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Right so I know the joke about centaur babies having the human half flop around while the horse half can run has been a thing, but realistically a centaur baby would be able to hold itself up.

The reason human babies are so helpless has to do with our brain development alongside our relatively narrower hips. If a human baby developed to the point it would be able to walk, run, see, etc straight out the womb the head would be too big to be pushed out.

Centaurs shouldn't have this problem, though, because they do not have humanoid hips, and horse pregnancies last about 11 months, so centaur babies should have relatively more developed brains by the time they're born and therefore be capable of holding themselves up shortly after being born.

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Going to be rewriting this lore, actually

Few name changes, new characters, etc

Might work on a timeline sometime, but don't expect anything soon because that's gonna be a headache I don't wanna do TvT

What is New Earth?

New Earth is the planet my characters live on. It was created after the first was accidentally destroyed by a cosmic being known on the planet as Evren, who felt bad about what he had done and therefore created a new one to take its place.

It has parallels with the old Earth since it was used as a template for the new one, but this one now has fantastical beasts and creatures, gods with their heavens and hell.

For some time, Evren had left it to be ruled by two high gods; Amit and Satanus. Amit created the good of the world: the original gods, commandments, the creatures of the world that inhabit it, and the heavens. Satanus balanced the good with the bad: creating great beasts that would destroy and tear apart the world, hell, the sins, and the devils and demons that inhabit it.

Everything was fine, but only for so long. Satanus, bored of the proxy conflict, hurt and forced himself on Amit, which resulted in her becoming terribly wounded and pregnant.

The gods she created attempted to aid her, but were destroyed, the essence of their power returning to Evren which alerted him that his creations where in danger.

Before returning, however, the manifestation of their power foretold that while Amit would give birth to an heir for Satanus, the other two of her children would destroy him. To prevent his destruction, Satanus corrupted her womb after she gave birth to the heir Beelzebub, to prevent the birth of the other two.

Amit suffered being slowly corrupted from the inside until Evren returned, and while he couldn't undo the corruption he was able to allow the devil Lucifer and the angel Galacies to be born.

Using the power that returned to him from the old gods, he created new gods to aid them in destroying Satanus and take the throne of darkness from Beelzebub.

Upon the defeat of Satanus and Beelzebub, the second generation of gods faded away, having used all their strength, and Evren created some of the ones the live in New Earth to this day in their place.

Together they used the deepest part of Hell to create Tartarus, an icy prison the brothers used to imprison Beelzebub and planned to use for their father's creations of destruction, and Galacies took charge of it. Unfortunately, the first prisoner after Beelzebub became their own mother.

Satanus's corruption became too much for Amit, and she became a danger to the world. However the brothers were unable to bring themselves to destroy their own mother, instead freezing her to prevent further corruption while they tried to find a way to save her.

With Amit frozen and Satanus destroyed, Galacies and Lucifer became the new balance. Taking the throne as the Satan of Hell, Lucifer vowed to never be like his father and to always be loyal to and love his brother dearly, maintaining the balance by ruling the darkness and evil rather than using or allowing it to take over.

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

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Plague doctors are inherently queer. I will not elaborate

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Angel Halos vs Reaper Crowns

When a reaper is half angel (either a nephilim if half earthly creature or a nephalem if half demon), they have a crown rather than a halo

As shown in the sketch, a reaper crown looks different from the halo of a fallen angel

The exception to this is that if reaper is half ophan angel then it will have only two full halos rather than four crowns (ophanim have four halos)

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I love when platonic love and romantic love is so blurred that it doesn’t even matter anymore. All that matters is the devotion that’s there, the unwavering devotion

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"you know you are only supposed to have 1 apprentice maybe 2 not 15." said the wizard council member "well until people stop leaving surprisingly powerful orphans at my doorstep I'll be taking care of my 17 apprentices." The council member snapped their wand "WHERE DID YOU GET 3 MORE!"

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The Feywild

The Feywild is an enormous jungle ecosystem that surrounds the great tree Yggdrasil, which was the first natural connection between earth and the after-realms. On the surface it appears like a normal forest with the exception of the mountainous tree, but once you head inside you find that the forest is warped in space. The deeper you go, the darker and stranger it becomes.

Few if any mortals have made it all the way through the Feywild. It is extremely dangerous and most who come out alive admit they turned back before reaching the midnight zone. Very little is known about what lies within, and it’s one of the most mysterious and unexplored places on earth alongside the ocean.

When creatures were first learning about the Feywild and how its ecosystem worked, there was concern about it expanding and growing outward. Hundreds of years of research has proven that the Feywild doesn’t seem interested in doing so. It keeps itself relatively isolated and independant from surrounding ecosystems.

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More mutabilis demons lore!

Shifters are pure conduits, which means that they can channel/conduct, amplify, and even store magic, but they cannot generate it themselves. This does not mean they do not have magic within them, just that they do not have enough to cast spells on their own

Pretty much all creatures fall somewhere on a spectrum of caster to conduit. Slimes are also pure conduits, succubi, incubi, and pixies would be somewhere in the middle, and creatures like elves would be closer to the pure caster end of the spectrum

(Mentions of sexual biology below cut. Nothing explicit, just an explanation of biological traits)

These demons are one of three sexually fluid races, the other two being succubi and slimes. Of these three they are also one of two that have what is called "true sexual fluidity"

Sexual fluidity is the ability for one to change and alter sex characteristics without the need for outside magic like potions or spells or medical intervention like with transition

Bimodal fluidity, which is what succubi have. It means they can change their sex on a bimodal spectrum between male and female. They cannot do things like alter their breast size or genital length/size/shape

True sexual fluidity means that the creature is not limited to the bimodal distribution for sex characteristics like other creatures. They can change the size and shape of primary and secondary sex characteristics. As such these races can have many biological sexes that they can change and adjust as they please, but simultaneously have no biological sex as well

What are Mutabilis Demons?

Mutabilis demons, or shifters, are a race of shapeshifting demons that were originally a single devil named Mutabilis.

Mutabilis's core was found and shattered when they sided with the nephalem daughter of Truth and Lust named Shade, who tried to overthrow the gods and establish herself as the only god of New Earth. (She will be her own post)

The shattered pieces became the cores for new demons, making them the youngest race on New Earth (all the shifters that are main and secondary characters are the third and youngest generation).

They are untrusted, especially in the after realms, due to both their history with Shade when Mutabilis was whole and the fact that many have formed cults that worship the imprisoned nephalem. This leads to unfair discrimination, especially when it comes to them taking positions of power, where one can be seen as untrustworthy for even knowing a Shade worshipper regardless if they themselves take part.

Shifters come in many shapes, sizes, and forms. They are so diverse that there are only three defining traits for them

1) they will typically have at least one body part that is disconnected from the rest of their body, but still functions like an attached limb. This helps with energy preservation and management

2) they have a crystal-like core they can revert to if their body is greatly damaged or they lose too much energy. Shattering this core will kill the demon instantly

3) their blood can come in many colors and will float in a way similar to water when it's in space

They can combine to create stronger shifters, though this is not the way they reproduce nor is it related to how they reproduce, it's an ability that comes from the fact that they originated as a single being and therefore can become one with another. Many of the cults of Shade even believe that combining enough Shifters would make them whole again and revive Mutabilis in way.

There is little known about them since they are relatively new to the world, but biologists on new earth do their best to learn how these curious demons work

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You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

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Designing Indulgence was tough

It was one of those situations where the image I had in my head wasn't as clear as I thought it was

I wanted to go with something shark like with some minor insect elements since Gluttony is often associated with Beelzebub, but I already did something else with him

Queen Bee from helluva boss was also a big inspiration for her since I really liked her

I wanted to do a big mouth with other mouths because I like designs with big teeth and one of my favorite pieces of fan art of Bee has big toofers

She was originally going to have a longer mohawk that hung down to one side, but I couldn't get it right and decided I didn't like how it looked anyway so I made it a regular one

Her horns were also going to look more like insect antenna, but i decided it didn't look quite right either

There are still things I might change in the future as well, like moving or removing the second, smaller pair of wings, and fixing the back of her mohawk because of her choker, but right now I'm happy with this

And of course colors were just as hard

The original idea was pink body with darker pink hair, but I ended up just lightly brushing the very top of her mohawk with the dark pink instead

Her wings and horns were also originally going to match her body but I felt I needed black to balance out the bright colors more

I was originally playing with pastels for her clothes because i felt it would be colorful, but lacking in intensity enough to balance out her mohawk and body, but I was wrong

I might see how she looks with green eyes but the blue is just fine for now

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What are Mutabilis Demons?

Mutabilis demons, or shifters, are a race of shapeshifting demons that were originally a single devil named Mutabilis.

Mutabilis's core was found and shattered when they sided with the nephalem daughter of Truth and Lust named Shade, who tried to overthrow the gods and establish herself as the only god of New Earth. (She will be her own post)

The shattered pieces became the cores for new demons, making them the youngest race on New Earth (all the shifters that are main and secondary characters are the third and youngest generation).

They are untrusted, especially in the after realms, due to both their history with Shade when Mutabilis was whole and the fact that many have formed cults that worship the imprisoned nephalem. This leads to unfair discrimination, especially when it comes to them taking positions of power, where one can be seen as untrustworthy for even knowing a Shade worshipper regardless if they themselves take part.

Shifters come in many shapes, sizes, and forms. They are so diverse that there are only three defining traits for them

1) they will typically have at least one body part that is disconnected from the rest of their body, but still functions like an attached limb. This helps with energy preservation and management

2) they have a crystal-like core they can revert to if their body is greatly damaged or they lose too much energy. Shattering this core will kill the demon instantly

3) their blood can come in many colors and will float in a way similar to water when it's in space

They can combine to create stronger shifters, though this is not the way they reproduce nor is it related to how they reproduce, it's an ability that comes from the fact that they originated as a single being and therefore can become one with another. Many of the cults of Shade even believe that combining enough Shifters would make them whole again and revive Mutabilis in way.

There is little known about them since they are relatively new to the world, but biologists on new earth do their best to learn how these curious demons work

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Designing Indulgence was tough

It was one of those situations where the image I had in my head wasn't as clear as I thought it was

I wanted to go with something shark like with some minor insect elements since Gluttony is often associated with Beelzebub, but I already did something else with him

Queen Bee from helluva boss was also a big inspiration for her since I really liked her

I wanted to do a big mouth with other mouths because I like designs with big teeth and one of my favorite pieces of fan art of Bee has big toofers

She was originally going to have a longer mohawk that hung down to one side, but I couldn't get it right and decided I didn't like how it looked anyway so I made it a regular one

Her horns were also going to look more like insect antenna, but i decided it didn't look quite right either

There are still things I might change in the future as well, like moving or removing the second, smaller pair of wings, and fixing the back of her mohawk because of her choker, but right now I'm happy with this

And of course colors were just as hard

The original idea was pink body with darker pink hair, but I ended up just lightly brushing the very top of her mohawk with the dark pink instead

Her wings and horns were also originally going to match her body but I felt I needed black to balance out the bright colors more

I was originally playing with pastels for her clothes because i felt it would be colorful, but lacking in intensity enough to balance out her mohawk and body, but I was wrong

I might see how she looks with green eyes but the blue is just fine for now

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Sketches I did at work

1: redesign of pixies. I wanted to make them more insect-like to set them apart from faries

2: sketch of a fox devil I had an idea for, decided to just leave it at this because I didn't want to ruin a good pose. His name is Kimura

3: design idea for an Ophan archangel. Still gotta come up with a name

4: designing Indulgence, heir and daughter of the sin of Gluttony

5: boar devil design idea. Currently nameless

6: design idea for an archangel alt form, inspired by angels from the book of revelations

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I had a previous passion project called "Call a Spade a Spade"

I always imagined making it a trilogy, but realized that I wasn't ready to write something like that

It's kinda died off now, but I don't think I want to let it completely fade

My sona/one of the main characters for my new passion project also likes drawing n writing, but I always struggled coming up with stuff they enjoy making, so I'm going to make CASAS their passion project within the Plague and Creatures universe

It's a fun little easter egg and helps me remember past works that still have a special place in my heart. Keeping it alive and remembered in this way feels good to me

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Lucifer's family

The king/Satan of hell has a wife who had two kids. They were good for a while, but the marriage became loveless and Lucifer became more disloyal, having kids with mortals more and more often.

His wife, Lilith (she/her), was the first person to become a devil through contract. So long as they remain married she retains her immortality and status, which is why they haven't split up.

Their children are Baphomet and Astaroth, twins. Baphomet (any/all) is a pacifist that helps with negotiations and mediating conflict between devils. Astaroth (he/him), is the head of the Ars Goetia, the 72 high devils that command Hell's legions.

Galacies also has his own wards; Reiaiel (he/they) is the head of the Shem HaMephorash, the angel counterpart to the Ars Goetia. Abaddon the Fallen (he/him) is his second in command in Tartarus.