Centaurs - Tumblr Posts
Old piece! Going through art block kinda so i decided to post some of my older stuff ❤️
A lil somethin for the centaur squad, don't worry- just cause the CR brainworms have me on lock doesn't mean things aren't moving for the centaur collection 👀
i read this in crowley's drunk voice
Humans move their arms when they walk and run as like a balance thing, right? But centaurs wouldn’t need to do that. They’d probably do whatever made the human part most aerodynamic. What I’m saying is, centaurs do the Naruto run
Horses are really fragile animals. Is it still a death sentence for a centaur if one of their equine limbs gets hurt? Or can they help it somehow?
Oh god, now I'm thinking of amputees and how those would work
Horses are SUPER fragile, or maybe more like delicately balanced.. but particularly their crazy spindle-legs which centaurs get to deal with! But a big part of why hurt legs are a death sentence for horses has less to do with “It kills them” and more to do with quality of life, which a centaur can get around! A horse with a broken leg doesn’t understand it can’t put ANY weight on that leg for an extended period and will attempt to go about their daily life and act normally, which basically guarantees re-injuring the bad leg and a high chance of injuring the other 3 legs as they try to cope with the change in balance and weight distribution. It all leads to a really poor quality of life with almost no chance of truly healing properly. The story of all they did trying to save Barbaro the racehorse is a long sad story that illustrates a lot of the issues even with modern veterinary medicine with trying to deal with a broken leg in horses.
Thankfully with centaurs, They understand the need for healing, are able to manage their own quality of life and have the gear to support themselves in the time it takes for the injury to heal!
Also perfectly good for long term use in the case of aging, amputation, or general disability! Which is common with the front legs and lower backs of centaurs given the unusual stresses caused by their body-plans. They were created with thicker and more robust front legs to cope with the permanent added weight of the torso instead of a horse head, but injury and disability in that area is still very common!
Injuries to the hind are less common and usually less severe, and given the hind legs bear less direct weight than the front they can usually get away with wraps and limping until it gets back to weight-bearing. Something like a rear amputation or ruptured tendon would probably require a custom harness/brace attached to a wheel like these and/or basically a peg leg!
bethesda bring back centaurs challenge you fuckin cowards
Centaur Watching Fish by Arnold Böcklin (1878).
I love love love Böcklin’s mythical pieces, they have this sense of realism, and often even sensitivity.
Drew it in summer.
I shouldn't have watched Disney's Pastoral Symphony's Greek mythology segment of Fantasia before going to the Welcome Home website for updates.
Oh well....
Character belongs to @partycoffin
Greek Mythology Characters drawn by Gustave Doré
Note: Most of these are illustrations from the Divine Comedy.
1. Charon
2. Cerberus
3. Minos
4. Asterion/The Minotaur
5. The Erinyes/Furies
6. Centaurs
7. Harpies
8. Plutus
9. The Oceanids
10. Andromeda
Centaur in Love (illustration), 1987
Featured in German art magazine.
another shifting story!
ok, so I get detention for mouthing off to Snape a bit too much for his liking and end up having to wander around in the woods, I think
“ whatever, I’m just going to go and k*ll something “ planning on k*lling a deer or a rabbit or anything else that you would if you were a hunter.
thats when the centaurs find me, and they look pretty pissed off, I try to defuse the situation but I was getting pretty agitated at the fact that one of them was pointing an arrow right at me, one thing led to another and I get shot in the shoulder. I let out an exhausted sigh
“ okay, I didn’t wanna have to do this but you leave me no choice “ and I k*lled that guy and took his skull and left, they were too surprised to do anything about it.
at school they were shocked and horrified that I had done that, and the deities of Duat when they found out even more so,
I gotta say, it’s kinda funny in restrospect, just everyone so horrified that I had done this, and there there Set, just laughing.
you know something went down when everyone is horrified and Set’s laughing.
Some very self indulgent centaurs~ Glastrier Emmet and Spectrier Ingo
how do the centaurs sleep? and how do they stretch after a good sleep?
Ok this is one I’ve been wanting to cover for a while and my cooldown sketches got out of hand, so buckle up and enjoy the picturebook!
The easiest options is exactly what you think, the flop. In a home, thick carpets or tatami-like mats would provide at least some sort of cushion for the horse-half and various sized cushions and pillows to lift and support the top half. And they CAN sleep standing up, like horses, but it does require both a special harness/corset and practice. And it’s not very comfortable for anything deeper than a doze or catnap for most, so it’s mostly reserved for bad situations, naps, or guard duty.
Most common are recliners, or ‘hammocks’. Easy to fold and carry for cultures on the move, or make fancy for the city-folk they are probably the most ubiquitous of centaur furniture. A simple adjustable A-frame supporting some sort of flexible fabric-ish sheet for the top half to lean against and sleep. Usually paired with some sort of large blanket or padding on the ground to lay the horse-half on!
When you don’t have no fancy recliners, your herd will do! The preferred sleeping method of closely bonded herds is to simply rest on your buddies cushy backside! Roaming bands can often form long chains of sleeping centaurs with the unlucky first taur either on guard duty, sleeping sprawled, or with the group’s only hammock.
Mix and match to your character and herd’s personal preference!
Also stretchies!
science side of tumbler, i have a question
can centaurs be considered insects because they have 6 legs?
i tried to discuss this with my friends, but we are all humanities, musicians or computer scientists. as it turned out, none of us really understand biology
so i need your help guys
This was a request from offsite. CC asked me to do Constant rambling with her character Helen and my character Ambrosa. Ambra (the short one) is a doctor down in the mine and rambles to her blind and deaf centaur assistant (that’s why she’s named Helen... get it? harhar) about everything and nothing via palming (and talking, because... why not? she likes to talk and it lets other people know what they’re talking about) while they walk down the bridges back to the village, or perhaps on their way to visit patients (though this time I think this is the return trip XD).
Ughghghm I never finished this. Helen’s anatomy is still a nightmare I couldn’t fix it. Not to mention Ambra’s, even if her anatomy is a little different from a humans, being a Scourge (up coming post on those guys) and all... But I haven’t really had the motivation to fix it so e3e I may as well post it up, nightmarish anatomy and all XP
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I decided to finally start posting for myself on this lurker blog. Let's see if anyone else likes my fart-based thoughts...
I've been thinking a lot about centaur gas specifically. Horses are already some of the gassiest creatures we've got in our own world. It makes sense that centaurs, who have the digestive systems of both humans and horses, would be walking gas factories as well.
In a world where centaurs are a legitimate population, their gassiness is probably well-known and joked about. "Don't stand behind a centaur" is just as much of a warning about getting hit by a hot blast of horse gas as it is by one of their hooves. Any non-centaur dating a centaur is told, "Hey, at least you've got someone to blame your farts on."
Of course, that means that anyone into farts would be living their best life if they find a big, sweet centaur to love~