#platypeople

[assistantcommanderalisha]

The Main Perry 5(Perry, Groucho Perry,Fedora Perry, Female Perry, and Fez Perry): 🐦HAPPY NATIONAL PLATYPUS DAY 2023🐦!!!!!!!! Heya guys! Happy National Platypus Day! Platypus Day 2023 has officially arrived! I hope you guys are having an awesome Platypus Day! In case if you guys don’t know what Platypus Day is, Platypus Day, also known as National Platypus Day, is a Phineas and Ferb promotion and accompanying marathon usually held in the first Saturday of March by Disney Channel and Disney XD in an attempt to “create a new holiday to celebrate one of our most valuable semi-aquatic undercover agents”, as Major Monogram describes it. And that most valuable semi aquatic undercover agent is Perry the Platypus(my platybestfriend in rp). In this post, Perry and his siblings are all wishing everyone a Happy Platypus Day! Hope you enjoy this tiny reel and we hope that you guys have an awesome Platypus Day!🐦

[physalian]

When Worldbuilding Gets Weird

Imagine you’ve created an urban fantasy world. Real countries and landmarks still exist, and your fantasy elements have evolved around it, within it, beneath it. You’ve got your simple yet incredibly robust magic system (which, tbh, tends to be incredibly fun to play with, idiot-proof, and immune to plot holes), your ‘good guys’ and your ‘bad guys’.

Let’s say, for the sake of argument… your bad guys are animal-themed witches. And your good guys are split into two camps: Weapons masters, and their partners who magically transform into those weapons. They fight the witches in a power struggle of a nebulous *madness* that threatens to eat the world.

Also the good guys are led by the Grim Reaper, who has a tweenage son with crippling OCD. The weapons don't just kill people, they consume the souls of evildoers, and witches. Also there’s clowns, straight out of your nightmares, and a handful of wizards. And Excalibur is a person (or at least alive, personhood is up for debate). He will probably call you a fool, then invite you to afternoon tea.

Sound good?

Now for just a little salt to taste.... Both the sun and the moon have faces and are in constant states of laughter. Occasionally, you will hear the sun going hehehehehe. And the mool will drool blood.

Why? Why not? Do the characters ever question this? Nope. Is there ever an explanation? Nope. Do we, the audience, just roll with this? Yup.

Go watch or read Soul Eater and enjoy it as much as the rest of us do.

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When you’re worldbuilding, don’t be afraid to get positively weird, for no reason and with no explanation. Our sun and moon might not have faces, but reality has plenty of its own weird.

Mushrooms. Platypi (Platypuses? Platypeople?). Everything that lives below the Mezopelagic zone of the ocean. Jellyfish. Cicadas. Superb lyrebirds. That glitch in brain processing called Pareidolia. Using caffeine, nature’s poison, as an energy boost.

And on and on and on.

Don’t be afraid to not explain why your strange world element exists. If its mechanics or lore are central to the plot and could open a plot hole, then, yeah, some rules would be helpful. Otherwise? Let it be.

If your characters roll with the weird, your audience will too. Not every piece of worldbuild has to, or even should, mesh perfectly like a puzzle. Let historical archives contradict each other in laughably absurd ways. Make up a weird plant that just does that. Let the sky turn blood red for 20 minutes a day just because. Don't let anime keep a monopoly on the bizarre.

Get. Weird. Don’t explain or overcomplicate it. Just dream something up, say yeah that exists in my world now, and add it to the page.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

Are there medieval platypuses? Platypi? Platypeople?

alas the platypus was apparently unknown to europe before the late 18th century but there is this beast from the luttrell psalter that has always had a platypus flavor to me

[goalpost-head]

red dwarf except there are increasingly more bizarre animals aboard the ship when the radiation leak happens. we've had cat and dog and rat, they're basic creatures. easy to obtain and sneak aboard. I'm talking pigeon. salamander. platypus. ostrich.

an elephant is being transported from planet A to moon B as a side mission for the ship, winds up sealed in the hold and makes a race of giant grey humanoids. a few fire ants crawled aboard in someone's bag and produced a race of supersmart super angry insect humanoids. platypeople. giraffe humanoids.

the reason for the creature being on the ship may well have to change (good luck sneaking an elephant aboard) but my god do I want to see all the different humanoid species that're possible

[redeyeflyguy]

Wonderful Things That May or May Not Be Wonderful!!! Platypuses are weird. Platypuses? Platypi? Platypeople? Eh, you know what I mean? They're weird. If they didn't actually exist, you might think they were fiction or a hoax. Hell, scientists from the past certainly did. I mean, they're mammals with a duck's bill, a beaver's tail, and webbed feet with the females laying eggs and the males having venomous spurs on their hind legs. That's wild, right? Yes, but the truth is that doesn't matter. Why? Cause they're just so gosh darn adorable. I mean, look at that cuddly face. They're awesome too. They even have electro-receptors in their beaks that allow them to swim perfectly underwater without sight, smell, or hearing. So yeah, these semi-aquatic egg laying mammals of action may seem weird but they're definitely wonderful through and through (and yes, I couldn't think of a way to write this without Phineas and Ferb references...or maybe I just didn't want to. Yeah, it's the latter)

[willowthegraycat]

Finishing off the teenager/apprentice generation!!

These are the last characters in what I see as the sort of teen/apprentice generation (although Katie and Hawkpaw are on the line as maybe being young enough to not count)

First up, we have Hawkpaw! You don't know him because he's Katie's twin brother

Then we have Katie : this is her

Up next is Pinky!! I'm sure you recognize him

Then we have Blazestride, known as Elliot to you

Then we have Hamster!! Both his superpowered version and his normal design!!

then, we've got Shadowstripe, Dapplecoat, and Redspot

they are the niblings of her:

THEN, we have D'jango!!

and then Jenny!!

then Milly....

and finally Ferb!

by the way, the first one is the youngest and then they get older going down, with Ferb being the oldest here. However, I don't count Ferb as part of this generation despite his age, because platypeople take longer to wean than cats do, so technically he stays in the 'under one moon old' maturity stage for a few more moons until Phineas is born, and I timed it so that they wean at the same time, making Ferb older but both of them the same maturity for their respective species.

Look out for my next post, when we get to see the kits!!

@cantdanceflynn

[punnybee]

genuinely can’t fathom people not believing in dragons and unicorns. unicorn is just a deer or horse with one horn. dragon is just a dinosaur with wings. actually pretty plausible.

but platypuses (platypi? platypeople??? well. you know what i mean) exist and we just roll with it

[ask-magical-total-drama]

Thank you so much for getting Izzy to conjure up Monkey-Flamingo hybrids and telling me their names! However, the most urgent and important questions still remained unanswered. Please tell me which one of Dave or Staci is a platypus(and if you guys can, please give me some proof that Dwayne Jr. exists). Thanks in advance guys! :)

I don't exist. If you see me talking to you right now, it's a sign that the fever has spread to your brain.

And you have it backwards. They're the only ones who aren't platypuses.

[backtothefuturefan88]

Perry the Platypuses!

(…platypi? platypeople?…whatever.)

[phineasandferbtheories]

Perry comes from a long line of crime fighting platypuses (platypi? platypeople?)

[just-a-fangirl7]

@woulddieforperrytheplatypus Just some happy bois loving their platypeople.

And yknow, Perry and Concord just platyfeuding.

[woulddieforperrytheplatypus]

What if 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz somehow exterminated most of the platypus population to near endangerment in order to permanently dispose of 2nd Dimension Perry before turning him into Platyborg and that was why he was able to recognize 1st Dimension Perry while in mindless pet mode?

OH MY GOD? THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE? he seemed to think he could recognize Perry (ie that "what do you see here?" "an ordinary platypus." "and now?" "Perry the Platypus?!") but that's easy for him to say if there are no other platypuses — platypi? platypeople? — in the tri-state area. I wouldn't put it past him to have the Normbots exterminate every platypus they see walking the streets bc they remind him of his past trauma. it's like "if I couldn't have my gnome, no one can!" but, like, actually evil. I'm not gonna lie, I kind of love this headcanon, even if it makes me sad the platypuses deserve better

[authenticcadence18]

Did you see Dan's newest ig post? It made me very happy.

aaaaah i checked it out and OMGGGGG HE PREDICTED THE FUTURE, THAT’S AMAZING!!!!!!! I love stuff like that!!!! (and I am SO going to use that platypus fun fact on my friends now, LOL) 

in case you missed it, scientists just found out that platypuses (platypi? platypeople?) are bioluminescent and can glow GREEN in the dark. so Perry being green actually has some scientific backing to it now, LOL

[joons]

Apparently scientists JUST found out that platypuses (platypi? platypeople?) glow teal under a blacklight and I want to know how Dan & Swampy Knew

dan is CROWING about his foresight, he feels vindicated. he always just said it was because it “looked cool,” but platypuses were WAY ahead of him on that front.

[hobbagobwin]

Custom listings will be available tonight at 6pm EST. XL and standard foozles, frogs, axolotls, plump dragons, tiny dinos, and tiny platypus (platypi, platypeople?) will all be available as custom orders.

Please note that completion time may be longer than normal and can not be guaranteed by Christmas. I already have a few orders and am only really opening to get some extra money for bills. ;w;

https://www.etsy.com/shop/HobbyGobbyDesigns