#rapax

[danielanoitz]

Sensational Discovery, the Homo Rapax

For a long time, anthropologists thought that Homo Sapiens Sapiens was the most highly developed human species. This still applies. As an upright naked ape, humans have the largest brain among primates and can describe themselves accordingly. What makes the latest discovery seem so sensational, however, is the contradiction to all previous teachings, because all scientists agreed – which is rare…

[psykersomatic]

[sophireal]

big ol brickity bracken

[chicinsilk]

Elle Juin 1986

Paloma Morales wears a viscose top with a zipped collar (Opox Rapax), cotton gabardine pants, and a leather belt. By Kenzo. Antique bracelets in Ivory (Cerise).

Paloma Morales porte un haut en viscose, à col zippe (Opox Rapax), un Pantalon en gabardine de coton et ceinture en cuir. Par Kenzo. Bracelets anciens en Ivoire (Cerise).

Photo Pamela Hanson

[featherstonevintage]

Top coat: Marithe Francois Girbaud Kimono coat: Kenzo Sweater: Opox Rapax

Marie France, November 1984

Photographed by Christian Moser

[rk-x-yz]

It must be fed

[doorrobloxstuff]

Tell us more about Quarry!Seek!!!! I love The Harvesters from Vita Carnis and want to know more about the Harvester/Seek love child!!!

Stuff I can disclose:

Seek is located deep in a phosphate quarry sucking out the nutrients from the earth and the dead people they toss into it.

There’s slip and slides were the other entities send corpses or tied up living people into THE PIT (must always be all caps. Don’t ask why.) to help feed Seek and make it grow.

They were looted from a nearby abandoned store.

Sometimes the kids will slide on them and jump into the pit for fun. They’ll always land in Seek’s mass safely because it can tell friend from food.

That’s annoying.

Rush and Ambush and the rest of the polycule will do the same.

That’s..a tad less annoying.

There’s an elevator that goes directly into the pit. There’s no reason for them to jump into it at ALL.

Has those fun little fanged bits and tendrils and tendrils that liquify people alive harvester style.

Grows citrus or pomegranate-like fruit that’s apart of its body. There’s a large area near THE PIT called The Grove were these “black trees” reside and grow said fruit, which provide nutrition for other entities and attract prey.

Snare lives in here :)

VERY large, is only outmatched by God!Seek in size.

Might be a different color then regular Seek due to the phosphate. Maybe more greyish because Phosphate in it’s natural is white-??

Rafflesia throws used car batteries into there. /j..unless

[ancientcharm]

A recreated Centurion's Phalarae harness, 1st Century AD for Legio XXI Rapax. It would be attached to his Lorica Squamata it holds 10 discs for bravery and service. The two discs upper left (the god Jupiter) and far right (god Janus) are attached to two silver torcs, added bravery awards. They could be small or large, gold or silver, flat or heavily 3D to make them more impressive and visible. Between the two top discs is Herac(k)les battling the Nemean Lion and the middle disc is the Gorgon Medusa (common central motif on Roman high officer's Lorica Musculata for hundreds of years) Above Medusa are two mythical Roman Capricorns that are linked to Augustus, and bottom left is the Emperor Nero. The middle bottom is the Emperor Tiberius standing over his dead enemies. Above Nero, appropriately is a mighty Roman Aquila (eagle) spreading its wings - the very essence of Roma herself. This is one of the most perfect harnesses I have seen, not to over the top but it clearly warns all viewers who these men are.

Text by Dan's Roman History

Photo: Cezary Wyszynski

[starlitmeadows]

y'know what? i think i'll just post all of my Bracken art even though some of it is not so pretty

from oldest to newest!

ref translation below (i'm too lazy to edit the ref in english whoop sorry)

leaves rise to intimidate prey. lowered when at rest

extra joint

forehead eyebrow cheekbone parietal bone temporal bone fused upper and lower jaw + nasal bone skull sutures + Rapax-folium specimens don't have jaws so all the sutures of the skull are connected motionlessly

???vibrissae for reading oscillations and vibrations??? (<- got too silly)

[reredram]

The Rapax - also known as Monk - is ready! Now it's up to Survivor to find his lost sib

[deathofamistress]

scavenger / praepax

a term in which one's identity is, relates to, or can be described as a scavenger creature, and/or being both predator and prey.

this term is a counterpart to predator (link) and prey (link).

"prae-" from "praeda" meaning "prey" + "-pax" from "rapax" meaning "predator"

coined by @deathofamistress. requested by @coblledforest.

this is a mogai / liom / qai identity. anyone can use.

[alphynix]

Spectember/Spectober 2023 #09: Things With Wings

(Apologies for the abrupt absence – I'm okay, just having everything break down at once. This is fine.)

So— back to the speculative evolution request list!

@thebigdeepcheatsy requested a "cactus-dwelling/germinating evolution of introduced rosy-faced lovebirds":

While Agapornis cheatsyi is still quite physically similar to its introduced ancestors, this lovebird has developed a close symbiotic relationship with the cactus Carnegiea ornipolis, a descendant of the modern saguaro.

Naturally fasciated, this cactus grows a splaying fan-like crown which the lovebirds excavate their shallow nest burrows into. Feeding on the cactus' fruit in early summer, the lovebirds then disperse the seeds via their droppings – a process that significantly improves propagation chances, both due to the birds commonly foraging and defecating around suitable nurse plants and the passage through their gut speeding up germination.

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Someone calling themself "LB" asked for some "flying afrotherians":

Elbeitandraka venenifer is a descendant of tree-climbing Malagasy tenrecs that developed gliding membranes – and its lineage is now just about achieving true powered flight.

About 25cm long (~10"), its proportionally short broad wings require it to fly very fast to generate enough lift for its weight. It mostly only actively flies when traveling between roosts and feeding sites (or when escaping from threats), alternating between gliding to save energy and flapping to recover altitude.

It's an opportunistic omnivore, crawling around in the tree canopy foraging for vegetation, fruits, fungi, invertebrates, and the occasional smaller vertebrate, using its flexible sengi-like nose to probe around in crevices.

Much like modern common tenrecs it's capable of hibernating for months at a time through periods of scarce food availability. It also accumulates alkaloid toxins in its body from its arthropod prey, advertising its unpalatability to predators with bold contrasting warning coloration on its wing membranes.

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And here's a combination of a couple of anonymous requests for both "flying heterodontosaurs" and "dragons with hind leg wings, a la sharovipteryx":

Inversodraco rapax is a highly specialized Jurassic descendant of heterodontosaurids that took to climbing and gliding, developing delta-wing-like membranes on their hindlimbs convergently similar to those of the earlier sharovipterygids.

Around 75cm long (~2'6"), it has unusually flexible hip joints for a dinosaur, able to splay its legs out to the sides to deploy wings supported by an elongated outer toe on each foot. Its arms form small forewings for stability, and its long tail ends in a vane of stiffened feathers that aid in steering.

Unlike its herbivorous-to-omnivorous ancestors it's primarily a carnivore, swooping down onto small prey and grabbing it with its talon-like forelimbs.

[chicinsilk]

Elle Juin 1986

Paloma Morales wears a ribbed viscose jersey tank top and pinstriped wool gabardine pants (Danielle Jagot for Georges Rech). Tie-on at the shoulders, beige viscose sweater (Opox Rapax). Sunglasses (Mikli), gloves (Boinot), curb chains (Rambaud). Loafers (Charles Kammer).

Paloma Morales porte un débardeur en jersey viscose côtelé, et un pantalon en gabardine de laine à rayures tennis (Danielle Jagot pour Georges Rech). Noué sur les épaules, pull-over en viscose beige (Opox Rapax) Lunettes (Mikli), Gants (Boinot) Gourmettes (Rambaud). Mocassins (Charles Kammer).

Pamela Hanson

[featherstonevintage]

Teddy coat: Odile Lançon Sweater: Opox Rapax Cashmere shawl: Hermès Sunglasses: Persol

Marie France, November 1984

Photographed by Christian Moser

[rk-x-yz]

The baby ~

[doorrobloxstuff]

I just want to

I want to be rafflesia in the morning

I want to be drowning in fluff

Every. Single. Morning. They have to climb out of fur mountain. Sometimes Rush beloved pulls it back in in. Sometimes Ambush will. This why, when Raff needs to do some nonbinarybossing it’ll sleep with Seek or literally anyone else. The fluffies are wonderous creatures and of course Raffles loves them so. But the fur ocean is no joke.

They wanna snuggle, Raffles wants to scheme and feed people to T H E P I T. Rush wants to snuggle, and Ambush..yes it schemes too.. but snuggle first.

Rafflesia actually HATES sleeping alone. The hotel is scary af even in the daytime….and it thinks about things…like all the murder and it’s past mistakes and the entire weight of its consciousness comes crashing down in the middle mf night when it’s trying to S L E E P. It doesn’t cry of course but it does stare off into space.

Still working on backstory stuff, but it probably lost a lil baby entity..to..well.. let’s just while the killing and mutilating and vita carnising of an entire 30+ mile population is never justified. There is reasoning behind it.