#i love mustelids

[stanleypolecat]

STAN<3

[ninamodaffari]

Today I learned that the hyena is more closely related to the mongoose than it is to dogs!

[donutfloats]

Ough... the ref looks so old now but its like maybe 2 minths old RAHH

Expect thy lamb drawn soon

AGHHHHHH THIS DESIGN IS SO PRETTYYYYY I love them so much

[gay-little-izzet]

Commission of a bloomburrow-ified Sorin Markov for @baronvonchop!!!

Since a vampire bat would be the obvious choice (honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if we did see a vampire bat Sorin, or at least if someone else has drawn that), we went with something a bit more subversive, if still fitting: a white ermine (the weasel variety, not the moth)

From what I know of them, the elegant appearance of stoats belies their status as a fearsome predator to other small animals. The pale coat and beady eyes of this particular species felt like a good fit visually, too.

[sky-blue-cat]

Back to my usual furry stuff ajdfsjhfdg have some neuvifuri!

[unsanctitude]

NEW awful awful disgusting cruel woman oc..😁

she is a pine marten, she grew out her tail to be like a whip/garrote so she can beat the truth out of people :]

no name for her (yet?) but i refer to her as spine marten HAH

[canines-crown]

What's the strangest way you felt species euphoria?

Cause mine definitely happened today when my mom called me a "Frechdachs". That's German and it means "cheeky badger"

It's something you use to jokingly scald a child after they did a mild prank on you or said something well... Cheeky

I am, indeed, such a cheeky badger for narrating my mom's journey up a hill as if she were an animal in a nature documentary✨✨✨

[skyliv]

user change....it's pretty much the same but uhhh

anyways look look girl has death laser plans behind a cute animals folder i love her for that

and mask design??? maybe she wanted a mask for her suit at one point???? that'd be cool but i can't see how she'd fit her hair under that (looking at sky spider for that one)

and concert party too!! i like to think that those and all the other trips/parties r older,,, before the collider yknow

[small-toast]

I think they should kiss 🦡♥🦦

textless version below the cut

ok so I still haven't really posted any OC lore yet but like...y'all can understand what I'm cooking right??

[nepeteaa]

Shop Update on Tuesday 2/14 (Valentines Day!) at 12pm EST! See ya there :-) 💌

[stanleypolecat]

Stylan

[midbyte]

finished sketch comm for @dookerino!

[angelspigeon]

Mama to Mama

At the instant Tartaglia, the 11th Harbinger, was dispatched in Fontaine, the Nation of croissants and Justice, he knew what he would do!

Going to fight a Dragon like he used to do in Liyue?

Of course not!

He bought a little boat and rowed it until he would reach a nice little area over the sea. If it had been Liyue or Snezhnaya, which he knew a lot, he would probably have jumped in the water and try to wrestle any fish he might found. He had so much fun fighting some Dragon–it always came back to it–fishes in Liyue or catch with his own hand Goliath creature be it fishes or crabs. But he didn’t know Fontaine and if he loved a challenge, he also knew it would be stupid to jump right into the waves without a second thought.

On his boat, his fishing-rod dangling in the water and lot of baits in different container that he gathered himself, Tartaglia could enjoy some leisure time. He could look at the fishes and by extent the water fauna and analyse their way to live. He spotted jellyfishes waltzing in group and even an octopus! That made him drool when thinking about making his speciality and then even laugh as he remembered himself the face Zhongli did the one time he served some to him. It was before he knew about Zhongli’s phobias! How could he even know? Zhongli always brought him at the seafood restaurant to make him happy. After that, Tartaglia surely put even more effort to cook for him.

He stroked his belly with a smile at the thought of Liyue.

Of Zhongli.

He went there back for his birthday. It was his little pleasure: going to Liyue to see the man who dared to steal his heart. And as it was his birthday he received a delicious present. Zhongli loved him too much and he felt like he couldn’t give enough love in return. Here was a challenge he could try to hold back.

Loving this God as much as he loved him.

Zhongli cheated, though! He had so many years to learn to love this much.

Lost in his thoughts, Tartaglia stopped to look at the fairy of water. Until he heard a squeak. A deep sound of despair.

He snapped himself back to reality only to see a long creature climb into his boat.

“Well, hello you?”

The creature hummed at him, that long sound of despair adding itself every now and then. The animal came to the edge of the ship and pointed its pink nose to a direction then came back to Tartaglia and this too many time in a row for it to be a simple coincidence.

“What is happening?” Tartaglia asked. “You want something? Food?”

The creature redid the same following of movement, squeaking to the distance, pawing at the ground with haste.

“You want to go there?”

The animal squeaked.

“And I have to row, uh?” he teased.

Tartaglia pulled out his rod from the water and installed himself in the boat, rowing towards the direction the creature was looking at.

He thought they looked like those stoats, ferrets and other weasels there were in Liyue. He remembered sawing some with Yoimiya in Inazuma, but mostly in Liyue. There was this long and elegant appearance to them. Except this one was huge. And it kept squeaking with an evident distress.

“You tell me if I go to the wrong direction, yes?”

The creature looked at him.

Did they even understand him? Or was Tartaglia simply weird?

As he kept rowing, they slowly approached some reefs. He had to pull away from there. It was mostly coral but he didn’t plan to crash his ship right away.

But at the instant he started to change direction, the creature became excited again, looking at the reef.

What?

Was it a creature of death who wanted to end him?!

But Tartaglia grasped something. A sound. A long meep. Panicked.

Tartaglia frowned.

He rowed back to the reef, more cautious. The creature pawed again, the tail bristled.

Tartaglia rowed faster.

And then… he saw it.

Them.

A tiny creature alike the first one, between two rocks and some corals. It meeped panicked and happy at once, spotting them.

The big one jumped in the waves and swum to the little one, grabbing them in their… her probably big arms and brought them over their fluffy belly. They started to chip, happily, pressing their head against each other.

Tartaglia approached enough to see if everything was going alright. No blood in the waves? No wounds…

“You lost your baby, uh? Your baby decided to play a big adventure and lost himself?”

He smiled but he could only think about Teucer. He would have been like this as well if ever he had learned from Tonia Teucer went missing before finding him in Liyue.

“I have the same at…” He hesitated. “…home.” Tartaglia smiled. “Anyway! I’m so happy you found each other back! Do you want me to bring you somewhere?”

The creature must have some understanding of what he was saying because she put her baby in the boat and jumped in it as well. Installed in the boat, she started to lick her baby, giving him a nice bath. Tartaglia laughed and pressed his hand over his belly once again, stroking it gently.

[jellycatslippers]

i love scavenger slugcat duos in rain world so muchhh godddf

i have a piebald scavenger oc with their bright pink slugcat partner >>>> the being carried away by vultures duo

[izhape]

wolverines are so awesome like they're literally smaller bears with fluffy tails and they're adorable i love you wolverines

[whats-this-mustelid]

Huh, I didn't expect to see so many cool mustelids while I was here. Guess I'm just super lucky.

Just kidding! Of course, these are all taxidermy from the American Museum of Natural History. I'll be posting some more photos soon, but I could only fit so many in one post. Enjoy these for now!