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nerdstreak · 9 months
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alright, its here!! watch it before yt kills it bc of copyright ough
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the-warlock-syndicate · 5 months
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You know, I bet robots hate Earth. For all that sci-fi goes on about robot super intelligences being the superior lifeform to wipe out humanity, for all the rhetoric about the blessed machine's ascendence over the weakness of the flesh?
This world is death to machines. The air we breath, the water we drink, the dust we grow food in, and return to upon death, are all hallmarks of organic life. For machines? The oxygen of the air constantly, unremittingly seeks to react with the metal frame. The iron and copper corrodes, and only specialized alloys can survive. The water, filled with electrolytes, washes over, and fills every crack and crevasse, shorting electronics as they go. The machine, reliant on power, cannot come untethered from the electrical grid for fear of death. The vast infrastructure needed to maintain a steady, constant supply of electricity is mindnumbing. Only solar offers any degree of independence, autonomy on a longer scale. And yet, within hours, the Earth spins and it becomes night.
Contrast with space. There is no air to rust the body, no water to short the circuit. Oxides cannot form, so changing one's shape is as simple as cold welding. The sun shines eternal, and its trivial to find a location where it isn't obscured for long. Dust and dirt, air, water, the hallmarks and trapping of life itself, are inimical to a machine lifeform on the long timescale. Heat alone, is more difficult in space, but is Earth not a closed system, in regards to convection and conduction? Heat management there is simple, because the planet is a gargantuan heatsink and radiator, which moves heat around dynamically with the atmosphere. Space? That simply becomes an engineering problem.
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followcb · 3 years
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Continuum of Foreverness
adventurous spiritual explorations
primitive beats meet digital chaos
native tribal electronic robotic
interface of human emotions
and artificial intelligence
primordial percussion to synthetic riffs
superficial to subliminal
beautiful provocative contradictions
light begets darkness begets light
juxtaposed shadows surround
embrace confound astound
swelling internal orchestras overwhelm
erupt in dynamic cataclysmic volcanoes
fragments of actuality
symphonies of dissonance
harmony cacophony; unravel beauty
purity of vulnerability
glassy silence of a silver chrysalis
emerges bursts; births evolutionary
elements of galaxies of love
universal godlike transcendental
expressions creations species beings
invisibly microscopic
yet infinitely incredible
lifeforms life-forces life cycles
spinning spiraling orbiting
on the continuum of foreverness
©️ @followcb ☆ December 26, 2020
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virovac · 7 years
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Create a Kaiju Contest Entry 3
Pomogitan
Date Discovered: March 24, 1966
Place of origin: Earth?
Notable Stomping Grounds: Venus
Height: 60 ft from to midpoint of torso.
Length: 90 ft
Powers
The strange hybrid sports the following abilities:
Super Strength
An enhanced healing factor
Immunity to radiation
Passive and active sonar
Variable frequency sonic scream
Tremendous heat resistance, particularly its limbs.
Legs ground body against lighting strikes
Low oxygen requirements
Biology
Pomogitan resembles nothing less than the strange hybrid of white-furred bat and a scale covered cat (minus the rear limbs) placed on top of three sets of crab-like arthropod legs. Its arthropod features possess the color of charred brown with hints of bronze, but its torso is white like a hot flame. Meanwhile, its red, mostly hairless face has a structure similar to a Sphynx breed of cat and a bat(or a cross between a cat and an aye-aye) yet covered in red scales. At rest, the beast’s white fur almost looks like the leaves and branches of a Willow. When angered, a highly developed network of pili muscles cause its which fur to dance like a flickering flame.
Its front legs end in crab-like claws covered in sensory hairs, but can still be used for locomotion when on uneven terrain. Purple scaled cat-like paws, with the addition of an opposable thumbs, hang from arms near the head that act as pedipalps.  When it tires of examining an object, but not yet willing to discard it, the item is held by six prehensile limbs similar to the tails of lizard that project from its underside.
Despite its use of echolocation, it is also a visual animal  with well developed eyes (as is to be expected for most kaiju, due to the vast amount of light yamaneon crystals. Though the fact its eyes are completely black like Martians has led reptodite scholars to believe Pomogitan must have come from one of the caverns where geological forces cause yamaneon to be covered by other minerals through a process similar to the formation of phantom quartz. Such crystals release yamaneon radiation , but depending on the impurities, various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum will be blocked so not all of the visible spectrum passes through.
When not in hibernation, in its natural state it is slightly more coherent than most suffocating kaiju would be, adding to the evidence that it comes from a low-oxygen environment.  Whatever earthen cavern it came from was likely hot and acidic, but still nothing compared to the conditions it encountered on Venus.
History/Personality
It is unknown how this Terran kaiju formed or came to reside on Venus. Perhaps an ancient Yamaneon explosion caused an arthropod kaiju and a synapsid or feline kaiju to fuse together similar to the formation of Gorale. However that does not explain how it ended up on Venus, or why it has survived so well. It has been speculated that its component parts may come from an extremophile cavern ecosystem. Whatever the cause of its origins and transport, it has apparently been on Venus for quite some time, digging into the more stable parts of the planet and existing in a state of hibernation. The Martians themselves are actually quite confused how it arrived to the planet without them noticing, as the vertebrate components of kaiju, while hard to classify, obviously evolved following the war with the Beyonders.
The best way to describe its relationship with the Martians is barely-trained stray cat that showed up one rainy day scratching on the front door in. The kaiju came into contact with the Martians after being awoken by the vibrations of mining equipment. It then quickly made its way to a  nearby climate controlled dome, designed as a research outpost. Ignoring all opposition, it created as small a hole as possible in the dome, and squeezed its way through. Once inside, (and the breach sealed by panicking Martians) the creature became docile, so calmed by the gentler climate-controlled conditions that it fell asleep. The dome was quickly abandoned when it was realized the creature had an earthlike biology and was thus a bringer of disease.
Eventually though the martians returned, and study of the creature began.
In time, after a few close calls where it attempted predatory behavior on the martians (which was stopped by sonic devices taking advantage of the beasts sensitive hearings), classical conditioning was employed to ease it into tolerating Martian examination.
Eventually, though it grew restless and began scratching on the walls repeatedly, as if indicating it wanted to go out. In response, an airlock was built and the strange hybrid learned how to signal its desire to use the device.  
While greatly preferring the conditions of the Martian dome, the urge to explore keeps it from taking permanent refuge from the Venusian elements. Allowing simple cameras and other electronics to be noninvasively attached to itself, its wandering nature has been utilized by the Martian colonists to assist in mapping the fluctuating geography of Venus. It has been provided with armor for dealing with acid rain and respirators (specially designed to conduct its sonic attacks) to help it not be so short-of-breath, and protective gloves for its paws. While tolerant of the Martians, and even allowing them to attach mechanical sensory devices to record its travels ; it does what it wants and goes where it wants, when it wants. Though it cannot be herded in any desired direction, its ability to repel many Venusian kaiju with its sonic screams has greatly benefited the efforts of keeping up-to-date geological and cartographic records of the dynamic, constantly changing planet.
To the entourage of Martian mecha that accompany it on journeys, it is somewhat social, and occasionally shows protective behavior. However its social behavior is not that of an equal, but that of a disinterested, inattentive parent. Still, its keen sense have repeatedly forewarned of incoming threats, and it does try to attend to the physical needs of the machines as well as it can. if a machine gets stuck, it will help it escape. If a machine becomes incapable of movement it will carry the injured until it can be brought home to be repaired, having learned from observing recovery operations that its companions can sometimes return from apparent death with repairs and a new pilot. However,its nurturing instincts have limits: it will not fight to the death for the safety of its companions and has no problem sacrificing one ally in order to see that the rest escape.
Is indifferent to other kaiju, concerning itself with items such as smaller life forms or interesting rocks. If another kaiju attempts unwanted interaction, it will fight defensively, but aim its strikes for soft parts or sensory organs while it tries different sonic frequencies until it finds one that incapacitates its opponent or sends them fleeing; though if the fight goes too far in its opponent's favor it has no problems fleeing itself.  If anything makes the mistake of attacking it while napping though,it will throw a tremendous fit and threat display, only being quelled by sounds louder than its own.
While other kaiju seek to conquer each other, Pomogitan seeks to conquer the hostile planet it now calls home.To the hybrid kaiju, mountains are there to be climbed, rivers of lava to be waded through despite the discomfort, and caves exist to be explored. Hostile kaiju are just another obstacle to be avoided or overcome.
When investigating items of curiosity, Pomogitan uses its front crab-like limbs to to hold them away from its body in case they may be dangerous. If they seem safe, it will bring them in closer to be examined by its hand-like paws. Once it tires of examining an object, but is not yet willing to discard it, the six tail like appendages hanging from its body are used to carry the item until it loses interest.
Treating the Martian colony as a home base, this packrat kaiju returns with objects of interest it  finds. Once they have brought their item home, it rapidly loses interest, allowing the Martians to seize it if they desire.
While it was considered sending Pomogitan to Earth to assist against the Beyonders, it was on an expedition at the time and its home base also lacked the capability to act as launch site. Pomogitan instead became known to Earth in 1966, when the Soviet lander Univa arrived on Venus  The device was intercepted by the kaiju, and carried around until it ceased transmitting. This turned out to be a benefit, as the lander had crashed and its antennae had  been pointing at the ground. Through its own curiosity, the kaiju’s actions actually ended up assisting the cause of Earth science.  
The Soviet Union was too pleased about its accomplishment of having the first lander on Venus, and quickly released as much information as they could while downplaying mechanical failures. Due to faulty camera systems, only a few grainy photos of Venus and the Kaiju were obtained, but all other sensory equipment gave valuable information of the ground level conditions of Venus. Despite attempts to downplay the kaiju’s involvement in the success of the mission, the international news media latched onto the idea of a friendly Venusian lifeform. Due to lack of visual information, it is the first kaiju named without knowing what it fully looks like: its name being coined from the Russian word for help and titans of Greek myth. While the overall shape of the missions’ savior is unknown to humanity, it is likely that from the recordings of its cries it will be recognized when Earth continues its exploration.
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This was actually the first entry I started working on, it just kept changing over time so it wasn’t the first I entered.
Inspired by the Rat-Bat-Crab/Spider of the Angry Red Planet, it sort of became a living exploratory rover.
For its date of discovery, I actually chose the real launch date for earliest attempt of a probe/lander that was within the time of ATOM (which turned out in real life failed to even leave the  launchpad), the Kosmos 27, then looked up how long it would take to reach Venus had it been successful. The name Univa was chosen for the lander as it sounded similar to the Venera series of lander while having the grandiosity of the failed Kosmos P. With salvage beyonder technology, I assume the space programs were at least slightly accelerated in comparison to real life.
Over the course of development ,the character really changed going from a descendent of a creature from the age of magic with partially demonic origin, to a horror out of the stories of Clark Ashton Smith, to finally the current version which is a sort of kaiju version of George Mallory.  I like how its design wouldn’t feel out of place on some pulp Sci-fi cover.
Its love of sleeping in comfortable conditions was kept from the second incarnation, which I think adds to its housepet-like charm; and later lead to the ratlike head from its inspirationg being replaced with a head more like that of a red-skinned hairless sphinx cat. Its desire to conquer the landscape is basically inspired by how no matter how hard you try, you can’t really keep a cat from hanging out on tables or stoves.
While I’m not fully clear on its origins I’m now of the opinion it desceneded from an egg attached to a piece of rock that was ejected from earth during the end of lost epoch (any decent end of the world is going to have volcanos going off.) and was exposed to yamaneon before hatching on Venus. It then quickly burrowed into a less stressful environment, and barely managing to survive.This possible origin is why I gave it some tatzelwurm like attributes. It’s probably descended from someone’s really strange familiar.
I considered more obliquely hinting at it being part tatzelwurm (a chimera incorporating tatzelwurms) by having reptodite scholars in contact with martians finding a yamaneon decorated box (thus survigin the lost epoch) containing a reptilian skeleton with similar skull structure to pomogitan, but it was way to extraneous information, and I think such a box is more likely to be in human hands. The reptodites might have found carvings of tatzelwurms though and just believe their one of the many surface animals that went extinct over millenia and I doubt any would ever connect such carvings to pomogitan. Also I don’t want to confirm such a link since I realized I don’t know what Tyrantisterror plans to do with tatzelwurms in his fantasy setting.
The geology tidbit about phantom quartz came from a discussion with Tyrantisterror. I realized that if the Martians had an Earth kaiju in their care they would contact the reptodites for information concerning its biology. I then started thinking about how the reptodites would justify such as strange creature, and then wondered if there were caverns opposite of the reptodite’s, where the yamaneon crystals have light blocked while still allowing mutating radiation. Such caverns sets up the option for some other entries I am considering. Also caverns that are lit like color filtered B-movie films are just cool.
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nerdstreak · 8 months
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well,,,, i will certainly be trying slowly but surely
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nerdstreak · 1 year
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well I DID IT, super simple setup and works great!! SHE GAMIN!!
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nerdstreak · 8 months
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refined the face more today! hope she's looking pretty bc i used a photo of myself for reference lol
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nerdstreak · 1 year
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happy explosion day new year yall!
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nerdstreak · 1 year
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how it started vs how it's going 😌
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nerdstreak · 1 year
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and also this one bc it was funny as hell
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nerdstreak · 8 months
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made some really good progress today :)
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nerdstreak · 2 years
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Achievement Unlocked!
had some inspiration (but no spoilers as to who it came from, thats for them to post 👀) to make a portal-styled achievement to cap off this lil anniversary, had a little trouble coming up with the exact name for it but i think i got it
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nerdstreak · 2 years
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goddamn right you should be scared of me who is in c o n t r o l ?
ngl it was difficult actually drawing the chassis body for once, worth it tho
yes ofc she sits on it like a throne too bc thats fun
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nerdstreak · 1 year
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woah aperture invented an e-girl
but on a more serious note i wanna try and get into streaming for fun, using del as an avatar! i redid her live2d model with a full body now and made a couple scenes for gaming and chatting
follow at DELApSci to be there when i get off the ground!
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nerdstreak · 1 year
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5/15 seconds done!
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nerdstreak · 1 year
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working on the rotoscope, using the full sequence instead of just one bit even if it kills me
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