#Flutterwings

[gallifreyanhotfive]

I learned recently that not everyone knows just how massive some types of Gallifreyan flutterwings can be, and I need to remedy this.

Just. You are on Gallifrey, just walking and minding your business when a giant, cloud-sized flutterwing soars overhead. Just fuckkkkk

[fr-familiar-bracket]

[welcometohelck]

[daily-lalaloopsy]

Today's doll is pony Flutterwings!

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

What native Gallifreyan species are there?

Gallifrey has a diverse range of fauna, both native and introduced. Despite claims of minimal ecological impact, the installation of the Eye of Harmony and millions of years of Time Lord civilisation have significantly altered Gallifrey's original biosphere.

🦋 Invertebrates

Beatitude Flies: Begin as maggots and pupate into golden-winged nocturnal insects. They use nectar to create helium in their bellies and are attracted to light and decay.

Butterflies: Various species flutter across Gallifrey.

Bees: Essential for pollination.

Gullet Grubs: Likely to live in digestive tracts of larger mammals, or similar environments.

Blossom Thieves: Possibly insects that steal nectar or pollen.

Scrubblers: Likely small, cleaning insects.

Neversuch Beetles, Sandbeetles, Waspbeetles: Various beetles.

Dustworms: Likely live in dry, dusty environments.

Scissors Bugs: Possibly predatory insects with sharp mandibles.

Flutterwings: Gigantic insects (3 meters by 25 meters) that never land. Five races include Wild Endeavor, Mandrigal, Silver-Band, Blue Crystal, and Perdition.

Snails

Water-Sligs: Likely aquatic or semi-aquatic molluscs.

Web-Spinning Insects: Including spiders about an inch long.

Other dangerous invertebrates: There are also nasty creatures that live beneath big stones.

🐟 Marine Life

Singing Yaddlefish: Notable for their song, and they can be eaten.

Kittensharks: Hatch from eggs and presumably grow into Catsharks.

Axolotl Salamanders: Amphibious creatures with regenerative abilities.

🐍 Elapids

Taipan: A venomous snake, 10 metres long.

Venal Snakes: Possibly nest-stealers or highly venomous.

Bat-Snakes: Presumably flying snakes.

Dinosauria: 20-meter-long reptiles resembling brontosaurs with thick chitinous scales and serrated teeth.

🦅 Avians

Owls: Symbol of Rassilon.

Flurry Birds: Likely small, fast-moving birds.

Trunkikes: Game birds whose eggs are often eaten.

Air Diamonds: Fly in the upper atmosphere, possibly crystalline or bioluminescent.

Song Birds: Various species.

Gargantosaurs: Dinosaur-like creatures, twice the size of a hab-bloc, with two legs, vestigial wings (with purple and white feathers), and four eyes.

🦣 Mammals

Plungbolls: Thumbnail-sized furry creatures living in mountains, attach en masse to warm objects.

Taffelshrews: Edible rodent-like mammals.

Fledershrews: Bat-like, mushroom eaters, nearly extinct.

Cobblemice: Mice that sprout wings.

Rovie Mice: Field-dwelling, long-lived if kept safe, sometimes pets. They have short memories.

Moss-Rats: Possibly rodents that live in marshes with moss-like camouflage.

Vex: Burrowing animals.

Gallifreyan Womprats: 1-metre-long rats with fifteen legs.

Pig-Rats: Inhabit the Drylands, presumably combining porcine and rodent traits.

Rabbits

Flubbles: Small six-legged koalas.

Unnamed rounder rabbit-like creatures

Ounce-Apes: Might be tiny monkeys that are particularly agile.

Sealak: Perhaps a kind of seal, often eaten.

Bear-Ass: A donkey-like animal with bear-like qualities.

Horse-Cats: Probably a horse/cat hybrid-like species.

Sagittary: Horse-like creatures.

Elephants

Pig-Bears: Can be trained as pets.

Wolf-like Creatures: With long snouts and black-and-white striped fur, almost as big as adult humanoids.

Broakir: Live in foothills, often hunted for food.

Baanjxx: Arboreal browsers that like to eat hallucinogenic cerub nuts. As a child, the Doctor was kicked by one in the head, apparently.

Cows

Walrus

Gallifreyan Marlot: Purple and unique in all of time and space. Probably a bit cat-like.

House Cats: Revered as symbols of intelligence. Traditionally, Presidents kept them as pets.

🐱 Killer Cats (C.A.T.S)

Killer C.A.T.S: These sapient creatures possess instinctive precognitive powers and cat-like physiology. Known for their lethal gladiatorial contests, they despise Time Lord traditions and live in the Gin-Seng Sector of Southern Gallifrey. Their culture includes mercenaries and oracles; they are telepathic.

🏞️ Ecosystem Preservation

Though Gallifrey's outer ecology has suffered, the Time Lords have used technology to preserve many species. Extinct species have been collected, ensuring none become completely extinct. The more fearsome creatures are contained in the Death Zone, while xeno-zoos hold alien species from other worlds.

🏫 So ...

So there's your whistlestop tour of the species on Gallifrey. One day, I'll try to put these onto a species distribution map. Oh, by Rassilon's Beard, I just gave myself more work.

Related:

💬|🪐🌍How is Gallifreyan geography different to Earth?: The landscape of Gallifrey.

📺|🌳🍎The Fruits of Gallifrey

💬|🐾🐱What could be some biological traits of Gin-Seng cats?: Looking at who the Gin-Seng cats are, their biology, and their place on Gallifrey and in society.

Hope that helped! 😃

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[coordinatorofthecia]

@liviacaralis, is this satisfactory? We recently had a flutterwing infestation, but they should have been removed.

*temporarily blocks Torvald’s access codes*

[flowercat6]

Time for my WarriorsxInanimate Insanity stuff!!!

I have a few drawings and but of course a few work in progress names :33

These are all the drawings i completed!!! You’ll notice I didn’t draw some like 4s and The Floor, and that’s definitely not because i forgot or anything truuuust me ☺️ (by the way credit to a friend of mine for the Bot, Airy, and Liam designs!!!!)

And thenthenthen we have the names!!! They’re not all great and it’s all a work in progress so some don’t even have names at all 😔 but!! I think at least some are pretty good :33 (OH AND KEEP IN MIND MOST ALL OF THIS WAS MADE BEFORE THE FINALE!!!!!)

HOST/CO-HOSTS

Mephone4 ~ MistStar

Mephone4S ~

Toilet ~ PorcelainPelt

Mepad ~ MeerPad

CONTESTANTS

Apple - Apple(Pelt?)

Balloon - SalmonFlight

Baseball - RedStrike

Blueberry - BlueBerry

Bomby - SparkTail

Bot - SpiritKIt/FlutterWing

Bow - SpiritTail

Box - BrownFur??? something really generic

Cabby - ()

Candle - (Flicker) VioletGaze

Cheesy - YellowLeg

Cherries - CherryBranch

Clover - (Clover) Heart

Dough - ??

Fan - RedWing

Floor - (Meadow)

Goo - (Goo) BlueSplash??

Knife - SharpClaw

Lifering - (Wave) WaveRunner

Lightbulb - BrightLight

Marshmallow - MarshMallow

Microphone - LoudSong

Nickel - AshTongue

OJ - AmberPool

Paintbrush - BrushSwoop

Paper - WhiteLeaf

Pepper - ???

Pickle - ???

Salt - ???

Silver Spoon - (Silver)Step

Soap - BubblingCreek

Suitcase - LeatherPelt?

Taco - SoftShell/BackStab

Teakettle - (MiMi) MintMist

Testtube - GreenLake

Tissues - SneezeSpeckle

Trophy - GoldenBite

YinYang - PatchSpirit

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Obviously it’s not super done, but I’ve been writing a few one-shots and I’d like to think i’ve got a few good ideas going!!! Andandand if anyone has any name recommendations do please tell- I’m not so good at naming things if you hadn’t noticed 😔)

(By the way how to tag this, help-)

[stopmyhearts]

9! I'd actually love to know everyone's favourite animal, and wether or not where and when they grew up made any difference in that / influenced it :)

Dela's favourite are cobblemice, there were a lot of them around where she and Patok grew up. Patok hates them for that reason, his favourite are flutterwings.

Rolenva likes tafelshrews. She especially likes to catch them.

Obnik's not much for animals, but he does admire the vortisaurs. He did also grow up in the citadel, so far away from any animals

Lanro's favourite are Gargantosaurs, and they have travelled to the past to see them. They may have lost a leg on that trip

Dolin is from the mountains and his favourite are the plungbolls over there.

link to ask game

[ccscreepycreations]

shadow ghouls concept for Luminara Flutterwing

Daughter of The Butterfly Queen

[emberfiare]

So Yeah,

I decided to draw myself something to put on my profile picture.

It's a creature I designed that I call ' Flutterwing ', I may put something about them in a diffrent post one day.

[theee-artist]

🥺 What is your favorite species of flutterwing? 🥺 Of the 5 I prefer Blue Crystal. They're very prettyyyyyyy

-Venrona

Venrona I’m speaking to you very gently right now I’m grabbing your shoulders how did you find this blog? How did you find this website? How did you find this internet???????

[fr-familiar-bracket]

[the-artificers-tardis]

Do you miss home at all?

Because sometimes I wish I could go back to days when Gallifrey was around. But no the Council of Time Lords had to put that stuff into place to make it so we couldn't and make us live parallel time lines to Gallifrey.

I get it was so bad Time Lords couldn't come back after being banished or whatever... But now I can't see home again after the Time War. :'(

( @the-tinkerer-timelord ) (ooc: I don't know if it cannon or not but when I look up stuff about it it seems to be maybe. Doctor Who is so complicated once you add everything together. Lol)

I... yeah. Yeah I do. Sure, the High Council could be stuffy, but Gallifrey was home. I miss Otherstide, watching the flutterwings fly by from my House, the sense of familiarity amongst my cousins. I even miss the buzz from all the work in Arcadia. I know the Time Lock was for a good reason, but I really want to see House Arpexia again.

[absylphe]

How do you feel about your ancestor?

Those Are Complicated Feelings

I Have Logical Ones And Unfair Illogical Ones

Given The Life I Have Led And The Wrigglers I Have Raised I Know In My Pusher I Would Have Done The Same As She Did

I Risked Everything For My Own Wrigglers To Secure Their Futures

And I Think I Would Just As Easily Have Fallen Numb If I Was In Her Place In The Aftermath Of The First Rebellion

Her Tale Saddens Me

However I Remember After Learning About Her For The First Time As A Younger Troll I Felt So Betrayed And Angry At Her And That Is A Feeling That Has Unfairly Lingered

She Was The Original

She Was Not The Figurehead But She Was The First Flutter Of Flutterwing Wings That Kicked Off That Entire Sequence Of Events

My Caste Was Heavily Restricted In The Wake Of The First Rebellion

Confinement To The Caverns Had Already Been Generally Expected As A Burden Of Duty But It Became Compulsory And Permanent

Jadebloods Were Forbidden From Contributing To Genetic Production And Their Participation In Personal Relationships Beyond Merely Acquaintances And Coworkers Was Also Forbidden

And That Was Generally Enforced By Other Jadebloods Which Caused The Prior Harmony Of The Caverns To Fall Apart As My People Became Paranoid And Distant From One Another

After The Second Rebellion Caused The Enactment Of Compulsory Service And Expulsion From The Homeworld Those Jadebloods Who Had Spent Ages Trapped Underground Would Still Not Be Allowed To Mingle In The General Population Even With The Expulsion Order And So Cloister Satellites Were Deployed In Which They Were Meant To Live Silent Contemplative Lives And Produce Luxury Goods For The Elite Such As Fine Handmade Fabrics And Alcohol Production

A Few Managed To Secure Places As Secretaries (Quote Unquote) For High Ranking Officers

I Lived My Life Only Feeling Safe In The Desert And Each Time I Traveled To Civilized Places I Hid In Fear Of My Hue Being Discovered And Being Shipped Off To The Caverns

And The Nearest Caverns Were Not Even That Far Past The Dead Crater

Realistically

Realistically

I Know None Of This Is Her Fault

She Saw A Creature So Tiny And Small And Defenseless And Her Directive Was To Exterminate It And She Could Not Force Herself To Do It

But I Still Remember That Gut Feeling Of

Why Could You Not Keep Your Head Down

You Have Made It So Hard For The Rest Of Us

I Saw The Consequences Of Her Actions Not In Terms Of The People She Helped To Uplift But In The Terms Of The Punitive Actions Taken Against My Caste In Response To Her Insubordination

It Is Not As If She Took The Punitive Actions Herself

And She Was Like Me She Was A Rainbow Drinker

I Know How Impulsive It Makes You

I Don't Know

It Is Hard To Say Easily

I Respect Her But I Loathed Her For So Long Just Because My Lot In Life Was So Unfair

I Think Sometimes The Self-Loathing Comes From That

Or Maybe I Feel Negatively Toward Her Because She Is Like Me Rather Than The Other Way Around

I Want To Just Feel Admiration For Her

I Want So Badly To Just Feel Admiration For Her

But These Days She Seems More Like Looking Into A Fun House Mirror Than Hearing A History Lesson

I Do Not Like To Think About Her For Too Terribly Long Or I Make Myself Upset

[matt-man-maam-tholomule]

Matt Tholomule

Night at the Museum Prom, 2025

Matt is looking to be the name on everyone's lips tonight. They are making a grand entrance on a mechanized dinosaur costume, an update from one they built when they were younger. Fairy dust has been used to make it lighter and give it more fluid motion. The second half of prom, once they've gotten enough attention, they will lose the costume in favor of dancing and partying with their (blind) date, Dot Flutterwing.

[coordinatorofthecia]

it's pride moth you know what that means

No, I don’t. And if you’re going to waste my time sending me more inane emails, I’ll report you to the Chancellory Guard. There’s no reason to be proud of putting moths in Agency headquarters. It’s an annoying, childish prank, with serious security consequences.

The Guards never get flutterwing infestations.