G. Devan

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 28: Lancia Presto/Lancia Amabile.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Kajikia audax, striped marlin.

Home stretch, making up for delays during May.

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 26: King Gigide.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Caiman crocodilus, spectacled caiman.

The outfit is referenced from photos of the Kalina, the indigenous inhabitants of South America's north coast. The headdress is based on that of Sydney Allicock, former Guyanese Vice President and minister of Indigenous People's Affairs.

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 25: Thanatos.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Carcharodon carcharias, great white shark.

The bastard man...

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 24: Rosier Rose/Rosier Beryllos.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Chelonia mydas, green sea turtle + acropora coral.

Splitt this over a few days because of other stuff going on, and frankly I should have moved on to the next one sooner than I did, but I had a lot of fun with this.

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 23: Kraken Jr.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Architeuthis dux, giant squid.

I didn't plan the sailor outfit or the toy boat or the lollipop from the start; they just kind of happened.

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 22: Grand Ancestor/Grand Composer.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Basilosaurus (prehistoric cetacean).

I was in good shape to finish this early, and then we had an unplanned family movie night with a 3-hour movie...

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 21: Jawhara Tajir/Jawhara Malik.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Pagophilus groenlandicus, harp seal?

Hmm... very happy with Tajir, but I need to experiment more with readability of facial features when using a dark base color.

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 20: Golden Catfish.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Brachyplatystoma filamentosum, piraiba/goliath catfish.

Fun fact I learned while gathering reference: Guyanese prospectors are known as pork-knockers, because historically they ate lots of pickled pork.

[gdevan]

Last night I had a dream that the PHM epilogue mentioned an Eridian called Tim and "she kept trying to invite Grace to her all-boys game of Dungeons & Dragons", which raises a number of questions.

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 19: Yurlungr + Yurls/Glumungur + Glums.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: some kind of seahorse or seadragon.

Took a while to decide what I was going for, then got sleepy early, so it's still in a pretty rough state (slapped an inherit alpha layer over the sketch and covered the most blatant sketch lines with a transparency mask). I do like it, though!

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 18: Amamotsumi/Menohatsumi.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Costasiella kuroshimae, leaf sheep.

[gdevan]

Me: wow, that one coelacanth Mermay post is getting a bunch of notes and the others rarely got any. Wonder why?

Activity feed:

Me: yeah, that'd do it.

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#in the episode of Daria where there’s a rumor that her and tom had sex#upchuck knowingly refers to her as the lovely MIZ Morgendorffer#this was the end of season five meaning this would’ve been fairly common knowledge in 2001

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 17: Okeanos's Guardian.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Mitsukurina owstoni, goblin shark.

I based the accessories off of what I could find easily on Wikipedia, which turned out to be the Weighing of the Heart from the Papyrus of Ani. I know next to nothing about what various colors, poses, and props signify in Ancient Egyptian art, but considering the "Nephthys" and "Isis" statues in the game, I think I'm ahead of the EO devs.

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 16: Lamba Apsara/Lamba Garuda.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Careproctus shigemii, a recently-discovered snailfish that has no common name thus far.

[penny-anna]

Bookriot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels by Female Authors

Bookriot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors Bookriot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors

ok let's do another one! this time we have Bookriot's 100 sci-fi fantasy novels by female authors.

just to pre-empt a few possible objections to the list, it was published in 2016 and:

JK Rowling's public transphobia downward spiral began in 2018.

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells) was published in 2017 and Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) was published in 2019.

The Fifth Season (NK Jemisin) was published in 2015 & given that the editor included a different NK Jemisin I presume Fifth Season simply hadn't hit all-time classic status yet.

The editor stated upfront that they included 1 book per author.

I have no idea what We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) is doing there given that it categorically is not SFF.

How many of Bookriot's 100 sci-fi fantasy novels by female authors have you read?

0-10

11-20

21-30

31-40

41-50

51-60

61-70

71-80

81-90

91-100

Voting ended onMay 24

[gdevan]

Endless Ocean Legendary Creature Mermay

Day 15: Mertz & Mezzte.

Species the Legendary Creature is based on: Rhina ancylostoma, bowmouth guitarfish.

FUCK I just realized that I forgot the spots, but my pen's dead anyway (hence why there's no shading). Eurgh.