Cryptid-in-a-box - Come And Be Welcome

im addicted to this video btw i quote it daily

monster jon concept

he’s essentially a living optic nerve. the tower is there to direct and stabilize the connection held in the pupil. when he’s in the panopticon he serves as both the center of the tether to reality and the closest thing the eye has to a mind.

he can fly, but as pupil, he isn’t affected by gravity so his wings and legs are vestigial. the furthest he can reach with his body is the floor of that room.

the archivists serve as a defense system because jon is basically a vital organ and fairly physically vulnerable. they’re very fast and can fly short distances but usually just cling to walls and crawl. they have about the same level of sentience as beholding itself (not much). jon can maneuver them as external limbs but when he isn’t, they kind of just run on eye-autopilot.

One of my favorite lil lonelyeyes takes is that I fully believe they get divorced via full legal process. Every. Single. Time. Every little scrap of paperwork meticulously filled out, every possible opportunity to scream at each other in a courtroom. Divorce attorneys simultaneously rich and traumatized. It’s chock full of misery and loneliness and the feeling of being judged. It’s the worst, most bureaucratic foreplay ever to exist. And I find it delightful.

TMA as embroideries

Elias in season 3

The distortion

Martin when he finds Jane Prentiss for the first time

John, or any other employee for that mater

The buried

Hilltop road

Tim when asked about the Magnus Institute

the desolation

Elias whenever there’s an emergency

Jane prentice

Jonathan Sims head archivist of the Magnus Institute, London

Elias Bouchard and [extended sound of brutal pipe murder]

Martin K. Blackwood

I don’t know why I did this.

Credits to : forsnarkyartcompany ,JoviallyArtless ,TheTwilightSewn and DemonMonkeyCraft all on Etsy for making the embroidery.

teaholding is one of the cutest ship names. why is it not the most popular one for jon and martin