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colormush · 23 days
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rosyjuly · 1 year
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our gpda co-directors on track
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boa-h · 1 year
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[Event] - November Feasts
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Hey guys! Since I haven’t been having the motivation to write lately, I decided to start an event to asist me get back on track. Coincidentally, Thanksgiving (for America) is right around the corner, which is literally tomorrow. I decided to make this a Thanksgiving event!
This event will have a limited slot and follows a first-come-first-serve basis, once all the slots are filled, the event requests will be closed. Once a prompt is taken, its text will be changed into the color red.
Any requests that do not follow my rules will be deleted
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Prompts:
Hugs and Kisses - Sabo
Under the Moon-
A Sweaty Day - Who’s Who
Cranberry Relish - Shanks
Adoration - Trafalgar Law
Festival -
Turkey Hunt -
Thanksgiving Parade - Luna Lovegood
Orange Leaves - Portgas D. Ace
Mulled Apple Cider - Donquixote Doflamingo
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Rules:
🌸 All the rules in my pinned post will apply
🌸 Be polite and respectful
🌸 Only request ONE prompt with ONE character
🌸 Please send in if you want the fic to be fluff or angst, HE (happy ending) or BE (bad ending)
🌸 I will not be writing for characters over the age of 50, nor any marine admirals
🌸 You can also choose between modern AU or canon settings :)
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transporteu · 1 year
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Podróże między krajami i wewnątrz nich dzięki pociągom zdolnym do poruszania się z prędkością do 320 km/h.
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pucksandpower · 1 year
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Max Verstappen x YouTuber!Reader - Social Media AU
This was a request but I kept having issues posting the original directly and I am so sorry that it’s shorter than usual but I am in the middle of taking finals and feeling super drained.
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yourusername
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yourusername on our first date i told max that i want a man that makes my heart race … so he took me out in a sports car going 320 km/h
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maxverstappen1 had to make sure you knew what you were getting into
yourusername i stuck around after you almost made me puke so clearly it worked
maxverstappen1 almost? i had to throw the shoes i was wearing out
yourusername there’s some things you don’t have to tell the internet 🤫
f1wagupdates he understood the assignment
y/nupdates how long have you been together?
maxverstappen1 14 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, and 7 hours but who’s counting?
yourusername everyone thinks my boyfriend is aggressive on the track but he’s really just a sweet teddy bear off of it
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yourusername i love you and your cringy captions
maxverstappen1 there’s nothing cringy about my puns, schatje
yourusername just don’t quit your day job, babe 🫶
supermaxbros this is my multiverse of madness
f1wagupdates look at how happy they are together 🥹
y/nupdates they deserves everything good in this world
verstappenupdates i’m so glad they found each other
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leletha-jann · 20 days
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Favorite Footnotes of Girl Genius: An Appreciation (2/?)
It's Just Funnier As a Footnote, Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, page 320
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Scanning down the page creates the exact beat you need between joke and punchline.
A+ timing, no notes.
(Gil, I want that book on the shelves of the Castle Heterodyne library, where future kiddos will raid it for nasty things to call their siblings.)
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mapsontheweb · 2 years
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Saturn's north polar vortex compared to continental US.
Related: North America and the Great Red Spot on Jupiter >>
Saturn's hexagon is a persistent approximately hexagonal cloud pattern around the north pole of the planet Saturn, located at about 78°N. The sides of the hexagon are about 14,500 km (9,000 mi) long, which is about 2,000 km (1,200 mi) longer than the diameter of Earth. The hexagon may be a bit more than 29,000 km (18,000 mi) wide, may be 300 km (190 mi) high, and may be a jet stream made of atmospheric gases moving at 320 km/h (200 mph). It rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s, the same period as Saturn's radio emissions from its interior.
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sneeb-canons · 4 months
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soul’s love language is gift giving
one of his favourite things to give is flowers
he started out by giving them to h, m, and w directly, but eventually he starts putting them in places they are around regularly.
a new vase of flowers in minds room
flowers on heart’s cane
shrines to whole being filled with various flowers
mind usually plants them in his haven/realm, heart puts them in his hair or makes a flower crown, and whole puts it in a vase on the coffee or dinner table
Headcanon #320
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lix-ables · 1 year
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❤️‍🩹🩹。い WATCH ME — H. HYUNJIN VERSION.
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🌒 [minors dni, smut includes teasing, mentions of throat fucking exhibitionism obv, slight perverted thoughts, hyunjin is such a tease in those thoughts though he's baby OMFG, switch!hyunjin cause we love that, etc] please please show this some love. feedback is appreciated ‹3 mwah
❤️‍🩹🩹 chan | minho | changbin | hyunjin | jisung | felix | seungmin | jeongin
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when hyunjin first sat himself in front of the mirror, he let out a groan. with the thoughts he was having, his mind was all over the place. with thoughts about you especially, he could paint an image of you and how you looked, maybe just for him. 
he reaches down to undo the string of his sweatpants. a smirk sat on his lips when he let his fingers slip into the sweats, instantly feeling himself getting hard - maybe because of how he pictured you looking at him — you, on your knees, and your eyes looking up at him, as you let your tongue lick the tip of his cock, teasing him enough for his fingers to tangle themselves in your hair, tugging it so much as to has your eyes back on him again, his face telling you to continue.
hyunjin shuts his eyes going back to the thoughts he was having just this morning. 
from the way he imagined your body rise up as you shimmied out of your shorts, straddling him, your hands on his chest, trailing up and exploring every inch of him, until they come to rest on his shoulders, and that's when he lets out another groan.
the feeling of your body moving against his own, your hips grinding against his thigh — it all felt too real. it felt a bit too real for him to bring his cock out in his hand, slow and teasing strokes reminding him of you, wishing you would just come home, and catch him in the process of torturing himself — because that's what you did. and he loved that. 
the way he wanted you to watch him as he came for you, wanted you to watch him whimper out your name — like it was the only thing in his mind, and it was. it was like his brain, at that moment was wired to you.
because that's when he thought of you on your knees again, the way he fucks your mouth, your fingers on his thighs, nails digging into the skin as his hips buck into your face, and he watches a tear form at the corner of your eye, his thumb reaching to brush it away, just as he slows down. 
his hand, at that moment, reaches for his phone that sat next to him — the first thought that morning — he wanted to tell you how much he missed you. how much he missed feeling you around him. missed the way your body was in sync with his. and that's when he sent a message, with an image attached.
‹ feeling needy, come home please. want to be good for you ›
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note. did i write this while i cried? yes. @moon-320 asked for hyunjin + exhibitionism, and i just got to this, im sorry my love. @hwajin @svintsandghosts @h0neyspaceplanet where yall at this is subby hyunjin at its finest sigh. also tblr fucked up a bit so here we are.
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Tässä viikko sitten matkustin junalla Japanissa ja VR:ään tottuneena junat tuntuivat tosi nopeilta (menin joo luotijunalla, mutta myös ns. tavallisella paikallisjunalla). Myös ranskalaiset kaverini valittelevat, että VR:n junat ovat hitaita. Miksi? Ainakin huomasin, että täällä raiteet ovat usein kallellaan käännöksissä, kai koska käytetty kalusto ei ole pendoliinomallia (vuoriston keskellä tuntui välillä ihan vuoristoradalta, hehheh), mutta onko suomen junien hitauden taustalla jotain syvempää kuin, että kalusto on jotenkin vanhaa tai raiteet vaatisivat nopeille vuoroille pendoliinotekniikkaa tai vastaavasti raiteet pitäisi uusia vähintään mutkista tms.
Myös jos oon ymmärtänyt junien toiminnasta jotain väärin tai on lisättävää niin saa täsmentää :D
Ranska ja Japani on toki ne kaksi paikkaa maailmassa, missä on parhaiten toimiva suurnopeusjunaverkko, että en tiedä onko vertailu ihan reilu.
Niissä molemmissa on ollut rahaa ja poliittista tahtoa rakentaa pelkästään matkustajaliikennettä varten oleva rataverkko vanhan rinnalle, jolloin voidaan tehdä juurikin esimerkiksi noi mutkien kallistukset optimaaliseksi kovaa kulkevan matkustajajunan kannalta. (Samoin esimerkiksi Tokion paikallisjunaverkosta iso osa on rakennettu vain matkustajajunille).
Suomessa taas kaikki radat (lukuunottamatta Kehäradan Hiekkaharju–Vantaankoski-osuutta) on tehty kompromisseina tavara- ja matkustajajunien tarpeiden välillä. Pääosa Suomen rataverkosta on rakennettu aikanaan ajatellen nimenomaan rahdin tarpeita (mistä johtuu monien järkevien suorien ratayhteyksien puuttuminen, kun radat linjattiin palvelemaan teollisuutta) ja valtaosa rataverkosta on tehty aikanaan halvalla kun rahaa ei ollut. Toki ratoja on sittemmin paranneltu reilustikin vuosien saatossa, mutta meillä on tasan yksi virallisen suurnopeusradan määritelmän (=voi ajaa yli 200 km/h) täyttävä rataosa eli Kerava–Lahti-rata vuodelta 2006. Muillakin radoilla on kohtia missä voidaan ajaa 200 km/h, mutta Shinkansenin ja TGV:n 320 km/h:n pääseminen vaatisi matkustajaliikenteelle pyhitetyn ja noille nopeuksille erikseen suunnitellun radan (Kerava–Lahti-rata voitaisiin tällaiseksi muuttaa jos kiskotus mutkissa uusittaisiin). Mutta iso osa Suomen rataverkkoa on sitten sellaista, että maksiminopeus on 120 km/h tai vähemmän, koska ne on tehty silloin kun satasta ajava juna oli utopiaa, eikä koskaan ole löytynyt rahaa tai tahtoa oikeasti päivittää ne nykyaikaan.
Suomalainen kalusto ei ole mitenkään erityisen vanhaa tai poikkeuksellisen hidasta, veturivetoiset matkustajajunat Euroopassa ovat pitkälti samanlaisia noin 200 km/h -nopeudelle rakennettuja (kuten jo aiemmin kirjoittelinkin niin Sr2 ja Sr3 on molemmat laajalti muissakin maissa käytössä olevia veturityyppejä). Meiltä Suomesta vaan puuttuu se niitä nopeampien, noin 300 km/h nopeuksiin pystyvien junien joukko, jollaisia on esim. Japanissa, Ranskassa, Saksassa ja Espanjassa.
Pendolino oli yritys saada Suomeen jonkinlainen suurnopeusjuna, mutta käytännön kokemus paljasti ettei kallistuvakoritekniikka toiminut halutulla tavalla (ts. siitä ei oikeasti ole korvaamaan suurnopeusgeometrialla rakennettua rataa). Niillä piti voida ajaa 250 km/h, oikea huippunopeus oli kuitenkin 220 km/h ja lopulta todettiin että niillä ei kannata ajaa kuin sitä 200 km/h mitä Sr2/Sr3+kaksikerroksinen Intercityvaunu -kombolla voidaan ajaa.
Uudelle Espoo–Salo-oikoradalle, jonka ensimmäisen vaiheen rakentamisen nykyinen hallitus on hyväksynyt (noin ainoana järkevänä toimenpiteenään) on suunniteltu 300 km/h osuus. Toki tätä hyötyä voidaan käyttää vain jos ostetaan myös 300 km/h -nopeuksiin pystyvää kalustoa. Samaten hylätty "Suomi-rata," eli uusi rata Helsingin ja Tampereen välille, olisi ollut 300 km/h -rata.
(Tulipa tästä pitkä. Mä olen kirjoittanut jo valmiiksi Pendolinojen esittelyn, siinä on tarkemmin niiden ongelmista, mutta pari muuta asiaa pitäisi saada esiteltyä ennen sitä).
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thienvaldram · 4 months
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Silurian Speculative Ancestry
Edit: Updated to add Silurians from the 30th Anniversary Calendar
Prelude – Meta-Origins of Silurians
It is of note that the Silurians, upon original development, were very much intended to effectively be ‘dinosaur people’. With their reptilian appearance being indicative of the pre-Avian, pre-Jurassic Park reptilian dinosaur conception. Though with JP-style avian dinosaurs being depicted in both Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and Deep Breath among others, as well as the newer designs of the Silurians themselves, make such an origin retroactively very tenuous in Universe.
Their two names from their first couple of stories, ‘Silurians’ and ‘Eocenes’, reflect two eras of history in which they are implied to originate, though both raise massive chronological problems with regards to how their depicted, especially in later works but even in their early ones. The Silurian era (444-415 million years ago) predates the emergence of reptiles entirely (310-320 million years ago) whereas the Eocene (56-34 million years ago) postdates the Dinosaurs but also still predates humanity (300,000 years ago), the homo genus (2.8 million years ago) and Hominids (22 million years ago).
And the ‘Silurian dating controversy’ only gets worse the more Silurian stories got written over time, as various pieces of media date them anywhere between less than 1 million years ago to 65 million years ago to 1 billion years ago (Which is pre Multicellular life). This exacerbated by the idea that the Moon’s capture was the reason for the Silurian hibernation, a theory that was since superseded by the Theia impact theory in modern scientific consensus and either way would have been dated to the early Solar System.
Thus for the interest of Speculative Biology I have thrown out all specific absolute dates and specific geological events associated with the Silurians in favour of hashing together an origin that makes conceptual sense for the Silurians as a prehistoric sentient Earthbound species based on what knowledge of modern biology I happen to have, as well as what jives with the overall ideas of the DWU.
Speculative Evolution
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Speciation
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Scientific Name – Colloquial Identifier for this writeup (DWU Name/Origin Story)
Genus
Bipeslacertia – Reptilian Kindred (Earth Reptiles)
Species
Bipeslacertia vehemenus – Primitive Ancestor (Primitive Ancestor)
Bipeslacertia volans – “Winged Kindred” (Winged Earth Reptiles)
Bipeslacertia diabolus – Sea Devils (Sea Devils)
Bipeslacertia homines – Silurians (Silurians)
Mondasian Parallel Evolution
Bipeslacertia diabolus abastrius – Sea Kings (Mondasian Sea Devils)
Bipeslacertia homines abastrius – Lizard Kings (Mondasian Silurians)
Subspecies (Winged Kindred)
Bipeslacertia volans mortuus – “Paleocenes” (Winged Species – Adolescence of Time)
Bipeslacertia volans malakhi – Wyrm Callers (Wyrm infected Paleocenes)
Bipeslacertia volans vivus – Luadans (TM: A Morphology/Reign of the Reptiles)
Bipeslacertia volans aurori – Zori (Reign of the Reptiles/Revelry of the Redacted)
Subspecies (Sea Devil)
Bipeslacertia diabolus sicutsimiae – Late Sea Devils (Comic Sea Devils)
Bipeslacertia diabolus sicuturtus – Early Sea Devils (Normal Sea Devils)
Bipeslacertia diabolus reditius – “Devolved Ones” (Inhabitants of the Nameless City – HP Lovecraft/Faction Paradox)
Subspecies (Silurian)
Bipeslacertia homines malus – Serad-dur (Serad-dur)
“Scholar” Caste
Bipeslacertia homines augurius – Fair Folk (Fair Folk- The Shadows of Avalon)
Bipeslacertia homines sapentia – “Senior” Silurians (Chibnall’s original classic style redesign – Cold Blood)
Bipeslacertia homines rostrata – “Middle” Silurians (Warriors of the Deep Silurians)
Bipeslacertia homines gravius – “Horned Kindred” (Bulky Horned Herbivorous Silurians – TM A Morphology)
Bipeslacertia homines labia – “Early” Silurians (Original Classic Who Silurians)
Bipeslacertia homines venefica – The Silurians from the 30th Anniversary Calendar
“Warrior” Caste (Alternatively “Hunter” Caste)
Bipeslacertia homines anguis – “Junior” Silurians (Silurian Hunters – Supremacy of the Cybermen)
Bipeslacertia homines sapiens – “Late” Silurians (New Who Silurians)
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Bipeslacertia vehemenus is considered by the Reptilian Kindred to be an ancestor species and not part of the ‘Reptilian Kindred’ themselves, it is however considered to be in the same genus biologically.
Bipeslacertia volans mortuus was the earliest sapient subspecies to diverge from the Reptilian Kindred and the first to develop a civilisation, but was however rendered extinct by the Wyrm (Alongside the Wyrm mutated Bipeslacertia volans malakhi)
The Reptilian Kindred consider themselves to have five extant ‘Classes/Castes’
Sea Devil
Scholar
Warrior
Winged Kindred
Serad-Dur
And do not consider any greater subgroupings such as the ‘Silurian/Sea Devil two species grouping’ or the ‘Scholar/Warrior single species hypothesis’ as valid, from their perspective, the five main classes are considered the maximal groupings of Reptilian Kindred outside of the sole group that includes all of them, with the term ‘Silurian’ (Alternatively Earth Reptile or Saurian) being used to refer to all five rather than just the Scholar and Warrior castes.
The original Reptilian Kindred diverged from the ancestor of the Helodermatidae family of venomous lizards in the late Cretaceous, with the Bipeslacertia genus itself diverging from the rest of the family with the origin of its bipedal stance in the early Paleocene, just after the KT Extinction Event.
Most accounts of Reptilian Kindred-Dinosaur cohabitation are either later palimpsests (The Reptilian Kindred were a time active power during the Time Wars era, with an individual of Bipeslacertia homines sapiens appearing in the Alliance of Races alongside Rassilon) or instances of Reptilian Kindred bioengineering in the Eocene and Oligocene rather than true Jurassic-Cretaceous era native Reptilian Kindred species.
Their technological civilisation emerged in the Eocene, after the divergence between the “Scholar” and “Warrior” castes of Silurians but before full speciation.
Their full classification is
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
(Potential Clade: Toxicofera)
Suborder: Anguimorpha
Infraorder: Neoanguimorpha
Clade: Monstersauria
Family: Bipeslacertidae
Genus: Bipeslacertia
The emergence order of distinct subspecies was as follows
Cretaceous (145-65 mya)
Split of Bipeslacertidae from Helodermatidae
Paleocene (65-56 mya)
Bipeslacertia splits from the rest of the (extinct) Bipeslacertiadae genera, they are separately characterised by their bipedal stance as opposed to other lizard species.
Spilt of ancestor species from the rest of Bipeslacertia
Bipeslacertia volans splits from the rest of Bipeslacertia
The Zori split from Bipeslacertia volans before the full development of wings
Silurian-Sea Devil Split
“Paleocenes” split from Bipeslacertia volans, “Paleocene” civilisation forms (mostly) above the clouds.
“Paleocene” extinction at the hands of the Wyrm
Reptilian Kindred Civilisations first form.
Extinction of ancestor species
Eocene (56-34 mya)
Serad-Dur split from Silurians
“Early” and “Late” Sea Devils Split
Scholar-Warrior Split, emergence of Scholar Third Eye
Reptilian Kindred Civilisation reaches technological level
Fair Folk Split after Silurians are transported to Avalon
Oligocene (34-23 mya)
“Senior Silurians” split from Scholar caste
 Scholar Caste splits into “Early” and “Middle” Silurians
The Inhabitants of the Nameless City split from the “Early” Sea Devils and devolve, eventually disappearing entirely under the shallow seas of north Africa.
 “Junior” and “Late” Silurians split
Miocene (23-5.3 mya)
Speciation begins to slow down due to civilisation technological advancement
Reptilian Kindred civilisation enters hibernation due to disaster (Either the newest Moon or a planetoid close passage unrelated to the Moon)
Pliocene (5.3-2.6 mya)
Various apes modified and bred by the Reptilian Kindred begin to develop to fill the ecological niche left by the Reptilian Kindred’s hibernation.
Pleistocene (2.6 mya – 11,700 ya)
Evolution of Homo Sapien Sapiens (humans).
Holocene (11,700 ya – 1712)
Various sporadic reawakenings that are almost always killed off by the newly developed humans.
1500 BCE – Atlantis is destroyed, the Nameless City is forced above the ocean in Africa and the inhabitants are rendered (mostly) extinct
Anthropocene (1712 – 500,000 yf)
(22nd Century) Reptilian Kindred civilisation reawakens and is forced to cohabitate the planet with the human civilisation.
Relinquecene (500,000 yf – 2 myf)
Reptilian Kindred and humanity mostly abandon Earth for the first significant geological time (Previous abandonments had happened temporarily for much shorter timespans), whilst they would make sporadic returns, from this point onwards the Earth was allowed to evolutionarily develop without its previous intelligent species. (This is when the Haemovores evolve)
Perdicene (2 myf – 10 myf)
Earth was lost, and began being known by different names including Ravalox, Orphan 55 and Tellus. This is the point in which the Reptilian Kindred became no longer tied to Earth as a homeworld beyond as a cultural factoid (Unlike humanity who consistently returned and remained conceptually tied to it until its destruction in 10 myf and the start of the Posthuman era).
This document for the most part, only covers the Extant subspecies of Reptilian Kindred and does not account for the unknown species and subspecies that went extinct prior to the Anthropocene (nor the other extinct Bipeslacertiadae genera) with the exception of Bipeslacertia vehemenus, identified only due to Vastra’s devolution into one during ‘The Evolution Episode’ due to exposure to temporal radiation and Bipeslacertia volans mortuus, an early intelligent extinct species documented by Bernice Summerfield and Peter Summerfield.
The Mondasian Parallel Evolution species (The Lizard Kings or Bipeslacertia homines abastrius and Sea Kings or Bipeslacertia diabolus abastrius) which were documented by both the Homo Sapien contra (Mondasians) and the Mondasian Cybermen are considered to be parallel evolutionary counterparts of their Earth twins and aren’t included, it is speculated their evolutionary tree is identical to that of Earth’s.
Despite being considered distinct castes by the Reptilian Kindred, the ‘Early’ Sea Devils (The Sea Devils), the ‘Middle’ Sea Devils (Warriors of the Deep) and the ‘Late’ Sea Devils (Legend of the Sea Devils) are considered to all be local or climate variations of the same subspecies of Sea Devil, Bipeslacertia diabolus sicuturtus.
I basically ignored most direct years given in DWU sources when doing this in favour of trying to work out something that conceptually made the most sense (IMO). Since DWU sources give Silurian origin or even civilisation years as far back as 450 mya, in the Ordovician, Pre-Reptiles, which is not conducive to trying to actually do speculative biology with, and the less said about 'They predate complex life entirely' the better.
I went with Eocene - Miocene because references to the Dinosaurs can always have been post-Cretaceous genetic engineering stuff (They have the tech) but references to "apes" should be theoretically constrained to early human evolution in the Miocene and Pliocene, and the idea that the Silurians existed for the entirety of the Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene was... kinda ridiculous IMO for this exercise.
Subspecies Visualisation
Bipeslacertia vehemenus – Primitive Ancestor (Primitive Ancestor)
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Subspecies (Winged Kindred)
Bipeslacertia volans mortuus – “Paleocenes” (Winged Species – Adolescence of Time)
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Bipeslacertia volans malakhi – Wyrm Callers (Wyrm infected Paleocenes)
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Bipeslacertia volans vivus – Luadans (TM: A Morphology/Reign of the Reptiles)
But the wreck, first seen from the air by a migratory tribe of the flying kindred en route from the tropical swelter of the Oriental Archipelago to the temperate climes of the Austral Spur, had confirmed to the profile of no known vessel from any of the saurian kindred, and Morrahaurm had been the only specialist available. And so, with many misgivings, she had embarked.
(Winged Kindred - The Book of the Enemy)
The globe was held by a creature like a mythical devil incarnate! Its oily green, needle-fanged head hovered just above the luminous sphere, the hellish red eyes darting from side to side in search of the intruder; and where the shoulders should have been were hunched lumps that made the man think of folded wings. The body and shuffling feet were invisible; the claws appeared in silhouette on the surface of the globe that the monstrosity held before it. A little it resembled a gigantic lizard, and the fanged snout, if not the same one, was at least practically identical with the one Sanders had seen in the room of horror. Only now it had lost its super- natural and diabolical aspect, appearing still hideous but only in a reptilian, scaled way. It propelled itself on hissing, leathery wings, and its sinuous body was clad in a blue, silken robe. About its ugly brow was a jewelled diadem; its claws were alight with jewels.
(Luadans - Reign of the Reptiles)
Bipeslacertia volans aurori – Zori (Reign of the Reptiles/Revelry of the Redacted)
He was a Zori, a subspecies of the Reptilian Kindred with vestigial wings on their backs that were useless on Earth, but perfectly adapted to low- gravity environments.
Revelry of the Redacted (The Book of the Snowstorm)
Subspecies (Sea Devil)
Bipeslacertia diabolus sicutsimiae – Late Sea Devils (Comic Sea Devils)
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Bipeslacertia diabolus sicuturtus – Early Sea Devils (Normal Sea Devils)
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Bipeslacertia diabolus reditius – “Devolved Ones” (Inhabitants of the Nameless City – HP Lovecraft/Faction Paradox)
They were of the reptile kind, with body lines suggesting sometimes the crocodile, sometimes the seal, but more often nothing of which either the naturalist or the palaeontologist ever heard. In size they approximated a small man, and their fore-legs bore delicate and evident feet curiously like human hands and fingers. But strangest of all were their heads, which presented a contour violating all know biological principles. To nothing can such things be well compared - in one flash I thought of comparisons as varied as the cat, the bullfrog, the mythic Satyr, and the human being. Not Jove himself had had so colossal and protuberant a forehead, yet the horns and the noselessness and the alligator-like jaw placed things outside all established categories.
Subspecies (Silurian)
Bipeslacertia homines malus – Serad-dur (Serad-dur)
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“Scholar” Caste
Bipeslacertia homines augurius – Fair Folk (Fair Folk- The Shadows of Avalon)
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Bipeslacertia homines sapentia – “Senior” Silurians (Chibnall’s original classic style redesign – Cold Blood)
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Bipeslacertia homines rostrata – “Middle” Silurians (Warriors of the Deep Silurians)
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Bipeslacertia homines gravius – “Horned Kindred” (Bulky Horned Herbivorous Silurians – A Morphology)
Her mass alone would have made Morrahaurm the most conspicuous individual on board, even without the horns and crest majestically adorning her high forehead. Among her own she was known as a beauty, a graceful dancer and no mean athlete: here she was simply a bulky, lumbering target.
(The Book of the Enemy)
Bipeslacertia homines labia – “Early” Silurians (Original Classic Who Silurians)
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Bipeslacertia homines venefica – The Silurians from the 30th Anniversary Calendar
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“Warrior” Caste (Alternatively “Hunter” Caste)
Bipeslacertia homines anguis – “Junior” Silurians (Silurian Hunters – Supremacy of the Cybermen)
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Bipeslacertia homines sapiens – “Late” Silurians (New Who Silurians)
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Notes on the Meta-history of Earth Reptiles
The natural evolution of most species on Earth was a by-product of the anchoring of the thread, when the Time Lords locked down the rational Universe and rewrote all of history to suit their new rules. In the pre anchoring Universe, humanity was created using Time Lord Looms by the Original Mammoths, a powerful, psychic and magical sapient species that rivalled the Time Lords in the pre-Universe.
Whilst we have pretty much no knowledge of the Silurians from that era, we do know that they were a Time Active power in the Alliance of Races during the Time Wars era, shortly after the anchoring. Implying some kind of time active power, which would explain their appearances in eras of Earth history predating the one in which they originally developed in the Time Lord dominated rational Universe. It is, however, also of note that the vast majority of other more recent (in Universe) accounts depict the Silurians as a mildly advanced mostly stagnant species with very little space travel capabilities most likely indicating at some point between Gallifrey’s ancient past and relative present that the Silurians time active civilisation was erased from history. It is possible they experienced some equivalent of the Ghost Point (The point in which humanity became culturally sterile and stopped meaningfully advancing as a civilisation) though more extreme as humanity was still able to traditionally, if not conceptually, advance whereas the Silurians grew complacent and stagnant for presumably millions of years.
It is of note that New Who consistently depicts the Silurians as both coexisting natively with Dinosaurs and knowing humanities Ape ancestors despite an ~60 million year gap between the two eras. There are numerous potential explanations for this including human evolution occurring over a much longer period in the DWU relative to real life, the effects of the Last Great Time War on the history of Earth, genetic engineering resurrection of Dinosaurs in the Eocene-Miocene and potentially Silurian related dates being actually in months rather than years.
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diabolus1exmachina · 11 months
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Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4 (Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este) 
In Greek mythology, Asterion is a second name for the Minotaur, a hybrid creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull. The name chosen was especially successful.
The Asterion defines a solution to significantly reducing CO2 emissions through innovative technologies. It features a high performance hybrid system with a V10 5.2 litre longitudinally-placed, naturally aspirated mid-engine which, in combination with three electro motors, provides a maximum power output of 669 kW (910 hp). Asterion accelerates from 0-100 km/h in 3.0 seconds, with a top speed of 320 km/h. The Asterion LPI 910-4 guarantees unique Lamborghini driving feel with a smooth and reactive driveability and superior power. The vehicle doesn't allow only an exceptionally low CO2 emission of only 98g/km, but more importantly for city driving, the Asterion has a pure electric range of 50 km.
Conceived and developed entirely in-house by Lamborghini, the Asterion LPI 910-4 takes the design and cutting-edge engineering expertise found in the current Lamborghini product range, adding innovative hybrid technology, and thus creating a Lamborghini that is clearly different – with a new, unexpected and sensual design, in line with the technical characteristics of the car – but yet still unmistakably a Lamborghini. 
In the aesthetic section, there was no doubt that it was a Lamborghini prototype, although the designer Filippo Perini, creator of the Aventador, the Urus and the Veneno, resorted to a 'neo-retro' style, quite original and attractive, under my opinion Unfortunately, this project did not spawn a production model. Also in 2014 the Urus concept car was presented and it is unnecessary to explain which vehicle focused all the efforts on the part of the Bolognese company...
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karahalloway · 3 months
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(Un)Common Attraction: Artwork - H&D Trail Ride
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Fandom: TRR - Book 1
Pairing: Drake Walker x F!OC (Harper Gale)
Masterlists: Main - Artwork
A/N1: Since discovering the AI art generator app, Wonder, I have been on a whirlwind bringing the iconic moments of this story to life. Below you will find some of the key moments - in chronological order - from Chapter 27 - Unbridled.
A/N2: There is always some trial and error with this AI app, as even though you put in prompts, it oftentimes does its own thing. So while I have tried to keep everyone's clothing consistent, this is not always possible, so I have opted for the overall 'feel' of the pic, rather than the minuscule details.
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Unbridled
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fromkenari · 7 months
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Waterloo Letters #5: bad metaphors about maps
bad metaphors about maps A [email protected]                9/25/20 3:21 AM to Henry h, i have had whiskey. bear with me. there’s this thing you do. this thing. it drives me crazy. i think about it all the time. there’s a corner of your mouth, and a place that it goes. pinched and worried like you’re afraid you’re forgetting something. i used to hate it. used to think it was your little tic of disapproval. but i’ve kissed your mouth, that corner, that place it goes, so many times now. i’ve memorized it. topography on the map of you, a world i’m still charting. i know it. i added it to the key. here: inches to miles. i can multiply it out, read your latitude and longitude. recite your coordinates like la rosaria. this thing, your mouth, its place. it’s what you do when you’re trying not to give yourself away. not in the way that you do all the time, those empty, greedy grabs for you. i mean the truth of you. the weird, perfect shape of your heart. the one on the outside of your chest. on the map of you, my fingers can always find the green hills, wales. cool waters and ashore of white chalk. the ancient part of you carved out of stone in a prayerful circle, sacrosanct. your spine’s a ridge i’d die climbing. if i could spread it out on my desk, i’d find the corner of your mouth where it pinches with my fingers, and i’d smooth it away and you’d be marked with the names of saints like all the old maps. i get the nomenclature now—saints’ names belong to miracles. give yourself away sometimes, sweetheart. there’s so much of you. fucking yrs, a p.s. wilfred owen to siegfried sassoon—1917: And you have fixed my Life—however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but shall swing out soon, a dark star in the or bit where you will blaze.
Re: Bad metaphors about maps Henry [email protected]                9/25/20 6:07 AM to A From Jean Cocteau to Jean Marais, 1939: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for having saved me. I was drowning and you threw yourself into the water without hesitation, without a backward look.
McQuiston, Casey. Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel (pp. 318-320). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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