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illustratus · 8 months ago
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Andromeda by Arthur Rackham
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weirdlookindog · 8 months ago
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"Un de ces longs bras glissa par l’ouverture"
Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Long Arm Glided
Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870
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mockva · 2 months ago
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cuties-in-codices · 6 months ago
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unusual encounters
illustrations for "l'épître d’othéa" by christine de pizan, france, c. 1460
source: Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 49, fol. 17r, 55r, 82v, and 84r
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gatoburr0 · 3 months ago
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Sigh,,,, new AU alert.
This is genuinely so fun though UGH I’m gonna do so many of these
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((Pearl is an average sized orca))
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If you’re wondering,,, yes,,, shark monster au,,, everyone’s a shark,,,, or like whales or whatever
Silly sea creatures
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aroosprey · 8 months ago
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Ace, Aro, OR BOTH?
I have made some ace/aro pride sea monsters,,, as a treat
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edit: just so you know this artwork is made by an aroallo artist who doesn't appreciate being erased
tagging it as aspec/aro/ace and nothing else is fine, but if you're gonna tag aroace, don't exclude the other intersections represented here
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realfootage · 11 months ago
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thechills · 10 months ago
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IN THE DEEP (horror and the sea for @antichrist-demoncore 🌊)
hermann melville / triangle (2009) / julia armfield / the deep house (2021) / h.p. lovecraft / underwater (2020) / mira grant / 47 meters down: uncaged (2019) / werner herzog / the deep ones
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madcat-world · 6 months ago
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On Thin Ice - Boris Groh
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nickpeppermint · 5 months ago
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Happy 3 years anniversary to our beloved fish boys!!!
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shadyufo · 25 days ago
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Cryptids & Creatures of Folklore Drawtober Day 27 — Chessie
At over 200 miles in length, the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its drainage basin extends into six states. It is also said to be home to a sea monster.
The first recorded sightings of the creature, nicknamed "Chessie" which was no doubt inspired by the "Nessie" of Loch Ness fame, date back to the 1930s. Sightings were sporadic up until the 1970s and 1980s when many people reported seeing the sea serpent swimming in the Bay. The most recent sighting was in 2014.
Chessie is described as a large, snake-like creature around forty feet in length. It is said to be black in color and some accounts say it has a snake-like head while others say it is more horse-like in appearance.
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weirdlookindog · 8 months ago
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"Le poulpe brandissait la victime comme une plume"
Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Brandishing it's Victim
Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870
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mistressofthemacabresworld · 6 months ago
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ltwilliammowett · 1 year ago
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Delft tiles with depictions of sea monsters, sea gods, ships and fish, Netherlands, 17th century
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bestiarium · 3 months ago
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The Aasivarluit [Inuit mythology]!
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The oceans have fascinated humans for millennia. As such, it is no surprise that a great many cultures from around the world have their own stories about scary and dangerous creatures from beneath the waves. One such being is the ocean-spider, or Aasivarluit, a massive monster from Inuit mythology.
As the appellation ‘ocean-spider’ implies, the Aasivarluit resembles a spider, albeit an unnaturally large one. It is a dangerous, giant animal and it was known to prey on unsuspecting kayakers by waiting underneath the surface of the sea and then pouncing upwards when a suitable victim appeared. In the absence of human prey, the monster was known to hunt walruses and seals for sustenance. 
It doesn’t appear to be a common creature in Inuit mythology, in fact, all references I could find only mention one single story about the Aasivarluit:
A man was kayaking near the coast of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland (although it was called Godthåb back then). Suddenly he saw a massive object beneath the waves, which confused him greatly because he was familiar with this location and he knew that there was no shoal nearby. He then remembered stories about giant aquatic spiders, and quickly deduced that this must be the thing that suddenly appeared beneath his kayak. Indeed, he looked down into the water and saw a giant eye.
But the man was a skilled kayaker and he managed to get away safely. It is said that a less experienced kayaker would certainly have perished in his situation. 
The idea of a giant oceanic spider that eats people might have originated as a cautionary tale (as in, don’t venture too far from the coast or the giant spider will eat you). While stories about giant animals are not uncommon in Inuit culture, the Aasivarluit is certainly a rather strange monster, considering that there are no marine spiders in real life (although there are freshwater spiders). Technically, sea spiders do exist, but they are spiders in name only: they belong to the class Pycnogonida whereas real spiders are Arachnida. They only share a vague resemblance (though there are some really pretty and weird sea spiders out there, I recommend googling them).
Sources: Rink, H., 1974, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, first published 1875, 473 pp, p. 471. Christopher, N., 2013, The Hidden: a compendium of arctic giants, dwarves, gnomes, trolls, faeries, and other strange beings from Inuit oral history, 191 pp, p. 134-135. (image source: @another_maker on Instagram)
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odinsblog · 11 months ago
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Fish heads
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