contemporary from the ancient time of Ensha.

This would make sense of false Ensha attacking when half of the Haligtree medallion is obtained. But regardless, it is strange to me that this dialogue is so often thought to be referring to the soulless Godwyn, when Golden Epitaph reads that Miquella wants Godwyn dead forever. Of course for this whole interpretation it would need to be accepted that the soulless demigods actually placed in the Walking Mausoleums are a red herring - they are Marika's unwanted children after all, so why resurrect them?