You had fair warning, the sea monster was drawn to scale at the edge of ye olde map (John Garcia from The Third Book of DragonQuest: "Skills, Monsters, Adventure", SPI, 1980)

🎵 Boos and ghouls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something great? Comb with us and you will sea, The amazingness of the bloody-belly!

This is bloody-belly, this is bloody-belly, Bloody-belly, Bloody-belly, Bloody-belly, Bloody-belly! 🎵

Some 20 years ago, as the signature fog covered the sand dunes of Monterey Bay, bloody-belly comb jellies were first described by scientists at our research partner Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)! These jellies live in oxygen minimum zones, areas of the ocean where oxygen saturation is at its lowest—and something we painstakingly recreate for them in Into the Deep.

Their various sanguine shades may stand out to us, but act as the perfect camouflage in the deep where the color red looks black, helping them, and any glowing food tucked away in their tummies, hide in plain sight. There’s much that we have learned about our blood-red belly friends, and yet there’s much that remains a mystery!

The Driftwood Cove Battle Map

You can now download our new 44x32 seaside battle map on our website! All you need is a team of monsters (or one big one). What comes to mind?

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this came to me in a dream

It will never not be funny to me how in Shadow of Ronin Lloyd had, like, emo hair. Full on hair over one eye. Sitting in a volcano by himself and MeditatingTM all day. Probably listening to MCR. Iconic.

Look at him. Truly the Lloyd design of all time.

Mysterious Lotus Casebook, Eps. 1, 40, and bonus // Mahmoud Darwish

neflix's atla for me is just "wow! that idea's cool! i hope someone writes a fanfic with that but good :)"

She chewed on her lip, hoping. If I had wings I could fly back to Winterfell and see for myself. And if it was true, I'd just fly away, fly up past the moon and the shining stars, and see all the things in Old Nan's stories, dragons and sea monsters and the Titan of Braavos, and maybe I wouldn't ever fly back unless I wanted to. (Arya X, ACOK) The ferrymen were rushing forward, poles in hand. For a moment she did not understand what was happening. Then she saw it: an uprooted tree, huge and dark, coming straight at them. A tangle of roots and limbs poked up out of the water as it came, like the reaching arms of a great kraken. The oarsmen were backing water frantically, trying to avoid a collision that could capsize them or stove their hull in. (Arya IX, ASOS)

Hmmm, interesting...

All evidence suggests yes

I fucking love this video

The Astral Spider's lair is threaded through a belt of asteroids, like so much gossamer. Sticky, glowing strands hold the drifting rocks together in an ever shifting web; catching solar dust, ships and lost celestials. A colony of spiders lurk within the hollow, chewed out rocks, waiting for their next meal.

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Thank you for taking a look and be sure to check out the Patreon to see a preview of whole the set, which comes with 18 variations!

A wizard's laboratory with a view. Looks like the local dragon is bothering the fleet again. (Thierry Ségur, Casus Belli 31, February 1986)

An interesting feature of some Casus Belli covers is the art behind the art. The central scene is bordered by a different space or a completely unrelated image. In this example the main painting appears to be surrounded by the artist's studio, with drafting tools on a slanted desk and other art pinned to the wall. One of the wizard's imps has escaped the frame of her scene to fetch a Coca Cola bottle in the lower left.

Didier Guiserix's electrifying scene on issue 31 covers up a picture of a cat in the background. For issue 32 the elf sits in front of a medieval fantasy scene to which she belongs, but she seems to be perched on a rusty steel drum related to the near-future sci-fi scene in the border.

as i see more people fall to the post limit i am becoming increasingly aware of my own imminent demise. so i think ill just be catching up on boop backs and then going to sleep. which still might never happen considering the boopconomy is booming with no end in sight

Genthrix’s Port

A port for all - pirates & sailors bold, even navy's fleets of gold. But bring the wizard's rightful share, or set sail elsewhere, if ye dare. 🏴‍☠️

→ Read it here!

shadow knowing of weather thanks to all the books he and maria would read on the ARK, but getting to experience it for the first time

finding out thunder can be a lot louder than he expected (he definitely thinks something's going Wrong the first time the building shakes; he's never really one to take comfort in storms like some people do, but he's not afraid of them either once he's used to the way they sound)

being completely captivated by snow because no book can accurately describe that specific quality of quiet and sereneness when it falls, enough so that he barely notices the cold (he tries to count the flakes at first, but gets so entranced by the way it looks at night under a streetlamp he loses track and ends up just basking in the almost-silence)

conflicted about a warm summer rain because he doesn't like water in his fur, but petrichor is almost captivating in the same way snowfall is and keeps him outside in it longer than he intended (he finds he likes the smell of it more than the sound; he promises to get himself a porch so he can sit outside during rainstorms just for that reason)

taking the same fascination in clouds that some have about stars, because to him they're the far-away whimsical thing that can make interesting shapes and pictures

resting while curled up in a field of flowers and getting lulled to sleep by the sound of the breeze rustling the grass and his quills

Guilty Kiss performing Deep Sea Cocoon

~Return To Love ♡ Kiss Kiss Kiss~