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In Super Earth's name, I cast you down to hell

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BOOM huge introduction to all the other planets with life in my world building project the Neo-Anthropocene. You'll all hopefully all come to know these worlds in the near future as i have several posts in the backlog going into more detail about them!

+ closeups on all the planets if tumblr crunches the fuck outta the post itself and a funny error on earth's description bc only now did i see that lmao

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"Human"

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The reason I dont post as often here compared to twitter is cuz I kinda feel obligated to post full pieces here instead of sketches lol

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Mechanized Infantry

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I made a video talking about the design evolution of one of my aliens!

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Portrait

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Portrait

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Merfolk in the Trail of Cryptids (for @jennywolfgal)

woah hey i wasnt expecting to have participated in mermay bet here i am now. This is for @jennywolfgal and her project the Trail of Cryptids which i talked about awhile ago with her dragons. enjoy!

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Another group of species endemic to this alternate earth are the legendary Merfolk. Trident wielding Half-man half-fish people of the sea of the myths in our world. The merfolk here aren’t humans or hominids, nor are they even great apes. But instead they are a sister-clade of the family Cebidae. They are related to the Capuchin monkeys of central and south America.

They split off 10 million years ago with a similar evolutionary history to the cetaceans. Allowing an evolution of similar extremeness akin to the time between Pakicetus and Dorudon.

Icthypithicids contain a variety of aquatic monkey species. True merfolk belong in the genus Meralosapiens. With some species inhabiting the mediteranean, coast of east europe, and their ancestral ground the Caribbean with a leaner build adorned in less fat.

To start off physically, They are like Cetaceans, kind of. their tail extended to an extreme degree to swim. Unlike cetaceans and alike ancient artwork of mermaids of our earth. Their legs still remain useful to swim and hold onto partners. Their arms freed up, remain as manipulators. They remain folded to reduce drag. . Their arms remain folded to reduce drag and hold onto large objects and young merfolk when breastfeeding.

Uniquely they have a full head of hair like humans in spite of the drag created. This hair is maintained and kept healthy through grooming with the aid of two serrated claws on the lower half of their hand. Their teeth are tipped with canines and slowly become more trident shaped further back. Which they use to flush water out of their mouth. And Lastly their nostrils can completely close like a seal, and are at the very front of the face to ensure they breach the water first.

Ecologically, they are mostly carnivorous. They eat a wide array of fish, squid, and other small marine life. They take a particular liking to seaweeds and copepods, which they use their trident teeth to filter them out of the water. They take so much of a liking to copepods they will even follow their vertical migration.

They are quite social and live in family pods. Like mentioned earlier they will groom each other to strengthen social bonds. While most Icthypithicids are comparable in intelligence to their capuchin cousins. Meralaosapiens are fully sophont organisms that have the capacity for understanding and creating art and complex language. Technologically they are comparable to neolithic humans. Most populations use stone tools or other organisms slightly bred for more cooperation, living tools if you will. While other populations scavenge for more advanced tools left behind by humans.

Overall they are neutral to humans. Often keeping their distance or outright hiding from humans. Some more aggressive merfolk will attack or even hunt humans as a source of preyluring them in with their locks of hair. Which is believed to have arisen from a few merfolk cultures going through famine and growing desperate for food, eventually looking to their cousins beyond the water.

And of course there are others naturally curious of their terrestrial relatives and will frequently come up to human divers, even attempting to communicate with them. The future is uncertain, but hopefully the humanity of this earth will treat these people with respect and maybe even lend them a hand.

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Im sorry but why did my drawing suddenly pop the fuck off like a week later lmao

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Your last post is fascinating!

How do "base" Ahnawi feel about these frames? Is the transition permanent, or can an Ahnawi change frames over time? I'd love to know more!

Thank you! The Ahnawi don't really have a feeling towards frames, the same way we don't really feel anything towards power tools. They see swapping bodies the same way we see swapping the head of a power drill.

The transition isn't permanent, they can change back to their original bodies any time they like! (Though most of the time, their og body is destroyed and they clone a new one). So throughout their lifetime, they have have dozens of different bodies, either temporarily for work or permanently. This also means that the only real limiting factor on their lifespan is their brains.

Now this doesn't mean that they ALWAYS swap frames to do work. They only do that if they're going to be doing something for a long time. For short tasks there are still vehicles that they use, though they still interface with it, becoming one with the machine.

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not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

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There is flesh in these machines

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Sky Piercer by Ben J

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Na'vi if they were epic

Na’vi

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Blood Stains the Atomic Visage

A Neotecton battle drags on. The grass drowns in blood and smothered in the bodies of fallen brethren. The air shrivels under calls for war and cleansing. It's participants are stripped of their humanity and their families stripped of their loved ones.

The battle stretches on for so long the sun itself begins to rise above the fields of blood and bodies. Blinding the nocturnal Neotectons and sending the war even further into a mindless, all-consuming chaos.

The sun itself, scarred from the horrors of it's own creation. Transforms into an omen of death. And a grim visage of their future if they continue down this path of superstition and blind fanaticism.

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The Third art piece i did for the Alien biospheres season finale. And a complete 180 from the more realistic style I did for the last two pieces. And I'm REALLY proud of this one

I really wanted to do something more abstract yet so visceral. All to highlight the tragedy and sheer violence the Neotectons were capable of.