#great lake monster

[ltwilliammowett]

Storsjöodjuret- the Great Lake Serpent

There are many sea monsters that are at work in different regions of the world, and this time there is a kind of sea serpent which lives in the lake Storsjön in Jämtland Sweden.

Storsjöodjuret - The Great Lake Monster (x)

The creature is called Storsjöodjuret which can be simply translated as great lake animal. In Latin it is called Hydogiganta Monstruidae Jemtlandicum. But what is it exactly? It is said to be a sea serpent with a dog's head. The first descriptions of it date back to 1635, but there are probably much older oral accounts of this snake. This first description goes back to Morten Pedersen from Herdal, who reported about a monster in the lake that was banished thanks to the Frösö runestone and can therefore no longer do any harm.

The Försö Rune Stone with the Serpent (x)

“A strange animal with a black wormlike body and catlike head jumped out of the cauldron and disappeared into the depths of lake Storsjön. The animal enjoyed the the lake, grew immensely and caused horror among the people living around the shores. Finally, it had gotten to the point where it was long enough to reach around the island Frösön and could bite itself in the tail.”  Morten Pedersen (x)

It is said to have strangled people and hunted the fishermen who fished there. Until 1857, this was all that was reported about the animal, but from then on, sightings were reported. In 1857, according to some newspapers, miners from the nearby mine saw the creature with a cat's head. Until 1899, there were a total of 22 sightings, which were collected by Peter Olsson. He himself was a naturalist and tried to explain the animal naturally and suspected that it could be a not yet known marine mammal which could have gotten lost there (similarities to Nessy are not to be denied) and he described it as follows, it was snake-like with a dog-like head, fins as ears and several humps or spines on its back. This scared some people and so in 1894, after about 500 sightings, there was a capture campaign, which was even supported by King Oscar II.

One of the big traps with which one tried to catch the serpent (x)

However, this failed and so nobody knows what kind of monster it is and when it will be seen again, because since then it has kept a very low profile. But the locals have taken their monster to their hearts and say it is a friendly monster which has even been protected by law since 1986. 

#naval history #well it is more a local folklore #sweden #seamonster #serpent #great lake monster #17th -today #age of sail

[trollhunters-eldritch-princess]

no series has ever managed to fill me with a sense of pity and tragedy more than the series finale of Trollhunters.

#trollhunters #tales of arcadia #jim lake jr #jim lake junior #claire nunez #trollhunters meta #toby domzalski #merlin #i'm sorry but it's the way that jim's life is permanently altered #and how the villains extracted such a great cost for their defeat #and in how defeating the monster forces you to give up your own humanity #so that all that is left is something that is not quite human #it's came back wrong but emotionally and physically #i felt nothing but pity for jim #a lot of these types of series make me want to be them at some point #ever since i finished trollhunters i was grateful to remain as a audience member #being a trollhunter is a living nightmare

[jcryptid]

*Bolts upright in bed at 2am* Holy ShIT TMA Swan Lake AU but Jon is a fucking monster cat thing!!!!!

#this au has tormented me for weeks #also a great excuse to try out Clip Studio after biting the bullet and downloading it #TMA #Swan lake au #monster jon #moth jon #cat jon #jonathan sims #jon sims fanart #the magnus archives #au i probably won't actually get to writing #because writers block is being a bitch #the watercolour tool is way too much fun #finally a monster jon that isn't just #vaguely human shaped eye blob #not that i don't love it tho #literally just combined the 3 animals i associate most with Jonathan SIms #Cats #owls #and moths #i've spent way too much time on this considering i have no real plot #or even an idea what contrived scenario lands martin hunting down his future boyfriend #or how jon gets cursed #but god was this design fun #tma fantasy au #tma au #tagging this au as #tma swan lake au

[cloudyinparadise]

What's your favorite cryptide? Attach a picture if you can/@i-send-you-random-asks

My favorite cryptid has to be 'The Great Lake Monster' of Östersund, Sweden. In Swedish it's called 'Storsjöodjuret' and is told to live in the lake Storsjön. Storsjöodjuret could very easily be compared to the Loch Ness Monster, some people joke that they are the same creature with a passageway between Sweden and Scotland. The monster was treated the same way as witches, giants and other evil spirits were back in the day, it was something you prayed for wouldn't catch in your fishing nets, and you told the children to not play in the water in fear that it would take them (I may have made that part up, I don't know that much about his past). But nowadays he's the towns mascot, he has multiple children's books and songs about him, he has fun statues around town you can play on, and he participates in the town events as a suit (I've actually been in one during a charity event for like 20 minutes, those things are warm and very hard to move in)!

Pic of how he is assumed to look (basically Nessie):

And a pic of the mascot! His name is Birger btw (I wasn't able to download a pic of a statue):

But yeah there's actually a ton of lore behind this guy if you want to look more into him (here is his wiki)!

#The Great Lake Monster #Storsjöodjuret #sweden #cryptid #mythology and folklore #myths #folklore #my brother asked me what i was doing and i told him i was ranting about Storsjöodjuret on Tublr dot com #he was just 'thats fair im not gonna disturb you' lol #but yeah #i kind of love this guy #hes so cute #swedish folklore #another rant #i rant a lot for some reason #damn #i think its funny

[briefbestiary]

A North American fearsome critter, the Hidebehind is equally as shy as it is deadly. Don't be afraid to check behind you...

#BriefBestiary #bestiary #monster #folklore #hidebehind #shy monster #shapeshifter #lumberjack tale #fearsome critters #great lakes #american monster #tall tale #digital art #fantasy #legend

[thosetrollkids]

lovey dovey/anime eyes/yellow sphinx jim is so funny to me

bonus regular anime eyes jim for @muku-gc

#zach's art #jim lake jr #claire nuñez #toby domzalski #my aus: monster kids au #fuck it. more raw sketches #i dont have energy for fully colored stuff the last week or so #trollhunters #trollhunters au #harpy!claire #gargoyle!toby #sphinx!jim #shitposts #dreamworks trollhunters au #dreamworks trollhunters #tales of arcadia #tales of arcadia au #the bottom one's supposed tobhave a heart shaped hoge but its not that great #hero of a thousand faces

[coaz-photography]

Sometimes I find the weirdest shit out on the beach. 

November, 2021

#salt lake city #slc #great salt lake #Utah #landscape #landscape photography #mcdonalds #flowers #monster #burger king

[constantfog]

nothing like a fresh breath of unstoppable rain

#i want to go to there #if you look closely you can see the monster waving hysterically #scotland #landscape #nature #britain #great britain #loch ness #monster #photography #fog #sky #lake #scenery #landscapes #moutains #forest #travel #tourism #wanderlust #travel photography #autumn #calming #serene

[madfoxx]

 part I.

#sometimes i really question why peter and bob keep following justus around #i mean i love him and he´s a genius and everything #but he literally gets them into trouble whenever he can and then doesnt tell them shit #is it exciting and fun and cool to solve crime and get abducted by the mafia and almost get killed 365 days of the year? #yes obviously. #but still....pretty stupid as well #zero learn-effect #i mean come on. literally the same thing again and again!? #´´i know we´re on holiday but lets just follow these super shady people into the abandoned warehouse ok guys?´´ #´´listen i think swimming in these shark infested waters is a great idea especially during a storm´´ #´´lets walk into this super obvious trap so i can seize the moment and give a 20 min monologue where i insult the criminal with the gun´´ #and everytime its just ´´ok Justus´´ #like??? #guys at least make him tell you stuff ok #i worry that bob might actually loose his last braincell if he gets hit over the head one more time #and peter is gonna have a heart-attack if justus keeps pushing him in monster-infested lakes and haunted caves and shit #die drei fragezeichen #die drei fragezeichen fanart #die drei leerzeichen #the three investigators #??? #drei fragezeichen #drei ???

[crows-with-ink]

A ghost story

#art #traditional art #artist of tumblr #drawing #watercolor #illustration #art on tumblr #artists on tumblr #nature #Great Lakes gothic #fantasy #folktale #folk horror #painting #monster #midwest gothic

[sisyphus-prime]

Mike is from that cryptid dating game right? What cryptid is he?

Yeah. Cryptid crush! I think he's more just a ghost? Haunted radio station! Ghosts are born from tragedy and

Uhhh, had to go and check, madhouse was this radio host who read Urban legends and ghost stories on the radio, tried to advertise for an energy drink, toxic waste energy,, by drinking a box to get more listeners.

Dude died and literallt no one mentioned his name or showed his face when he did, faceless ghost to those who have seen him so that's why he counts as a cryptid?

#you learn this from mothmaan's kid rambling at you its great i love atlas #theres also a jersey devil.. werewolf.. whatever oz is.. lake monster ala nessie.. another water monster idk what it is.. a witch.. #apparently a retired eldritch god type but i dont think hes in gsme yet

[lunar-insanity]

@psy2versary-week

DAY 5 - AUG 23: Favorite Memory Vault // "Nostalgia" 

Am I early? Maybe. But also, I had this prepared in advance ;P

Believe me when I say... I don’t have a favorite memory vault. From either game. I like going through each one, and re-reading them every playthrough, but none really jump out at me.

So I went for the Nostalgia prompt instead!

... Which also took a bit to figure out.

Like I have all these ideas! An office filled with memorabilia of his adventures, an older Raz handing out a pamphlet for Whispering rock, and Older Raz giving the speech at Whispering Rock!

But all of those would take time I don’t... quite have? Like I am trying to get these done in advance since I’m moving friday.

So finally I went with this.

Thinking on it now, I’m not sure it fits the prompt but... :D

#psy2versary week #razputin aquato #my sona #i guess my thought process was #it's great to see an old character i loved again #this time in a new setting #while hearing all those old references again #and wanting to play the 1st game again too #idk #it be like OH YES THE LAKE MONSTER THING #I REMEMBER THAT #When raz mentions Linda while in the boat

[an-aura-about-you]

I've got so many jmart AU and crossover ideas in my head it's unreal.

#gonna ramble in the tags about them #thought about a crossover in which Somewhere Else is Lunar during the time of Lunar 2 #can you imagine TWO Destroyers?! #and Lucia surely reeks of the Lonely #if I could figure out how to get all of it to actually work with the cast then I'd certainly do a Lunar 2 AU #but the character/situation mesh is hard #(though obvs Jon would be Lucia and Martin would be Hiro) #also an Undertale AU or crossover would be fun with monster!Jon and monster!Martin #torn between whether I'd want Martin to be a Napstablook type ghost or a Muffet type spider #just a little bit ago my brain was like 'Big O AU' which I'm like #'brain we don't even remember much of that show beyond robots and aesthetic' #but then my brain is like 'you want the couple dynamic with Jon waking Martin up with his incessant piano playing' #and also doesn't Martin deserve to pilot a big robot without it being an Evangelion reference? #and then there's the ballet AU that I actually intend to write #still don't know how I want their production of Swan Lake to go plot-wise #but I DO know that Jon and Martin met during the company preparing for their production of Giselle #in which Melanie played the title role and Georgie played Bathilde who took the Albrecht role #Jon played Hilarion and Melanie took great pleasure in watching the Wili Women drag him away and drown him #but ANYWAY Jon and Martin met because Martin was part of the hunting party and got to take care of the dog #the ballet AU gets a dog incident

[swampjawn]

Dungeon Meshi Episode 7 was super interesting from an adaptation standpoint - this'll be a little different from what I usually write about (though I do still talk about the animation in the full video).

Studio Trigger have never done a straight-up manga adaptation before - and led by Yoshihiro Miyajima, a big fan of the manga who pushed hard for the adaptation to get made, and who has never directed a full series before, it was unclear if they'd be able to find the right balance between a simple panel-for-panel recreation and making something that's completely different.

And in the first few episodes, you could really feel the tension between the influence of a cautious young creative with great respect for the source material, and a studio with a unique established visual style. It kinda seemed like they were ping-ponging willy-nillily between the two sides of that spectrum.

But this episode showed that Miyajima (and series writer Kimiko Ueno) can take 3 chapters, slice them up and rearrange them into a cohesive-feeling episode while taking into account the differences between screen and page, and using them to their advantage.

Starting with the way the water looks. This line from the manga describes a faint magical glow to the water in this lake and you can see that the cavern fades into darkness above, but Kui's illustration style doesn't really define lighting and shadows very much compared to the cel-drawing style of animation. So the animators took the opportunity to use the water as the light source, and make a whole episode that's lit almost entirely from below. It really gives an otherworldly feeling to this area.

Particularly when the Kelpie shows up, that under-lighting works wonders to define its anatomy within the relatively simple line art.

What do you do when you can't show the immense fuck-off scale of a monster with a beautiful full-page spread like this?

Well you use what you do have: the ability to move the camera instead. This is such a great way to communicate the scale of this thing, AND such a great way to show some of Senshi's anime-original butt-cheeks!

This is one of my favorite shots from this episode - this whole sequence is super hectic, cutting quickly from character to character, but they use tricks like this to keep you from getting confused. This is framed much like it is in the manga, but with the moving image, they're able to use the trajectory of the fish head in the background to lead your eye directly from Chilchuck, right to the point where Senshi pops up in the foreground and transition seamlessly from one character to another!

Now, it's not all good - I am a bit disappointed that they removed Marcille's own Senshi-style soap-making montage, which was the perfect visual representation of the culmination of the character development and understanding built between Senshi and Marcille.

It's a shame to see it go.

I get more into that, what else was cut, and much more in this video where I broke down the entire episode!

Check it out if you feel like it. If you don't, jump in a ditch, cover yourself in leaves and jump out at people as they walk by.

Thanks for reading!

#dungeon meshi #anime #manga #laios touden #marcille donato #senshi #delicious in dungeon #video #mini essay #original

[briefbestiary]

Lurking beneath the winter landscape, the snow wasset is a weasel-like creature that hibernates in the summer and is active in the snowy winter.

#BriefBestiary #bestiary #digital art #fantasy #snow wasset #folklore creatures #great lakes #folklore #canadian legend #fearsome critters #canada #winter #snow #legend #weasel #monster #monster weasel #carnivore

[assiraphales]

seen some ppl say they hate the ghoul because he’s a bad person. alternatively I love the ghoul because he’s a bad person. he shot a guys foot off so he couldn’t run away. he killed a dog then brought it back to life bc it was useful. he used a living person as bait for a giant lake monster. he eats human flesh. he’ll kill anyone or anything that gets in his way (or for money). he’s one of the worst things the wasteland has created and actively makes the most morally bankrupt decisions. he USED to be a good person, and he suffered a great loss, and he might make better decisions later on, but it doesn’t change the fact that while some ghouls turn feral against their will he actively chooses everyday to be a monster. and I love that for him!!!!!!

#interesting complex characters I love u #Lucy and max are also so complicated and neat #the ghoul #fallout #fallout 2024 #cooper howard