#any water creatures out there:

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this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[autumn-b0nes]

Ok so I’ve been researching and analyzing myself, I still don’t know if it’s a specific kind of water (rain, lake, ocean) but I think it might be a hearttype.

I have one other hearttype, a mourning dove, and this feels similar to that.

Back into the research pile I go 👋💧

Looking into elementkin stuff bc as i learn more about it im questioning waterkin 🥲

[theshadowrealmitself]

On the other side of Humans sharing haunting sea facts with Vulcans, a majority of Humans know not to talk about space horror stories with Vulcans around because they will either let them know of a species that resembles the one in the horror story or let them know logically what kind of planets they can find such species on and how likely it is that they actually do exist and none of the Humans are able to sleep afterwards

[fisheito]

Imagine you have to set up yakumo's enclosure for the next couple months. How do you set it up and what do you put in there?

oh NO.! THE PROPPHECY HAS BEenm FUFILLED

i am standing in my room, leggies rooted to the floor. i am in shock .frozen and i have no idea how to proceed. there is a perpetual pathetically sobbing serpent under my blankie.

[sunlitmiracle]

smashes my current interest together with my old interest (aka yet another "what Dungeon Meshi but Gamers?" AU)

Once when I was a child I had a complete crying meltdown over Creatures, because the manual insisted that the complicated AI of the Norns made them truly alive and 10-year-old me was freaked out at the idea of being solely responsible for making sure these real animals wouldn't die. The funny part was that this was the Playstation version of Creatures, which has no biochemistry and very basic AI compared to the PC/Mac games where players actually were debating whether or not it was true artificial life. A PSX manual gave me existential dread and it wasn't even telling the truth.

Anyway, kid!Marcille would also have a meltdown over the Creatures series, especially if she had the computer games and got to see how vastly different some breeds' lifespans are. Like in C2 where you have Norns that live for around 5 hours and Norns that live for 10, both of which are vastly more than Ettins who don't even live for 1.5 hours (and usually less due to radiation or starvation).

Lucky for her, having the computer version means she could download modified genomes made by other players that make creatures live longer or even outright remove certain death triggers. However I think she'd have more fun learning to read and edit the genomes herself, to get a better understanding of how the game works and how to change it to suit her own tastes. And because she could pretend she's one of the mysterious ancient Shee who created the Norns, Grendels, and Ettins and then vanished, leaving behind relics of their old society.

(Speaking of Grendels, she would unfortunately dislike them because they're the Designated Evil Species and she'd hate how they harass and attack her Norns. I think she'd also pity them though, because they get sick a lot and have short lifespans. Likely she'd just end up downloading/creating a genome without the aggression towards Norns. Ettins she'd like except for in C3 when they dismantle her meticulously-placed gadget setups, so she might mod out their hoarding compulsions too. Both of them would of course also live for however long her Norns would live.)

Also. While standard creatures' lifespans are counted in hours, if you modify the half-lives in the genome editor you can increase it to centuries. Or even just over a millennium if you set the half-lives to their max length (assuming you also leave the old age death trigger at its vanilla value).

and I like to think that elven Creatures players would pass around copies of what they consider a template genome that's appropriate to their own lifespans. Something that would make their creatures live for weeks or months of continuous play. I also like to think the Creatures DS Warp is still active in this AU because of the hilarious frustration when these long-lived Norns travel to worlds run by short-lived players whose Norns have vanilla lifespans, and vice versa.

(Most of the time in Creatures, offspring of parents with different lifespans will just have one or the other, but there's a chance the genes cross over right in the middle of the various age triggers and cause unstable aging rates. Like a Norn that goes through the childhood stages in hours but then has a very extended adulthood. Or a days-long childhood followed by suddenly dropping dead of old age once the vanilla adulthood genes kick in. Or, if the child has one parent's half-life decay rate and the other parent's age triggers, all sorts of odd things could happen. I once had hybrid Norns who lived for 20 hours and would die of organ failure before reaching the old age threshold!)

(Now that I think of it, Marcille would absolutely hate fast-agers. The first time she watches a creature hatch, turn old, and die in just one brief minute of life, she would be sobbing for days. One of the first things she'd learn to mod out would be mutations that cause the Ageing/Life chemical to decrease unusually fast.)

On a lighter note, while I don't know what her favorite designs would be I think she'd love choosing cute breeds to use in her world. Once she figured out how to give her creatures the comfortable life she wants them to have I can see her redirecting all her gene-editing efforts into changing color expressions. She might even learn to sprite or model her own custom designs.

[barefootbaltimore]

I've had issues with these goldfish that I've never had with a tank before. I can't seem to keep the water clear, and there's brown build up in the filter every time I look at that bitch.

My water parameters aren't *great*, which is also new for me it usually doesn't take me long to get a nice ecosystem going. I'm still dosing bacteria starter at water changes and I have a couple of plants in there, plus a pothos growing out of it.

The fish seem fucking fine. I have never seen two fish care less about living in what is essentially a motel 6 level of comfort. They've both grown and are active and beg for food so I'm not super worried about them but my damn tank is cloudy and nasty and I hate it.

[floralstorms]

tehe I have. An au. For The Characters

[orcelito]

Starting the birth control thing today and it may or may not change my entire demeanor (on account of balancing out my shit hormones bc I apparently have PCOS lol) so if I am a different person after this now you know why 👍

[ssaalexblake]

my carrots actually grew Carrots and this is a big thing bc i am shit at growing root vegetables!!! success!!!! okay they're only small but normally i get jack all so i'm getting better at it. For value of getting better i mean i planted the seeds and have ignored them totally for the past couple of months, but still. Right direction.

[collgeruledzebra]

the going postal movie was... not very good tbh but im kind of awestruck by the fact that they actually gave the banshee a somewhat decent plagiopatagium?? who was in charge of that costume design i need to fall on my knees and cry in front of them

[nexus-nebulae]

i dont know What phobia i have but for some reason its triggered by seeing eels in toxic shock like the writhing they do just sets my brain off but also every time i touch a Bad Texture i do the exact same thing with my arms so

[world-of-elissa-nax]

Magic is an influence in this world, though magic does not make one omnipotent. Magic is a type of dynamic energy. The exact origin and nature of this energy is hotly debated. There are those who believe magic is made up of the same spectral entities that sometimes visit this world, but ones that are so ancient that they have lost any sense of self. After eons of existence they coalesce into an atmosphere of sentient but will-less energy that can be coaxed to perform tasks with the right triggers. 

Another school of thought exists that acknowledges the similarity in magical energy to spectral beings, but holds that the two energies are still separate. They feel that the stable and pervasive nature of magical energy would not be possible if it were made up of previously separate beings, especially ones who seem to be so rare. Magical energy can also manipulate matter in ways that spectral beings cannot, which is the largest piece of evidence in favor of this theory.

[cetoddle-archive]

i am soso so scared of water and the ocean and many of the things that live down there except for jellyfish i feel such an inexplicable spiritual connection with jellyfish

[goddess-of-graphite]

The Great Notes App Exodus: Gothic Dragons

Gotham has always been protected by a Dragon, even before it was ever Gotham.

There was a way about the land Gotham stood upon, that was all twisted magics and darkness and feral energy that never quite fit in man’s modern world. America had but one Guardian Dragon - except for Gotham, which was near a law and country unto itself.

Gotham was a sanctuary for the supernatural, but it was not kind. Those non-humans who risked its dark streets were the brave, or the foolish, or the terribly desperate. Gotham was a dark city, and it’s people adapted or were driven out.

(But should a threat ever come for her, all of Gotham would rise up in response.)

So Gotham had its own Guardian, but the Dragon guarded the world outside from Gotham’s brutality just as much as it shielded Gotham from those that would rend her apart.

But, of course, Dragons were only so many, and new blood must be brought in - human blood, as it often was, and so the trend of Dragon blood “skipping” a generation emerged.

And the bloodline of the Guardian Dragons of Gotham withered, bit by bit, because it is far easier to kill a human of dragon blood than it is to kill a Dragon of human descent.

(And Bruce Wayne has never hated this truth of the world more - because his parents had been Skipped, human, and if they had been dragons, they’d still be there with him.

But they weren’t.

It was just Bruce, a fledgling Dragon, and the butler left to care for him.)

-

Although Gotham had only ever had one Guardian Dragon, it had at one time had a whole lineage of Dragons capable of taking up the mantle. As the Dragons intermarried, however, more and more lines broke off with human kin, occasionally producing dragons.

But the Guardian Line had been reduced to one untrained hatchling. And that hatchling didn’t much care if it was a Dragon or a dragon that was Guardian of the city, just that there was someone to Guard it.

The problem is, of course, that the hatchling needs training - but he cannot get that in Gotham.

So he leaves.

He comes back ready to pull his city back from the brink, by force if (when) necessary.

Here’s the thing - Bruce is no Dragon, because for all that he is the last of the Guardian line he doesn’t adhere to the rules of that duty.

A Guardian’s duty is to the supernatural beings they protect.

Bruce has already decided that that is not enough. Human or Magical Being, if no one else will step in, then he will.

Bruce might have been the Gotham Dragon, but that didn’t mean he was the only dragon in the city.

The thing about dragon blood is that it tended to turn up dragons unexpectedly in families that had been mostly human. A dragon ancestor could have human children, and their children have human children, and then a dragon. It was a recessive trait when introduced into human bloodlines, and especially if it was paired with yet more human lines, but it also was tellingly stubborn - a human may only have a single draconian ancestor hundreds of years back, but they could still unexpectedly turn up a dragon hatchling.

It was just sheer dumb luck that a bunch of said unexpected hatchlings turned up within the span of the same generation.

[aromanticmara]

hello happy water wednesday from your favorite future marine biologist :)

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[a-simple-spiders-oc-dump]

love procrastinating going to bed and then suddenly thinking about how I need to give at least one of my characters VERY strong opinions on different animal species RIGHT FUCKING NOW