naturetorn

[nibbelraz]

Do you think this awoken anything in Mobei-Jun

[ranticore]

I gave up on editing and did this instead check it out. I had a rough time with the zeta because they kept getting too anthro dog-ish and I wanted them to read as primates. The one pictured there is a crew member on a whaling vessel (chef and lookout).

Image description and transcript of text below the cut:

[Figure 1 description: Front and side views of a zeta's face with the skull and external anatomy overlaid and separate. The skull is similar to a baboon's with massive broad fangs and a huge saggital crest on top for muscle attachment. Figure 2 description: a bar of colours ranging from dark brown, to reddish, to pale cream, to violet, to blue, to dark blue. Beneath it are several blue markings resembling a stylised 'A' or an arrow. Figure 3 description: a pair of zeta standing together. They are blue, brown, and cream in colour and wearing fancy black collars with dark tassels, and knuckle-guards to protect their feet. They have stocky muscular bodies and ape-like heads. One is propped up on their elbows over the back of the other, looking in a different direction.]

Text reads:

Terrestrial Zeta of Siren: Overview

Zeta are large quadrupedal mammals primarily found in the Eastern continent, the only area of significant continuous land. They are specialists at hunting and killing the local wildlife, most of which have strong chitinous shells and can be thought of as similar to millipedes or isopods. Zeta maxillary canines (1c) are the largest on Siren, laterally flattened and lacking sharp points, instead used to crush and split open the shells of their main prey, and they have huge saggital crests to support their jaw muscles. Zeta were formerly aquatic and still retain tail flukes and dense bones from that evolutionary era (3). They have a plantigrade, knuckle-walking locomotion and lack tongues. Zeta are marsupial and unisex.

Fig. 2 shows the coat colour variation. It is divided into red phase and blue phase shades. While most individuals have both phases, some are solely red or solely blue. Zeta are the only people on Siren who have naturally occurring blue pigments in their skin and hair, and blue eyes. The settlers who genetically engineered zeta also programmed in the logo of their megacorporation, which was a stylised blue letter 'A', which would appear like a tattoo from birth on the skin of zeta, formed of their own pigments. Over subsequent milennia, the logo has become indistinct and abstract, and the blue pigment is no longer limited to this particular marking, but found all over.

Kattakati

During the development of zeta, the genetic engineers wanted to produce a creature which would never have solidarity with a member of its own kind. They tampered with the brains of their creations, thinking that they had produced a creature with no sense of community, empathy, solidarity, or sympathy. In the intervening years zeta have developed a novel way to regain those traits, for their own survival. Early aquatic and terrestrial zeta developed a form of eusociality, viewing members of their pack as themselves, as limbs of one being, and over time this developed into the Dry Bowl practice of Kattakati pairing. This consists of a pair of zeta who have entered a binding agreement to consider one another a single being (3). Legally, socially, and culturally, a kattakati is one person. It has a single name and will not allow others to distinguish between its component bodies in any meaningful way, as they are supposed to be taken as a complete whole, together. It is frowned upon to consider the pair anything other than one guy. The two halves of a kattakati do not necessarily agree on all things, but this is not a contradiction; a person often thinks contradicting thoughts, and feels contradicting things. The nature of the bond is not platonic, romantic, or sexual, and a kattakati might make friends and date other people (you can't date just one half - you need to date the whole guy).

[spacefunclubs]

For Good Omens S3 (IF it gets made), can we PLEASE have the type of marketing and interviews with David and Michael that we were robbed of last year for S2 bc of the strikes and let it have the same chaotic energy that Ryan and Hugh had for the Deadpool and Wolverine marketing?

I'm actually fucking DYING to see a lie detector test between David and Michael since the Taika and Rhys one or hell, even a Hot Ones or Chicken Shop Date interview PLEASE @ AMAZON HEAR ME OUT -

[opikiquu]

[lenaellsi]

baby pictures

[wildflowercryptid]

tossed these guys into a 1920s au just so i could draw them in neat clothes, they're my dress-up dolls now.

— as per usual, credit to @whisperingrockers for harrow's design. pls go check out her blog, her content is always killer!!

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

Can't go wrong with the classics, right? At least, that's what my uncles said.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I think it'd b nice for Junior to have a chance to have fun with the whole being an alien 2-3 times the size of his human peers, ya know? Just every once in a while!

Halloween is definitely one of those chances, seeing as how he has an excuse to show off that he can carry his friends on his shoulders without it being "weird"

Part 1 & 2 to this

[bleue-flora]

why do people think cdream was obsessed with ctommy like i read stellos analysis on it and its well written and nice but they fail to take into account that cdream has a persona and 90 percent of the time is not telling the truth

Ummm well many reasons actually. Ones I’ve talked about a bit before, but basically I think it actually comes down to Tommy himself for a few reasons.

a) Firstly, I think because Tommy believes it, it’s hard for us not to believe it. In other words, by watching his stream, being in his head, that perception is ingrained into the lore itself so we are more inclined to believe it, simply because the character we are watching through does. This is true not just for Tommy but other characters as well and it makes sense, we are seeing things for the first time through their eyes - how could it not taint our view? This is also not helped by the fact that Dream leans into Tommy’s expectations. In multiple scenes we see him bring to life Tommy’s world view, giving him and us more inclination to take it at face value. Like Dream becomes who Tommy thinks he is so it makes it really convincing from Tommy’s head to not believe it.

b) Secondly, in many ways Dream is obsessed with Tommy. Sure not in the way Tommy thinks - like him constantly trying to kill him and take his discs and yada yada… but he tears up Tommy’s whole yard for Tommy’s discs, he fights wars for the discs against Tommy, and in some ways that is Tommy obsessing over Dream forcing Dream to engage. The problem I think is not so much that Dream is really obsessed with Tommy but that he’s obsessed with keeping his “big happy family” and Tommy continues to threaten that and be the center of chaos and conflict, there by making him a priority for Dream. And it doesn’t help that Tommy is also the very center of Dream’s hurt, and beginning and end of his downfall.

c) Lastly, and I think probably most notably, I kinda touched upon this already, but because Tommy is obsessed with Dream, he forces Dream to constantly be involved with him, making it look like a focus/obsession/priority when Dream really may be just trying to defend himself, defend his friends, get back his stuff… etc. Dream can’t not be involved with Tommy because just like the finale Tommy inserts himself right at Dream’s throat again.

So is Dream obsessed with Tommy? Or is he obsessed with getting to live his life, something Tommy continues to make impossible?

And yea the fact alone that Spirit, Mars, and Bekerson existed before Tommy and that Dream built a prison but plans on putting Skeppy in a little cage, should be enough to highlight that Dream is talking nonsense in the disc confrontation about Tommy being the key and him needing Tommy alive and yada yada… like it should be enough to showcase that maybe he isn’t really obsessed with Tommy like he depicts. But perhaps it’s much easier to believe that narrative than the one that Dream is actually a relatively sane person who’s just lying (like he’s accused to be lol - “All you do is lie, Dream…”). It’s a less messy reality then the what ifs and considerations and dissecting needed to find the actual truth. And who doesn’t want to just do the things that are easier?…

[divinetheatre]

shipping is fun n everything, making up ur own little ideas and relationships and stuff, but hannibal and will really love each other like that, they really look at each other like that, nothing is fan service or performative queer rep or some lame attempt by the writers to make things deeper than they are. everything between them is so deeply profound and authentic and organic. their relationship is the point of the show, not a side effect, and there’s no believing otherwise whether people want to admit that it’s romantic or not (it is), and it is so rich. the subversive questions of human nature and love and morality and violence cut past the shallow content that gets pushed today out of some silly fear about irredeemable media, and sorry not sorry, but that is so much more gripping than some polished, sanitized relationship where two dudes can’t even kiss with tongue (but don’t worry it’s canon). all of that’s why there’s a hannibal fandom 7 years later and why people stay so long, and why there will probably still be a fandom in another ten years.

[ruskatuskapuskasapuska]

so I started reading madk....

[geronimomo-spd]

hello back to losing my mind at the actual show once again!!! actually, comedy tragedy makes me go insane at all times now because of the element of the puppeteering!!

it way stronger visually or at least more distinct in the 2009 version, i am just... obsessed with the acting choices here, the way he cannot control himself and they control all of his movments?? its soo nerativly fasinating!!

he is like, running around, being told what to do, which is an extenion of this stage in his life he was littiraly forced into. as a servent, he must do what his sultan asks, he must only do what others tell him

he must only move at other's call, and here its represented by the clowns he sees them as, as well as the clown he made himself into by going so low, littiraly being flung to the floor by the crushing rule of the "better then him", and the crushing realization that that is where he feels like he should be (onew of many examples)

anyway i just think its neat

bonus:

(fellas have you ever been kissed by the personifacation of evil that is driving you insane to the point where are you are tepmted to kiss it?? yeah mozart has to expiriancre that too i see)

[somedudewithantlers]

i very desperately wanted to draw my joker design but drawing Ain’t Easy for me nowadays so here’s an edited meme to compromise & appease the brain worms

he’s thinking about his very normal rivalry in a very normal villainous way

(writing says “He should have a knife like this” “And also listen to hyperpop”)

[tmntkiseki]

Everyone remember that one episode of Teen Titans, "The Beast Within," where Beast Boy gets exposed to chemicals that cause him to lose control of his transformations and become a werewolf-like monster? And initially the other Titans think he's the one who attacked Raven when they find him holding her by her cloak in the sewers while transformed, but it's later revealed that he was actually protecting her from the guy they fought at the beginning of the episode, who had also transformed into a werebeast?

[freddie-77-ao3]

[Midnight emergency war counsel) Malcolm *squinting*: Are you wearing make up? Drew: Of course! If I die in my sleep or get murdered in the middle of the night I need to look drop dead gorgeous!

[hana-bobo-finch]

sorry ultimax I’m busy doing side quests

[zombiecicada]

Wolfbell do you want a slice of bacon

I have too many slices of bacon

Please it's overflowing

Oh god

The bacon is filling up my house

Please just take like 50 slices

(Plate with 50 slices of bacon with varying levels of cooked-ness to them)

Wolfbell has not eaten in days.

The smell of bacon is perhaps the second best thing to ever exist. The first being the bacon itself.

It is all quickly devoured. Wolfed down, you could say.

Your bacon crisis has been solved!

Wolfbell thinks that some could’ve been cooked a little less, though. But then again, meat is meat.