#classic chimera

[chimeride]

Ligozzi’s Chimera, the 224th Known One.

Una chimera, Jacopo Ligozzi, circa 1600

[catschimericalcreations]

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[felinefractious]

Dawntreader Texas Calboy [Pedigree]

🐱 Maine Coon

📸 Chanan [Dawntreader Maine Coons]

🎨 Black Classic Tortoiseshell Tabby with White [Cat Chimeras (Male and Female)]

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Chimera, from Red Magic by Kay Nielsen (1930)

[greekmythcomix]

I made this little guy while colouring with my kid at the library on Saturday.

Now my brain is obsessively combing through all my Ancient Greek creature illustrations to find more creatures to turn into paper kits for schools…

[sleepyspots-wc-designs]

Two days late but here he is!

SOL

“...No cat should just accept what has gone before. StarClan's time is over. These cats are dead, and their spirits have no power over you.”

[Black-based chimera with ginger classic-tabby and chocolate mackerel-tabby tortoiseshell patches, high white spotting, short-and-long fur, and heterochromatic gold-and-blue eyes.]

Oh Sol… They did you so dirty… You could have been such a cool villain if you were utilized properly…

Design notes!

Uneven fur lengths due to his chimerism. Most of his coat is sleek and short, especially around his torso, tail, and the length of his face and ears. Much longer, thicker fur grows naturally from his tail-tips, mane, belly, legs, ear fluff, and from the sides of his face.

Polycaudal! I think I was one of the first to come up with this idea, but I could totally be wrong… Means “many-tailed”; very rare, but something that can occur in real cats in real life!

Sectoral heterochromia in both eyes.

Tons of striking, stylized markings. His left ginger tortie leg is styled like a star, while the patch over his eyes is like a circle or an eclipse.

Each of his paws are unique. Hind left has ginger and brown spots; upper left has ginger toes; hind right has a single brown toe; upper right is pure white.

Scarring includes: A slash on his jaw, made by Leafstar on accident while being driven from SkyClan; this is purely headcanon.

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

can you tell me what the f*ck is going on with Hope?

he's mostly cream, not white, i know he looks a little pale in this image 😔

my first instinct was a chocolate self tortoiseshell and white. HOWEVER. as he is a cream colour this is not so.

Cream cats, as a dilute of red, are always tabbies even if they're genetically solid. He could be a ticked tabby cream, but we'd still see some tabby markings, especially on his face.

so I'm considering maybe a chocolate self tortoiseshell and white (with the white hidden by the chimera) and a fawn self chimera. This would allow Hope to have solid patches that appear cream, along with blue eyes, and his red and chocolate colouration.

maybe a fawn caramel? this could make him appear more cream...

On the other hand, he could also be a highly rufoused chocolate classic tabby (with white) chimera with fawn self, which would account for the brightness of his tabby patches. interesting design! i got to go off the rails with this one

final assessment: some kind of chimera, maybe with fawn?

Hi, Jay asked me to help assess this one! My first thought was "Oh, this could be labeled fawn!"

The white (cream-ish base that the other markings seem to be drawn over) clocks me as high white. This is partly due to the fact that the eyes are a pale blue, and that it doesn't match any pointing genes. Simple.

Other than that, my thoughts lead to a chocolate tortoiseshell self with high white!

I'll be tagging both of them in the post, because both options are valid interpretations!

[mythtiide]

ok wait im deciding that today is Backlog Day so heres some fnati art ive accrued over the past few weeks 🥩

[ambersquirrel2]

mellow jazzyclown . hi jamblr

[eeveekitti]

WC/RW DAY 10: ARTIFICER

this is amberspark, the newest warrior taken into drizzleclan! she was found wandering the territory by bubblebounce not that long ago, searching for something...

she used to be a rogue simply named amber, wandering with her kits feather and leaf. a fox killed her kits one day, as the cats had settled uncomfortably close to its den, sheltering its own kits. amber was too late to save her young kittens, and took it out violently on the fox mother, a fight where she obtained most of her scars.

to this day, amberspark harbors a deadly grudge against foxes, and will attack them on sight.

in other news, amberspark is a chimera! she's also a descendant of maine coon cats, hence her fluffiness and size

and here's feather n leaf :]

[kikizoshi]

I swear Pathologic has ruined me forever. Every single time I read "chimera" now, all I hear is "ch" (as in "chimp") "im" (as in "him) "era" (as in "camera"). Chimera. Not kaimera. Chimera. Utterly ridiculous, but this is how I am now.

[chimeride]

A chimera but the goat head is on the front, the snake head is on the back and the lion head is on the tail

[bmpmp3]

i like when people take vocal synths with official or near-official genderbend characters and headcanon them as bigender, genderfluid, and/or genderqueer in some other fashion. yanking my third eye wide open

[cjbolan]

Thoughts on PJO's design for the Chimera? It was an interesting take on how they sort of evenly mixed the lion, goat, and snake parts instead of giving it one head each as the traditional depiction.

I liked it! Especially the way it glowed on the inside right before breathing fire.

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Chimera by Gustave Moreau (1867)

[luxshine]

My second Classic Universal Monster video was about Frankenstein's Creature. One of the most sensitive monster, created by Mary Shelley, and how he went from philosopher murderer to the innocent blank stale that Boris Karloff gave us to... whatever it was that Robert DeNiro tried to do. No, seriously, I have seen Branagahn's Frankenstein's twice and I STILL have no idea what was going on there.