frycekz

| fleabit peanut monkey | all my friends are junkies (that's not really true) |

[alexriesart]

More art from Subnautica: Below Zero, in this case the little Pinnacarid.

The name was inspired by seals (Pinnipeds) and shrimp (Caridea), the latter taken from the name of Anomalocaris.

[yellowlobsterarmy]

my attempt at making sense of this design. 17 colors for a character is absolutely insane. btw

[frycekz]

a type of being

[frycekz]

a type of being

[frycekz]

One of this very elaborated ideas in modern vampire fiction is that vampires are hurt by silver. I guess bunch of random bullshit weakness (that include right angles and counting) weren't enough. And when you read about it a little more, it goes veeeery wide and deep. Did you know that vampires don't have reflections because back in the day mirrors were made with silver? Or that it used to not to be possible to photograph them because cameras used these silver mirrors, but now it's fine. The reason is either because people noticed antiseptic properties, or they considered it holy, or both. So anyway, it's kind of bullshit. Explicit vampire-silver connection came about only in 20th century after silver bullet myth was conflated in american popculture with more common ways of slaying like decapitation and wooden stakes. And yeah, vampire and werewolves (and witches) do overlap a lot in folklore, but neither of them really got silver kryptonite treatment either (silvers does appear as generic ward-of-evil material, often paired with gold and probably less often than iron). And it's not really why I care about it either, many usual popculture vampire tropes only appear in 20th century, including some famous like direct sunlight killing them. Vampires don't even exist. What irks me, is how much post hoc pseudohistory explanations get attached to it and repeated as fact. It kind of shows how easy it is to construct whole elaborate narrative and accept it, before even checking if something you are trying to explain exists at all. And I do see also this cultural component to this. Eastern European folk culture and it's vivid undeath stories that lay at source of modern vampire fiction gets overshadowed by it. It's not wrong that vampire mythos expands, but it's not right to expand it backwards in time, confuse in-universe fantasy lore with actual historical beliefs, replacing them with made up explanations only because... you just didn't bother to even check.

[averyghe]

A page from “Angelology” - a book im doing for my studies

[frycekz]

One of the worst part of christmas season is that you hear the word "elf" a lot BUT it's never cool hot fantasy elf, just more of this north pole bullshit

[frycekz]

have i ever shown my spore migi here

[frycekz]

gnomish dwarf/dwarfish gnome

[lecra]

If you could have a one-day tour around the Earth in an indestructible pod at the time of your choosing, what time period would your day take place in?

Quaternary

Neogene

Paleogene

Cretaceous

Jurassic

Triassic

Permian

Carboniferous

Devonian

Silurian

Ordovician

Cambrian

Voting ended onDec 13, 2025

[frycekz]

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[frycekz]

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[mozertone]

Mayan figurine of a Man Performing an Enema Ritual (600 – 900 CE). discovered somewhere in Guatemala, mid-20th century

via Jenny Mendes Ceramics

[frycekz]

Hate how anti-intelectual people get about archaeology when butt stuff (or penis-shaped objects) is involved.

People in past clearly liked anal sex, but Maya ritual enema use is really well documented. They liked their psychoactive substances and this was one way of ingesting them, most propably alcohol. Let's not play dumb/////

[frycekz]

Do you ever play a video game and think to yourself: "damm, it would look a lot better if it looked a little bit worse?"

[pantwardowskimoved]

that fantasy themed mobile game keeps coming up with more and more ridiculous fetish material for their ads it's fascinating

[pantwardowskimoved]

it's only a matter of time until we see hero wars pooltoy transformation or some shit

[funkwitz]

made a little silly map of weus :-)

never really covered the outside continents but here they are!

[echo-trox]

Little guy wandering about the chemical vent glades.

Ok, I'm in the stage where I'm starting to get excited about these fuzzy little buggos. They're still in development, and I think currently they bear too much resemblance to the Tetrox; I want them to be distinct. That said, I am really happy with just how alien they come across.

To be honest, I feel the design of the Tetrox is a little dated with my current standards (I made them ~7 years ago after all.) I like how endearing they are, but they're a little too cartoony and raptor-like for the more strange biological direction I want to go in. There's a fine line between "I wanna pet it" and "what the hell am I looking at?"

If anyone has any feedback or wants to share their creature design knowledge, I'd love to hear it!