#aello

[thrivinghigh]

ANYWAYS fuck twitter 🖕 this is aello and she’s got a weird relationship with lycaon, they love and hate each other very much!

[feenick]

I've had these three around for a decade now

[purseowner4thequalityanimation]

Shin Megami Tensei NINE's demon roster consists of new designs, returning designs and REPEATED designs. And no demon demonstrates this better than Harpy, whose model appears in NINE's roster no less than 5 times. Rather than just post 5 gifs and be done with it like I normally do, I have decided to curate a short overview of the BEST Harpy appearances in MegaTen! Hit "Keep reading" (after viewing this post in my blog because the formatting gets fucked up if you don't) NOW!!!!

Harpy and Furiae appear in Shin Megami Tensei 1 but they don't share assets yet so who gives a crap. Siren is a blue harpy, I guess.

Furiae returns in Shin Megami Tensei II with a new sprite, joined by

Ocypete, Celaeno and Aello! There's some slight asset resharing among them as Aello and Furiae share the same base sprite, but the others share with non-harpy demons so as far as this post is concerned they're original. Combined with artist Kazuma Kaneko's tendency to embellish demon designs in artwork and you'd never expect that all these birds were destined to be textureswaps for an underperforming 2002 XBOX JRPG.

But they were! Now we're cooking! In Shin Megami Tensei NINE the 5 bird-ladies return in one fabulous package. If you love Harpy then you'll love Harpy being given a haircut and a dyejob and reappearing four times. You'll love how they appear alongside themselves for hours of gameplay because they're within the same 10-28 level range. As an added bonus for the asset-reuse lover, said gameplay takes place in looping CG render backgrounds arranged into dungeons so just imagine leaving the town square in Ocarina of Time and arriving in that exact town square except mirrored. By the end of NINE you will love asset reuse, because you will not make it to the end of NINE otherwise. (The harpies are also in Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE but without the looping backgrounds it just isn't the same.)

Honorable mention to Persona 1 which squeezed in the named furies Megaera, Tisiphone and Alecto by using the same upperbody sprite as the three named harpies. Unfortunately Atlus were too afraid to include the named harpy Podarge for a total of 7 unique birdladies, so Persona 1 will only be commemorated by an opacity-reduced overlay of the six they bothered including.

Only regular Harpy survived to the DS-3DS era, using her Soul Hackers design where her head kind of looks like a pinecone. After gracing us with her presence in Strange Journey (+ Redux) and Shin Megami Tensei IV(+ Apocalypse), the Harpy disappeared from the pages of SMT history never to be seen again. As for actual history, I think Harpies were evil birds in Greek mythology but don't quote me on that.

Special thanks to @veskscans for the SMT1/2 art of Harpy, Furiae, Ocypete, Celaeno and Aello, and @eirikrjs for the Soul Hackers Harpy scan. NINE gifs by me, other sprites from the MegaTen wiki.

[defness]

Aello :3

[monstersoffilgaia]

[teapotart]

Silly Basara fanarts 🦉

[thetudorslovers]

Harpies were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their hands. The harpies seem originally to have been wind spirits (personifications of the destructive nature of wind). Their name means 'snatchers' or 'swift robbers', and they were said to steal food from their victims while they were eating and carry evildoers (especially those who have killed their families) to the Erinyes. When a person suddenly disappeared from the Earth, it was said that he had been carried off by the harpies.

Pottery art also depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Ovid described them as human-vultures.

To Hesiod, they were imagined as fair-locked and winged maidens, who flew as fast as the wind:

"[T]he Harpyiai (Harpies) of the lovely hair, Okypete (Ocypete) and Aello, and these two in the speed of their wings keep pace with the blowing winds, or birds in flight, as they soar and swoop, high aloft."

In this form they were agents of punishment who abducted people and tortured them on their way to Tartarus. They were depicted as vicious, cruel, and violent.

The harpies were called "the hounds of mighty Zeus" thus "ministers of the Thunderer (Zeus)". Later writers listed the harpies among the guardians of the underworld among other monstrosities including the Centaurs, Scylla, Briareus, Lernaean Hydra, Chimera, Gorgons and Geryo.While Roman and Byzantine writers detailed their ugliness.

[briefbestiary]

Daughters of Thaumas and Electra, and thus sisters of the rainbow goddess Iris and the forsaken Arke. The harpies are perhaps most famous for their role in plaguing Phineus.

[hellleo]

some ponies ive drawn this month :)

[sashetha]

Gonna be posting some oc art to get this account started. Figured its as good a way as any to sorta ease my way into it. Aello is one of my Devomas, which is a CS by a friend of mine. They've got their own page with heaps of lore relating to them and their setting at large (https://devomas.weebly.com/), but if I had to summarise the species in brief terms I would say they’re a very adaptable bunch of aliens capable of altering their anatomy over time to better fit with their envoirment. They feed on energy, are for the most part able to survive the vacuum of space and posess the ability to levitate, among other things. In their setting, which is the Galaxy of Erra, they do exist both within and outside various societies, but their position is frequently a precarious one due to somewhat justifiable fear from the other denizens. One faction, helmed by the robotic Xooves, has a particularly loathful outlook upon the devoma, regarding the "energy thieves" as an existential threat. Luckily for Aello, he lives within the territories of the Galactic federation though, where xoove influence is very seldom felt and unlike some of his kin he is rather well adjusted to urban life.

[thrivinghigh]

now look at aello

[feenick]

My main harpy trio

Now in the same 80x80 sprite size I've done at least 100 of by this point.

[shyjinks]

it’s been like a week since i posted chapter 4 and i haven’t started chapter 5 lmao

been focused on a different project, but we’ll get there someday. i still need to plot out how i want the chapter to go before i can write it, anyway

in the meantime, have a doodle of my fatui oc (said project i have been focused on teehee; their name is aello)

[defness]

Aello :)

[fluttershiesworld]

Song rec: Satanic Slumber Party part 2 by tropical fuck storm

this song is so noises!!!!!! songs to listen to very loud while wearing headphones or driving a car (:

my rec is hold my hand by newfound glory! 💜

[cryptixotic]

🌿🦇 𝓑𝓪𝓽𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓚𝓪𝓾 𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓭𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮 𝓐𝓻𝓮𝓪 🦇🌿

Finally sharing this beautiful project, I'm thankful i got to do some illustrations for it ! Many thanks to Elise Sivault for trusting me with this 🦇 See the second poster here ! more details about the project under the cut !

Papua New Guinea is a biodiversity hotspot home to 95 species of bats that are increasingly threatened by fragmentation because of commercial logging and agricultural practices. The primary objective of this project was to enhance our comprehension of the ecology of various understudied bat species native to Papua New Guinea. Additionally, it aimed to shed light on the pivotal role these bats play in providing essential ecosystem services such as pollination, seed dispersal, and pest control within two designated conservation areas.

Such endeavors have the potential to significantly increase conservation efforts in this biodiversity hotspot, where scientific studies are scarce and the knowledge of species remains limited among the local communities residing in the towns and villages adjoining the two conservation areas.