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Wretched little being writhes under the rays of the indifferent sun...

[sunlightedcockroach]

I think it’s time to make some sort of master post with tags and all that

I’m trying to stick to fanart of things I like (horror,games,etc.), while occasionally posting some less connected to anything at all art.

Later I will probably also start posting here art and things from my more personal projects.

So here are things I like (i don’t necessarily remember them well or deeply understand them,mind you):

Minecraft

Horror in general

Creatures in general

Fear and hunger series

Art of Zdzisław Beksiński

Lovecraftian horror

JJBA

SCP

Dorohedoro

Here are links to my other accounts on other sites

Sunligthedcockroach (@uttiditdgi.bsky.social)

Wretched little being writhes under the rays of the indifferent sun... I will post my art here i think

Tags:

Things I save as references and inspiration:

#creature inspiration

#useful

#prop inspiration

#weapon inspiration

#location inspiration

Tag for my art is literally #my art

Analogically,not my art is #not my art

That’s it for right now, I will redact and update this post from now on when needed

It’s kinda messy and lacks decoration but it’s enough for start

I kinda didn’t understand well how to post png images here,so I hope whoever sees this has dark theme so it blends in

[sunlightedcockroach]

Mako Shark Mermaid, jumping high from water, like its irl inspiration.

Finally, made some art.

Decided to do mermay challenge, but I kinda knew different things in my life would eat time so I wouldn’t get to do it properly. So yeah, it could be the first one out of 30 entries, but deadlines are mean critters. But again, who knows, maybe my mermay will go on in june and later.

[polychaete-of-the-day]

Today we have some absolutely incredible photos of a gossamer worm, Tomopteris sp.

Photo Fraser Higgins

[sunlightedcockroach]

Waiting for breakfast

Made a photo of a creepy corridor in uni, decided to photoshop some silly fellow in it

Something quick, so I can still put some art out, while exams and deadlines are approaching

[temnospondyltime]

Prionosuchus

Prionosuchus is a genus from the early Permian period of Brazil and is a very large temnospondyl with estimates of it growing 6-9 meters long!

These estimates are based on skull length, with one skull measuring over a meter in length alone

Art by Thomas Hutton

[speculative-dump]

Not all Rotapods are becoming more complex. In fact, some of the most successful and numerous keep their ancestral biradial plan.

(art by Illeusea Studio)

[quinnred]

Cave Hortul

The Cave Hortul is a sedentary predator located in deep caverns. In their larval  state they are fully mobile and spend their time seeking food and locating a hole  to eventually rest their adult body into for the rest of their life. Often young Hortul's clutter a single hole until one grows large enough to eject or eat the others. Hortuls often grow as large as their hole allows, and usually inherit the hole of deceased adult. The hole's expand with each generation, so successive Hortuls have grown larger. How the Hortul feeds in it's sedentary adult life is by attracting it's prey. Hortul's carry dormant bacterial colonies that, when excreted, grow into glowing colonial masses. The glow attracts creatures such as SquiddyPigs who feed on the colony, and the Hortul picks off any it can reach. With each feeding, the Hortul produces waste which feeds the bacteria below. This symbiosis has become a significant part to some catacomb ecosystems, with the bacterial colony being a consistent food source, though protected by a pale gardener.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Body of the sea urchin Stereocidaris nascaensis from Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences no. 62 (1967). Full text here.

[herpsandbirds]

Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus), family Agamidae, Kalbarri, Western Australia

photograph by Artur Tomaszek

[orchidblack]

Photos of Kowloon Walled City by Greg Girard. From his book City of Darkness Revisited.

[shinraalpha]

i am losing my mind over discovering that there's a species of jumping spider (Pellenes nigrociliatus) that builds nests in empty snail shells and makes little silk webbing curtains to close off the entrance

look at her!! she is so cute!!! i want to cry!!!!

[dinotazz-arts]

Dorados and Beanfish of Dracovita

The Dolphinfish of Dracovita are a group of fish usually found in coastal tropical waters, an incredibly fast lifecycle for animals of their size, combined with new habitats, environments and pressures of Dracovita, along with a bit of help from Blue Portals, has made them extremely widespread and diverse.

They are both predator and prey in the tropical oceans they inhabit, with the most notable species being the King Dorado. Bull King Dorado are often seen with the patterns on their head and body in full flush, usually accompanied by a shoal of cows and less dominant bulls, these fish are culturally important to many of the reef dwelling Ikhthus communities, as when spring is in season King Dorado approach reefs to spawn, a school of adult King Dorado being a sign of good tides and forage for the Ikhthus of the reefs.

A much smaller member of this group that is a permanent reef resident would be the Variable Pygmy Beanfish, often forming large schools that dart in and out of corals and rock caves, their small size and activity making them popular with collectors and with some Ikhthus communities are one of their biggest exports. In some areas Variable Pygmy Beanfish are so successful that they end up outcompeting and limiting the populations of other small fish, becoming the main forage fish in some regions for many animals and communities.

The Common Beanfish is another very common member of this group, and a highly sought after fish in the culinary scene with land dwelling communities as its meat has been described as "perfect", but being very flighty agile fish makes them difficult to catch for most aquatic denizens, and fisherfolk often have trouble catching them on hooks as other fish like the Rocket Mackerels often take the bait.

[banzay87]

Danish axe pistol from the mid-17th century.

[noodlec0nsumer]

STEEL BALL RUN TOMORROW

[noodlec0nsumer]

STEEL BALL RUN TOMORROW

[wild-e-eep]

Mystery Webs!

I come across these webbed-up fungi occasionally. They look quite like the tent-webs of some moth and sawfly larvae, but differ in occurring later in the year; enclosing a fungus instead of a food-plant; not being full of specks of caterpillar dung; you also rarely see any living (or dead) creatures, eggs or pupae in them.

The cleanness of the webs and the way they are restricted to a particular fungus might make you think you are looking at a grey, fuzzy mould.

To find out what was making these, I took a piece home and kept it in a vivarium. Checking on the vivarium in the middle of the night I spotted a small mealworm-like creature moving through the web, leaving a slime trail behind it. I caught it and put it in an empty enclosure where it soon started fervently weaving by bobbing its head back and forth at an impressive rate, extruding silk from spinnerets on its snout. In the morning, the new enclosure was full of webs, and the larva resting in the middle.

I believe these larvae are fungus gnats of the family Mycetophilidae - a large family of small, rather plain flies with thousands of described species, most of which lay their eggs on fungi. I haven't found much witten about the function of the webs: maintaining a humid atmosphere; excluding other small creatures; catching spores for consumption have all been mooted. The larvae also seem to be able to move smoothly and rapidly through their silk network.

[westformiles]

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[stas-j-fox]

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