#beasts

[prokopetz]

All animals are either Beasts or Creatures. This is usually consistent for a given species, but not always; for example, most dogs are Beasts and most cats are Creatures, but occasionally one will encounter a cat who is clearly a Beast, or dog who's an absolute Creature.

[illustratus]

Andromeda by Arthur Rackham

[nemfrog]

Chinese dragon. The passing of the dragon. 1913.

Internet Archive

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Six lords and ladies with fabulous beasts, fragment of a wall hanging.

Place of origin: Basle, Switzerland

Date: ca. 1410-1420

Medium: Wool tapestry

[cultofthewyrm]

Magic the Gathering: "Displacer Kitten" by Campbell White

[sticksandsharks]

APAWTHECARIA by Stout Stoat Press

some of the illustrations I contributed to my friends’ solo-journaling game, Apawthecaria. you can pre-order the Ist printing now for fullfillment in June!

[aardciaga]

hello! ive been hard at work but heres a cute lil thang i drew. fin

[camiliar]

Beastie Valentines again (Part 1)

[popop-maru]

video I think about always

[thesilicontribesman]

Bronze Stag Statuette from the Persian Empire, 550 to 330 BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

[wayward-delver]

You can feel the power of a Bull Hippo just watching this, the most dangerous mammal in the world.

They aren’t fat at all, that’s all pure muscle! They cannot float, they just run along the bottom of the water!

[prokopetz]

Thesis: while strictly speaking a "beast" is any non-human animal, archetypally a "beast" is a large quadrupedal vertebrate, and the further an animal is from embodying that archetype, the funnier describing it as a "beast" becomes.

[illustratus]

Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimeras (Milton's Paradise Lost) by Gustave Doré

[puppyeared]

my brother as a beast

[53v3nfrn5]

Hokusai

[ghcstcd]

Big request for this one of Sleep and Vessel

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