Wednesday - Morrie the Moray Eel
I had one of these silly guys growing up and tried my best to capture the unique pattern their fabric has
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31 - Simurgh
The Simurgh is depicted in Iranian art as a gigantic bird, big enough to carry off an elephant or a whale. She appears as a peacock with the head of a dog and the claws of a lion – sometimes, however, also with a human face. The Simurgh is inherently benevolent and unambiguously female. Being part mammal, she suckles her young. Iranian legends consider the bird so old that she has seen the destruction of the world three times over. She learned so much by living so long, that she is thought to possess the knowledge of all the ages. In one legend, the simurgh was said to live 1,700 years before plunging herself into flames (much like the phoenix).
The simurgh made her most famous appearance in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), where Zal, the son of Saam, was born albino. When Saam saw his albino son, he assumed that the child was the spawn of devils, and abandoned the infant on the mountain Alborz. The child's cries were heard by the tender-hearted simurgh, who lived atop this peak, and she retrieved the child and raised him as her own. Zal was taught much wisdom from the loving simurgh, who has all knowledge, but the time came when he grew into a man and yearned to rejoin the world of men. Though the simurgh was terribly saddened, she gave him three golden feathers which he was to burn if he ever needed her assistance. Upon returning to his kingdom, Zal fell in love and married the beautiful Rudaba. When it came time for their son to be born, the labor was prolonged and terrible; Zal was certain that his wife would die in labour. Rudaba was near death when Zal decided to summon the simurgh. The simurgh appeared and instructed him on how to perform a cesarean section, thus saving Rudaba and the child, who became one of the greatest Persian heroes, Rostam.
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Best achievement in the game 😽😽😽
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Teeth!!
I do not keep up with challenges at all
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Today's prompt for inktober was Massive. The shark swimming after the diver is massive. The teeth coming up behind them are gigantic.
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Day 26: Remove
I see everyone drawing Clyde without its costume as a humanoid figure, and may I suggest: eldritch spaghetti twisted into human form
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starting to get halloweeny up in here
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