Frustration in Excelsis
A few additional thoughts:
I gather that a group of crabs is called a “cast”, although I’m not sure how much I like it. I think “a clatter of crabs” or “a scuttling of crabs” sounds much more appealing.
The sand cats would probably fit well in the Bone Dry Desert, now that I think of it.
I’m wondering if I should go ahead and add *sea cows. Perhaps a second aquatic people alongside seaponies?
Worldbuilding Addict
I’m going to copy-and-paste a post I made some time ago in the crazy headcanons thread, because now that this thread is up it seems to fit better here than there:
So, there’s this artist of Deviantart who does daily sketches of random things and includes a lot of pun-based critters among them. I was particularly taken by her take on crabapples:There’s something about these fellers that, if there was an episode where a swarm (or whatever you call a group of crabs) of them invaded Applejack’s orchard, it would fit right in with the show’s aesthetic, I thought.So in light of that, I decided to come up with some more pun-based animals to keep the timberwolves and fruit bats company:
Rock lobsters: Lobsters made from animated rock and stone. Not much else to say.
Spider monkeys: (The issue here is that regardless of how I imagine these guys, they always come up as a bit too… nightmarish for MLP.)
Diamondback rattlesnakes: Snakes made from clusters of gems and crystals. Perhaps Rarity and/or Maud could stumble across a nest of hibernating diamondbacks while going mining.
Catfish and dogfish: Like mermaids and seaponies, but with cat and dog instead of human or equine. Popular pets among certain groups of aquatic sapients. The catfish is not to be confused with its bigger and more ferocious cousin, the tiger shark.
*Sand cats Cats made of animated sand that inhabit deserts. They attack by turning themselves into living sandstorms, or by ambush while lurking inside dunes.
Fire ants: Think flash bees, but with fire instead of lighting and without flight. Prone to causing wildfires.
Jewel scarabs: They look like just flawless, if a bit oddly shaped, and very colorful gemstones… until you go to pick them up, at which point the head and legs pop out of hiding and the insect scurries away in terror.A couple of these I added some time ago to one of Tv Tropes’ wild mass guessing pages for MLP. Also another one I saw there was the idea of domesticated timberwolves called dogwoods.Very late addition based on something I found on Deviantart this week: *hydrangeas.Very popular among certain gardening enthusiasts, although they’re not recommended for people with pets or small foals.Not to be confused with the closely related snapdragons.
A few additional thoughts:
I gather that a group of crabs is called a “cast”, although I’m not sure how much I like it. I think “a clatter of crabs” or “a scuttling of crabs” sounds much more appealing.
The sand cats would probably fit well in the Bone Dry Desert, now that I think of it.
I’m wondering if I should go ahead and add *sea cows. Perhaps a second aquatic people alongside seaponies?