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Notes:

• For poppyhills.
• Inspired by Crash Into Me by poppyhills

This is fanart of a made-up species of sea angel called Clione antrumina, which roughly translates to "slug-like cave goddess", or even "slug-like cave sea goddess". It's from poppyhills' fic Crash Into Me and was based on the real sea angel, Clione limacina (translation: "slug-like sea goddess").

Medium: Graphite on paper (sketches), then transferred to YUPO Translucent acid free propylene with COPIC pens. The sheets of propylene were taped to a large piece of drawing paper in a way I'd think Harry might do it, with notes written in some of the margins.

I won't give any spoilers to poppy's incredible fic, but to explain, Harry is a magi-ecologist and these drawings are meant to be his scientific illustrations from the story, which is why they look the way they do. I studied what little of his handwriting there is in the books (Tom Riddle's diary) and changed mine accordingly. There are two sets of photos because I wanted to include the more sepia-toned photos that I shot first (before re-doing the photos) for more variety, and just in case Poppy likes them. Check out the sepia-toned images in Chapter 2!

Poppy, this was so much fun to do and I hope I didn't let on to the fact that you were my Secret Santa recipient when asking about the slug! 😂 I knew immediately that this was what I wanted to do, but that crackfic idea of ours was writing itself so I was originally going to gift that one to you. That's why I was a little secretive about it whenever it came up at first. When I told you I couldn't decide on whether to do a fic or a drawing, I was debating these two. 😂 One day, this started drawing itself and two days later, it was done! Thank goodness, because that crackfic is turning into crack-treated-seriously and is getting long. 🥰 💗

Thank you so much for creating this collection and posting for us, skotini!!! I appreciate you!!!

^^^ Go check out skotini's and poppy's fics! They're awesome and fluffy and hot and I can't say enough good things about them!