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IM BABY?

I feel like I haven't gotten as much done in a year as I wanted to, but... yeah, what's new. (sweeps that thought aside with a broom) Here's to seeing what happens in the next year :)

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Poll's done! honestly about what I expected but it's surprising that 1. it's that close and 2. anyone at all voted for Boy (let alone 17%).

Thanks for voting (and yes i'm aware the spread might have been pretty different if the propaganda existed from the beginning).

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Periodical reminder that i read all tags and i really appreciate them! which i would assume to be obvious but nothing is obvious in this world anymore. there isn't really a way to tell people you read their tags other than this.

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This goes out to the comic fury scrollers (unfortunately tumblr doesn't tell you about views, but i know the overlap is plentiful). So thank you!

You can be one of the statistics. If you want to

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every now and then i think TODAY is the day i try to actually calculate oc weights. don't. do NOT. i'm not a fucking physicist and some of these assholes are like 3 meters tall. you can't even go off of Real cephalopod weights because while we have huge cephalopods that we KNOW the weights of, you can't just even use that. Because how much of that is density! These motherfuckers are just 90% hollow head! What would we ACTUALLY be looking at with human-sized-and-larger cephalopods with wildly different body composition (see: Not largely hollow), the extra muscle density and potential cartilagenous structure required to actually have an upright position, et cetera. and we have even more pressing questions like having to take into account how their tissues and body consistency would change from ocean to land. the largest cephalopod recorded to my knowledge was 3 meters in mantle length and roughly 7 more in arm length and weighed 495 kilograms (1,091 pounds).

but this is also relatively important information worldbuilding-wise because when you're dealing with larger species, youre dealing with exponentionally increasing mass. and this is low key kind of important because from a societal standpoint there's kind of a huge material and structural difference in how things are built if they have to accommodate guys that are maybe 30 kilograms on average at best, OR if they have to accommodate guys that are like. 600. if you have an elevator that's scaled to fit 10 bluerings in there, it's probably going to not accommodate even ONE guy of a large species. large fangfolk can probably break a ton fairly effortlessly and that's a Structurally Significant Amount. furniture needs to be completely different. buildings need to be different. public transit needs to be different, vehicles need to be different, so on and so forth it is NOT ENOUGH to just scale things up or down.

no one will ever think about these things. ultimately the materials of anything wont matter because when am i ever going to even draw anything relevant to this topic in enough detail for it to matter to the degree that you can identify and scrutinize the durability of the material used. Nonetheless i will keep thinking about it

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Introductory Post

READ THIS POST FOR A SUMMARY AND CONTENT WARNINGS. THIS BLOG IS INTENDED FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE.

Welcome to @shellsiege! This is a marine biology-centric setting somewhere between speculative biology and just anthro society. It is mostly slice-of-life with a focus on biology and my characters (there may be obvious favoritism).

PLEASE CHECK THE CONTENT WARNINGS UNDER THE CUT BEFORE ENGAGING.

RESOURCES Sheezy | Comic Fury | Character Tag | Website

Side Blog: @deepseadeadzone

This blog is primarily an art blog. The content focuses on character art, speculative biology, worldbuilding, creature design, marine biology and cephalopods, as primary themes. Full comics will not be posted here, however covers, miscellaneous art and short comics might.

The stories are mainly in webcomic form. The chapters are not posted in chronological order. You can read them in any order in the Comic Fury archive, or check the website for a chronological guide to the existing ones.

Most images on this blog have image descriptions within Tumblr's alt text function. Comic Fury also has image descriptions using the transcript field (WIP). Toyhouse, Sheezy and the website do not have image descriptions.

Some of the full comics have dedicated text alternatives here: Link.

This blog is meant for a mature audience and I would not recommend minors to follow the blog. A lot of the stories and characters involve heavy topics either subtextually or directly.

The blog doesn't have a schedule or standardized posting times (I post whenever I want), but operates under Eastern European Time.

A list of tags that will be used on this blog:

#gallery | For any art. #comics | Short comics or art sequences. #library | Writing and short stories of any kind! #mailbox | Answers to asks. #lore | For posts about worldbuilding. #shellspeak | Miscellaneous ramblings. #obsolete | Posts that aren't canon-aligning anymore, for any reason.

Tags might be changed over time or there might be additions to the list. Characters will be tagged by their names under the "oc" classification (#oc: name). In the case of comics or series of any kind, they may have unique tag names of their own to help follow the story.

Content and Trigger Warnings

To begin with - VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. There's actually a whole myriad of topics that most people might rather not see.

As said earlier, the art on this blog is intended for an adult audience. The stories, characters and setting occasionally or sometimes LARGELY feature sensitive topics. Additionally, there may be suggestive or sexual content (though generally nothing explicit).

GENERAL TRYPOPHOBIA WARNING. Cephalopods along with a lot of other marine life are very... well, you know what they look like. I hope.

Prevalent sensitive topics:

Substance use and abuse (alcohol, weed, hard drugs)

Various types of physical and emotional abuse

Self-harm & suicidal ideation

General violence, injury and character death

Disordered eating

Although major depictions of these themes will generally be tagged, if you are particularly sensitive to any one topic, I would tread carefully. These may not be tagged on other sites.

Other topics (NOT TAGGED or usually not tagged):

Cannibalism (mainly mentions of predation)

General drug use, smoking, alcohol etc.

Implied self-harm (prevalent)

Ableism, bigotry and fatphobia

Medical themes, hospitalization etc.

Themes of mental health i.e. depression, derealization etc.

Character death

Car accidents

Child abuse and neglect

The aforementioned topics vary in frequency and relevance but will generally not be tagged. This list may not be comprehensive. There's bound to be things I missed, and it might be updated over time.

List of Content Warning Tags

#tw drugs | for depictions of drug abuse, NOT general drug use #tw abuse | direct depictions of abuse #tw self harm | physical self-harm (healed scars will NOT be tagged) #tw suicide | implied or depicted suicide #tw violence | injury and hard physical violence #tw death | depicted character death (not including mentions) #tw ed | direct mentions or depictions of disordered eating #tw | general catch-all #nsfw | suggestive or adult themes catch-all

Because of the sheer prevalence of different forms of content tags, I will only be using the ones in this list - if someone is an expert and knows better ones, I take suggestions.

ALSO NOTE that not every instance featuring any one of these topics will be tagged. Examples include light drug use (not including hard drugs), healed scars, and mentions or non-graphic discussion of any one topic. This list likely doesn't cover every single thing it could, and more may be added over time.

If you are badly affected by seeing any of these topics even indirectly, I recommend not engaging.

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one of the worst things about having not really done much oc writing save from concepting for like a year now because i've been working on getting the world and setting aspects somewhat done first is that i think it is downright unrealistic that engel would have the same haircut for this long. but if you think about it, it's probably annoying as fuck to work towards a different tentacle style when you have short tentacles because it will take months for the tentacles to grow back to full size and they will look like shit during that whole time.

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Yay! milestone! I feel like i should do something to celebrate this but I don't really know what so I'll just say thank you. :D