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Give me your alien/specbio design and I’ll make a punnett square of them

I need my daily dose of tables and data organizing. Gimme gimme. All I need is you to send me / reblog with / whatever pictures of at least two distinct guys of your species and if you’d like, a few words about how their genetic system works. If you don’t have a generic system developed, that’s fine, I’ll think of something! (I’ll post the result on my misc art blog)

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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Zzzzz

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Creecher

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I tried drawing him with my foot

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Yuwiilik - assigning gender

These are the genders recognized by one of the most long lasting series of cultures in the world of Total Convergence..? - the Yuwiilik, or as I call them, the gut culture. There are many cultures spanning across time and space that are Yuwiilik, and share similar characteristics like the organs having an important meaning to them and their importance and recognition of genders. And there are three to four in total: The man, the siiyuo, and two woman subtypes - the yuoi and the yuou.

These two get often grouped together under the umbrella term “woman”, but still recognized as distinct gender identities. Yuou is a very butchered ancient term for something like “Us, tribeskeeper”, while yuoi is something like “Us, huntress”, and these translations have a tiny connection to their roles in the society, but the roles change across the time while the gender itself still remains recognized.

The people (I tend to call all my sophont species people) of Yuwiilik assign the gender similarly like we do - they look at the newborn’s genitals. However, they use a few slightly different methods. Here’s a diagram showing how a Yuwiilik person would assign which gender based on what they see between their child’s legs. The yuo yowa are born with their external genitalia not fully developed, and so the testicles aren’t fully erupted from the pelvic area, some yuos are born completely without them but “grow” them once they’re mature enough.

This bloody discharge from the vagina happens under the influence of mother’s hormones when the child was still connected to her through the umbilical cord. It can, but doesn’t have to happen. Whether this discharge happens or not is a used to assign either the yuoi or the yuou gender, as you can see in the picture. And it happens in humans too!

I promised a post about sexism and matriarchy along with this one, but I’ve decided to separate these two things into different posts. Enjoy and see you next time!

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ewww anime ewww

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Hearing Ranges

This video visualizes the range of hearing in four of my sophonts from TC..?. I have purposefully exported it with only the original audio playing, not with the effects applied to it. The way we percieve sound is tied to many things like neurobiology and psychology, not just the ear anatomy, so I didn't want to give off the impression that bypassing a frequency is all I have to do give you an idea of what my sophonts hear like. For example, the Xa may have a pretty slim hearing range of frequency, but they can discern all kinds of sounds played together at once extremely well. Now try to transform this into something similar a human can percieve.

Pale yellow line is the original sound (what you hear), bright yellow line is what the creature would be able to hear. You can see what kinds of frequencies in the human speech are cut off. Red line is the tool of the sound equalizer or however you'd like to call it, and visualizes possible spectrum and its intensity for the creature. The row at the bottom is in hertz, the collumn in decibels (in terms of audio editing, it's not the actual decibels you hear, that depends on how you set up your speakers (don't look at that collumn (it's not important))). A reminder that the maximum hearing range of a human is 20Hz - 20 000Hz. I don't think throwing a speech banana over this thing would be enough, it doesn't show the range of frequencies each sound makes or how it interacts with other sounds. Like this you can watch how different kinds of letters wiggle around in what parts of the spectrum.

The fact that it's Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting In A Room has nothing to do with the topic, I just wanted to test this on a clear recording of a person speaking and this is the first thing I remembered.

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I plan to do a gigantic post about the genders and sexism in one of the cultures from my world but school has been kicking my butt lately. I’m not really sure when I’ll prepare this, but I think sometime in three months could be a realistic timespan for me. I have like 4 pages of notes on this, now I just have to give them some structure hahah.

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I sometimes return to the Yuo Yowa head to test thigns out

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A little something something with my punnett cubes

This is one of the “heads” of my recent alien design, they have antler-like projections that I decided to test out the three possible allele types. The classic is dominant A, recessive a, and my addition, alpha as the third option. It’s not perfect for I’d most likely have to rework the whole genetic system cause dominant vs recessive is a pretty binary mechanism and it’s hard to imagine how would a third option affect the organism’s phenotype. Here I’ve decided to test it out on the percentage of the antler that gets covered by flattened out surfaces, with both the dominant and the alpha allele increasing its surface area, the difference being that the dominant allele creates fewer large disks, while the alpha allele creates many smaller disks that branch out like cactus leaves.

Enjoy my crappy notes again:

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M-JL3

[main-jupiter linage 3]

sophont species

M-JL3 is one of the three Ganymede sophont species. As any species in the Jupiter moon system, they're aquatic and live by the bottom of Ganymede's ocean, enduring high-pressure environments.

their reproduction is sorta like mitosis, but instead splitting off a smaller chunk of ones self- that grows into a new being.

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Punnett cube followup

A little animation to make the diagram more comprehensible! Feel free to use this as a reference if you want to calculate your creature's genetics

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You've heard of punnett squares, now get ready for punnett cubes

A punnett square, but for three parents, from all of which the child inherits its genes.

4D punnett cube

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A little addition - materials!

Some Yuo Yowa house ideas

All of them have a circular floor plan

Distribution:

And some sketches from last year that I decided to expand upon:

Enjoy my very comprehensible notes.

The houses don’t have typical windows, but instead they have ornamental carvings in the walls (as seen on the older sketches) that let only some sun/moonlight in, and also create light pattens on the inner walls of the houses. Yuo Yowa prefer dim light and during this timeline don’t spend too much time inside. Yuo Yowa are somewhat arboreal, they fing comfort in sleeping above the floor and climb effortlessly, thanks to their claws they can even scale wooden walls, so in more densly populated areas with thieves the walls can be sloped to prevent unwanted climbers from breaking in from the top.

These would be the houses one would see around during the time Maia and Owen for example, were alive. During this time, the very first civilizations have already appeared, but the majority of the planet are hunters/hunter gatherers.

Left to right: Owen, Kob, Maia. Last pic credit: Miininit

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Some Yuo Yowa house ideas

All of them have a circular floor plan

Distribution:

And some sketches from last year that I decided to expand upon:

Enjoy my very comprehensible notes.

The houses don’t have typical windows, but instead they have ornamental carvings in the walls (as seen on the older sketches) that let only some sun/moonlight in, and also create light pattens on the inner walls of the houses. Yuo Yowa prefer dim light and during this timeline don’t spend too much time inside. Yuo Yowa are somewhat arboreal, they fing comfort in sleeping above the floor and climb effortlessly, thanks to their claws they can even scale wooden walls, so in more densly populated areas with thieves the walls can be sloped to prevent unwanted climbers from breaking in from the top.

These would be the houses one would see around during the time Maia and Owen for example, were alive. During this time, the very first civilizations have already appeared, but the majority of the planet are hunters/hunter gatherers.

Left to right: Owen, Kob, Maia. Last pic credit: Miininit

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Just made a misc art blog! If you’re interested in more of my stuff, not just TC..? related, consider following me there!

Hey cuties I’m on tumblr now :33

Posting this jakapil kaniukura from 2022 to start off this blog