Jellyfish. In ocean land. 1927.
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Nightmare is trying to read Error a story, but he is a destructive child XD
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ONCE UPON A TIME AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Cover art by Abigail Jill Harding
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Whoops I accidentally more dragons (this is going to keep happening you cannot stop it)
This time it's Tsunami!! This is actually a sketch I made some time ago that I decided to finish; it's the first bit of dragon art I think I'm really happy with n_n
The finished version turned out absolutely gorgeous, I don't do underwater scenes enough. So much fun lighting this, especially with the Seawing markings glowing in the dark~
If you like my work and want to support me, my commissions are open!! For prices and examples you can check out my website, or DM me for more specifics~
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Octavia E. Butler's lost works
"There's much more to her career than the dozen or so books we know; out of the spirit of brutal perfectionism that drove her, she held a lot of interesting and worthy work back. I've talked a lot about the treasures of the Huntington in these pages: the unpublished Blindsight, "Evening" [1] and Paraclete; the many Tricksters; the alternative Xenogenesis, the lost short stories and essays and sequels and interviews and plays. This material should not be left only to the small number of scholars who are able to make their way to the Huntington; much of it can see, and deserves to see, publication. These are not discarded scraps or abandonded, embarrassing mistakes; it's just more.
Butler's incredible productivity, coupled with her intense self-criticism, self-censorship, and perfectionism, has conspired to create a vast intertextual hidden archive of alternative versions and lost tales that will, I hope, reinvigorate the study of her work as more scholars are able to get to the Huntington and as more of it trickles out in published form."
From Gerry Canavan's biography of Octavia E. Butler in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series
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The shark in pursuit of a meal. In ocean land. 1927.
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Octopus Under the Shelter of Rocks, 1961, by Olga Khludova (1913-1975), Soviet marine biologist & artist, wife of fellow zoologist-artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Kondakov (1908-1999), and apparently one of the first female scuba divers (along with Olga Zhukova) in the USSR? State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia. [Via Google Arts & Culture]
It's difficult to find much info on her in English, and even harder to find more art...here is a page which has low-res scans of color plates from her 1963 book Beyond the Blue Threshold, including another octopus: https://coollib.com/b/198822-olga-florentevna-hludova-za-golubyim-porogom/image
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horror movies/shows based on books IV
x h.p. lovecraft (underwater)
x annihilation
x rosemary’s baby
x it
x the birds
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Life Underwater by Matthew J. Metzger
Ashraf never thought he could fall in love. So when he falls hard and fast for marine biologist Jamie Singer, it’s a shock to the system—in more ways than one.
Even if he can wrap his head around what love is and how relationships work, Ashraf’s not sure this is viable. He’s hydrophobic. And Jamie’s entire world revolves around the sea. What’s the point of trying if so much of Jamie’s life is inaccessible to Ashraf?
But Ashraf has vastly underestimated the pull of loving Jamie. For the first time, he wants to face the water, rather than flee from it. He has underestimated the power of love in making people brave, stupid, or a little bit of both.
Maybe it’s time to take a leap—and sink or swim.
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