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[er-cryptid]

Eastern Wolf Classification

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[cherry-tries-to-art]

would clover be adopted by the ketsukanes, or the birbs i.e martlet, or starlo's family in the deltarune yellow au?

(before i answer this question properly, i wanna mention that i renamed my deltarune yellow's clover to rowen, for the frisk/kris parallels. i'm also open to better anagrams of clover for rowen's name)

this was a hard thing for me to figure out, actually, because none of them gave me strong parental vibes? like in a "clover gets revived post-pacifist" au story, i have trouble imagining clover living with anyone but toriel. she's that much of a mom. but given the worldbuilding i've done around this au already, that's really not an option...

the closest parental vibes i get are actually from ceroba, but she's still an alcoholic widow who's not coping with anything well, so i don't think she'd want to or be able to raise a second kid. starlo and martlet give me cool uncle and big sister vibes respectively though.

ultimately i went with martlet being rowen's foster parent! i figure that would be the most realistic option while still being decently close to their dynamic in uty.

#deltarune #undertale #utdr #undertale yellow #ask #deltarune yellow #i guess I have an au tag for this thing now lol #uty clover #uty ceroba #uty starlo #uty martlet #as a side note i'm trying to come up with last names for people #i think sialis would be a good one for martlet? #it's from the scientific classification of the eastern bluebird (sialia sialis)

[ontakingnotes]

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#on taking notes #aesthetic notes #academia #how to study #study inspiration #studyblr #studyspo #classification #daily journal #graphs #on journaling #other people’s journals #journaling inspiration #journaling #journal #pretty notes #beautiful notes #notebook inspiration #notebook

[redbootsindoriath]

Fëanorian Week 2023, Day 3: Celegorm (and a horse)

“I’m not going to give Maglor an instrument” I said, “it would be too fragile” I said, and then I gave Celegorm a bow and arrows.  So we’re going to say that at least the arrows are bronze rods painted to resemble stone.

Also I’m pretty sure I haven’t drawn a horse in upwards of a year, so...yeah.  I apologize for the wonky structure and shading, especially on and behind the shoulders.

#feanorianweek #celegorm #the man the myth the legends #three shinies #my trash #/end classification tags #yes i am aware that celegorm's forearms are too thin in this drawing #i'm queueing all of these in the same day and each one i look at i cringe at more #that's one of the things about early post-art-block: you see so many mistakes but you don't know what needs to change to fix them #''that shadow is wrong'' #''okay so where do i put it instead?'' #''...'' #''.....'' #''..........'' #''alright then keep your secrets'' #so really it just comes down to observation and mental notes and trying over and over and over until something clicks

[bongo-clash]

Ghost Taxonomy!!!

Okay, so you know the taxonomic classification system??? Like, this thing, where the genus and species make up the scientific name of an organism: 

(This diagram and all the other diagrams that’ll be on here are made by me so sorry if they’re messy!!!) (Picture transcript: downward triangle split into eight sections, labelled (in descending order): domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.)

Huge Huge Huge credit to @its-rat-time-babey for this idea, because it's so cool and the concepts in that post hugely inspired some of my own takes on this- this being a taxonomic system for ghosts as well as humans!!!!! I'm gonna be referencing both kinds of taxonomy here, so we’ll call the ghost one ‘phasma-defined taxonomy’ just to differentiate!!! :D

There are only seven categories in phasma-defined taxonomy because there’s not really a kingdom category equivalent (which is the one to do with animals, plants, fungi, etc.), since it’s sort of covered in other sections, but we’ll go into the categories themselves now with a diagram!!

(Image Transcript: Diagram is labelled ‘Phasma-Defined Taxonomy’. The diagram is a downward triangle split into seven sections, labelled (in descending order): formation, origin, composure, state, subsistence, denomination, and temperament.)

Alrighty, now that we’ve got a thing with them all on, here’s what they mean, and what makes up each category!!!

(Explanations + examples under cut!!)

Formation: Basically just how much of a ghost they are?? It’s barely used as a category because obviously the majority are full ghosts, but with the existence of halfas, and mediums (who carry just enough ectoplasmic content to survive in the GZ’s atmosphere/be recognised as an ectoplasmic entity), it has to be taken into account. The sections in this category are, as mentioned before: full ghost, halfa, and medium!!

Origin: How they came to be!! There are only two sections to this category, being natural, and post-Eukarya. Natural just means that they were never a living thing, and were created purely from the GZ’s energy (or another ghost’s if we’re getting into Ghost Procreation™). Eukarya refers to a part of the Domain section of the normal classification system (which we’re calling ‘Sapien-Defined Taxonomy’ just to make it easier to differentiate), and short-hand it just means that the organism- multi celled or single- contains a nucleus. Post-Eukarya then means that they used to be made up of cells that had nuclei, but because ectoplasmic cells lack a nucleus (a thought I have about ectoplasm’s properties that I’ll maybe talk about at some point!!!), they don’t anymore!!! So, yeah, there’s natural and post-eukarya. 

Composure: Composure is their sentience, and this comes in three sections!!! Sentient, non-sentient, and simplified!!! The definition of sentient is “Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception/Experiencing sensation or feeling”, and then obviously ones in the non-sentient composure lack that!! Simplified is basically a weird spot between, in that they might kind of have a capacity for feeling (or, more specifically, they’re made of a feeling), but they don’t really have sense perception at all- like, certain kinds of ‘blob ghost’ can be comprised of a certain emotion, but they’re not really things that think??? Just an emotion that has a form and sometimes a face, if that makes sense. 

State: Fairly standard- just what state of matter they are!!! You’ve got solid, gaseous, and subliming!!! Solid and gaseous are pretty self-explanatory- just ghosts who exist exclusively in that state of matter- but subliming ghosts can go between either state!!! (Ghosts/ectoplasm don’t have a liquid state, because the solid state already really weird but still a solid?? The closest it gets to being an actual liquid is just. Weird clumps. If I figure out how to word this better I’ll talk about it but rn please please just go with me on this lmao!!!)

Subsistence: Subsistence refers to how they regain energy!!! The two categories here are ambient and active!! Ambient just means that their body absorbs the ectoplasm in the air automatically without any effort on their part, and active just means that they have to consume/ingest ectoplasm and/or other forms of energy in some way in order to get it into their system!!

Denomination: This is where we get into the more nuanced categories of phasma-defined taxonomy!!! Denomination just refers to what kind of ghost they are, with examples like shades, wraiths, banshees, and poltergeists all being different denominations!! There are a lot more than this though!!!!

Temperament: This is probably the broadest category out of all of them, which is why it’s at the bottom, but it’s also easy to understand, since it literally just refers to cores!!! Not going to list every option, but examples include: ice, fire, and electricity!!! There are a ton of different types of core, and the way they’re externalised can vary wildly between even same core-types, so it can be hard to properly pin down temperament, but it’s also an important one, so there’s a reason it’s here!!

Their classification is based on their denomination+temperament- like how they’re based off genus+species for the Sapien-defined taxonomy!!! 

Right!!! We’ve got the explanations, so now for some examples!!! We’ll start with Vlad just because he’s fun!!!! Here’s what his classification looks like!!!

(Image Transcript: Downward triangle split into seven sections, labelled (in descending order): halfa, post-eukarya, sentient, solid, ambient, revenant, fire. Vlad is labelled a ‘fire revenant’.)

And just for the sake of it, here’s two more examples!!! Spectra!!

(Image Transcript: Downward triangle split into seven sections, labelled (in descending order): full ghost, post-eukarya, sentient, subliming, active, obake, plasma. Spectra is labelled a ‘plasma obake’.)

And a Danny just for fun (and also so I can mention how much I love him being a banshee)

(Image Transcript: Downward triangle split into seven sections, labelled (in descending order): halfa, post-eukarya, sentient, solid, ambient, banshee, ice. Danny is labelled an ‘ice banshee’.)

As for whether or not some ghosts make use of Sapien-defined taxonomy??? They do!!! It’s particularly useful for  post-eukaryotic ‘animal ghosts’ like Cujo, because sometimes their denomination can be kind of hard to pin down, so it’s just easier to refer to them through their living classification!!! Like, you couldsay that Cujo’s a Grim, but you don’t really know on first glance and not every dog ghost is a Grim, so if you can just say ‘he’s a dog’ then you circumvent the issue (it’s still good to know though)!!!!

And there we have it!!!! That’s pretty much all I have to say about it, but if you have any questions or just want to talk about it more, please do!!! I absolutely love this sort of stuff even if I’m not like. An expert on it lmao!!! I’m kinda working on the stuff about ectoplasm as a substance atm, so hopefully I’ll actually post that at some pint because I have Thoughts™ lmao!! Either way, have a good day!! :D

(Post about ectobiology/ghost anatomy is up now that has some expansion on ghost post-eukaryoticism + some other stuff if you're interested!!!! Here it is!!!)

#danny phantom #ghost taxonomy #ghost classification #ghost science #ghost biology #ectobiology #phasmology #Bongo's Ideas!!! #I've had this written in my notes since pretty much the Day I got tumblr and I'm finally unleashing it!!! #I'll be honest with you this is probably the first of a Lot of posts about ghost science & history #Kind of nervous about posting this but I'm Very Brave and also I love talking so!!! #dp headcanons #dp hc #danny phantom headcanon #danny phantom hc

[nomette]

silly and tungl-brained comment, but I sometimes find the whole framing around being allies a bit a weird. i don't think of being there for my friends as 'supporting the [x] community' and I hope they don't view hanging out with me as 'supporting the queer hispanic community' or whatever. aren't we friends? isn't that sacred too? obviously there are actions that you can take to support wider communities like volunteering, donating, voting, ec, but 'being an ally' also gets used to talk about normal person to person relationships in a way that seems to confuse the personal and the communal to me. this post brought to you by a different post which said that 'buying a trans person lunch is a better way to be an ally than [comparison irrelevant]' i've bought lunch for a lot of trans people and by god i will do so again, but it's weird to me to frame it as 'being an ally'. we're friends. i love them and want them to eat well.

#side note but there's a classification of anthropods which is millipedes and allies #i don't know who the millipedes are fighting but i support them #idk people can frame stuff as whatever but it feels weird to apply advocacy language to normal friendship interactions #is it supporting the hispanic community when people send me memes about gay knights? (yes. send more memes)

[essektheylyss]

Because it's the first song on my afternoon daylist, sometimes I just idly remember how Castle put its eponymous character intro to "Everybody Loves Me" by OneRepublic, and honestly, what an utterly correct choice.

#for the record the title is 'main character castle wednesday afternoon' #castle NOT in reference to the show obvs. it informs me i listen to 'nostalgia' and 'medieval' on Wednesday afternoons. #whatever the FUCK that means #this is after 'heroic role playing game wednesday morning' and 'heroic horror movie afternoon' #honestly i just wanna track all of my daylists for a month straight and then analyze them. see what that says about me. #here's my thing. if you only listened to your daylist ever would it then turn into a positive feedback loop of the same things? #since it's designed to fit exactly in the time before it next changes #on another note I did go looking at Spotify taxonomist job descriptions today. for funsies. #not cuz I want to work for Spotify but cuz i am BEGGING them to let me see the guts of this fucking classification scheme. #supposedly a portion of this is a CV! TO WHAT EXTENT IS IT CONTROLLED I GOTTA KNOW #HOW DO WE GET TO 'MAIN CHARACTER CASTLE' #HELLO #i imagine the titles are only semi controlled if at all but the 'genres' probably are #but like. even then. what the FUCK is 'nostalgia' #honestly looking at the playlist of nostalgia is actually fucking WILD why is DNCE on here. with patd and mcr. and omam. #CLOSER. WHAT THE FUCK. ALONG WITH BRITNEY'S IF YOU SEEK AMY. HELLO. #anyway I'm once again ranting about spotify's recommendation algorithms what else is new

[naberiie]

oh yes i am having a wonderful sunday. hmm? what am i doing? thinking about knowledge management systems and mental models in the digital age, and how they might evolve as our technology advances (or, honestly, crashes) of course

#hierarchical structure vs webbed #hierarchical is typical (computer file folders) but requires one to remember the top level #webbed is more dynamic #but ofc the star of the show no matter what is metadata #cataloging and classification my beloveds #i am investigating the zettlekasten system rn and i am intrigued #so like: zettlekasten was developed physically but became more approachable in the digital age bc we can know take advantage of software #(ie obsidian) that makes it easy to input recall and connect notes. it's all very fascinating to me good thing this is my whole career

[diningpageantry]

by fuck i WILL make my own AO3 wrapped this year

#i have a plan ok it's going to work #mostly bc you can't properly track ao3 readership in a traditional wrapped format bc what if you dont finish a fic? or what if you reread it #like every visit to the page shouldn't be counted but revisits occasionally should if that makes sense #so what im going to do is make a spreadsheet noting every fic i read #and make a note to finish every fic i start purely for counting purposes #i'll mark how many words it is and leave a spot for whether or not i reread it and if so how many times #i might do some extra classifications for myself like whether or not i recommend it/if it would be a contender for yearly faves list #plus some extra notes section for myself like if it was finished when i started or if a fic got abandoned/was left unfinished #i think i may also note when i read it so i can track reading habits #of course most fics will be linked so i can return in case and for when i do my end of the year info post #i will probably also include images of my spreadsheet for others to try if they want to #im sure other people have done this and will be doing this so i'm curious to see some #anyway that's all

[actuallyfingolfin]

a hurdy-gurdy is THE perfect noldorin instrument

#silmarillion #nolo's meta #sticky note tag #ok to rb #/end classification tags #lIKE it's got all these different pieces #a moving wheel #and sounds cool as fuck #my post

[rosescries]

I came up with a new original story idea and have no clue if I'm actually going to do something with it or not. I want to, but I'm not sure.

Going to have to work on it a bit more.

#i have an idea of what the storyline is #but it needs to be refined a bit more i think #i need to add onto the werewolf entry of the journal tho #changing their classification technically #need to write that out #rosey's nonsense #i need to actually write my fics too #i think i got a bit of a case of the writer's block #ideas but no ability to actually write #may have to go on hiatus again if this continues #on a happier note i think i got ciky's storyline down #so hopefully that'll be up and running again soon

[er-cryptid]

#studyblr #notes #medblr #medical notes #med notes #hormones #hormone notes #endocrinology #endocrinology notes #biology #biology notes #bio #bio notes #steroid hormones #polypeptides #proteins #protein hormones #chemical classification #chemical classification of hormones #hormone classification

[percabeth4life]

I’m a gay pagan! Why isn’t Camp Half Blood Pagan!? Chiron sucks! PERCABETH! Anti will solace don’t come at me. Just cuz Percy didn’t end up with the 12 year old or the adult who tried to kill him doesn’t mean he’s straight!

It's queer pagan

Impersonate me in my inbox

#and its not pagan its helpol #i use pagan at times but like its not how Id self describe #pagan is basically a classification of #not christian #and like #i dont vibe with basing my religious id around one that I very much dont like and is the one that tries to remove other religions #soooo #helpol not pagan #/nm #didnt feel like linking the post this time btw so you can just hit the tag #impersonate ask #for the link if you want it #or just do as the description says lol #side note: on the queer instead of gay #idk I prefer queer over gay like I call myself gay at times but iys more jokey #queer is a good blanket term for my ideneity cause its CoMpLiCaTeD #also queer is best :P

[ontakingnotes]

#on taking notes #aesthetic notes #academia #how to study #study inspiration #studyblr #studyspo #classification #daily journal #note-taking #on keeping a notebook #keeping a notebook #notebook #journaling #on journaling

[redbootsindoriath]

Whichever anon sent me this today, thank you. There's no way you could have known, but a couple of days ago I suddenly and without warning lost a cat that I raised from the day he was born. When I saw this in my inbox I was confused at first, because what...checkmark...huh...but then I realized that it meant somebody had sent me something--out of the blue, just because--at a time that I really could use something good in my life, even something silly and fun. So, really, thank you. And green is my favorite "real" color, so having one of the checkmarks be green is pretty neat.

I've not really been able to draw anything worth anything lately, believe it or not, so here's the last picture I have of my Night Furry. He loved drives and walks, so earlier this summer on a road trip I took him to the top of the continental divide for a little hike.

(Yes, he's wearing a harness. He had an adventurous and independent temperament, so there was always a risk of him running off to explore someplace where he shouldn't go alone. I didn't just make him wear it because I'm a cruel and stifling cat butler.)

#yo somebody talked to me #/end classification tags #his name is toothless by the way #after the dragon in how to train your dragon of course #ALSO by the way #i would NORMALLY give myself time to actually process this sort of thing and recover because i'm pretty sure i'm in psychological shock #but i'm moving halfway across the continent in like two days (less than a week after he got sick) so there was no way to just #cancel that or delay it or something #so i'm having to just get over it or whatever #👍 #the car ride is going to be lonely but at least i have one more cat to keep me as good of company as she can #even if we've never been as close as toothless and i were #a VERY IMPORTANT note to all of the pet owners who follow me: PLEASE check your yards for poisonous plants #regularly and repeatedly even if there wasn't anything dangerous there before #even if you're only staying in the area for a little while #even if you only let your pets out under close supervision #even if you trust your landlord/landlady (if you rent) #because i was all of those and this still happened #check every single plant out there and be 100% sure you KNOW what each one is #did you know that silverleaf nightshade looks nothing like other kinds of nightshade? #neither did i because i never lived in this area before #anyway sorry for the dump y'all #i don't generally like to share a lot of details about my personal life but i think i'm not quite myself right now #poor little guy hadn't even lived half his expected lifespan so i wasn't ready for this to happen for years #i've been kicking myself over it for days even though i know the blame doesn't TECHNICALLY lie with me and it's messing with my psyche #he was a very special cat #in korean the term is 개양이 and google says the english is puppycat #a cat that is friendly and acts like a dog #i will likely never get a cat anything like him again and that's an awful thing to realize #i would go broke and risk my future to have him back which is stupid i know but he was really something else

[skeletalheartattack]

wait but isn't a mutual when you follow each other?? have I been getting that wrong this entire time??

it is! but i guess i kinda classify it differently since i have folks that follow me that i enjoy the presence of!!! like i have "mutuals" who post tags that i'll like all the time, although i don't follow them only because my dashboard feed is already pretty long :)

#ask #anon #its strange yeah but no youre correct anon #i just classify it differently is all :) #i have so many folks i love seeing in my activity that i think are so cool and awesome #but yeah its definitely hard to tell if someones mutuals with me cause like. theres not a good way to tell #the best way to tell is if i like the notes of posts you reblog from me a lot :) #idk! maybe thats weird. #like i guess i could make an alt account for confirming that stuff but. thats too much effort for me #plus i have no interest in making an alternate account #i guess the best way to think of it is like... ghost mutuals??? #i have lovely friends from fabulous friendshow that i dont follow for example but were 100% mutuals yknow? #oh well ill go to hell just in case.... #thank you for the ask though!!! youre correct and my classification is weird is all :)