I love drawing Odysseus and Penelope post odyssey just. In each other's space. Sitting on his lap, playing with his hands, holding her waist, kiss on the neck. Every touch a reminder that they're together again
1K notes
·
View notes
llama i must know
do you have any thoughts about siren bad sanses? 👉👈(//ŏ﹏ŏ//)
do i
Horror: Now, Skull is a cecaelia. But I think Horror would be a little different. A big frightening toothed whale - particularly, a Risso's dolphin. Risso's dolphins have a cool effect where any time they get an injury, their scars lose pigment and remain white forever. Horror is slowly turning whiter and whiter as time goes on.
Just like usual, he used to be normal sized, but his injury kickstarted a bizarre growth spurt and he's become far larger than he ever should've. He enjoys targeting boats - since he's so big he can easily sink small ships, his favourite 'game' is ramming vessels and seeing who survives after the ship rolls over. He eats anyone who drowns.
I can imagine him falling in love with you from the water, and rocking your boat purely to get your attention. If you ignore him he slams into the hull in frustration. He'd never sink your boat, of course... not unless you were really, REALLY ignoring him, and he lost his temper.
Dust: An oceanic whitetip shark. The beautiful dark colouring. The 'dusty' white edges of the fins and tail. A solitary, wandering creature that's probably responsible for many of the open-water shark attacks attributed to other species... IMO, it's absolutely perfect.
Before joining Nightmare, he travelled long distances in isolation, avoiding large vessels or groups but hunting down and killing anyone (or anything) he caught alone. He'll follow prey for weeks; he often waits for people on boats to go stir crazy before he attacks.
He's a distant admirer. He'll stalk from afar, but come closer at night, when it's hard to distinguish his dark shape against the moonlit sea. He thinks you'll be a very pretty siren.
Killer: @aka-indulgence suggested Killer is a bull shark and she's absolutely right. Killer is hyperactive and murderous, but incredibly loyal to those he cares about (even if he won't admit he cares). Bull sharks are fast, notoriously aggressive, yet surprisingly social.
Killer just enjoys... well, killing. He sometimes plays with his prey, but the games are never as forgiving as Horror's, or as patient as Dust's. He likes to bite the limbs off of his targets and watch them struggle to get away.
He's extremely friendly to you. Worryingly so. He lacks any subtlety, he'll come right up to your boat and put his arms over the edge when he wants your attention, flirting like you didn't just watch him murder another siren in cold blood. A swift strike with an oar is usually enough to ward him off - but unfortunately, it never seems to chase him away permanently.
Nightmare: He isn't any one species. He's much, much older. He was something else before his corruption... but times change, don't they? If you don't know what to call him, he certainly doesn't mind the ego stroke of being called a kraken.
Obviously it would be ridiculous of me to make Nightmare anything other than a cecaelia. He's large, scary, black as midnight sea, beautifully bioluminescent when he wants to be. He has attributes of lots of different deep-sea creatures; retractable hooks in his tentacles, a toxic bite, terrifying teeth, incredible vision. He's not the kind of thing you want to encounter underwater. Ever.
The other sirens would be very reluctant to let Nightmare know you exist. But when all three of his underlings are chasing the same prey... well. You'll catch his eye sooner or later.
547 notes
·
View notes
shane in unsolved/ghost files: unnervingly fearless, irreverent, acts like a cartoon villain, called a demon/psychopath/robot, etc.
shane in puppet history: what if we didn't characterize the Chicxulub asteroid as a destructive aggressor bent on ending life on earth but instead as an innocent bystander just as inescapably bound by cosmic forces as we on earth are? how would it feel, going through it's entire existence falling through the infinite void and then to have its last moments to be filled with the vibrant, awe-inspiring beauty of earth hurtling up towards it? would it be joyful? nervous? or would it be just as terrified of its inevitable end as all the doomed little creatures below? 🥺
also shane in puppet history:
8K notes
·
View notes
Kcho (Cuban, 1970), Núcleos del Tiempo [Cores of Time], 2004. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 198 x 198 cm.
156 notes
·
View notes
i finally watched andrew scott’s hamlet, and god he plays hamlet so young; but then you see the gravedigger scene and hamlet’s actually been alive for thirty years and then it’s just: oh. we never do escape being a child when we’re around our parents, do we; we can leave, play at being adults, but the minute we come back we will always be ten twelve fourteen eighteen and our parents are flawed and perfect and broken and untouchable; and all of a sudden thirty doesn’t seem that grownup at all
152 notes
·
View notes