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fauna of the pleistocene

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Talita is always a naked little creature in her baby pictures, I'm guessing she either didn't need or wouldn't tolerate clothes till she got older. Is that accurate?

If you wanna try putting a tiny pair of pants on this thing, be my guest

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i can be trusted with making fantasy maps

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Originating from the African continent, the Ocos are one of the most widespread populations of intelligent species, with some of the biggest population centres in Africa, Asia, India, and the European Archipelago.

While omnivorous, Ocos seem to have evolved from specialized predators of mammals, and retain exceptionally acute hearing and crepuscular habits. While still widely farmed a livestock, some cultures view mammals as “pestilent” and unsuitable as food. Fish, fruit, and eggs are also common favorite foods

Despite only having mild sexual dimorphism (the most obvious difference is males usually having light facial disks and females darker ones), Oco society is traditionally highly segregated, adults of different sexes often expected to not interact at all unless with family or mates, essentially living in separate parallel societies. This traditional segregation however has been weakening in recent years.

It is claimed by some that Ocos are the wisest and most clever species of all, but you only hear this from Ocos themselves, they might be a bit biased on the topic.

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this is meeee!

followers/mutuals please drop your artfights in the replies i am team fossil :-)

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Also! I'm on artfight this year! (Under a different username, it's my toyhouse username so it's also my artfight) I've joined Team Fossils. Come stop by!

No guarantee i'll be able to keep up with every attack or revenge because I've also got a job irl to tend to, but i'll try my best!

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a summer solstice celebration in sartrill, honoring the crakam and rau-kaksen gods sekuuti and akestur, but the event itself focuses moreso on the former... More about it below

sekuuti being associated with, and being seen as according to legend, the Sun and thusly responsible for the day, obviously hints towards being the focus of the celebration... but the "reasoning" for the tradition actually comes from a belief about akestur during the long days of summer.

akestur, the moon and night, is in an eternal chase after sekuuti according to rau-kaksen and crakam legend. over the course of the year akestur is put under pressure, and it is during summer where his doubts become the greatest. his flight pattern becomes irregular, and it is almost as if he paces himself in a way to avoid sekuuti, his nights become short and sekuuti's days longer.

during the celebration, a large feast is organised and usually a play is performed by the community, usually involving two adult actors, one rau-kaksen and one crakam (sekuuti and akestur respectively), and a few younger actors to represent the first rau-kaksen and crakam, and the "origin story" of both peoples is retold. later, religious community leaders tell stories of ancestors, and then also pleads with sekuuti herself - basically reminding her of the eternal pursuit, and that she needs to resume the chase, and pursue akestur until their pace is in synch again. in the Lore sekuuti is seen as a person who does need a reminder every once in a while of course...

it is common that summer solstice is a bigger thing among rau-kaksen communities, since its more associated with sekuuti, but it is important to crakam too, but they usually only attend the celebrations later as they have a crepuscular disposition while basilisks have a diurnal one. but thats also why the "important stuff" usually happens at an optimal time for both to attend.

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Here's what I've been up to lately! Three years after I created the original version, here's a revamp of the first planet I mapped out for @jayrockin's "Runaway to the Stars" project, the homeworld of their Centaur aliens. This post covers Phase One: Geology.

Firstly, the Equirectangular elevation maps with and without the color gradient layer, and tectonic plate map. This color gradient marks sea level, of course, and while there are inland areas that are *also* below that elevation, I have yet to determine which of those basins have lakes and seas therein, and how their shorelines compare; *that* will be seen once I figure out the climate : ) As for the Plate map, most of the smaller, oblong plates without any rift boundaries represent island chains or continent fragments that accreted onto larger landmasses; discretely marking those was helpful for placing and shaping the mountain ranges.

Next, the Poles-Centered Perspective maps, made possible with Photopea's Polar Coordinates tool. The planet's Southern hemisphere, centered on the south pole, is seen at left, and its Northern hemisphere is seen at right. Like the previous set of three, this set includes the color elevation map, greyscale elevation map, and solid color tectonic plates.

Last of all, the basis for the planet's current appearance: it's tectonic history! These gifs, in six frames, cover about 200 million years of continental drift, starting with the breakup of two Supercontinents, and was primarily achieved in Blender. This isn't my first time trying to reconstruct a tectonic history, but it *is* my first time doing so this quickly and efficiently, thanks to the process I developed here using this planet's continents as a test case.

There will be more phases in this project completed and shared in the coming months, thanks for checking out this one! Also, I've already shared these maps on Reddit, where you should be able to see them in even higher resolution. Photopea and Blender, 2025

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get weird get weird get weird get weird. kiss your sophont friend now

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made a runaway to the stars character; an avian dun with anxious pterotillomania (compulsive feather picking). Their scruffy look, bare neck and notched ear evokes a punk style, especially to those avians who are only vaguely familiar with the concept, and sometimes gets mistaken as an intentional statement.

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Woe, OCs be upon ye

I finally finished all of them for real this time lol. These guys are my 'main characters'. They all work together at the same dredger agency. Hijinks ensue etc etc

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It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy

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WHEEEEEE ETHNICITIES POST PART 1!!!!!!! COS I GOT NO CLUE HOW 2 GO ABOUT CULTURES N SHIT!!!!! LOL!!

OK SO ive FINALLY finished the 5 main colour variations (& overall morphology) for angels!!! posting these separate from the culture post cos i still have fuckall idea for that(plus theres already a fair few images in this post if i tried combining the 2 i would have..... a long ass post lol) ANYWAY:

SALT DESERT: least populous of the 5. theyre essentially tundra angels but w thicker skin & MUCH paler. built to handle extreme temperature variation as well as VERY STRONG air currents & high altitudes. body type is typically tall & skinny, with long wings & sail. theyre 3rd best in terms of long-distance flight.

TUNDRA: most populous of the 5. theyre the goldilocks in terms of preffered climate, in that they stick to the tundras & savannas of homeworld(not too hot/cold, average wind speed, etc). body types vary, but theyre usually on the leaner side for aerodynamics, with long wings & sail. 2nd best at long-distance flight.

CENTRAL CLIFFS: 2nd most populous of the 5 & are built to survive the warmer temperatures of the equator throughout the year. body types are typically on the heavier side to help with burrowing & to accommodate for the much higher likelihood of getting domed by flying debris, as well as broad-but-short wings & sail. theyre 2nd worst at long-distance flight, as theyre more suited for climbing & gliding than powered flight.

NORTH/SOUTH COAST: 3rd most populous of the 5. coastal angels are the largest of the angel types, and are built to survive & navigate the seas & frozen coastlines of homeworld with ease. theyre the best at long-distance flight, as they often take regular journeys from the north to the south to ferry resources between both the coastal spheres as well as other spheres that might be up to trade. body types are usually TALL & WELL BUILT, with a long sail & wings.

TROPICS: 2nd least populous of the 5 as well as the shortest. theyre an offshoot of coastal angels who preffered to burrow amongst the more varied plantlife of angel homeworld. theyre the worst at flying, often only able to glide & fly in short bursts(similar to earth chickens) as theyre almost entirely suited to burrowing. the average body type for tropic angels is short & stocky, with short wings.

like usual, gif stills r under the readmore :)

angles:

map:

(was gonna send the stills but i hit the image limit LOL so youll have 2 have the merged map sorry)

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My interpretation of Chris Wayan's Planetocopia, a set of alien worlds that test the limits of planetary habitablity (and also, as it happens, alien furry design.)

Planetocopia can be found here.

The planetary science based design of Planetocopia has been a huge influence on my planet-scale worldbuilding style ever since I learned of it probably close to a decade ago.

These drawings were mostly done by projecting the planet maps onto an orthographic projection and then tracing the coastlines, with all other features done manually, but some of them were traced from the photos of the physical globe models, and Kakalea, Xanadu, and Serrana were done freehanded.

Cloudless version below the cut.

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C&A is a neobotanics and nooscionics lab. In other words, they grow and train sophont AIs, “seedlets,” and design software and hardware to interface organic minds with digital systems.

It’s a small enough company to draw little suspicion, but credible enough to be contracted big name operations (mainly military).

They accidentally trapped a person in a noospace, the “noosciocircus”, with Caine, a seedlet grown and owned by C&A. He’s a well meaning seedlet, tasked to keep the trapped person sane as C&A keeps their body alive as long as possible.

In an effort to recover the person from the inside, they sent in another only to trap them as well. Their cumulating mistake becomes harder to pull the plug on as it would kill both the trapped and Caine, an expensive investment who just also happens to be reporting immensely valuable nootic data from his ongoing simulation.

C&A continues to send agents to assist the trapped from within, each with relevant skills. They’re getting a bit desperate, since the pool of candidates is limited to those who work with C&A and would not draw too much attention if gone missing.

So, the noosciocircus becomes testing ground for lesser semiohazards.

Semiohazards are stimuli that trigger a destructive response in the brain of perceivers. Semiohazards can be encoded into any medium, but are generally easiest to encode into sights and air pressure sequences. The effect, “a mulekick,” can range in severity from temporary disabled breathing, to seizure, to brain death.

Extreme amputations (“truncations”) occur when a trapped agent ingests a semiohazard that permanently shuts off the brain’s recognition of some body part as its own. Sieving is a last resort to permanently mechanically support the life of the trapped. Thanks to modern advancements, this is cheap and sustainable. Those overexposed to the hazards become the abstracted and are considered lost.

Semiohazards being a current hotspot of discovery and design means C&A is sending in semiotic specialists alongside programmers. Ragatha was sent in to provide the trapped with nootic endurance training, but underestimated the condition of the trapped. Gangle, too, was sent to help the trapped navigate their new nootic state, but her own dealt avatar clotheslined her progress. She wasn’t too stable entering to begin with, but C&A’s options are limited.

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Introducing my next project, Anatomica Mythologiae: A hard enamel pin series featuring screenprinted skeletal diagrams of mythological monsters.

If interested, be sure to click the "Notify Me" button on the link here to get emailed when it launches in January!

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How equal can a society be if some fundamentals are unusable by a third of the population? You can learn a lot about a world by looking at the little details, especially in furry settings!