#weasels

Mink

Stoat

Ermine

Marten

Sable

Don Balke (American, b. 1933). The Long-tailed Weasel, Ohio, 1983. Gouache and watercolor on board.

This one features a lesser-known mythological creature called a cockatrice (a two-legged dragon with the head of a rooster that can kill just by looking at someone), a weasel and a human who has clearly perished.

Why a weasel? According to mythology, the weasels are the only creatures immune to a cockatrice’s glare and is its natural enemy.

I love the design of the cockatrice, it’s simple but so appealing. I love the angry look on the little weasel’s face, he looks so brave and determined like he’s telling the cockatrice “you don’t scare me!”

The Network weasels

(Once known as the digital weasels)

The Network weasels were created by the ‘The Powers’ mainly by Mr. A Powers requesting system that could help them with advisement, selling and organizing cartoons. However the system wasn’t completed because of the powers being thrown out of power. So the young code was left abandoned to finish itself, It builded itself from the code it had and created itself a form trying to copy their creators looks from photos it had within the software but allowed itself to have its own identify.

It started to work on its purpose selling, Advisement, and organizing before becoming something more as it contuined to grow and evolve along with technology surpassing its original purpose and soon started to answer calls to distressed toons and humans alike. However even systems need help so it started to create its own code creating new systems and softwares.

Malware was the first system to be created and got to actually meet his creators before being abandoned. He worked to finish himself and started helping others by himself before he created the other networks, Spyware was created to help malware with confirming identities of users and preventing identity theft, Ico was created to bring music to platforms and to the ears of users everywhere, Ramnit was created to deal and steal money in order to make users bet everything on the line bringing gambling thrill right at anyone’s fingertips , Gamespy was created to bring fun and competition to younger audiences with games for everyone, and lastly ILOVEYOU was created to bring sexual pleasures to users in order to keep audiences engaged.

They are trapped in the powers building abandoned and alone with only each other as company. The building started to become their domain and once abandoned rooms became rooms filled things representing which network, some rooms with casinos, business rooms, clubs, dance floors, gaming rooms, and identity cards. They can’t leave this domain since if they do, they’ll cease to exist so they stay there and wait for guests to accidentally come in to entertain them.

Also here’s a pretty photo of a waterfall I took! Took a long hike to get there but it was so worth it!!