#coiled serpent

[quo-usque-tandem]

Coiled serpent - Aztec, 15 century

[hyenafu]

It seems Guardian Snake Rhea can be a bit overprotective 🐍💦

[fluffyxai]

A Sweet Escape

It's admirable to want to provide the tastiest sweets to ponies of the town, but one might draw a line at how far one would go to get a special ingredient. Yes, it might help you make the tastiest of chocolates, but is it worth it if you end up a snack, yourself? Hazel here found herself lost, afraid and longing for her home, shaking at every shadow of the forest, every branch blown in the breeze or a bush rustled from a skittering creature. The poor lost confectioner wondered when she would see her home again, longing for somepony to help her. But it didn't take too long before she was indeed found. But not by a pony. Fer first thought was shock at the realisation that a creature was emerging out of the trees and speaking to her... the sudden appearance of another creature making her jump out of her hooves. Her next response was intrigue and curiosity as she beheld the snake, his eyes gleaming through the darkness with a dazzling array of colours, his words hissing to her in greeting. The next thing she felt was a strange energy washing over her body, running through her bones like a warm tingly liquid, her brain getting flushed suddenly with pleasureful hormones and butterflies erupting in her belly as she realises that those eyes were doing something to her. The fascination washing over her mind and drawing her attention in. All thoughts of home slowly sank away as all she could think about was this moment, this place, this huge, strange, but rather beautiful snake. His words hissing to her felt so disarming. But this feeling, this weird, fascinating, wonderful feeling filling her with warmth and relaxation, making her feel as light as air... She suddenly found that she couldn't stop herself from smiling. Her own eyes were reflecting the patterns of the snake's, being made to copy the colours. She could do nothing but smile and look curiously and enthusiastically into the big, gleaming eyes and those thick rings of colour flowing through them. As her body gently trembled, her smile grew wider. Her thoughts, her fears and worries, were all quickly vanishing. She found it so hard to think now, so hard to concentrate... it was like she was slipping away. Her last thoughts weren't of how much danger she was in from this predator... the fact she was about to be his prey, that she might die out here in the forest and never see her home again. It wasn't a feeling of longing for the safety of her home at all... It was just an overwhelming sense of satisfaction and comfort as the snake led her around the clearing with the beauty of his hypnotism, hissing away her inhibitions all the way, and even cupped her face to lift her up helplessly. Her last thoughts were a feeble, barely conscious effort to recognise how amazing she felt. But her mind had already sank so deep that she didn't know where she was by this point, and she didn't care. By the time Kaa was staring into Hazel's face, holding her to lift her up like this, she had already fallen so deep under his spell that she was basically gone. She wouldn't even be consciously aware of her imminent demise. This poor little tasty pony would just become another victim of the jungle. But this was her home now. No need to go anywhere. She didn't have to go back to her life of making sweets anymore. There was only one thing left for her, now. One final tasty experience that she gets to deliver.

Here is a personal pic I drew because I felt inspired to draw an alternative take on the 3rd Kaa encounter from the movies. We all love that cupped face pose after all. I thought it'd play well with a pony being lifted up and held this way with her legs dangling down. I spent ages trying to figure out who should be the victim here, but ultimately ended up designing an original character for it. There are one or two things I'd like to change but don't have the energy to now. I am overall very happy with how everything came out. I'll see if I can use this character in the future, maybe. Anyway right now she's snake food probably. Poor thing shouldn't be out in the forest. She's finding out the hard way what happens when you encounter the powerful snake that lives here.

[weirdlookindog]

Margaret Brundage (1900–1976) - Coils of the Silver Serpent

cover art from Weird Tales, February 1936

[nighthaunting]

I know some people still follow me for Serpent Well and so I’m making this post to sort of get a sounding board:

I’m feeling inspired for it again but I’ve also got some new ideas that i think will be cool but do sort of necessitate some re-writes (mostly because I smushed the timeline too much and need to un-smush it, naturally necessitating changing stuff).

The question is should I just outright repost the whole thing so the original version stays up? Or just do the edits and rewrites in the currently existing work?

Also mind that this is going to be a pretty slow process no matter what.

[euclidinsolace]

Pov: ur muse is out shopping and sees Vis out in the wild

[domoz-writes]

currently fighting myself to not draft a (pre) canon rewrite from Shang Qinghua's POV where he transmigrates without a system and lives in increasing denial that he's taken the OG Shang Quinghua's place up until the day he gets named head disciple....!!

[thealphavoidofficial]

Lmk Au cause why not :D

Behold! Snake Demon MK!

[arcadeian]

ㅤHE SEEMS OUT OF PLACE, and not just due to his capitol - tailored clothing. there's a certain apprehension in the way his lean shoulders are set, the way his bright eyes meticulously scan every inch of the room before being drawn, as though magnetized, to the girl approaching him. the layers of her skirt flow like water and drift like feathers all at once, a mesmerizing display that he's almost certain will return to him in his dreams. a beat passes before his pale lips curl into an easygoing, welcoming smile — suddenly all charm, any visible traces of concern gone in an instant.

ㅤ" i guess you can spot an outsider a mile away. " the words fall from his lips with a good - natured chuckle, hands working at smoothing imaginary wrinkles from his jacket. his gaze wanders once more, taking in the spectacle of his fellow patrons. " i'd heard talk at the academy about this being a popular place, but... " he takes a sharp inhale that just barely gives shape to his rather unimpressive chest, before turning his attention back to her. " it's certainly more crowded than i expected. "

@hauntsnow

[hyenafu]

That's what Rhea gets for transforming with eyelids instead of eyecaps 💔🐍

[fluffyxai]

Tene wrapped (animation)

I've been working on this picture for a long time. who knew animation was actually hard you guys x_x; Loops are fun to look at but my god I realised they were harder to pull off than you'd expect. A regular non looping animation would have been easier. But even though it took over a year, I'm happy to have it finished. This is one of my furry sonas coiled and wrapped and falling under the hypno of the snake. It was gonna be 12 frames but it ended up having to get doubled twice just to get the eyes to loop and then to make them 3 colours cus I decided I needed them 3 colours.

[balu8]

Sinbad and the Coils of the Serpent

by Eduardo Barreto

Source: Brian Peck (comicartfans)

Sinbad and the Coils of the Serpent Promo piece, in Brian Peck's In Memory of Eduardo Barreto Comic Art Gallery Room

[tomoleary]

Eduardo Barreto “Sinbad, The Coils of the Serpent” concept art for unpublished graphic novel

[cannonfullofcanons]

Character interview

▌real name:  Gin Ichimaru

▌single or taken:  Wouldn't you like to know?

▌abilities or powers:  Master of squinting at everything at all times, former Squad 3 Captain (comes with mastery of swordsmanship, the flash-step, Kido, and more!), can stand and hop around on thin air, silver tongue, supreme lord of shenanigans

▌eye colour:  Baby Blue

▌hair colour:  White

▌family members: None - unless we're counting Rangiku!

▌pets:  N/A

▌something they don’t like:  Aizen’s face, Tosen’s holier-than-thou attitude, himself, Yammy’s god-awful figgy pudding, sad Rangiku

▌hobbies / activities:  Changing the paths within Las Noches purely so he can watch the dumber arrancars get lost and panic, forging secret passages/leaving hidden stashes in the Seireitei, prank wars, bothering Rangiku

▌ever hurt anyone before:  More than he’d like to admit - and mostly people who were close to him.

▌ever killed anyone before:  Plenty.

▌animal that represents them: S n a k e

▌worst habits:  Master manipulator, constantly lying, sometimes hurts others for his own entertainment, hearing about Orihime’s crazy recipes and then trying them himself

▌role models:  N/A

▌sexual orientation:  Rangiku Heterosexual

▌thoughts on marriage / kids:  Secretly? He kind of longs for it. Outwardly he claims that he thinks the idea’s foolhardy and that children are too noisy, and never know their place.

▌fears:  Rangiku coming down with a terminal case of dead

▌style preferences:  N/A

▌someone they love:  Rangiku, Izuru 

▌approach to friendships:  Good at making friends, not so good at keeping them. He doesn’t always mean to hurt people. He just…does.

▌thoughts on pie:  Forward to Ukitake with no return address.

▌favourite drink:  Sake.

▌favourite place to spend time at:  Doesn’t really have one; though, as a Captain, his favorite spot was a bar in Kusajishi, where the drinks were cheap & no one knew to look for him when he blew off his duties.

▌swim in the lake or in the ocean:  Ocean. 

▌their type:  Rangiku again A kindhearted, silly woman with a good moral compass and a passionate heart.

▌camping or indoors:  Shinigami are allowed to camp?

[aytonai]

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