#giant worm

[70sscifiart]

[thefoilguy]

Graboid from Tremors - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[ashley-thedinosaur]

WORM ALERT

[pigeonwithapen]

@cactuscely ‘s Rin-Uhn Asa!! I love me a worm 🪱

[ID in Alt]

[rudio-capital]

I gooned so hard to that feminine bald man that I almost forgot I'm afraid of giant worm creatures... Thanks dune 2.

[dm-tuz]

Unbound Monsters - Thermopod

Somehow, in the North Pole there lives a worm that can tunnel through ice using heat generated within its own body. Oh, also it’s absolutely gigantic. Pray you don’t cross paths with this monster, or better yet, avoid the frozen North.

[oldschoolfrp]

"It lived and hungered and ate anything in its path!! ANYTHING! THE EATER!" The cover of Kamandi No 18 was penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by D. Bruce Berry, with colors possibly by Jerry Serpe. Cover date is June, actually on sale March 12, 1974.

Giant worms were familiar to sci-fi fans by 1974, and many seem to be inspired the giant sand worms of Dune. The earliest published picture I know of D&D's purple worm was immediately prior to this comic, in the OD&D box set first released in January of the same year in very limited numbers, so this isn't one of the cases of early D&D borrowing designs from a comic or vice versa.

[boy-toy9000]

the success of dune pt. 2 should reveal to hollywood producers that it is now finally time to fund the creation of Tremors 7, but it appears that yet again those in power are destined to fail us.

[papa-yaga]

You cannot understand history unless you understand its flowings, its currents and the ways leaders move within such forces. A leader tries to perpetuate the conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider. I caution you to examine my career with care. I am both leader and outsider. Do not make the mistake of assuming that I only created the Church which was the State. That was my function as leader and I had many historical models to use a pattern. For a clue to my role as outsider, look at the arts of my time. The arts are barbaric. The favorite poetry? The Epic. The popular dramatic ideal? Heroism. Dances? Wildly abandoned. From Moneo's viewpoint, he is correct in describing this as dangerous. It stimulates the imagination. It makes people feel the lack of that which I have taken from them. What did I take from them? The right to participate in history.

-The Stolen Journals (of God Emperor Leto II)

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 52 2023 - Week 13 - ‘Giant’

I love my doggos but take a guess what My all-time favourite new Pokémon was? I’ve been waiting years for a good, solid worm Pokémon. One of those I hotfooted it to catch as soon as possible and also get me a shiny version before completing the story. That's why I love open world games. You can follow the story... or you can go after a giant worm Pokémon instead.

Meet ‘Kinabalu’

And ‘Wurm’.

Now my trainer has to recreate a certain book series/film one sec...

[spidermilkshake]

Ancardia's Unusual Animals--The Great Sandworm

Classification: Beast (mollusc)

Habitat: Under the dunes and desert soils of the Hazarit region.

            The Great Sandworm is the single largest animal on all of Ancardia—and also among the most docile. This does not mean the worm is not a dangerous creature; its sheer sizes reached bring with it the risk of being run over, and the evidence of its travels can become terrible environmental hazards to the unwary traveler.

            Limited to the deep sandy soils of the Hazarit, the great sandworm lives its entire life burrowing under the surface between 2 meter depths and bedrock. Living an average of 150 years in the wild, the great sandworm grows to an average of 60 meters in overall length, and about 5 meters in diameter. It has a relatively tiny mouth, but a broad, spiny area around the head which assists in burrowing; it is primarily a detrivore, feeding on long-buried dead material such as plant roots, deceased animals from sandstorms and droughts, and other bits and pieces. It has an extremely slow metabolism, often taking long dormant periods where it barely eats or moves for months at a time. It always becomes active in the brief rainy season in the Hazarit, when it burrows closer to the surface and excavates a hollow to collect rainwater and to lay its egg mass. The eggs, if they are lucky to not dry out, hatch into half-meter larvae which disperse into the neighboring regions, and take nearly 30 years to approach even a fraction of the gargantuan sizes of the adults. Newly-hatched larva are sometimes prey to burrowing animals of the desert, such as golden moles, jackals, and monitor lizards.

            Great sandworms create an extensive, crisscrossing network of tunnels, all of which have a number of openings to the surface which the worm will keep its “snorkels”, breathing structures at the end of its tail, protruding slightly from for ventilation. Currently unoccupied breathing pits of these worms end up being dangerous pitfalls to some, and difficult ones to climb back out of in a hurry. Some mortality has been reported from these pits, mostly from injuries, lost fallen folk wandering the worm tunnels and becoming lost before dying of dehydration, and in a few cases of being plowed over and crushed by the return of the sandworm.

[nylusion]

The worm filled planet in the Utopia Expedition is very mountainous, making it hard to fight them on the steep slopes in No Man’s Sky!

[the-tired-opossum]

dang, so that’s where the giant worm from my dreams went. if u see it again can u tell it i miss it?? thanks xx

I was being chased by a giant worm. I don't remember what happened after.

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

[cleelczipsybane]

WLC 2.8: Violence at Last

L: Several hours of ups and downs and all arounds (mostly downs) later and we'd arrived at Hairy Scary Rock: a twenty meter tall stalagmite which stands in a massive chamber.

"That is an ugly rock, says Maraja, "Its shape is... yonic?"

"Stop gawking and keep moving," says Ling, "We can't stop here."

"Why?" asks Maraja, condensing vapor for her to drink, "What's here?"

"Stop using that spell," Ling pulls a bottle out of her little magic pouch, "Use this."

J: Always with the bottles, Mum. L: Hydration👏 is 👏 important!

"What's the harm?" Maraja continues using her spell almost spitefully. "And what's here?" she asks again, irate.

The ground begins to shake. Ling seethes, "Creatures that are drawn to changes in the air and water." The rumbling nears.

"Iss thhat a giant worm?" Kalyani readies her staff as the tremors intensify.

"Giant worm," Ling nods.

D: Giant worm!? L: Giant worm.

On command, the giant worm bursts from the ground. It's thick dark grey hide etched with purple scars. It is about twenty-four meters long and three meters wide. It's open maw spews forth purple goo which the trio scatter to dodge.

"Strewth, a purple-stuffy!" shouts Ling, "Watch it, that goop is highly basic."

D: What does basic mean? L: Usually it means it's slippery and can burn you very badly.

Maraja draws her sword and readies herself, as the beast slides along the ground. She dodges its maw as it lunges and cleaves her blade through its side. A mix of blood and goop bleeds from the writhing mass. She resists the urge to blast the slime away with water.

Kalyani dodges the worm's venomous stinger tail and fires a bolt of electricity into it. This barely phases it. "Any idea what it'ss weak to?" she asks.

"No idea," says Ling, pulling a tuning fork from her pouch, "But I got this!"

As the creature lunges at the wizard, she slaps it in the side of its face with the fork while rolling past it. The worm's jaw spasms and it begins convulsing.

L: I call that spell "Nervous Veer"; it disrupts the target's nervous system, redirecting body commands all over the place. Try to bend your arm and twist your foot instead.

Maraja runs forth and brings her blade down upon the creature's slack-jawed face. The creature brain oozes out of it's open head. The body continues to squirm about.

D: EEEWWW!

"Shhield your eyess," shouts Kalyani, as she lights the entire area it occupies in holy flames. "BURN! DIE! BEGONE!" In a blink, it's roasted. A bitter aroma fills the air.

In the calm, the trio reunite a safe distance from the corpse.

"Anyone harmed?" asks the priestess, "Do you need aid, dearss?"

"Clean as I came in."

"I'm fine, but- Gross, it's so sticky," says Maraja, using a cloth to wipe her sword clean. "Why was that thing here?"

"These are their breeding grounds," says Ling, preparing to rant.

Maraja began marching suddenly. "Let's get the hell out of here."

"F*****g right" says Ling, suddenly calm again, "We can roast your a**e later."

[rossum-possum]

This thing idk