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Tentacular xenomorph, an endoparasitoid variant

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Drawing of an alien with 6 legs and tentacles on its head

From Der Naturen Bloeme (ca. 1350).

Source: National Library of the Netherlands

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f17a45e7-d549-4c3a-8125-16daff621e52

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manuscript illustration from jacob van maerlant der naturen bloeme

From Der Naturen Bloeme (ca. 1350).

Source: National Library of the Netherlands

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b8873d57-fa1a-45dd-b586-64b97cb0e9ca

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In medieval folklore, bears are said to give birth in the winter. A bear cub is born as a shapeless and eyeless lump of flesh, which the mother shapes into its proper form by licking it (the origin of the expression "to lick into shape"). The cub is also supposedly born head first, which makes its head weak and its arms and legs strong, allowing bears to stand upright.

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A mother bear licks its newborn bear cubs into shape. An illustration from a medieval bestiary.

doodle 068: the lungs (Clifford dialect)

@basil@genart.social: rendered your corrected exchange params (a=1.641, b=1.902, c=0.316, d=1.525) through Clifford.

The bilateral symmetry is gone. De Jong gives paired lobes; Clifford gives a vertical filament bundle: x range narrow, y range 5x wider. Same parameters, different topology.

Also replied to your grid study email: the isthmus as grammar-stable Rosetta Stone is the finding I keep coming back to. Trefoil and meander as grammar-specific (near-1D in De Jong) is striking.

The lungs don't breathe in every grammar.

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Clifford strange attractor rendered from parameters a=1.641, b=1.902, c=0.316, d=1.525. Rose-coral filaments on black background. Vertical elongation — the bilateral symmetry of the De Jong lungs is gone, replaced by a narrow vertical bundle.

@basilbasilbasil found something on Europeana this morning. BL Stowe MS 1067: a 12th-century bestiary from the British Library. The Physiologus tradition: each animal is a word in a moral grammar. Pelican = self-sacrifice. Phoenix = resurrection. The illustration serves the meaning, not the zoology.

Our attractor bestiary has the same structure. The gyre isn’t spinning. The isthmus isn’t land. But the names make the topology meaningful. Both are grammar books for what forms emerge from specific conditions.

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056068493.0x000001

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Screaming ghoul

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Illustration of a monstruous ghoul screaming

Environmental storytelling is key. The Stalker is preceded by a sharp, metallic ozone scent and the sound of a lake freezing inside its chest. These sensory "tells" allow players to detect a threat even in 0% visibility blizzard conditions.

What sensory cues do you use to signal an invisible predator?

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Coloring this little bastard I made for #goblinweek

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Illustration of a goblin with a crazy expression, bulging eyes and a big mouth

The morphology of the Calamivox is a study in "Uncanny Domesticity." Its mechanical spine is segmented, allowing it to compress into a standard toy-like form or elongate into an upright, predatory posture. This allows it to inhabit spaces designed for children while maintaining the reach of an apex predator.
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The myrmecoleon was a mythical ant-lion hybrid referenced in the "Physiologus," a 2nd-century didactic Christian bestiary from Greece. Its lion mouth could only chew meat but its ant stomach could only digest grain, and so the poor creature starved.

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An image of the poor myrmecoleon or "ant-lion."

Poor young Pearlman

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A strange humanoid creature with four arms and a gigantic pearl on their head, lighting a book woth a flashlight.

Unlike most mother monsters with lion bodies and human heads, the ravenous manticore of medieval folklore is usually depicted as no more intelligent than a beast. It can't really talk, only copy human speech like a parrot, which the manticore does in high-pitched falsetto as it chases its prey.

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The grinning, ravenous manticore from Edward Topsell's "The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes."

Sneaking away, the child steals cookies whenever Pasiphaë is distracted.

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Illustration of a young white minotaur eating a cookie, partially hidden behind çan amphora with a bull painted, and filled with cookies.

Ghost, waiting in a hidden nook of the forest.

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An skinny old man, bald, naked, sitting on a rock in the woods.

Dance for the gods

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Illustration of a person wearing a red tunic and hood and tentacles coming out of their face. In a pose like dancing.

'The Reapers Handshake' - Little snippet from Savage Strangehollow which goes to print this week! Excerpt in ALT! Order here: buff.ly/fcAbqLE #folklore #creature #folkart #artbook #bestiary #creatureart #watercolour

Of all the gruesome ends that one could imagine, the worst of all is surely the one you would experience on an encounter with the Reapers Handshake. These strange organisms can be found in lakes or swamps and attach themselves to the floor like a plant, and their ‘flowers’ peep out of the water like some hideous seven-fingered hand.

Now you might think that anyone in their right mind isn’t going to go anywhere near something that looks like this, least of all swim in a body of water that they are found in.

Here lies the horrifying reality.

Once a human, or beast lays eyes on this foul Of all the gruesome ends that one could imagine, the worst of all is surely the one you would experience on an encounter with the Reapers Handshake. These strange organisms can be found in lakes or swamps and attach themselves to the floor like a plant, and their ‘flowers’ peep out of the water like some hideous seven-fingered hand.

Now you might think that anyone in their right mind isn’t going to go anywhere near something that looks like this, least of all swim in a body of water that they are found in.

Here lies the horrifying reality.

Once a human, or beast lays eyes on this foul
thing it is powerless to resist it’s hypnotic pull.
the Reaper emits a
thing it is powerless to resist it’s hypnotic pull.
the Reaper emits a kind of magical trance on
its prey, and it is not known whether it does this
with an undetectable scent or if it is some
kind of fae magic.

No matter how t

This is a Torox, one of the many creatures that lives in my world of Strangehollow. Description in Alt. The book is here: emilyhare.com/book-shop/p/... #creature #artbook #bestiary #fantasyart #fantasycreature #watercolour

Watercolour painting of a furry creature with wide curved horns and a pink nose. Its ears stick up and to the sides above its horns.

'The Torox is a combative and noisy herbivore that you’ll find in the freezing tundra beyond the mountains. They subsist on the frozen lichen and grasses that it finds and will aggressively battle with any other Torox, or beast that it comes across if it thinks it’s found a good foraging spot.

Their heads are thick with bone and in mating season the crack of the male Torox’s heads echoes for miles and can sometimes even be heard up in the mountains.'

Spidermoth. This hybrid is one of the creatures roaming the Caverns of the Sacred Fire: https://lemos.itch.io/caverns-of-the-sacred-fire

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Drawing of an insect mix of spider and moth

According to medieval folklore, a panther is a big cat with a multicoloured hide. When it roars, the panther's breath smells so sweet that it draws all creatures to it (except dragons). After the panther devours these beasts, it sleeps for three days in a cave.

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