#ambiguous species

[kingmystrieart]

I'm finally satisfied with her design...

(variations under cut)

[mymomichis-blog]

:33 >sprunkies the qu33r creatures ones

[bunglescraps]

Drew this one with my finger cus I think my pen is broken...

[egophiliac]

Since book 7 part 5 (the part where we meet Meleanor/Maleanor 👀) is coming to EN this month, i would love to see your take on lilia’s proposal to meleanor! i mean they were like little kids right? it couldn’t have been that serious…i think the only reason she even brought it up again is because she could tell lilia still genuinely loved her…(even if he didn’t realize it himself?) but, oh well! Let’s think about silly childhood shenanigans to numb the pain! ^_^ (orz)

oh shit?! get ready for a doozy guys, it's comiiiiiing ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

I chickened out of posting the whole thing (look, I get VERY carried away when it comes to these wacky kids and their Tragedy), but I do believe that it probably ended with Lilia getting embarrassed and just shoving the first thing he sees into his mouth to try and cover for it.

(we're just lucky it wasn't a frog this time)

[harveybwabbit92]

[R/n is watching her relatives baby, Man is sitting down playing with the tot.]

Jack, coming back from a mission: Hey, guys I’m back and...There’s a random baby here, hello!

[the baby looks up at Jack startled as their brows scrunch in confusion, they look at Man than back at Jack. They do this this few more times before falling down on their bum and staring at their feet in a trance.]

R/n: [Baby’s name]??....

[the baby doesn’t respond just keeps staring at their feet.]

Man, concerned: Are you alright there little one?

Jack, waves a rattle in front of them: Hello?

[then Zoffy walked in looking for Jack, cue the baby looking up and their eyes going wide.]

Bb/n:.......*bursts out crying*

{The three ultras are panicking as R/n picks the baby up trying to calm them down.)

R/n, snickering: Oh boy, I think you three broke their brain.

{Later R/n’s relative came to get their baby and laughs when they hear about what happened, apparently it was the first time Bb/n had ever met triplets, until Zoffy corrected the relative stating they weren't triplets, Needless to say. The relative quickly got out of there.]

[dunaldoodles]

What bug do you personally hc tiso as?

Honestly? He's just kinda Tiso. Tiso species. I've drawn him as both an ant, and a beetle, and there's validity to both interpretations. My partner has an ant Tiso, n a good friend of mine has a beetle Tiso. He's both to me, and both were really fun to roleplay with! He's a Bant, if you will. An Antle.

[rookflower]

the cars in the new warrior cats graphic novels drive on the left hand side of the road btw. another win (loss?) for UK warrior cats

[x-naut-fortress]

ishnail redesign

[devilcatdarling]

Please consider

Vessels having a huddling instinct the way that some other insect species do

They don't put off body heat the way other living things do because they are void, but huddling acts as sort of a safety in numbers/comfort/social bonding mechanism. Stressed/injured vessels will huddle together or seek out a huddle with other bugs they are familiar with for safety and comfort. Very relaxed vessels will also seek out a huddle for social bonding and physical contact. They might fall asleep huddled where they feel safest

I headcanon they're actually a very social species (completely opposite of what the Pale King intended because lol irony) primarily due to the void being an interconnected unified web of mingling consciousnesses from which all vessels come from. (Think drops of water breaking away from a large body of water)

This makes vessels with trust issues and traumatic touch-aversion especially tragic since they are hardwired for social intimacy and connection. Not to say they can't be introverted or less inclined for heavy social participation willingly as individuals ofc, but to have no choice in the matter or to be fearful and mistrusting due to trauma and painful experiences is a definite huge ouch

Hollow growing up in the palace being treated like an inanimate object and deprived of any and all ability for self expression and starved of social connection would mess them up even more if vessels as a species thrive on being socially connected with other bugs and Hollow is touch starved but too conditioned/hurt to seek out what they desperately want but are afraid to ask for T_T

[coachbeards]

I don't see a difference and I need to know whether or not you've seen the movie Muppets from space because that makes the comparison even sadder.

I have not!!! In fact (and I am so sorry to Brett Goldstein) I have not seen a single muppets movie I’m like 99% sure

[un-pearable]

species don’t exist — i mean, obviously, they do. but they aren’t objective. species are (as most things are) a cultural construction, a coalition of humans deciding where and when to draw what lines. constantly in debate: did you know paleoanthropologists are unintentionally incentivized to claim to have discovered entire new genera along the path of human evolution because they are more likely to generate media buzz and gain desperately needed funding. thousands of plants may be categorized together but a centimeter’s difference in skull thickness warrants an entire new genus name. we are more genetically similar to chimpanzees than they are to their fellow non-human primates, but due to the rules of Linnaean taxonomy humanity will never be collapsed into the same genus as them because the rules dictate that the older genus name prevails: humanity would never accept becoming Pan sapiens, especially not after it took decades for it even to be accepted that humans were a part of the taxonomy in the first place. even the most basic of criteria we’ve used in the past to decide where a species stops and starts continues to be debunked - fish from entire opposites of the world can produce fertile offspring. analogous evolution can find lines that split millions of years back creating critters that would be side by side in a disney cartoon. categorization is a eternal battleground of western scientific standards requiring universalized objective qualifiers vs. the futile efforts to recognize the unmeasurable amounts of nuance held in traditional ecological knowledge — versus the fact that, inevitably, it all boils down to a vast continuum contained within only a few percentage points of variation in the squiggly lines that tell the cells of everything on the entire globe how to eat

[kingmystrieart]

i didnt really want to post this but i have to maintain my social media presence so i can afford food

[venterry]

"beautiful and wise warrior princess" but its a 7ft beast woman in her 50s who loves to fish

[marshmellowtea]

"humans would be so inherently kind and loving toward each other if it weren't for [system put in place by humans specifically to take advantage of and oppress other humans]" - what some of you sound like on this website

[wyvern-tales]

La Mimi, El Vivi, El Woowoo, and La Mirmir

[harveybwabbit92]

Villain! R/n, flustered: Stop making me like you!

Mebius: I'm sorry, I can't help it.