Freak of the Week: Choose your character
Added 2024-10-08 19:11:40 +0000 UTCHello my friends. Please give me all the freaks!!! The animal kingdom is full of weirdos like Binturongs and bobbit worms that deserve a lil love!
You can suggest as many creatures as you’d like. Real animals only please! Domesticated breeds that freak you out are great suggestions. Extinct animals are also very much appreciated. I’ll try my best to highlight them all and you will be credited! Don’t worry if someone has already suggested a critter, your voice still matters!! 🫵
If you’ve already suggested something I made sure to write it down! But you can suggest it again here if you want, it ain’t a crime. Do keep in mind if it ain’t freaky enough it may not make the cut, but don’t let that stop you! For example, maybe a grizzly bear IS the cutest animal and I would love to draw it, but it’s pretty well known so I might not choose it. However, a doodle terrifies me with their people eyes, and never actually got a breed guide, so that would be something I might include… the rules are flimsy but it’s my freak guide and dats how it is.
Thank you so much for being a patron! I’m so excited for this new project, & I think I’ll get to learn about a bunch of new animals, maybe some I’ve never even heard of!! Awww hell yeah!!!!!!!!
Comments
Basking shaaaark! If you’re still open to freaks :3
Beige
2024-11-03 06:40:07 +0000 UTCOh good other folks have also said the aye aye, they're so freaky and cute I love them so much
Bel Tamtu
2024-10-28 13:51:31 +0000 UTCGoblin shark!
Bel Tamtu
2024-10-28 13:50:38 +0000 UTCThe aye-aye. Everyone has heard of and seen variations on ring-tailed lemurs but way more folks need to see an aye-aye.
Bel Tamtu
2024-10-28 13:48:48 +0000 UTCOarfish and narrow-headed soft shell turtle
Amy Sennett
2024-10-25 15:55:50 +0000 UTCStar nosed mole :) love those lil dudes and they blow bubbles!!
Lisa Utzig
2024-10-22 02:46:25 +0000 UTCnighthawk for sure and I was inspired by your beautiful goblin shark to also request more deepwater sharks... greenland sharks, megamouth sharks, cookiecutter sharks, frilled sharks... there are probably more but those are the fucked up guys i know about!
Krista Yonz
2024-10-21 22:43:43 +0000 UTCoh my god, i can't believe i didn't put down sacabambaspis. everyone please look him up
Jam
2024-10-21 20:56:13 +0000 UTCGaboon snakes, elephant shrews (any of them really), lowland-streaked tenrec, aye-aye, horned viper, bushdog (it looks exactly what someone would draw if they were simply told to draw a mammal), marsh rabbit (why rabbit with ears so small?), gujri goat. So many good options.
Jean Cabot
2024-10-18 22:21:40 +0000 UTCGila Monsters, not really that weird, but there's a bunch of fun cryptid lore, like poison breath, with no basis in anything Spiny Rats, trying to figure out which kinds have the good spines that stick out make me think "that's a fun little freak" Giant squirrels, Indian giant squirrel has funky colors, I'm also learning about the red and white giant flying squirrel
Melly
2024-10-15 22:51:03 +0000 UTCColugo! real freaky. erroneously called "flying lemurs". cute in a sort of might feed on my nightmares kind of way. tree shrews, rat-things with people ears
Melly
2024-10-15 22:41:14 +0000 UTCWe get these rock squirrels in central Texas in rocky areas that are black on the top half of their bodies and grey on the bottom. They look like two different squirrels stitched together from far away
Margaret Hill
2024-10-15 14:43:52 +0000 UTCTexas blind salamander
Margaret Hill
2024-10-15 14:29:04 +0000 UTCThe common spotted Cuscus! A strange creature my family has been oddly obsessed with for years
Kathleen Dull
2024-10-15 02:07:05 +0000 UTCHope I'm not too late to suggest some weirdos! =) Tibetan Fox Pallas Cat Tuatara (the lizard that's not a lizard!) Tui House Centipede Pygmy Anteater Oarfish Tarsier
Squeebash
2024-10-14 21:35:10 +0000 UTCHas anyone suggested the tawny frogmouth?
Maddie P.
2024-10-12 18:50:21 +0000 UTCI think both are cute but Sunfish (mola molas) & Naked-neck chikums are my lil weirdo suggestions.
Melissa Swanson
2024-10-11 21:32:01 +0000 UTCOmg I have so many, paddlefish, diplocaulus,Mandarin fish, sun bear, pronghorn, elephant shrew, (I feel like a few of our missing link cousins would be slightly interesting probably pretty peculiar), just to start hehe
dogshoes
2024-10-11 21:31:30 +0000 UTCIrish Elk, they're extinct but things just shouldn't be that Big. Unsure if this is freaky enough though??
Emily!
2024-10-11 19:04:00 +0000 UTCEye-eyes and the Barreleye Fish or the Colugo are fun ones.
FenMura
2024-10-11 14:23:44 +0000 UTCDo extinct animals count? Arthropleura???
Cavarain
2024-10-11 04:35:11 +0000 UTCplease... please... sacabambaspis...
Mallow
2024-10-11 03:41:49 +0000 UTCsuggesting a few of the weirdos ive been able to take care of at my workplace (all varying levels of freak): turkey vultures, giant anteaters, red ruffed lemurs, debrazzas monkeys, southern ground hornbills, and pygmy slow lorises :)
Nick
2024-10-11 00:07:25 +0000 UTCJerboa! My favourite little bunny mouse!
Jem Milton
2024-10-10 20:13:29 +0000 UTCThe False Gharial, Leopard Seal, Wolf Eel, Striped Hyena, Frilled Shark, Stygian Owl, Crab Spider, and the Bearded Vulture are some of my favorites! I love weird and unsettling animals, this project is such a fun idea!
Maggie
2024-10-10 02:48:18 +0000 UTCmaned wolf.... why he leg.....
Ferbiedragon
2024-10-09 22:04:10 +0000 UTCI find the pleasing fungus beetle (Gibbifer californicus) a pleasing little weirdo.
Laura Marshall
2024-10-09 19:14:28 +0000 UTCoh also beelzebufo
Franko
2024-10-09 16:40:18 +0000 UTCsuggestions: pistol shrimps, bombardier beetles, lorises, terror birds, dobson flies, giant water bugs (aka toe-biters), whip scorpions, short-horned lizards, and gharials
Franko
2024-10-09 16:38:02 +0000 UTCsacabambaspis!!
CupcakeSouls
2024-10-09 15:45:30 +0000 UTCThe Gerenuk and the Gulabi goat are the only two I can think of for now but I'll comment again if I think of any more!
CupcakeSouls
2024-10-09 15:42:50 +0000 UTCand the Sage Grouse!
ookst
2024-10-09 15:15:45 +0000 UTCthe golden target beetle has funny little feet
ookst
2024-10-09 15:12:11 +0000 UTCsome of my favorite absolute freaks that make my skin scrawl: tongue-eating louse, antarctic scale worm, hammer head worm (kinda silly), creatonotos gangis, urechis unicinctus, feather star fish, edestus, dollocaris, cotylorhynchus
Jam
2024-10-09 13:48:20 +0000 UTCThree extinct and one extant: helicoprion, megatherium, anomalocaris, mola
grumbbyy
2024-10-09 12:24:25 +0000 UTCFirst ones that come to mind are sun bears and water deer. I don't remember where I heard it, but I vaguely remember a story of patrons of a zoo complaining about the sun bears because they thought they were just dudes in bear suits. But in reality, sun bears are just... like that.
Korinne Mark
2024-10-09 11:16:26 +0000 UTCMy suggestions are weevil and hagfish! Also votes here for shoebill and goblin shark <3
Beccy
2024-10-09 10:34:49 +0000 UTCOhh I love tawny frogs mouths. More mouth than brain but so cute.
Katie
2024-10-09 08:00:45 +0000 UTCNot weird but Capybaras are so cute 😍
Katie
2024-10-09 07:59:40 +0000 UTCBat fly
Katie
2024-10-09 07:59:01 +0000 UTCNaked mole rat
Katie
2024-10-09 07:58:48 +0000 UTCspringhare, hammer headed bat, Myanmar snub nosed monkey, cuyaba dwarf frog, giant anteater, takin, pallas cat, tawny frogmouth...
Mitzi
2024-10-09 07:10:22 +0000 UTCSomebody already said them but star nosed mole!
Ash
2024-10-09 06:36:19 +0000 UTCthey’re not so freaky so much as they are unique, but: hummingbird clearwings. a moth that hovers like a hummingbird and has clear wings! Hemaris thysbe is its scientific name!
Ves
2024-10-09 06:22:50 +0000 UTCYou're so right. I recently learned they're in the Bible! "Proverbs 30: 24-28 24 “Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise: 25 Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; 26 hyraxes are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags; 27 locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks; 28 a lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces." I'm not religious but was shocked to find the little guys getting that kind of praise.
Brachy Donger
2024-10-09 05:49:05 +0000 UTCAww I was late recommend hyraxes, they're my favorite. thought of a few others: nudibranch, potoo, kakapo (and its cool cousin the night parrot 😎), coati, legless lizard, bedbug.
Brachy Donger
2024-10-09 05:48:02 +0000 UTCI'd love to see a Hyrax! They're not all that freaky, but most people I know haven't heard of them, and they're so lovely.
Douglas Day
2024-10-09 05:10:59 +0000 UTCI wanna see an olm~!
Kevin Vognar
2024-10-09 04:44:28 +0000 UTCBlunthead slug snake, velvet worm, blyth's tragopan, kouprey, greater kudu, houbara bustard, saiga antelope, zebra duiker, yellow pasha butterfly catapillar, halter quarter horse, american baskir curly horse, frillback pigeon, jacana bird, kong vulture, quagga. Pacific barreleye, ogre-faced spiders Can we add more later if we think of them?
Cory!
2024-10-09 04:26:47 +0000 UTCThe horned guan is a very wild looking little bird. Another wild looking bird? The horned screamer. It’s horns all the way bird.
Hross
2024-10-09 03:46:50 +0000 UTCAlso want to see aye-aye! They're so cute and weird. 🤗
Charlotte Flam
2024-10-09 02:06:47 +0000 UTCA variety of ocean sillies for you: Puffins, Blue-footed boobies, beluga whales, sea cucumbers
paintseagull
2024-10-09 00:54:30 +0000 UTCLowland streaked tenrec! the most punk of all the tenrecs
chromegadget
2024-10-09 00:20:58 +0000 UTCOzark hellbender! Thylacine with its bigol' mouth and cute stripes! Maned wolf, the really really long fox!
taterdash
2024-10-09 00:11:56 +0000 UTCDesmans and tenrecs, two types of freaky proto mammals
Michaela Thompson
2024-10-08 22:57:03 +0000 UTCSpotted hyena, crested duck (they have a hole in their heads!) rain frog, I cannot BELIEVE nobody has said Aye-aye yet, tarsier, or bushbaby. Oooh, siphonophores too, and pumpkin froglets. Maybe elephant fish too if you're into the whole Elegant shnozz theme?
PotteryWalrus
2024-10-08 22:53:23 +0000 UTCmuntjacs, cassowarries, and portuguese man o wars are a lil freaky! for extinct animals, I think north american lions (big!!), giant beavers and ground sloths (:
Allyson
2024-10-08 22:47:34 +0000 UTCIdk if these have been mentioned yet, but the Potoo and the Arabian Sand Boa are both wonderfully derpy pals that are fun to look at
Katie
2024-10-08 22:30:23 +0000 UTCI’ve got some creepy ones for ya: Basket Star (Euryalina), Tiburonia granrojo (big red jelly), Stygiomedusa gigantea (giant phantom jelly), vampire squid, goblin shark, deep-sea hatchetfish, Barreleye fish, fangtooth (fish), viperfish, coconut crab, giant isopod, cookiecutter shark. Less creepy: glass frog, dumbo octopus, flapjack octopus, Chaetopterus pugaporcinus (pigbutt worm/flying buttocks), Scotoplanes (sea pig), saiga antelope, proboscis monkey, [extinct] Helicoprion (buzzsaw jaw shark), [extinct] Platybelodon (flat-spear tusked elephant-type), Palaeoloxodon falconeri (dwarf elephant—look up island rule of evolution if you want a wild ride through a rabbithole)… I could go on & on, lol. I at one point wanted to do a podcast on animals (maybe one day…) & those were some contenders for episodes!
UnfortunateCorvid
2024-10-08 21:34:13 +0000 UTCLAST ONE SORRY I don’t know if this counts but Pinworms literally make me feel ill just looking at them so I’ll nominate them too
Frank Marshall
2024-10-08 21:34:02 +0000 UTCAlso Doodles (dog breed) lmao
Frank Marshall
2024-10-08 21:31:54 +0000 UTCDomesticated breeds - pugs OR chihuahuas that have big bulging eyes and lolling tongues from over breeding. Bonus if they’re always dressed in human clothes
Frank Marshall
2024-10-08 21:31:38 +0000 UTCCalifornia Condor is a wonderful meaty headed friend I think would look great in your style.
Frank Marshall
2024-10-08 21:30:14 +0000 UTCMy husband suggests opabinia, diplocaulus, arthropleura, and spriggina
Margaret Hill
2024-10-08 21:24:40 +0000 UTCthe zombie frog got me thinking about tapirs! why in the convergent evolution do they have those floppy snouts?
Zak Hammerman
2024-10-08 21:10:09 +0000 UTCI'm here to cosign shoebill. But also, axolotls are adorable but super weird. House centipedes look like sentient hell mustaches. Blue ringed octopi--tiny, precious, deadly.
Ruth Robertson
2024-10-08 21:07:34 +0000 UTCAny of the fat tail sheep breeds, soft shell turtles, Atretochoana eiselti, aka the Penis Snake
Monica D
2024-10-08 21:03:05 +0000 UTCMyanmar snub-nosed monkey (they have the least nose of all primates!!)
Cactus!
2024-10-08 21:01:16 +0000 UTCBy-the-wind sailors are cool!
Hammah
2024-10-08 20:49:25 +0000 UTC- Amphisbaenids, specifically the red worm lizard ❤️ - Tuatara - naked mole rat
Ox Lennon
2024-10-08 20:46:33 +0000 UTCFossa
Jessica T
2024-10-08 20:42:29 +0000 UTCHammer headed bat
Jessica T
2024-10-08 20:42:03 +0000 UTCGoblin shark
Jessica T
2024-10-08 20:41:48 +0000 UTCCassowary my beloved freaky dinosaur bird..... bush-stone curlews...coming into bat for Australian birds<3
Camille Ham
2024-10-08 20:39:08 +0000 UTCJust here to say I can't think of a weird thing rn, but I am pumped to see what comes of the other suggestions!!
Cody Gidge
2024-10-08 20:36:31 +0000 UTCdid an elementary school presentation on assassin bugs! they're cool little dudes, I love the wheel varietal
ookst
2024-10-08 20:34:54 +0000 UTCGoblin sharks or wobbegong sharks have been the topic of our freaky creature circle. But from animals I have the most experience with, ferrets and Hedgehogs are some good non cat dog freaky creatures.
Nugget
2024-10-08 20:32:27 +0000 UTCfive-toed worm lizard! Japanese spider crab! lamprey! dik-dik!
ookst
2024-10-08 20:32:08 +0000 UTCOoooh so excited! I'd like to nominate Velvet worms, Diplocaulus Magnicornis, Sea robins, Planarians, and hoatzin!!
Spadefish
2024-10-08 20:31:01 +0000 UTCOn behalf of my beloved girlfriend who has a knack for the weird and unusual extinct creatures of this planet, I suggest: Either the Platybelodon, Atopodentatus, or Sharovipteryx! Looking forward to seeing all the other Beasts you'll be drawing, regardless if my suggestions make the cut or not. :]
Chocolatewoosh
2024-10-08 20:30:03 +0000 UTCwoolly siphonophore
Alyssa
2024-10-08 20:28:41 +0000 UTCYeti crabs!
Nerdbird
2024-10-08 20:17:47 +0000 UTCSilky anteater!! And numbats! Also the ringtail (not lemur just ringtail) it's our state mammal yet I never hear anyone talk about them and only learned about them like this year
Kit S
2024-10-08 20:16:44 +0000 UTCCame to suggest devils hole pupfish and I'm so glad they've been said, so olms, jerboas, bulldog rat, honey possum, african clawed frog (I had one named Carl for 13 years), tardigrades, blobfish, lumpsucker fish, gars, musk deer, assassin bugs, vampire squid, human beings. thank you for playing into my interests so deeply with this series and making me google all these lil freaks in a busy cafe
Charlie
2024-10-08 20:09:46 +0000 UTCThe Ask a Mortician episode about devils hole pup fish is so good
Hannah K
2024-10-08 20:00:18 +0000 UTCShoebill storks, I fear them but I want to love them
Meryl Juergens
2024-10-08 19:58:31 +0000 UTCMoa. the giant relatives of ostriches. in fourth grade my whole class would pretend to be moa and smack each other with our heads. my backup is Pikas, the little mountain dwelling rodents that are difficult to search for because of another famous rodent who is apparently unrelated completely. they're not rly freaky though
Diddle
2024-10-08 19:55:38 +0000 UTCSolifuges are super creepy looking critters that are actually really chill! The Tully Monster sounds fake but is a really strange extinct animal. And shout out to my favourite critters, land hermit crabs! The species might not be so weird in the grand scheme of things, but I keep some and those ones specifically are little wierdos.
malphe
2024-10-08 19:53:37 +0000 UTCBabirusa, hammerhead bat, star nosed moles (most underground critters really lol), naked mole rats, red lipped bat fish, platypus, narwhal, aye-aye, pink fairy armadillo, goblin shark, short-tailed shrew (especially the venomous ones!), Siphonophore, Velvet ants, jewel wasp, pink river dolphin, mantis shrimp, Potoo, Hoatzin
DawnSnowe
2024-10-08 19:50:02 +0000 UTCTENRECS!! I just got a pair of girls as pets and they look like knockoff hedgehogs, and I love them with all my heart
SheepyStuff
2024-10-08 19:48:56 +0000 UTCDevil's Hole Pup Fish Beta fish
Drewskiskiski
2024-10-08 19:39:00 +0000 UTCI think you've done them before but aye-aye are cools and they can curse you! Also tarsiers are just furry lil aliens Gamusinos are a weird kind of bird (I think) here in Spain :-) Aaaa! And in the bug side spiny leaf insects are freaky icky wicky looking
NarizRoja
2024-10-08 19:38:23 +0000 UTCThem star-nose moles are Fahreeekyyy!!
Kehaulani Cookieator
2024-10-08 19:33:45 +0000 UTCWhen exotic shorthairs are babies they look insane... edit: especially garlic boy. Marins_himalayan on ig
Antje Cramer
2024-10-08 19:31:27 +0000 UTCSun Bears and/or Shoebills!
Shadow
2024-10-08 19:30:25 +0000 UTCEuchoretes Planigale Apalone Procavia Acrochordus Macrotis Phascogale Chironectes
Ainsley Seago
2024-10-08 19:30:13 +0000 UTCDamascus goats are definitely in the freaky family
Slfz
2024-10-08 19:29:29 +0000 UTCIchneumon Wasps! Star-nosed moles! Whip scorpions (they shoot vinegar out of their butts)!
David
2024-10-08 19:29:11 +0000 UTCOn the cuter end of FREAKS, Aardwolf (eats bugs which is freak behavior for hyena if you ask me.....) For a more traditional FREAK the saiga antelope comes to mind
Han wolfe
2024-10-08 19:28:39 +0000 UTCElephant seals freak me out! Mostly just the males with their floppy noses, and they can be so mean! I got chased by one on a field trip to Año Nuevo as a kid. I'll never forget the sheer terror I felt running away from that schnozz...
Catrina Tellez
2024-10-08 19:28:12 +0000 UTCOHHHH definitely the Gorgonopsid, Entelodonts and Smilodon Perpetrator for extinct ones off the top of my head. Trying to think of some more currently living freaky dudes, and those splitfin flashlight fish, great pootoo, red-lipped batfish and the Mexican mole lizard come to mind
mirarevias
2024-10-08 19:25:48 +0000 UTCPersian Carpet flatworm!!
astrolupine
2024-10-08 19:22:50 +0000 UTCMyospalax Mormolyce Aplodontia Platypsyllus Solenodon Galemys Amphiuma (all species, from the one-toed to the three-toed)
Ainsley Seago
2024-10-08 19:22:31 +0000 UTCAny deep sea animals would be incredible. My favorites are the barreleye, the goblin shark, or the sea pig
Jettpilot
2024-10-08 19:22:20 +0000 UTCRock hyrax! A weird little guy whose closest living relative is the elephant!
Malcolm McCarthy
2024-10-08 19:22:12 +0000 UTCstar nose moles and sun bears.
Crown
2024-10-08 19:21:58 +0000 UTCKākāpo, bearded vulture, black palm cockatoo, tawny frogmouth, magnificent frigatebird, Superb bird-of-paradise, Greater prairie chicken, twelve wired bird of paradise!!!!
Spricket Springs
2024-10-08 19:21:58 +0000 UTCBAEUS WASP
EmlzArt
2024-10-08 19:21:42 +0000 UTCSiberian Musk Deer are fangy friends! I really like mountain coati too.
Aryel
2024-10-08 19:20:03 +0000 UTCHammerheaded bat Boney earned ass fish Royal flycatcher Hickory horned devil caterpillar Eyelash bug
Icky Batty
2024-10-08 19:19:49 +0000 UTCMickey Mouse shark??? 🐭🦈 if it’s real and not a creepypasta 😅
Jem Milton
2024-10-08 19:19:25 +0000 UTCI'm just gonna leave a series of genus names here, I promise each and every one is solid gold Telmatobius Notoryctes
Ainsley Seago
2024-10-08 19:18:33 +0000 UTCYell HEAH im PUMPED
Emily
2024-10-08 19:16:22 +0000 UTCOh if you want an obscure animal you could do the grasshopper mouse!
Morghann Patterson
2024-10-08 19:15:43 +0000 UTCAmerican coot. Freaky feet on that motherfucker
Ellis
2024-10-08 19:15:29 +0000 UTCShingleback skink! They look like hot butt and give live birth.
Jessica Ikaika
2024-10-08 19:15:14 +0000 UTCI would love to see you do something fun with horses. Absolute freak horrors of animals. Or pelicans!
Morghann Patterson
2024-10-08 19:15:03 +0000 UTCgoblin shark, sarcastic fringe head, or moray eels please! all wet guys
Ian
2024-10-08 19:14:50 +0000 UTCFlamingos are well known but WAY weirder than you can possibly believe as well
Ellis
2024-10-08 19:14:49 +0000 UTCPredatory tunicate Pink-headed duck Kākāpo Duprasi Tegu Death valley pupfish
Icky Batty
2024-10-08 19:14:47 +0000 UTCSun Fish!
Cara Meech
2024-10-08 19:14:42 +0000 UTCBearded vulture is a huge fav of mine 🫶🫶 But also!! The goblin shark, shoebill stork, and saiga antelope!! Tbh I have a whole note on my phone full of freak animals so this is My Time Babeyyyy
Nero
2024-10-08 19:14:41 +0000 UTCMud dauber wasp with its 🗣️ LONG 🗣️ ASS
Daddi Longlegs
2024-10-08 19:14:09 +0000 UTCabsolute FREAK of a bird
Ellis
2024-10-08 19:14:08 +0000 UTCTURKEY VULTURE
Ellis
2024-10-08 19:14:00 +0000 UTCWould be cool to see a shoebill in your style!
Richard Jensen
2024-10-08 19:13:47 +0000 UTCI’ve always been mesmerized by the Viscacha. So mysterious and wise.
Jeanette!
2024-10-08 19:13:15 +0000 UTC
