#future Earth

[c-casu]

Some critters I’ve done for the Phase I of 22 million years ahead, a future evo community project by Jackosaur (idk if he’s here but he’s definitely on twitter so check his stuff out) about the future of North America

[muffettibuffetti]

[starscorchedfingertips]

Today is the day! My second novel is out in the world. I worked damn hard on this book and I'm so proud of how it has turned out. Now is the hardest part- it needs to find its way into the hands of the readers its destined for.

Bon voyage and best of luck, little book

STAR-SCORCHED FINGERTIPS OUT NOW!

A carnivorous vine on a planet infected with a human exodus cult, forges psychic connections with Earth, and bestows an unsuspecting group of women with the power to heal or destroy the remnants of humanity.

In a story that spans the galaxy, this ultimately hopeful, eco-punk adult science fantasy novel  explores the future of humanity and our obligations to our planet of origin through characters who wrestle with non-conforming desires, gender identities, and sexualities.

[dmdarius]

Let's Play Armored Core: Master of Arena |05| Another Rematch

More fights ensue, even without the handler. That's right, we're basically working right with PROGTECH. Feels a bit dirty, but considering how it's getting us to fight Hustler One as much as it has, seems to be just as planned.

#armoredcore #masterofarena #retro #playstation

[daybreaksys]

Continuation of this

BEHOLD, MY CREATION

Also, croc-descendants and dinosaurs still exist because of course they do. And specially those commonly mentioned organisms which are older than dinosaurs and still exist

[umbrasdoodles]

I'm trying to experiment with drawing maps, and to start here is the 2.0 map of the (currently unnamed) world of my Midnightverse project! It's a future Earth so I traced over Earth's geography and adjusted as I pleased. I plan on adding biomes, nations, etc. later

[terrascosmicstartover]

Got FOUR pieces done for my webcomic, one of which is a leftover from March (top left), the other three are from this month, as I continue to pinpoint the look of it.

[troythecatfish]

[geohoneylovers]

Will we save her or selfishly leave her to suffer? The choice is ours to make. Let's step up, protect our planet, and secure a sustainable future for generations to come. #SaveItOrLeaveIt

[artis-dead]

[krabkrab-wontshutup]

I discovered THIS audiobook by a “Jaden S” and naturally had to make a drawing based on the first chapter. its a post apocalyptic story about a man named Quintus Strike. Ive only listened to the first chapter so far but three are available!!

did i fool you. Its actually written by my friend. ‼️‼️‼️

listen to his audiobook

[c-casu]

In the last 20 million years Australia’s rainforests have changed considerably. Although still dominated by marsupials it is home to a large variety of placentals.

The largest and most noticeable across the forests are the donkeys, now diverse enough to be classified as a subfamily (Asininae), which have managed to colonise these environments on two different occasions:

The first ones were a lineage (tribe Macrocephalippini) that became incresingly more specialised in browsing the lower leaves of trees, growing to larger and larger sizes in order to digest more vegetation more efficiently. The group is not too diverse, with only a couple giants in a single genus (Macrocephalippus), while most of the taxa are pretty basal forest donkeys distributed among two other genera. The larger ones are quite similar behaviourally to Grévy’s zebras, with males establishing territories where females and their foals forage, although it’s not rare for foals of other stallions to disappear. The smaller species are generally solitary or form small herds with only a handful of members.

The second group were a lineage (tribe Tapironini) of grazers that developed shorter legs and a more flexible snouts (like pigs and tapirs) in order to better look through the leaf litter for good forage or to select the right plants in the rare and small grazing grounds in the forest. They are more diverse than the previous group, with almost ten species in it. They’re solitary and tend to avoid each other, as they’re quite nomadic too.

Another quite common group are a lineage of the old endemic rodents that developed an increasingly herbivorous diet, converging with voles and cavies in build and head musculature. They’re quite common on the forest ground, as much as bandicoots, with whom they avoid competition thanks to their more specialised diet. They’re quite skittish animals that forms small “herds” with only a handful of individuals, sometimes as small as two members. They breed year round and sows can give birth to up to six pups, although this many are rare as they’re much more K-selected than other rodents.

The latest arrival to the Australian continent are the two primate lineage that rafted there in the late Catiocene, as Australia gets closer and closer to Asia, impacting as it goes more and more Australasian islands. It is now closest to Wallacea where these two groups come from.

The earliest to arrive were tarsiers. Not too different from their Asian relatives they still hunt insects and other invertebrates in the canopy, with the only difference being a wider variety of colourations.

The latest were macaques, but even though they’ve reached the continent extremely recently they’ve managed to establish a foothold, with ape-like forms being visible all across the Northern Territory and Queensland’s canopies. They’re quite aggressive animals, employing a strategy similar to honey badgers by picking fights with animals clearly out of their weight category and not letting attackers escape unscathed, in order to discourage predation. They live in large mixed sex troops with clear and complex hierarchies, with makes and females in two different ones. Individuals higher on the social scale are the first to have access to resources and mates, and in order to stay at the top of the hierarchy they frequently bully less dominant individuals (tipically of the same gender). Infants inherit their mother’s social status but can climb the social ladder by challenging more dominant individuals, although males tend to do so more often as even the least dominant females still get “courted” when ovulating and and are able to forage thanks to their sisters’ help, something males don’t usually don’t rely on.

[muffettibuffetti]

[theupfish]

The ozone layer is not only healing, but will likely be back to its 1980-state within a Millennial's lifetime

[dmdarius]

Let's Play Armored Core: Master of Arena |06| Nine Ball | FINALE

Just gotta slap one more AC to one side before I get to have a shot at Nine Ball! And well, it wasn't the kind of arena I was expecting. Or the amount of Nine Balls I was expecting to fight. Or the size of Nine Ball either... dude got upgrades after I kicked its ass last time.

#armoredcore #masterofarena #retro #playstation

[daybreaksys]

—why? why did you come to our planet? why are you destroying it?

—we returned to Earth because it might be out last chance to collect its resources

—do you need these resources?

—humm... no. not really, no

—how much did you come to take?

—humm. all, all of it

—you can't take our whole planet, we need it! to... live on!

—well, I used to want it too but now I do see your point

—then tell your people to stop!

—I can't! Even if I could, they would never listen, me and my friend have no power to stop them

—then we'll help!

—no! you will be massacred, you don't understand

—no! you don't understand! we can't just

The thermophage wiseperson intervenes the conversation with a hand sign for stopping

—tell us why this might be your last chance

everyone turns to the outlandish robot in silence

*sigh* —because the Sun is dying

—what!? — someone in the crowd says

—pfff — the little scavanger says —the Sun isn't dying! — and looks to the sky —it looks just like how it always looked like

the robot is concerned —in your lifetime perhaps