#Original Species

[milkcioccolato]

Another twitter redraw memeeeeee I am obsessed with them!

Nimeh and Vaal💖

Based on this!

[saffitaffi]

It is trying to kill you

@ultralaser

[doopadoos]

Beta's Arcade Blaster, one of the mini games* on the site for the Doopadoo species! Help Beta blast bubbles with the highest scores while avoiding toxic bubbles in this quick, arcade-styled shoot-em-up! 👾��

*It's only the title screen loop, it's not a real mini game! Maybe in the future it'll be one?

[t00thpasteface]

here's something stupid: the catcatfish

some quick facts:

they're nocturnal and tend to roam around while awake.

they have keen senses of smell and hearing, but terrible eyesight. despite this, they also have a tapetum lucidum, making their pupils "glow" in the dark.

their fur is short, dense, and oily to waterproof them.

they prefer a diet of mostly meat and are attracted to strong-smelling food like fish, cheese, and anything fermented.

the elongated dewclaw on each front paw is sharp, flexible, and nonretractable. it injects a venom that causes respiratory failure and cardiac arrest in prey and, in extreme doses, humans. veterenarians typically remove the dewclaw venom glands during the neuter/spay procedure.

they grow to an average of 1m and 23kg (3ft and 50lb) but can reach up to double that length and triple the weight!

[cireks]

You squint your eyes in the direction of the forest edge, between the shadows and the mist you see pale, humanoid shapes. It's not ghosts, not this time, but a herd of brynaglo. This nocturnal herbivore has an inquisitive but careful nature, listening with its large ears to anything that catches its interest before slowly and quietly approaching. It's not unusual for brynaglo to approach campsites in or close to the forest, often with terrifying effect on non locals.

[yellydany]

SWAN 🦢 ✈️  (Strategic Wyvern Aerial Navigator)

"The “SWANS” are biomechanical lifeforms that after years of mimicry adapted to resemble combat jets. Their wolfram-like skin not only is resistant to the toxic and parasitic dangers of the ‘false ocean’ but is nigh impossible to penetrate. While not a real bird they present many similar features and behavior. It's not all too rare to spot them flying in flocks and engaging in courtship

Swans are known to jam signals and strike airborne carriers since they’re an extremely territorial and violent species. First it will race against the enemy (it should be noted their structure allows them to reach enough speed to break the sound barrier) as a sign that they dominate the air space before they plunge the foe into the ground. Competitiveness amongst the species in a similar fashion has been observed to uncertain ends. In spite of all the gathered studies their intelligence and physical feats are still under research but paired with their enormous size and aggressivity is more than a difficult task. 

They are rapacious hunters from the skies and encounters are advised against. There’s no current methods to defend against the Swans and in consequence it has obstructed facilities, aviation and transportation."

[teaboot]

*deposits a creature into your hands*

What does it look like? What will you all do together?

OH IM SO GLAD U ASKED

I have this lil baby in the barrel just in case God wants to give me a freebie

It’s called a Plom and you can pet it in any direction

[villiedoom]

Some test renders of the northern Kotie 3D model (previous post of all the detailed anatomy I made for this model)

He got some thick fur and so he won't freeze in winter ~

I tried to make the fur on his face as detailed as possible so that the close-up renders would look good, and so I enjoy the result! I work with particle system (post about how I make fur), so this required some more detailed customization. I also used UDIM UV-map for the first time, which allowed me to give more resolution to facial details, as the face now uses its own textures.

The character is random, I just wanted to make the one without complex features and hairstyle, but the whole northern shape and body type was based on my character Vewis c:

~ Made in Blender.

*Koties are my characters, fantasy felines from my personal lore/story.

[inutiliacapra]

do you dare ask him out... and risk him eating your heart 🫣

[bengaly]

Meao-ixuí teeth concepts

[yzegem]

Sirens of Encounters in the Frontier.

In my setting, sirens are a kind of shark, descendants of a creature most similar to an epaulette shark, wich adapted to hunt fish and mollusks trapped during the low tide and eventually evolved to be fully lunged and mostly amphibian.

There are 3 species of sirens, all 6 limbed.

-The continental mernewt is native to the vast beaches and coral reefs of the southeastern coast of the continent. It's similar in bodyplan to a mudskipper and just as agile. They have jaws strong enough to open shellfish and don a venomous spur next to their tail fin, wich can kill small animals and cause pain, swelling and even necrosis of the limbs in larger animals like humans.

Male mernewts are known to "fence" each other as they are very territorial during mating season. This fights envolve leaps into the air, stabbing with their spurs, biting and their characteristic shriek.

These animals are very important in the culture of the warrior caste in the Sun Empire and represent masculine violence and war, sometimes positively (they are kept in artificial ponds ocasionally) or as a critique in poetry of the futility of war, since the mernewts are vulnerable to birds of prey or other predators while exhausted after a fight.

-The lesser siren is the most terrestrial of all sirens. Its native to the eastern and southern coast of the continent, the north of alwaysummer and the Twisted Islands.

These creatures feed mostly on fish stranded during low tides but many hunt seabirds by staying still between rocks in the shore until the perfect ocasion to leap and catch its prey with their clawed pectoral fins. They usually drag their prey to the water and drown it there. They are very capable of climbing rocks and can be quite fast in short bursts of speed.

They can get quite large and pose a significant danger to some cattle and humans.

-Sirens are native to the Twisted Islands and are the most aquatic of the three, even though they can still return to the sea if they get stranded.

They spend most of the day in underwater caves and are actually quite good at hunting in the sea floor, as they use their long arm like pectoral fins to move rocks and expose mollusks and other small prey. Still, their prey of choice are terrestrial animals. Sirens are indeed quite intelligent animals, though far from sapient, as they resemble the intelect of a marine crocodile, wich manifests in very specialiced hunting tactics.

They have learned to attract land animals close enough to the water by leaving small pieces of fish in the shore as bait for seabirds or imitating animal cries for help to attract unsuspecting predators or worried members of the imitated species. When they get the chance, they rapidly extend their arm-like fins and drag the animal to the sea.

Some sirens have specialiced in hunting humans, specially those on boats, wich is a big problem given how common reed boats and low canoes are for transport in the twisted islands, often used to also transport cattle.

Sirens can easily climb on top of these boats or colaborate between many to topple a ship.

They don't hunt in organized groups, rather they all hunt individually but at the same time, if that makes sense, and later fight for the prey.

These human eating sirens have learn to stand on small islands or unlit shores ar night and waive their arm-like fins while screaming (they can imitate a great variety of sounds) to lure humans closer to them.

The Iliryi people (those native of the twisted islands) have developed many methods to sail safely, such as covering their boats with down facing spikes, tying themselves to the boat or just carrying harpoons and being ready for action. Still, these tactics are not very efective when overwhelmed by a large group of sirens.

The government of the twisted islands hires whalers and fishermen from all across the eastern sea during their low season to work as sirens hunters, wich escort other ships and keep the siren population at bay. This is a high risk high reward job for these fishermen.

[b1asho]

Women!!!

(Or I guess I should say, hokar!!!!! 'Kar’ is the most accepted equivalent of ‘man’, ‘hokar’ for women. It's not exactly what they call themselves and just came from one tribe's convention, but it's just kind of what happened in the language blender)

During their mating season in the winter, female Prectikar grow longer feathers on their back and arms fir both display and for the babies to hold on to. In many cultures, this is also the time for some displays of their strength and endurance, aka wrestling. The point is to show their ability to either quickly overwhelm their opponent with their strength or have the stamina to bring them down in the long run, something that symbolizes their fitness for carrying and protecting pups. This activity can also be to help relieve tension and grudges between different tribes. Usually, matches are between bachelorettes who are looking for a partner, as seen here, unless it’s for one of those “political” ones between more important people where the opponents are normally taken.

Clothing covering standards slip for this time of year to better show off their sexy dimorphic features. Tusks are covered to prevent fatal goring, and mitts on their lower arms are also usually worn to prevent excess claw poking.

Kar don’t wrestle with each other and wrestling with a female would be seen as out of line because it messes with their established power dynamic, where the kar should never disrespect/overpower/not support the hokar. instead, they run in races (sprints, usually) or play other strategy sports to show their speed and problem solving skills, which they see as useful in the masculine hunter/support role. these kind of races are only really for bachelors, the only time any taken kar will participate is to show off against the youngsters.

Unlike with Cerest, this kind of fighting is supposed to be more of a yearly sport, and is not a part of how they normally operate when establishing social status. Actually hurting your opponent is seen as foul play. Tribes will have a whole separate set of rules/circumstances for actually-hurting each other duels/ritualistic combat, since the type of fighting done during the mating season is mainly for showing off rather than lasting consequences (other than bagging a partner, obviously)

For most, the more tribes that participate in these kind of events better, its not usually a privately held thing. with the introduction of modern video broadcast technology and an audience of xenos who'd be interested to see aliens fighting, I think that a Bachelorette but with body-slamming is not impossible to exist in canon (but it'd be a very short run time of a few months in winter XD )

[tickfleato]

i made her smooth

[t00thpasteface]

BOOP!! (punctures your skin with a venomous spine)

[cireks]

As if "swallowed by the earth" is a way to describe someone who's gone missing without a trace, particularly in the woods, but in Ditovo it may be more than just a saying. At least if you believe the many legends and folktales about giant plumsaina, or as they're more commonly known "earth belly". The plant does exist but usually it is only big enough to catch small vertebrates, which it does when prey step onto its camouflaged trap door and fall into the pit of the plant filled with digestive liquid and downward pointing spikes preventing escape. The roots of the plant are for storing nutrients and other substances, as well as firmly anchoring the plant in the ground when prey is thrashing about inside it. In order to reproduce the earth belly sprouts a red flower above the surface, a red flag that may perhaps save the life of one who recognizes it.