#siren's landing

[crystallizsch]

okay hi so listen hear me out

sea snake is a bit too obvious (and too boring)

so i made him based on some kind of lionfish??? (bc something something venomous marine animal) also with a LOT of creative liberties i made with how the fish looks like

let’s also give his fins some rips and tears here and there bc what are the implications of that??? that’s for you 🫵 to decide

anyways chat i lowkey dont know what i was doing

i had no other thoughts but haha funny snake man i turn into fish

[ashthewaterghoul]

Syrens can’t speak on land.

Rain gets summoned and isn’t used to not being able to talk. He’s a deep-sea Ghoul, rarely breaking the surface of the water so he’s only ever gone short periods of times not being able to speak.

Water Ghouls have their own type of sign language so they can commune above water and even under the water if they’re hunting.

When Rain is summoned he is not only silenced due to the amount of time he has to spend above water, but because none of the other Ghouls know sign, and the sign the humans have is different and makes no sense to Rain.

Rain also can’t write been as water, paper and ink don’t exactly mix so he never learned.

He just resigns to nodding and shaking his head and trying to mime as best as he can.

That’s until one day when the Fire Ghoul that has a Water’s name sneaks into his room and raises his hands, making the familiar shapes of infernal sign.

“I’ll be your voice. The voice I never had when I was summoned.”

[bunnystrawberry-sorbet]

[chocolatechipkraken]

Highlights of Artfight Week 2!

@alleesaur's character Trichinosis Felinis!

Uraoboros' character Hayune!

@lasagnelover420's character Zurgus Burgus!

@diiiptera's character Varanus!

@garblegarden's characters Gary and Porcelain!

Sparkarty's Lava Lamp Shark!

Bunno's character Lemon!

crownouns' character Eclair!

@murminat's character Misery!

[doctorsiren]

Redrew some sketches I did back in 2022 😁

[leatherandmossprints]

‘A Water Baby’ by Herbert James Draper, c. 1900, & ‘The Land Baby’ by John Collier, c. 1899.

[lady-quen]

Dark Monarch

[lanternlightss]

Lantern i want to share one thought that i just had about siren!Venti.

He must be buff af. Like. My grandpa had a wheelchair and almost never asked people for help with it and basically carried himself all around the city, Venti is doing that And taking themselves out of the water only using their arms, dragging all that mass? All that fish muscle out of the water and still dragging their tail all around when on land? That fibsh is BUFF.

looks at the outlines for future chapters and smiles. oh they are very buff

NO BUT YEAH same ol venti trying to downplay what power they hold 🙏 except its not working for them others have an approximate knowledge to what kind of range that power is 😔😔 sorry to say venti but you are not being slick with casually heaving a shelf over and pretending to be exhausted after happily dragging it. you poke at the fish chest and it feels like a solid metal wall and its being used to give the perfect hug. god bless if the tail is laid on a lap full weight because …. Rip ………..

its like those big dogs breed for guarding and they try to initiate play 😭😭

[ranticore]

The huarvaa writing got me thinking about an aquatic zeta showing up in a similar way (washing up injured near civilization)

Would anyone even make sense of what they are? Or would everyone assume that they're just a weird selkie?

they would likely be thought of as a particularly hairy phocid and treated as such until it became clear they were something else... if they were able to get out of there asap they would, as they cannot handle 'society' of any kind (they cannot even handle the company of other aquatic zetas ... it's why there's so few of them, and they did not develop the pack structures of their terrestrial cousins and therefore the 'social brain' which was excised from the original generations of zeta).

if they were too injured to escape they would not live very long after that, failing to thrive. many societies feature these guys in their legends as tricksters or malicious spirits who trick you into thinking they're a friend but when you swim close it's a strange monster... i don't think the treatment of one would be kind at a place like the spire or a polar pelagic village, but some cultures would have empathy for difference

[strawberrycheesecakekitkat]

"ocean's embrace"

add me on landing, its the same as my user here!! @strawberrycheesecakekitkat

the text is by jens peter jacobsen from niels lyhne

[volivolition]

✨ thinking of him thursdayyyy ✨ (<- said in a monotone deadpan with jazz hands)

[ghostlemon36]

HAS ANYONE SAID GREEK MYTHOLOGY ACCURATE SIREN GRIAN FOR HC10 YET???

[metropoliswhite]

@rhaegang

I started answering in the tags of the reblog but as always I yap too much so: Yes! In NMCTTS world, they’re like another branch of the same specie. They are less known in human mythology because:

1. they live in smaller pods and were more weary of humans from the start

2. they’re less likely to be blamed for the downfall of an entire fishing economy by “sinking” ships

3. fresh water is less scary than the sea/ocean so they’re associated with something less powerful.

They’re probably more present in local myths and behind some belief about naiads. They're seen as a lesser threat, more in the criptid range than dininity, which means they have been less hunted too.

[bill-ciphers-nightmare-blog]

So are you puppeting calypso from the Theraprism? Or did you escape through her?

BE THANKFUL SCALES IS STILL USEFUL.

[ultimate-character-design]

The 2nd Character Design Tournament

Please remember to vote for characters solely based on their design, rather than which character you are more familiar with or like more!

Phosphophyllite (Shattered) | Land of the Lustrous

Siren Head | Trevor Henderson

[No propaganda submitted]

*Spoilered propaganda under the cut for: Phosphophyllite (Shattered)

“At this point in the story Phos has been though so much both physically and mentally and this look is the culmination of all that. Plus this is a very cool monster design because they are so intimidating and kinda scary especially when you know how kind they were before everything went downhill.”

[deus-and-the-machina]

ffxiv garlemald discourse is so funny because people will go "ugh people just cant stand it when things aren't black and white" and then you look at how the empire are portrayed in stormblood and shadowbringers and its like hm. that seems like a pretty intense and accurate display of violent imperialism to me! Wow I wonder why people in this day and age may find it hard to feel sympathy for them or even hate them on principal. god its such a mystery.

the games like 50/50 to me on how it tackles these themes because I actually like the garlemald arc in EW, I think it has a lot of horrific and powerful scenes depicting how self destructive fascist propaganda and beliefs are, but I also think it doesn't go far enough on some fronts. the garleans' xenophobia is most notably and obstacle to getting them to accept the contingent's help, which is what they're there to do,

but there's never an admission of harm from any garleans on the uuuuuuuuh massive amount of war crimes the nations around them are still suffering from they're just kind of like "we misjudged you...but you actually wanted to help us all along" like yeah thats great now can we get you all some deprogramming because you keep talking about returning to your prime and glory days and I think we need to unpack some stuff you really SHOULDNT return to. im not even really talking about EW proper but the patches where things are a bit more chilled out and people are recovering.

It feels like they wanted to have their critique of imperialism and also have things end with the beauty of human connection and reaching out and these things just don't mesh well because hey a lot of your modern day audience is not gonna like having to treat people yelling xenophobic things at the cast and your character with kid gloves after you showed them hours and hours of the awful things these people's beliefs have done. especially in the present day hoo boy.