part-time planktonic person

my piece for the @swimonzine! you can get the pdf with over a hundred cool sharks for $1+ here

RIBBON EEL'S REVERIE

A crab doctor with human hands; twisted dugongs with claws for arms; captive courage and charity starved.

9/1 - 15/1 #dungeon23

Didn't know where to go from last week's ship battle---so decided to go *deeper*, Inception style: if you get bitten by the giant ribbon eel from that encounter, you fall into a swoon and wake inside her dream-world.

Meant to be a portrayal of the eel's history:

The coral reef of its elverhood;

The seagrass plains of its captors;

Its pain in the pincers of crustacean wizardry.

Originally I wanted a dream-logic geography inside a big eel. But I couldn't find a good guide to moray-eel anatomy. And it was too hard to draw, anyway.

Erased everything and began again. My pencil marks were still visible, though, so the new map follows an eel's rough shape anyway. So that worked out.

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Had to learn how to draw reef formations, and shells, and crabs. Also found out that moray eels have two sets of jaws (the pharyngeal gate is based on the eel's inner jaws).

So I'm learning stuff, at least!

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