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Assorted aliens from my sketchbook.

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Patrick and his human companion take a pit stop overlooking an enormous open pit and its accompanying base. There are plenty of abandoned human strongholds scattered around Confibula...

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'' The Firebrat, a quite common dragon that lives near cliffs and forests. They can be seen getting inside houses, eating household pets and small livestock animals, and perhaps making nests on roofs and abandoned buildings. they are fierce vermin... a small dragon packing a punch despite of its size. Their fire isnt gas based like other dragons. Instead, they create a spark with their tongue to ignite oily mucus that sticks to most things, even their own skin. It is thought the Firebrat is made out of hatred and the embers of a dying fire... they like to set themselves on fire only to consume. A quite nasty habit. Class: Volatile Firepower: Strong Venom: X Speed: Quite agile fliers, they're fast sprinters also. Blindspot: When covered on their own fire, a good bucket full of cold frigid water may aswell be your best solution. They dont like loud noises, and damaging those wings will have this dragon on your mercy. ''

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Slowly bullying myself into doing backgrounds.

Biohazards are biohazards, and while certain bloodborne illnesses have a harder time jumping between different types of blood molecules, there are plenty that have no trouble going from one species to the next. Not to mention the new and weird illnesses that can pop up as a side effect.

It's a good thing that Kirison, who doesn't have conventional biology much less blood, is trained for biohazard cleanup!

Version without text under the cut, but it's really just more ceiling.

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I’d been working on a re-read of Hunters Unlucky, and the following books, and had been taking the time that I could to fully sketch out ideas… fell off a bit (a lot) around the middle of Arcove’s Bright Side, but I’m really happy with the shapes and the vibes.

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Being demisexual and bi is funny to me. Anyone can hit it but you must suffer The Gauntlet first

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

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Your dislike or phobia for certain animals never outweights the animal's right to exist and live, i keep running into this behavior and i don't know why some folks never got to learn that. Who do you think you are

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The central joke of the Ulysses Ogre meme hinges on the Ogre holding themselves to unreasonable standards by expecting to fully grasp one of the most famously difficult works of the 20th Century after only a single reading, which just doesn't work if you substitute your favourite video game, because frankly, your favourite video game is not Ulysses – but to be fair, the overwhelming majority of books are not Ulysses either. There's probably a video game somewhere out there that's as textually challenging as Ulysses, and it's probably some random-ass RPG Maker game from 2006 with an author whose name is a dick joke and a present fandom of approximately eleven people.

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PROTEI: 10 YEARS SINCE THE SPACE LEAP

A postcard from the universe of total decay showing a totally realistic and not at all impossible megastructure that made electricity free for the entire planet

It's an array of solar panels that loop around Protei and beam energy to the surface using microwaves. I think something akin to that has actually been proposed in real life, but it's obviously somewhat impractical. In UoTD, however, it was (or will be more accurately) actually constructed due to differences in material science and the political conjucture

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Osocran lore art post time! :) They received a bit of a design „upgrade“ to look less dinosaur and more alien. Woo

Their eyes are also special. More about that will be available on our website as a lore post.

And a bonus sketch because I love ya‘ll. <3

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quilt beetle

watercolor on BFK Rives paper

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twin crested terror

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real grapeheads know that red, green, and black grapes are equally tasty and just have a different appeal to them

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Griffon zoomies, or something

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