#black-legged poison dart frog

[helluvatimes]

Phyllobates Doing A Hongi

Phyllobates bicolor or black-legged poison dart frogs sharing a Maori greeting in in their tank in Reptopia. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

The tank was very dimly lit and the ISO had need to be pushed to 6400 to get a shutter speed of a mere 1/80 second for this 300mm crop. Thankfully, the image came out sharp although details weren’t that great.

[staytinyville]

Stay Alive (30)

BTS poly!ot7 x Reader

Magical Creatures AU

Series Masterlist

Warnings: none (There will be no update next chapter. Read bottom note.)

A/N NOT BETA. YOU GUYS! Y'all my bad for missing Thursday's update! I live in the US so it was Thanksgiving for us and then the weekend was full of things. So I hope you can enjoy this update!

The day was coming to an end. You had done all your normal duties, tending to Jungkook and Namjoon as well as whatever else the other nurses would have you do. Now, you were waiting in Taehyung’s room with all the other boys. 

There was an anxious buzzing going around the room–both negative and positive. There was an anticipating feeling going through all of them. You were ready to get them far away from everything. Ready to get them to their families they had not seen in a decade. 

“You ready?” Namjoon asked you, placing a soothing hand on your arm. 

“This is it.” You looked up at him, a small smile on your face. “I'm not backing out now.”

You looked at each of the boys, taking note of their facial expressions. 

Yoongi looked calm but you could see the sparkle in his eyes over finally going outside. Jungkook was bouncing his leg in anticipation. Jin kept cracking his fingers, even after they stopped making noises. Hoseok was grinning widely, close to tears it seemed. Jimin was holding onto Taehyung’s hand, his thumb rubbing over the boy’s skin. Taehyung himself had tears welling up in his eyes, his nose red as he sniffled.

“You okay, Taehyung?” You asked softly, walking up to the boy. 

“I'm going to get to see the sun again.” His broken whisper made your eyes fill with tears. “I won't mess this up.” He looked behind you, nodding his head at Namjoon. 

“You got this.” Namjoon smiled at the boy, patting his shoulders. 

“I believe in you.” Jimin whispered to his friend, squeezing his hand for a moment before stepping back. 

Namjoon gave your head a kiss before getting into line with the rest of the boys. You moved to stand next to Taehyung, giving him a bright smile. With a nod from Namjoon, the boy raised his hands moving his fingers around just like Hobi does when dealing with magic. 

You quickly turned around when your head began to twist from watching Taehyung’s light purple mist. As you waited for him to tell you everything was done, you took a deep breath to calm your nerves. You weren’t exactly a theater kid, but you had been telling yourself for days not to panic when telling your co-workers bye. Try your best to act natural–nothing to warrant attention. 

“I did it!” Taehyung exclaimed, turning you around. 

You furrowed your eyebrows when you could hardly make out the animals Taehyung had turned the boys into. You could only make out the small specs on the floor. Leaning closer, your eyes widened as you took in the small creatures. 

“Poison dart frogs?” You spoke up, looking back to Taehyung. 

“Don't worry.” The boy grinned. “They aren't poisonous.”

“I would hope so.” You laughed, holding your hand out to pick all 6 of them up. “They are so cute.” You took in each of their patterns. While their black spots were different, they were all the same shade of light purple.

“Purple?” You questioned Taehyung. 

“It's the color of my magic.” He told you. 

“Adorable.” You smiled, standing back up. “Well, sorry but into the pocket you go.”You spoke to the boys in your hands, moving them lightly into your scrub’s pocket. When you saw them all get comfy, you turned up to Taehyung. 

“Are you ready?” You asked. When you hear his sniffle, you quickly look up at him, seeing tears stream down his cheeks. 

“Don't cry!” You gasped out, moving to wipe his tears away. “I'll get you all out of this.” You whispered to him. 

“I know I'm just so happy.” He cried out, trying to give you a smile. 

“Let's get going then.” You pulled him down to give him a chaste kiss. 

When he gave you that boxy grin you loved so much, you took a step back, allowing him room to perform his magic. With closed eyes you waited for a few moments until you heard the smallest of croaks. Opening your eyes, you smiled at the small frog, leaning down to pick him up. 

With one last coo, you placed him into your pocket along with the others. Checking to make sure there was nothing missing you took a deep breath before gathering your stuff and making your way back up to your office. 

You tried to act as normal as possible, keeping your eyes on your things and trying to look tired. When you got to your desk, you noticed most of the other nurses had already left, two others picking up their things to leave as well. You glanced around for just a few seconds, quickly picking up your purse and pretending to place things inside. 

You had made sure to clean it out for the moment, knowing you couldn’t just keep the boys in your pockets the whole time. So you stuck your hand into your scrubs, counting all 7 frogs before sticking your hand into your purse to allow them more room. Getting the last of your things together, you swung your bag around your shoulder before moving to leave the building. 

“Goodnight, (Y/N)!” A nurse who worked in the main clinic called after you. 

“Goodnight!” You smiled back, waving as you left.

When you made it to your car, with one last look around you turned it on and began your journey back home. While on the road, the anxious feeling did not leave your body. You kept looking behind you making sure no one was following. Not that it really mattered, if they wanted the company could easily look up your address. But you wouldn’t be home for a while. 

The moment you made it to your apartment, glancing each way, you almost tripped going up the stairs from how fast you were going. Unlocking your door, you let out a breath leaning against the wall as you were finally able to calm down some. Carefully putting your bag down, you tipped it over so that the boys could carefully hop out on their own. 

Taehyung was the first to turn to normal, followed by the rest of the boys. Each of their eyes went wide as they took in something that was not part of the facility for the first time. 

“I'm so sorry for keeping you guys in there for so long!” You cried, hugging Jimin close. 

“I was almost squashed by a quarter.” Jin told you. 

The boys began to laugh about their trip, explaining how things were when they had been frogs. You almost began to cry at how excited they seemed, eyes glittering at each trinket you had in your home. They seemed skeptical about certain things but still looked immensely curious. 

It was almost comical to see all seven of them packed in your one bedroom apartment. But it wasn’t going to be for long, you all had to get a move on to avoid being detected. 

“Let me go get my things and then we can head out to my grandpas! Feel free to explore.” You beamed at them. 

Since they all seemed too busy taking in their surroundings, you took the liberty of going to your room to pick up your things. As they all looked through your things–respectfully–Jungkook was the first to move to the balcony doors. His eyes began to tear as he reached out to move the curtain to the side. As the natural light reflected into the living room, he sniffled as a smile overtook his face. 

“What is it, Kookie?” Hoseok asked, moving to check on the boy who began to cry. 

“It's the moon.” He had closed his eyes as he took in the moonlight. “I haven't seen it in years.”

All of the boys turned around, walking closer to watch the crescent moon shine brightly. “It's beautiful.” Jimin spoke softly. 

“My wolf is happy.” Jungkook told them, closing his eyes again. 

“We all are.” Namjoon placed a hand on Jungkook’s shoulder. “We're finally going home.” He looked at all of his coven brothers. 

“All set!” You spoke up, coming out of your bedroom with some bags. “I asked my neighbor if I could borrow their minivan.” You told them, watching as they all turned from the patio doors. “So let me go get their keys and we can go. You guys ready?”

You could see how they finally looked normal. Their tense shoulders were not there. The need to give everyone the side eye every time they were spoken to by the company staff. The sad looks they would have when being separated from one another. All of it was gone. 

Now they had hopeful looks. Tears ready to pour out of their eyes from the prospect of getting to see their families and friends from the world they were cruelly taken from. They were finally free. And you were the cause of it. 

“We're more than ready.”

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[danteatlas]

DUSTLINGS IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

Elise (She/They), Bridget (She/Her), Aldric (He/Him), Sinew (She/They/It), and Wilrick (He/Stone/Stoneself) are excited too!

Dustlings by Dante Atlas is out for pre-order now! So what can you expect? What is it about?

Dustlings is a clean and wholesome fantasy romance novel, and a journey of self rediscovery. Bridget, having just ended a long term relationship with her boyfriend Jason, ends up in a magical world after falling through a portal and off of a cliff on her parents' property. She must navigate this new world, on top of being newly disabled, on top of trying to get home undiscovered.

In this new world, she must rely on others, whether it's trusting them to keep her secret or helping carry her on her journey. She's offered fresh perspective, and uncovers a history she couldn't have learned anywhere else.

I'll be releasing character profiles and more information as the time comes (and as I get them done) so look forward to those!

Art Credit, ID, and pre-order link under the cut. Is that still how it works? Do people still say "under the cut?"

[ID/ A group photo of the Dustlings cast sitting all together on a stone brick wall in the warm golden glow of an evening sky. They are all holding and drinking from wooden tankards as they appear to be celebrating and enjoying each other's company. All of them appear to have their pinkies up to make the whole thing fancier.

From left to right:

Elise is a tall orc woman with bronze skin, dark blue hair styled into an undercut, long pointed ears that stick out from her head and blue eyes. She is wearing a plum colored shirt with light blue trim and black pants as she straddles the wall and reclines with one eye on the group and her cup raised to her lips.

Bridget is a small white woman with light brown hair, brown eyes and a big smile on her face as she holds her drink in both hands. She wears a light blue shirt and jeans, along with some sensible black hiking shoes. She's laughing and leaning into Aldric as they share a little moment together.

Aldric is a tall elf with pale yellow skin and long flowing lilac purple hair, his long ears are pointed up as he laughs and leans into Bridget with one arm around her and the other bringing his cup to knock into hers. He is seated with his legs on the opposite side of the wall and his drink appears to be rainbow colored in the cup, some kind of fancy elven drink surely. He wears a simple white linen shirt, black pants and black gloves.

Sinew, my beloved, is a tiny red goblin standing up on the wall and ready to cause trouble with her two cups raised triumphantly over her head and ready to spill at any moment. Her design is based around a poison dart frog, red with black spots and the extremities of her body dipped entirely in black. Her hair is a shaggy black mullet styled Lesbianly, her ears stick straight out from the sides of her head, she wears a simple white tank top and brown pants. It's little feet grip the wall with self assured force, but even so, Wilrick's hand firmly grasps her to prevent her falling.

Wilrick is a handsome, short and stocky dwarf with purple/plum undertones to his skin. He has long indigo hair and beard which reaches the middle of his back and his beard is braided at some points, though largely obscured by his drink in a birch wood cup. He wears a simple brown linen shirt, vest, black pants and boots and the hands that holds the cup, like the rest of them, has his pinky straight in the air. Despite the impending chaos to his left, he appears to be at ease as he enjoys the evening. /END ID]

Art and Art ID by @souptomatobasil

Characters, Dustlings, and Writing by me!

Pre-order NYOW here

[taco-bee]

Silly Game Time: They just installed an update to the simulation (reality) we live in, and now ... well, it's sort of an anthro-furry simulation (congratulations/condolences depending on your feelings on being forcibly turned into a furry).

Anyway, the good news is, we get to customize what our new hide appearance/texture is. We can have the fur, hair, scales, feathers, or whatever of any non-human animal we like (maned wolf or tiger or sloth; palomino horse or giraffe or black sheep; anaconda or desert tortoise or rainbow trout; peacock or ostrich; poison dart frog or walrus or orca or elephant--all are on the table)!

The choice is yours! Which are you picking?

Oooo yippie!!

Ok big adhd eyes, SNAKE but with legs

[thegreatgodpam]

so.

bit of a pipeline of how this idea came to my mental doorstep: there's an au made by ruffwoof (think I spelled that right, but anxious about pinging) where all the turtles are different animals, with Mikey being a frog. now, a friend of ours (Angelo) posted a doodle of frog Mikey, originally in discord which is where a different friend (Daisy) said "rottmnt au but they're all frogs" and, thus, Kung Fu Frog AU was born.

In this au, basically everything is the same except the turtles are frogs and splinter is a cat. Cause why not.

So far, I've made a few concept sketches and had some ideas about characterization and stuff, so here we go:

To break it down a bit more (pronouns tbd, going with canon for now. also I'll be giving the bros frog legs, the pictures above are, again, just concept sketches):

Raph. 16 year old goliath frog, uses an axe for a weapon. Listens to Mitski and Mother Mother, and a little bit of girl in red. (The chonk man ever.)

Donnie. 15 year old poison dart frog, uses a halberd with some tech modifications. Listens to Baby Metal. (He has games on his phone.)

Leo. 14 year old red eyed tree frog, uses a scythe ("if I'm not straight, then my weapon shouldn't be either" -forg Leo). Listens to Black Eyed Peas, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and similar and also Micheal Buble? (Skinniest mfer around, tallest of the whole group. Legs fo dayyzz.)

Mikey. 13 year old flying frog, uses a sun and moon pointed sword for a weapon. Listens to electronic music and video game soundtracks, definitely an ipad kid. (Bro got da pants.)

Splinter. 56 year old ginger cat, does not fight often but uses claws when he does. Listens to jazz and r&b, but will also listen to anything recommended to him by his sons and April. (He be a tall man, cause tall splinter is very funny to me. He got lost in his instincts once and tried to eat the bros but the Bonked him really good and now he's okay again. The bros also chomped on his whiskers sometimes.)

April. 22 year old human, tends not to fight but has several daggers and knives on her person at all times. Listens to all kinds of alternative music, though leans heavily towards goth to match her fashion. (Transfem goth girlie beloved. She's Jamaican and has lesbian parents. She's my favorite. :) [though any advice or info about how I should and could portray her ethnicity would be much appreciated, I know none of the things-])

Any other potential characters are yet to be thought about, though any ideas for anyone and anything are welcome.

Uh- yippee ig-

[bunny-hare]

Silly Game Time: They just installed an update to the simulation (reality) we live in, and now ... well, it's sort of an anthro-furry simulation (congratulations/condolences depending on your feelings on being forcibly turned into a furry).

Anyway, the good news is, we get to customize what our new hide appearance/texture is. We can have the fur, hair, scales, feathers, or whatever of any non-human animal we like (maned wolf or tiger or sloth; palomino horse or giraffe or black sheep; anaconda or desert tortoise or rainbow trout; peacock or ostrich; poison dart frog or walrus or orca or elephant--all are on the table)!

The choice is yours! Which are you picking?

If I'm forced to be a furry, I might as well be a chimera.

Bunny with axolotl gills instead whiskers, partial sheep fur, alpine ibex horns, scientifically inaccurate T-Rex legs and crocodile tail.

Maybe I'd throw in some poison because why not?

[yourlocalmissingtexture]

I’m not feeling great so I’m gonna quickly (“quickly” lol) infodump about a character of mine. Well, two of them. One is based on history so their info might be a bit shaky, just an fyi.

Introducing: Cecilia/Lamare!

Cecilia Perrot was born in 1330 in France and was surrendered to a monastery due to her parents being unable to care for her. She saw the onset of the Hundred Years War and petitioned St. Michael frequently.

When the Black Death swept through her area in 1348, she and her convent did what they were able to help the sick but to no avail. Frustrated, she left the convent and took on a masculine disguise so that she could work as a plague doctor outside of the monastery (which was proving to be more like a death house than a hospital). She felt better being “freelance” so to speak but still felt guilty and afraid. If these were the end times, she worried she’d be denied entry to heaven because she failed so thoroughly: as a convent sister, as a doctor, and as a woman.

During one intense bout of prayer she had a vision of St. Michael and St. Raphael, who praised her efforts but also let her know that her work would kill her. They assured her that if she kept up what she was doing that she was basically guaranteed entry into heaven.

Seems peachy, right? Well…

Enter Lamare (true name Lahar-harah), a demon*. He is rather small and weak physically and resembles a stereotypical goat-legs-and-horns demon, but his psychic and magical abilities are profound. He was lurking around France at the time, leeching energy from people who mistook him for a grotesque (gargoyle minus the water spout!) or who fell under his influence of persuasion.

One day Cecilia finds him and while initially frightened feels compelled to interact with him without invoking the name of Jesus. She felt she could bring him to the light. For all her brightness in her mind and all the kindness in her heart, this was unfortunately part of Lamare’s plan. He waited until she was especially close and vulnerable before he made his move and possessed her, pushing her soul into the depths of her psyche and leaving him to pilot her body.

Before he wasn’t very capable of interacting with the physical world, but now he had a body! A former nun’s body, even! How ironic! He’d make good use of it, keeping it alive far longer than a body was meant to last via his powers.

While in her stolen body, he enjoyed intentionally botching surgeries, dental procedures, embalmings, and anything else that involved the corruption of the flesh. Thanks to his abilities, however, he was never reprimanded. He also took classes in Oxford in 1503, ventured across the ocean to watch the American Civil War unfold, and researched poison dart frogs in the Amazon while the French Revolution was ongoing.

During all of this, Cecilia grew distant from reality at first. The violence and sadism wore heavily on her conscious, as did the general knowledge that her trusting a demon got her into this mess to begin with. No way she was going to heaven now. At points she felt she got some kind of pleasure from the cruelty she was forced to partake in, which worsened her guilt significantly. But she remained hopeful, deep down. Hopeful she’d be able to be herself again someday. Hopeful that maybe God would have mercy on her for her grave mistake and that those she watched slip away by her own distant hand would forgive her as well, perhaps.

Oh also Cecilia is agender. She still uses she/her pronouns and likes being called Cecil sometimes. Lamare is masc and uses he/him. Do not call him Lammy.

* For context, angels & demons in this universe are the same kind of entity, the difference being that angels are subservient to someone (compare to being employed) and demons aren’t (like working freelance).

[kipperlillycopperkettle]

thg daemons 👀👀

thg daemons is the hunger games but there are daemons now. there are two problems with this au. the first problem with this au is i then had to pick daemons for everyone and also name them. the second problem with this au is i set it up in the most insane way possible — each of the tributes in the 74th hunger games has a paragraph explaining their deal and their daemon in the moments before the 74th game starts? which is literally fucking unhinged.

anyway it's a really fun au and if i knew what i was doing with the pov/multi paragraph thing i would probably go back to it (seriously, why did i set it up like that?)

they say — the better your daemon matches your arena, the more likely you are to win. after all, everyone knows cassia and her lion, enobaria and her norwegian forest cat, cashmere and her copperhead snake that drapes around her neck like a scarf during interviews, soaking in the warmth of the lights. gloss and his mountain lion that stalked the edges of the careers camp at night but still hadn't managed to stop ambrosia's mayfly from being crushed in the jaws of mollie's [?].

when glimmer rises up into those temperate woods, the gurgling of a stream distant and echoing in her ears, the cool wind whistling through her hair, sapphiron curls in on himself on her chest. this is no place for a scorpion to survive. 

marvel's jackal curls around his feet, careful to not slip off the small platform. it really is too small for the both of them. she settled early, and the both of them had thought it was a good thing. a good omen. now she yips softly at his feet and marvel doesn't feel quite so sure. 

clove's daemon took a long time to settle. he isn't like cato’s, who settled early, or calla’s, who settled as a [?] shortly after they turned fourteen, or even thalia, whose daemon settled comfortably as a [?] right after their second kill test. no, he settled the night before the reaping — clove remembers all her trainers telling her to make sure he kept one form, because it wasn’t right for a career district to send in a tribute with an unsettled daemon. [daemon name] had settled as a poison dart frog, a little blue thing with black spots, [more here].

cato's daemon is a big black mastiff named theta, who sits patiently between his legs as he waits for the gong to go off. there's a tradition of two victors having dogs as daemons — brutus with his mastiff, so similar to cato's, and lyme with her [idk] — [more here]

[foolishfoolsgold]

Mmmk time to ACTUALLY show off my guys and there will be more of these as I collect clips lmao.(Very long, you have been warned) ID under the cut

[Start ID: Video shows info cards for each of the four voice claimed characters. The first is for a green lactobacillus paracasei named Verdant. They have gills along their neck, a pointed snout, a blue shine to their scales, and bright teal eyes, under which they have long pointed cheek bones. They have angular fins on their head, elbows, and tail. Their hands and feet are webbed, and the ankles of their digitigrade legs have 3 spines on each. They’re wearing a yellow tee shirt, khaki shorts, and wired earbuds. Text boxes note that the voice is Ashley Nichol’s from The Amazing Digital Circus. Her species is restated, her pronouns are they/she, and the voice claim is rated with an accuracy of 4/4. The text box reads: “Verdant was laid off from her job in the SM. I when lactose intake ceased. They escaped into the bloodstream during a viral infection, but were confronted by a killer T cell. Lucky for her, the T in question recognized them as harmless and offered to help her find a new job.” The second voice is for JO-1467/Joe. This is a killer T cell wearing the usual black uniform and cap, except she’s AU-ified, of course. She has light skin, long brown hair, eyes, and stripes along her arms, rounded snout and ears that look like ripples on water. She has a skinny tail with two lobes on the end, as all killer Ts in the AU do. Her voice is Brenda Song’s as Anne Boonchuy in Amphibia. Her pronouns are she/her, and accuracy rating is 4/4. Text box reads: “JO-1467, later preferring to go by Joe, is the T cell who befriended Verdant. She only escaped the thymus by cramming for tests, and much prefers exploring and talking to people to killing. Joe is currently allowing Verdant to tag along on her patrols while they brainstorm.” The third voice is for an eosinophil named S-3288/Sid. Their skin is slightly lighter than Joe’s and they have thick, purple bean shaped stripes along their snout and under their violet eyes. They’re wearing a dark pink uniform with brown leather boots and gloves, and a loose purple tie. They have bright blond hair dyed various colors in random spots, and a few prominent strands of hair stick out from under their cap. Their tail is thick and has large dorsal lobes, and transitions from blond to purple before ending in a silver spearhead. They’re also holding a purple motorcycle helmet. They have black stud earrings and a purple slap bracelet on one of the spear tines, The voice is Ben Schwartz’s as Leonardo from Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, their pronouns are they/them, and accuracy is 4/4. Text box reads: “Sid is Joe’s long-time best friend. They have too much free time and spend it traveling the body, promoting their one-cell band, Obsidian Rib. They’re very lax when it comes to their job as an eosinophil and support Joe’s efforts to help Verdant.” The final voice belongs to CE-2095, another killer T cell. Her skin is golden brown with thick black stripes all over, resembling that of a poison dart frog. Certain parts under her chin, arms, and hat are a lighter tone due to protection from the sun. Her eyes are silvery blue, and her dishwater blond hair is in a messy bun. The voice is Mart Elizabeth McGlynn’s as Diana from League of Legends. Her pronouns are she/any, and accuracy is rated 3/4. Text box reads: “CE-2095 is Joe’s squad leader. She’s blunt and to-the-point, and isn’t a fan of her recruits goofing off. She’s suspicious of Joe, but doesn’t care enough yet to see that her strange attitudes have been because she’s hanging out with a bacterium.” End ID.]

[dashdotshows]

[start id: a square piece of cross stitch on white cloth with a green border above and below. In multi-coloured all caps, it reads "The world might be full of despair and broken promises but it is also full of brightly colored poisonous frogs". It also features a poison-dart frog (possibly Ranitomeya amazonica) with blue legs and stripes of yellow, orange and black on its body, sitting on a green leaf. end id].

[serude]

Character Design Update!

Featuring: “Kazoo” Kazlo Kalzone🫧

I wanted the jellyfish feel to come out and stay with this while dressing it up. I made his legs black, taking inspiration by poison dart frogs.

As he is amphibious, but prefers to stay in the water, and the white design on the legs is meant to be messy and look like stripes, as he’s mixed and to give that “zebra feeling”

[song-writer-melo-wrath]

Silly Game Time: They just installed an update to the simulation (reality) we live in, and now ... well, it's sort of an anthro-furry simulation (congratulations/condolences depending on your feelings on being forcibly turned into a furry).

Anyway, the good news is, we get to customize what our new hide appearance/texture is. We can have the fur, hair, scales, feathers, or whatever of any non-human animal we like (maned wolf or tiger or sloth; palomino horse or giraffe or black sheep; anaconda or desert tortoise or rainbow trout; peacock or ostrich; poison dart frog or walrus or orca or elephant--all are on the table)!

The choice is yours! Which are you picking?

Oh holy shit. I'm about to get up to so many chimera shenanigans. We getting the snowy owl wings. We getting the antlers. We getting the beta-fish-esque fins on the legs. Maybe wolf-esque chest just so a friend or partner could lay there and just be comforted by the fluff. Then again plummage would also be great for that...

I'm unsure on the matter of arms and legs honestly. Mayhaps a deer for legs? And mayhaps some sort of cat/big cat for arms, considering the retractable claws. As for face, I'd probably go with partially snowy owl again.

...Though if I get to choose the coloration as well I'd. [contemplates more]

I dunno if there's a specific animal that fits here and this is long already, haha-

[snicklesnek]

Silly Game Time: They just installed an update to the simulation (reality) we live in, and now ... well, it's sort of an anthro-furry simulation (congratulations/condolences depending on your feelings on being forcibly turned into a furry).

Anyway, the good news is, we get to customize what our new hide appearance/texture is. We can have the fur, hair, scales, feathers, or whatever of any non-human animal we like (maned wolf or tiger or sloth; palomino horse or giraffe or black sheep; anaconda or desert tortoise or rainbow trout; peacock or ostrich; poison dart frog or walrus or orca or elephant--all are on the table)!

The choice is yours! Which are you picking?

I, personally, am not a furry. I have nothing against furries, but I don't have a fursona I'd want to turn into or anything like that. Instead, I like ✨️biology✨️ so I'll use my knowledge in that to help me come to a decision.

That said, a majority of options would be pretty inconvenient purely for the fact you'd have to prune feathers, moisturize amphibian skin, shed reptile skin, etc. Many of them also wouldn't grant much of an advantage, even if you take it to the extreme of morphing your hands into bat wings, since it would make your hands useless for almost anything other than flight. A primate or serpent could be useful, since their tail would essentially act as a third arm, or you could get specific and do a flying squirrel to have a built-in wing suit that wouldn't impact dexterity too much. You could monopolize yourself as a sheep or something similar, being able to use your own wool to make clothing and accessories and/or money. A chameleon to be the world's best spec-ops agent, a rodent to be able to squeeze yourself into impossibly tight spaces, or even a limbless lizard confuse people who don't know the difference between snakes and lizards! Though, assuming we get to keep all our limbs it would be a considerably easier to tell.

I genuinely feel like this would be easier to answer if we were fully turning into animals without any of the extra pros and cons of being anthro, cus then I could just say "raccoon" and be done with it. Instead, I have to way the pros and cons of specific details about certain animals, like tails, horns, antlers (which I believe said would both be inconvenient in a previous ask), webbing, etc.

Honestly, a simple house cat would be a pretty profoundly good option. Nightvision, 10 razor blades on you at all times, flexible bone structure for fitting into tight spaces, whiskers to know if those spaces are too tight, great hearing and smell, shock resistant legs, aerodynamic, truly one of the creatures of all time. And yes my inspiration was my cat sleeping soundly on top of me at the moment.

Or some variety of hairless ape to be some sort of pseudogianthuman

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I know it's blurry, but I want to introduce my oc here! This character was made with dnd in mind, but I have never played dnd so I'm not sure how well my ideas would work in an actual campaign.

I decided this character would start as a tadpole and slowly become a frog as he leveled up. I liked the idea of a kid kicking absolute butt and I thought he could travel around with shape water until he grew his frog legs. I also think it'd be interesting if a natural one would make him lose concentration on the shape water spell. With these ideas in mind, I researched frogs and decided this character would be based on a golden poison dart frog, scientific name:* Phyllobates terribilis*. But you can call him Phyll! (pronounced like phil or fill).

Phyll is yellow with black webbed feet and black spots freckling up his arms, legs, and on his neck and chest. But as a tadpole, he's brown. He carries a stick as a wand and wears a lily pad like a wizard's hat. Phyll's species is poisonous enough to kill ten men when he's an adult, but the species I based him on loses their poison in captivity as they no longer eat the same diet. So I think Phyll would grow up thinking he was untouchable and then realize he isn't poisonous after leaving his home. Phyll wears a colorful poncho and brown pants, but because bright colors mean deadly poison in his culture, wearing bright colors is like punk fashion to him.

Phyll would join the dnd party as a tadpole, and if anybody asked, he'd say the reason he left his village was because he killed a guy and needed to escape the law. But the truth is, Phyll loves his family. Especially his dad who carried him and his twelve siblings on his back every day in the village he grew up in. But he leaves home when people start getting sick with a mysterious illness. Not because he's scared or anything, but because he wants to find a cure for this sickness! But he won't admit that to anyone after being laughed at. How could a tadpole ever hope to save the world?

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FM!TALE(FANTASY!MONSTER)

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This Au is where the monster become more fantasy like in a game

(I know the monsters are already fantasy like sans and papyrus but I am still changing them)

Papyrus and gaster are demons

Sans is adopted in this Au and Sans is a slime

Asgore, toriel, and Asriel are still goats but look more like demons (demonic goats)

Flowey is a little Trent (living tree sapling)

Undyne is a Levithan

Alphys is a lizard man (basically more lizard than what she already is

Mettaton a wraith that controls a doll

the froggits are still frogs but are now poisonous (like dart frogs)

Sans is a Light Green slime with a Darker green core is his body, this Core covers his soul providing extra protection, Still acts like his Original Self, Sans is Adopted in this AU

Papyrus is a black demon with a tail, he still acts like his original self but is more of a combination of Lancer and Fell!Papyrus personality, He wants to be cool and show his "Evil side" and acts villainous but there are times where he slips up and becomes nice boi. He is also the son of a boss monster

Gaster is also a black demon but is also a Boss monster, He can still summon hands but these hands have red vertical eyes in the palms of these hands, While he is a good father, he can be cruel at times and has his dark moments but is overall a good person, Most of the time he is serious and never jokes much, sometimes he will laugh at Sans Pranks.

Gaster is the royal scientist but is also a boss monster

Undyne is still a humanoid Levithan, she still has legs but she also has a long tail similar to that of a electric eel, when is water she can transform her legs into the tail for better movement. She is more light blue now.

Alphys is still a yellow lizardman but is much more taller and has natural muscles, she has a venomous bite but its not deadly.

Mettaton is a Wraith and possesses a doll Alphys made it still has the same functions as Original mettaton but just looks more like a doll

Grillby is a lava golem, his skin is made of rock/ cooled magma, he can control the temperature of his lava, His default state looks similar (if you watched ben 10 then you know to heatblast and has a lava form with some pieces of rock floating on him

Muffet is a Arachne with 8 arms, 8 eyes, and 8 legs besides that nothing else has changed

Flowey is just a Trent but is a sapling, his omega form is A big Trent/Tree

Asgore/Toriel/Asriel are Demonic goats except their fur is black and have a third vertical eye on their forehead

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Black-legged Poison Dart Frog

Phyllobates bicolor (Wikipedia) (Encyclopedia Of Life)

by  Drriss & Marrionn