#alien plant people

[la-nute]

Thinking about a bit of biology for the alien plant people. Plus a bit of cape/mask thoughts, I don't think it's worth bothering with though. It's too complex for a daily use item.

They have arms a bit longer than a human and shorter strong legs. No need for a large digestive system, and so the lungs take up the exyra space. I was thinking about bird lungs and respiration for the people. They live in thin air so why not have the most efficient lungs. There is always air circulating within their lungs, perfect for efficient oxygenation.

I mean, it's way more complex than that, I'll throw an animation from google as an example of how the system works. Basically the exhale moves to a holding space before being exhaled.

#artists on tumblr #character design #species development #species design #original character #mio's story #space plant people #alien plant people #worldbuilding #oc art #digital art #digital sketchbook #this biology isn't set in stone #avian respiration #speculative biology #i love these guys

[foamloam]

Spock y gato

#tbh the toughest part of this was deciding if Spock would wear socks to bed or not #I decided not because tbh I don’t like to wear socks to bed #shirt lore: I think Kirk gets gifted like tourist shirts from other plants sometimes and he has so many he gives a few to Spock #I think I’ll make more spock and cat drawings #Star Trek #startrek #spock #spock Star Trek #spock my winkle #spock fanart #Star Trek fanart #also people should make spock greener I want a GREEN alien I want a GREEN GUY #spock y gato #loamsart

[hellsingmongrel]

Man, so I'm not normally the biggest fan of Modern AUs, nor am I overly fond of fiction focused on kids, but...last night, my sleeping brain decided to concoct this Trigun (Stampede-flavored) Modern AU that now is living rent free in my damn brain! I want to get it out of my head and into the ether. I don't know if I'm going to do anything long-form with it, and I'm having to translate dream weirdness into more coherent storytelling, but here we go.

So it's modern day Earth, like 2024 or some shit, right? And that's when this version of Earth had just begun fucking around with Plant cloning. It's early enough that the SEEDS project hasn't even left the planet, the scientists haven't yet figured out how to put Plants in bulbs and use them for fuel, none of that! But they've already had Tessla happen, and the boys have already been born. Since they're not in space, even though they had to have found out about their sister, Nai hasn't had a chance to literally nuke humanity from orbit, and I guess Rem has had a chance to try and curtail some of his trauma, so he's...more stable? Ish? Stable enough where he's not actively trying to murder everyone. And the boys are "older," like we see in the flashbacks for the time Vash encountered Nai during the Last Run, so probably around 6 years old but looking 16 or so.

Rem has managed to fudge their paperwork so they've started going to school with human kids, to try and give them a normal childhood. Nai isn't as eager to play ball with the whole "being human" thing as much as Vash is, but Vash has got so many friends, Meryl and Milly and Lina are there and they're like the cutest, most stupidly adorable group of friends, just a bunch of little goofballs, like kids that age are. And the school has a field trip to a theme park (it was Disneyworld in my dream because my school actually did this, but ours was a band trip) and Vash manages to convince Rem to let him go. Vash and Nai and Rem are still paranoid about humans figuring out who they are, so you know, he's told to be extra careful and take care of himself, and Nai gives him one of his blades or something for self defense, just in case something happens. Even though Vash would never, that boy has trauma around knives and trying to defend himself, if you've read Trimax, iykyk. But he takes it anyway, and somehow, he manages to sneak it into the park. Maybe the metal doesn't register on metal detectors or something, who knows.

But he's a kid, and kids are dumb. Especially when they're 16. Especially if those 16 year olds aren't actually 16 and don't have the actual lived experience to know better. So he starts playing with the knife in front of the girls, showing off and just being a silly little guy. And then the knife slips. Bad. We're talking "this is how he probably lost his arm in this AU" bad. Blood everywhere, the girls are panicking and take him to the school chaperones and it's like "HOLY SHIT WTF DUDE, We're taking you to the ER, someone call his mom!"

And he hears that, pictures the doctors finding out he's not human, remembers what happened to Tessla, and panics. Boy does a runner like only Vash can do, and he manages to get away from them, out of the park, and escapes from security. And when parents get involved in trying to find him, the authorities start looking into the incident, and someone in the government overseeing the Plant research is able to recognize the elemental make up of the blade he dropped, and they start having suspicions. So the feds get involved, and it just goes from bad to worse, right?

Meanwhile, loopy from blood loss and panicking and a little sobbing mess because he feels dumb about slipping up and he's afraid he'll never get to go home to his mom and his brother again and is spiraling the way kids do when they panic, he gets lost in the city and ends up stumbling over teenage Wolfwood, who lives on the streets and has a few street kids that he looks after on his own with Livio. They never got to live at the orphanage, but that also means that the Eye (in whatever form it takes in this AU) never got ahold of them, so yeah, shits fucked for them, but it's actually a whole lot better for them than it might have been. And it's Wolfwood without all of the EoM trauma, so you can just imagine what he does when this delirious, bloody, terrified, severely injured kid runs him over in the street, sobbing about being caught by the adults and taken away.

Big Brother Nico do what Big Brother Nico do.

At that point, I ended up waking up, but damn if my brain didn't give me enough details to come up with a dumb AU idea that I kind of love and want to do something with, but I don't know if I have the time or spoons to do so.

Ideas I'd had following this beginning to flesh itself out in my head; Luida and Brad are Plant researchers brought onto the project to help the feds figure out wtf is going on with this whole situation, and when Luida is told to talk to Rem, because she's not giving them anything they can use, the two of them reach a secret accord to bring Vash home safe and sound and cover everything back up nice and squeaky clean the way it should have stayed.

Vash's arm is bad enough that he can't really heal it very well on his own without medical care, Plant healing or no. He's doing better than most kids would, but it still begins to go septic, and it forces Nico and Livio to make the really hard decision to find adults they can trust to bring him to so he can get the care he needs. He still ends up losing his arm, though.

At the end of everything, Melanie ends up taking Nico and Livio and the other kids in, so they still get to have their momma figure, even if she comes in later. Maybe she's the one that they find to help them. Is she maybe someone they've known was mostly safe but was never able to get them to stick around long enough to take care of them? Either way, the boys get Vash to her, and it starts the process of getting him home and the kids finally staying at the orphanage.

Meryl, Milly, and Lina all end up sneaking away when they realize that Vash is in more trouble than the adults are letting on, trying to go find him, since they know him better than anyone other than Rem and Nai. Eventually, they meet up with Nico and Livio while everyone is trying to avoid federal agents.

Obviously it's lovey-dovey Vashwood and Insurance Girlfriends and Polygun-flavored, but in the "these kids are too oblivious to think about sexy things, yet" sort of way, because I really do headcanon that at least Vash is ace, Wolfwood is probably demi, and also I am not writing children getting intimate like that. >8/ But kids having little crushes on each other is adorable and I can't not have Vashwood and Insurance Girlfriends be the eventual outcome, once those idiots all grow up and get their heads screwed on straight.

Also, because Nai hasn't had a chance to murder everyone, Rem's managed to work with him enough that he's very slowly overcoming his trauma and regaining his ability to trust that he's not in permanent danger. He'll probably grow up to be a Plants Rights activist or something, lbh. Or a politician. But he's not going to murder people, so either way, it's a win/win!

Because Nico's been living on the streets with him, Razlo either hasn't had to manifest as strongly for Livio, or hasn't manifested at all. Livio is still the sweet, shy, crybaby teddy bear we see, and maybe Razlo only comes out when the feds start getting closer and almost managing to grab the kids, and because he's been able to bond with Nico and the other kids so well this time, Livio is close enough to them that the thought of them getting hurt or taken away is enough to make him want to protect their little group instead of just Livio.

Wolfwood absolutely grumbles about how alike Vash and Livio are. Both a couple'a crybabies, geez, what the Hell you two??? But he also is very much a teddy bear who gives the best hugs when one of his little band of gremlins is upset, so he probably spends more time in a cuddle pile than anything else, now that there's two of them to lose their shit at the drop of a hat.

Vash was totally the one very sweet boy in a clique of girls that everyone who'd known him realized, when they were adults looking back, that he was very much the sweet gay kid hanging out with the girls because it was safer to be himself around them than it was to be around the other boys. (This isn't meant as a stereotype of gay kids, this is based on actual kids I grew up with. My friend group honest to God adopted them because we were all a bunch of momma bears.)

Vash is also...not trans? Because he's a Plant and Plants don't work the same way humans do, but he's also not what humans would think of as a cis boy. He expresses a masc presentation, but probably the closest equivalent would be an intersexed kid. Nai, too, tbh, though he's probably more of the "I don't give a fuck" opinion when it comes to his own gender identity. He uses he/him because that's what humans think when they see him, but he doesn't care any deeper than that.

#Trigun #Trigun Stampede #Trigun Maximum #Modern AU #Vashwood #Polygun #Insurance Wives #Random idea ramblings idek I just have this in my head now and I'm going to make it the world's problem! #Also any ideas anyone else might have about this would be fun to hear #I don't know that they'll become part of my own headcanon on this weird little thing but I always love throwing out random ideas with peopl #What even are the Eye of Michael doing in this thing? #IDEK maybe they're the feds chasing the kids down #Also I wouldn't be at all surprised if Nai did a runner on his own after he found out Vash was missing because he needed to go save him #I honestly imagined the whole thing ending up being a media shitstorm #“Young Boy Goes Missing From School Field Trip; News At 10!” #“Is Missing Boy Secretly An Alien From Outer Space?” #“Federal Agents Are Now Searching For Known Delinquent Youth In Case Of Missing High School Boy” #That sort of craziness on the media that makes it impossible to ignore Independent Plants #And starts the entire Plants Rights movement when the truth comes out or something

[sirpseudonymphoapish]

hey solar opposites fans check out this totally real and totally not edited screenshot from that one episode in season 2 remember with the red goobler who tries to hook up with korvo but he pushes him away and stays with terry instead and they get steamy in the hot tub right we all loved that episode huh

the background is rlly messy i did this right before therapy and. idk what the original background looked like so i cant make it very accurate. all that space was taken up by stupid chris

ngl i kinda liked chris i think it wouldve been funny if he had a fling with both korvo and terry. separately or together.

#solar opposites #korvo solar opposites #terry solar opposites #solar opposites terry #solar opposites korvo #tervo #terry x korvo #korvo x terry #yeah i edited this #sorry fans this isnt real #gets shot #wdym haha this is totally real #love you tervo #im only halfway thru s4 as we speak #heard theres an episode where they diddle invisible #im excited fo that #gay people #gay aliens #gay plants actually #yeah

[kookies2000]

Me being vulnerable to my friends about my phobia: I have vorarephobia, fear of being eaten. I also have phagophobia. Fear of swallowing. I have a hard time watching films or shows that have that. Like Attack on Titan. I can't watch Meg because even the thought of people getting eaten scares me. I can't watch Pan's Labyrinth because of the Pale Man. Even none horror stuff like Moana. I had to build the courage to watch the film all because of the Shiney song. Some Spongebob episodes I avoided back them and today. Even today, I still have it but smaller. I had to walk out of Nope during the digesting scene. When TMNT Mutant Mayhem referenced Attack on Titan, I panicked and started to text my friend who saw it already like crazy. Asking if anyone gets eaten. Even small things like Miraculous Ladybug! When the giant baby wanted to use Marinette as a lolly pop. I had to close my eyes and walk out. I get all sweaty, my heart races, I get a head ach, feel like throwing up, it's intense. I sometimes lose feeling in my legs and can't walk. It got so bad that I started to develop a fear of eating as a teen. It's just hard sometimes because it's such a rare phobia. So, not many can relate.

Friends:.............. Your favorite movies are Trolls and Little Shop of Horrors!

Me:

#dreamworks trolls #trolls dreamworks #trolls #little shop of horrors #musicals #they are something special #for those that don't know #little shop of horrors is about a giant alien plant that eats people #and at the end they go on an eating craze and eat everyone on earth #alive or dead #trolls is about little trolls who get captured by giants #and the giants cook them or eat them raw and alive #because the giants belive eating a troll makes them happy #but believe me #i did hate Trolls and Little Shop of Horrors at first #because of my phobia #but they're both musicals #and my love for musicals over took my fear #so I ended up enjoying these two films witha STRONG passion #fell in love #favorite broadway show too #favorite film #phobias #phobia #but I do have to be careful to not have a panic attack with my phobia

[plumbogs]

the fact that ts2 has a Hannukah menorah implies that Judaism is canon (whether or not its identical to the real thing is besides the point). but the lack of crucifix imagery and fact that the Watcher religion seemed to take the place of middle ages Christianity means there was no sims Jesus... this is humor to me

#isekaid into the sims universe and everyone is talking about the watcher and cows and then suddenly you met a Regular Jew #Please do not take this seriously i'm not dishing out deep religious analysis on these pixels #theres aliens and witches and genies and plant people and ghosts. and Isaac #listen the number of media properties that have a Jesus figure but no other Abrahamic content makes this so funny to me fr

[berryblu-soda]

Seedling is such an interesting little story that i love, but i´d be lying if it wasnt almost completely sprouted (hehe) from the visual of those character duos that are a small child + big scary looking creature who acts as their guard, top tier trope frfr

(also huge shoutout to @ashrayus for hearing me out and adding onto the rambles so long ago, bestie the robot story wasnt working, we got plants now 🌱)

#but also said big scary creature is her brother having an identity crisis and being chased by the horrors :D #the story is 50% strangers to (step) siblings that trust each other with their life #and 50% truths of the world conspiracy with a witch hunt on plant people + aliens doing their thing (of course) #bruhh bc what if there were aliens replacing people at a young age and using them to collect data on the overall population #and “harvesting” them when said purpose was fulfilled #thing is; when the harvesting happens its supposed to be like a switch is flipped; and the seedling just up and leaves to be collected #*but* an infinite amount of things can make this process fail; which happened with the mc; who now clings to his family like a lifeline #while also knowing the general population´s view on seedlings is abyssmal #<- even if the family has no porblem w it; government or a bad neighbour catches you? you´re *gone* #anyways; fun times for lil Vera hshshahsha #seedling #oc talk #shut up sheo #edit: hey ash remember Riven? ik hes your oc can i work with thet concept perhaps? #his color scheme and character role work soooo well!!!!! #planning on making him be one of the few who escaped the harvest but could never quite shake the switch flip

[apollo-zero-one]

Man I can't believe I had the chance to go to a performing arts school up through middle school and I fuckin quit after 6 months just because I got bullied. BRO YOUR HOMEWORK WAS POETRY!! YOU HAD TO PRACTICE DANCING TO COTTON EYE JOE AS YOUR BIG UNIT TEST. GYM CLASS HAD A CIRCUS UNIT!! YOU HAD A WHOLE DAILY CLASS ON IMPROV!!! YOU FOOL!! YOU ABSOLUTE IMBICILE!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN A YOUTUBER!!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE TWEENAGERS GETTING LOADED BY MAKING SHITTY YOUTUBE SHORTS IN 2008-14!! But noooOoooOOOoo little miss Noellie (who WANTED TO GO!! who worked SO HARD and sent in an application essay and did an INTERVIEW to get in!!) couldn't handle disruptive classmates or little scuffles and petty grudges and general Attitude of the other students and cried to mommy to put her back in public school. I am EATING MY HAIR over what Could Have Been. I COULD BE SOMEONE'S ANNOYING YOUTUBER!! I could be a DISGRACED DISNEY CHANNEL STAR!! I could be an America's Got Talent winner! A mild to moderately successful comedian! I could be making short films!! But no no no precious thin skinned baby me heard a few new cus words and watched a teacher get heckled and begged to give up The Dream in favor of?? Quiet math tests?? I am such a fucking quitter I quit everything the second it gets too hard I always take the out as soon as it's offered what's my fucking damage.....

#I had SO MUCH POTENTIAL and I SQUANDERED IT!! weak ass third grade PUSSY! Your life could have been SO SICK!! #or you could at least be addicted to cocain or something interesting like that!! Boring ass goody two shoes always just staying home doing #NOTHING bitch make a REAL FRIEND go to a God Damn PARTY live a little instead of just hiding in the closet eating saltine crackers for years #waiting for it to be quiet outside before you ever even toed the line #mentally ill self-isolating motherfucker #you could have shrugged it off you could have GROWN A PAIR and FOUGHT BACK but you just ran and cried for mommy #victim complex little bitch baby always whining and exaggerating and making shit up fucking LIAR I am you and I KNOW what you did and I know #you knew it wasn't the truth and you regretted it the moment it came out of uour mouth but once you'd said it you just swallowed it back and #doubled down incriminating or discrediting others with your lies. For why? Because you didn't like them? You could have ruined someone's #life you wouldn't have hesitated mayhe you did and don't even remember because you cant keep your mouth shut with your pants ablaze #manipulative little shit and to WHAT END? Pity? Sympathy? Attention? Entertainment?? What was even going on in your stupid ugly head? #This is a callout post for my third grade self that possessed demon ass evil nine year old. That kid drowned anthills in olive oil and #poisoned a wild animal once. That kid cut plants just to see if they oozed. That kid modified her whole ass personality on a dime for a boy #she had a crush on. INSTANTLY dropped a LIFELONG CULTURAL ALLEGIANCE (thats what football teams were like back then in our town) because he #said he had the opposite allegiance??? What the fuck? girl had NO integrity none zip zilch. #No empthy either that kid looked at everyone else on earth like they were friggin space aliens and she was the only one with Real feelings. #bitch literally thought like 'I have Feelings they just have Reactions' bitch what the fuckkkkk #that nine year old was fucked the hell up!!! #and for literally NO REASON!! No cause!! Just born fucking evil and weird. jesus fuck. #Evil ass bitch caused her autistic brother months of nightmares and then laughed about it and wrote poetry about how evil he was because he? #was a kid??? Normal sibling rivalry taken way way way too far defamatory ass statements #and this girl had NO CONSEQUENCES because she could lie and manipulate her way out of ANYTHING she had the baby eyes and the helpless charm #and played dumb soooo well . read people like some calculative evil AI scanning their faces for microexpressions and overanalyzing each word #choice like holy shit. its not That Deep. pretentious shit trying to play 5D chess on a checkers board. #Manipulating shit just to see what happens?? zero awareness?? no asking just skipping straight to testing for yourself?? #'What happens if I step on this' it fucking breaks 'what does that taste like?' it's not fucking yours to mess with 'if I hit this person #how will they respond?' they'll be upset use your goddamn judgement you are NINE not TWO do you even care a little about any other person?? #Are you just living in some other reality??? #callout post for the fucking demon child inside of me #im so goddamn problematic I'm so so so deeply mentally disturbed and broken for no reason

[angsty-prompt-hole]

I wanna see more sci-fi and fantasy content focused on like wildlife biologists and stuff, like can you IMAGINE how feral those people would be

And not just normal biologists or whatever I'm talking field biologists and grad students and wildlife technicians who actively work with animals out in the wild for animal research. Habitat managers too, like what sort of insane kind of habitat management things do you have to do for magical creatures?

And, most important of all, where would people who work with magical creatures or aliens fall on the weirdness scale for wildlife professionals

#creek's ramblings #the scale is something my crewmates and i made up #big game people are the most normal #bug people are the strangest #plant people are off in their own dimension #bird people are either excessively normal or extremely bewilderingly weird and theres no in between #small mammal people dont sleep and have chronic anxiety #and like field work is so insane already #i lived in the woods and tracked nocturnal mice for a summer #im currently being paid to light shit on fire #one of my crewmates spent an entire season literally chasing down and tackling elk calves #can you IMAGINE throwing mystical creatures and aliens into that

[mr-carnival]

Venus and Thistle plus some extra sketches

#Alien Plant people ? #v happy with all these cuties #esp #Venus #body horror #? #alien oc #sketches #monster oc #monster art #character design #terato

[la-nute]

I returned to Mio in 2017 and began testing the waters. The space plants have gone through the wringer and I am still working on them. Gonna shove some worldbuilding below the cut.

So far the concept is that the people have plant like growths on their heads which produce energy via photosynthesis. This suppliments their limited diet due to living atop a mountain. The air is thin and vegetation sparse so they have a hard time gaining all of their nutrition from external sources. When the clouds are thin or the sun is out many stop consuming meals to save them for the inevitable weeks of cloud cover that will roll in.

Another idea was to have them be able to digest rocks for sustenance, but I'm not quite content with that. I prefer to keep the rocks as a resource for producing thread, paper, houses, and a few technological devices.

Currently the plant growths are only limited by placement, but I will probably circle back and reconsider this. There are a few different tribes of the space plant people so having different plant styles for each may be helpful in differenciating them.

#character design #culture development #artists on tumblr #worldbuilding #original character #oc art #Mio's story #alien plant people #space plant people #they will be called this forever #I cannot think of a species name for my life #enjoy my rambles #sketchbook

[ookaookaooka]

i LOVE first contact with aliens stories, seriously it’s one of my favorite tropes, but authors writing it really need to understand that there’s no writing it without engaging with the colonial history behind it whether you intend to or not, and if your story is about humans settling on another planet you’re gonna look stupid if you don’t

#also like. idk how to put it into words but. #if your excuse for why humans are leaving earth is because it’s become uninhabitable. it will always always ALWAYS be easier #to try and fix earth than to start over somewhere else #literally even if earth has nothing but rocks it STILL has more going for it than even the most habitable exoplanet #at least earth has air we can breathe gravity we can bear and is in the habitable zone #and it’s not full of potential allergens or plants/animals that we can’t eat #and we *already know* what’s edible and useful on earth which we’ve learned over millennia #and also. hand waving all the shit like allergens and inedible flora/fauna. #if your colonial humans are scratching a living from the soil and trying to find a niche for themselves in the local ecology. #ugh what am i trying to say here #like. *mean girls meme* so you DO acknowledge that ‘primitive’ technology is the best tools for this job? #but it’s more than that. like okay these colonists are doing the best they can with what they have and so they’re not ‘primitive’? #so you admit that the best way to ensure survival for future generations is to live sustainably? #i get it. i get it. i love made up alien ecologies and i love survival stories #but there’s gotta be (there is i’ve read it) a better way to tell them that doesn’t trash indigenous people while having your characters #live like them #like??? that’s what i’m trying to say. there’s some cognitive dissonance here #i’m trying to tell a story about people doing colonizing and having them live off of and understand the land #*IN not i’m

[youngpettyqueen]

the designs in TAS are genuinely so cool. like yeah theyre kinda silly but they were genuinely so creative with them and really shot for the moon with some of these. its really cool to see

#star trek: tas #the plant aliens in The Infinite Vulcan are very cool #love how inhuman a lot of these designs are #harpy-like aliens and cat people there's a DRAGON ON MY SCREEN

[c-kiddo]

sorry to the designer but the cr pride shirt this year kinda looks like its collaged n copypasted out of vector clipart lol 

(also please just donate directly to local queer (especially trans!!) charities and housing/food/community funds etc.. also buy directly from local queer artists over a company please. i know a portion of profits goes to a charity with the cr shirts, and it doesnt rly hurt to get one, but also just donate to charities directly)

#also Weird choice of quote bc the whole thing 'pain doesnt make people. its love that makes people' is more abt mental health/trauma #recovery than pride ? ?? #idk .. . also itd be nice if it made had aro and ace colours or something in the plants.. seeing as its a quote #from an aroace character #about love especially #felt weirdly alienated about it ngl : ') idk . weird choices #and ik im not alone in that #kiddo say

[bmpmp3]

like most OC artists im not the biggest fan of having my characters be compared to other properties and i’m Especially Not A Fan of when people insist or decide some OC art of mine is Actually fanart of whatever famous character they like instead BUT luckily as a 24 year old who’s frontal lobe is like. almost done proofing in the oven I’M PRETTY good at like ignoring it and not letting it get to me. but alas. i am still human and sometimes it still pisses me off a little LOL like PLEASE so kindly hush about ur green eyed whiteboy for 5 minutes WE ARE talking about my fictional 40 year old man now. we are talking about my 40 year old man.

#sorry someone called my oc eri an au version of that dude from that farming game #i like that farming game. im not the biggest fan of the romance in it in general but i like that farming game #but we're not talking about whatshisnuts. we're talking about my 40 year old florist whos surrounded by weird alien plant creatures #normally i delete the reply and move on. to be honest i dont even really block people outside of like bots or obviously bigoted people #and i did delete the reply. but im still a little mad HFKJLDSAJFS #but its fine i can handle it. i do think its a little funny tho

[pileofsith]

Do I put up the first comic page like a champ or do I practice self-restraint and build up at least a few pages first? :-/

#I'm finishing up a jedi temple tree and I hate that stupid tree #I hope it burned down when order 66 went through #they should have gone with something normal like an olive tree instead of whatever alien mcmansion plant this fluffy-leafed monstrosity is #whatever I do I'll regret it so the Will of the People may prevail