#I am much happier with this design

[rainbow-flavoured-skittles]

I have redesigned Cole. don't ask me where he got the armour from because I don't know either

Name: Cole Hence-Brookstone

Alias: Talon

Powers: Geokinesis, clairvoyance, enhanced healing and durability, enhanced senses

Age: 15

Backstory: While being trained by Yang, Cole gains some of his memories back and learns that he used to be a vigilante. He completes his training and goes back to Ninjago City, creating the identity Talon. The ninja notice the new vigilante running around and seek him out. They eventually become reluctant allies. Cole regains his memories at some point but keeps his identity secret out of fear. During one of Garmadon's attacks Cole is injured and brought to the Monastery, where his identity is revealed and a reunion occurs.

Additional notes: He was only dead for a few days before being brought back. After being resurrected, he gains the ability to see and interact with spirits. Yang was unaware of Cole's past and his connections to the ninja until Cole told him. He comes back during the time between Aspheera's release and after the oni invasion.

His first ref and backstory here

[arikad0]

wip but updated my catified Cloud design a wee bit

[gingermaple]

what a cute guy!!

[wasyago]

we're at it again🕺

[justablah56]

you guys I love gorgug soooo much

[chrisbangs]

i finished thesis, won an award, and have graduated.. hello 👋🥸

[yanderespamton78]

Pinup!!!!! the baby!!!! the guy!!!!

sorry if this looks kinda iffy the majority of this was drawn between 11pm and 2:30am so i was very tired loll

also yes that is a totoro bag i dont care if totoro doesnt exist in cyber city he has a totoro bag come at me

Pinup belongs to @turntableart

[okiidokii]

Monster High Redesigns (For Fun!) Part 1/?

Okay, remember that Monster High Redesign/AU/For Funsies thing I was doing? So I did draw the first batch of characters/ my hypothetical first wave of dolls (except Deuce :[ sorry. It's just, and I mean this in the least misandristic way possible, I don't know how to draw men or make their fashion enjoyable.)

But not only do I HATE drawing the Monster High art style, but Fashion Design also isn't really my niche? Like I gave/give Mattel shit for making the G3 versions of characters unfashionable (and to an extent I still do, like you have the resources and connections of a mega-corporation at your disposal) but redrawing and editing those designs over and over again really made me realize how hard that is to do.

So I decided to take this "AU" of mine in a different approach, less of "What if I had the opportunity to make my own generation of Monster High dolls" and more of "What if I was in charge of a Monster High show reboot" so it was a lot more character design focused (Something I'm slightly more confident in my skills with)

[lostparadise-found]

Yes, I chose not to include the names of the characters for the latter few cast members because I want them to be a surprise.

As a reminder: as of posting this, I am halfway done with the Demon Prince's official design!

[astr-hal]

hits him with the transgender beam

[arandomapocalypsedweller]

Wandering Monster: Entiaton

One of the many bizarre monsters seen all over, Entiaton use the patterning and texture of their bodies to disguise themselves as hay bales during the day. Their eyes are sensitive to sunlight, so it mostly travels at night. The end of the tube that extends from the back of its head is where its mouth is located, but the needle-like claws hidden within the tuft on the end are surprisingly dexterous, allowing the monster to also use this tube like an arm.

Because these monsters are nocturnal, have three eyes, and are similarly widely dispersed, its been suggested the Entiaton may have a connection to another monster - the Memoramble, but no proof of this theory has been found.

[katz-cradle]

Next Gen Knight's redesigns #1

yes I redesigns/remade my Shovel Knight next gen,, heheho anyways I will not blabber for long but I have personality written out for them (which i didn't before,,, becuz I am stupid ha).

Anyways, Descriptions under the cut bc I don't want this to be to long n annoying:

REZIE SEATLAN (He/Him)

Son of Luan Seatlan

"Reize is a very laid-back calm person who just wants the people in the valley to be happy and safe, he’s a naturally protective and overly caring person. He’s a much more mature person then he was when he was younger and not just mindlessly attack anybody who looks a little shifty, Reize has become a sort of big brother type towards most of the knights and he tries his hardest to be a nice person no matter what happens to him. Reize has a tad bit of trauma and lasting scars of his times with the Enchantress though he barley remembers that."

IANIRAH “ILLUSION KNIGHT” MEEBER (She/They)

Daughter of Madam Meeber

"Ianirah is a curious yet aloof person being new to the valley she has learned from her caretaker not to trust people, she chose to be a knight due to it being her “destiny” as told by their caretaker. Illusion Knight is calm yet gloomy always seeming as if she has their head in the clouds being easily distracted by books or practicing magic, they’re very hard to approach due to their scary demeanor and resting mean face but once people get to know her she’s pretty nice despite rarely showing it. Though something about her feels familiar to most in the valley, and this underlying sadness to her existence…"

MORGAN “SPEAR KNIGHT” CADDELL (He/Him)

Son of Shovel Knight & Shield Knight

"Morgan is a classic overachieving golden child pushing himself to be the perfect knight of the valley, he’s the eldest of the two most loved and well known knights of Landurr after all. Spear Knight tries his hardest to be caring and friendly towards the people of the valley which is the reason he joined the Order of Vigilant, He’s a over thinker and planner being paranoid of hurting his perfect reputation (oh and the others too I guess)."

ENID “WILD KNIGHT” CADDELL (They/She)

Daughter of Shovel Knight & Shield Knight

"Enid is a carefree hippie gal they rarely care about others opinions on her due to her laid-back personality, Wild Knight is a caring person which is the reason they joined the Order of Vigilant to watch her twin brother. They aren’t really the best at their job due to how relaxed they are in all situations even extremely dangerous situations, her “live life where it takes me” attitude annoys most people especially Spear Knight."

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apologies if these personality blurbs aren't the best I ain't to good with those,,, but yeah enjoy <3

[donuts4evry1]

Hi!!! I love your account with all of its fabulous jellyfish information. And I wanted to know, where are you getting aforementioned fabulous jellyfish information? Is there a book or a website or documentary or smth? Do you have any recommendations?

Tysm and I CANT WAIT for the advanced quiz :DD

Oh!! I'm glad you enjoy it ^-^

I get my jellyfish research from a variety of places, actually. But since I'm kind of obsessed with collecting my information in one place, asks like these are my cup of tea :)

My main source of jellyfish lore comes from Wikipedia. Just like the legendary Hank Green, I ended up downloading Firefox's tree-tab extension so I can organize the tabs by natural taxonomic order. It's really quite relaxing, actually.

Wikipedia, understandably, isn't always the best source though (Take the pages for Cephea cephea and Atolla wyvillei for example. The Cephea cephea page is almost entirely blatant misinformation while the Atolla wyvillei contains an incorrect and misleading throwaway line)

That's why the next logical step is simple- Wikipedia references! This serves as a beginning into further jellyfish research.

Let's take the reference page for the Aurelia aurita, for example:

The information citing citation 14 was super interesting, so I pulled it up on another tab to read it, and got this:

Then I just had a field day reading it all.

One big site that's used as a reference on Wikipedia is humorously named WorMS (World Registry of Marine Species), which goes into the specific classification of pretty much every jellyfish taxon (it is very. VERY comprehensive). It'll tell you how many species are in a genus, what scientific name has become synonomized with another, and even link to the original documents that describe the species (though they may be written in a different language and come in a scan- so tough luck if you don't understand the language since um... it's pretty hard to translate a scan).

Eventually that wasn't enough, though, so I branched out into searching scientific articles myself. My personal favourite website to do this on is ResearchGate, since the UI is the easiest for me to use, but I get plenty of research from other sites and publishers. (And pssst, if you can't access papers through a school or an institution, there's always sci-hub and libgen 😉)

The rest just depends on to how savvy you are with google. I despise normal reporting articles on jellyfish (Most can't tell the difference between them anyways), so I skip those and simply go to the jellyfish papers themselves lol. I've found out a lot of interesting things about jellyfish just by searching random questions on google.

Um, but I suppose I do have extra stuff to add.

Apparently, making a video game for jellyfish is a surefire way to learn more about them (especially when you write them as sapient beings lol). You start to crave niche, specific knowledge of them- like um... If they sleep or not, or what things can make them sleep.

Um... Another thing I've learned about jellyfish? The japanese are absolutely OBSESSED with their jellyfish. Their jellyfish spotlight sites are incredibly detailed (if not a bit region-specific), and I honestly trust them more than I trust our English-speaking sites.

In particular, I adore kurage-ya.com and gogo zoo aquarium, though you definitely will not be able to read anything unless you have a good translator (Kurage-ya is written in such an adorable voice.... and gogo zoo is incredibly detailed. I suggest going onto both for full coverage of your jellyfish knowledge, though)

(I also suggest going on different languages of Wikipedia- you can learn SO much stuff that normal Wikipedia doesn't give to you. Like the Chrysaora pacifica and Nemophilema nomurai have more robust Japanese pages, and the Spanish page for Order Semaeostomeae is a lot more beefed up, haha...)

To learn more about niche jellyfish facts, I also suggest looking through jellyfish husbandry sites (Especially jellyfish warehouse- travis knows so much more about jellyfish than I do it's actually pretty crazy).

As for Jellyfish documentaries? I only know of a few good ones, but I'll list them here:

^^ (not a documentary, but the jellyfish warehouse is friggin awesome and they even have a youtube channel)

Umm... So yeah that's pretty much all the things I got for free.

I think any jellyfan would suggest Lisa-Ann Gerswhin's book, Jellyfish: A Natural History.

I'm pretty sure you can find it in any major bookstore or whatever (online, at least), but it goes super in-depth about pretty much everything you need to know about jellyfish.

She goes SUPER in-depth about things like jellyfish life cycle, jellyfish anatomy, jellyfish ecology- and SO, SO MUCH MORE. She doesn't stay in Phylum Cnidaria, either, branching out into Ctenophora and even Chorodata(?) (Since Salps/tunicates are also there ig).

If you want to learn about specific jellyfish species, however, I would honestly just stick to Google and write it yourself. She only highlights about 40 different jellyfish species, and only mentions the textually relevant things in their bio. I would use the book just to learn about jellyfish basics, tbh (since it primes you to learn about the more technical jellyfish language you'll inevitably encounter in jellyfish articles). Overall, though, Lisa-Ann Gershwin's book is incredibly detailed, in-depth, and gorgeous and I could not recommend it more to anyone.

Other than that tho? All the English jellyfish books kinda suck, and I'm seriously considering branching out to japanese books instead (There's one that focuses on 114 species of jellyfish and you can bet your manus that I'm salivating over it rn i am enamoured with Japanese jellyfish culture)

Erm... Anyways?

TLDR;

Wikipedia is a good place to start. Reading Published Scientific articles is where you can get the bulk of your information, but Jellyfish-dedicated Websites will also be pretty knowledgeable as well.

There are a choice few Youtube documentaries you can watch, but if you want to read an actual book, Jellyfish: A Natural History is your best bet.

[aoifereal2]

Aaron sisters of dorley is a he/him lesbian btw. If you even care

[mbat]

also another thing about wow character customization stuff: i found out about the mission you can do to unlock eredar options when making a draenei, which also included a dark purple/pink hair color, and dude its making me so happy that i can give that to koralei because not only does it look better than any other draenei hair color on her, but its also actually more accurate to the design i gave her in drawings!! thats my girl!!!!!

[neverendingford]

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