#eldritch creatures

[shadoweclipex]

No Thanksgiving focused drawing this year, but I do have a drawing of two adorable little power-houses about to share some cake! Had this idea a couple years ago but only just got around to finally finishing it up. I tried to blend the Kirby style with my own for this little crossover.

[snoweylily]

tumblr's new layout that no longer shows the profile pics of the person reblogging the posts on my dashboard is the equivalent of someone taking away my phone's contacts list and expecting me to just remember all of my friends' phone numbers by heart

[historia-vitae-magistras-reblogs]

Can you expand on your thoughts on magic in Hetalia please?

Matt's humanity tends to just slide right out of his body when he's isolated and depressed. It evacuates the dancefloor. Poof, gone, he's chilling with the bears not even putting off human pheromones anymore.

Arthur had to cut deals with various supernatural entities on several continents when Alfred was hatched because he put off energy so strong it was pulling souls out of purgatory and every supernatural creature ended up on the door step. The iron cradle can only do so much when Rhys is like "Goddamn it Arthur, revenants are stepping on my turnips again!"

In the same vein, he introduced his children to his mother or at least her ghost on Samhain when they were very small and could potentially still see these things.

Alfred rarely gets high on hallucinogens because it tends to punch through his defence mechanisms of refusing to acknowledge or see other beings.

Matt never outgrew his ability to see things. It's not really acknowledged that he can and Arthur never talked to him much about it, so he generally doesn't choose to interact with them when it's Alfred's energy they're drawn too if at all. But when they go camping he'll often wake up to things of other realms going about their business or peaking into the tent or campsite, curious to get a glimpse of Alfred's freaky-even-by-nation standards. Matt will have a bit of a heart attack and just lay there shaking until Alfred's 95% asleep ass rolls over on top of him drooling "you cold dude?" And Matt just buries his face in his shoulder because Jesus fuck what was that??????

Francis still sees plenty when he's in the countryside. The trench creature is the one I've written about but France is just as thickly layered with folk culture as anywhere else.

[kaijuposting]

Friends, buddies, pals, do some of ya not realize that "eldritch" ≠ "monster with tentacles" and "kaiju" ≠ "massively giant reptile"?

(This post brought to you by someone who is getting very frustrated with people who assume "Cthulhu" every time they say "eldritch" and "Godzilla" every time they say "kaiju.")

[lowkeyliminal]

These were some monster designs originally posted on a side blog (that had mostly to do with monsters, go figure). Anyway, they are a bit older but I do like them. 

The concept was for a fictional town in Utah that was kind of, 3 steps to the right of reality. It sort of existed in this dimension and sort of…not. These are the for the most part safe for work designs, though some body horror is involved.

First, Void Guy, then Knox (the skull stilt walker), the Twins, and my version of Pyramid Head, The Grim Revenant, or Grim (also affectionately know as Cage Face).

So, welcome to Pitch Utah, Come see what you’re missing! You certainly can’t unsee it!

[grahoria]

Smile at forest sprites.

Sing a lullaby to the eldritch shadow in your grandparents’ basement.

Pretend not to notice when a boy’s bag morphs briefly into a sword at school.

Nod to faces in trees.

Don’t begrudge the faceless dark-haired man who married you in a dream and never returned.

Compliment your house ghost’s flute playing

Bid flickers in your peripheral vision a pleasant evening.

Express gratitude for the odd little gifts left for you.

Just... be nice to your local cryptids.

[quitit]

My favorite depiction of dragons and kaiju are probably the ones that make them very eldritch in nature, but not in design. They don’t need things like tentacles or multiple eyes or shit, just be mind-bogglingly massive animals

Whales can be pretty eldritch, too; this thing is a mammal, like you’re me, yet is the size of a small building, shaped like a fish, has teeth like a comb, and sings to communicate. And not only that, but they are intelligent; not like we are, but an alien intelligence, one we may never understand

[ninjacat1515]

An Eldritch being that’s billions of years old, but is playful and mischievous rather than unfeeling. They have an appreciation for so called “lower” life and planes of existence; walking in said worlds in many forms. Sometimes it is to prank people, and other times it is to use their endless knowledge to comfort and protect.

They’re curious, always wanting to learn as much as they can about every century. They have human friends, and while knowing the people will not last forever, they make cherished memories all the same. 

Because even though you will last through many universes to come, why waste all that time being some incomprehensible horror messing with people’s sanity and lives, when you can just.......not be an asshole of cosmic proportions?