#nature mutation

[foreverephemeral-art]

love is beautiful

[wreniriis]

Guilt

[serpentface]

Some qilik variation

Qilik are the most phenotypically diverse sophont and have a massive degree of variation in coloration and feathering across and within populations. This is partly due to being composed of at least three ancestral species and multiple subspecies (mostly interfertile and widely hybridized), partly due to their extremely wide range and often isolated populations, and partly due to the significance of color and display features in mate selection (and varying and ever-changing cultural conventions of attractiveness).

(A few here display body modifications, namely clipped brow feathers and selective plucking. The most vivid orange and pink shades require carotenoid pigments derived from the diet)

[hoofpeet]

Vague concept doodles I was playing w/ for the idea of what spider syndrome might look like in satyrs . Kinda couldn't really make these look right though, just like the actual guy's design

[mycoblogg]

finn's freaky fungi fact : rosecomb mutations :-0

rosecomb mutation : "distortions, lumps & gross malformations occur on the mushrooms. often gills are present on the top leading to the name rosecomb. cause: contamination of the substrate with oil, diesel or distillate fumes."

here are some images of this mutation on agaric fungi !!

[image iDs: 1 - a photograph of a cream-white mushroom with a mutation that has lead to the formation of an extra clump of gills, & even a smaller mushroom on top, growing in a green forest patch. 2 - a photograph of a large, flat grey-white mushroom with wavy edges, that has mutated another, smaller mushroom on its cap. it grows between ivy. 3 - a brown mushroom with extra gill growth on top of its cap, growing between mud & woody mulch. end iD]

[despazito]

"but lykoi are a natural mutation" um yes.. as opposed to what? Unnatural mutation made in a lab using CRISPR? Just because a mutation occured naturally speaks nothing to the health prognosis. Munchkin dwarfism is a "natural" mutation, the first Scottish fold occured "naturally" in a barn and as well, and so are countless lethal congenital conditions. All kinds of mutations happen naturally all the time, it's humans who create an environment which allows animals with less viable mutations to survive and reproduce. That can be a mutation as innocuous as piebaldism that spoils the animal's natural camouflage or as severe as a mutation causing congenital cartilage defects in the case of the Scottish fold or reduced hair follicles causing cystic acne in the lykoi.

[broken-clover]

Deeply deeply attached to the idea of Potemkin and Dizzy being friends and an unreasonably large portion of that is the thought that she's basically one of the few things he would be able to hug and not immediately reduce to paste

[elixir]

Amanita Muscaria with Rosecomb Mutation, photographed by Scott Smith in Colorado.

[timwhore]

while i'm cooking up two full blown fics (my logan x reader and an alex summers x reader one), hear me out on mutant!Reader whose mutation is invisibility ! i've been daydreaming for a while about being in the xmen universe and having for mutation invisibility so i'll share the ideas it gave me!

Your (reader's) mutation is invisibility, but it's not just, becoming invisible whenever you want. For starters, you can choose to make yourself invisible to any and every one, or only to a few select people - or vice versa, making yourself visible to only certain people. And you can use your power on others ! You can make others people invisible, but while doing so, you can't make yourself invisible (well depend - if you train enough, you can probably pull it off) - but making someone else invisible takes way more energy than just yourself.

Of course, the downside of your mutation in itself only work on the body - not the clothes. Well, the only clothes that become invisible with you is your x-men suit (if you are apart of them).

I like the idea of being always invisible ? Maybe reader is insecure, maybe they just prefer to not being seen ! There is a few occasion where you have to make yourself visible, but they aren't the frequent. I'd like to think that most people around you, don't mind it that much ? Some ( like Scott, Jean, Jubilee, Kurt, ect ... ) probably will never have seen you and they are just used to you being, invisible. They could be more shocked to see you visible than anything.

I think the first time the mutation appeared, when you were a young teen, you were suck being invisible for a week straight and stayed cooped up in your bedroom for a few days until you had to get out of it because of your parents, and they fully lost it as why their kid was ... not visible anyone. They probably contacted Xavier themselves after researching online, what the hell was happening and stumbled onto articles talking about mutants and mentioning his school. They decided to contact him to ask if, what was happening to you, was possibly due to a mutation. And after that, you got send to his school. ( this is if your parents are ... good parents, with bad / worst one this could go so many different way )

[grovesnail]

Garden snail (cornu aspersum) Scalariform freak, Spain, 2022,

// credits go to saber_animal on inaturalist and youtube :P photos not mine!

If saber_animal wants me to remove the post ill do it happily!

[ichchadhariplatypus]

Aparajita ( Clitoria ternatea).

Also known as Neelkantha as it's natural colour is a bright indigo resembling the throat of Lord Shiva after he consumed poison during the Churning of the Oceans.

This particular flower has a lighter bluish hue as it is a result of a cross between a white and a blue variety of the flower.

The picture was taken on my terrace.

[marsti]

no multiple choice, you actually have to choose your favorite. no "i dislike all of these equally" either even if you hate fun you still have to pick one.

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

Godzilla: You saved me, why?

Kong: Mmm, iguana.

[angie-starz]

I'm slowly coming back to my roots, but in the meantime have some chronohaul lovechildren, I was scrolling around to see what I'd missed and saw @dvdkisser and @orb-weaving fan kids and decided to jump on the bandwagon :)

[rebornrosess]

had a dream greg tried to drown himself in a pool just so tom would do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on him????????

[hyerratia]

I should've made Admiral blue. Darn.