#nixie: crunch munch

[muffinlance]

Man Aaron's a Disney princess for real huh. Fantasy creatures can't resist his alure

Snow White be out singing in a forest when some guy and his giant reindeer buddy walk past

Meanwhile a nixie is eating her birds behind her back

[muffinlance]

Nixies... exactly how humanoid do you envision them? Because I read "dragonfly nixie" and started to sketch with only a photograph of a dragonfly larvae from my grandpa's pond as reference because no internet connection... and it ended up up as a creature with only vaguely humanoid demeanor lounging on a rock (between me wanting to incorporate at least some anthropomorphised features and wing like draping things it looks more like a cricket to be honest). Second attempt is more humanoid but looks a bit like a hippie fortune-teller with giant sunglasses and a severely swollen face. I get the increasing feeling "dragonfly" didn't refer to the face shape...

I have been picturing them as mermaid-like but with the body transition happening closer to the shoulders. So the wolf-eating nixie was, like, 70% toddler-sized dragonfly nymph transitioning to one last set of human arms (with lovely carapace texturing) topped by a little girl's face draped with wet hair that's half water weeds because combs whomst? and dragonfly eyes. No eyelids. But the most important part is that she is definitely smiling. I'll let you imagine what sort of mouth she is doing so with.

[bayofalgecirascranes]

#nixie: crunch munches down to the marrow#Aaron: exits stage left with a reindeer friend#the reindeer friend is always moving slightly faster then him#just in case any predators get any ideas#Aaron can respect that kind of initiative#and absolutely won't teach his reindeer friend the word Hamstrung unless and until it becomes relevant#at which point it's been lovely walking directly behind it#fox's tongue and kirin's bone#sometimes friendship is a mutual pact of Not It

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Nixies... exactly how humanoid do you envision them? Because I read "dragonfly nixie" and started to sketch with only a photograph of a dragonfly larvae from my grandpa's pond as reference because no internet connection... and it ended up up as a creature with only vaguely humanoid demeanor lounging on a rock (between me wanting to incorporate at least some anthropomorphised features and wing like draping things it looks more like a cricket to be honest). Second attempt is more humanoid but looks a bit like a hippie fortune-teller with giant sunglasses and a severely swollen face. I get the increasing feeling "dragonfly" didn't refer to the face shape...

I have been picturing them as mermaid-like but with the body transition happening closer to the shoulders. So the wolf-eating nixie was, like, 70% toddler-sized dragonfly nymph transitioning to one last set of human arms (with lovely carapace texturing) topped by a little girl's face draped with wet hair that's half water weeds because combs whomst? and dragonfly eyes. No eyelids. But the most important part is that she is definitely smiling. I'll let you imagine what sort of mouth she is doing so with.