#celestial scales

[anxiouscr0w]

Celestial Scales [DCA Mer AU] - Eleven

HARE, better known as Merfolk Eleven from Celestial Scales.

Hello ladies, gentlemen, and creatures of the night. This was a bitch to draw, I hope you know that. It's also completely upside down--

ANYWAY! Eleven was introduced in journal 7 in Chapter 5. The ship may have sunk, but he's still waiting for you to get back into the sea to greet him like an old friend...

[arcade-chaos]

-skitters in and puts this directly in ur lap-

i am not immune to wanting to kiss bitey fish. i blame @anxiouscr0w designs too tasty, i simply must chew on them like gummy worms you must understand! Jen does not, but I'm sure those won't be necessary, surely two bites is enough for them riiiight?

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 274

You know what is fun? Baby Ghost Jason. You know what could be even more fun? Ghosts are Dragons. 

Jason? Aware of none of this. 

He was on comms, y’know listening and rolling his eyes at Dickwing, who used his real name, really Dick, he mocks. It’s just a stakeout, nothing new there, honestly boring when he could be blowing something up instead. It should have just been a stakeout. 

Yet there’s something suddenly there, something behind him. Something that causes his hair to stand on end and his comms to spark into static like some sort of horror movie. Something, something with clawed hands with corpse-pale skin tipped in black, stained or dead or something else, tilting his head up and up and up as he’s frozen. 

“A child, out here? Alone?” a voice crackles, hisses, hums, and purrs, somehow all at once, unnatural in its tone. He can’t move, he needs to move, he has to move, but it’s like the space around him has gone cold and dead, like he’s stuck in the Pits once more as claws hold his head and his vision blurs. “Sleep, child. Rest- we’ll be home soon.” 

[anxiouscr0w]

RAAAAAHHH SCREAMING CRYING CLAWING AT THE WALLS OF MY ENCLOSURE GRABBING YOU

HE IS JUST A SILLY GUY!!!! Oughhh you drew him so well too! He just wants a lil taste!! I am losing my mind over this - he looks so cheeky, he knows EXACTLY what he’s doing!!!

Hey. Um. @anxiouscr0w I um. I drew something for you. Im not normal about everything about Umbranara/Eclipse

And also a little silly doodle

I will say this again, I want that fish man carnally, and I feel as though he wants me carnally as well. In a bad way

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9.16.24 / 9.17.24 - september supermoon

[sun-archeron]

thinking abt luffy, and how he grew up so poor that if he wanted to have a decent meal he had to go into the forest and fight big, dangerous animals. but at least he was strong enough to be able to fight, while there were people that lived close to him that had to live amongst the trash, hoping to find scraps they could sell so they could eat once during the day.

thinking abt how luffy values food so much, how he always eats as much as he physically can. how he values the people that feed him, that eat with him. whether its a luxurious meal or just an apple they share.

thinking abt how pretty much everytime he saved/liberated a place/island/nation was bc someone from the place had fed him.

how when he actived gear 5 he was fighting to save a nation that its main problem was starvation. and not only that but the food there had also been weaponized to mock them and make them suffer more. and it was fighting for them that he fully reached the form of nika, the form that will allow him to bring down the current government and its system which creates these areas where people starve

also! how in zoros introduction we see him eat something that was on the dirt, partly bc he hadnt eaten in a long time and partly bc someone made it and risked themselves to bring it to him. and how sanji is always happy to cook for anyone whos hungry and absolutely hates food waste. and how these two are luffys wings

[serpentface]

FAMILY TITLES AMONG THE HILL TRIBES

(ft. various linguistic notes and tangents)

In-universe Brakul’s self-given title of ‘Red-Dog’ is Brakul 'ne-Dainh' in his native language (Bict-Urbinnas dialect of the Highland language group) and Brakul 'Chin-Reyla' in Wardi. Ne-Dainh/Chin-Reyla is not something he treats as or considers an actual surname or identity, just a self-styled nickname. He already has a title.

Family names/surnames are not a native practice among the Hill Tribes (though some clans or individual families have adopted this practice), and all traditionally use titles that designate immediate ancestry, clan and tribe. These full titles are officially given when one comes of age and are spoken aloud in ceremony (with the entire direct male and female lines listed by name, with most traditions expecting 12 generations of each being named).

The function is to cement one’s sense of place in the world, and their place in a direct ancestral line, which puts the person under the full watch and guidance of their ancestors. It's also a critical method of recording lineage- the long held practice of each person memorizing at least 24 total direct ancestors allows for very long, largely accurate records of family history to be kept, with some people able to trace their ancestry all the way back to initial settlement of the Highlands (or even beyond).

Brakul’s full title is:

“Brakul virsum Kuligan et Borunil an Briyonis ne-Taig an Bict-Urbinnas”

Which dead literally translates to “Brakul son of Kuligan and Borunil of the Foothills (of) Red-Cattle, of the North (Urbin/Erubin) River Valley” but has a much richer meaning in the original language.

"BRAKUL VIRSUM KULIGAN ET BORUNIL"

The actual meaning here is closer to ‘Brakul, son of Kuligan and his father’s fathers, and Borunil and her mother’s mothers’.

“Virsum” means ‘child (son/daughter) of’ (the gender is contextual), but implies the person’s status as a descendant of a full male and female line of ancestors. A different word is used if you’re just saying ‘I’m so and so’s son”. The title describes him as a son of his father Kuligan and of Kuligan’s male line, and of his mother Borunil and Borunil's female line.

All ancestors (within this particular system of kinship, divided into one direct male line from the father and one direct female line from the mother, and not including husbands from the female line or wives from the male line) are invoked and credited with the word ‘virsum’. Speaking it as part of the personal title is part of the routine and necessary honoring of one’s ancestors, who watch over their descendants from the afterlife and can temporarily return to the land to guide and protect (and sometimes punish, or teach sharp lessons to) the living.

"AN BRIYONIS NE-TAIG"

The actual meaning here would be understood as ‘clan/people of the foothills where cattle are lit red by the setting sun'.

‘Briyonis’ is the word for ‘foothill’, citing his clan’s specific location being the foothills that form the slopes of the north Urbin river valley. He is of a lesser clan within the powerful North Urbin River tribe. His clan benefits from close affiliation to their more powerful ruling clans located directly in the river valley, which grants them access to a greater variety of cultivated foods, but their actual position in the foothills still renders them predominantly reliant on cattle for subsistence. Clan names referencing cattle or horses are very common, given their frequent centrality to life.

The ‘ne-Taig’ literally means ‘red cattle’, but the ‘ne’ color word for red specifically invokes shades of red seen in and cast by a rising/setting sun. This red cast is culturally regarded as a unique beauty and evocative (and part of the name) of the solar god Hraighne. The foothills his clan is physically located on are a vantage point from which the western horizon is not fully obscured by mountains, and they experience very striking sunsets and are directly touched by the light. This is fairly unique to this location, and is invoked in the clan name and identity. ‘Ne-Taig’ here suggests a visual of grazing cattle illuminated red by the sun as it crosses the horizon.

‘Ne-Dainh’ carries the same implication, a dog illuminated red by setting sunlight. The Wardi language does not have a comparable word for a sunlit red and ‘Chin-Reyla’ really does just mean ‘(orangeish) red dog’ (‘reyla’ is specific to orangey-red colors, which is the closest match he could get. There’s no way to impart the meaning of ‘sunlit-red dog’ in Wardi that is non-clunky enough to be appropriate for a name).

"AN BICT-URBINNAS"

‘an Bict-Urbinnas’ is fairly simple, Bict means ‘north’, and 'Urbin' is the name of the specific river that stems from a northern and eastern tributary. This river has a very ancient name (or a derivative of one) that predates settlement by the Hill Tribes, and its exact meaning is lost.

The root -(n)nas designates a river valley, but has strong implications of being an esteemed and bountiful place, rather than solely a literal geographical descriptor (as the river valleys are centers of power and trade in the highlands). It may be a loanword from the Wardi language family, as its usage is VERY similar in form and function to the Wardi -(n)nos, which also suggests a place of esteem and bounty (more specifically having connotations of a kingdom).

’An’ literally means ‘of’, but in the specific sense of describing the place and identity of a collection of people. ‘an Bict Urbinnas’ would be understood in speech as ‘of the north Urbin River Valley (people)’. The clans historically settled in and around the valley of the North Urbin River form the totality of the Bict-Urbinnas tribe.

The ‘Urbin’ word predates the contemporary Wardi name ‘Erubin’ for the river, the latter of which invokes the semi-mythological founding figure Erub, who himself was of a Wardi tribe located downriver to the south of the Highlands. The real historically extant ‘Erub’ was most likely named Urub after the river, with his cited name shifting over the centuries in folklore, and the Wardi name for the river shifting with it.

‘Erubin’ as a corruption of ‘Urbin’ functions very well in Wardi language due to ‘-bi/bin’ denoting something as a ‘gift’, usually in a more metaphorical sense. ‘Erubin’ is understood as meaning ‘(The river that is) Erub’s gift’, and the Erubin/Urbin river is a key tributary to the much larger Black river, one of the key rivers that feeds the region's wetter and more fertile west. This 'gift' meaning also occurs in the name of the southeastern Imperial Wardi city-state Erubinnos, which is understood as meaning ’((The kingdom that is) Erub’s gift’. He is considered to have conquered and taken the land (from the core city's actual founders, the Wogan people) and established a kingdom there in the early days of warring Wardi tribal monarchies.

[dontbotheraziraphale]

crowley setting up elaborate scavenger hunts so aziraphale can solve some Mysteries, find some real good Clues 😌

[demigodofhoolemere]

Me: Oh yay, an animation for The Celestial Toymaker!

*looks at it*

Me:

[atherflame-theconcubus]

Intro/basic premise of Scarlet scales

Y/n (a marine biologist) manages to get stranded on a remote island because of three oddly colored siren, while on this island, they discover a young mermaid that seems to be a hybrid of a crested mermaid and starry mermaid. As they pick up the young Mer, they notice a yellow crested mermaid, glaring at them. Unbeknownst to y/n, this is one of the young hybrid parents.

Eventually (after a few shenanigans of trying to keep the small hybrid safe and not get bitten by the crested mermaid), Y/n meets the young mer’s family & decides to name them Sun (the crested Mer), moon (a Starry Mer), eclipse (the older pup) & hallow (the younger pup).

Since eclipse & hallow are a something new within the animal kingdom, Y/N decides to do some field studying of the two pups while trying to contact someone to rescue them. Meanwhile, the two wary parents will leave eclipse and hollow with the clueless human so they can go hunting.

All the while, the 3 siren that caused Y/N to be stranded or consistently, trying to get the human and the pups to come into the water while sun and moon are out hunting, sometimes beaching themselves in an attempt to reach the three

[anxiouscr0w]

Celestial Scales - Umbranara [Eclipse]

[Fic Snippet] The creature looms over you like he’s sizing you up, long sharp rays decorate his head, slowly moving the way Sun’s do. They’re black as coal, tipped with a shiny, almost metallic gold, like daggers dipped in gold leaf. In fact, most of his body is similar in colour, abyssal zone black with accents of gold. He would be invisible to a diver. Each scale seems to glow golden as the sparse sun rays hit them like a chunk of pallasite meteorite in the light, the scales only interupted by scarring, the deepest and most prominent one being a ‘#01’ on his tail.

He is massive, 18ft at least, he looks almost alien. Large spiny dorsals and amber sclerites decorate his entire body, no part of him looks rounded or soft. His frilled shark-like gills stand out as a dull red, almost like ribbons.

A peculiar feature catches your attention - not too far beneath his arms is another pair, moving independently from the others as they hold your ankles in one, the top pair of arms at either side of your head. His claws are bony and sharp, digging into the sand inches from your face. His hands are so big they could probably hold both your ankles and both your wrists in one hand…

As you blink, the golden rings of his eyes seem to have almost burned into your retinas. Similar to Moon, his sclera are voids, but unlike the other two, he has two pupils, looking almost like cursed rings cast to the bottom of the lake for eternity. The smile upon his face is too human for comfort, although his lips are pulled upward in one corner. Similar to most of his body, his gums are grayish, the colour even seems to bleed into the tops of his teeth as if decayed.

“Umbranara…” You manage to squeak out.

[No rain version under the cut :3]

[daystarillustration]

~𝔸𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕒𝕡𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕖, 𝕒 𝕔𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕕 𝕓𝕠𝕣𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕤𝕠𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝕘𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕠𝕟~

I'm so excited to start off #mermay2024 with this lunar piece! Space mermaids have been living rent free in the back of my mind for several years now and with the 2024 felt like the perfect year to bring them to life!

#mermay#space#moon#lunarart#spacemermaid#stars#starrynight#memaid#celestialart#celestial#celestialmermaid#drawmermay2024#galaxy#universe#scales#mermaidscales

[bonkbunn]

[Gravitational Pull]

[narwhalandchill]

OH MISHAS OFFICIAL INTRODUCTION IS OUT. Anyway. sound familiar?

let us thank this brave soldier for even the mere crumbs he has brought us humble narwhal truthers in these trying times 🫡🫡 i rest my case

[bobertflaming]

[ardentpoop]

the destiel crowd needs to understand that cas replaced god (his father) with dean and that this did nothing good for him whatsoever

besides introducing him to sam