#they r different species.

[laughing-thrush]

Ha, I assumed it was about grackles! We’ve got brown headed cowbirds in Indiana, I’ve never heard of a shiny cowbird. Brown headeds have less iridescence and they don’t hang out in parking lots really, so you threw me for a sec lol

Comments in that parking lot bird poll is how I just learned that shiny cowbirds are a fairly recent introduction from South America who are only common in Florida, and not a nationwide feature of Walmarts

[filurig]

ok so i have finally given my tomtar a bit of a Revamp... i was unsatisfied with them just being basically. anthro corvid. now i mean theyre still kind of Anthro birdish creature, but now they arent birds anymore and rather related to harpies and basilisks (whose ancestors are the scansoriopterygids).

ive been pondering some world lore with them and also vätte technology as well as their energy resource so yes they now fit a bit the "dwarvern/gnome tinkerer" archetype hehe...

[seabeck]

The radioisotope experiments on that lake near me are fascinating in so many ways but mostly in the Jurassic park/chaos theory aspect.

The lake’s outlet was dredged, beavers removed, and fish species (native and otherwise) poisoned in an attempt to control nature and minimize manipulated variables. Then the steelhead they put in decided to be rainbow trout and wouldn’t go to sea. The lake was poisoned again to hopefully start over with a clean slate.

After that, they put in steelhead x rainbow trout hybrids (they’re the same species!! Literally the same!!) and numerous were eaten by steelheads that had managed to survive. And ofc these “hybrids” didn’t want to go to sea either (“the rainbow trout genes were dominant”) so they poison the lake again and put in sockeye who ate so much and grew so quickly it threw off their life cycle and also didn’t want to go to sea!

If you go there now the beavers are back and the creek has returned to a natural state. Nature Life uh finds a way.

[frozenjokes]

mermaid Etho, meeting cleo for the first time: oh god he’s so fucking scary hidehidehidehidehide

bdubs: actually cleo uses she/they pronouns :)

etho:

bdubs:

etho: huh

bdubs, internally: oh god is the homeless guy I plucked off the street transphobic

etho, internally: what the fuck is a ‘she’

cleo: hi im cleo

[menderash]

Marika, impregnating herself for the third time: this one will be normal

[snowberry-pie]

cazador is an objectively terrible person who has committed atrocities beyond comprehension but there are times i cannot take him seriously because he’s like. so evil it’s almost cartoonish. he looks like chancellor ocato from tes oblivion. he’s three or four maturity ratings away from being a scooby doo villain

[joelletwo]

forgot what i was doing.............................

[prince-ically]

Legendary Pokémon "Family Tree"

Look this probably doesn't make any sense to like Anyone that isn't my sleep deprived ass but I've spent like 4 hours on this and my art program crashed three times so I'm posting it anyway. I'm brainstorming just some random stuff for a Pokemon story I want to write and as I'm sitting there I wonder to myself- "Did Arceus create *all* the Legendary Pokémon, I know Ho-oh made the *beasts* so surely..." and thus This was born.

It's designed to be how all the Pokemon gods are related/created, with Arceus at the top. Arceus created Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, The lake Guardians, Kyogre, Groudon, ect. who then went on to create their own gods in their own domains.

Some of these lines are less "I created you" and more "I have ascended to godhood by my own power/due to a gift." (See- dotted lines).

This is so full of headcanons but it was fun to make.

[nyaskitten]

I KNOW the tags are still a mess (for some stupid fucking reason) but here are some silly ideas I've had that I REALLY wanted to share !!!!

(PLEASE REBLOG!!!)

[fear-no-mort]

love it when i remember rnm fanart can be quite literally anything

[whatudottu]

Seeing the “cerebrocrustaceans are highly territorial” headcanon slowly start to pick up more steam (albeit with a split as to whether they’re so cliquey and ride-or-die they view everyone who isn’t in their in-group as a potential threat until they’ve made it abundantly clear that they mean no harm or if they despise any sort of group collaboration unless it’s absolutely, positively necessary) makes me wonder if it’s a common stereotype by the galactic audience to view them as being massive pricks to everyone they meet. Like, oh, everyone on Encephalonus-IV hates each other’s guts and they’re incessantly rude to anyone and everyone they come across! They’re so petty and envious they can’t stand the thought of anyone being better at them than anything and delight in the suffering and misfortune of people they don’t like! They fly into murderous rages if a galvan so much as breathes on them, and if they weren’t such cowards, they’d nuke Galvan Prime into oblivion only to immediately start yet another rivalry with some other species for one reason or another!

Hah! Doesn’t help their case that Dr Psychobos became very well known thanks to the super famous superhero Ben 10!

But no yeah with galvans being the cold detached sort of smart, especially with their prevalence in intergalactic relationships (you don’t become the smartest being in not one but multiple galaxies by sitting alone in your room), what comparatively little interaction to the wider galactic sphere cerebrocrustaceans have has more expectations than if the galvans were more subtle in their influence. If you’ve heard how much of an grumpy old man scientist the First Thinker is, especially when you hear about one of his creations striking out against him due to neglect, well you’ve already started to get the picture of an isolated workspace that no one dares interrupt.

So then you come face to face with a snappy cerebrocrustacean scientist who’s rude, direct, and hovering over your shoulder making sure you don’t fuck up, well you won’t really find many cases of neglect when everything you do is under scrutiny. I guess the difference between my headcanon and @ohyeahben10 ‘s headcanon would be if you can endure the territorial… hostility may not be the right word, the fact that you’re in the same space as a cerebrocrustacean at work is already more than what they’d typically give, in my headcanon sphere you could potentially get past that barrier and transition from outgroup to ingroup; I don’t know exactly what’s in ohyeah’s head but I assume given his headcanons she might say that you practically could never get on a cerebrocrustacean’s good side, or at least not as close as an ingroup would suggest-

Either or, it’s gonna leave a bad first impression, and that is how the stereotype for being prickish is so widespread. Potentially, if a notable cerebrocrustacean scientist works intergalactically, the stereotype may narrow to Encephalonus IV having a very dickish social culture.

[kakushusband]

I cant FIND my original neopets au post to add this onto but Kaku would be a spotted Ogrin while Champagne is a white Wocky 🩷

[varjopeura]

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[bam-monsterhospital]

how wet you want your fish?

looking up species in dnd land, and foolish me for thinking there's any sort of distinction in anything wizards of the coast -related.

what are the visual/aesthetic/cultural differences between: sea elves tritons water genasi nereids

none. there's none. there's no rules, there's no guides, it's all the same nebulous 'i dunno, ocean.'

at least merfolk are distinct in that they have fish tails shalarin are distinct because of their silly huge back fin. water genasi and nereids are representative of water itself, so they can be like, made of water-looking. so there's that difference between them and the tritons/sea elves. but fhasdkfl;dsa

i don't know why this bothers me so much. i go to poke around dnd land, looking at oceany elf-y species and designs to feed my ocean forever-cravings and i get met with the vague fog of dnd non-descriptions.

I have to make it clear: this isn't a dig against tritons or sea elves, or whatever. I love oceany species, CLEARLY. I just wish there was variety at all, and I'm so fuckin confused about the redundancy.

[faytears]

it is so tragic that we will never see king/hunter/the collector/vee interact all together in canon :(

[tyrannuspitch]

the fun thing about reading thor and loki as fake twins is that. everywhere in fanon absolutely everywhere people have them going big brother little brother my younger brother odin's eldest frigga's tiny litle baby etc etc it's so established so presumed but not once. not ONCE in canon do they actually say anything more than. thor was born first