Themanfromnantucket - There Once Was A Man From Nantucket...

All my apologies to catboy/becksdraws

I just love this so much but it never quite made sense that I would get so excited about Christmas; it's nice and all, just not my thing. (and seriously, I get stupid giddy when I see the original on my dash)

Anyway -- happy last day of channukah!

A Box Jellyfish on Boxing Day…

So finals are clearly getting to me because while my nibs were still inky I decided I needed to experiment with some new scripts by writing out weird tumblr memes.

Jellymaid!

Wait, this is absolutely fantastic!

I was going to write something about how the "jelly" in "jellymaid" is for "comb jelly" not "jellyfish" but I'd be wrong; it's actually both. Comb jellies (Ctenophora), not true jellyfish (Cnidaria, specifically Scyphozoa), have the the rainbow "lights" seen on the lower half of her body. The "lights" are actually rows of long cilia, used for locomotion, which causes light diffraction, and not bioluminescence. Jellyfish, and all cnidarians, posses a kind of cell called a cnidocyte, the function which is to burst and shoot little "harpoons" into whatever it's attacking (this is how jellyfish sting). These little barbed projectiles look like this:

(source)

...which is exactly what the jellymaid is shooting with her bow!

(FYI:  this wonderful creature was drawn by zodiacleo -- kudos to you!)

Concept art for Diluvion!  See more on our tumblr.  : )