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Day 4 and every seven years the selkies come ashore to dance. In the years between, she dances with her children.

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2020-11-26

Selkies or “Seal Folk” are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin, found in Irish & Scottish folk
🎨Tristan Elwell
Francesca Resta
Selina Fenech
James Browne

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2020-11-24

I should b sleeping but...fuckit
Full time illustrator, part time writer, total train wreck.
Created 2 comics.
https://t.co/kZyAx8f68E man kidnapped by selkies
https://t.co/DBPq072UBt choas crew of flying ship

I like fantasy, mythology & facial expressions.

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2020-11-17

Looking for
A storyteller's
Paradise?
will suffice.
Kelpies, Selkies &
The Wee Folk
Across the Scottish
Landscape
Roam about.
Many a tale &
Legend
Beckon
A writer's soul.
The imagination
Is caressed by
Shape-shifting
Water spirits &
A monster in
Loch Ness

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2020-11-10

don't forget Scottish seal mermaids, selkies

just to add another spanner in the works there

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2020-11-10

I’m a comic artist so yep 😆 I illustrate my characters.

The Unbreakable (about a the chaos crew of a flying cargo ship) https://t.co/DBPq072UBt

On The Rocks (A fisher that got kidnapped by selkies) https://t.co/kZyAx8f68E

& I do commissions of other peoples characters too 😆.

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2020-11-09

🌊Day 20🌊 drawtober prompt: Folklore! Selkies are beings in Scottish and Irish folklore who are capable of taking both human and seal form by wearing and removing their seal skin coat 🌊🌑🌫

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2020-10-21

DAY 13: SELKIES
In Scottish mythology, selkies or selkie folk meaning "seal folk" are mythological beings capable of therianthropy, changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. They are found in folktales and mythology originating from the Northern Isles of Scotland

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2020-10-14

"they say selkies came from the sea, and to the sea we will someday return" / happy to be playing crystal chronicles again!

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2020-09-15

sometimes i think about modern selkies

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2020-09-08

Selkies and Clavats are made for each other don't @ me

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2020-09-08

thread! gonna post some bits n bops of old development art from 2 years back! these are some very early concepts, right when we decided on melding sea monsters & selkies together, and the start of Leviathan’s sequins scale coat 🐉

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2020-09-06

Selkies out for a swim 🌊🌊🌊

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2020-09-02

Got me and I love it ;;
I missed the Selkies so much aaa

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2020-08-28

Selkies on film: The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) and Song of the Sea (2014). Two movies so enchanting it's hard not to feel the call to the water yourself.

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2020-08-25

2. are creatures found in and They transform themselves from seal to human Selkies by shedding their seal skin, this is risky as they must reapply the same skin in order to return to seal form
3/11

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2020-08-25

In Scottish mythology, selkies are beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. They are found in stories originating from the Northern Isles of Scotland.
( art by Kaebobee on DeviantArt)

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2020-08-25

💜Thank you for all your fab tweets today💜
See you next week for theme
SWAN MAIDENS - SELKIES - YOKAI & OTHER SHAPESHIFTERS in & from around the world!

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2020-08-19