#what is a kigurumi

[iamhereinthebg]

Happy Lunar New year!!

[carrion-art]

Ponds and Bly!!

[waraueuphoria]

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[rigby7997]

DAY 11

It's lazy because I'm actually for real tired from the shit I've been getting hit with.. sigh, oh well!

No sketch

[brawltogethernow]

Discarded concepts for my TGuest Tarvek Tuesday:

• Tarvek after the composition of some fancy old painting of Sleeping Beauty in an easier version of that thing I didn't finish from 2015 (could not find one that sparked enough joy/looked like what I had in mind, though I stared for some time at Maxfield Parrish's enjoying the pillars)

• Tarvek, his outfit destroyed by adventuring and still actively being chewed on by a monster, exhausted and surrounded by daydream bubbles of himself in different gimmick outfits (too meta, literally how much free time do you think you have this has a DEADLINE—not because of the prospect of ~15 chibis (easy) but interacting components and background conveying a narrative (difficult!))

• Various concepts that would be better with the entire OT3 because I'm completely habituated to planning around them as a set

[thatsalotofsemen]

The finished product of my first commission!! 🎪This was such a challenge and joy to work on. It features a squeakable nose and tail end, along with easy access to remove stuffing in the tail 🧼🎪

[cure-icy-writes]

Friends. Homies. Mutuals. what are your plans for Halloween?

[tallsuperstar]

Plumeria in a kigu and/or sorry I just have to… Leif in a maid outfit :3c

I had no idea how DIFFICULT maid outfits are to draw I have more respect to people who draw them often

[princess-viola]

[ijustwantittomeansomething]

halloween party

[takohebi]

🐰‼️

THERIZINOSAURUS KIGURUMI!!!!!

🐰 OC in a kigurumi of their favourite animal

[roughentumble]

starting a lil Jaskier but I don't know what to have him wear

im sorry but im crying with laughter over t h e b e a n

[strifetime]

i have 20 days to figure out a Halloween costume for a friend's party 🫠

[sharonaparadox]

[Images: fanart of various characters from Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss in their costumes from the official Halloween 2024 merchandise.

The first image has Vox frowning slightly and raising an eyebrow as Velvette poses with him to take a selfie as she grins and kicks one leg up behind her. Vox is wearing a shark onesie while Velvette is wearing a cat ears headband with a dark outfit consisting of a collar with a bell, a sleeveless crop top with a heart-shaped window over her chest, a miniskirt with a curled tail attached to the back, mid-calf heeled boots, and fingerless opera gloves.

The second picture shows Charlie and Vaggie kneeling on the floor near an open wrapper with chocolate upon it as Charlie grins and leans forward to feed a piece of the candy to her girlfriend, who is closing her eyes and opening her mouth with a smile. Charlie is wearing a light purple angel outfit consisting of a faux halo above her dark curved horns, a low-cut sleeveless dress with a ruffled skirt and wings attached to the back, opera gloves, and thigh-high heeled boots. Vaggie is wearing a black demon outfit consisting of a red demon horns headband, a low-cut strapless dress with bat wings attached to the back, fingerless opera gloves, and thigh-high heeled boots.

The third and final image shows Octavia posing with a smile, one leg kicked up behind her playfully as she extends both arms to reveal the pink inside of the bat wings attached to the sleeves of her dark dress over black boots, a bat ears headband completing her costume. End description.]

happy halloween 🎉

[anothermonikan]

Okay everyone um

Listen to this, okay? It's. good

[mammalidentifier]

im sorry seals molt? my association with that word is insects so i am confused and intrigued

They do! I’d say most species of animals sloughs off “old” parts of their bodies at some point of their lives in some capacity. The word “molting” is used as a catch-all term for this process, although exactly what body part they shed and how they do it varies from animal to animal. Arthropods grow an entire new exoskeleton and shed the old one, but for most other animals, this process only involves shedding the outermost layer of their bodies, the pelage and/or their first layer of skin. Reptiles are quite famous for this because they sometimes manage to come out of their old skins and leave them almost fully intact as if they were kigurumi pajamas:

Mammals tend to mostly only shed fur or hair, growing thicker fur during colder months and losing it in favor of shorter fur during warmer months. How obvious this is depends on the climate, though. It’s quite perceptible in mammals that live in the arctic whose fur changes color depending on the season:

But even the difference between the summer coats and winter coats of domestic dogs can be palpable if you live in places with colder climates!

(I’m quite fascinated by this because I was born and raised in a tropical country and my dogs look the same all year round heh)

But back to the seals. Pinnipeds don’t really use their fur to keep warm like other mammals do, but they still have it, and they have to shed their old coats and grow new ones accordingly, which they do once a year!

In elephant seals, this process is so sudden and so extreme it’s called catastrophic molting. They don’t only lose their fur, but also a layer of dead skin all at once and this forces them to stay on land for a full month without swimming (and therefore, without hunting and eating) until the process is fully done. Because molting requires redirecting blood flow towards the skin instead of to their vital organs as usual, if they swam in the cold waters they’re usually accustomed to while molting, they’d freeze!

Bonus fun fact: despite having lost their fur during the evolution process, cetaceans like whales and dolphins also go through a molting process where they lose a layer of dead skin, which they scrape off by rubbing against rocks and rolling on sand banks.

It’s been recently discovered (as of 2020!) that the reason whales migrate annually from arctic waters to tropical waters is the exact same reason elephant seals spend a month on land: to molt! It’s much easier for a whale to keep warm while shedding its skin in warm waters than it is in cold waters.