Hello! My name is Ranch (she/her), I study aquatic sciences and I have a very big interest in aquatic life and biology! I've always really been into fantasy creatures and worldbuilding and this is my blog for my urban fantasy universe, the Sirpaverse, and my art in general!
Here's the Sirpaverse overview where I go over the world and its components.
Here is the glossary of taur-related words!
General tags:
#sirpaverse - The urban fantasy world all my critters and funny guys live in.
#man swears forever - Things related to the story I'm writing. Man Swears Forever is about an undeniably strange man who ends up in the middle of the wilderness and finds a child all alone. Events ensue.
#dream weirdness - I have pretty vivid dreams! Here's various retellings and drawings of them.
#featuring the creature - Sirpaverse has normal animals, but this tag is for all the animals that don’t exist in real life! Some overlap with dream weirdness but not every dream critter ends up in Sirpaverse and not every Sirpaverse creature has dream origins.
#taur hour - Posts that talk about Sirpaverse taurs and how they do things.
#magical malarkey - Posts that talk about magic and spells in the Sirpaverse.
#now thats an idea! - Idea people of Sirpaverse and information about them.
#this is the ghost one - The ghost tag. The. Yeah.
#osmeri - Information about Osmeri, the merfolk kingdom that's situated snugly in the Baltic Sea.
#merfolk - Tag that's generally about all kinds of merfolk.
Character tags:
#ahti II - We all know him! The blond, extremely blue-eyed pike merman in red, white and blue dapper clothes. Merman crown prince of the Osmerian kindom who’s currently… not doing that.
#anglerfish mermaid - Giant pitch black anglerfish with a beautiful woman as a lure. She's beauty, she's grace, she will stuff you in her face! My nameless anglerfish siren/mermaid exists outside of the Sirpaverse but she's too good to not draw or speculate upon.
#annika - Red-haired older zander mermaid. Impulsive and starts new hobbies every year. Sirpa’s mother.
#antercine - 18-eyed idea person in the shape of a massive whale-like creature. She flies through the infinite skies of the idea realm, always weeping and in mourning of her family. The “grandmother” of the Cryptograph family.
#bertta - Brown-haired white-tailed deer taur with a purple pigment-inducing mutation. Looks soft but her hooves pack a painful kick and she’ll do anything to protect those in vulnerable situations. Good with kids.
#billiam - Four-eyed yellow-purple idea person who’s usually in the shape of a man in a purple vest. Unbearably lax and apathetic to greater world events, he has an interest in humans if only because he thinks our limitations make us adorably rudimentary and instinct-driven. Likes drama and performing and insects and making you into an insect for the vine.
#caroline - Rainbow-coloured fish alien furry, my fursona!!!!!!! Loves fish and drawing and swimming and popcorn and media analysis and musicals and video games. She’s also a Sirpaverse resident believe it or not :)
#cheikh - Long-haired great white shark merson in light blues and reds. Former marine biologist, Cheikh is VERY CONTENT staying on land far away from home indefinitely after their….. encounter, underwater. Smart and thoughtful and always a little bit on edge.
#face stealer - Hairless pale man with a weird face and a purple suit, crocs included. 18th century painter who went crazy and decided that the best way to preserve the human form is to take the real thing! Apathetic to humans as individuals, he’s very determined to save us all.
#hömbädiido - Idea person in the shape of a black and white koi fish. The sole ruler of the idea realm. Does not much care for human affairs, but loves Earth! And her realm just a bit more...
#kari - Dirty blond-haired older man. Sailor planning retirement, content with life. Sirpa’s father.
#karleeen - Black-haired wolf spider centaur girl in warm colourful clothes. Happy-go-lucky and just raring to go and explore and create! Protagonist of Man Swears Forever, which could mean nothing.
#lazlo - Tall brown-haired man in brown or orange clothes, yellow scarf and brown trilby are seldom left home. Strange occurrences and people seem to be drawn to him like metal to a magnet. Usually chronically tired of it all but we stay silly!!!!!!!!!
#laura - Long-haired trad goth beetleperson. Karleeen and Samira’s friend. Quiet and friendly, lover of cute things.
#liisa - Young daughter of Sirpa and Lazlo, blonde hair, blue and orange clothes. Generally a quiet child, but she’s just very content with everything is all. Really into spoons for some reason.
#niklas - The ghost of a high school bully who died in 2012 and now possesses a television. Main motive for existing is to cause as much hurt as possible. Interests include ice hockey and “wouldn’t you like to know, #*¥%@&”.
#the man - Angry mouthless man in a dark blue trenchcoat and red tie. Observant and taciturn, stuck in an endless loop of getting angry about mistakes and delays, and as a result of getting angry, keeps noticing even more problems. Protagonist of Man Swears Forever, I bet you’ll never guess what he does during the story
#marie - Headless tall woman. Very shy and hard to read despite her best efforts to make all the right emotive poses and say the right things with the right voice. Truly gets to be herself under the comforting and protective guise of a fursuit.
#peregrine - 3-eyed idea person in the shape of a cloaked humanoid. Lives the fake life of a marine biologist, cataloguing and categorising marine invertebrates day to day. The “mom” of the Cryptographs.
#pigeon man - Smiling man in the yellow shirt. Also called Pigeon Washing Machine Man. He doesn’t know what he’s doing
#pollen - Vines with red eyes puppeting the corpse of a human. Blessed with human-level consciousness, Pollen wants to feed and grow and outcompete other organisms, like all plants do. Unfortunately, blood, bones and guts are an excellent nutrient source.
#remington - One-eyed pink and green idea person in the shape of a young girl… at least, when you know it’s him, that’s how Remmie looks. Her dearest object of adoration, humans, are suffering, but unfortunately her powers aren’t much of help. Envy ruminates quietly inside them as their loneliness grows.
#rsula - Karleeen’s mother, spiderperson. Only a distant memory in Karleeen’s mind, but one that creeps up on her in times she never expects. Wanted best for her daughter.
#salli - Dark brown-haired woman with crutches. Lawyer in her prime! Extremely intelligent and uses that intelligence to think of more and more elaborate pop culture references and be silly.
#samira - Long, curly-haired girl in red and pink clothes, never seen without a conical hat. Drowns out neurotic tendencies and deep anxieties with cartoons, video games and escapism galore. Despite the witchy aesthetic is more of a tech and botany whiz.
#sirpa - Dirty blonde-haired zander-porpoise mermaid, usually wears cyans, purples and greens. Modest and quiet outwardly but has the soul of a bored working dog just itching to tell people what to do. Captain lieutenant by day and weekend fisherwoman and gardener by… weekends.
#ulysses - 5-eyed idea person in the shape of a a man in maximalist rockstar clothing. Head over heels in love with rock music and would like to talk about it with you extensively. The dad of the Cryptographs.
#vilhelmiina - Brown-haired glasses-wearing girl. Karleeen and Samira’s friend. Movie buff, nerdy and awkward, but great company.
I drew nine of my characters as Breaking Bad characters! If Sirpa had evil in her heart and was diagnosed with lung cancer in Albaquerque, this is what that world would look like. Probably.
Exactly four of these characters I haven't posted yet, but hopefully that will change soon. From left to right Sirpa (Walter), Lazlo (Skyler), Karleeen (Jesse), Billiam (Marie), Niklas (Hank), the Man (Mike), Remington (Hector), Salli (Saul), and Marie (Lydia). I couldn't for the life of me figure out who would be Gus even though he's my favourite BrBa character, but maybe it will come to me eventually.
Better look at the White-anen extended family and The Criminals:
It's the gravel road virtuoso himself, the Man in his 20's! And his friend and codriver I guess, but Krutsin only reads the notes, you don't win world championships with that.
Unlike the short-tempered and frequently angry 40-year-old-and-beyond the Man (as seen in MSF), his younger self is actually a very chill and fun-loving guy. :)
The evil cactus presented me with a wonderful hypothetical: what would happen inside the Sirpaverse if one of their own fifth dimensional beings entered it? A being that experiences all of time at once, comprised of an infinite number of souls which can very easily be the size of galaxies. Looking at one will typically kill you, too. In the end, I mused that the actual, literal soul realm (which is where all the souls come from and go to) would briefly phase more into the physical world and eat the fifth dimensional’s soul into itself, as the fifth dimensional’s foreign nature, infinite soul cluster and instantaneous adverse effects on the universe’s equilibrium would make it appear hazardous. So, fun!
There is very little to say on the soul realm because while everyone is from there, no one lives there. But it is not completely passive by nature! We’re seeing a record-high rate of new idea people appearing inside of the idea realm, a rate which hasn’t been seen in millions of years — the idea people, of course, cannot be created, they simply appear into the world through some unseen force. If you read the paragraph again you may be able to guess what force that is.
I like it if the universe is a little like a body or an ecosystem. I always think of the different lifeforms and “lifeforms” and their worlds as a self-balancing homeostatic system. Most of my ponderings focus on the in-universe threats and the ways in which the system counters them, but who’s to say there can’t be mechanisms for out-of-universe threats? Especially since it’s just so irresistible to put foreign objects in there!!!!!!!
The evil cactus presented me with a wonderful hypothetical: what would happen inside the Sirpaverse if one of their own fifth dimensional beings entered it? A being that experiences all of time at once, comprised of an infinite number of souls which can very easily be the size of galaxies. Looking at one will typically kill you, too. In the end, I mused that the actual, literal soul realm (which is where all the souls come from and go to) would briefly phase more into the physical world and eat the fifth dimensional’s soul into itself, as the fifth dimensional’s foreign nature, infinite soul cluster and instantaneous adverse effects on the universe’s equilibrium would make it appear hazardous. So, fun!
Merfolk have special oils in their hair that makes it waterproof! The purpose of the oils is to reduce heat loss through the head, and as a lovely bonus it makes merfolk look immediately presentable after getting out of the water. Straight from the beach to a job interview lol. If the oils are washed away or harmed, the hairs absorb water instead (which used to be a big deal like a thousand years ago when hypothermia was a very real and concrete threat, but in the modern day it's not really an issue).
Merfolk also have waterproof clothing, it's just a lot more comfortable that way. Most of the time clothing is made waterproof through spells, a method that merfolk pioneered and mastered over the centuries.
I'm in the throes of sickness but I shaded this drawing of the Man I had for my evil and nefarious purposes. My buddy said that my shaded art looks like when they do a movie of a cartoon and the art style looks the same except for extra shading details and yeah, here I see it, definitely!
Bonus doodle because the Man can't be joyful for too long.
I miss, miss your passionate speeches, words that trickle down on me like light rain
Those, those who I hang out with now, are pleasant, but say so little
Sirpa loves noise and action and endless chatter and things to do and being in charge, but is far too reserved and a bit too self-conscious to go out there and cause some ruckus herself. Thank Muffy, then, for Lazlo! Who is about to spill his coffee on his lap in approximately five seconds :)
Video version of Sirpa and Lazlo’s first meeting, sound on! I knew this scene was so important that I had an overseas studio animate a portion of it :)
Joking aside, this is still literally how they met.
Did someone kill Niklas? I mean he has strangle marks on his throat so was it because his victim got so tired of it and finally did something about it?
Is his death justice?
Wow, what a great and very straightforward question! I'm just gonna let Niklas answer that one!
And there we have it! Hopefully that answered your question!
How hard is it to iron all the leg sleeves on Karleeen's pants
Extremely.
The thought of someone ironing Karleeen's nightmarish eight-sleeved pants was very funny to me so I drew a picture of the sort of ordeal it is (Karleeen was spared of this fate, for now. Wait until she lives by herself...). The pants will fall off the board from their length and weight at least thrice lol
