#fanrace

[problemspritester]

Hi Tumblr Homestuck community!

The 3rd!! Fanspecies Week Banner Raffle Rolls are almost here! (Fourth FSW but third year with the raffle)

In two days (hivebent day, because of course it is) we'll spin this wheel. Five of these 60 (or more?? unless?) species will be on the server banner for the next year, as well as a Fun Project that will be seen at a point in the future!

To all the Homestuck fanspecies authors who aren't on the server, but want to be in the running, please shoot me a message! I want everyone to see the phenomenal species this community has made!

[whoneedslovewhenyouhaveknives]

Lamplings: A Splatoon Fan-Race

Okay then, let's do this!

The full bullet pointed list is under the read-more! Be warned, there's a lot.

The same way that Inklings come from squids and Octolings come from octopi, Lamplings come from lampreys!

They use aggressive mimicry! Lamplings look almost identical to Inklings or Octolings, depending on where they were raised.

Since they come from lampreys, Lamplings need to feed on bodily fluids (like blood, you heathens. Get your mind out of the gutter) in order to survive. This has gained them a reputation much like vampires.

There's even an in-universe horror movie about Lamplings. It's well-acted, but relies so much on the stereotype of "Blegh Lamplings are all evil and want to suck your ink and kill you" that it's not even funny.

Lamplings are technically pseudo-cephalopods, despite not evolving from a proper cephalopod, since they spent centuries evolving to mimic Ink and Octolings. This means they have things like an ink sac and swim form.

They have two types of mouths: one type on their face, and another type on their tentacles, replacing the suckers that Ink and Octolings have.

The mouth on their face isn't connect to their digestive system, instead only connected to the respiratory system. This means they can talk out that mouth, but can't eat with it.

The mouths on their tentacles are the eating mouths, having a full setup of sharp, retractable teeth, a sandpaper-textured tongue, and a throat that travels through the tentacle, down the head, and to the stomach.

The eating mouths act a lot like suction cups, pulling food in and trapping it in place with the teeth, so the tongue can bore a hole and eat the blood and small pieces of meat.

Lamplings are a female-only species! (By female-only, I mean in s*x only. If you're a transphobe, GTFO my post, this ain't for you.)

They reproduce asexually! If there's an abundance of food, resources, and shelter, an adult Lampling can lay an egg.

Lamplings actually have their own unique ears, with a round body (Octoling) that comes to a small point (Inkling).

Lamplings also can't mimic eyes, making small mistakes any time they try. This can make a Lampling's eyes look wavy, pie-cut, or even rotated.

Despite their weird eyes, they actually have better eyesight on average than Ink and Octolings.

When Lamplings are born, they're blind, rely entirely on their caretakers, and have several small, sharp fangs in the mouth on their face. While normally these fangs merge into a "beak" when the Lampling matures, sometimes they'll stay separated, leaving the kid with a mouthful of sharp teeth.

They reach maturity at the same age as Ink and Octolings, 'round 14 or so.

Despite their terrifying reputation, Lamplings are actually pretty chill and friendly!

While lots of Lamplings live in pre-dominantly Ink or Octoling settlements, sometimes lots of Lamplings come together to form settlerments of their own.

Lamplings have come up with lots of neat recipes in order to feed themselves and their families without hunting down an innocent person. Consequently, one of the freshest and kindest things to do in Lampling communities is cook for other people.

Food is everywhere in Lampling communities. Everywhere you look, someone is making something to eat.

Lamplings can cut away parts of their tentacles, leaving a light or dark-colored scar. Since Lampling heal incredibly quickly, this doesn't really bother them since they don't have many nerves in most of their tentacles, only having some around their eating mouths.

Lamplings usually cut parts of their tentacles to use in dishes, but Lampling youth find it "fresh" to cut their tentacles and maintain it, adding a cool scar to their image.

Lamplings are very friendly to those who they don't see as a threat, always lending a helping hand.

Due to their love of cooking, Lamplings have a high appeal and demand for cuisines from other cultures, studying and adapting them for maximal flavor and enjoyment in their community.

Examples of Lampling-Hybrid cuisine include: Battered-&-Fried "Squid" Rings (made from minced tentacle), Ink-Crystal Candy (Wasabi-Flavored), and Five-High-Pile-High Ink-Soaked Clam Mochi.

And now, pictures!

(A Lampling who mimicked an Inkling form, also called an "Ink" Lampling.)

(A Lampling who mimicked an Octoling form, also called an "Octo" Lampling.)

(Yuuna, one of the two Lampling "idols", and a newscaster for the main Lampling-dominant city, New Oceania.)

(Nami, the other Lampling "idol" and newscaster for New Oceania.)

Thank you to everyone who's read this far and/or voted in the poll!

If you happened to vote for the other option, "Research Paper", I'm pleased to announce that it's already been published on ArchiveOfOurOwn! You can check it out here: Lamplings: The Basics - ArgoNavisStarGazer - Splatoon [Archive of Our Own]

And remember: Drink water, have a nice day, and Stay Fresh!

[kotlcmemesforsomelaughs]

i love the sudden spike in notes as @ham-cheese-toastie, @thishumanformislimiting, and @imobsessed123 all reblog the same post like 50 times

maybe today we'll get to 700 notes?

Edit: Pippa you literally reblogged this 100 times

What is wrong with you? (affectionate? I think? Slightly concerned?)

[doctor-dorky]

Because I was on a roll with doing digital edits, and my mouse was working properly again, I did a new version of the previous Isel portrait!

Isel(pron. ee-sell) are a race of batlike creatures that were once subterranean. They headed up to their planet's surface and began to propagate it, while also inhaling silicon particles that changed their genetics into partially silicon-based lifeforms. They are environmentally adaptable, but the Isel prefer colder regions. Such is the case for why their ships, the Isel Glacier, are cold.

The Glacier has two weapons to delpoy: Their main weapon is an Icicle Spreadshot, which sends sharp, short-ranged icicles towards their opponents. Their subweapon is what makes these 8-crew ships so valuable, as their subweapon is a Subzero Blastr which freezes enemy batteries. This of course does not work on ships that have manual recharge(like the Pkunk Fury or the Druuge Mauler).

I know you've seen the original pilot portrait of my fanrace, the Isel before, but what's different from the original?

The first one is only slightly edited to make it appear more symmetrical(I noticed that it wasn't symmetrical and it was bugging me), thus I duplicated the picture, cropped it and then placed it to make it more symmetrical(save for the tail).

The second one now matches up with the redesign I did of the Isel, with the wings and the console the pilot's sitting on!

[space-mist]

@dru-plays-starbound i'm glad you asked!

the erichius ghosts are creations of the moon's resident horror as a defensive measure! they're scary projections generated by the horror that lock onto anyone with erichius on them to scare them away from the moon or kill them via draining their energy and intense radiation exposure. erichikin at base are pretty radioactive and the horrors are no different, and they compensate for their immobility by using projections (and if that doesn't work, the many erichikin that live around them to defend them).

since it's a projection they can't truly be destroyed, which is why if you manage to "kill" one it doesn't drop anything and another one is quick to show up. they're created from vibrational frequencies from the crystal, so the average chump mining on a moon couldn't do anything about them. large-scale mining companies however have this figured out and probably have a counter frequency in place to effectively neutralize them

[milolol]

rororo

[spiderton]

completely forgot for a moment to post this. new fanrace? fantribe IDK

[hells-greatest-prince]

*I've been developing a fanrace of rabbitfolk for TES lately

[charmikarma]

did you ever make yourself a homestuck fan character and/or typing quirk?

also: thoughts on usjng one’s own qujrk for day to day stuff on tumblr?

oh back in middle school when i first got into homestuck with my friends we made an entire fanrace. they were magical rainbow furries because what else would a middle schooler make. the ocs from that time had quirks but they were kinda dumb hehe. if you're asking if i ever made a sona though.... surprisingly not??? i truly do not know why. it feels so out of character for middle school me to not make a kidsona or trollsona. oh well. i don't have much interest in the concept now, i'm more of a kinnie these days (and even then, not nearly as much as i used to be)

as for using a quirk on tumblr ... i mean it's fine. i don't rly have any strong opinions on what other ppl r doing. they're living their lives n i'm living mine. can't say i really understand the phenomenon though

[rosebuned]

totk brining back fanrace thoughts

[orsinium]

(bouncing from one subject to the another) i wanna reboot and rework my bug ppl fanrace but i literally cant pick a bug to base them on theyre all so good 😭

[problemspritester]

Hey good news and bad news

Bad news is I'm ass trash at promoting stuff on tumblr

Good news is here's everything that's happened on the Fanspecies discord since last chime in:

- We're doing contests now! Like everything else, we're adding species to a wheel and rolling it once a month-ish. Then we make characters for that species and vote on them until we have a winner! We've done @lepiosprites's Molluskins and @blivesagain's Golems so far. Next roll's on May 2nd!

- Honkbot's really coming together. I posted about the fanspecies bot some time ago, but now he's really flying. Most notably is that I got "Alien-ify" to work. You can roll traits for individual species, sure, but now you can have him roll for species first then roll for traits. We're still working on making the wiki command work up to standards

- FSW2023 is on the way. As of 4/13, we started the gathering period for this year's wheel. On 6/12 we'll roll for the five species that'll be represented on the server banner for the next year, as well as in the promo post for FSW here on tumblr. So if you want in lmk! I'd put everyone's fanspecies if I could and I want to see what everyone's made!

[whoneedslovewhenyouhaveknives]

Thank you, everyone who voted! The winner by 7.6% is bullet-points!

I'll be writing out the post on the fan-race soon, so watch out for it!

Question, followers and/or Splatoon fans!

If I were to post an introduction to a Splatoon fan-race, would you rather it be bullet-point style or research paper style?

[kotlcmemesforsomelaughs]

Hello I can post again. Prepare for an onslaught of notifications

ok

[rpboelm]

“Perhaps Throne do have eyes, just have to remove the skin. Do us a favor, won’t you?” “Absolutely, whatever you say.”

Disclaimer: Throne do not have eyes this particular throne was gifted one by their creator deity after being dropped into the trench.

[space-mist]

Please do infodump about your fanrace for Starbound! I love reading about Starbound lore, fan-created or not.

this is probably gonna get long winded so i'll put all this nonsense under a readmore. thanks for listening!

my fanrace is called Erichikin, and they're a race of sentient rockpeople made largely of pure erichius. I wanted to pull from how moons, erichius, and the Ruin have a clear connection that the game doesn't do anything with, so they're a race born from residual malevolent energy from when the Ruin was formerly active.

they live in underground communities on moons, feeding off of the ores found inside. they're not super spacefaring- most of their time is spent underground amongst their own communities, looking after their babies and being protected by their moon's Horror. Erichius Horrors are the endpoint for their kind, they're what happens when an erichikin eats enough ore over its lifetime and enters a dormant state, sinking deep into the earth. they generate erichius crystals at the cost of killing the planet they're on, and more erichikin are born as a result.

since they're made of the purest form of a valuable resource for space travel, their homes are often mined out and exploited by mining companies. erichikin bodies are incredibly tough and change depending on the types of ore they eat, but most moonbound ones are easily killed and destroyed by mining equipment. while every moon is different, their culture promotes aggressive tendencies and destruction (mostly thanks to the ruin's influence) and they tend to respond with hostility to greedy outsiders.