#peculiarity

[captainmera]

Hi Mera, long time no see 💙 You know... I have a q u e s t i o n 😂

No, but really - I just need my daily dose of IBWR knowledge

Sooooo... Can you say something more about selkies? I JUST LOVE SEBASTIAN, OKAY? I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HIM MORE

Ofc, no pressure, if you want us to find out about things through your comic in time!

Hiii Angieeee 😂💙

I can! :) I'll share a bit about Selkies and Sebastian!

I'll put it under a read more though!

SEBASTIAN RUSSWAL: "Mark my words, one day, I'll be great with this big brain of mine."

A nineteen year old peculiar, a selkie, who loves to read everything. Everything. He grew up in his parents bookstore, he works there in-between jobs. And he has had a lot of jobs. He knows a bit of everything, comedically so.

He's a dictionary with legs and a mouth; if you do the mistake of asking, he'll explode everything he knows into your lap. You will always get a bit more than you asked for.

Sebastian's mother is Irish! His father Spanish! They are both selkies!

His father, Samuel (Sam for short), aside from running the bookshop also have a side gig at the Gladiator club. He takes bets during the fights when there's an audience.

That's how Oliver and Sebastian know one another. They met via Sam.

His mother, Erin, has five sisters and each of those have four children, and each of those children have cousins on their father's side as well. Short in short, Sebastian has a lot of cousins (mostly women) and extended family! If you bump into an Irish selkie in London, chances are, they're a cousin of his!

Which has helped him get his various of jobs.

SELKIES

Selkies are a Beast-type peculiar! Categorised this way due to their aquatic and seal-like appearances.

In Asia, they would be called kappa, and in Africa they're simply known as mermen. In Sweden they would be called sälkies (with an ä instead, as säl means seal). In Scotland, the spelling is selchies.

Selkies main "power" is their skin! Or rather, the patch of darkened skin on their back referred to as a pelt.

Selkies are known as the cowards of peculiars due to their power. The pelt, when their adrenaline is high, hardens into an armour. This can happen rather easily for them. But the "cowardness" comes in with that, it often happens when they are afraid, anxious or feel threatened. They're known as runners, not fighters.

Selkies secondary "power" is how they are always levelled with the temperature outside. If it's cold, their body heats up. If it's hot, their body cools down. This is so that they can be in any body of water for an extensive amount of time. You may also not want to be bitten by them, as their teeth are all fangs built to be able to break through hard shells and fishbones.

Speaking of water; their lungs are better than anybody else's. They can hold their breathe for up to 20 minutes. When a selkie is underwater, they get their nictitating membrane activated (if you don't know what that is, basically it's a third eyelid that is transparent and protects the eyes from dirt.)

This makes them, of course, excellent swimmers and even better fishermen.

Selkies often have jobs involving the sea, lakes, fish or other such things. They also prefer living near bodies of water, harbours or coves. Water is also the best hiding place from hunters and witches.

Selkies don't really have a "need" for anything like other peculiars do. They just really, really, really, like fish. But it's not something they need or they'll go crazy. It's just.... THEY LIKE FISH.

And they will eat fish raw, cooked, boiled, with or without head or tail-- they like fish. If they share fish with you, you're a friend.

PECULIAR CULTURE: BEAST TYPE

Beast type peculiars are known for their physical appearance similar to animals or fantasy beasts. This has created a culture of either trying to lean into the animal association or distance from it.

Selkies, generally speaking, leans into it. They are so dependent on water, both ability wise and what they associate with HOME, that it is honestly rather difficult for them not to lean in a little bit.

The art of conchology has always been a selkie household craft. But it became a fad in the early victorian era, and it does pop up in late victorian once again as a fad. Conchology, for those of you that don't know, is when you take seashells and make literally anything out of it. A box for jewellery, a lamp shade, the frame of a mirror, a CHAIR, maybe glue shells together into a miniature statuette to mimic the fancy porcelain figures in rich houses.

(Sebastian's mum loves seashells. They used to collect them as a mother-son activity when he was little.)

(it was huge and they keep it in a special place)

Selkie culture also has this adorable thing with seashells that.. When you feel serious about someone (romantically), you typically give them the nicest seashell you can find to give your sweetheart as a way to ask if you may court them romantically. It's not a proposal, but it's a "wanna go out with me?" gesture.

The BWOOOOOOHHHH thing! Ah yes, the call of joy. "Bwoh!" is the sound they make when exclaiming surprise, joy, or excitement. It's just what they do. Who knows why or how it came to be, but no matter where a selkie is from, there is the "bwoh." Amongst selkies, bwoh is also a way to say "Hello! :D"

Aaanndd... I think that's all I'm gonna give for now! :) Or this will get too long!

Oh and.. Sebastian's surname is just Walruss flipped around into Russwal.

[nyxie-is-peculiar]

If you were peculiar what peculiarity would you have?

Id be a bone mender because I already sort of am.

I’ve been able to turn off pain since I was 5 (I’m 18 now and better than ever at it). Just today, I had a filling where they drilled halfway into my tooth and the dentist because the dentists messed up last time and the dentist told me that most people use the numbing/pain killing stuff and sometimes it still hurts but I turned off pain in the area in advance and went the whole procedure without it hurting. For reference I generally do feel pain. I can just turn it off quite easily.

I can accelerate healing so that now, any bruise, scrape, or cut I get, will heal in less than a week. Yes, I’ve tested this multiple times. No, I didn’t intentionally injure myself (I’m just clumsy). No, it wasn’t always this way. I’ve even healed a broken rib in 3 weeks.

[cherrymood]

Mr.Riggs, I have many questions...

I'm from Poland (just like Abe!) and I want Ransom Riggs to answer these questions:

1.In which town did Abe live in?

2.What was his polish surname before he changed it?

I NEED ANSWERS!!!!

[worstloki]

Do u think the brothers ever shipped the realms like wow Alfheim and Svartalfheim... white haired elves... those realm should kiss ...

[xxxnightcorequeenxxxv2]

Artist peculiarity: What's yours?

So I streamed drawing on Discord a long while ago and got the comment that my lines were crusty (when drawing digitally). I mean, yeah, I turn off smoothing lines for a reason. I can't stand when they're smoothed as it makes white dots on my black lines, they interfere when I go to color. It also helps my art have a more sketchy quality, so my drawing conveys more emotion. Something that can get lost with smoothened lines for me. So, what art peculiarity have you found that works for you? Yes, unconventional uses of tools and brushes, colors, etc, Are welcome. Anything out of the norm is what makes your art unique, after all. Also, I don't think anyone who uses smoothing is wrong. It just doesn't give my art the effect I want it to have. So unless I want the effect, I turn it off.

[corvianbard]

#5414

Lord of festivity In the drunken divinity, Break the singularity To have peculiarity In our creativity.

[peace-and-light-poetry]

The Horse in the Window

She walked to her destination Passing a building with Something peculiar in its window

It was a horse Though, not a living one But, still, a horse

Peering out at passersby

Generally, there’re mundane things Peering out of windows But, not in this case

And she was curious

How did the horse get there? Why is it there? And who put it there?

She had questions But no answers, though, Regardless, she knew

That horses, skeletal or otherwise, Don’t usually tend to look through windows

[probablymoons]

"If It's Sex You're Looking For..." Designed by Judith Johnson for Hallmark, 1971. Archived from The Peculiar Manicule.

[qvotable]

When someone won’t let you in, eventually you just stop knocking.

Ransom Riggs; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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[brandyschillace]

I grew up as the weird (autistic) goth kid who spent a lot of time in graveyards. I didn’t have friends. So I invented them. That’s why I’m an author, I think. I crafted worlds full of wondrous diversity, quirky characters, peculiar souls. I knitted them into families. I often felt at home when I read; the work of Neil Gaiman, of Terry Pratchett, of Ursula Le Guin, of Terry Brooks… My fiction is meant to be participatory too. When you read it, you should feel like you came home and friends were waiting to greet you.

Maybe in a really cool graveyard—like this one at Scone Castle.

[n0ahsferatu]

i’d say they’re going on a road trip but they don’t even have a car smh

[lucdoodle]

Oh man the Buggy wink scene!! I had to draw it!

[marc--chilton]

house hates being pitied up until he can weaponize his disability and it's honestly kind of a serve. he got wilson to get under the sink just by being a little pathetic for a second. like wilson just took over like fine i'm doing this now just give me the thing (getting on his knees in his nice pressed slacks)

[seasideretreat]

The abominable

The truths we cling to are unhappy truths that have a semblance of reality about them. In this way, we need a thing to be a thing and we reprove the sensations of clear happenings with the items of veritability and hopefulness. In this sense, the necessity of certain things is relative, we only see the new form of the things that exist, and we do not perceive into the depths of holiness and transparency in the grand scheme of things. Whenever we dream of things in motion, we get to see their gifted hopefulness in the phantasmagoria of the world and in this way are leaping up for joy and hopefulness in the same way an ordinary person understands his veritable hope for reality. In this last and final stage of our necessity, we are finally reunited with the past and this gives us a mighty tool to aid us in the fight against darkness.

[wanderingconstellations]

“i would rather die than to love you from afar„

rafayel would tuck your hair behind your ear and looks at you with loving eyes when you fall asleep listening to his ramblings.

rafayel who acts defiant and dramatic for the fun of it, he adores seeing you grin and laugh at his silly behavior.

rafayel relishes the warmth of your hand intertwined with his. although you may not remember him from your previous lives, he'll make sure to cherish you in this life anyways.

rafayel, who's heart overflows with love. he would do anything to stay by your side, even if it means giving up everything he has for you.

___

xavier, who puts himself on the line for you. your safety is his top priority.

xavier who rarely ever refuses you. he can't, he can't find himself refusing you. ask him anything, and he would do anything in his power to give it to you.

xavier, who would always get hurt and never go to the hospital. he always comes to you with one or two more wounds that you scold him for getting. it isn't his fault he keeps on getting hurt, maybe he just wanted to see you.

xavier would fall asleep everywhere, and sometimes even on you— if you let him. you may not see it, but his eyes is practically brimming with love for you.

___

zayne, who gives you gifts as a sign of his affection.

zayne treasures the memories you guys make together. he keeps those memories close to his heart, loving you despite being cursed with the pain that comes along with it.

zayne who gets flustered when you catch him eating sweets. although he is a doctor himself, he can't resist sweets— which makes you giggle at the mention of that.

zayne, who boldly holds and kisses you. he doesn't care if his love for you will kill him, he would rather die than to love you from afar.

a/n: this might be occ and inaccurate LMAO. had to use the fandom wiki to make it seem accurate as possible. i haven't played the game in a while so ^^