[Commissioned by @wannabedemonlord, the last of their Spanish monster series. The original prompt made them sound pathetic and lonely, whereas what sources I could find elsewhere made this creature just super horny and gross. I went for the sadder version. The original is just a blue sheep, but the search for art made me make it truly monstrous in appearance.]
Cabrichocho This
small, withered creature looks something like a lamb but with grotesquely
distorted features and a vaguely humanoid face. Its fleece is a bluish color.
A cabrichocho is at one disgusting and pathetic,
a malformed creature with a kind heart that wants nothing more than to be
loved. Feeling that their appearance is so grotesque that they could not be
loved at sight, they frequently hide themselves from view and attempt to
converse with passersby. They may throw their voices to avoid detection, claim
to be an invisible fairy or ghost, or otherwise dissuade their conversation
partners from trying to get a good look at them.
Unfortunately for a cabrichocho, their blood and
hide is useful for the manufacture of many magical items, making them a
tempting target for wizards and alchemists who know their true nature. Some
cabrichocho are so desperate for someone to talk to that they let their loneliness
get the better of their sense and come into the open and walk into traps. Although
they can headbutt opponents and fly magically for short periods of time, their
best defense is their own hideousness, which can send enemies retching and
unable to act.
A cabrichocho is an omnivore of the most delicate
type, feeding on the sap of trees, the nectar of flowers and butterflies. They
are peripatetic creatures and rarely stay in one place for very long. This frequent movement is both in order to try
their luck finding new friends and in order to avoid attracting hunters. No two
cabrichocho look alike, as their deformities are uniquely awful. One might have
an overlong neck barely supporting its head, while another may have many
misshapen limbs sticking out at odd angles, and a third could be covered in
weeping sores or vestigial eyes and teeth.
i dont think this site is actually going to go down. i think this is what will happen:
tomorrow, december 17th, the day of silence protest will occur. a large amount of users will be participating, making the people who are in the loop of the circulation of said protest info aka the most vocal and connected users of the site, think that their dash is completely dead
small blogging circles will continue to do their thing, many unaware of what is occurring outside of their world
posts will be made with screenshots of pornbots that havent even been deleted yet with staff @’d to point out how this sweep isn’t even working
users will devise workarounds to the filtering system when staff refuses to fix it
on december 18th, most of the day of silence protesters will return to the website. memes about the preceding day / the event will be reblogged en masse. then it will become apparent how many users actually jumped ship
staff will, once again, either refuse to listen and keep trying to drown this site in a capitalistic river while repeating over and over again that they “love” us, or make some significant bettering change months too late and blame it on a different event than its userbase protesting
none of the problems they were trying to solve will be solved
i will keep reblogging funy goodby tumlr memes until its out of fashion and then i will continue being here till im brave enough to deal with twitter or till i get sick of tumblr
thanks for coming to my ted talk and to all of you who are really leaving its been an honor to serve alongside you
