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a longgg overdue new arvo reference for his basilisk form... he no longer symmetrical!
#oc#original character#spec bio#spec evo#speculative fantasy#oc: arvo#pareidolia tag#basilisk#heron#folklore#fantasy#speculative evolution#speculative biology#hopefully this layout is not too confusing i was just too lazy to make an antirely seperate one for his other side. LOL#art#artists on tumblr#NOT BLUE HERON BTW GRAYYY HES EUROPEANNN#No rusty brown field marks remember!!!
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hi.
#as you can see xigbar isnt called the freeshooter/der freischütz in japanese but#the term 魔弾/''madan'' appears to be primarily/frequently associated with that legend#so his epithet in either language still references it#bear in mind that the legend seems like a fairly popular cultural reference in Japanese media. however—#considering xigbar's importance to the series as well as the importance of fairytales and folklore#it wouldnt surprise me if this were not a coincidence!#kh#xigbar#kingdom hearts#luxu#xigbar scholarship tag#blakeposts
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some more of my spooky town au🎃
#poppy playtime#poppy playtime fanart#harley sawyer#doey#the prototype#kissy missy#my art#added more onto the vampire au since I'm having a lot of fun with it#anywho#LORE DUMP TIME#so basically all of the characters live in a cursed village#harley lives up in his castle with the nightmare critters#looking for his next victim to suck blood from adbkjkbjjkf#and the prototype lives alone in the deep woods...#there is some strange folklore regarding the lich#yeah I wouldn't want to run into him either#poppy and kissy own a small bakery together!#they make lots of halloween themed sweets#and lastly doey is the town crier/carriage-man. He helps people who stray too far from town at night!#doey is too pure for this world
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wait a minute... “loves me like i’m brand new” → “and when i felt like i was an old cardigan under someone’s bed / you put me on and said i was your favorite” → “but you should’ve seen him when he first got me / my boy only breaks his favorite toys”… ouch
#taylor swift#ttpd#the tortured poets department#my boy only breaks his favorite toys#reputation#ciwyw#folklore#cardigan#*
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Can I ask where is Ace at in this Vampire au? Is he just a random family born baker that hates his job and glares secret daggers at Deuce when he sees him on his walks or something?? 😭😭🥺
At this point I feel like doing a lil something for everyone remaining :") Just in case yknow
Vamp lilia was far too easy of an option so i went for something else that can bestow blessings jut like faes do ! Unicorn, he isn't on any particular side, just frolicking around. Lucky be the one who sets their gaze on such a rarity. pun intended
The other horses are... hiding as well yes but not as distant if you are their next meal. Kelpie Jade and floyd, wanted to keep them aquatic and creechur. They bite, they can shapeshift, good luck.
Lil Ortho vamp is looking around for his brother, very polite, will absolutely bite in defense do not be fooled by his tiny victorian child build.
Ace is the church's errand boy, janitor, altar boy, cook helper etc... He enrolled to be part of the hunter squad but wasn't deemed efficien enough. Stays just in case maybe just maybe Rollo changes his mind and takes him as a hunter. Hey he's got plenty of wits ! He will eventually succeed. (but he's so salty about it so jealous of deuce and epel)
Trey bakes the breads for the church, he can live off of refular food and just tries to live normally without being too tempted about the other kind of snacks he could have. Surely no one would dare just barge in the bakery call him out on his double nature, noo no one in the cast would think of that everyone is so polite !
Finally, Cater as a Rusalko (Rusalka but guy) He is sunbathing, chilling near another pond near fleur city. He might call you to come closer and keep you around to have a lightheatted chit chat ! Oh what happened to him ? sometimes he tells he drowned accidentally, sometimes he got drowned. No one really knows the truth.

#Twisted wonderland#croissant de lune#the dlc part 2#Yes I love water creatures that lure their prey closer with appearances and there seems to be one for every folklore/mythology#didn't add staff but trein has that old fashioned vampire energy def sleeps in a coffin with his vampicat lucius#crewel maybe a hunter that always keeps a little souvenir from each creature idk fang earring but vamp entitled crewel sounds nice too...#Vargas uh...... tarasque.... or krampus#Crowley is your sleep paralisys demon he just sits there and rants about the most uninteresting and irritating stuff#you want you NEED to smack him but you can't#you can only listen in horror as you see two golden glowing dots staring back in the dark.
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Okay, but have you considered Raphael with longer hair ?
(⊙_⊙)
#raphael#bg3 raphael#baldur's gate 3#bg3 fanart#bg3#devil#le diable#my art#first time drawing him#his face is interesting to study#disney villain vibe#warm up of the day#where I live the devil is a huge part of the folklore#many places here are named because of devil old tales
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Bet you didn’t think you’d learn what human and 100% troll Fass looked like today, did you? Or what his parents looked like. Or what he looked like as a human kid. Nope, betchu didn’t.
But anyway. A bunch of miscellaneous troll/changeling information just because. Also trolls are born as beans like bears. Just so everyone knows. Female trolls are called sows and males are called bores. That’s all.
#idk why#but I just really love how his mom looks#she’s very crunchy#fae#faerie art#troll character design#troll changeling#nordic folklore#folklore#character design#artists on tumblr#small artist#my art#young artist#digital art#regular style#changeling#faas art#tgb art#tgb#the grey in between#creature design#fae art#speculative biology#spec bio#troll art#troll#scandinavian folklore
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Wait in the cat au would bee become a nekomata if shockwave killed him or is old age the only way?
If it did work I get the feeling shockwave would somehow become worse since bee would be adjusting to essentially being a new creature with strange new powers
He would become a Bakeneko if Shockwave manages to kill him! Ironically this would make his power specialty more similar to Kitsune as Bakeneko are known to transform into humans. (Bakeneko is also an change a cat can become through old age because things just happen to old cats). So Shockwave would be disappointed for a moment before realizing this is still an opportunity to use his experience to teach the newly made yokai.
If killing Bumblebee DID make him a Nekomata Shockwave would be insufferable about it. He loves seeing himself in Bumblebee and would try to force him to kill and eat humans, y'know like all kits need to learn.
This ask also made me think about this au too much and now the team is here. The plot would generally be that they're cats who protect humans from yokai and they live with Sari at her family shrine which is where Bumblebee and Bulk escapes to after getting away from Shockwave. Yes Ratchet is a Nekomata he is an old old kitty who thinks about the War often. He teaches Bumblebee what it actually means to be a magical cat and clears up that if Shockwave kills him it will with 90% surety make him dead dead.
Sari can also talk with cats. We're not worrying about that.
#I DID NOT PLAN ABOUT THINKING ABOUT THIS AU MUCH IM NOT AN EXPERT IN JAPANESE FOLKLORE#Take everything I say with a grain of salt#Crispy answers#my art#fanart#Cat au#transformers animated#tfa#evil shockdad au#Bumblebee#Shockwave#Bulkhead#Optimus Prime#Prowl#Ratchet#Yes his Bakeneko form is based on Bumble Prime I thought it'd be cool#Shockwave finding out Bumblebee needs to reach old age would actually be an ally to make sure Bumblebee makes it#But he'd still be evil and try to isolate Bumblebee from his friends so he is the only one he can rely on
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Scrybeswap
I have a lot of scatterbrained design notes for each of them but generally I wanted them to look similar to their original designs but with different themes. I also imagine that they have the same inscribing tools as their original counterparts but just use them differently (i.e. Magnificus paints animals, Leshy takes pictures of people as they're dying/about to die, I'm not sure what the magic equivalent for P03 would be besides maybe a spellbook that copies the essence of things, and Grimora's quill would either "write" code or write directly onto the hardware of robots).
#i initially wanted to finish these for inscryptober but stuff got in the way#misc design notes erm#leshy's death design is inspired by the actual folklore leshy and the leshens from the witcher games#i remember reading somewhere that the folklore leshy incorporates animal bones and tree bark into his own body#so that's where the main inspiration came from#the markings on grimora are meant to be a combination of patterns on porcelain china and the patterns on motherboards#p03's components aren't actually attached to anything and just float around as needed#also its different functions are powered by the mox crystals in its body#magnificus already looks like a big fuzzy animal to me so i just leaned into that#he probably has a bunch of small animals living in his fur without him even realizing#magnificus#leshy#p03#grimora#g0lly#inscryption#my art#scrybeswap
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– This… this has… has been here, the whole time…? Folke murmured, teeth chattering.
Accompanied by Gullmar, as well as the haeggir’s goat – they stood before the looming, bronze construct, whose strange, glowing fungus omitted a warm, bright glow into the frigid evening.
– Litahuala, is what it is, little lad, and it has been here longer than both you and I have been in this world, Gullmar chirped.
He pointed at the clavarioid fungi, nestled at the center of the ornamental structure.
– This is why I had asked you for a lock of hair, see. Tossed it into the roots. The Irrbloss hungers for anything that it can take a hold of. And for a time, as it is sated, it treats you like one of us. Despite your featherless manner, hah! He continued with an amused chuff.
#oc#original character#fantasy#tomte#speculative fantasy#folklore#pareidolia tag#illustration#digital art#artists on tumblr#worldbuilding#oc: folke#oc: gullmar#fyi dis takes place prior to pareidolia and prior to folke's top surgery#because LOL this is them traveling to get his top surgery... yeah. LOL#needed to paint this before the snow melts. Been a dreadfully snowless winter this time sadly#art#if you saw this earlier and see it again uhhhh just know i repainted folkes face bcs it pissed me off. it still does but at least less
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A good old russian tradition of erasing Gogol's Ukrainian identity
#I guess it's kinda funny upholding the genocidal idea that Ukrainian identity is some artificially created whim from the XXth century when#One of the authors you stole from us uses the world clearly and not only the word but extensively draws from Ukrainian folklore and his#Native culture for his early works
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‘Oh! I must tell you, that just after we parted yesterday, I saw a young man looking at you so earnestly - I am sure he is in love with you.' Kattika coloured, and disclaimed again. Isara laughed. ‘It is very true, upon my honour, but I see how it is; you are indifferent to everybody's admiration, except that of one gentleman, who shall be nameless.’
Day 16: Gossip for @janeuary-month with a Thai Northanger Abbey AU
#tried finding Thai variations of their names and came up with catherine/kattika and isabella/isara#janeuary#janeuary 2025#northanger abbey#catherine morland#isabella thorpe#thailand#thai northanger abbey#jane austen#something something#henry is a buddhist nen (young monk who hasn’t been ordained yet so the rules are looser and he can leave anytime)#and cathy (kattika) hears rumors about papa tilney being a suea saming (someone who can turn into a tiger through black magic)#who supposedly killed his wife while he was a tiger (in reality it was probably disease or smth like in the book)#idk I’m sure I could add more if I thought about it/did more research#but my knowledge on the ayutthaya era and thailand in general is spotty#but the ✨aesthetics✨👌😘#+plus the fun mythology/folklore to play around with#jane austen cultural remix
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one of the similarities that soos and ford share being the both of them disliking the mailman and werewolves in general for some reason
(makes all the werewolf stan aus way more funnier tbh)
#this is going into my ford and soos' weird uncle nephew relationship pile#hurrah!!! bonding over werewolf prejudice!!!#soos ramirez#ford pines#gravity falls#but also soos being mildly aware of the town's weirdness despite working for mr 'weirdness what weirdness hahahaha' for over a decade#.....was soos not getting in trouble all that time the reason why stan thought that lying to the kids would work#stan's stubbornness vs dipper's endless curiosity and spite at not being listened to and being treated as just some kid FIGHT!!!#altho it just makes stan being so nonchalant about the bottomless pit so funny#'pffft what's all this nonsense you kids are yapping on about? .....anyway let's toss some garbage into the bottomless pit in my backyard'#at least he tried an excuse with the dinosaurs!!!#soos basically being what most gf residents were like before mcgucket started the cult#aware of the weirdness but wouldnt stick his nose in it normally#also been thinking about how many folklores like the summerween trickster were told between the townsfolk
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thinking a lot about the transition from “salute to me, i’m your american queen / […] we rule the kingdom inside my room” → “my only one, my kingdom come undone” and “i’m queen of the kingdoms he destroys”
#taylor swift#ttpd#the tortured poets department#my boy only breaks his favorite toys#reputation#king of my heart#folklore#hoax#*
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I decided to start making The Eras Tour mashup wallpapers from now on. You can always dm me for requests. Hope you like them 🤍
#taylor swift#taylorswift#taylor swift edit#taylornoticeme#alltaywell#taylor swift wallpaper#taylor swift lyrics wallpaper#taylor swift wallpapers#taylor swift lockscreen#the eras tour#the eras tour mashup#taylor swift mashup#coney island#my boy only breaks his favourite toys#i hate it here#the lakes#folklore#evermore#the tortured poets department
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Originally they were gonna be watching Krampus (2015) but that seemed a little too mean-spirited, but I really wanted to draw my s/i showing Arthur a...different kind of Christmas movie 😂😂
Taglist♡: @me-myself-and-my-fos @tiny-cloud-of-flowers @sunstar-of-the-north @dearly-beeloved @adoredbyalatus @changeling-selfship @crushes-georg
@cherry-bomb-ships @rosieaurora @rejaytionships @in-true-blue-love @tropicalgothships @little-miss-selfships
@cupiidzbow @frozenhi-chews @limey-self-inserts @candyheartedchy @space-sweetheart @halsinkisser @clancykisser @dearheartwitcher
#artfarts#self insert#self ship#self insert art#self ship art#self insert x canon#oc x canon#arthur christmas#arthur claus#🎄 my christmas wish 🎄#IVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS ONE A WHILE#its been rly fun watching a bunch of christmas movies with my irl partner but now i get to imagine watching em w arthur too 🥺👉👈#AND YEAH HE'D LIKE SOME OF THEM MORE THAN OTHERS#im just trying to broaden his horizons a little!! push him outta that comfort zone a little#and i LOVED gremlins as a kid and i still love it now#its such a goofy christmas horror/comedy flick with some awesome effects#but yeah i decided to go with that instead of krampus cause of the aforementioned reason#and also hcs he'd absolutely have at least some knowledge of krampus as a folklore character!#i mean idk how real he is in this universe 🤔🤔 being the foil to santa claus and all!#but arthur the christmas autist would definitely KNOW about krampus but he might NOT know about gremlins since theyre more pop culture
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