#giantslugs

[bogleech]

What are your favourite dragon quest monsters across the entire series?

The first Dragon Quest Monsters game I've ever gotten to play wound up being the first one to leave out exactly the top three I looked forward to getting:

GIANTSLUG/MAULUSC: I'm pickier about slug and snail creatures than you maybe expect but I love the vapid drippy zombie face of the DQ slug. It perfectly captures the appeal of a slug as a monster, a mindless gooey thing that will just eat you without a care. And its classic color scheme is that of a Banana Slug!!

BELZEBUB: I am also picky about fly creatures; usually I want them to have the proboscis present in some way, and the correct number of wings (two). There's something I still love about the toothy mouth of Belzebub however, maybe the way it curls up between the eyes? It just does a good job capturing the feel of a fly's personality I guess.

DARKEYE/EYELASHER: eye creatures can also very easily feel a bit boring to me because I've just seen so, so many of them, but DQ's basic killer eyeball appeals to me a lot with its irregular fungus-like collection of tentacles. The little root branches on "top" are especially cool to me, and sometimes they're the bottom, because they represent where the eyeball attaches to either floors or ceilings! In a few games, they're even encountered as parasites inside bigger monsters!

I used to admire the guidebook to the first two DQ Monsters games as a kid but never had the games themselves, and never got around to any other DQ titles. I just spent my whole life waiting for just the right one where I'd finally get to assemble my three favorites, then finally this new one comes out and has to be the first time these three took a vacation :( But, Dark Prince was at least nice enough to include exactly my next three favorites in the franchise. I went over them already in my DQM Dark Prince post but some people will see this post first so I will have to reintroduce them:

DROHL: droopy flappy membranous mollusk guys, honestly horrible looking in a great way. In 3d games it turns out their helmetlike head spirals in the back like a snail shell! Apparently they're meant to be troll-like beings.

LUNATICK: just a blue fleshy sac thing with gooey antennae, a bunch of tentacles (most of them segmented like worms!) and a little eyeball, perfect, no criticisms, also reminds me of what Berserk considers an "Incubus:"

(Don't worry, Berserk Incubus aren't sex monsters but monsters that give you nightmares and feed on the fear)

TAILEATER/MAD MOLLUSK: I love how pathetic their front face looks, and the whole shape is so pleasantly reminiscent of an abyssal sea cucumber of some kind.

SKULLROO/GUAARDVARK: I didn't even realize this was one of my top favorites until getting it in Dark Prince. It's an unpleasant wrinkly fat aardvark kangaroo thing that just always carries a human skull around. Its profile says they collect them and the one they carry is their favorite! A lot of slightly lower favorites were also left out however, none of these are in Dark Prince but are very high up there to me:

PYURO: what is this thing? I don't know! Different games have categorized it as an insect or a plant. It's a furball with five eyes encircling a butterfly proboscis, two little legs and a big huge ring of flower petals behind it. Very xenobiology.

TONGUELLA: it's kinda like a dumpy, hairless sloth with an aardvark tail with a mushed-in dog face and a giant gross tongue. I guess I just like foul moist beasts. I wish this was a real mammal we had in the world, I bet it'd smell terrible. Feels like a perfect counterpart to Guaardvark.

SLURPERON: it's one tiny pitcher plant with a giant tongue and then it has cool reptilian eyes at the bottom end. So simple and so rad! A fun way to stylize a pitcher plant monster without ripping off Victreebel.

SICKLER: is a little tiny mantis in a robe, like the Tonberry from Final Fantasy but a mantis

RAGIN' CONTAGION: a newer one, a gooey vaporous cyclops ghost that represents disease. In its first appearance as a boss in the series the English localizers decided it should talk like Yosemite Sam. Sure why not!

So I like the new game and it gave me some new favorites like Skellyfish and new appreciation for some others, but oddly it only has my very middle all-time faves

[shitpostthey]

Who knows what type of slug this is? I found this on a vacation to VA to meet some family

[sparkandanvil]

Somehow this mount for a walrus skull has magically transformed into the bestest giant slug friend I ever had. That or a retainer for a giant with bad teeth. Either way. 😬 🐌 😬 🐌 😬 #SparkandAnvil #mountmaking #mountmaker #museumwork #museumlife #arthandler #arthandlerlife #preparator #walrus #giantslug #naturalhistorymuseum (at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWcLG2jl3Ih/?utm_medium=tumblr

[benoitvinay]

Green robot and giant slug with jazzy flying saucer! Started with just a robot and someone next to me wanted to add more things... #drawing #painting #inkdrawing #ink #paint #robot #robotstop #slug #giantrobot #giantslug #city #town #park #alienabduction #alienabductions #flyingsaucer #jazzy #kindofblue #watercolor #watercolorpainting #watercolours #watercolour #watercolors #sciencefiction #anticipation #future #futur #kinggizzard #kinggizzardandthelizardwizard https://www.instagram.com/p/B-zR9ULh01a/?igshid=1jvajn769l0kp

[mermaidintrainingsblog]

When threatened by predators, sea hares release a dark purple fluid in defense. The ink gets its purple color from a pigment in the red algae that makes up part of the sea hare's diet. Sea hares can't see like we do; their simple eyes can only tell light from dark.

[happytimesrainbowshark]

Funny Animal Daily (2018, #166)

Funny Animal Daily (2018, #166)

#giantSlugs #neonPinkGiantSlugs #giantPinkSlugs #newSouthWales #australia #mountKaputar #mounKaputarNationalPark #threatenedSpeciesConservationAct #nigiriSushi #sushi #nigiri #tuna #nigiriTuna #cute #funny #animals

[dragonbeansandzoe]

Maybe some salt will help? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/564709240770656130/ Zoe - Super Slug Brothers Instagram: scarfboymrreese #comicsforgirls #cutecomics #kidscomics #slug #dragoncomic #familycomics #cutehumor #dragoncartoons #comicsforkids #mrreese #zoeanddragonbeans #dragonbeansandzoe #misterreese #dragonbeans_and_zoe_comic #cute_and_fun_comics #mrreesecomics #johnathanreesewhiting #scarfboylogo #scarfboybooks #scarfboymrreese #giant_slugs #giant_slug_monsters #giantslugs #giantslugmonsters #slugbrothers #slug_bros #superslugs

[southbostonbitch]

😍😍💖💖 Reposted from @nswenviromedia 💗 What’s hot pink and loves the night life? 🌜✨ The rare Giant Pink Slug! It's scientific name is Triboniophorus sp. nov. ‘Kaputar’. 🐌 This #slug survived the break-up of ancient #Gondwana and is now only found in the remote volcanic area of #MtKaputar ⛰ It only comes out at night, lives off bark algae and can grow to 20cm! Photo credit: Michael Murphy #BiodiversityMonth #SavingOurSpecies #threatenedspecies #mollusc #naturephotography #conservation #savinghabitat #bushcare #nswnationalparks #GiantPinkSlug #pinkslug #creepycrawlies #nature #naturegirl #creepy #slime #slimey #microphotography #giantslug #slug #slugs https://www.instagram.com/p/B8E8KUZhNWa/?igshid=1aggcx2l55xq6

[ao3feed-thehobbit]

For want of a spanking.

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RbE07s

by GiantSlug

It all started with a spanking. A slow burn romance between Thorin and Bilbo as they travelled to the Lonely Mountain.

Words: 1184, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Dwarf | Dwarves, Gandalf | Mithrandir

Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield

Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Fluff and Smut, Non-Consensual Spanking, Consensual Kink, Age Play

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RbE07s

[sludgefriend]

Today's rad thing about you: your icon

hey, thanks! he’s from a game from my childhood, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi’s Journey. I had it for the original Gameboy, and it was my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE GAME. It was kinda like Pokemon, but the monsters were more monster-y, and abstract. This guy in particular was called GiantSlug, and I loved him with my whole heart. 

they fuckin... rereleased it for the 3ds like two or three years ago but ONLY IN JAPAN and I will forever be salty about it. I’ve seriously considered learning Japanese for the sole purpose of playing the remastered version of this god damn game.tbh... I keep looking for someone to replay it with me so that I can have that multiplayer DWM2 experience that i so YEARNED for as a child, but i’ve never gotten anyone to stick with it, which sucks. I have a copy of it still, and when summer rolls around, I like to start a new game on it and sit out on the porch and play, just like when I was a kid. It always makes me feel so good.

[mollymmmmmay-blog-blog-blog]

Can't get enough of this place #discoveryadventures #giantslugs