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c-casu · 5 months

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Islands have always hosted some of the weirdest ecosystems: giants and dwarfs, flightless birds and relicts of almost gone lineages.

The European islands of the Epigene are no different and host ecosystems much more different than the mainland.

The biggest European archipelago, the British isles, have quite similar ecosystems to each other, being so close and so similar in climate.

Both have ungulates as their biggest animals, with Reeve’s muntjac’s descendants in Ireland, one of the last places where cervids still thrive, that became as heavy as cows (the Hibernian cow-elk Hibernelaphus canobarbus), and ox-like boars in Great Britain (like the London Ox-hog or Bosus londinii).

These islands also share other herbivores, such as big fully flightless pheasants (like the Piasunstruth or Pterolophus chlorus), big walking wallaby descendants (like the Ebdanian maned kangaroo or Hibernopus cervinus) and semiaquatic fur less boars (like Wallace loch-hog or Hyopotamus wallacei) that graze on the smaller island like the Isle of Man during the summer.

One of the biggest predators of toady’s isles are red foxes that survived as medium-sized mesocarnivores, like the Irish giant fox (Ebdanocyon murphyi), but the apex predator is the Devil stork (Diablociconia higginsi), that peck their prey in vital parts to bleed them out and grabs small prey from afar.

In the Mediterranean Crete is quite different from the mainland too. The main herbivore on the island are the Cretan Dodos (Pseudodo ariadnae), flightless pigeons with a skull resembling that of the extinct dodo, hunted by the short-haired Minokatis (Minofelis cretensis), bobcat sized descendants of the endemic wildcats.

The most different of all from the mainland, tho, is definitely Malta, already without any big wild mammal it was almost instantly colonised by birds, who now rule the island. The two biggest species are the almost flightless Valletta’s Cinju (Cygnarius guelii) and the flightless Ghotifalkun (Flacoraptor gabrielis), descended from swans and kestrels.

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on-beyond-holocene · 2 years

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Notopanthera ferox

In the time of humans, cats were a nuisance in Australia. Since 1820, over three million feral cats have come to populate the continent. Cats are extremely effective predators, and their spread has contributed to the extinction of at least 22 native mammal species. Even today, feral cats have begun to grow abnormally large, reaping the rewards of their success. Lax control programs have ensured their survival past the Holocene, and as time went on the cats became progressively larger and more ambitious.

Notopanthera is the largest terrestrial predator in Australia ten million years hence, with large individuals being comparable in size to a mountain lion. Its upper canines have grown so large as to stick out of the mouth when closed. This re-evolution of saber teeth is not surprising, as it had evolved at least six times previously in synapsids. A pursuit predator, it preys upon kangaroos, emus, and camels. It’s most common in open, drier habitats, but it is versatile and can be found across the continent.

#On Beyond Holocene #Speculative evolution #Notopanthera #Notopanthera ferox #Australia 10 myh #Cenozoic #Epigene

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fhm1yuoiz · 1 year

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zinmf7xk23d · 1 year

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sailorsenshishitposter · 2 months

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Until it finds my dreams have disappeared

I've been debating about whether or not to post this for a while. Mostly because I use my tumblr to post dumb stuff or act as a distraction from stress. I'm getting kind of tired with people though. This isn't something exclusive to the Metal Gear franchise (far from it) but it's something I've noticed happening quite frequently. Metal Gear has many characters with horrible backgrounds that suffer from PTSD/CPTSD and many mental health issues. I can't help but notice that there's a trend in the younger crowd (isn't mgs exclusive) that whenever there's a heavily traumatized character (I've only seen it happen with male characters but I assume the opposite does happen) that they considere attractive, they will simp for them and post things unironically.

It's like they see someone who they think is attractive and start actually going "NO I CAN FIX THEM! THEY'RE JUST SAD LITTLE MEOW MEOWS". Like it's fine to make jokes but when you see posts that resemble those weird celebrity fan pages bordering on obsession I think it's time to take a step back. I get some people identify with characters which is fine but they'll completely ignore said characters actions and be like "sure they killed all those people but I'd totally let them cut me up if I had the chance to smash" when the person in question isn't even real. Or there will be a character that's traumatized so badly that they think that if you just cuddle a person like that and baby them then you can fix them. I guess I'm mostly just mad because I feel like usually these are young kids who still have a chance for a good life but they're very ignorant about how people affected by trauma can be.

It's not some cute, quirky thing. It changes your whole world and your beliefs, especially when it starts in childhood. You can technically put this for any character that meets the criteria but personally for me I would have to choose Monsoon from Metal Gear Rising. He grew up with no choice but to kill to survive and witnessed the Cambodian genocide along with working for the mafia and nearly dying from that. I don't really care if someone has a crush on a fictional character, personally that's none of my business. What I'm tired of is seeing frequent posts that range from "uwu my soft cinnamon roll baby" to all the graphic smut on here depicting tortue.

I can't speak for everyone but personally I find it demeaning when being coddled by others. Yes, I went through things but please don't treat me like a child. It feels insulting. I also have no problems with BDSM but I can only take seeing so many posts that basically allude to someone drawing a character about to be raped for their own personal enjoyment. It's especially bad when people make stuff of that for characters who have already been held hostage or enslaved (I'm looking at Vergil x Mundus shippers specifically).

Trauma is not something that you can help someone overcome. It consumes them and becomes your entire world regardless of how it came to be. In fact trauma is often passed down through genes. Though you may not have someone else's memories you will have the same reactions to traumatic situations that those before you did or your body will adapt to that kind of environment. Hypervigilance can be passed down through epigenic changes in DNA.

This is where things get personal for me. Though I've never met them, I know I come down from genocide survivors. I'm either third or fourth generation. I'm not exactly sure what they saw but from what I've read it was common to see various forms of torture. One method was to stick babies in the sand and then trample over their heads with horses... Based on the family I could find and knowing their location, they must have survived the death marches and I'm unsure if they were at the final killing fields or not. That's not even mentioning everything they had being taken away from them and seeing everyone they knew suffer horrible fates. To this day bone fragments will still rise from the ground, the bodies of the dead never having been put properly to rest.

I'm unable to travel there but if I could, I couldn't help but feel like I'm being swallowed by death. Why am I here but so many perished. Then on to my father. I don't know much about him and he passed away when I was a child. All I really know about his background was that he came from a wealthy family. It was common for his friends families to have guards outside their children's bedroom doors. We lived in a western country where it was "safe" (he wasnt originally from where I Iive) but I remember he wouldn't sleep at night and would seem like he was looking for something during the day. Sometimes he just stared like he was waiting for something to happen but nothing ever came. I don't want to say that he was an intentionally cruel person, just that I don't think he had the capabilities to act like a normal human being. I was raised with a mindset of being better than others. That is to say that I wasn't supposed to have weakness. It makes sense looking back. He survived having his body messed up and I was told he survived assisnation attemps (corruption is huge down there so it's not like police could do anything). Nothing was said after so I assumed he killed whoever was after him before they could kill him. Pretty much a kill or be killed mindset.

Growing up I realized he was hard on us not to hurt us but because he thought it would make things easier for us in the future. I know it must have been even worse for him if he thought that this was being kind. Anyway he passed away when I was a child and long story short but for whatever reason my family couldn't get in contact with us so I never received my inheritance but that's for the best. I don't know how well I would have handled it at nine if I knew there was a possibility of being kidnapped or killed for the money or because someone had a grudge against my father.

I guess I always knew I was different but his death really solidified that. I was used to having to be tougher but it seems like my older sister and mother couldn't handle it. They already cried one time when we couldn't see him (which was often) and once the news broke I just remember everyone sobbing and screaming in agony. I didn't feel anything though. I realize now that it was dissociation but no tears would fall and I understood what was happening but it felt like I couldn't emotionally process it. At some point I have no memories up until a certain point. Whenever I have some sort of traumatic situation happen I suffer from dissociative amnesia. I'm not sure for how long, I just know that there are large gaps in my memory.

Right before my memories vanished I can remember not wanting to exist anymore. The day after I was surrounded by all the sobbing and knew that I couldn't let myself die. If I did I would just be trying to escape from my pain and would place it on my family. So for the last two decades I haven't really had a dream or anything to look forward to. I've just had a goal of trying not to die. There are many more traumatic things that followed which I won't get into but I dislike telling people my life story since they just give me looks of pity or seem like they want to ask how I haven't killed myself yet.

Unfortunately the kill or be killed mindset has been passed on. While I've never harmed anyone, I have recovered memories involving someone I trusted keeping me against my will and unspeakable things happening many times. I've had frequent nightmares since then and didn't know that my situation wasn't normal. By the time I was a teenager I found out that I didnt have to live my life in fear and allow abuse to keep happening. I've decided since then that I'll do whatever I can should I be faced with a similar situation in the future. I can only fight back to stop such a thing from happening again. It will most likely never occur again but it still affects my life everyday. I can't go out in public without someone I trust and even then I still scan the whole area and look for an escape route. I shouldn't have to feel like everyone around me is a possible threat to my safety and freedom.

I don't think people realize just how calming the rain can actually be. Not just the light stuff but heavy rain. It acts as a soothing white noise that drowns out your thoughts and feeling it hit your body also distracts you. I won't say when since it could reveal my location but within the last few years I was outside during a very bad storm that had frequent wet microbursts. It destroyed all the trees in the area and I almost died but I felt oddly calm. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. There was so much wind and rain that it resembled blowing snow and there was so much water hitting the ground that it would form waves that would zoom so fast and then crash only to repeat the process over and over.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm annoyed by all the sexualization of people with mental health issues. With the way some people act towards characters that don't exist, it worries me how they could treat real people going through similar situations. And on the other hand please see trauma survivors as real people. Many of us had to survive on our own and you thinking someone being terrified is just a shy/cute trait that makes them adorable is infuriating. I can't tell you how much I hate the latter. I'm so sick of people thinking that I need someone to spoil me with affection and protect me to the point where I feel like I'm being treated as a baby. It just makes me feel more weak and pathetic.

#kurapika #kurapica #nelo angelo #monsoon mgr #vent #tw genocide #tw trauma #metal gear solid #mgs #metal gear rising #metal gear rising revengeance #I feel like some of you didn't listen to the lyrics of the stains of time #ptsd #complex ptsd #tw ptsd #childhood trauma #abuse survivor #mgrr #mgr

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lindendragon · 2 years

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Thinking about Hunted Grimwalker au again

Ok so like, you know how they say that a domestic pig might get more wild features if it gets released into the wilderness, due to epigenes I think? Also how changelings can have a fae form and a human mimic form? And if grimwalkers can be seen as a simultaneous subversion and parallel to changelings?

Like, that but with grimwalkers and their components if they end up living in certain conditions. Maybe the more similarly they live to one of their components, the more traits from that they'll have. A forest dweller growing small palistrom horns, having a straw-like texture to their hair, a seaside dweller and diver having their eyes become more beady, skin more scally and seaweed sprout from the back of their neck, a cave-dweller getting stone-hard calluses on their hands and other places, like natural armor.

Hunter having an even bigger existential crisis when he notices, simultaneously horrified that he looks more like the "vile creature" he is, yet relieved that he doesn't look like a copy of the "real" Hunter anymore, but like something one could say is himself.

#the owl house #toh hunter #hunted grimwalker au #grimwalkers #toh au #lindendragon #my stuff #au rambles

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jestemkasia · 1 year

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pugzman3 · 2 years

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briery · 7 months

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Helix Ramondi (land snail fossil) epigenised with Lussatite. Dallet, France. By Geologist2K12 on Facebook.

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c-casu · 29 days

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On the coast of the Bay of Bengal a pair of relatively large corvids is walking by looking for food. It’s their first year together and she hasn’t yet laid any eggs, so they can still forage together without worrying about their chicks.

These two birds are sea crows (Thalattocorvus albocephalus), opportunistic omnivores like their ancestors, although showing traits for a seagoing lifestyle: webbed feet, a long and slender bill, hydrophobic feathers and salt glands. They evolved over the course of the last ten million years in response to the shrinking jungle and retreating coastline, caused by the northward movement of the Indian plate. They now thrive in this newly formed shallow sea, scavenging on the coast, diving for fish and occasionally foraging in the forests. Some populations were even able to establish themselves outside of the Sea of Bengal, reaching as far West as Arabia and the Horn of Africa, and as far South as Sumatra.

Going back to our protagonists, the couple has just spotted some nesting lutters, earless phutrids, coming back from their hunt with small fish for their pups. Although usually wary of animals this big, the food brought by these mothers presents a great opportunity for the two. After choosing their targets they set their simple but clever plan in motion. While one of them distracts her the other catches an anchovy and both fly away.

Showing a great degree of adaptability, intelligence and ability to strategise these corvids will be able to establish themselves as some of the most successful birds in the seas of the Epigene and eventually some of the most common.

#spec evo #spec bio #speculative evolution #speculative biology #worldbuilding #artwork #digital art #epigene period #future earth #future evolution

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scienceofbeauty · 2 months

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