#neotenic

[herpsandbirds]

Olm (Proteus anguinus), family Proteidae, far NW Italy

This aquatic salamander is neotenic/paedomorphic (retaining juvenile traits - ie. gills and other aquatic adaptations)

Found only in karst rock cave systems with ample water in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Hercegovina, and far NW Italy.

Also called the "human fish", proteus, and white cave salamander.

Olms are blind, but have excellent sense of smell and hearing (for a salamander).

photograph by Matteo Di Nicola

[sonicjustbecause]

Neotenic characters with huge head when they lie on teir back.

When standing the round shape of their head goes far back, is quite difficult to not make them look awkward when supine (not true only for Sonic characters)...

in 2D it can... somewhat work, in 3D however is harder... to not forget sonic and his friends also have large foot.

you can ignore that quills are stiff and make behave them like hair when necessary, still cheating with the cranium is tricky. Even those who don't know how to draw know wery well the consistence of the cranium and if you make it soft, everybody would think something is off.

Something to consider (and this is the reason why my characters tend to have smaller heads... even children).

[cyoautzbdh]

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[scottpartridge]

Axolotl

[antimnemonic]

im obsessed w sho's little forelocks, they're so cute and extremely important

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

"Bad" sci-fi and "good" sci-fi are like the High Church and the Low Church

The high church is full of pomp, grandeur, and solipsistic self-assertion. The low church is mostly about solid relationships and the indisputably real feelings people have about one another and the interplay of real-world science and its applications. The low church usually presents a less tidy, but more lifelike, universe.

The high church has, of course, its own set of constraints. "Sacred" ideas must be made explicit and must be treated with utmost respect. In the low church, religion might be treated as a frivolous excuse for beautiful architecture and the occasional ritual. Stories must ring true, and in real life truth is often untidy.

Both the high church and the low church, ultimately, offer the same benefits to humanity -- they make sense of the world and allow people to help one another -- but they are not the same at all.

[lokiinmediasideblog]

After sharing that last post on Thor and Loki's ages, I can't believe I am the same age as CH in Thor (2011). It's so weird to think about. I really am so short and "baby-faced", lol.

[babylonbirdmeat]

*Sees an UwU cutesy take your meds thing with a fucking TBH and the phrase "brain helpies"*

I have NEVER wanted to throw my Adderall in the trash more, thanks op

[gemwolfz]

this would have been posted like half an hour later if i wasnt so suddenly compelled to draw the rest of the platoon as #girls so giroro could have friends to go to the mall with :), anyway the rest of todays frog doodles

[tlaquetzqui]

I came across this on a sketchy alt-right blog here:

And by 700,000 years old and Caucasoid race, you mean 160,000–240,000 years old (with an absolute upper limit of 620,000 years, based on magnetic analysis of the cave’s minerals) and not even Homo sapiens of any race, but H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis, or H. neanderthalensis.

And the research was not banned, the license to do research in the cave wasn’t renewed because Greece had a fucking coup from 1967 to 1974. And then the Ministry of Culture was just sitting around with its thumb up its ass till the entire Anthropological Association of Greece sued them to get the license re-issued, in 1997.

Does “the entire anthropological establishment went to bat for this research” sound like that research being silenced, to you?

[herpsandbirds]

Olm (Proteus anguinus), family Proteidae, central Europe

This aquatic salamander is neotenic/paedomorphic (retaining juvenile traits - ie. gills and other aquatic adaptations)

Found only in karst rock cave systems with ample water in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Hercegovina, and far NW Italy.

Also called the “human fish”, proteus, and white cave salamander.

Olms are blind, but have excellent sense of smell and hearing (for a salamander).

photograph by Arne Hodalič

[lizarin]

After doing some digging, I found out Build-a-Bear first came to the city I grew up in the same year I turned 9. This was when malls were still a thing, before amazon, and before online ordering really took off. I must’ve seen the TV adds, asked (begged) multiple times, as that was a stage in life I hadn’t learned to stop asking for things yet.  I’m pretty sure remember classmates talking about going- having a birthday party there, leaving me just.. stewing in jealousy. (I was never invited to a single birthday party- or party of any kind that wasn’t at school. I wasn’t able to make friends until I was a in third grade, and even then it was just one.) I remember walking by BABW multiple times (as every year we went to the mall to go Christmas shopping) desperately wanting to get my own, custom plush. I wanted to do the whole thing: choose a plushie, stuff it, pick out clothes, shoes, ect, dress it, and get what I wanted... and every time I’d tell myself that it was too expensive, and I was too old anyway. At age 9. (and then several years following) And that’s.. just really, really fucking sad.

Now, granted, I didn’t have a bad childhood, but it wasn’t a good childhood, either. I’d say it was solidly below average; or at least solidly below average for the area I grew up in. Between my mom’s (mostly) untreated mental illness/trauma, my dad’s health issues, money issues, and me being... well, me (read: ADHD, probably autistic, anxious, and a bit too intelligent to be comfortable), things... weren’t great. Anyway, I treated myself because I Am an Adult (tm) and bought myself a new BAB axolotl plushie. She is in the mail and I’m working on making her some pride flip flops and thinking about buying her some pink and purple crocs. When I get my next pay-check in I’m going to be buying her an umbrella and figuring how to make her a rain coat, rain boots, and a hat. I want the red rain boots but black will work. I’m still deciding on the color of the umbrella.

[samurailogic]

Range Murata seems to only be able to draw babyfaced and overly .. Anime women but his men are just perfect

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

There used to be a time when Disney was more diverse when it came to the designs of their female characters (heroines and villainesses alike). Now, all of them have the same facial and eye shapes (big, neotenous and round).

[wormsontoast]

why do i sometimes replace words in my vocabulary with phrases that mean exactly the same thing but more complicated. like i dont wish people happy birthdays because thats a phrase banished from my speaking i have to come up with a convoluted other way of saying it, the same is mostly true with other holidays.

i just found out that apparently im unwilling to call axolotls by their name and will refer to them exclusively as neotonous salamanders. why am i like this