whalefall / life seeks to perpetuate 2

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whalefall / life seeks to perpetuate 2

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The next dragon “mutation” is Whale Fall! This might be my favorite suggestion yet, such a cool idea. More to come!

The next dragon “mutation” is Whale Fall! This might be my favorite suggestion yet, such a cool idea. More to come!

Nichetember? -tober?

So lately I've been working on a little speculative ecosystem project, picking back up the work I did about four years ago. A lot of those creatures were designed for prompts for an art challenge that I just happened decided to use in that way, but I was thinking how much I'd like to have an actual list of prompts geared towards the goal I set for myself. Which lead me to making up this, a little list of prompts based on very broad ecological concepts so as to be as applicable as possible to the widest possible range of different projects.

1. Producer - give me an autotroph ie. an animal that feeds directly on an energy source, like light, radiation, or chemicals
2. Primary Consumer - predator of the autotroph you just made (cows are predators of grass!)
3. Secondary Consumer - now what’s something that eats that animal.
4. Tertiary Consumer - or an “Apex predator”, an organism with no natural predators of its own
5. Decomposer - something that consumes the remains of any of the previous organisms.
6. Parasite of any of the above organisms
7. Hyperparasite ie. something that parasitizes that parasite
8. Coprophage - something that eats dung
9. Ecosystem engineer - an organism that creates habitats for other organisms
10. An organism with a hard shell, carapace, etc.
11. Durophagic predator of previous organism
12. An organism which occupies different trophic levels in its adult and immature forms
13. A sessile organism
14. An organism that with a symbiotic relationship with any of the previous organisms
15. An autotroph small enough to fit on your fingertip
16. An autotroph small enough to fit in your hand
17. An autotroph taller than a house.
18. Autotroph with specialized defenses
19. Autotroph that depends on a symbiotic relationship
20. The organism the previous organism depends on
21. A fossorial organism
22. An aquatic organism
23. A cursorial predator
24. An ambush predator
25. An organism that utilizes mimicry
26. An organism not visible to the naked eye
27. An R selected species - an organism which has many offspring, each with a low chance of survival
28. A K selected species - an organism which has few offspring, each with a high chance of survival
29. A keystone species - an organism who’s presence defines the ecosystem it is a part of, without it this ecosystem would not exist in the same state
30. An extremely specialized organism
31. An adaptable generalist

This is formatted as a month-long challenge, but I don't think anyone needs to approach it that way if they want to do it.

Part of the goal of this is to not just design organisms, but to think about how each thing you design interacts with the other creatures, and how they form an ecosystem together!

Nichetember? -tober?

So lately I've been working on a little speculative ecosystem project, picking back up the work I did about four years ago. A lot of those creatures were designed for prompts for an art challenge that I just happened decided to use in that way, but I was thinking how much I'd like to have an actual list of prompts geared towards the goal I set for myself. Which lead me to making up this, a little list of prompts based on very broad ecological concepts so as to be as applicable as possible to the widest possible range of different projects.

1. Producer - give me an autotroph ie. an animal that feeds directly on an energy source, like light, radiation, or chemicals
2. Primary Consumer - predator of the autotroph you just made (cows are predators of grass!)
3. Secondary Consumer - now what’s something that eats that animal.
4. Tertiary Consumer - or an “Apex predator”, an organism with no natural predators of its own
5. Decomposer - something that consumes the remains of any of the previous organisms.
6. Parasite of any of the above organisms
7. Hyperparasite ie. something that parasitizes that parasite
8. Coprophage - something that eats dung
9. Ecosystem engineer - an organism that creates habitats for other organisms
10. An organism with a hard shell, carapace, etc.
11. Durophagic predator of previous organism
12. An organism which occupies different trophic levels in its adult and immature forms
13. A sessile organism
14. An organism that with a symbiotic relationship with any of the previous organisms
15. An autotroph small enough to fit on your fingertip
16. An autotroph small enough to fit in your hand
17. An autotroph taller than a house.
18. Autotroph with specialized defenses
19. Autotroph that depends on a symbiotic relationship
20. The organism the previous organism depends on
21. A fossorial organism
22. An aquatic organism
23. A cursorial predator
24. An ambush predator
25. An organism that utilizes mimicry
26. An organism not visible to the naked eye
27. An R selected species - an organism which has many offspring, each with a low chance of survival
28. A K selected species - an organism which has few offspring, each with a high chance of survival
29. A keystone species - an organism who’s presence defines the ecosystem it is a part of, without it this ecosystem would not exist in the same state
30. An extremely specialized organism
31. An adaptable generalist

This is formatted as a month-long challenge, but I don't think anyone needs to approach it that way if they want to do it.

Part of the goal of this is to not just design organisms, but to think about how each thing you design interacts with the other creatures, and how they form an ecosystem together!

Stop giving fathers redemption arcs. That old man sucks and you know it

Stop giving fathers redemption arcs. That old man sucks and you know it

too many stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for pretending to be something you aren't and losing yourself in the process. not enough stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for choosing to openly embrace yourself even if it's strange to other people

too many stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for pretending to be something you aren't and losing yourself in the process. not enough stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for choosing to openly embrace yourself even if it's strange to other people

any time the conclusion of the story is "and then he turned back to normal because what really matters is being true to yourself and being loved for being who you really are: a boring human" i hear a spongebob boo-womp in my head. can you tell i'm autistic by the way

protoframe-ing my ocs because i just remembered i can do whatever i want :D picking them up by the scruff like cats and chucking them into 1999

started thinking about ‘omg what if i reached the point where i can do makeship campaigns or w/e for plushies of my ocs’ and then realized that i’d have to find ways to cutesy-ify shit like kelpie and the vesbeast and now i’m trying to draw that and giggling

started thinking about ‘omg what if i reached the point where i can do makeship campaigns or w/e for plushies of my ocs’ and then realized that i’d have to find ways to cutesy-ify shit like kelpie and the vesbeast and now i’m trying to draw that and giggling

okay so far so good, everyone is looking cute and marketable!! and then you get to these two

will you guys be mad at me if i admit that im vaguely emulating the loid/albrecht dynamic with jonah and vlad. like its not 1:1 theyre their own characters but they are intended to be like. the same genre of fucked up codependent weird science gays. double date from hell

will you guys be mad at me if i admit that im vaguely emulating the loid/albrecht dynamic with jonah and vlad. like its not 1:1 theyre their own characters but they are intended to be like. the same genre of fucked up codependent weird science gays. double date from hell

when worlds collide......

actually i do want these tags permanently embedded in the post . vast oversimplifications of every character involved but its for the funny so whatever

small simple cute lil jonah doodle to get the hang of his colors !! he is so damn beautiful

jonah my friend jonah…!! now that i’ve started drawing him i cannot stop . he’s too fun

some first pass doodles while i slowly solidify his design in my brain..

dr. jonah intehb, rex’s father! he’s the head of xenobiology at auron and specializes in studying the physiology and life cycle of the interstellar whales :) the horrors persist but so does he

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