MUTANTS OF CHERRY CREEK

Mutagenic ooze is seeping into the town of Cherry Creek and mutating normal New England wildlife into terrifying monsters. The Cherry Creek Middle School Paranormal Investigation Club sets out to discover, catalogue, and tame all of the mutated cryptids and hopefully find the source of the toxic ooze before it permanently infects everything (and everyone) in town.

I want to base all the “cryptids” the Club discovers on real animals in New England’s different ecosystems. At first, the animals just seem weird, strange, a little “off”. Over time, exposure to the ooze causes these creatures to get bigger, meaner, and much more dangerous. (all the beginning stage creatures shown here are newly mutated, their final stages are after only a few weeks of exposure)

I also love folklore and cryptids and I really love the idea of this club of dorky middle school cryptid hunters assigning names like “bigfoot”, “mothman”, and “hodag” to these monsters so can try and contextualize something they don’t really understand. Soon the club realizes these aren’t fun isolated critters but symptoms much larger impending ecological disaster!

I picture it like pokemon evolution, going from a cute water turtle to a kaiju which is a lot for a ten year old to handle.

Which is your favorite? What cryptid would you wanna see? lmk what you think!

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aww these are so cool my favourite is probably the Loch Ness otter! haven’t seen a lot of media harnessing the potential of those saline gophers for horror would love to see your take on the pompeii worm op

MAD SCIENTIST OTD IS...

griffin from the invisible man (1933)

griffin is an optics scientist who turns himself invisible!

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career goals

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1 year ago

There Are No Fucking Words To Describe The Emotions This Animal Evokes In Me

there are no fucking words to describe the emotions this animal evokes in me

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1 year ago

Cherry Creek Town Map for my new YA cosmic horror comic set in 1990s New England. Trying to go for the vintage style maps that a middle school cryptid hunter would have on their case wall with whole spools of red yarn connecting newspaper cutouts and blurry photos of dark figures in the forest

Let me know what you think

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great art Pfft mall rats i would pin this on my wall op you nailed the vintagey aura

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1 year ago

Jin Seyeong and Chaerin Eun from "Surviving Romance". Seyeong is surrounded by roses and vines as she looks up with an almost haunted look on her face, blushing all the while. Above her, there is an image of her holding Chaerin's face between her hands and smiling unsettlingly while the word "LOVE" is repeated behind her head. Chaerin is looking at her in shock as parts of each of them are glitching out and Seyeong is swiping blood across her cheek. They are both being framed inside a big pink heart.

day 4: doomed by the narrative ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

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great art YESS SURVIVING ROMANCE doomed by the narrative is such a fitting prompt for my girl seyeong

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1 year ago

very fun awesome anime (i’ve been doodling nothing else for days)

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oddtaxi odd taxi odd taxi fanart mystery kiss odd taxi spoilers odokawa my beloved old man…

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1 year ago

Acanthonus armatus

fish 135 - bony-eared assfish/a. armatus

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1 year ago

I’ve been working on my own httyd oc story just for fun, but I thought I’d share these :]

Idk what to call them, but these are just some notes for my own original species of dragon (more below if you’re interested!)

The goal was basically to create a dragon that has really good senses; all but sight (their eyes are kinda sensitive to light, which makes it difficult for them to see sometimes, particularly in full sunlight)

They usually don’t have to worry about light bugging them though, as they travel in small packs either at night or in drifts of fog

They are omnivores! They eat whatever is available, which obviously changes as they change location, but they prefer fruits and fish

I based the physical appearance on bats (you can probably tell heh)

I’m thinking these guys would be both tracker and mystery class

They have two sets of ears, but they only use the larger sonar pair when in extremely low visibility

They can use an advanced form of echolocation! The little hairs on their bodies let them sense vibrations from all sides

There’s more but I’ll be quiet now lol, just me being cringe and free <3

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great art ooh i love these! vibes are so authentic to the books too

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