#the sealskin

[thelastofthebookworms]

My tag for this series is 'fairy tales'.

[kvroii-arts]

modern day selkie 🦭

[grapefruittwostep]

I tried very hard on Sealskin Katara with her Tang Dynasty nonsense and the lighting killed me. I need to lie down forerver

[angelxd-3303]

Finally- FINALLY saw the movie and oml I am also absolute mush! I need to see it again and again and again just to completely comprehend this rollercoaster of a movie <3 what a beautiful mess it was- now to indulge in even more fanart and fanfics >:)

Couldn't have said it better myself, friend!

[skreeonkg]

Tired of selkies being the same generic pretty woman imagine if a seal wriggled onto a beach and from its mouth popped out a fat butch

[thewatcher0nthewall]

The Iron Captain

Victarion Greyjoy.

[lostcauses-noregrets]

Lostcauses Fic: Sealskin [Podfic]

Erwin's sketch book by @seitsen-sarvi.

Erwin is an environmental scientist, a driven man on a mission to save the world. His research does not normally involve fieldwork, and it certainly does not normally involve spending six months of the year at the university’s field station on a remote island in the North Atlantic, with only seals for company. But the solitude of the island and a chance encounter with a curious stranger bring a profound revelation.

A podfic written and read by LostCauses, loosely based on Maurice Lindsay's 1946 short story Sealskin Trousers.

Listen and download at eruri.org/sealskin.

With enormous thanks to @seitsen-sarvi for the beautiful art and @momtaku for whatever the audio equivalent of beta is ♡

[writing-prompts-for-palestine]

#69

A pirate crew captured a shipment of seal skins. They don’t realize there’s a horde of angry selkies trying to get them back.

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Today’s campaign:

Jawad & Fairouz, from 90-ghost.

$3,249/$30,000 [10.8%]

[kirsteninthesun]

Minuk and the Sealskin (amirkanek)!

This sealskin belongs to me. It’s not in the best condition, unfortunately- it’s shedding hairs. As per my aunt, the word for a beat up skin is aminraq. As you can see, the hairs on a seal’s coat are thick and almost rubbery, with a spring to them. They vary based on where in the coat they come from. 

Minuk has never seen such a big sealskin in her life, and she says she wants to live in a world where all the seals are this big! She enjoyed a nice nap and made herself a little tent.

[hauntingmiser]

It's day 15

I made a selkie oc

[xenosaurus]

question about sealskins: how do trans shapeshifters work? do their bodies know they're trans before they do and shift that way automatically? could they consciously shift their natural state when they realize their gender identity? or does it take gender affirming surgeries to 'reset' their natural state?

you got ahead of me-- Leo Harp is trans! the fun selkie-themed name isn't an alias, it's his chosen name.

there are two answers to this general line of thought!

in practice, most trans shapeshifters use conscious shapeshifting to transition, and do some mild "touchup" shifting once a week or so. it's roughly the same effort as remembering to take a T shot, without the need to involve a doctor.

it's remarkably easy shapeshifting and can usually be accomplished before a kid is old enough for a full copy-- most commonly gendered body parts like genitals are formed from early development tissue that is found in every viable fetus (shoutout to my old pal the mesonephric duct) that is then changed from being exposed to hormones, so you don't have to "borrow" anything from another person. you already have the genetic coding for the basis! physical sex is much less intrinsic and binary than society treats it so it's super easy for shapeshifters to mess with.

in THEORY, though, if you wanted to change your baseline form so that you didn't have to keep up the shapeshifting, you can change your "natural" state with surgery or medication. it's just a lot harder than having a bowl of spaghetti to carboload and making some changes.

[kvroii-arts]

I finished sewing my second sealskin capelet!

As well as dark green dyed sealskin, it has a rabbit fur lining and trim, as well as an arctic fox tail as the collar. The strap is genuine leather and adorned with a mother of pearl button.

It is entirely sewn by hand.

[grapefruittwostep]

Day Four: Jewel

I’ve been meaning to do a Sealskin Katara for a while and the idea behind this is Katara as “jewel of the Fire Nation” a la something something possession-not-person anyway I hurt my hand drawing peach blossoms, please clap.

(Also if you ever read and liked Moonlight and Sunshadow, please check out Sealskin, it’s the spiritual successor even if it’s darker and I’ve very proud of how it’s coming out even if it’s taking forever to write, I WILL plug my own fics on Zutara week because I have no shame)

@zutaraweek

[murderandcoffee]

felt like drawing a buff woman so here’s a side character from my novel

[neechees]

Now they're in the fucking Arctic circle for some reason

Plains Crees went into the BUSH (so we could live with the Wooodland Crees in the cover of the trees & wind) in the East during the winter, not further North???

[shark-sslime]

Me and all my sea friends ( except they excluded sharks :(( )