#leptonyx

[sombertide-0]

lineup of current ocs wip

[snototter]

A leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) emerges from the kelp on Bird Island, South Georgia

by Derren Fox

[six-legged-sea-leopard]

maw

[canis-constellate]

this just in: local Constellate remembered it had layers and tried to map them, went looking for times where it talked about one of its layers in the past, and then discovered more layers that it had forgotten about because the memory of them was locked with/in the previous "era", suddenly realizes it has way more amnesia than it thought

("oh haha there's like four layers :) hold on sorry just discovered another one. oh, oops, just found another one--oh hey, wait, we remember this one! it was discovered already in a previous era! hold on, let's go find some more information about it--oh hey, there's more layers--WAIT A FUCKING MOMENT, TEN LAYERS TOTAL?? *remembers the shadow/upside-down Yhine that exists that's basically Yhine but (A) approximately 400 years in the past and (B) without our influence* ELEVEN?????")

[thecreatureawaits]

Creature Awaits #231

Each week I plan to feature an amazing creature, admiring God's fantastic artistry. Hopefully it’ll brighten someone’s day to see something new and interesting if they haven’t seen it before. : )

Continuing our October series.. "Cute…but Deadly" : )

(Beautiful photography by Jeff Lipshitz of the Channel City Camera Club (CC BY 2.0 Deed))

The Leopard Seal

Scientific Name: Hydrurga leptonyx

Region: The Antarctic

Size: About 7.9'-11.5' (~2.4m-3.5m) long & weigh about 440lb-1,320lb (200kg-600kg)

Interesting Notes: Though adorable at a distance, Leopard Seals can definitely be deadly up close. Though attacks on humans are rare, there are recorded instances of these strong and beautiful creatures attacking inflatable boats and biting, and even dragging, explorers and scientists into dangerous icy waters.. However, not all tales of their encounters with humans end in tragedy. One such story, documented in 2006, involved Paul Nicklen, a photographer for National Geographic, who dove among them, capturing their daily life. A female Leopard Seal took notice of Nicklen, and for four days, took pity on him as "a helpless predator" and brought him food. She brought dead penguins at first and then switched to injured ones - thought to be a way to teach him to hunt for himself. Nicklen stated the experience will "stay with him forever."

You can read more on the experience and see his photography on the National Geographic website here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140311-paul-nicklen-leopard-seal-photographer-viral

[typophobiaart]

Sea buppi

[louisleptonyxvii]

Okay now see I don't know if I'll keep this blog, but my hope is that maybe it'll help me transition into making YouTube content after I get a better computer 😂

Hi, Howdy & Hello from one social deviant to another!

This page is gonna look a little rough until I set up an aesthetic and play with my formatting a little bit. For now, I will simply record my thoughts and feelings about books that I have been reading or recommending books I have read in the past.

For those curious: No, I am neither a convert from Tiktok nor a member of the great Twitter exodus, I've been native to tumblr since 2015 and intend to keep my personal blog anonymous to this, so if you know me from a different post no, you don't 😉🤫

Posts will begin next week as I draft some light content and previews for the kinds of books you will see here. I'm gonna keep things mostly PG-13 for now but there may be some spicy reads posted in the future 😍😋

Anon asks will be turned on for any questions or suggestions, however hate speech or unnecessary negativity will be deleted and ignored (or reported but only in extreme cases). "Negativity" does not include "disagreement on opinion of a book" so feel free to share your own if you want to talk about it (keep it neutral to positive if I seemed to enjoy the book, please please, keep the good vibes bc you won't convince me to hate something I had a good time reading). No soliciting of any kind, please, as well. No nude photos obvi, keep it about books, people

That is all for now and I wish you a pleasant morning, evening, or night 🌙

[lovewritteninthestrands]

leptonyx

animation progress

lines

color reference

mecha animation for my friend @windienine!

his description:

“leptonyx: a large modified chassis used for marine combat, loosely based on a leopard seal. it's both streamlined and durable, and shines in close-range combat against both organic targets and especially enemy mecha -- its primary weapons are the jaw-like pincers on either side of its body, which can puncture leviathan hide and crush the hulls of other mecha for a quick kill. its main weakness is that it can't do much damage outside of close combat, and opens itself to counterattacks when it does so.”

[pluralhottakes]

even in pro-endo communities (even if to a lesser extent, it's still very much there--see the theorizing on how systemhopping "actually" works for just one example), we've found there to be a major problem with boiling down all plural experiences to be inherently psychological, especially (but not solely!) when it comes to those with CDDs. which is extremely uncomfortable as a primarily metaphysical gateway collective that happens to also have DID.

we're open about our functioning on our blog, but holy hell it's exhausting to have to see people who should be our allies and siblings in arms treat us like we don't know how we "actually" function because we don't have much in the way of a psychological basis beyond our DID connecting those of us in the collective into a hivemind. you're (general you, aimed at those who do this) acting exactly like the anti-endos who say endogenic systems just "don't remember their trauma"

- @leptonyx-constellate

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[spectrolitha]

Storytelled my first CtD (20th anniversary edition) one-shot set in Rus during Ivan the Terrible (so not long after the Shattering). Had a wonderful time, my players are very fun and creative people, so it was a blast :D

Here are portraits of NPC's I've made as well as some lore notes about each of them under the cut :]

1) Zlata, satyr childling. She was actually abandoned in the woods by her mortal parents who caught up on some weird thing going on with their daughter and, being really superstitious (not surprising during that time) decided their kid is dangerous :(

Thankfully my players adopted her just as expected and at the end of one-shot she found a new home in house of Januarius and his wife.

2) Igor Indrick, beastie Thallein. He's also a head of local Oprichnina (personal soldiers of Ivan the Terrible who went around the land pretending to be destroyers of potential state traitors but in fact just robbing and murdering people) – a fact he abuses to specifically hunt changelings. All in all, terrible dude, in this house we don't like him.

3) Yuli, piskie Dauntain. Was tricked by sidhe he was serving into opening a cursed book, which Dreaming took personally. And by that I mean that Yuli became Dauntain with brand of the Lich, meaning that he from that point on had a phylactery which basically made him a thrall to whoever was in possession of said phylactery. Yay.

Yuli is actually a pretty good-natured guy, for Dauntain at least. As I said, he was a piskie once, so during the game he was trying his best not to harm Zlata and by association the players. In the end they got rid of vampire who possessed Yuli's phylactery and granted him freedom, except not so much – unbeknownst to Yuli, one of players stole his phylactery. Hasn't used it, but the possibility is there.

I really want to give Yuli a redemption in eyes of the Dreaming in later games. Dude doesn't deserve a thing that happened to him... I don't care that C20 is kinda opposed to idea of redeeming Dauntain. Rules are my plaything 😎

4, 5) Agrippina, Kiasyd, vampire who was in possession of Yuli's phylactery. They lived in secluded place in the local forest, so Agrippina mainly used her power over Yuli to use him as a hunter for her: he lead unsuspecting people and other creatures to their house and Agrippina ate them. Yay. Her backstory is pretty sad, but it doesn't excuse a thing, so my players ended up killing her.

I'm a bit upset I can't make up stories about her and reborn and redeemed Yuli in modern nights, but narratively it was definitely for the better 😌

6) Leptonyx the Men-eater, an Unseelie selkie. She hasn't, in fact, eaten any men, but she's definitely killed at least one in order to make a new selkie's coat - I used fanmade lore which says that in order to create a selkie's coat mortal or seal with selkie's blood should die. Oops.

She's shunned from selkie's society for her crimes, which doesn't upset her one bit. During the game she cheerfully asked players to lead another human to her, which they reluctantly did, leading one of Oprichnina to her. Which means that there is now possibly selkie who comes from Oprichnina – Leptonyx was looking for someone to pass the coat to.

7) Kirsa the Bloody, redcap. Leader of whole band of redcaps, she made players give her their possessions with a bit of threats before leading them to Januarius, whom she actually loves and who specifically asked her to lead any changelings escaping from Oprichnina to him. Sadly he didn't specify that those changelings are not to be robbed, and Kirsa's band needs something to eat... Oops.

There was a moment when Kirsa told players to give her everything of value they have and Zlata gave her flower crown which another player made for her. One of redcaps actually put it on, but sad eyes of Zlata made him ashamed of himself and he returned the flower crown to rightful owner 😌

8) Januarius of House Liam, autumn sidhe, ruler of freehold where players escaped to from their own, destroyed by Oprichnina. I dunno what to say about him. He's a good boy. Many adore him (even local redcaps, though they also enjoy messing with him), many think he is way to nice to be a capable ruler. For now his managing alright, but what will happen in the future? Only time will tell.

[sombertide-0]

so i had a thought and had to put it out, enjoy the madness ksfhskjnkhdf

[snototter]

A leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) amongst the seaweed on Moto Ihupuku, Aotearoa

by Russell Scott

[six-legged-sea-leopard]

not happy with this one but i wanted to draw her. six legged sea leopard

[canis-constellate]

found out that one of our old collective names was the Solar System. huh

[syshop-culture-is]

ex-anti (endo/)syshop culture is somehow having found yourself being pro-syshopping before becoming pro-endo. while being primarily metaphysical in functioning. somehow i feel like this isn't the normal progression of these kinds of things

(to be clear: this was a few years ago when we weren't super involved in plural communities but had a select few plural friends, one of which introduced us to systemhopping before we'd heard the opinion of it from other anti-endos. later we learned that syshopping was widely regarded as an "endo" thing so we did more research into endogenic plurality and lo and behold, we ourselves were (partially) endogenic)

(- @leptonyx-constellate)

Syshop Culture Is

[curatethewav]

Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx)

•Leopard seals have become some of the most formidable hunters in the Polar Region due to their ability to withstand extreme circumstances, abundance of food, lack of predators, and ruthless reputation

•However, leopard seals are among the most challenging apex predators to study on Earth due to their frigid Antarctic habitat

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