littlemousedeer

Anoki wanted me to think up some ‘tiny things that live in cracks’ on patreon, and so Coin Wyrms were born.

These very tiny oddly constructed dragons resemble frayed bits of string or old rubber bands at first glance, but they’re actually sassy little thieves who swipe any coin close enough to a crack, grate, or couch cushion and take it back to their tiny lairs for their tiny hordes. The coins are used as home decoration as well as sort of interchangeable skeletons. A Wyrm wrapped around a coin is a lot less vulnerable. They’re very strong (scary strong for their size) but real floppy and without a coin they either have to drag or flip flap themselves everywhere. Certain metals also give Coin Wyrms enhanced magical abilities and sometimes they’ll even nibble on them a bit for tasty remnants from the hands of whoever dropped the coin. people leave a lot of salt and skin and food and drugs on money and the Coin Wyrms find it exquisite.  

Fun facts:

Babies of this species start small, wrapping themselves around soft balls of lint that their parents make for them and then graduating to small pebbles and buttons before moving up to coins.

Males have beautiful plumage that looks like colorful lint pom-poms. They stick any pretty hairs or bits of string they find in their fluff to make it seem grander which are all held in place by tiny defensive spikes.

Territorial disputes are settled with what can only be called 'floppy jousting’. Keeping your coin in while jousting is a coward’s act.

Females can emit what is to them a sonic boom of sound/deadly electric shock to warn off predators. For humans this would sound and feel like a tiny angry “ba!” followed by a bit of static shock. However, a female with a copper coin magical power-up can make your ears ring for hours and cause severe nerve damage if you make her angry enough.

Single males build elaborate colorful bowers at the entrance to their lairs to attract mates.  These bowers have an array of treats and their shiniest coin. Males must be careful though because other males are all too ready to steal bigger prettier coins the minute their neighbor’s back is turned and replace it with their inferior one.

They are not the only dragons that steal your stuff.

QUELLE: https://twitter.com/sarokichi

Short SAROKICHI appreciation post. Go to his twitter and/or tumblr page, this man is a GOD in my opinion when it comes to those wonderfully wonderfully creepy monster masks (and of course THOSE TEEEEEETH omg…. *-* )

Anonymous German Artist

Altarpiece with Saint Maurice

Germany (1499)

Attached Ronde-Bosse, Gilded Wood, 132 cm.

Bitterfeld, Stadtkirche St. Antonius.

Rosary Bead, Medieval Art

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Boxwood

METAMORPHOSIS, 2017-2018