#mammal talks

[mammal-blogging]

drawing some more guys :)

[fellow-mammal]

Hello! I'm just a fellow mammal!

I'm an artist with a fondness for Beasts, Creatures, Character design and Comics! Figuring out my niche for this particular blog at the moment, so let's see what I land on!

What am I up to? (updated 13 sept 24) I'm currently prepping for a con! a lot of my posts at the moment will be fanart related, but I don't currently intend for that to be my main thing here! just a little fanart as a treat.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

political opinion: fingers should have more joints

[catman-draws]

How do you break this kind of news

[junewild]

inktober 7: drip

jaysohn is getting into mischief and lila is not getting him out of it.

[micron 005 on paper, ~60 minutes]

[housecow]

the problem with me working around fossils is that when i see a mollusk my first thought isn’t “wow how did this thing live” but “holy shit that would’ve been delicious”

[razzafrazzle]

my lil concept 4 inkfish big man!!! the bestest guy

[image description: a drawing of an inkling version of big man from splatoon 3. in this design, big man is a dark-skinned, fat inkling with short grey and red bobbed tentacle hair. he has a triangle goatee, three piercings on one ear, white splotches all over his body, a white tattooed streak running down from his lower lip, and yellow fingertips. he is wearing black gaucho pants with a silver manta ray-shaped buckle that's holding up a bright red transparent sash around his waist, red shoes, his headpiece, and no shirt. on the right, there is a detailed, colored drawing done of him in the official splatoon art style, and to the left are messy doodles of him smiling and giving a thumbs up to the viewer and him sitting on the ground. end id]

[canisalbus]

Ohh the scent thing is such a fascinating facet of your story! When Machete does his violent work, can Vasco smell it on him? Does Vasco's scent linger on him after they spend a night together? Can passerby smell sex or arousal? What kinds of smells do Machete's co-workers give off? That would make the forbidden things very difficult to hide.

Does any of their peers suspect them at any point?

I think Machete is too much of a neat freak to let any unpleasant odors stick to him for too long. Even though I have this habit of drawing him sprayed with blood and such, in reality it's fairly uncommon for him to get his hands properly dirty, even towards the end, at his worst. He has employees specifically for that business. I think the only affair that is exceedingly hard to avoid or scrub off would be executions by burning, which he has to supervise on occasion. Smoke is just one of those things that spreads far and wide and permeates everything. The persisting aroma of charred flesh and burnt dog hair makes him nauseous for days.

If there's enough close contact it's only reasonable that their personal smells would start to blend together. I can see this being a significant bonding thing under most circumstances. Machete always gets a little blue whenever he has his sheets changed after Vasco has gone back to Florence.

Depending on the situation recent sex might be noticeable, arousal would probably be only detectable on very close proximity. This kind of stuff starts to cross to pheromone territory and that's just a little too nebulous and instinctual for me to unpack in a logical and meaningful way, I think.

His co-workers smell of various things just like everyone else. If there's something seriously wrong with their health you might be able to tell, or not. You might be able to guess where they live, what they do for living and what kind of pastimes they enjoy if they smell familiar in a certain way. Some people are easier to read and some don't give you much of anything to work with.

But we're talking about very subtle things, I'd imagine in order to notice any of the above you'd have to stand at least withing a touching distance to a person, preferably be somewhat familiar with their usual scent profile and have the intent and awareness to decipher what you're sensing. It's not something you can catch from the other side of the room or a thing that dictates social interactions to an overwhelmingly great degree. So if you manage to maintain a sufficient distance to anyone who might suspect something, you're probably fine. Regular bathing helps, and using perfumes and other additional scents to divert people's attention away is very common.

[unityrain24]

does all natural milk have lactose?? like what about whale milk. Also apparently whale milk is 50% fat. Imagine how thick that would be. And like how gross it would taste. Thick, kelpy-fishy-tasting milk. what the fuck. whales should not have milk. whales shouldn't be mammals. no sea creatures shoul be mammals. this world is wrong.

(also to all the people suddenly reblogging this, i already answered all my questions in a reblog i made immediately after originally making this post)

[tiercel]

People that claim to love nature and animals when a bug dares to exist near them (they actually only care about cute fuzzy mammals)

[moki-dokie]

Just when I think I know all there is to know about eyeballs... I have newly learned that fucking blue eyes are sexually dimorphic for us (males have a much higher occurrence) and I HAAAAAATE this fact what the fuck WHY of all the unique features we have whyyyy

Secondary sexual characteristics? Sure whatever like a fuckload other mammals but a COLORATION?? Fucking. Bird and reptile behavior.

[mammal-blogging]

hellooooo! just letting you know i’m going to be posting my art from @fellow-mammal from now on! i’m not deleting anything from here (not that there is much) but I’ll probably be using this blog for like. idk. reblogging art references if ur interested in that. seeya there :p

[fellow-mammal]

do you have an etsy page or some other storefront? your art is so pretty and i would adore your pmd pieces as prints or something!

Aaaaaa thank you!!!! Lucky for you, I specifically made the pmd pieces for prints!!! ✨ mini-prints for now, A5 sized.

I have a bigcartel page in the works, but I still need to figure out the logistics regarding sending anything overseas. I'm in the middle of prepping for my first con so I'm holding off on opening the store until then! Then being the 13th of october :)

[transgender-chiroptera]

I follow a lot of bat blogs and... would it be silly of me to make one of my own? I just think they're so neat 🥺 (the bats I mean, but the blogs are neat too)

That's not silly at all! It's fun to post about these little guys, and it's handy having them all in one place! I made this blog just so I had all my bat images in one place for ease of looking. If you think it'd be fun to do, then by all means go ahead!

[hurglewurm]

me in therapy: so like there's three broad categories to start with (motions passionately) there's monotremes, who lay eggs and sweat milk

therapist: they sweat what

me: milk

t: they sweat milk??

m: yeah

t: why???

m: food for baby

therapist, extremely serious: so do the babies. lick the mother?

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

ik the majority of people in question will never see this but a lot of you seem really confused on what constitutes a “proper” fursona so remember this: you can do whatever you want forever and ever and ever.