soap sheep!

Twin Cape and God Valley for @landhozine :D♥

The moment I read One Piece locations zine I knew what i wanted to do- something inspired by USA’s National Park posters by Anderson Design Group, love love those illustrations♥

and as someone who doesn't draw many landscapes, I'm very happy with how they turned out🫶

A bunch of beautiful one piece ladies 😌💕

There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber

English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize it’s spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.

All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. That’s right, they’re so evil, you can’t even eat them.

They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.

The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.

Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!

Or what about death from above? The stökkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.

Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hide…

… while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.

The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.

The same can’t be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.

The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.

How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.

For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.

https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/

Thank you! It makes me so very happy when someone shows interest in my characters/stories/projects

Horror/ Mature/ 4.1k words cw: animal death, psychological torture, implied suicidal ideation

How much is a life worth? How does one begin to capture a life lived? For Fukuro, the respective answers are: nothing much, and by creating a plot line and destiny for the body to rest in. After all, as a gossip-monger, who knows better than him on the matter? Given free reign, he can cut loose and set up his stage. Lights... cameras... action!

Illustrations by @mell0w0dyssey - go check her out!

Melody and I collaborated on the @cipherpolzine to create a Fukuro-centered story with 2 full illustrations! She put in so much care and details, I'm blown away every time I revisit her art. Just look at them, aaaaaa!!!

This atmospheric instrumental was its theme song >:}