Reposted by @melodyspectrum.bsky.social
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
![Illustration: Sunrise Dragon (fantasy illustration)
Digital artwork of a dragon's neck and head. Its scales are primarily colored a light sky blue, and its spikes and horns are gold. Many of its scales also have bright magenta regions. Its eyes are a shiny black.
Its long neck its twisted in a snake-like position, with its head facing left. Its teeth are visible on the outside of its lips, much like crocodile teeth, and its snout is tipped in a bone-like beak structure. Two of its top teeth are especially long and tusk-like, curving outwards from either side of the head. The dragon has 3 pairs of horns, the longest and thickest of which is the highest pair on the back of the head. A thick but short spike, similar in appearance to the horns, is located on the side of the head, near the back of the jaw.
3 rows of spines extend down the creature's neck, and each spine is gold in color, with a magenta base. The center row of spines is significantly taller than the others, and each spine of this row is lobed in the center. Each lobe is patterned with white and purple spots.
The dragon's environment is a cloud scene at sunrise. It consists of pastel pinks and pale purples. Some sky blue is also visible at the top of the illustration, and in the rightmost top corner the sky fades to navy blue. In front of the dragon, some pink clouds form a circular shape that frames the creature's face.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Creature Concept: Starlight Dragon (gold version)
Concept art of a gold-scaled dragon in flight, facing left relative to the POV. Its horns are curved and black, but short in length, and its eyes are deep purple.
Viking-style rune scars are engraved on its knuckles, wings, and tail. Similar runes also make up the fading edges of its magical glowing wings and fins, which are pale cyan in color.
Thin tendrils, the same color as the dragon's scales, sprout from multiple regions of its body, including the top of the head, chin, neck, elbows, tail, shoulders, and wing tips. Each tendril is tipped with a small jewel-like orb that matches the cyan wings in color. These also glow with a slight bioluminescence.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Creature Sculpt: Sun Dragon Eye
Render in Blender Cycles of a fiery orange dragon eye, surrounded by brown scaled eyelids. The pupil is large and round, and the iris surrounding it is patterned with flame-like grooves that glow slightly. Some faint blue reflections are visible on the right side of the eyeball, and on either side of the bright iris, the whites are filled with red veins.
Art by sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Creature Concept: Southern Quilled Seraph (fictional avianoid)
Digitally drawn concept art of a bird-like monster design. The creature faces right on a dark plane. It is sitting with its wings partially folded, but still somewhat slack. Its long tail twists upwards behind it.
Its beak and two-toed feet are yellow in color, and its eyes are bright green. Most of the feathers on its body are a warm grey shade, with a broad red stripe down its back and tail. Additionally, there is a large patch of red in the center of itis chest. Its wing feathers, as well as some scattered feathers across its body, are a shiny iridescent black. It has a bright red wattle on the underside of its head, which is patterned with black markings.
Porcupine-like quills sprout from beneath the feathers on the monster's back, as well as the backs of its wings. Along its twisted tail there are 3 more (shorter) wing-like appendages. The head has two pairs of eyes; one is large, and located on the side of the head, and the other is small, and faces forwards from a hole on the from side of the beak.
The beak is toothed, like a goose's beak, as is the animal's tongue. The beak also has a large Smilodon-like fang growth on each side. On the bottom half of the beak, a patterned crest sprouts and curves backwards between the fangs. Above the front pair of eyes on the beak, there are hornbill-like growths that shade the eyes.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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