I think I’ve finished this one.
Charcoal, conte & gesso. A1 130gsm paper.

Three selkies sit on the shore in front of a washed up horned sea mine. They have shed their sealskins.

In legend, islanders whould steal the discarded sealskins and this would prevent the selkies returning to the sea. The islanders would then “marry” the selkies (sounds an awful lot like human trafficking to me, where passports are stolen, and people are sold into slavery.

#Selkies #SealPeople #ScottishLegends

A quick sketch of a selkie commando about to dive off a boat. Just a dumb idea that popped into my head last week, and my muse wouldn't let it go.

#mastoArt #pencilArt #fantasy #CelticMythology #selkies

My muse wouldn't let this go.

Fantasy short story: Selkies prepare to raid a German facility in Brittany during WW2.

Selkie Commandos https://aceade.net/2025/12/17/selkie-commandos/

#CelticMythology #dieselpunk #fantasy #selkies #ShortStories #wtfIsMyMuseDoing

Selkie Commandos - Aceade's Tales

Fantasy short story: Selkies prepare to raid a German facility in Brittany during WW2.

Aceade's Tales

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@Ciaraioch/115694683274061337

This print is gorgeous. So many reasons it's one of my favourites - the sea! the seal! the voluptuous lady form! And the nice seagreen colour. It's nature and myth and body positivity and an ocean lover's delight in one fell swoop of the pen 🦭 🌊 🧜‍♀️
#Selkies

My second Kilkee Bay Swim (2025) completed. Sea swell was high, definitely a bit tougher and choppier than last year in parts but more rewarding too. Got to go in from Byrne's Cove instead of the pier. Excellent safety - jet skis and kayaks and coast guard boat shepherding us across the bay. And some of my swim group were waiting with fudge and warm hugs on the far side despite the drizzle.
#Kilkee #KilkeeBaySwim #Mermaids #Selkies #swimming #SeaSwimming

Selkies: Open-Source Low-Latency Accelerated Linux WebRTC HTML5 Remote Desktop Streaming Platform for Self-Hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, or Cloud/HPC

selkies-project.github.io/selkies/

#selkies #opensource #webrtc

@bookstodon

“The hybridity of the Great Selkie affirms the hybridity of humankind, and of the people and animals we share the world with.”

Dr Rob Maslen from the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic looks at Mollie Hunter’s supernatural adventure story set in Shetland, A STRANGER CAME ASHORE (1975)

2/5

https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/mollie-hunter-a-stranger-came-ashore-1975/

#Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #selkies #supernatural #Shetland

Mollie Hunter, A Stranger Came Ashore (1975)

[In August I visited Shetland, making Scalloway my base and adding to the rich tally of remarkable islands and island systems we’ve encountered over the years: the Inner Hebrides, Rathlin, Sark, St…

The City of Lost Books
As well as my own creature inventions, I also do my own take on well known folkloric creatures, like the selkie. These ones are more like merfolk with their bottom halves being seal-like, rather than seals who shed their skin to walk on land. #selkies #watercolour #folklore 2/5
Have been thinking about updating or replacing my Intro posts. One of the things I've really developed an interest in since first intros is swimming, but not watching or participating in competitive pool swimming. Swimming in the sea both solo and group 🧜‍♀️ . So floating (heehee) a few sea and swim-related hashtags here and interested to hear from others who follow/use those hashtags if there are more I'm unaware of.
#Swimming #SeaSwimming #WildSwimming #Swim #SeaSwim #WildSwim #Mermaids #Selkies
These Savage Stars / Crater of Grace Update!

Hey, chat: I'm over halfway done with the nice, clean, swanky-looking pdf copy of my original web novella,
These Savage Stars.

Depending on what I choose to do with it that
may mean that it will be coming down off of AO3 soon . . . but maybe not. It'll only need to come down if I choose to sell copies of the PDF but I'm hoping maybe I can find a way to help people snag it for free. Maybe I'll request my own book to a piracy site if I choose to sell it hehe.

The point is, TSS almost has a pdf copy! And it's nice and pretty and has a cover and page breaks and everything!

This has been your infrequent advertising spiel, regularly scheduled programming shall resume shortly :)