#tree cryptid

[gentrychild]

ive decided to turn over a new leaf and be kind to you from now on. you will no longer suffer from my schemes <33

I 100% believe you. What beautiful flowers I will put very far from me.

[gentrychild]

*raises my arms and make WHOO sounds as I am being rotated*

Hello, my number 1 fan who didn't throw another sandwich at me during the night. How are you doing in this fine day?

Rotating you in my brain like a microwave. The usual.

[jasminetwil]

Happy Lunar New Year, fellow goblins!

Today (29th January) officially marks the first day in accordance with the lunar calendar. This year belongs to the Wood Snake! 🪵🌳🐍💖

Those born under this slithery zodiac sign are said to very enigmatic and intuitive. Private and reserved, Snakes tend to act according to their own judgements. They are also very determined to accomplish their goals and dislike failure.

Wood Snakes in particular are charming, intelligent and creative, with a refined taste. However they may also be overly secretive, cunning and sometimes ruthless.

My Wood Snake is inspired by the colours of the Rainbow Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) and the bark pattern of the Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia). It also has Ganoderma lingzhi fungi growing from its body. This particular fungus is known as the mushroom of immortality and is revered in traditional Chinese medicine.

Wishing all of us the very best year to come, and may the Wood Snake bring us lots of happiness and positive changes. 💖

[bluecapsicum]

[annafridacharlotte]

[saturnisscreaming]

If you ever want to find me go to the forest and wait in the clearing that is oddly dark for the middle of the day, I'll be there eventually

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Mothman by Adam _RL

[jadebrightwind]

At long last, I present to you: The Hodag! This piece is done is the same vein as my Mothman poster, and they represent two of my favorite cryptids. As a Wisconsinite, I can't help but feel some pride that we have one of the most unique cryptid designs in North America!

I'm ordering prints of this shortly, but in the meantime, you can find this design on my INPRNT and my Teepublic! You can also grab this design in person at The Summer Solstice Festival in Milwaukee, WI, or at Fan Expo Chicago, which takes place from August 15th through August 17th!

[owlf45]

romance me with mosquito facts

mosquitoes, when in a condensed enough space, sound like gentle rain.

i work with a specific mosquito species, called the aedes agypti, which carries diseases like dengue virus, west niles virus, and yellow fever. the males are generally smaller than the females, though emerge into adults sooner. you can tell the difference between males and females by the fluffy antennas of the males.

gay mosquitoes everywhere.

mosquitoes tend to be social, if stupid creatures. if you stick two mosquitoes alone in a cage, they probably wont chill (and wont mate). it's just not their style. this is especially frustrating when trying to set up specific genetic crosses.

although i never met them, there used to be a researcher at the lab who did the most batshit stuff. we keep our mosquitoes in mesh cages, so they can't escape but they can feed through the mesh (so we don't have to reach in and out of the cages and potentially let some loose). this old researcher used to grab the morning newspaper, roll up his pants, collapse in a chair and settle his calves over the mesh cages for literal thousands of mosquitoes to feed from him. for hours. i want to meet this man so bad.

mosquitoes are stupid and annoying and prone to killing themselves akin to a goldfish constantly getting stuck in a filter. but strangely enough, you grow to love them. they are simultaneously fragile and durable, easily discernible and difficult to hunt. you can tear their hind legs off and put them through shock a few times and they'll be fine, but a single finger will smush them (quite inconveniently, when you know that bitch could've moved!).

directly after bloodfeeding a female mosquito, if you kill her—often by clapping her directly between your hands (female mosquitoes are the only ones to bloodfeed)—the blood will still be warm.

although i dont screen larvae for traits as often as I used to (I tend to do more database/mosquito caretaking work now), certain gene-linked traits can be found physically in the larvae and pupae stages—sometimes they glow bright blue/green under fluorescent lighting, for example.

like I said though, i mostly work with caretaking. i do the bloodfeeding, i replace their food and water, and i make sure they're in good health and can lay eggs on a proper surface. the mosquitoes under my care live for about a month and a half, though if they're still alive by the time we need to hatch the next generation, we simply fridge them and kill them off. put mosquitoes in the fridge for a few minutes and they'll go to sleep. put them in for a few hours, and they'll usually die— we keep them in for 24 hours to make sure, though.

mosquitoes are difficult to contain. compared to other biochemistry departments, you have tiny creatures that are mobile and can fly, and can't always be seen by the average person unless they're specifically looking for it. I've worked in microbiology labs before, but if there was contamination, it was solely on the researcher. contamination from a loose mosquito is hard to track. this is all to say that I work in a bunker—double doors, minimal vents, no windows.

mosquitoes are the deadliest animals in the world. mosquitoes kill over a million people a year (hence my research). i sit in the back of the bunker sometimes, in the side warm room where we keep our cages of mosquitoes, hundreds of different genetically modified lines in progress at a time, and I have blood on my palms— blood that I fed to my subjects before I squashed them because they escaped from their cages, and I think about the fact that for over 200 lines of this species, I grow them from eggs to adults to death and hatch their offspring again and again and again. i think of lovecraftian horror and I hear gentle rain and remember images of war that keep me up late at night, and I wonder what's the point, for a few numbers in my bank account, and then another mosquito has gotten loose and lands on my arm and doesn't bite me, because it's already full; because i already fed it; because it's just looking for a small, dark place to rest in the folds of my jacket.

mosquitoes love to hide on black surfaces.

[gentrychild]

hiiii gentry <3333

Hiii cyber <3333

[gentrychild]

Or you could leave that person enjoy their calm and serenity.

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[pinescryptid]

The Pines Siblings – Family Photo Mode

They may be surrounded by cosmic horror and mystery triangles, but they’re still just two siblings being unbearably cute.

[deadoaktreeattheedgeofthevillage]

[cryptidclaw]

Oooh can you summarize who are Squirrelcrow kits and who are LeafMoth kits? The family tree doesn't fully load on my phone and tumbler's search feature doesn't load every post for me ;o; Also does Breezepelt exist in this AU? Who are his parents and is he still with the DF? O:

I get asked about this a lot so I decided to make a simple family tree for the fire fam! Hopefully this helps! I’m going to add this image to the master post so ppl can find it too!

Written explanation:

Holly is a SquirrelCrow kit. Jay and Falcon (lion) are MothPool’s. The two sisters had their kits pretty much on the same day so Squirrel was able to raise all three together as siblings!

Mothpool also had a daughter, Dove, in Jay and Falcon’s litter but she died soon after birth, she was reincarnated (a second time since she is one of the 3) as Dovesong!

Nightcloud is Crow’s older sister and Breeze is her son and Crow’s nephew!

Alder and Spark were born to SquirrelCrow after Squirrel moved to Wind Order and they are raised in Wind!

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Also I haven’t designed Night and Breeze sooo they are simply plain colors :P

[cutiepieautistic]

Dipper pines stimboard

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[hall0ween13]

No drawings today.

But here are a few pictures from my day in the forest. <3

CW animal bones!

Had art block today, sorry guys. But at least the forest had interesting things to show...