#skeksa the mariner

[doodlinglina]

Breathing life into this old blog by making a shitpost of a fanart. Yep, sounds like me.

Anyways a young skekSa has to eventually learn that her other half got all the navigational skills in the divorce and might have to rely on other methods to make that seafaring dream a reality. Like having an actual sea-monster as your ship.

#the dark crystal #skeksa the mariner #ursan the swimmer #doodles by Lina

[chainsxwsmile-personal]

Inspired by one of @skekheck ‘s @tdc-incorrect-quotes

SkekSa isn’t happy about Ursan’s lack of communication

#the dark crystal: age of resistance #ursan #ursan the swimmer #SkekSa #skeksa the mariner #my art #artists on tumblr #reblog friendly #the dark crystal #Skeksis #urrus

[sifanjewel]

Allow me to explain why these 5 in particular are in a zoom call together:

skekOk is in charge of rounding up the outsider Skeksis to fight the Gelfling Resistance. He was not prepared to be so easily roasted like the expired Thanksgiving turkey he is.

skekEkt was there because he knew this would result in drama but he didn’t expect the argument to take such a dark turn.

skekLi doesn’t want anything to do with these assholes but answered the call anyway because he also knew there would be a fight and he needed some form of entertainment after sulking alone in the Wilderness for so long.

Despite being blocked skekGra managed to hack into the call to spy on Skeksis conversations for the Gelfling. Everyone but the Mariner was too stupid to realize the random icon wasn’t a glitch until he blew his cover by laughing hysterically because of course he did.

skekSa also answered just to see what would happen and since this is before she turned on the Gelfling herself she doesn’t give a flying fuck about the Emperor’s orders and knows exactly how to get these castle-dwelling bastards to leave her alone.

#skekSa has been around pirates long enough to know a proper insult #you know skekok went and cried after this bc he’s a little bitch who can dish it but not take it #dark crystal #dark crystal age of resistance #age of resistance #the dark crystal #skeksis #skekok #skekok the scroll keeper #skekekt #skekekt the ornamentalist #skekli #skekli the satirist #skeksa #skeksa the mariner #skekgra #skekgra the heretic

[sketch-shepherd-art]

shoutout to butch pirate bird ladies fr, gotta be one of my favorite genders

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#my art #captain celaeno #skeksa #skeksa the mariner #the dark crystal #the dark crystal age of resistance #The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance #My Little Pony: the Movie #my little pony the movie #mlp: the movie #my little pony the movie 2017 #my little pony: the movie 2017

[fraggle-rock040]

So… y’all like SkekSa huh?

#good cos I do too #I so desperately wanted to see her in season two but we all know how that went #she would have beat the shit outta skeksil #the dark crystal #the dark crystal age of resistance #skeksis #skeksa #skeksa the mariner #fenris art

[tdc-incorrect-quotes]

SkekTek: I'm playing a new drinking game. It's called "every time I'm depressed, take a drink."

SkekSa: That game already exists. It's called alcoholism.

#skektek #skeksa #skektek the scientist #skeksa the mariner #skeksis #tdc incorrect quotes #source: modern family #mod quotes #q

[punkcalf-art]

skeksa doodle

#skeksa #skeksa the mariner #tdc #skeksis

[candythemew]

Being multi-fandom cringe for a second, but I like to imagine that Sailing with The Mariner is probably like an average Sea of Thieves game night with the boys.

#In which everyone ends up drunk and on fire while fighting other pirates #Somehow you end up decimating other ships and getting cool treasure but at the end of the day you’re just a bunch of scurvy crackheads #SkekSa #SkekSa the Mariner #the dark crystal #tdc #skeksis #Sifa

[skekmara-the-performer]

It’s Pride Month, here’s some self-insert shit

(PoV: You’ve been challenged to a singing competition)

(Pose from here)

#marasa #skeksa the mariner #SkekMara the performer #wlw #lesbian #SkekMara's post

[theta-donaldson]

Character ask: SkekSa

I honestly don't know much about her as I haven't read the books. All my knowledge on her is what I've scraped together from browsing the internet and what I've learned from fans.

#the dark crystal #skekSa the Mariner #Bingo Board

[thebibliomancer]

So it’s a bit of Skeksis lore that they lost some vital attribute when they split from the urRu that hampers their chosen area of expertise

It’s most obvious with the Scientist where he’s got enough smarts to do mad science but struggles with coming up with ideas on his own. Once someone points him in a direction, he can get going.

Which is a good segue to skekSa the Mariner since I’m pretty sure she lost any navigational ability to urSan the Swimmer.

urSan’s biggest thing aside from swimming is drawing maps of everywhere she’s been.

In the YA novels that skekSa appeared most in, she needed EVERY Sifan navigator to help her flee the continent. And when that fell through she tried to steal urSan’s maps. (Did urSan swim across an entire ocean? Wow.)

No wonder she prefers living ships. It’s navigational easy mode.

And to take this to comedic exaggeration levels… no wonder she hates the castle! It’s described as labyrinthine in the movie novelization.

I can just imagine her getting lost on the way to dinner one too many times and deciding enough is enough. Screw this castle, she’s going to go live on a boat!

#dark crystal #skeksa #the Mariner #urSan #the swimmer #when skekSa kept running into the plot I’m sure no one was more surprised than her #her only crime was all the crimes and also being born before GPS

[ben-the-hyena]

🍷 The Dark Crystal

ARGH that's hard because I'm pretty sure I said every unpopular opinion I have about it

Uuuuuuuuuh...

Oh ! I know but...

I am gonna be trampled...

My friends, it is nothing against you guys who chatted with me about it and I listened and laughed and nodded and contributed to ideas ! Not against them either because I love them as characters, really !

But...

SkekMal and SkekSa are not that hot and overrated when it comes to sexiness and if they weren't generically hot fandom characters they wouldn't be as popular as they are, still popular because the former is the only Skeksis in shape who hunts and uses his 4 arms and the latter until recently would like the Sifa as her pets and be adored by them so still something, but not as popular as they are right now

NO BEATING NO BEATING

#lol #sorry #ask #fandom #the dark crystal #skeksa #the mariner #skekmal #the hunter #welcome-to-hotel-california

[darkskek]

#the dark crystal #skeksis #skeksa #skeksis oc #the dark crytsal: age of resistance #tdc #skekmal #the hunter #the mariner #seahunter #skektif #doodles #my art

[sifanjewel]

I JUST DISCOVERED THE PERFECT SONG FOR SKEKSA!!

Castles Crumbling by Taylor Swift

This song as a whole makes me think of skekSa’s more sympathetic side, the part of her that was abandoned by the Sifa and everyone else she might have considered a friend

Some parts that stood out to me:

Power went to my head

And I couldn’t stop

Ones I loved tried to help

So I ran them off

And here I sit alone

Behind walls of regret

Falling down like promises I never kept

This feels like the aftermath of the conflict at Great Smerth, when Naia and urSan tried to reach out to her and convince her to step down but she didn’t, so now she sits inside her apeknot tree prison, her walls of regret. She might be angry, but she might have time to think about what she did.

And THE BRIDGE:

Smoke billows from my ships in the harbor

People look at me like I’m a monster

Now they’re screaming at the palace front gates

Used to chant my name

Now they’re screaming that they hate me

Never wanted you to hate me

Before she went rogue, there must have been some part of skekSa that genuinely cared for the Gelfling, but then the Resistance happened, they turned on her, and so she turned on them, but there was a time she was willing to help r them. Now, she’s a monster….

To me skekSa is ultimately a villain but if you think about her with the context of this song, that all could have been avoided.

#dark crystal #dark crystal age of resistance #age of resistance #the dark crystal #skeksis #tides of the dark crystal #skeksa #skeksa the mariner #Youtube

[sunderedandundone]

Totally random scene that sprang into my mind while puttering about the house, do not take remotely seriously:

Captain Gurjin: ::is escorting manacled POW SkekSa to the prisoner quarters in the main Gelfling Resistance camp::

SkekSa the Mariner: I’m not upset, you know. It’s just disgusting. Pathetic. I’m *embarrassed* for him, is what.

Gurjin: Embarrassed for who?

SkekSa: That thing that used to be the Conqueror.

Gurjin: Oh, right, him. -- Mind where you’re going! Duck your head, unless you *want* that nice hat on a clothesline next to all the Gelfling knickers.

SkekSa: Uggh! Crystal forfend. You shut your mouth, lad. This hat -- shit!

Gurjin: What now?

SkekSa: SHIT! ON MY BOOT! ::tries to flail leg::

Gurjin: Oh yeh, lots of Fizzgigs hereabouts too. Sorry. Only another hundred yards or so to go. Come along.

SkekSa: I was *saying*, this hat comes off the day my head does, and not before.

Gurjin: It’s a flash hat.

SkekSa: Thank you. -- I mean! Setting up housekeeping with that filthy Mystic slug who smells like burnt tea? Taking orders from Gelfling? And not even soldier Gelfling! Never mind whatever in Grot’s going on with that -- face-apron. As I said, embarrassing. And *gamboling* like a Landstrider calf about that simpering little squit in the blue stockings.

Gurjin: ::wide-eyed, ears back:: Sorry, who? You’re not referring to Councilor Princess Brea?

SkekSa: Mmph, sounds right. There were certainly a lot of *braids* withal. Braids, Brea, close enough. Dull hair too, now you mention it. Shallow keel. Can’t fathom what the charm might be there.

Gurjin: Oh. Um. ::gulps:: Mariner. Not that it really matters I suppose, but I think you’re -- misreading the gamboling. It’s not...or rather it is, but...about the gamboling -- I mean inasmuch as gamboling is -- I mean, she calls him Grandfather, as do we all --

SkekSa: Now your Seladon, *there’s* a woman.

Gurjin: ...Beg pardon?

SkekSa: Tell her I said so, eh?

Gurjin: I...don’t know that that would be the best idea.

SkekSa: ::cheerily:: Oh, it’ll be a fine idea. A masterly idea. You can tell her that, too.

Gurjin: ...

Gurjin: “Let’s just take her prisoner,” the others all said. “She must know things, after all. What’s the worst that could happen?” they said...

#is that gelfskek #as close as I get for sure #this is not even headcanon #I just think if anybody would it's definitely the mariner #SkekSa #Gurjin #skeksis #gelfling #tdcaor #flash fic

[eye-of-enigmatic-thought]

[ID: Traditional ink art of various busts of the Skeksis as humans. All of them look old and wrinkled in some way. First image shows SkekSo, SkekSil, SkekAyuk, and SkekSa, SkekSo has a long face with a broad nose covered by his nose clip and his hair covered by his head covers, he looks at the viewer with a judgemental stare. SkekSil has a square shaped face with a large nose and short hair, he has a devious expression. SkekAyuk has a round shaped facr with a round nose and combed back hair, he has a confident and devious smile. SkekSa has a boxy and very rugged face with sideburns and facial hair, she wears her mariner hat and has three nose piercings that go down her large broad and hooked nose, she smiles confidently.

Second image shows SkekVar, SkekZok, SkekEkt, and SkekGra. SkekVar has large rectangular face with a big underbite that juts out two teeth like a pig tusks, he’s wearing his helmet and has a determined expression. SkekZok has a broad square face with big wrinkled cheekbones, he’s wearing his hat and has a stern expression. SkekEkt has a angular face with grandmotherly features and is wearing his hair up in a upwards ponytail, he looks like he’s laughing and wiping away tears. SkekGra has angular face with big cheekbones and a beard and wears head wrappings, he looks manically excited.

Third image shows SkekLach, SkekMal, SkekShod, and SkekTek. SkekLach has a round face and looks like she’s wearing a babushka, she has a large round nose thats covered in pustules, she has a tired expression. SkekMal has a angular face with sharp looking cheekbones and nose, he has a yelling and eager expression. SkekShod looks especially wrinkled and is wearing a babushka-like cloth with jewerlly wrapped above it, he has a grumpy and stern expression. SkekTek has a rectangular head with a long nose, his right eye has a cybernetic implement, he looks shocked and concerned.

Fourth image shows SkekNa, SkekOk, SkekUng, and SkekLi. SkekNa has a rectangular face with buzzcutted hair and wears a eyepatch on his right eye, he has a devious grin. SkekOk has a small face with a long pointy nose and combed over hair, he wears a pair of glasses and a monocle, he has a stern but devious look to him. SkekUng has a angular face with massive sideburns and wild hair, his expression is very ferocious and angry. SkekLi has a broad face with a aquilline nose and a long beard and hair, he looks frustrated and angry.

Fifth image is all the busts together. End ID.]

Wanted to try my hand at drawing all the skeksis as humans, but in a way I personally liked. These are all CRUSTY OLD DUDES and they all smell terrible!!! (Except for SkekEkt and SkekSa, he uses perfumes and she just smells like the sea <3)

#the dark crystal #skeksis #human designs #the dark crytsal: age of resistance #tdc aor #my art #inks #decided not to colour them in cuz i cant really figure it out and id rather not accidentally fall into certain stereotypes #human skeksis #skekso #skeksil #skekvar #skekzok #skekayuk #skeksa #skekekt #skagra #skekshod #skektek #skekung #skekli #Character Design