#species launch

[roguesidea]

Hello, hello! I've been working on a closed species called Neumats for the past year, and they've just launched!

Neumats are a species of self-replicating space robots, built to map the galaxy. After a mysterious update severed their connection with their inventors' home planet, they have taken to forming their own communities, dedicated to progressing Neumatkind and pursuing newfound passions!

If you like robots, spaceage/atompunk aesthetics, and sci-fi, I think you might be interested in Neumats! Your first MYO is always free, and the launch event comes with some other free goodies- check out the Neumat toyhou.se world for more info!

Alongside the Neumat species itself, Neumats are launching with a currency system known as Databits, five upgrades known as Patches, and a companion species known as Neumites! Additional Neumat subspecies, new Patches, and more companion species (known collectively as Neupets) are planned for the future!

All of the Neumat art, adopts, concepts, lore, and world code so far have been made by me! This has been a one-man (one-bot?) project, and I'm excited to finally make it public!

The Launch thread has additional information on launch event freebies, raffles, et cetera! Neumat Launch Event: Liftoff!

[coyotebrained]

Little comic about species dysphoria and the strain I feel living as an autistic nonhuman

Tip Jar!

[bonefall]

Something like this?

Yeah! Very close to that!

From the top view, the toes would still be pretty indistinguishable because the fur would still obscure where one ends and another begins, but that's about right.

At this point in their evolution, you'd be able to tell right away from the tool claw that they're not Felis Catus Domesticus anymore. I had a specbio project I worked on for a while where I called them something like Felis Narrans I think.

[honkowo]

ohhh boy gravity time

Angel homeplanet was a somewhat small rocky moon that had hugeass pieces of rock being pulled off by the planet it orbited pandora-style, which resulted in turbulent weather and a light as FUCK gravitational pull. most of the planet's prominent life evolved during the tail-end of its lifespan, which resulted in the VERY heavy, muscular as FUCK BATTERING RAMS we know now :). because the angels are adapted to really LIGHT atmospheres, they can't handle heavier planets very well. they've adapted to these problems via gravity control in ALL spacefaring technology and various space stations serving as glorified gyms to keep in shape during long space travel. when in homeplanet gravity angels DO stand taller than usual, although they dont stand like this often because if it's light enough to stand, it's light enough to climb the walls and/or fly. standing like this is mostly for showing off and/or flaunting your height to the shorter members of the galaxy.

[cryptid-artha]

After my first launch was a miserable failure causing me to give up on a species I created for years, I am relaunching them with with a nice facelift! The species is my desert-dwelling humanoid Li'uhn species! They are inspired by the game Journey, after I came up with a humanoid design for my OC Ari thanks to a M!A on my old blog. I took that concept and created a unique creature from it. I hope it's not a flop this time xD More Info on the giveaway Here: https://realms-between.com/news/1.liuhn-relaunch-myo-event All information about the Li'uhn and their design rules and such, as well as how to get your MYO is on the announcement on my Masterlist website, Realms-Between! There's lots of ways to earn more Upgrade Points to increase the rarity of your free MYO. If you reblog this, link your reblog in the prompt when you join the site and redeem your free MYO, and you will get an extra 2 points to add rarer traits to your Li'uhn!

[asgardian--angels]

I just witnessed an Amazon ant raid for the first time irl, in my upstate New York backyard of all places, it was so freaking cool

[0zark-hellbender]

Fun fact! Asian carp understand sin yet choose it anyways!

[deva-arts]

Emelia sent this , as a suggestion of what she thinks your world looks like.

This is Taken from 'Ghostrunner' , a game on steam.

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Dark, desolate streets overrun by Technology, and tags. Maybe the lower-income side of the city. Maybe your world is not unapologetically futuristic. But it's a neat thought. She had this type of area in mind when she heard of your little world. And wanted to give me an idea about an expansive and futuristic stage for a story.

So cool! I always loved this aesthetic... Ah... You can smell the human rights violations...

As for my story, we will eventually see what their cities look like :]

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

see, the vast majority of late-stage evolved pokemon you can come across in arceus are aggressive towards you. and maybe SOME of those are territorial, but it can't be ALL of them, especially not the ones that are visibly not bothered by other pokemon in their space. and they definitely don't feel threatened by you. no, i'm pretty sure they go after you because to the vast majority of pokemon, people look like free food

[here-there-were-dragons]

what i’m getting initially from the lore is that the arcane flight in ancient times had a decent burgeoning capacity for aethernaut technology and there is a non-zero chance there are other unfathomably ancient early space age artifacts of a fallen past dragon civilization in the sky, and that following the astrolab’s launch the entire planetbound aether civilization was wiped out with little trace by some unspecified cataclysm, likely warring with another primal race, leaving the scientists on the makeshift generation ship as the only survivors.

perhaps aether was not their original name, but over untold tens or even hundreds of thousands of years isolation the remainder of their species, descended from their lost landbound counterpart’s trained aethernauts, shortened the title further and further into simply “aether” and with enough time (and book-eating) further simply forgot there was ever more?

and they get all their battle tactics knowledge from their poorly organized larp sessions of old-enough-to-be-fossilized tapes saved from their lost groundward civilization of ancient dragon star trek and name things like they work for god damn aperture science. “material emancipation grille”. and they’re literally sparkledog mary sues. who the fuck let them name themselves. why did they start naming themselves “xxxdarkstarxxx” i can’t decide if it’s numbly dismaying or numbly fucking hilarious (as all emotions are numb and distant for me these days) that that’s canon and there is now a canon mary sue sparkledragon breed like have they literally just been doing nothing but spinning their wheels creating warrior owlcats rp forums up there since the rest of their species died. when they sent all their best and brightest up there was it like how the entire modern real world tech infrastructure is held up by about 30 furries that if any one of decided to disconnect their pager for a few hours the entire internet and literally civilization itself would collapse in a fire and now all that’s left of their breed are all descended from that.

their culture seems to be clan-troupes, likely descended from specific maintenance teams, of distorted half-religiocized echoes of random portions of long-forgotten ship repair safety training and shakily clung to jumbled impressions of some sort of lost pseudomilitaristic crewed vessel hierarchy, and it’s strangely giving me a combination of the movie passengers vibes and a wikipedia summary i skimmed once of one of the later books in something called the xeelee sequence, which described a long-future descendant of humanity on a generation ship in which these remnants of humanity had devolved so much that they now no longer had much sentience, preforming ship repair and maintenance by pure instinct as a way of attracting mates and having no real understanding of what they were doing or why.

a am however at a loss as to why, of all things their lore could be, their entire gimmick seems to revolve around compulsively eating paper.

after seeing a trailer for something called hyper light breaker, i assume an alleged sequel to something else called hyper light drifter, i have made the retroactive decision to assign them a synthwave-ish, hyperreallife pulsating sleek slanted laser light energy beams making roadways for sleek glowing similarly fizzling near-digital lightcraft sort of aesthetic, vaguely cyberpunk but made from faintly magitech parts, sans any sort of digital artifacts visual additions. the actual aesthetic i am thinking of is not in any way based on the game itself, but instead is based purely on the feeling of the name alone taken out of context of the game it applies to. what type of imagery and feeling of the words “hyper light drifter” on their own with no knowledge of the game inspire. i will likely forget what i meant by this in three weeks time.

[loveletterworm]

it probably is judging by the implied cloning things going on that kind of seem like the type of thing that only happens to octolings  but i hope the side order dlc isn’t locked to be played with octolings only and that they just used one in marketing to contrast from the main game story’s marketing.   because assuming the player character of the dlc is treated as a different person from the main game one like octo expansion  there are no good octoling hairstyles left to distinguish a second octoling from the one i already have that still has the same “default girl hair from 2″ one

[vimbry]

lmao the neo clone I played over a year ago that had a toxic discord server, bot scandals, and a completely wrecked economy from day 1 has a writeup on r/hobbydrama now

[reasonsforhope]

"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024

[wildlifeday]

Launch of the 3rd World Wildlife Crime Report -Trafficking in Protected Species.

The third edition of the World Wildlife Crime Report, probes trends in the illicit trafficking of protected wildlife species. It presents systematic analyses of wildlife crime harms and impacts, probes the factors driving wildlife trafficking trends, and takes stock of current knowledge about the effectiveness of the different types of intervention being pursued to resolve this problem

Watch the Launch of the third World Wildlife Crime Report: Trafficking in Protected Species!

[peelbug]

they removed the project diva future tones from my local arcade and they happened to be the only project divas in the entire state. I would have to drive 6 hours to play project diva now. I EXPLICTLY went in there with the intention to play Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Arcade Future Tone (2013) (this is the reason i started regularly going to this arcade in the first place) and this is what I am greeted with (no project divas) (they were gone) (they had some stupid fruit ninja clone in their rightful place) (found them in pieces against the back walls) (they still worked) (someone was camping on them last week) (they still made money). you can tell how serious this is because i am making a tumblr post about it which I never do.

this combined with the Fucking TV instead of an actual hologram at miku expo for the 10th anniversary..... it is a dark fucking couple months for the state of hatsune miku. project this summer is to diy an arcade cabinet. or to go dumpster diving if they threw them out. im so sneefious scoob im gonna eat sheet metal

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Naturally, the Globnors would design a weapons console

with the self-destruct button right next to the ‘launch’ one. Good thing they were labelled, right?