#guided evolution

[grayskythunder]

guided evolution got deleted :(((((((((((((((((

sleepy spiderinnit in snow to cope hajfkgkkajjgjkakjgjakf at least I got the pdf version up to Chap 75 😭😭😭

[cquackity]

GUIDED EVOLUTION GOT DELETED? DOES ANYONE HAVE IT DOWNLOADED :((((((((((

[thousandeyedvoid]

attention enjoyers of fathermooshroom's guided evolution!!!!

i have written this, like, ten times now, so ill keep it simple

i have taken it upon myself to reupload and archive every chapter using the wayback machine. currently, about half of the chapters r up, but the rest will be up in the next couple days.

im trying to get word out to as many as possible because i wanted to punch the wall when i realized it had gotten nuked

come read !!

[moonysmayhem]

so i just realized guided evolution by fathermooshroom is gone, as well as their tumblr. Where. Where Have They Gone. Why Would They Leave Me

[berryblu-soda]

i an DISTRAUGHT-

[ena-526]

“Bruh Sound Effect #2

is the video displayed on every fucking screen Tommy can see.

 

The entire fucking facility shakes with the sheer volume of it.

 

It’s set to loop.”

I will forever mourn the loss of guided evolution becausecholy shit... as I reread it the sheer HUMOUR this fic manages is top tier... it was, and still is , my favorite fic ever

(ಥ﹏ಥ)

[lemintee]

sorry guys I’m in mourning. Could you tell

[miceeonvenus]

Shout out to my four favorite fics that never got finished, forever missing them <3

[arsonistfriday]

followers, mutuals, anyone: listen to me

I need you all to read Guided Evolution right now

this fic has everything you could ever fucking want: superhero Tommy? check. SBI? check. incredibly in-character actions, dialogues and thoughts for literally every character? check. great pacing with a storyline that keeps you on your toes? check. more that I'm probably missing? absolutely check

PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU TO READ IT

[desnolite]

does anyone know why fathermooshroom deleted their blog or fic… is it just bc they moved on

[bbatcat]

YESSSSS absolutely! Literally the best fic I’ve ever read!

for whoever the fuck might be seeing this, i HAVE to advocate that if you’re into sbi/spiderman/if you’re an inniter, i highly, highly, SO HIGHLY recommend reading this fic, Guided Evolution. its a spiderman!tommy fic, and i can’t sing its praises enough, seriously its so good. it’s got the family dynamics, the identity reveals, the usual angst from being a superhero. i just- you have to at least click to read the description, i can’t do it justice. It updates regularly (in fact it just updated today) and is currently about 150k words long with no end in the foreseeable future

[silvermoon424]

Me when I remember how dogs were the very first domesticated animal and have evolved alongside humans for thousands of years, resulting in our two species becoming adapted to each other and able to easily communicate.

Me when I remember that humans and dogs have been around each other so much for so much time that dogs are better at reading human behavior than our closest genetic relatives (the great apes).

Me when I remember that dogs can easily understand our facial expressions and gestures, while most people are able to intuit things from a simple bark (if the dog is friendly or aggressive, big or small, nervous or excited, etc).

Me when I remember how, millennia ago, some wolves decided to hang around humans for extended periods of time and those humans thought "you know, we could make them our friends."

Me when I remember that dogs are called man's best friend for a reason.

[rxttenfish]

Color + shade commission for @brothermanwill of the Wyvara!

[berryblu-soda]

man, i miss guided evolution :((

[llamahearted]

chicks dig the fuzzy dude (it's 2002 and they are nine years old and someday they will realize they wanted his exact gender the entire time)

prints ✩ track

[elbiotipo]

Finally read All Tomorrows last night and I know why people recommended it to me all the time, it was a very interesting piece of *biopunk* speculative evolution with a fascinating overarching story. It was also a breeze to read, I expected it would be long and a bit tiring (like Man After Man) but no, it was very illustrated and in fact it left you hungry for a bit more, I love the way it lets you fill in the gaps.

Of course, like always, it falls in the same old trope that biotechnology = bad and gross. It doesn't fall straight into saying biotechnology is evil, but the element of body horror is very, very, very much present in all the book. The fact that being warped into abominations is shown as the big event of human evolution reminds me of Man After Man, where "human evolution" doesn't occur "naturally" or as a result of, well, human selection, but as a result of a higher power messing with humans. All those strange beings we see in the book were not the ultimate result of environmental pressures, "artificial" selection or people bioengineering themselves. They were the result of fucked-up eldritch beings who wanted to make fucked-up humans. Which is kind of dissapointing if you are looking for a book that actually talks about future human evolution.

Which brings me to a discussion of the future of human evolution. Because, obviously, humans are evolving today. But I don't think we can see the real effect of biological evolution in the timescale we are managing as current humans. From a quick search, there have been only 500 generations since the arrival of agriculture and thus of all recorded or remembered history as we know it. That's not nearly enough biological time to see any major changes. Yes, there have been changes. And the development of human intelligence and brain size was quick and monumental, with many things we still don't really understand (like the origin of language and abstract thought). But do notice that the body plan of a modern human does not radically depart from Homo erectus, 2 million years ago.

Some authors like Olaf Stapledon (one of the great grandfathers of science fiction) in Last and First Men (which could be considered the 1930s version of All Tomorrows, in fact All Tomorrows to me is the modern Last and First Men) thought that we would continue to have evolutive pressures like natural selection and our species will continue evolving over millions of years. This is true as all species are still evolving including us, but in just a few decades we have discovered genetic engineering, and it won't be too long before, somehow, it is used in the path of our evolution. All Tomorrows of course talks about this with the Star People and later the Asteromorphs, but I believe it leaves out the prospect of humans guiding their own evolution for the (admitedly interesting) plot twist of the Qu changing them themselves.

What would have happened (or rather, what WILL happen) if humans are left to evolve by themselves? I'm sure that we will find somewhen. And I think that cosmetic genetic modification will be part of it, which is why I personally found the depiction of the Star People so boring. Now, I don't think every human will genetically modify themselves into supermodels, for starters, our parameters of attractiveness are based on culture and material conditions, and people will always seek variety, but I do think "sexual selection" would be a major part of human evolution, and that some forms like the Star People, as practical(?) as they are, just don't have the appeal. The utopia of the Star People should have been just as interesting as the dystopia of the Qu, with people experimenting new ways to adapt their bodies and self expression. Not to mention people adapting to the many strange environments of space by themselves (an old sci-fi trope). And of course, there would always be humans who don't want any of that, preferring to stay as they are, or return as they were. None, none of the Asteromorphs desired that at all?

Even in my own biopunk setting, however, the future of human evolution is something I only can see as far as a couple centuries on the future. Anything more than that, with the infinite possibilities of genetic engineering, makes me dizzy to contemplate. So I think All Tomorrows, for daring to do this billions of years in the future, is an amazing book.