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Macroterra - The Early Origocene
0 Million Years P.E.
1 Million Years P.E.
Possum Cat - Whoapossums Of The Late Origocene
20 Million Years P.E. (The Late Origocene)
The Whoapossums, an lineage of Betabies that took to the trees and became quite the skilled climbers, with an semi-opposable thumb and an flexible tail, now In the Late Origocene they have become even more skilled, with an even more flexible tail and fully opposable thumbs.
The Bright-Eyed Nightpossum (Simiadidelphidae Oculislucidis) Is an skilled nocturnal insects hunter, using Its sensitive, big eyes and ears to detect insects amongst the darkness.
An Whoapossum that went Into the different direction tho Is the Capped Fruitpossum (Fructusdidelphidae Caputgerens), an frugivore that climbs amongst the treetops In search for brightly colored fruit, which they fortunately can spot with ease, as similiar to the Monarch Pterobats the frugivorous diet of the Fruitpossums favored the developement of color vision.
But the most unique of the Whoapossums of this time would be the Fossums, the Pocket-Paw Fossum (Ungulatus Marsupialiscattus) Is one of them, while Whoapossums started to get more comfortable In the treetops, the Fossums started to settle on the ground again, they are still amazing climbers, theres no doubt In that, but they will also spend alot of time on solid floor.
Fossums are excellent small game hunters, they especially shine In hunting Pterobats, Mausbies, Scoppels and even Shrish.
As you might have noticed, the Fossums favor the similiar prey as the earthern cats and this Is not where the convergence ends.
They posses carnassial teeth as molars and retractable claws.
Their retractable claws are a life safer as they rely on them alot to catch prey and climb.
Them moving on rough surfaces could risk the claws trimming to much to be usable for their tasks.
The Ivory Of Life - The Womboars
20 Million Years P.E. (The Late Origocene)
The Nomwats were the first large scale herbivores and thus faced great success, the success of one specific Nomwat species Is incredibly well reflected In their descendants.
The Womboars are descendants of the Koala-Nosed Nomwat, and species that has specialised In eating though vegetation, as more and more herbivores emerged the plants got only thougher trying to shake of the herbivores, but the Koala-Nosed Nomwats were already In the niche to graze the though grasses, thus It was an easy adaption to feed on these new world grasses.
The Womboars most recognizable trait are their tusks which have formed from their molars, their molars grow throughout their entire lifes, kinda like the Mausbies incisors, this helps them to chew trough the tough vegetation.
The tusks are used for self-defense, rooting up plants, display and fighting rivals.
The Plains Womboar (Ivoriumvombatidae Campi) Is one of the most dominant grazers of this time, males have harrems of females over large territories, If territories are overlapping the males will fight, whoevers tusks break first will loose.
Plains Womboars also posses long tuffed ears which they use as flag posts for communication.
These flag post structure usually evolve from tails, but Womboars have too short tail to be utilized, so the ears are the next best thing.
An smaller Womboar species Is the Peanut Butter Womboar (Silvavombatidaeaper Enuxarachidis), these forest dwellers are smaller but also more agile, this although does not mean that they wont use the tusks when backed In a corner.
The Peanut Womboar Is an herbivore which feast on the forest grasses, seeds and roots.
Flap Your Wings! - The Pterobats
20 Million Years P.E. (The Late Origocene)
The lack of flying vertabrates has greatly encouraged the developement of powered flight In the Protein Gliders of the Middle Origocene.
Now their descendants, the Pterobats have dominated the planet as the dominant flyers.
The more basal species are airborn insect-catchers like the Canopy-Catcher (Cortinacaptor Striatus), still very similiar to their ancestor.
But some Pterobats started to focus on larger prey, similiar as the Birds of prey on earth there are also Pterobats of prey, as of right now they are rather small and thus only hunt small prey like Mausbies or other smaller Pterobats.
One of those Pterobats of prey Is the Dusty Pterohawk (Anuroganthusaccipeter Pulverulentus), flying over open plains In search for prey.
But truly the most unique of the Pterobats In this time would be the Monarch Pterobat (Sucusvespertilo Danausplexippus), as It Isnt even In the slightest predatory.
The Monarch Pterobat Is rather interested In sweet foods like fruits and nectar. Another unique factor In these Pterobats Is their ability to see colors, colorvision appears quite rarely In mammals and usually only evolves In frugivores to find brightly clored fruits and since the Monarch Pterobats are fans of bright colored fruits and flowers, natural selection favored them color vision.
Their color vision eventually allowed them one more trait except to find food with ease, communication.
With their bright orange-yellow colors on their otherwise black fur, their colors quite pop and make themselfs visible to other members of their species.
You might think that these colors might attract predators as well, but the predators In question dont posses color vision themselfs and since Monarch Pterobats are mostly adorned with black and orange colors they can actually be pretty hard to spot, or well, atleast not easier then other Pterobat species.
Pterobats get their name from their unique flying build which resembles that of early Pterosaurs.
Since the Pterobats are marsupials, they heavily rely on their claws In order to get Into their mothers pouch.
Thus natural selection has favored an build for flight which retained most of the claws.
Unlike the placental Bats from Earth they only use a single finger to support their skin membrane.
Being an flying marsupial although has more issues then just the claws, the joeys In the mothers pouch can put on quite alot of weight and hinder their flight capabilites.
Although they have found an solution for this issue as well.
Pterobats will stay together as an mated pair until their joey are old enough, when the joeys are getting to heavy for the mothers pouch, she will leave the young with the father, who will then find an safe spot that will hide the joeys, the father will then also feed their offspring and keep them safe untill they are old enough to depart.
Pterobats have 2 ways of takeoff, either from the solid ground by using their front legs to push them into the air, or hang and swing from trees or cliffes.
Blubb Blubb - The Shrish
20 Million Years P.E. (The Late Origocene)
While Macroterra Is a planet of Bilbies, the invertabrates, which have been seeded to sustain the ecosystem, have changed over the years as well and the most succesfull and dominant ones would be the Shrish. Descendants of Planktonic Krill, they have come to dominate the oceanic ecosystem.
The Shrish started out as shrimp like swimmers that propelled themselfs through the water with feathery legs, Shrish like these still exist, the OJ Reefer (Pseudocaris Citrinasuccus) Is an good example. But some didnt bother to actively swim and become bottom feeders, like the Gravel Trilokrill (Trilobitacaris Fundusmaris).
Although some Shrish have optimized their swimming abilities,
some Shrish would eventually develop a shorter and more streamlined body, and give rise to active swimmers that propelled themselves with undulating waves of their abdomen and tail. Becoming a more efficient means of propulsion, these shrish would eventually modify their rearmost swimming legs along with their tail fan into a caudal fluke of sorts.
But these fluked Shrish didnt just stop there, as another adaption proved efficiency, pseudo-jaws.
These pseudo-jaws are formed from their elongated barbed rostrums and first front legs.
With these they can easily catch slippery prey an apply pressure to crack their hard shell.
two of these jawed Shrish are the Great White Shraw (Pisciscaris Magnusalbus) and the Cherry Shrimpede (Centipedecaris Cerasus).
Both are fearsome predators In their own right, the Shrimpedes are small slender Eel-like ambush predators, while the Great White Shraw are rather large at 1 meter In size they are true giants among the arthropods.
But not all of those jawed Shrish are predators, the Green Weedpicker (Herbariumcolligens Viridis) Is an rather peacefull grazer, using their jaws to pluck and crush tough algea, seaweed and corals.
Remember Your Ancestors - The Sandy Betaby
10 Million years P.E. (The Middle Origocene)
10 Million years into the history of Macroterra many descendants of an single animal, the Greater Bilby have risen and fallen.
Lurking In the shadows of various succesfull lineages there Is one that seems like It Isnt going to stick around that much longer.
The Betabies (Family: Betamacrotidae) were one of the lineages which emerged relatively early In Macroterras history and given rise to even more lineages like the Hedgey´s, Whoapossums and Bilcoons. The Betabies themselfs though are kinda victims of their own succes as they find themselfs In tough competetion with their relatives.
As of the Middle Origocene their Is only one Betaby species alive, the Sandy Betaby (Betamacrotis Arenosus).
It manged to stick around as an oppurtunistic desert dweller, but know there are other oppurtunistic more adapted species like Jerbaroos and Needle-Manes.
While It Is tragic that the Betabies will soon fade away from the face of Earth, or Macroterra, this Is just life, extinction Is the rule and evolution Is the exception.
But the Betabies managed to produce descendants that do quite well for themselfs, so while they themselfs will be gone, their lineage will be continued.
Cry About It - The Crybeasties
10 Million years P.E. [The Middle Origocene]
The Tearlings, an species of Bilby that has reinvented the predator-prey armsrace, as the first true predator on Macroterra, the world belonged to them, but times change and the Tearlings, like every other Bilby, evolved.
Their descendants are know as the Crybeasties, canide like predator and quite fearsome ones on top of that.
The Forest Foxstrider (Vulpesambulans Silva) Is an farelly basal Crybeastie, small game hunters akin to earthern foxes.
Their prey of choice are usually Scoppels and small Bilbeelopes, which they grapple with their sharp teeth and wait for them to bleed out.
The Break-Neck Crybeastie (Clamabestia Collumfrangens) Is quite the opposite of the Foxstriders, as they are rather big game hunters.
as the largest carnivores on Macroterra as of right know, they will go after big prey, their prey of choice are the larger plains dwelling Bilbeelope and Nomwats.
Break-Neck Crybeasties will aim for the neck, using their sharp teeth to penentrate their preys lung, quickly sufficating them.
A Coin Has 2 Sides - The Shrovels
10 Million Years P.E. [The Middle Origocene]
The Measels are some of the top predators In this time, excellent meso predators and small game hunters, which Is kinda surprising considering they have evolved from the pretty cowardly Bepples.
Small insectivores which spend most of their time underground hiding from larger carnivores.
While the Measels have gotten quite a glowup, they are not the only descendant the Bepples produced.
Next to the Measels there also were the Shrovels (Family: Talpiamacrotidae).
These small critters are alot more like their ancestors, spending most of their lives underground feeding on burrowing insects.
They have heavily converged with earthern moles, possesing poor eyesight, large shoveling claws and an bald nose to push away dirt.
The Shrovels are an not very diverse group with only very few species, the most widespread one would be the Balding Shrovel (Talpiacopia Calvus).
They are an very basal species of the Shrovel fitting the description very well.
While there currently Isnt much to see with their kind, this could soon change.
Whoa! - The Whoapossums
10 Million years P.E. [The Middle Origocene]
The canopies of Macroterra are starting to brim with life, Squruffies, Bilcoons and the Whoapossums (Family: Didelphismacrotidae) all call these forests with tall trees their home.
Whoapossums are excellent climbers with an long flexible tail and an semi-opposable thumb on their grasping paws.
These canopy critters are mostly specialised insectivores or frugivores to avoid competetion with arboreal seedeaters like Squruffies or Bilcoons.
The Masked Whoapossum (Larvatus Pseudooppositum) Is one of those skilled bug catchers amongst the Whoapossums.
Catching small nimble insects and also being known for chewing of pieces of bark to get to the insects hiding inside.
The Sweet-Tooth Whoapossum (Fuscusfrugivore Ascensus) Is quite the opposite and Is an frugivore, enjoying Itself an buffet of sweet fruits, although they are known for eating pollinating insects on occasion.
The Common Protein Glider (Maculatus Proteinavolans) Is another very skilled bug catcher and one of the smallest Whoapossums.
The Protein Gliders are unique for possesing an skin membrane between their legs like the earthern sugar glider and just with like the Sugar Gliders they use this skin membrane to glide from tree to tree, gliding to far away trees Is alot safer then to move to them via the ground where many predators lurk.
The Common Protein Glider akthough has found another plus point for the skin menbranes, catching insects mid-air.
They are not as skilled at moving In the air like earthern bats for example, but natural selection favors individuells which can controll their gliding more to catch more insects, In the future we might see the skies of Macroterra dominated by descendants of the Protein Gliders which developed powered flight.
Pop Goes The Measel - The Measels
10 Million years P.E. [The Middle Origocene]
The Tearlings and the Bepples were the first carnivores on Macroterra to emerge 9 million years ago.
But while Tearlings specialised In other Bilbies, the Bepples were insect eaters, untill some of their recent descendants, the Measels (Family: Mustelamacrotidae).
Measels are carnivores like their ancestors but have started to add other Bilbies into their insectivorous diet, some still eat mostly insects, but some have completly moved on to a diet consisting of small marsupials.
The Steak-Colored Measel (Pseudomustela Carnecolorate) Is one of the more basal species.
They are meso- ambush predators which eat both insects and small Bilbies.
The Steak-Colored Measel also shows an trait not often found In marsupials, parental care.
In most marsupials the mother wont interact much with their baby and will kick It out of the pouch once too heavy.
Most Measels will still carry around their joeys on their back after they have outgrown their pouch, showing them how to hunt and find insects, the mother will also protect the joeys from other meso-predators that might try to eat them.
The Steak-Colored Measel reproduces rather slow, once every few weeks they will mate and raise up to 2 joeys at a time.
The Shell-Fisher (Aquamacrotis Conchyliapiscatio) Is another rather odd marsupial, as their are semi-aquatic.
Semi-aquatic marsupials are difficult, as mothers would drown their joeys when diving Into water.
On earth we only ave one semi-aquatic marsupial the Yapok.
As a result the Shell-Fisher has heavily converged with the Yapok, evolving the same mechanism allowing them to seal their pouch watertight, they achieve this with an muscular mechanism that cinches the pouch closed.
With this mechanism the Shell-Fisher mother can dive Into rivers without drowning their joeys.
The Shell-Fishers themself will like the Steak-Colored Measel raise an max of 2 joeys, less joeys require less air, thus the mother can dive longer then if she would raise more.
They although dont interact much with their joeys after leaving the pouch, unlike many other Measels.
Underwater the Shell-Fishers will seek out hard shelled prey like mussels.
The Pale-Faced Tree Measel (Mustelaarboris Pallidafacies) Is an arboreal entry of the Measel family, they are one of the few Tree Measels that only feed on other Bilbies and dont show parental care.
They are excellent climbers and feed on other arboreal critters like Squruffies or Bilcoons.
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1 Million Years P.E. [The Early Origocene]
*Let's Split Up: Emerging Of New Species*
It's been 1 million years since the Bilbies have been left on Planet Macroterra and with the lack of predators and an almost infinite food source the Bilbies have been living an blissful live, though this was not meant to last as things quickly changed.
Eventually evolution took Its course and mutations of various kind spread through the bloodlines of the Bilbies, with these mutations some Bilbies could eventually fill new niches a lot better and an arms race soon was set loose.
Larger Bilbies could feed more effectively on grasses or other Bilbies, while smaller ones could focus on finding small bugs and seeds.
This Is the first big step In the great game of life which could soon extend to an level the lifeforms that brought them here could have never predicted.
Okay, so this is really cool! You have this phenomenon where some plants grow edible appendages to their seeds to entice ants to carry them underground where they can safely sprout. And then you have wasps which lay their eggs on the leaves, stems, and other parts of plants and trigger the growth of galls (swellings) which both feed and protect the wasp larvae until they reach maturity.
The boy who was watching the ants noticed they were taking wasp galls underground, too. Further exploration found that the wasp larvae were unharmed inside the galls; the only thing the ants had eaten were edible appendages similar to those on the seeds they collected. The wasp larvae stayed safe inside the ant nest, feeding on their galls, until it was time to emerge and head back out to the surface.
So it turns out that the edible portions of the galls have the same sorts of fatty acids as the edible parts of the seeds. And those fatty acids are also found in dead insects. Scientists think that the wasps evolved a way to make the galls they created mimic the edible portions of the seeds to get the ants to collect the galls. This isn't the only example of wasps making use of ants as caretakers for their young, but it's a really fascinating example thereof--especially if you consider ants evolved from wasps at least 100 million years ago.
A response on a friend's Facebook page to a fundie trying to pick a flight over a single verse because he has a gotcha lined up.
I'm pretty sure you would walk out of my talk too. And a lot sooner.
I don't read the Bible the same way you do. I used to. I used to be a very good fundamentalist and 6 day anti-evolutionist. So I understand where you are coming from. And I empathize with your position. So I’m warning you that what I believe is going to offend you and probably make you think some uncharitable things about me, my relationship with God, and my salvation.
I have no expectation of changing your mind, I’m just sharing what I believe and we are going to have to agree to disagree and live as good neighbors as best we can and discuss things nicely till God sets us both straight in a few decades after you and I have both kicked the bucket.
I am not a gap theorist. I believe, much like CS Lewis seemed to based on some things he said in "The Problem of Pain" that creation stories are meant to communicate deep spiritual truths and they were not meant to communicate historical accuracy or scientific understandings.
Unlike fundamentalist Muslims, I don't believe God dictated the scriptures to a prophet. Unlike fundamentalist Mormons, I don't believe prophets copied scriptures off of golden plates.
I believe that the Jewish scriptures are far more of a team effort.
The Jewish scriptures are the result of imperfect humans trying to hear Holy Spirit's whispers. Being human, they could not hear perfectly and were understanding Holy Spirit through their own cultural lenses and personal experiences/lenses. There is a huge subjective element to the Jewish scriptures as Noah, Abraham, Moses, and the prophets did their best to write/tell their understandings within their very small and isolated worlds.
Genesis did not have Genesis chapter 1 when first put down by Moses.
It only had the Garden creation story that came from Noah.
The creation Week story was written during or soon after Babylon. It does not plagiarize the Babylonian myths as some like to snidely accuse. It uses them like a meme. The meaning is in the differences. Everyone knew the Babylonian myths because they were the main superpower and had been for centuries and would be for centuries more. Using the Babylonian myths seemed a good way to keep their own creation story relevant and understandable for a very long time. The Jews include a huge amount of snide swipes at the Babylonian’s mythology/religion while also communicating the beauty and goodness of God and the goodness and beauty of God’s Creation. Mel Brooks carries on that tradition.
So for most of events in the Bible, the Jewish people only knew the Garden story of how it was all perfect till the snake tempted the woman to sin and the woman then tempted the man to sin too and then God cursed not only the snake and those two humans, but all of their descendants, the animals, the planet and the whole universe to death and suffering. And the sin stories that followed showed how sin ruined everything and that even wiping out all of humanity and starting over didn’t work so God chose Abram and the Jewish people to be God’s special project and that God was a patriarchal suzerain king who demanded perfection to God’s every demand even when it came to murdering your own children. (Or other people’s children who were living in the land God told you you could have.)
What followed was a learning experience lead by the prophets and opposed by the priests/aristocracy to learn how God was different from that and that God really really wanted people to treat each other and even the animals and the land fairly and that caring for the poor and oppressed was the most important thing. While the priests and the rest of the aristocracy and fundamentalists were convinced it was primarily about perfect obedience and worshipping God correctly and within their religion and justice, kindness, and mercy were secondary.
It was not until the priests and aristocracy had their power and wealth stripped from them and were exiled into Babylon that they began to question their understandings without their “promised” land or temple or sacrifices.
When several generations later they were returned to the land their ancestors had lived in, they were a different kind of people. The priests and other aristocrats had lost so much of their wealth and power and pride and were a new people with a better understanding of God. And they wrote a new creation story that focused, not on sin, but on Creation and God’s goodness and generosity. That they lived in a good creation. And that the things other people thought controlled everything were lights and calendars to help them. That the world was full of order and beauty. Even if it wasn’t safe, it was good.
And humans were no longer sinners. They were very good.
And they put this new piece of scripture, not in its own book as you or I might have, but instead they put it at the very beginning of their most important scripture to change the way they read and understood all of their scriptures.
That argument between the Priests/Aristocrats/Fundamentalists vs the Prophets was still going on at the time of Jesus and is still going on today.
I think that if we can let go of our fundamentalist reading and interpretation of the first few chapters of Genesis, and reinterpret things in light of Genesis One as being it’s own little section from a different place/time/context, we will have a much truer understanding of God and, more importantly, God’s heart and the purpose of Jesus and the meaning of Jesus’ death and resurrection. And furthermore we will have a better relationship with God and our neighbors and God’s good Creation.
Sorry not sorry to write so much. But it is a complicated question and a complicated answer and I still only gave you a barebones outline.
i drew some kind of funny doctor man from @koch-snowflake-yith6-story
Journey to the Microcosmos- Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes
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I have a theory… A RELIGION THEORY
okay, so to start this off, I’m not Christian. I do believe in a god or gods though, but I don’t believe in a specific religion - though - in a way - I do believe in MOST (not all) religions. I will also say that this is directed towards atheists who use evolution as a reason a god(s) don’t exist. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I won’t judge anyone based off their religion (unless it’s like some crazy cult thing, but I only judge if you hurt others for your religion - like killing them.) but anyways, on to the reason I’m making this. My theory, is that what if god(s) created evolution? (In using Christianity as an example bc I don’t know that much abt other religions) but in the Bible it says god made Adam and Eve. What if he makes all life and Adam and Eve were the first humans through evolution? What if god made every generation of evolution? Then he would, therefore, still have made Adam and Eve with evolution still existing. Please correct me if I’m wrong on anything, I’m not the most educated, but I hope this gets my point across. And again, I love you no matter your religion. (Or race, gender identity, sexuality, weight, height, looks, etc)
I love how people try and deny evolution as if there aren't so many snakes with legs at the moment.
Endorphins
by Samsaran
Endorphins are among the brain chemicals known as neurotransmitters. At least 20 types of endorphins have been demonstrated in humans. Endorphins can be found in the pituitary gland, in other parts of the brain, or distributed throughout the nervous system.
Stress and pain are the two most common factors leading to the release of endorphins. Endorphins interact with the opiate receptors in the brain to reduce our perception of pain and act similarly to drugs such as morphine and codeine. In contrast to the opiate drugs, however, activation of the opiate receptors by the body’s endorphins does not lead to addiction or dependence.
In addition to decreased feelings of pain, secretion of endorphins leads to feelings of euphoria, modulation of appetite, release of sex hormones, and enhancement of the immune response. With high endorphin levels, we feel less pain and fewer negative effects of stress.
Here are some generally accepted ways to generate Endorphins:
Exercise: Exercising the body is a great way to health and generates endorphins. One of the effects is the so called “runner’s high”
Deep Consciousness Bodywork: Practices such as yoga, Tai Chi, and walking meditation work wonders for the production of endorphins.
Music & Dance: Moving the body in rhythmic motion such as dancing to music is a great way to activate endorphins. Singing and playing a musical instrument also release endorphins.
Laughter: Humor is a great way to induce production of endorphins.
Aromatherapy: Aromatherapy is great at activating endorphins. Try taking a hot bath with candles and natural oils. Also, incense and natural flowers have a relaxing effect.
Foods: Healthy, tasty and stimulating food like raw chocolate is a great way to stimulate endorphins.
Massage: A good massage will generally release bottled up energy and activate those feel good endorphins.
Sexual Intimacy: being intimate with your partner (and yourself) is a wonderful way to divine union that activates endorphins in the process.
Acts of Compassion: Helping others in even small ways boosts our endorphin levels.
So I went crazy over trying to develop this alien species for a story and at some point I relaised I have no idea how these guys reproduce.
Like at all
So I decided to try and look into and start.
Originally i considered making them do it the lizard way, self reproducing asexually.
But then someone in my circle showed me some fics they wrote for their characters and made me think that the lizard way was too easy.
No I needed something else.
So some context,
These bastards have the following concept art:
There is more but these are some attempts to try and place an image on paper and fail in a few different places.
The top four are the most recently and best done.
These guys live in a society that places roles on what you can give.
Knowledge? Skills? Products? Marketing? Music? Art?
Your value is through what you give and your role.
These guys don’t place anything on gender or sex in terms of roles because it would take from the value they already give in a sense.
Children are also raised by a select group of adults trained and equipped for the role and not the biological parents.
Children are seen as valuable however and due to the speices long lives there is a lot to factor into how and why they reproduce.
Originally I tried to start on how would attraction work for them
For us it’s boobs, penises, hair, body shape ect.
I won’t lie I just decided to give up early in the process cuz I didn’t really vibe with what I ended up with.
Next I decided how the fuck do we do the deed here, like is it dependant on genders? On parents what are we doing.
Hence some cursed research on birds, ducks(especially ducks I need eye bleach from the amount of animal dick I’ve seen for this), frogs and reptiles.
This lead me to bounce around and decide there is 4 main sexes for these guys.
I have no idea how the dna determine it yet other than - skin dye.
Now before you wag your finger let me present a chart:
So here we can see these guys have 4 types of patterns showing on the skin:
- star,
Where the core would be as well as what spirt, deity would make a contract if they wish
- cloud
Where the magic pattern focused when you where ‘born’
- blank
Nothing visible
-bones
A pattern of where your ribs may be as well as some extra stuff
So the dye is linked to what sex you are perceived as it’s consistent in comparison
Additionally the skin dye is linked to the sex genetics.
As you can see in the concept art no one has visible private parts.
This is on purpose and I decided to ignore the idea
In short I don’t want to draw cocks and made it canon but wasn’t sure if I wanted to complete remove the idea of penis in reproduction so ended up looking into hodge, monkeys and evetually birds and ducks in terms of how the fuck gentians work
(I need eye bleach for the amount of dicks I had to suffer through)
All because I rembered humans are one of the few creatures where the male part just hangs there in the open.
I still hate this process but alas we keep going
Since I decided going as inhuman like as possible was the goal
With my four placeholder names: g,f,h,m I made a chart of reproduction between them
At this point I keep tuning into two issues:
1. How the hell does the genetics work (especially if we add the possibility of intersex and ect)
2. What parts do they use? Like legit?
Currently this is where I got to so I hope my suffering was intresting at least
Why did they die
The Neanderthal died out but there are conflicting theories as to why https://jamessteinhaus.substack.com/p/serving-a-higher-purpose-a-hypothesis
