#kelpie blue

[dolls-by-viktor]

My main Lagoona doll

Jacket from a Sunny Madison doll, Barbie headphones, skultimate secrets clawdeen shirt.

Her backpack: has a charm version of a flower from home and a clip for her water bottle

Her good luck charm necklace made by her sister Kelpie Blue

[cryptoriascollectiblog]

“Lagoona here! My little fishter, Kelpie, has finally arrived and I couldn’t be more excited! I haven’t seen her since I transferred to Monster High. I can’t wait to show her around, and introduce her to all my friends. First, we have to swim through the tunnels! It’s the best way to travel to and from the school when you’re a sea monster🐠🦈”

[i-like-polls]

[sparklyaxolotlstudent]

Duuuuude

One of the grails I didn't know I had, and I found two at the same time!

Kelpie Blue!

Her articulation sucks big time, but look at those details on her body! And I don't know if my eyes are tricking me, but I think the plastic has a bit of shimmering effect on it

I absolutely love her, and I'm very lucky that I found 2, so one will remain as is, and the other will probably get a transplant.

I have a spare G2 Twyla, so it's between that body or a failfix. If I get a spare Lorna that would be awesome too.

I find fascinating that her ears are a different piece from her head instead of being in the same mold. If her arms and legs were able to open sideways, the lack of elbows, wrists and knees wouldn't bother me

[sennamaticart]

A finished tattoo commission for a client!

[ghosts-and-glory]

I bring on this day, another batch of ten dogs.

I’m almost through the A breeds, there’s three left, I can sense, progress.

I’ve missed three days so far in these first 20. I try and not skip too often but my main goal really is to also not burn myself out and get through them all.

[capekelpie]

It's been too long since I drew a pony 😭 so have a pretty blue roan.

[irradiatedpiratebooty]

Horse collection update

[crypitd]

Here's the Pabst Blue Ribbon entry I did for the art can contest, unfortunately I didn't get in the finals, but congrats to those who did!

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© Harlen Chen

[scruffypegasus]

Kelpie Spy enjoying a good drink

Wine glass based on this one.

Photo from shiftythrifting tumblr post https://www.tumblr.com/shiftythrifting/743775599206744064/some-interesting-drink-ware-and-a-book-i-found-at?source=share

[cryptoriascollectiblog]

Draculaura: so Kelpie, how are you liking Monster High?

Kelpie: well I just got here, but so far it’s fintastic.

Lagoona: we’re hoping she can transfer here when she’s older, just like I did. That way, we’ll see each other all the time.

Draculaura: Aww! 🥹I know exactly how you feel. Ever since I enrolled here, I rarely talk with my sister.

Lagoona: 😮you have a sister as well?

Draculaura: yep! She’s only 1400 though—it’ll be a long time before we go to school together.

Lagoona: ah, yes…that is too bad.

Draculaura: It’s okay, just part of being a vampire😊

Lagoona: 🥴

Kelpie:🤨

Draculaura: Anyway, I’d better go before I’m late for Drama class. I’ll see you ghouls later!

Lagoona: Draculaura, wait—

Draculaura: Yeah?

Lagoona: I…um…😳😅never mind. Have fun in class.

Draculaura: 🤨😊I will. Catch you later, Kelpie!

Kelpie: Is that offensive towards sea monsters…? Lagoona…?

Lagoona: 🫣😓😩whyyy can I not talk to her like a normal monster?

[popru]

kelpieeee

[witch-of-the-pages]

Hello new moot! What was your main inspo for Westwood? Or the main inspo for your various OCs?

Hiiii!! It's a mildly embarrassing answer LMAO, I started working on Violet specifically in about 2018 when I first got into some online roleplay forums! She was the foundation of the entire universe being built and none of it would have happened without her. But... she was originally built off a certain.... wizard school novel with an author who has since outed herself as a horrible person. (Note: I don't support her anymore!)

A lot of the story origins in recent plans stemmed from I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston which I read pretty shortly after it came out! I liked the idea of girl goes missing and MC is tasked w/ finding her. Since I felt my original romance plot for Westwood had been lacking anyway, I decided to build upon it in a way I found interesting and fit my own plot beats I already had. It was mostly just the Gone Girl of it all in my opinion that led to me to it!

For my actual worldbuilding of Westwood I had this kind of idea that was a mash up of a lot of my favorite sci-fi shows/movies/books. My main inspiration is definitely Cowboy Bebop in regards to space travel, as well as humanity conquering the galaxy. I also had a lot of inspiration from various other sci-fi novels on just... so many things. Some of which were read too long ago and have been too ingrained for me to remember the name.

Ideas like body modifications were inspired by it being such a commonly used trope, but a few big inspirations are Cyberpunk Edgerunners (I'm too broke for actual video games) and some of the body mods touched on in the Scythe series by Neal Schusterman.

A lot of my aesthetics and themes also tie into my deep love for punk and metalhead counterculture. I can't write a story without it being anti-capitalist or anti police state in some way, and this one has a lot of that.

I could def keep talking about this but you're free to also send me a DM if you desire any more word vomit mootie <3

[jonesingforcrafts]

Google diagnosed my dog as Australian so I'm trying to get him to watch Bluey so he has positive Australian role models and can connect to his culture.

[thecosmickight]

Prompt: Supernatural of Choice (Renzou)

Renzou trotted through the shallow water. His hooves kicking up silt, turning the blue-ish water murky.

The last rays of sun flittered through the dense canopy of trees. Picking up his pace, Renzou maneuvered around knots of tree roots and large stones. He was heading for the edge of the forest swamp.

Shaking his head in excitement Renzou left the water to trot over dry land.

He gazed across the flat open fields. Finding no one in sight he changed.

The bridle around his face twisted and snapped as it braided it self around a medium size pink gem and his shifting neck. In a moment the large form of a horse was replaced with the lithe form of a human teenage boy.

A grin split his face as he scooped up a pouch full of coins and made his way to the brightly lit town further down the road.

A festival was being held in the town. It would be the first one Renzou would be able to experience up close and he could bearly wait!

[sixminutestoriesblog]

blue men of Minch

The world is full of secret beings tradition has packed into almost every hidden corner and shadow. Wherever man has gone, we've brought our mirror realms and watchers in the dark with us. With scientific advances and steel and smog replacing the green grottoes and deep silences of the woods though, they've faded, slipping away from our consciousness as we filled it with TV sitcoms and internet cats. There's no room in our age of the fears of climate change for capricious elemental beings or for sea monsters over the roar of our whale hunting boats. Our grandmother's grandmother's folklore is far from us.

Most days.

On June 28, 2023, sitting on the sand at Eoropie Beach on the Isle of Lewis, a mother watching her family play in the water felt what she called a premonition.

"I was at the beach with my family and they were jumping in and out of the water – I've never felt uneasy and am in the water a lot, but I kept telling them to get out." [Story by Talker News • Yesterday 12:12 PM]

Everyone knows the capriciousness of the sea and, as the US's own Gulf Coast has recently proved, currents can snatch a person away without any warning. A mother of three children has a right to feel unsettled. It was what she did next that makes this a story.

She took pictures of the waves washing up on the shore.

"I felt uneasy about them being in there. I was taking loads of pictures but it wasn’t until I got home and looked through them that one picture stood out."

The picture in question was this one.

I - honestly see nothing. Or rather, what amazes me about the picture is how empty the beach is. I can't remember the last time I managed to find a beach that wasn't awash with people and it looks to me as if she had this stretch of beach entirely to herself, a mystery all of its own. For some reason though, she looked closer.

Stephanie Cranston thinks she might have caught a blue man of Minch on film.

“The way the sea is in that picture, you can see what looks like a figure coming out of the water.

My hair stood on end, it was pretty creepy – I've never seen anything like it before.

I don’t really believe in any stuff like that but I caught that in the picture and thought this is absolutely crazy.

The Hebrides has got myths about the blue men of the Munch – looking back at the picture it’s quite creepy.

I think if it is what I think it is, it’s the only one that’s ever been caught on camera.”

Let's roll this back a bit for those of us who aren't native enough to the area to know what's going on.

The blue men of Minch are basically storm kelpies. They haunt the waters of the area, looking to drag sailors and sometimes even their ships down to a watery grave in the darkness below the waves. When the weather is clear and the water is calm, the blue men sleep, sometimes drifting up to float on the surface, more often retreating to their underwater caves. When the weather is stormy however they rise to the surface and ride the cresting, wild waves, reveling in the chaos and looking for humans to drown. Woe then to any sailor who finds himself still caught out in the waters away from the safety of the shore. All hope isn't lost however. Sometimes, a clever and quick tongue can get you out of your approaching doom. Legend has it that, like the Mari Lwyd of Wales, the leader of the blue men will challenge a ship's captain to a poetry slam. Two lines a piece and if the captain can not only keep up but get in the last word of the poem, the blue men will let him and his ship go free. If he loses however, they will take their long arms and shake his ship to pieces, dragging anyone onboard to their deaths.

One of the odd things about the blue men is that they stick to a very small section of the coast. The Minch is a strait of water that separates the mainland of Scotland from a series of islands known as the Outer Hebrides or the Western Isles. It's only about 70 miles or 110km in length and can narrow down to as little as 14 miles or 23km across in some places. In the wideness of the world's oceans, that's not much. It's also believed to be the site of the biggest meteorite to ever hit the British Isles. The blue men are said to live here, and only here. Beyond those narrow shores, they're practically unknown.

The blue men are described as - well - blue. Sometimes its their caps that are described as blue and they themselves are grey faced. They skim either just on the surface or just under it when they swim, sometimes rising up as high as their waist in the water as they move like a dolphin, diving like dolphins too. They're human in appearance and size and even though they're described as kelpie I haven't found any references to them changing size or shape, never appearing as anything but regular sized human men in the water. There's no mention of women.

Clever poetry could appease them and like most ocean spirits, they could be bribed into bringing good fishing and weather. A candle lit on the shore at Halloween honored them and ale could be poured out into the wavebreak in the hopes that they would leave seaweed on the shore the village could use for fertilizer. Like most ocean spirits though they were the personification of the sea itself and just as capricious in mood and action.

The origin of the blue men might come from several points back in the island's history. There is speculation that the 'swimming above the water up to their waist' might have started with blue painted or tattooed Picts in low boats speeding along the strait, half hidden by the waves. Another explanation might be the North African slaves the Vikings brought with them when they wintered nearby, with both blue clothed Moors and the 'blue men of the desert' Tuareg people being suggested. Whatever the base of the legend was, it blended well with the idea of dangerous sea spirits along the coast and created the very unique blue men of Minch.