Okay so it’s not 2025 or December anymore but I didn’t want to change the header graphic for just two reader questions, lol.
Anyway, there are things in this world that even bugbears don’t mess with, and one of those things is not deer. What are not deer? What are they about? Are they people like you and me? Are they a force of nature? What are they? Don’t ask, don’t look, don’t talk about them. Just let them do their thing.
This is the last week of Reader Questions! Skin Deep returns full force January 6!
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Not Deer are one of the reasons why if you’re in Appalachia and you think you heard something outside at night, NO YOU DID NOT. Keep those blinds and curtains closed, do NOT go outside.
Not to mention the more mundane wildlife, bobcat, puma, boar, that can all scream with a human voice.
Near death experience by Wampus cat makes you a legend.
Near death experience by two bobcats having territory dispute, makes you the butt of every joke at the local bar for a good decade.
Does firework work on Alec?
It’s supposed to drive evil spirits away.
My head canon for Not-Deer is that they are the unsettled spirits of any bucks that got their antlers locked together and died as a result. Even in death they remain stuck together (usually appearing as a jumbled mess of limbs, bodies, and heads) and are ever seeking a way to be separated. The only way to release or appease these spirits is to find their original bodies or bones and pull the locked antlers apart.
https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/s/EZCk6f3bAw
Seeing this walking around in the dark would give me nightmares for sure, and that’s even a super tame one.
Oh! Is it time for cool gryphons? How about a peacock / tiger reverse?
“And I made faces like the faces in the rocks, and twisted myself about like the Twisted Ones…”
(the Not Deer is giving me flashbacks to T Kingfisher’s horror novels)
it’s giving ‘hello fellow kids’
Oh my, that’s a cool design on the Not-Deer.
are there any mexican cryptids/monsters in the world of skin deep? and what about alebrijes?
Questions;
1)What would Dragon Amulets look like? And would they have four legs and wings, like a modern dragon or two back legs and wings like a Wyvern, or front legs, wings and no back legs?
2)Would you classify Feathered Serpents as a type of Dragon? And do they have an Amulet?
It’s already been established that some of the different types of gryphon require different types of medallion. It makes sense then, that, if >ahem< somebody were to start making dragon medallions, they would probably have to differentiate at least broad categories of draconic body type. For example, I doubt that a wyvern and a four-legged dragon could use matching medallions.
More Not-Deer!!!
“We don’t talk about Not-Deer… no no … we don’t talk about Not-Deer…”
I heard that. :P
Kevin’s expression is pure “don’t look, don’t look.”
I heard the “Hey Guys” in Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi voice.
The Not-Deer is terrifying, I love it