We-Are-Warshaper

I made the gif, I'm reusing the gif. Not my best work, but whatever.

You've got Cloakers, Cerebral Hoods, Ixitxachitl, Lurkers (Above), Trappers, and probably others; I've excluded several that aren't evil/predatory.

And why? Out of all sea creatures I know about, rays are the ones I forget exist the most often. I will remember invertebrates and extinct megafauna before I remember manta rays. And I'm drawing on a reference pool of one, so I can't say that's true for everyone (certainly not someone who isn't in a landlocked part of the world), but, like, the only times I see rays in fiction anymore are as flying rays, and then only when skywhales aren't being used. (I'm not sure why it's exclusive -- maybe people just don't want to populate the sky with everything in the ocean and those two are the obvious choices for marine flyers besides the flying fish: the thing that looks like it flies already and the thing that absolutely wouldn't fly ever.) Like with WoW: there's a tremendous dearth of whales in the game, but rays (giant sea ones and flying alien things alike) have decent variety. Not the most variety -- they're not common -- but they're there. And manta rays are entirely innocuous: either there have never been any records of a manta (not sting, manta) ray killing/hurting someone or it's so rare that it's a fluke. So why manta rays over, say, marlins, sawfish, lionfish, etc.?

Past that I think there is certainly more room for other creatures, but maybe rays haven't been done to death as much as say Squids, octopi, or whales. Things that are aquatic but still are stranger than most people's idea of "Fish."

by Scott Flanders

Katzenkrake (…catopus? octocat? squidcat? …”eww”?).

I wanted to sew this since last october when I dreamed about Ford and this creature (inktober drawing here). The kraken’s eyes are noctilucent (not sure this is the right word, sry), the cat’s one are just big and sparkly. Aside from the eyes the creature is soft and squishy.

DEVOURER OF GHOSTS 

Nimona is badass and poor Ballister is just very overwhelmed.

Been meaning to do a Nimona piece for a while!