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Color Guide for the Caltrops! Wanted to make a genetic coloring system for them for the funsies. So these fellas from left to right are; A warm-toned, ruby faced fella, a mid-toned fire faced gal, and a cool-toned yellow faced dude! See below for the breakdown of how their colors came to be!
First! The majority of a caltrops color is attributed to their tone. The tone is going to be coloring their thicker, more durable skin. And comes in four main hues! From most to least common, they are mid-toned, warm-toned, cool-toned, and stone-toned.
The tone that a caltrops presents is decided by the presence of red and blue factors within the skin. Red is mostly due to pigment while blue is more circulatory but that's not important right now. All you need to know is that the activation of both factors will lead to a mid-tone, activation of only red will lead to warm-tones, just blue are your cool-tones, and neither gives you a washed out stone-tone. Caltrops can come in various hues of each tone, to where it may sometimes be hard to tell them apart. There's no real differences aside from stone-tones being the most prone to sun burn and mid-tones being more sun resilient. Tones are the base of caltrops colors but they are NOT the most important! Socially, if a caltrop were to describe another, they would first refer to the individuals face coloration! Face colors are a LOT more varied as they are influenced by three main factors. The main factor is RED VALUE. Caltrops have a lot going on with red pigments. Face colors are broken down into two main categories, those WITH red and those WITHOUT red. Having red is the most common condition, the original mutation to turn it off is from a formerly fringe population that has since reintegrated. On top of that is the BLUSH of ones face! Blush can be either high or deep, high blush is generally a lot more airy, whereas deep blush tends to enrich the colors of the face. Both of these are not to be confused with the face genotypes of similar name!
Blush as a pattern can come in a red and redless variety, it leaves the lower face and throat blue so it is very obvious! Others of note are Yellow and Fire, the two patterns without blush influence. These are the true 'base' color that blush is affecting you could say. Rainbow and Limon are 'false' blushes, if only for their wider range of color. Ruby and Green are seen as kind of plain. So knowing all that we can use that to make and PREDICT individuals. Such as this happy family!
A cool-toned mother and mid-toned father can result in all tones except stone. And looking at their face alleles, they produce half of the total face patterns. Though the mothers own rainbow face would not be possible outcome!
Just wanted to flesh out a system for them to have a lot of color variation and wanted to try some genetic planning. It's fun to think of how colors are working in the background. Thank you for reading and hope it makes sense!
#spec bio#speculative biology#ohhhhhh inspired to talk abt coloration on my Fiddleheads now#bc I designed their whole Deal with real world genetics in mind and it is a Shame for it to live only in my head
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Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Planers, 1875
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"the ides of march". "neil banging out the tunes". "superputinelection"
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a few more great films that are free on the internet archive
in decent quality too!
first list, second list
aggregate letterboxd list, archive list of all the films
perfect blue (1997) dir. satoshi kon
carol (2015) dir. todd haynes
the elephant man (1980) dir. david lynch
a girl walks home alone at night (2014) dir. ana lily amirpour
d.e.b.s. (2004) dir. angela robinson
nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984) dir. hayao miyazaki
killer klowns from outer space (1988) dir. stephen chiodo
mommy (2014) dir. xavier dolan
jennifer's body (2009) dir. karyn kusama
suspiria (1977) dir. dario argento
battleship potemkin (1925) dir. sergei eisenstein
his girl friday (1940) dir. howard hawks
cube (1997) dir. vincenzo natali
nightcrawler (2014) dir. dan gilroy
black orpheus (1959) dir. marcel camus
chunking express (1994) dir. wong kar wai
meeting people is easy: a film about radiohead (1998) dir. grant gee
the grapes of wrath (1940) dir. john ford
the black cat (1941) dir. albert s rogell
the tin star (1957) dir. anthony mann
#the internet archive#btw they ALSO have emulators with all the early Maxis games!!! they run EXTREMELY slow but they are THERE#IA is formally a Library which is why they can do some of the shit they do#the quality on scanned docs is not always astronomical BUT they've been able to MAKE digitizations of a lot of at-risk texts
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Gertrude Jekyll Garden, Hestercombe Park, Taunton, Somerset, England
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Just got some glass pebbles for stainglass making and they're so cute I just had to make them into stickers!
Free to use without credit, but please credit if you repost :3
Part one / Part two
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fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness
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Photographer Debbie Parker captured this lightning strike in West Virginia. - Author: sco-go
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a child came into the nature center and saw tadpoles for the first time and when i told him they're baby frogs he thought i was lying and i suddenly realized that if you're 3 and don't know that tadpoles become frogs it does sound pretty fake. this kid will not fall for made up shit online he is a born skeptic.
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GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY! 👁️👄👁️
“These are the eyes of a Strawberry Conch (Conomurex luhuanus). They inhabit the shallow tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef and feed on algae and detritus.” © Lawrence Scheele
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...I love how by day 2-3 they're already like, "Ok, let's get some EYEBALLS on this thing. Gotta SEE shit"
Ok so clownfish eggs go through three main color stages as they develop, basically going from a pink-orange to brown to silver, here’s a good diagram of it

And listen. I would obviously never act on this impulse. But when they’re brand new and have that salmony color to them, I have the urge to eat them. I think they look delicious.

Like that’s sushi babe
#obvs Good Eyes are complicated and need a lot of time investment so it makes sense!#it's just Hilarious they're under halfway baked and still tacked to a rock. can't DO much abt what they see!#animals#fish#cute baby animals
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He means a little squeeze bottle with brine shrimp inside but… bottle feeding the loblings…
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posting in the groupchat when you’re the only one who’s PST and it’s after everyone else’s bedtime

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