The Black Lion

Can't disagree with you there. G5 was aborted so fast it may as well not exist. G4 was once in a generation type of show.

Also check your DMs, had a couple Qs for you.

NVIDIA isn't releasing anything. They've gone all in on AI and have all but ceased new public offerings. And their CEO is carousing around gloating about how being a monopoly during an artificial scarcity is just awesome. His CES speech had zero consumer content.

What are the belts they wear?
Utility belts that serve a variety of purposes, but most importantly, they put out an agrav (antigravity) field. This allows them to survive on land. If the agrav generator were to fail out of water, a Halavahdon would collapse immediately into a pile of gore.

The original Halavadon pic from 1992, published in 1995. Features a Godzilla sized otter simply leaning on a cliff and watching traffic go by. Entitled "Sightseeing."

Halavahdon v2.0 in the form of fel-Sylia the Explorer. Just like the original, she's leaning on a cliff, but she's also holding a micro in her hand: Ken Coug'r himself. Both are thrilled to meet one another: Sylia meeting her Creator, Ken meeting a friendly macro. She intends no harm.

One of your pictures launched an entire universe, and I will always treasure this from you.

How it started/how it's going.

Are they classic Kaiju?
NO. They travel from world to world to try to build a community. The Explorers take an oath to never harm a 'Tiny' or their property. They're just people that happen to be big.

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

Along the way, they try to make friends and allies of us "Tinies."

What do the prefixes mean?
Mel- is male, fel- is female, mar- means Matriarch, the female leader of pods.

Who originally created the Halavahdon?
@kencougr.bsky.social first drew them in 1992 as giant otters.

How about the Benefactors?
A mysterious race that, in the distant past, made the Halavahdon sapient and gifted them a number of pieces of technology.

Who are the Explorer Pod?
Those charged with the primary mission of the Benefactors: Find them and thank them in person.

Going to pin this short FAQsince I post so much Halavahdon stuff.

What are the Halavahdon?
Godzilla sized whale/orca/otters living on an alien ocean world.

What are the Leviaphin?
Giant psychic orcas from the Star Trek universe. Their ancestors created the Whale Probe.

Very nice piece done by Pippuri. Fire types would, I imagine, be pretty spicy, even to another fire type!

A little toon physics, a little magic, and some care, and it actually turns it into an interesting and pleasurable experience.

mel-Lothann, Chief Warrior of all the Benefactor Warrior Pods. A monster of a Halavahdon at 460 feet and wielding a diamond-tipped spear nearly as big as he is. He calls himself the Solitary Warrior, and yet he can command an army. To understand his strength and speed, think of this: A bull orca can break a Great White Shark in half with one hit. mel-Lothann is 12 times larger than a bull orca and has intelligence as sharp as any of the megadolphins. He's the closest thing his world has to Primal's Spear. He's lithe and muscular, with a muzzle more feline than otter. His eyes are a piercing yellow, a feature of the Feral Pods that spawned him. His flukes are narrower and lighter than a female's, designed for raw speed in a charge. In this watercolor painting by Heather Bruton, he silently waits in a kelp forest, spear at the ready, as he waits to ambush his target from the blindside. He can hold his breath over an hour, so he has the patience to wait a long time, waiting for maximum advantage... Do not challenge mel-Lothann lightly. He is a force of nature.

Can't make a post about mar-Tykoni without also posting her consort, mel-Lothann. We've seen the Chief Warrior of the Benefactors before; do not ever underestimate his intelligence or cunning.

Art by Heather Bruton.

#macro #halavahdon #mel-lothann #halavahverse

A painted watercolor portrait of the Grand Matriarch of the Explorer Superpod of the Halavahdon. (Whew!) She's sort of the equivalent of a NASA flight director - all Explorer operations, as well as updating the Elder Pod and relay pods, fall to her. She's driven by both a belief in her mission and bringing her people back home alive. She's very tall for a female Halavahdon, 430 feet from head to toe. Despite her great height she has a relatively compact. thick build, with a huge tail, leading to a set of flukes that are almost as big as her entire upper body. She has teal eyes and an ice blue crystal pendant around her neck. As shown, this crystal has a unique ability: It was engineered to plug into Explorer technology, allowing her to move things with her mind, create shields, and more. She rarely uses this ability, but she is the last line of defense for the Benefactor Campus; if she needs to, she *will* ruin your day. mar-Tykoni doesn't need to command respect. She earns it with hard work, dedication, and committment to the future of two peoples. She is truly The Matriarch. Art is by Sandy Schreiber.

Insanely good real-media painting of mar-Tykoni, the Grand Matriarch of the Halavahdon Explorer Pod. (Say that five times fast!)

Art by Sandy Schreiber. More details in alt text.

#macro #halavahdon #mar-tykoni #halavahverse

Damn, that's a great pose. Looks like the doggo's going to be happy for quite a while.

How that scene was pretty much guaranteed to end had not some plot armor intervened.

Lilith is a pretty awesome dragon. I might have to ask to borrow her some day.

Happy birthday to you!

Have to admit that the idea of a spawn-camping Lugia is... kinda terrifying. I wouldn't even necessarily call the meal easy considering he had to swallow a trainer and three Pokemon in one gulp.

Did it, though. Good luck to the next lowbie that comes through THAT door.

Sylia the Halavahdon, or whale-otter. She's looming over a rather confused Rockhopper penguin in a scarf, Yahtzee, and is intensely embarrassed. She considers looming rather rude and doing it accidentally is an instant blush.

Sylia says hi.

Forced birthers have a very specific agenda, but of course they won't tell you what it is. So the charges of hypocrisy just bounce off them. Shamelessness is the superpower. They are FANATICS. You don't discredit fanatics. You defeat them utterly. And that's where we are now.

UK went hard right and the hard hard HATES any social support network. They want cannon fodder, not citizens. They literally only give a shit about birth numbers.

The U.S.'s housing market is out of control and has been for 15 years, and of course, we also went very hard right.

Yeah. Japan and the UK have the same problem. Japan's been in a perpetual recession for 40 years and absolutely will not allow immigration beyond the bare minimum. So... they have an elderly population with few kids and their social security system is collapsing.

And for the record, the only bad luck I've ever gotten from a voidcat is when I missed getting to visit with them. Cats are extremely individualistic creatures, but I vibe well with them, because I take the time to understand their personalities, and convince them it's their idea.

Very pretty kitty and sounds like a complete marshmallow. Voidcats seem to fall into two categories: Spicy as hell, or complete cuddlebugs. I've met a few of the latter and they're adorable.

Yeah you've been ghosted, which really sucks. :/

I actually had a favor to ask; if possible, I'd like to start a chat. Puca and I are cooking up something unique for Orlund that you might just enjoy.

They already have. They're owned by one of Musk's holding companies. I consider them extremely insecure and never hold sensitive conversations over it. (For that, I use Signal or an app I have control over the encryption key).

I think you discovered the fun of being a mentor. You learn these techniques and they don't just help you. They help others behind you also trying to learn. You got a business to run, but collaborations are hella fun and it's a good feeling to help a n00b and not just dump on them.

Well, as I have written, vore has many aspects to it. I separate it out into plot based (drama, comedy, horror), endo (harmless vore) and kink. These aspects are distinct and separate. They often are combined, but choosing everything to be kinky is a fandom choice, not reality.

But it's one thing to do alt versions of a public property. Whole other thing to do it to a private person. It's extremely rude at best, and outright stalkery at worst. Anyone that's tempted to do this, DON'T. Not unless you have permission!

Also: Writing on someone else's story without permission is no different than doing fan art without permission, or tracing their work. It's a direct invasion of their personal space and an attempt to invalidate their preferences. If you've seen Zootopia 2, you'll see a LOT of examples of that.

But it still relies on being able to survive within a place that almost no living thing more complex than a bacteria survives. With that base you can jump off a lot of different directions. To this day cartoons use this very trope but it's used I a darker fashion than it once was.

It's ALL valid.