#but they are basically my original species

[ranticore]

Unreleased Setting Friday

ages ago i posted One picture of Limes, my alien character, on main without context. Limes comes from a sci-fi setting I was messing with for a while in early 2023/late 2022

They are photosynthetic "mimic" aliens who change shape from a base body plan over only a few generations to match the organisms around them - it was originally based off of that plant that "sees" its immediate neighbours and grows similar leaves to blend in :) limes was born in the Amazon to a small established group of its species that had mostly mimicked new world monkeys and margays

the panels on its back are photosynthetic. the body lacks bones and is operated by a hydrostatic system, with the tail in particular being straight and rodlike by default until warped by hydraulics into a prehensile structure.

These are really old designs now and the top image is actually the most recent hehe

Anyway there's a whole near-future story about the earth-born aliens and humans cooperating to fend off attacks from another faction of the same alien species who are raiding human technology for their power sources and essentially, basically, the entire setup is JUST to justify the presence of living aeroplanes :) as livestock guardian animals who accompany regular air freight and defend them from attacks. The story is about Limes, an engineer of the biomechs, working with a human biologist/behaviourist whose job is to train the livestock guardians to guard the freight.

#the planes are the same vehicles used by the attackers to hit the freight #but one crashed with a whole bunch of larvae in its shell #which have been raised by humans. the larvae were also mimics which is why they grow similar to earth vehicles #and not their alien parents. the whole thing was like.. the tame wolf trained to attack wild wolves while seeing itself in them... #btw i can do this every friday for a long time u have no idea the stories i have made

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

"basically all corporations do this"? You don't see Warcraft, most D&D settings, the Witcher, Shadowrun, Magic the Gathering, etc etc etc other fantasy franchises calling their orcs 'urgogs' or such. The likes of Blizzard and Hasbro aren't exactly paragons of integrity either, and ideas like 'continuity of brand' are ideas that applied equally to Warhammer.

Buddy. Pal. My guy. WoW-specific races like Tauren, Eredar, Draenai, are all copyrighted, and Blizzard holds copyright over the specific physical appearances of certain iterations of standard fantasy creatures, even though they aren't inherently all that original. Basically all of D&D's "unique" monsters and species are also copyrighted by Hasbro, no matter how derivative they are. Hence why Pathfinder doesn't use them. I don't know exactly what point you're trying to make, but I don't think you're making it very well.

Companies making THEIR version of a thing, in name or visual design, and then claiming it, is literally how all of these fuckers work.

[tamymew]

these guys are always so fun to draw, i love em so much

#dont really know what put here tbh lol #but they are basically my original species #i probably wont talk much about them tho #too scared to do it oop #langar #sihika #also her mother that doesnt have a name yet lmao #kharani #aela #reddy #oc stuff #tamyart

[pickled-flowers]

I only vaguely know my Mysqueery Gang lore but Lila is honestly a mystery to me even tho I see her all da time ... What's her deal :0

So clear isn’t it

#i am so sorry there is like zero informations here #art #my art #illustration #oc #my oc #artist on tumblr #lila #comic #drawing #my ocs #about the garden and the house and the family living in it #blood tw #death tw #basically if i try to put it into words #Lila is a member of a specie of ageless adventurers #called Étoiles because im the least original artist out there thank u very much #anyways #they constantly are reborn from their predecessor’s ashes\gore\body or wtv is left #in Lila’s case tho #maybe it wasn’t exactly the natural order of things #and she was adopted into the family at birth #never to be told of her origins

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

The sapient species of Enith. I want to do individual posts for each species, but idk when I’d get around to that.

Corldaxians (pronounced Corl-dax-ee-ans) are the most common, and are certainly the ones that have the easiest time in space. Kielni (kee-el-nee) are also very common, and many space stations- though not as many spaceships- are made to fit them. For most of Enith’s history Kielni regularly hunted Corldaxians. Both inhabited the same islands, both used the large rainforest plants as shelter, and Common Corldaxians are the right size to be easy prey for Kielni. Needless to say the social and religious repercussions of this are wild. Radraki Corldaxians were also hunted by Kielni, if less often, due to Radrakis living mostly in plains and Kielni preferring rainforests.

Taysya (Tay-s-yah) are the largest of the space-fairing species, and didn’t regularly hunt any other sapient species on Enith. They were mostly oceanic, flying long distances like albatross, so they fed on primarily fish. They did spend time on land, but did so mostly in the deserts of the drier islands. This, combined with their strange language, made them a mystery to the other sapients until well into the final dark ages. Present-day they are dramatically better known, with some Taysya-class ships and space stations allowing them to travel the stars with their sibling sapients.

Tarahsit (t-air-rah-sit) sure do exist. They’re entirely oceanic, so they are unable to join the others in space. They’re isolation and their languages being even stranger than the Taysya’s made them virtually unknown as sapient until even after the final dark ages. But today they are fairly well documented, and are included in Enithian society to the extent that they can be.

There is… another species that is currently being debated as sapient. But five sapient species coming out of Enith is already ridiculous, how could there be sixth?

#just the very basic designs for now #I’ll probably do like. minor edits to these guys over time. #but these guys are the oldest worldbuilding project I’ve had #Enith specifically. #and I’ve edited them enough that I’m happy with the overall design now :) #spec bio #speculative biology #speculative evolution #spec evo #xenobiology #original species #worldbuilding #little bird worldbuilding #my art #greetings from enith #thank fuck I did a group planet tag for these guys rather than individual species.

[encrucijada]

might be silly and write bullet points for a possible tears of the kingdom fic 🫶

#i really like the lore we got but i can never let go of my first thoughts when seeing the opening of the game #i thought rauru was the original hero of legend #not skyward sword link but The Hero. hylia's hero #and i thought zelda would be accompanied by a zonai of her own who'd be hylia #i thought the statue at the end of every shrine were the first zelda (ss zelda basically) and hylia #and i Know the lore between games doesn't have to match up #but botw had the perfect excuse of being set like 10k years in the future so it made every past game possible #and then totk was like lol we're going back to the start of the timeline and it's Not skyward sword #it's personally annoying TO ME ‼️ #so i want to write that version that lives in my head #where the zonai are the original species and some ascended into gods #hence farore. din. and nayru being dragons #i'm also annoyed totk ganondorf is like a mixture betwee demise and oot ganondorf #tf you mean he was trapped under eath hyrule castle?? did he not reincarnate during that time?? aside from manifesting as calamity twice?? #is totk not the beginning of the timeline. instead its “past timeline” is just what happens before botw but not any of the other games #hyrule how has it been more than 10k and you haven't invented the industrial revolution #i digress sorry for the tags bible #pia writes fanfic

[funeralprocessor]

Art from Mundus Carnis, a geiger-esque biopunk worldbuilding project by Screeble on DA.

I'm a huge huge fan of their art and writing and worldbuilding, have been for years. They did some fantastic work in a collaborative spec evo forum game I lurked.

Which have lived in my head ever since.

#spec evo #spec bio #biopunk #worldbuilding #body horror kinda #and some of the other MC designs are...not very safe for work #or life #but that's a side effect of being Geiger inspired #screeble #deviantart #god primordial evo games were so fun and cool I would love to do one with some friends #started with some incredibly basic mspaint blobs as like the original organisms and each post could add a little more to one #eventually we got sophonts and societies and shit like the Lufae and their fungal biotech #I'm using we very loosely there I contributed like three posts before I got scared lol #but god I followed the threads religiously once they got going #and I've stolen stuff from them for my tabletop campaigns for years #the Lufae especially I immediately started using as my go-to underdark-y species #which makes their alien vibes that much cooler when compared to like...an elf

[mechawolfie]

years ago I made this like species of magical cats with antlers bc i wanted to make smth like warrior cats and my little pony

anyway this is aurora starstep and moonboy (just moonboy) aurora is a priest but fake (his antlers arent real & he has no magical/spiritual ability) and moonboy is obsessed w the moon princess but she's (believed to be) dead so he goes to priests to try and speak to her. hence the name. miraculously aurora has been the only one so far who can reach her 🤔

#smudgy.png #oc posting #original species #oc: aurora #oc: moonboy #i love thesetwo so much. my little skrunklies #initially moony visits aurora for moon related stuff but eventually he finds he just rly likes aurora! #ig sad wet guys is his type #aurora also likes moonboy bc hes so sweet and fun & feels bad for lying to him #but he cant Stop bc its what hes been taught to do since birth basically #to make a long story short he has A Lot of pressure on him bc hes from a family of cats with a special gift for speaking to spirits #but he was born without the power & his parents couldnt take that so they have him pretend #anyway #theyre more fossa than cat rly but i just like calling them antler cats lol

[slyme-writes-stuff]

My first story. This introduces the characters I will be using, and the world they live in called Anordia.

I’m asking my friend to draw the characters which I’ll post here when they’re done (with credit of course).

I hope you guys like them :)

#my ocs #oc writing #original creation #original character #original story #creative writing #writing #story #fantasy #ent #ghost #harpy #lamia #thats not what the species are called in the story but thats basically what they are

[jigencaps]

#jigen #lupin #sweet lost night #sorry i abandoned the queue yesterday i was playing jedi survivor for literally the entire day <3 #i am not immune to star wars #wait thinking about lupin star wars. rubbing my brain cells together #im gonna say between prequels and originals because thats when everything happens. goemon ex jedi mirialan. #tempted to have lupin be the only human but i think i will give that to jigen. they are bounty hunters obv #fujiko twi'lek seems like basic but i love twi'leks andthis isn't real anyway. wait or a nightsister. fujiko magic #person who only remembers like 2 humanoid species. lupin remains a mystery to me

[w1tchcr4ftt]

YEAS I LOVE OG SPECIES

What is it :0

AHHHHHHH HIII YAY ASKS SO HERE WE GO

The species name is under construction but so far theyre chrombeasts

Theyre a certain dragon type creature consisting of color matter! Most of their outer body is made of of thick smooth ink and feel similarly to a sting ray in texture! Their insides consist of mainly light reflections and blood of a specific hue that depends on genetics (similar to human eye color) their eyes are hollow and have no pupils other than the set coloring of their blood. They have mouths similar to what i imagine toothless from httyd would and have retractable spines that spike when angry, these spines also protrude around the neck and ankles as protective gaurd. They produce low humming and trilling sounds as communication which eventually can become grumbling roars when angered making them silent predators. They are also opportunist omnivores so they eat practically everything they have access to. Including the sentient demons in the realm they reside in (uncommon but not impossible!)

#I have so many more details #i have diets and more anatomy and stuff #thats just basic info #they like belly rubs btw #w1tch.txt #original species #og species #my species

[myname-isnia]

Honestly I’d really like to make some kind of MLP AU or redesign/rewrite or whatever else of the sort because MLP was essentially my first fandom and it’s extremely nostalgic to me, but I’ve seen so many people do it already and have found myself physically incapable of producing something that isn’t blatantly copying what other people have done :/

#and yeah yeah I know that nothing in the world is truly original and everyone’s inspired by something #but I want to make smth that isn’t rehashing what I’ve already seen #and it’s hard bc redesigns and aus are kinda all the rage right now #and no I’m not talking about those infection aus bc while those are really cool and I’m not interested in making my own #I’m a really squeamish person. to the point I even avoid sick fics most of the time #so while I enjoy seeing a lot of those aus because I too had a creepypasta phase and it reminds me of cupcakes and rainbow factory vibe-wise #I’d probably throw up if I had to draw smth like that myself 😅 #anyway. what I meant is some kind of rewrite where I’d get to explore themes that interest me more #maybe dig a little deeper than the earlier seasons of the show could afford in certain places #like coming up with a clearer reason for aj’s parents’ deaths. for instance #and also making next gens is basically my modus operandi at this point so while I’m not really interested in making kids for the mane 6 #I’d like to redesign them + their families to get to play with genetics a little. #but again. I’ve seen a lot of redesigns over the years and I’m afraid they would influence me too much for my liking #only reason I’m so worried is because last year I did doodle some ideas a little. for the CMCs in particular #and suddenly realised they were basically the grand galloping 20s au designs poorly drawn from memory in my style #and any ideas re: redesigning the actual pony species are essentially ripped off from skyscraper gods #as are some concepts about becoming an alicorn/gaining immortality and all hat #so… yeah. no #idk. I’ll think about it some more and maybe I can come up with some cool ideas that I can string together in some way #it might be really fun and would also give me a chance to let my sotrl hyperfixation rest a little #don’t get me wrong. I love the universe Kat and I created and my OCs and everything. but I’ve been going at it non stop for almost 4 years #sooner or later it’ll burn me out and I won’t be able to come up with anything for it anymore #and I literally don’t draw anything BUT sotrl #so it’d be nice to branch out a little. maybe I’ll finally feel less like I’m screaming into the void with my incredibly niche OCs #again. I don’t know. we’ll see if I’m struck with inspiration or smth #also coming up with ideas is like half of the problem lmao. horses are really hard to draw #even cartoon ones 😭😭 I was hyperfixated on mlp for most of my childhood and still never mastered it #I can barely draw humans lower than shoulder level let alone horses. but I’ll figure it out if I get a concrete au idea #okay I’ve been rambling for like half an hour. rant over I’m done

[roughentumble]

AU where jaskier has never felt right. his parents are rich, get him the most recent iphones, but they suppress his desire to sing. and he can just FEEL that he's different, somehow. he likes to sit on the roof and stargaze, feels a connection somewhere out there, in the deep dark of the night.

until one night, a ship lands in his parents large, expansive grounds. a creature climbs put-- bipedal, humanoid, but... different. it looks at him, seems to... scan him. claims its name is geralt, and its something like a space bounty hunter. and then asks him if he'd like to come along.

jaskier is an alien, who for unknown reasons was cloaked by his birth parents before being left on this unknown planet, earth. and the only way to fix it, to show what he's really supposed to look like, is to find his people, who will have the key to deactivating it. in doing so, he'll also get a chance to see the place he came from, to understand why he feels the way he does, to find a place where he belongs.

(geralt presumes there'll be a reward for returning jaskier, but he's also a bleeding heart who cant just leave someone stranded)

and that's how they start traveling together

(vaguely inspired by:)

#witcher tag #ogc tag #yes this is basically just an original story but i pictured it in my head as an au #i picture jask's “birth species” as being a cross between alien and fey. #with green skin and freckles that catch the light or perhaps glow from within under certain circumstances #very floral. so his “birth name” is julian given by his earth parents but his chosen name is jaskier(a flower) #which ends up being a connection back to his actual species #but then as he finds his people and gets to see his true self reflected in the mirror and feels so at home #he also decides to stay with geralt. because thats where he MADE his home

[babygirlbdubs]

Hi hello hey can you give me as many detail as you want about your Star Trek au concept so I can draw it pretty please, go nuts 👍

(tbh creature staring) oh boy you have... opened the floodgates my friend... oh boy.. oh man oh man i'll do the basics to start

the ship is called the USS Orpheus. NCC-2719. Excelsior Class. she's a beauty, and she's brand new. the mission: exploration.

her captain? none other than Ren K'ing, a Romulan officer who climbed the ranks and is a stickler for Starfleet regulation. like. painfully so.

Commander B-00-100 ("Bdoubleo" or "Bdubs) serves as his second officer. Bdubs is a human clone. while he was one of the first to actually function, he also defected from what was intended of him pretty quickly. luckily, though, his individual sentience was encouraged, and he joined Starfleet! (Zedaph loves having Bdubs on board to learn about)

we then have, for the bridge crew... Second Officer/Communications Officer: Lieutenant Cleo, a Kobali Chief Engineer: Lieutenant Mumbo K. Jumbo, species yet undecided Chief Science Officer: Lieutenant Zedaph, a Grazerite Chief Medical Officer: Lieutenant (Jr.) Joe Hills, a Human from Nashville, TN Helmsman: Ensign Pearlescent "Pearl" Moon, an Aenar Andorian Navigator: Ensign Gemini Tay, species tbd Chief Tactical Officer: Ensign Etho, a Vulcan (though i've jumped through some hoops to make his design fit with Vulcans) Security Chief: Commander Scar Goodtimes, a Vexian (my own alien race based on Vexes i'm already very deep in design and culture god help me) Operations Officer: Commander Xisuma, a Kelpien and then the rest of her crew... Engineering: Ensign Eight of Five "Iskall", a defected Borg Lieutenant Seven of Seven "Doc", a defected Borg Ensign Jevin, a Changeling Ensign Keralis, species tbd Ensign Tango Tek, a Xahean Science: Lieutenant Cubfan, a Vexian Ensign Hypno, species tbd Commander "Vintage" Beef, a Human (might change) Medical: Ensign Stress Monstah, alien species tbd Lieutenant XB Crafted, species tbd Security: Lieutenant False Symmetry, species tbd Ensign Impulse, a Taxor Lieutenant Wels Knight, species tbd

where is grian, you might ask? well you see. Grian is part of the alien race called The Watchers. they are entirely unknown to the Federation until the USS Orpheus falls into a rift in a subspace bubble. within that rift-- within that bubble-- they find a lone planet circling a star. on that planet are the Watchers. a species who never interact or interfere with anything that falls through the rift. it's their way! they only ever observe. watch.

of course, Grian is a pesky little bird. and he does not follow that tradition at all.

the USS Orpheus has to send down a landing party to retrieve something from the planet's surface in order to repair their ship from passing through the rift. Scar, being chief of security and also able to talk himself out of pretty much any situation is sent down. because it's first contact and there's no warp signature from the planet, they only send Scar down bc... they can't really risk breaking the Prime Directive.

but uh. yeah. scar runs into grian pretty quickly.

i have. so much brainrot over the watchers and the vexians already too. and also etho's backstory. and ethubs history. and just. so much. so much brainrot. i'm. very excited to share stuff hehehe... esp considering i'm working on some design sheets for some of these guys, esp the vexians/watchers and some of my other alien blorbos <3

#i actually have some scar designing done... #i'll probably do a separate post for some species notes and such on my original species #watchers do of course have a fuck ton of wings tho and they also communicate solely through telepethy using abstract thought #they can speak verbally but its not really their way #vexians have camoflauge capabilities similar to that of an octopus #and 'scar' is a title rather than a name :] #basically u can expect a fuck ton of content for this au bc my brain is just. exploding #spooky.asks #hot-dyke-shit #stau

[now-entering-the-goop-zone]

Yet another Tethyr woo.

Tethyr Ustura

Their goop is created in a much more violent manner compared to other tethyrs, in small internal explosion, the benefit of this is that it can instantly expell a portion of excess mass immediately, but this also causes much more heat compared to other tethyrs, and a bigger need of “fuel” to continue the internal combustion.

Older T. Ustaras master using their explosive innards to their advantage, learning how to boost themselves with it, making them quite mobile.

#art #digital art #tethyr #original species #oc species #my species #artists on tumblr #oc artist #oc art #basically they’re the rain world artificer of tethyrs #(and can also rocket jump) #waaaaa

[duskgryphon]

i completely forgot i was meaning to talk about my ocs and stuff so um. take a compilation of a bunch of art of my bug dragons 

#gryph.png #art #original character #artists on tumblr #? also i'm not sure if i should tag th #these things with specbio because technically that's what. i'm trying to do speculative biology stuff but A #ALSO i haven't done. actual research into biology #i plan to and i've been figuring out what each species would fit under um #like the bug dragons are athropods but all the shit under that at least to a basic extent #since they're actually like. not all one species and even those that are related (i.e dragons) have a variety of different related species #i don't know if i'll be able to do kinds of dragons outside of drakes dragons and wyrms but /i want to try/ #i think that'd be really fun and also. that's a legit speculative biology project i think #wyverns are probably the easiest the main issue for me is trying to figure out how insect wings could work like i guess bat wings #i made some sketches and wasn't satisfied so i might try again at some point #i haven't talked about my project world - proceeds to talk about it #insect #bugs #okay i'm done now i think #suyoreth