#the kraken I totally warned Kayden about on day one

[krakenartificer]

Behold! The most uselessly complicated piece of fanart (I have) ever made!

(Minor spoilers for @derinthescarletpescatarian's web serial Curse Words)

Medium: macrame and embroidery Fiber: acrylic

What is it, you ask? Why, it's a picture of the lake monster's tentacle, magnified 80,000x!

The what? you ask. Well let me just let Max explain it:

The four materials detected by the enchanted microscope showed up in the photos as four distinct colours. Mostly blue and red, with a generous dash of green throughout and rare fine threads of yellow. With the four materials easily distinguished, the structure of the tentacles was obvious. A whole lot of long strands, twisted together. “It’s rope,” Kylie gasped. “Or thread or cotton, I guess, given how small it is.” “It’s much finer than thread or cotton,” Max said. “These filaments are subcellular in diameter.

But that's not all! The description goes on!

These parts are just twisted like rope,

but here.” He flicked to a new photo. “Look at how complicated the weaving is in this part.

And Max is thorough, so we're obviously not gonna leave it at that

Here, I made a kind of 3D model of a little section of the rope. It was a pain in the arse....But look. Here’s a 3D model of half a millimeter of the yellow and green, with the rest of the rope missing. Notice anything familiar?” “They’re the runes at Duniyasar,” Kylie said. “And on that skeleton.” They were. A complicated web of runes joined by lines, like a really elegant version of what Max had been modelling with wood.

According to the timestamps, this chapter was posted on 7/30, so I have spent the last 12 weeks with some part of my brain trying to figure out how to make a rope that was twisted like rope but also woven complexly, with the right mix of colors, as well as what the runes should look like and how to apply them. Actual construction time was, happily, much smaller. It did make me grateful that I don't have to operate at the .25 micrometer scale.