#space creatures

[humansarespaceorcsforeal]

I need more scary space hazards that are based on sea creatures.

Giant Angler fish with lights that mimic the nearby space station.

Massive space jellies with the wreckage of ship caught in its drifting tentacles.

Space squid that have an ink that scrambles scanners and blots out the stars.

Just, creatures living out in the ether. I think space is more terrifying and wonderful that way.

[aprocessionofthoughts]

New Pokemon unlocked?

ectoberweek25 day 6-  Danny didn’t think those were real. Sure, he fought ghosts everyday, but this was different summary- Danny stares at what's in front of him

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Danny stares at the massive creature in front of him. It is. Beyond strange. Sure, he fights ghosts practically everyday. But this is different. This is a creature that he hadn’t thought was real, a creature that no one knew existed.

And it’s in the Living Realm.

Well, in deep space in the Living Realm.

But still, he thought that he’d only find creatures like this in the Infinite Realms. But, he supposes he shouldn’t be surprised. No one had really explored deep space before, no one had gotten beyond the Milky Way galaxy. 

Danny’s the first one from earth to travel beyond the Milky Way Galaxy. As far as he knows, that is. So he’s the first one from earth to see this creature. 

They look like turtles except that they have several octopus-like tentacles instead of flippers that it’s using to lazily move forward. It also has jellyfish-like tentacles covering its bottom shell. Danny can see them moving slowly. Every time they come in contact with a small bit of space rock the jellyfish-like tentacles pass it forward to the mouth.

But what’s almost even stranger is the collection of pterodactyls-like creatures just chilling on the space turtle’s back. They seem to be eating what might be the space equivalent of little bugs on the turtle’s back. Danny’s reminded of the birds he learned about in biology that peck little bugs off of cows. 

He decides to follow the space turtle for a while, and his eyes widen when he sees where the creature is heading. In the distance Danny can see a whole stream of space turtles traveling together.

And as he gets closer he sees that it’s not just space turtles and space pterodactyls. There’s a whole menagerie of strange space creatures. There’s a creature that looks like a bird with two heads and no feet. Some fish like creatures that flash different colors. There’s even what looks like a whale with tentacles instead of a tail. There’s jellyfish-like creatures that have tiny pincers at the end of each tentacle. There was also a creature that looked like a deer with large antlers and a mane whose mane and tail looked like the tail of a shooting star. There were manta ray-like creatures with thin almost transparent wings.

He wonders where they’re all going, where they came from. He can now see that they trail off into the distance in both directions. It’s such a strange variety of creatures traveling together. It’s like how ocean animals used ocean currents to travel. 

But if they were traveling then that meant that somewhere out there there are entire ecosystems where these creatures live.

He wants to follow them, to let the space current carry him along, let his body grow and stretch, ectoplasm flowing into a more natural shape. He can feel his body changing, but he doesn’t have time to follow the stream, he doesn’t have time to explore. He needs to get back home. 

But now that he knows where this is he can portal directly to this location next time. He can follow the creatures to where they’re going, or trace them back to their origin. 

He’s always loved space, always wanted to visit distant planets and stars. But now there’s an entire ecosystem, probably multiple ecosystems, he’ll be able to explore.

He can’t wait.

[stone-cold-groove]

Grow live monsters! Vintage ad for the amazing growing plant creature - 1965.

[spacenoirdetective]

Ertugrul Edirne, "Die Terranauten: Die Eisteufel" aka "The Terrornauts: The Ice Devils", 1980

[houseofcatwic]

‘Wandl the Invader’ cover illustration

[dat4l0re]

[evilhorse]

I’ve allowed a space creature to get loose on earth!

[tj-crochets]

Space whale!

Pattern by me, space fabric by @firesidetextiles