#fastitocalon

[gardengalwrites]

2023 FFVIII Fanart

I had never planned to share my artwork on here for the usual self-conscious reasons: Nobody will be interested in my stuff...Digital art seems way cooler these days...I'm honestly more of a writer than an artist.

But then I remembered that my vision for this blog was to preserve and showcase and honor different expressions of my favorite game of all time!

So here I am, contributing a couple of pieces to the FFVIII Museum. I drew these to go along with my fanfics and originally posted the art in the author's notes of the relevant chapters.

Enjoy. ☺️

Magazine spread featuring the Fastitocalon:

Xu as a glamorous movie star:

I look forward to creating more fanart in 2024.

Happy New Year to all of my Tumblr mutuals (and anyone else who is reading this)!

[naryaflame]

Fastitocalon

One of my moodboards for @tolkienrsb 2023, based on the poem 'Fastitocalon' from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. I've been lucky enough to see previews of @thedaughterofshadows's fic and it's SUPER cool. If you like in world meta, folk tales, Círdan, hobbits, and the transmission of tales through the years, this is for you!

[a-book-of-creatures]

It’s the legendary island turtle :0

“No man is an island” oh really? Really? What about him?:

[kwojciechowicz]

Gala charytatywna na rzecz Fundacji Akogo? Ewy Błaszczyk. Klinika Budzik.

Gala charytatywna na rzecz Fundacji Akogo? Ewy Błaszczyk w Hotelu Verte, zorganizowana przez magazyn Businesswoman & life. Przekazałam na licytacj�� grafikę giclée (edycja limitowana) “Fastitocalon”, potwora morskiego z “Księgi Istot Zmyślonych” Jorge Luisa Borges’a.

Hotel Verte, Warszawa.

Moja grafika na licytacji charytatywnej.

[egg24108]

squally on tha beach . I hope your vacay is fun!!!

i think he needs a vacation too

[ethernalium]

I'd junction a fastitocalon as my gf 🤧

[holycatsandrabbits]

Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.

Today: The Devil Whale: Island or Sea Monster?

The legend of a whale (or turtle) as big as an island can be found all over the world, from Sinbad to Pliny the Elder to St. Brendan; it’s known as Aspidochelone (Asp-Turtle) to the Greeks, the Devil Whale in Christian tradition, and Fastitocalon in the old English poem “The Whale.”

The story goes like this: a ship approaches what seems to be an island in the middle of the sea, complete with sand, hills, and grass. The sailors happily clamber onto solid ground and go about making lunch. But as soon as they light their cooking fires, the “island” begins to shake and sink, revealing its true nature. 

The Devil Whale is a fantastic story. But could it be a real thing? Are there whales as big as islands that sink ships and doom sailors? Well, sort of. 

Check out the blog post for the whole story and some monstrous writing prompts, such as:

What the blooming hell? Probably the weirdest thing about the story is that little detail which most convinces sailors that this is, in fact, an island and not a living creature: the grass. Some sources say the island-whale’s skin is like sand, and it has bumps that resemble rocks. Sure. But how could there be actual plants growing on the back of a whale? Well, writers, that’s up to you. Maybe the beast is still for so long that seeds can sprout in soil washed up by the waves. Maybe the plants grow by magic, and they’re filled with a rare power sought by the bravest spellcasters. Maybe it’s a glamour: the whale uses a spell to appear like an island, drawing in sailors to eat. Maybe there are even dangerous sirens who live on that “island.”

DannyeChase.com ~ AO3 ~ Linktree ~ Weird Wednesday writing prompts blog ~ Resources for Writers 

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[thesilmarilchick]

There are tales, told by hobbit folk – and only hobbit folk – that once, long ago lived a creature known as the Fastitocalon, or Turtle-fish. #fanartfriday #fanfiction

[teddynonstop626]

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[invincible-heaven]

Fastitocalon Rank B Monster Hunt - Final Fantasy XVI

[tehri]

You know what, I’ve mentioned Fastitocalon at times and I feel the need to talk about this magnificent bastard who only exists in a Hobbit-verse in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

So. Tolkien talks about Turtle-fish in literally just the poem Fastitocalon (linked here from the Council of Elrond website), in a letter (Letter #255) and in The Book of Lost Tales Part One. We don’t know much about them at all. But Fastitocalon is referred to as the last of his kind - the last of the great Turtle-fish.

Fastitocalon is essentially a giant turtle. When he’s not submerged, vegetation grows on his shell and gives him the deceitful appearance of an island. Sailors may decide to step “ashore”, but as the poem goes, Fastitocalon will notice their footsteps after a while on his shell and will dive or roll around to drown them. The poem literally advises sailors to “set foot on no uncharted shore”, which is pretty self-explanatory. If you don’t know what it is, don’t go there.

I don’t remember where I read it, because it is not in the book that I have (Tales from the Perilous Realm, which is a collection of stories and poems - Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (being the original poem-collection), Leaf by Niggle, and Smith of Wootton Major), but I have read a theory somewhere that the poem about old Fastitocalon is a Hobbit-version of the Fall of Númenor - a mostly child-friendly version, mind, as it really only deals with a gigantic turtle what might drown you and not the whole “Sauron convinced the Men of Númenor to worship Melkor and to make war on the Valar” thing. But it’s a really interesting theory to me, especially considering that this is (to my knowledge) the only existing Hobbit-verses talking about the sea that we don’t know for certain were written by Bilbo or Frodo or Sam. Who wrote Fastitocalon? Who had heard stories about the Turtle-fish and decided to write this?

What makes it more interesting is that the name itself is a derivation of astitocalon in Shire-speech, which is in turn derived from the High Elven word Aspido-chelöne - which, as Tolkien mentions in letter #255, rendered in Greek means roughly “turtle with a round shield (of hide)”, and the F was added in to make the word more alliterate.

So. A High Elven word, with an alteration in Shire-speech. All clearly referring to a gigantic Turtle-fish.

What damn hobbit met a High Elf and heard stories about these creatures and wrote a poem about them? If not Bilbo or Frodo, then who? The poem is only marked as “a Hobbit-verse”, and the writer is not mentioned.

Point is, I find this fascinating, and Fastitocalon is easily one of my favourite poems by Tolkien.

[lumau]

Sam and Fass, likely preparing for the quaterly video meeting with Heaven. (As we know, Samael likes to be the snake to annoy the hell out of Gabriel.)

[astrangertomykin]

Tolkientober Day 27 - a creature

Fastitocalon, the last of the turtle-fish, mentioned in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. A treacherous race that fooled men into landing on their shores and would drown them. Just a sketch because lord imagine how long this gonna take me to line. 💀

[kwojciechowicz]

3 Graphics Sold!

Kolejne dobre wieści! 

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[chimeride]

Can you draw Fastitocalon? Have you done so already? The turtle whale that mimics an island? Please tell me you have a picture of my boy

Fastitocalon, the one hundred and fourth Known One.

[ethernalium]

FFVIII Moonsters: Fastitocalon