Ny’alotha is a city of old, terrible unnumbered crimes. The fish know all the secrets. They know the cold. They know the dark. Fssh qam ak’agthShi!! Fssh qam h’iwn!!!
my brain is insisting this is CG, someone pls explain what is cueing that
I’d guess something about the lighting which is emphasizing regions of fur, since an actual billion hairs is impossible to animate. like, that’s just such perfect lighting it already rings a little of fakeness to me. also just the gifs of it walking and looking around are a lil stilted. I clicked through to the video, and the gifs skip a lot of the moving, it looks more normal there, like the breathing and the nose lick at the end.
when I was 14 I worked in a grocery store and one day I got to bag Stephen King’s groceries and of course, being the little horror fiction nerd I am I was completely starstruck
I think he thought I was gonna ask for an autograph because I was not even lowkey staring I was full on moon-faced and bouncing and he kept looking over at me hesitantly like aw jeez kid fuck off
anyways I finally managed to squeak out that I was a huge fan and asked for advice on writing, “how do I write as well as you do?” in my horrible thick German accent and broken ass English and he gave me the best writing advice I have ever received
“shit kid, stop worrying about how other people do it and just write your story”
14 years later my wife and I nearly hit him with our car because he was jaywalking
i arrive at the gay bar in full butch getup and i look like super hot like trust me and i start buying chocolate milk for the femmes at the bar…..between my striking good looks and my generosity concerning tasteful dairy products i have impressed them greatly and after an hour of chatting I make my move. i reach into my pocket and remove a large, gorgeous lichen affixed to a piece of bark from its protective herbarium packet that I have concealed in my pants pocket. “it’s a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an algae,” i begin,