#uhhhh evolution

[sarahmackattack]

Last night while making a lecture for my class, I learned about these fluffy little nightmares.

Meet the blind mole rat. It spends its life underground, where it eats roots and burrows by chomping the ground with its huge teeth.

Their eyes are super small and covered in a layer of skin (yeesh). Their eyes can't form pictures in the same way ours can, BUT! They are able to detect the magnetic field of the earth- this is called magnetosensation! This is not an x-men skill, just a thing a little burrowing weirdo evolved. Sick.

Pic from Максим Яковлєв on our ol pal wikipedia.

[jayrockin]

I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.

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[bunnieswithknives]

hey in ur peri animatic: (https://youtu.be/OCqlRuDaXYU?si=K52WDu_vw9rg7chz) that I have been permanently obsessed over since today and have watched about 20 times by now so much that I have drawn & posted stuff based on it what was that partial bug form peri had?

I haven’t watched either of the show btw so if it’s explained in the show please tell me plsssss

OK, SO the bug thing is not technically canon to the series. It's based on my own headcanons for fairy biology, but i do have justifications for it!! Fairies have very strong shape-shifting abilities, so it would make sense that the form they show to humans isn't necessarily their true form(not to mention extreme that mimicry is very common in insects). And you want to know the visible traits almost every fairy has in common? Being very small with Insect-like wings.

The fact that their humanoid form isn't their true form in actually confirmed in the show! Cosmo and Wanda are revealed to look like biblically accurate pseudo-angels in the museum episode. (I say pseudo angels because the Flaming Sword of Eden is only debatably sentient and I don't think is considered an angel. Ophanim are also debatably not angels because they don't have wings (sorry for the angel tangent I like angels))

So wouldn't their true forms be angelic then? Well, yes. But I like bugs so. Also I have more headcanons to justify myself. I like to think that they have both a true-true form (incomprehensible to the human brain, probably exists mostly in a dimension invisible to us, that looks how we imagine biblically accurate angels), and a fairy form (which is visible to humans but is naturally very insect like and tends to scare people). So, in order to interact with humans, they have to learn to shapeshift into a humanoid form but will occasionally slip if they get too relaxed/aren't careful, hence the mandibles coming out when he yawns!

The reason they struggle so much more with human forms than the animals or objects they typically turn into is that, well, they aren't trying to convince those animals or objects. The more human they try to look, the harder it is to keep up convincingly. If you turn into a really uncanny squirrel, only other squirrels will notice. If you turn into a really uncanny human, they form a lynch mob and burn you at the stake.

[velaraffricate]

ok i swear NOW im gonna make a naturalistic conlang i swear bro ill actually stick to it this time im gonna. shudder. learn how to evolve grammar

[goldensunset]

i need to. do more kh x pokémon things

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

Image ID: Drawings of Diaf, an alien with a large crest, short beak-like snout, and thin line-like eyes. The first image is her neutral coloration, which in her language looks a bit like, “we together watch,” with a soft period. The next images show the colorations for the sentences, “you want that fruit?” and, “you want the green fruit?” The subject is denoted with the upper part of the crest, and the action is specified with the lower, wider portion. The object of the sentence is shown with the front of the head, above the beak. The tone and punctuation are denoted with the chin and neck. Diaf can do a wide range of colors, and certain words occasionally have certain colors. Diaf also shows her curiosity by opening her mouth and indicating with her tongue-arms. End image ID.

Wouldn’t it be cool if body language and spoken language were swapped.

[sp1resong]

im trying to solidify my rain world creature anatomy headcanons but caramel lizards are making that REALLY FUCKIN DIFFICULT

[cherrysnax]

Demeter is afraid of bats so their main villian is gonna be this like. mad scientist who prolly created the spiders that bit her who is prolly experimenting on themselves to become some sort of bat creature.. like man-bat and the lizard mixed together but I don’t think this guy is in anyway sympathetic. he’s obsessed with evolution, he’s bored of humanity he’s prolly obsessed with spider-man (whichever spider-man exists in this universe is probably going to die or sumn 😭)

[thedndgoblinwholivesinyourwalls]

josh and adele at weezer concert. they proposed to eachother there. ‘your eyes are weezer blue,’ ‘you’re eyes are weezer blue too!!!’ and then they kissed.

[dannybobany]

IM SO HAPPY TO OBLIGE TEHEHEHEHEH

So I’m not sure if you remember but one time I did go off at you about this fnaf swap au I have where Mrs Afton is the killer instead of William? Well. I like that au a lot but I’m not super interested in fnaf anymore so I’ve been wanting to do something else with that framework, hence … this? Whatever it is?

I only have the barest of details down, like instead of remnant we’re doing vampirism now and the family’s surname is Adams instead of Afton (hence the naming convention for the company)

Cecil gets to keep his name since I came up with that on my own anyway but I’m changing Clara’s since that’s just a popular fanon name- some characters are going to be fused to clean up the cast a bit like… Micheal and Elizabeth, and Betty and Delilah, as a way of removing characters who’s presence only made sense in the context of a fnaf au while still getting to keep elements I like 💖💖💖

Not sure what this new thing is called yet since I do have to take Cheshire out… actually animatronics in general have to be kind of passed out for more traditional robots that are at the very least only vaguely reminiscent of fnaf- Cheshire and Franbear unfortunately have no place anymore- although that doesn’t mean I’m removing Fran, just that she has to play a different role, maybe she’s actually just Cecil’s sister now…

My ass is getting way too into calligraphy right now

[candlefairybb]

I always kinda saw the Bounsweet evolution shiny as a missed opportunity for a miku coloration lol (kinda like Kirlia)

So I got very distracted and did some quick recolors on Steenee and Tsareena (sorry for the quality, I did this on my mobile IbisPaint)

Also Uhhhh sorry for like never posting lol

Well

Anyways

Hope you enjoyed, bye-bye

[vioranhyperfixation]

Damian : #011, it has come to my attention that you are unproductive at the leisure time you are excuse with during the time when I'm unavailable. And that's just improper.

#011 : um.. Then what I'm supposed to do? There's nothing here.

Damian : i have realized that too so I decided to brought upon you this

#011 : ???

Damian : this is doll's, a toy with a shell that have similarity to human that most use to play pretend.

Damian : that would also be the case for you. You shall use this doll's to help develop your productivity and creativity.

#011 : ahhh..

Damian : would you like to play it with me?

#011 : yeah!

Damian : then shall we make a series of stories with those doll? Let me start it, this girl is a star, her name is Khalila. She is a bright star, it just that she has a problem, she has not yet granted a human wish like all other star has done. So she was hoping to find someone to grant wish to, upon that thought she caught a brown girl looking hopefull at the sky and she thought, maybe this would be the day!

#011 :

Damian :

#011 :

#011 : uhhhh,, should I continue it?

Damian : yeah, just said anything you want

011 : "star, if you can hear me, please listen to my plea. My brothen had betrayed me and I'm left with the rubble of my home..

Damian : *nod and nudge him to continue

#011 : "I use to think that they would always stand besides me, I don't know they feel that that they are behind me! I- I just want the best for all of us!

Sometimes in the future at the wayne manor

Bruce : Rafi, is there anything you want to do on the weekend?

Rafi : yeah, I'm going to continue the ten wish

Bruce : is that a show you watch?

Tim : what it is about? I don't think I ever heard of that.

Rafi : of course you don't, because ten wish is not a show. It's my doll's lore on the 34th universe

Bruce : sorry?

Tim : well, that's interesting

Rafi : it is, currently my main character. River, is undergoing a survival competition to secure a position on the Catalyst. But because she is well known on her talent of fighting and intelligence she need to use other way to compete, and that's is by registering herself as a professional mourner

Bruce : what?

Rafi : you know, It is a tradition in South East Asia that a loud funeral will assist the dead as they travel to the afterlife, so professional mourners are hired to cry and weep loudly throughout the service. And she register herself as that. I mean, most of her loved one are dead, so she's pretty good at it. Crying and weeping that is.

Bruce : I don't think that's a good way to deal with having your loved one died.

Rafi : I don't want to hear that from someone going feral when his son died.

Bruce :

Tim :

Tim : yeah, I won't lie. It is pretty bad bruce

Rafi : anyway, it has been going pretty well on river part. On the other hand, things are going pretty badly on Khalila part. Jupiter and Neptunus heve yet to come back after the moon revolution.

Tim : wait- wait- you mean evolution?

Rafi : no, revolution.

Tim : okay- I think we skip a big part here.

Rafi : yeah, obviously. This is part 57, you skip 56 part, you're missing on a lot.

Tim : can't we, start from part one?

Rafi : god no, it's a lot. If we put it into book it can lead from 7 to 9 book! If you want to know about what you're missing at you can ask Jason, he listen from the start since we are at LoA. If you don't feel like asking then just skip it, you will understand later anyway.

Jason *who's putting a criminal body to a trash can : hatchuu-

Roy : bless you man

Jason : is someone talking about me? God I hope it's not Bruce.

[otiksimr]

Thoughts on the totodile line? Or Snivy (they're my 2 fav starters personally) what's your favorite starter?

Totodile is cute.

Croconaw.

Feraligatr is cute.

Snivy line is cute too, the middle evolution is pretty uhhhh, but that's just most pokemon middle evolution. And in terms of favorite starer line it's Poppilos :). I really like Primarina shame the shiny is lack luster, but once again that applies to most pokemon.

[whimsicaltwine]

Gems science skin gives splatoon vibes to me for some reason. You can do something with this you’re the splatoon mutual I believe in you

I did not think about this but you are INCREDIBLY CORRECT. she's an octoling scientist as we've established, but maybe she's specifically a biologist. she got her start in the biology of the inhabitants of the splatoon world and was one of the early academics who noticed that inkling and octoling evolution happened on a really a weird timeline - she just couldn't figure out what caused it until alterna was discovered! she's currently in the middle of publishing a paper about that in a prestigious octoling journal, but in the process, has become fascinated by human biology and culture.

fwhip's ambivalent about this because to him, it's sort of like "ok they've been gone forever though who cares," but he can tell gem finds this stuff interesting, so he lets her ramble about bipedalism in creatures with internal skeletons or whatever. sausage is into it but all the science stuff sorta goes over his head - he keeps trying to get gem to assemble a collection of human music. gem thinks that'd be a fun project, but is trivial compared to what she's working on now.

uhhhh also something something the applications of the alterna dream crystal things in medicine. I can't be bothered to develop this thought that much but know that gem keeps emailing medical researchers en masse trying to get them to pick it up because guyyyysssss think of the possibilities in prosthetics and what if we could regrow organs wouldn't that be cool

[blackbird-brewster]

OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT, I HAVE MORE THOUGHTS ABOUT TARA LEWIS!!

(I've watched the episodes now! woooo)

Tara being not only queer BUT ALSO specifying to Emily 'This is not the first time I've dated a woman' adds such DELICIOUS subtext through Tara/Emily through the years. Like???? All the times we, the gays, said Tara and Emily are flirting! Welp, guess what my gays, Tara was 100% flirting.

Tara and Emily first meeting in Tribute? The Tara glancing Emily up and down in when Emily lies and says she didn't know Louise? (queer)

Tara being the one to ask if Emily's going to stay on as UC? (queer)

Tara bringing Emily an office warming present? (queer)

Tara asking Emily 'Why are you looking at me like that?' (queer)

'I don't know, I thought maybe we'd get lucky.' (queer)

The end of False Flags where Tara (heart eyes mf) Lewis is standing in a doorway smiling at Emily? (queer)

I love it. I love it so much I want to unhinge my jaw and devour it all. ALSO The fact it's EMILY who in exactly 3.7 seconds clocked Tara and Rebecca are 'SO A THING' is so iconic. Ma'am?? No heterosexual explanation there. Cishet ppl do not pick up on queers that quickly, we all know that (they're just gal pals). PLUS when Tara tried to deny it and Emily goes *Sure,Jan* with her face???? Emily is like 'literally I know fam when I see fam' (Only to follow it up with the GAYEST reply 'Tara, the temperature went up ten degrees in here when you both walked in!' ???? DAS GHEY)

I've decided that Emily and Tara had some flirtation over the years, hell maybe they went out a couple of times, but they decided they're better as friends and now Emily is like 'YAY YOU HAVE A CUTE GIRLFRIEND!!!' (wholesome)

I love the idea of Tara and Emily being queer pals and Emily is so hyped Tara is happy with Rebecca now (SAPPHIC FRIEND SOLIDARITY!) (I still 100% ship Temily! But I also love and respect our CANONICAL QUEER RELATIONSHIP: TEBECCA!!!!! We should celebrate Tara/Rebecca as much (if not more) than the fanon wlw ships.)

Thoughts About Tara Lewis (CM Evolution Spoilers)

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[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Neurodivergency stuff:

Having a character hyperfixation is so bizarre

[a rant about how character hyperfixations are different than special interests, how seeing Hobies makes me feel, and also daydreams that I don't necessarily control]

I talk about stuff like this here because I feel it should be normalized 🥺😁

I love Hobie. He's my hyperfixation.

But it's not like a special interest or normal hyperfixation. Like I love trains and subways and metros and I'll eat up ANYTHING about them but like - the interest is completely from an intellectual standpoint.

My Hobie hyperfixation is completely different.

Bruh I get about as much comfort looking at his photo as I do like hugging my own mother or some shit and that's not an understatement

Especially actual screenshots of the movie. Like I love fanart but for it to hit right it has to be 'actually him'.

Looking at photos of him genuinely calms me down and thinking about his voice makes me feel safe. I trust him.

I can accurately 'daydream' about him doing almost anything in vivid detail, but I'm not necessarily in control of him in those daydreams. There are just certain things he won't do. If I ask him a question I won't know the answer unless I 'ask' him. And if I don't like is answer I can't just change it cause he said what he said!!!

Um but yeah at least for me it's way more than 'Oh I love this character and reading fics about him' and way closer to 'this is somehow a person to me I talk to through my head. And I can feel the same warm feelings towards him as I do an actual existing human.

I know I can't touch him or hug him - and that gives the exact same emotion as if you were missing a friend that went away to college.

I know it's not the same, but my brain produces the same feeling from different scenarios than other people.

Like just by looking at this photo I can imagine the way his vest feels and what is like to hold his hand, and the fabric of his shirt, the way he smells, his guitar by my leg - and it's like ... I'm not trying to do that that's just what happens when I look at the photo

AND I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT ANY OTHER WAY OR ANY CLEARER AND I-

At least twice I week I have a daydream of Hobie rubbing my back and telling me to calm down and how he understands why I'm upset all in his accent in a very specific detailed rendition of his home thats never been shown on screen before-

And the emotional response is just as real and holds weight in my brain the same. It's way beyond just an intellectual interest, at least in my case.

Character hyperfixations are more emotional connections.

And IDK if that's how it is for everyone else??!!!! But uhhhh!!!!! Yeah- ummmm- haha yah mhm

I hope somebody can relate but like waking up and looking at a Hobie photo feels like waking up beside him and THAT'S THE TRUTH and if you think that's weird or cringe then

Homie idk what you want me to tell you it is what it is

And some people may find that weird or cringe or whatever I don't give the slightest fuck because isn't that amazing that the human brain can do that - see a human creation and take some much meaning and emotion from it, making a full circle of human creation and art powered souly by human emotion and the ridiculously sophisticated imagination humans are only capable of through centuries of evolution right

But can somebody tell me if it's like this for them or if not what does your Hobie hyperfixation look like

Also if you have daydreams too please tell me about them like can you control him in them like a Barbie doll, or is he completely independent?

Mines is probably 90% independent - there's somethings either outside of his character or things he just won't do

[like for those who follow me, in my head I can ask Hobie to take me to the locked basement, and he'll absolutely say no. And if I try to imagine him doing it, the daydream I imagine is a lot more paperthin, plus Hobie will say "That's not it and that's not me, quit imagining me like that-" and I can't continue the daydream

I-]

Since I just exposed myself lemme just-