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tribbetherium · 2 years

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The Early Temperocene: 145 million years post-establishment

Shallow Wallows: The Seavannahs of the Fragmian Sea

The melting of the polar ice caps at the end of the Glaciocene has raised sea levels to cover over 80% of the planet's surface and caused immense levels of flooding on the continental landmasses: and the most extreme example of this is the transformation of the northern Gestaltian basin into the shallow Fragmian Sea: a massive bay, bordered at its mouth by the subcontinent of Fragmus, that is shallow enough as to never exceed more than 5 to 6 meters in depth.

This vast shallow sunlit region thus is an ideal habitat for seagrass to grow, particularly floating coast kudzu: a highly prolific seagrass that, rather than being rooted to the bottom, floats at the surface to absorb maximum sunlight and thus is able to proliferate quickly, with a single stalk able to grow at rates of a foot a day and thus can quickly form thick mats at the surface: floating rafts that, at times, can almost be considered miniature islands in their own right, hosting a wide array of symbiotic flora and fauna. Known as seavannahs, this unique biome is in many ways akin to grasslands on dry land: but intermingled with the ocean that results in very unusual life to proliferate.

The Fragmian Sea, due to its shallow depth and thick tangled forests of seagrass, thus have few large animals, save for the occasional transient hamatees such as walmuses that feed at the bottom seagrass and the far bigger whaleruses that eat floating coast kudzu. But living permanently in this zone, in huge abundance, is a hamatee that has taken the opposite route in size, and filled an unconventional niche unlike any animal back on Earth.

Known as the searrels (Phocasciurus spp.), these hamatees are very small creatures, about the size of a large guinea pig, and are equipped with a single long claw on each foreflipper to grasp coast kudzu stems, with their two hind flippers, merged into a permanent backwards posture, now act as a prehensile pincer-like fluke that can grip onto plants. The thick floating mats of coast kudzu provide them with food and shelter, nesting on the surface where they bear their litters of two or three pups hidden among the dense knots of rhizones, and their favored food, aside from leaves and stems, are the large, buoyant seeds of one coast kudzu type known as seanuts (Duramaresemen spp.) which are buoyant and enclosed in a hard shell, and are often hoarded by searrels in their floating dens to eat later. The searrel thus fills a peculiar niche: one akin to a traditional rodent, except in a marine environment.

Searrels, in turn, are prey to an unconventional predator that follows the Temperocene trend of numerous land clades such as shingles and lemunkies taking to the ocean to exploit new resources. A member of the burrowurm family, which includes both basal burrowers and arboreal tree-climbers, this slender hunter, the sterpent (Thalassophidomys spp.) has taken to the water in search of new territory with ample prey: and in doing so, evaded a constraint that had kept land burrowurms in markedly less serpentine shapes. Here, streamlining was key, and becoming an aquatic swimmer had eliminated the need for grasping claws. As such, its hind limbs and tail claw have been lost entirely, while its front limbs have become, in essence, a set of extra jaws, emerging almost directly behind the head and possessing the allergenic pseudovenom glands used in dispatching its prey. The aquatic sterpent, now markedly more snakelike than its terrestrial kin, thus is able to swim more efficiently and squeeze into the dense stems of coast kudzu to attack the abundant searrels in their dens: where they are otherwise inaccessible to most other predators.

But marine hamsters are not the only unique fauna to emerge in these leafy seas, as shrish, skwoids and pescopods also make their homes in this food-rich, inacessessible zones. And among the most unique and specialized of these is the mermite (Myrmecocaris spp.) which has specialized to make their homes in coast kudzu-- and has adopted a marine version of a colonial insect and has become eusocial. Males, which act as drones exchanged between colonies, retain a typical shrish build, with abdominal swimmerets and a tail fin for swimming and dispersal. Females, however, lack the fin, and instead have their abdominal limbs modified into grasping legs: adaptations that make them poor swimmers, but efficient at scurrying around on seagrass stems and cutting leaves to haul back home as food. Females come in three castes: a worker caste, which are generally younger females, and can further specialize into two other castes: a sterile soldier caste with large pincers for defense, or a fertile queen caste with thoracic limbs for clinging and abdominal limbs for carrying eggs. Male drones surround her, grooming her and fertilizing her eggs, while she releases pheromones that halt the reproductive development of other females and ensure she rules as sole breeder. A single colony can have as many as a thousand members but only one queen, and are herbivores, feeding on cut-up seagrass leaves, algae and seagrass nuts and seeds as well.

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#speculative evolution #speculative biology #speculative zoology #spec evo #hamster's paradise

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peridots-pixiwolf · 3 years

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~Mostly Mollusk~

Part 6 - Part 7 Here

Extras. (Including some of the “meta” stuff I mentioned--much shorter than the other posts)

Extras/Misc

i want to add him…

---Quirrel

He/him

Iridoviral Armadillidium vulgare

Traveller, Terrestrial

A pillbug. He's just Quirrel, a friendly adventurer who's good with a nail.

...Maybe keep him away from the bay. And the jellyfish.

Service: None

(jk that's ✨intellectual property✨ and i'll ✨have to ask permission✨)

--History...?

So far, the only known lore regarding this subject is that most vertebrates (currently, Grek and Genni being the only exceptions, as Tan’s host has been dead since the frog went into hiding. The bodies of most other dead organisms have been reduced to bones) have gone extinct some undescribed quantity of time, and many terrestrial bugs have moved to the shores during this (giving a chance to finally reconcile with their amphibious crustacean kin), though nowadays life further inland is no longer uninhabitable. The vertebrate die-off is possibly due to radiation caused by humans inland, as insects such as cockroaches seem to be less negatively affected by it--or this is simply the reason for the invertebrates' migration towards the sea.

--Quests

Reunion (Main Quest, Ceras)

A Meal of Great Elegance (Genni)

Prosthetics (Bem)

Ballad of Copi, which shall go unnamed (i can't think of a real name lol)

Sisters Estranged (Allibel and Sepinti)

Track Down the Beast (Beowi) (the Beast being Genni)

--Dialogue

Fess: Ceras!

F: Come back in soon or else I'm eating all the anemone without you!

Ceras: You wouldn't!

(... (Ceras doesn't come back inside and continues doing Whatever They Doing.))

F (after some time passes): Ceras, I'm serious! The rip current's coming back soon and I don't want you to be caught in it!

C: Alright, fine, in a second!

()

C: ...Did it just get quieter?

: Wait.

: Oh no.

(~rip current time~)

(...)

Lidii: What even is that?

Rantan: Obviously a sea slug, Lidii.

Gorge: Yeah, it's an aeolid nudibranch, Lidii.

Rantan: How--

Lidii: Well, I'm gonna eat it. It's obviously dead, and doesn't seem like either of you want to.

(Ceras arises.)

Lidii: Oh!

Rantan: 'Obviously dead', huh?

(Ceras looks around, the two insects look at them.)

Lidii: ...Is it sentient?

--Soundtrack

(Taranoake Theme)

(Citadell Theme)

Turn Up the Tymbals, Bring On The Beat! (One of Sepinti's themes)

Renin (Renin flashbacks, much more jovial than WfR)

Waiting for Rain (current Renin theme, has Renin's leitmotif, but slower/more melancholy)

#mostly mollusk #not my art #quirrel hk #peridots-ocs #fess mm #ceras mm #lidii mm #rantan mm #gorge mm

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maevehowserjournal · 4 years

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ISOPTERA #1: An Earth Swallowed.

The following was recovered from a computer system inside of the old, abandoned Pathway Arrowhead Organization base in rural Canada. It appeared as a digital transmission which had been sent to the shelter by an unknown source. The transmission included a poorly made, low-poly, late-90s era 3D recreation of some form of shrine (file attached.) Hopefully this gets you what you needed. Insider out.

This structure was built solely for the purpose of worship. Or rather, recompence. Payment back, for a crime that’s been committed. But not one which you have consciously committed. No crime anybody has committed, except for these elders. Those others, whose choice it was to bring you into this world. To create this existence. As you may have gathered, this existence is miserable. But that is not the fault of the soil you step on, or the air you breathe. The suffering is emitted by your own kind, and although we cannot exact vengeance upon Phlng’unak, the purple eye of the primordial soup who birthed you, we may still achieve the closest possible feat to that: vengeance upon the mortal and corpulent flesh which she’s just birthed. Out of an urge for fairness, I will lay out the reasoning for your arrival on this Earth, and why you must give your happiness over to us.

In the infant years of the planet Earth, a darkness prevailed. As no noise arose from the surface, his pedestal, this effigy, this altar, descended upon the naked, barren wastes of this planet. Adorned with black skulls and emerging from the clouds, before any life had the chance to surface. Landing upon a mountaintop, it stayed untouched. No matter what natural disasters or attempts at demolition came its way, it stood, all the same.

A war broke out among the Terrans. White, and red flags, red, white, and blue flags, red, white, and black flags, all waving at once against one another. Genocide. Bombs. Anguish and hatred, misdirected. Such a great empire of dirt-dwelling apes fell, dwindling in population due to the misdeeds of their kin. The final buttons were soon to be pressed. Ready for launching. Whenever the other went first, but not before one final battle in the homeland. The federation. As bombs fell through the air, soon to reach impact, one single, wounded warrior, felt a compulsion. In his last moments, he felt the need to stand up, and let the holes in his stomach leak as he walked. This compulsion seemed to keep him alive. He would not stop bleeding. He never ran out. Finally, he arrived at the shrine. The ancient, antediluvian place that existed before his kind. Laying his hand upon the chest of offerings, he finally collapsed, his blood soaking the dead-coral-like floor of the extra-terrestrial monument. Not long after, a bright light swept across the globe and lifted the soil up from under their feet. Just from that, Yahw’ahnkar, the wizard as old as time and the slayer of many corrupt elders, chose to end the game, for it had run its course.

This decision did not last though. Out of sheer boredom, and an urge to cause trouble, Phlng’unak, betrayer of the others, chose to create her very own life, branching from the failed homo-sapiens. Homo-isoptera. Termite men. Sons of the powerful and holy totem, the Termite. This tie to those beyonders as old as time granted the homo-isoptera god-like abilities, which may be used or discarded at any given point.

Please, heed me now, terrans. Please, graciously listen and offer your happiness away, rather than continuing to be selfish. Your very existence is unholy. Your treading upon this land is infernal. As long as it is continued, you will cause all that exists to suffer. Every house you build, every life you take, and every year you age makes it worse. Phlng’unak is too powerful to be punished herself, but perhaps the loss of her creation may burrow deep into her soul.

#maxmh #isoptera #horror #lore #short story #horror story #fantasy #low poly art #pixel horror #pixel art

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young44ever-blog · 4 years

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What is rodent control?

THREE ACTIONS TO IMPLEMENTING RODENT CONTROL IN YOUR HOUSE

Rodent control is a major problem for numerous homeowners. The word rodent originates from the French word, rodere, which means "to chomp."

The best means to stop this damages is to prevent rats from entering your residence in the initial location. Adhere to these leading 3 techniques for rodent control:

British Rats

There are over 200 types of rodent in North America, over 70 types in Malaysia as well as India, but only concerning 10 native British rodent species in the UK. Most of these are ruled out insects, and some are endangered/protected varieties.

Rodents like the Black rat and also Brownish rat which are seen as parasites (with linked health risks in a residential or metropolitan atmosphere) are not native British rats. They are currently naturalised yet initially Black/Ship rats showed up in Britain on Roman ships having actually functioned their way to Europe from India. Brownish rats are locals of Central Asia and showed up much more lately throughout the early 1700's - once again as stowaways in ships cargos.

Shop outdoor things as well as fire wood a minimum of a few inches off of the ground. Try to schedule feedings throughout daylight and also do not leave food out over night if you have outside pet dogs. To stop rodents from accessing garbage, maintain garbage bags tightly secured and also kept in waste canisters with lids. Consider utilising rock or concrete landscape design along the edges of your house to maintain plants at an extra appropriate range if you have extreme difficulty with mice or rats.

Rodent Control Treatments

We give reliable and also individually customised therapies to get rid of rodents from your residence or service. Our BPCA certified service technicians are seasoned and also well-informed, providing targeted options for your details rodent issue as well as place.

We appreciate you don't desire a repeat infestation and deal specialist avoidance guidance as well as efficient deterrents for rodents.

Sorts of Rodents

Rodents have adjusted to practically every terrestrial habitat, from cold expanse (where they can live under snow) to hot deserts, rain forest and pleasant landscapes. Actually rats can be discovered on every continent other than Antarctica. Some species of rodent are likewise viewed as intruders of the human atmosphere: - Marmots - Computer mice - Hamsters - Porcupines - Beavers - Rats - Voles - Savanna dogs - Squirrels - Gophers - Test subject - Capybaras

Rodent Characteristics

Most rodent varieties are fairly small with robust bodies, long tails and also brief limbs. They tend to be herbivores (eating seeds, grains, origins as well as leaves). Some species however are a lot more versatile omnivores eating a mixed diet regimen that can include, insects, fish and also meat as well as plants and grains.

PREVENT EXTERIOR ACCESSIBILITIES

Trees, weeds and overgrown plant life can offer access to your house and act as a food source for computer mice as well as rats. For reliable rodent control, keep trees trimmed, making sure that no branches are touching the beyond your home. Eliminate weeds and reduce back yard as well as plant life, maintaining it at reduced degrees.

These pets fall under three classifications:

- Fossorial (from Latin fosser "digger")-- adapted to excavating as well as a life spent partially below ground in burrows throughout the day, yet return to the surface area to forage. - Arboreal-- developed to inhabit trees and also forests - Semiaquatic-- adapted to invest large amounts of time swimming and/or feeding in water to exploit food resources both water and earthbound.

For reliable control of rodents, it is vital to ensure that rats and also mice have no method of entering your house. For efficient rodent control, maintain trees trimmed, making sure that no branches are touching the exterior of your house. Avoiding access to harbourage as well as food is just the first step to keeping rats out of your house. Rodents like the Black rat and also Brown rat which are seen as pests (with connected health and wellness dangers in a urban or residential environment) are not indigenous British rats. Rats utilise scent noting in interaction, marking food tracks as well as establishing territories.

Rodents

Rats are animals of the order Rodentia, from the Latin rodere "to gnaw". They are one of the most countless group of animals on the planet, comprising concerning 41% of well-known varieties. They are a really varied group in both size and also environment, ranging from the South American capybara evaluating approximately 66kg, to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, the female grownups of which consider less than 4gm.

In time rodents have been utilised as food, for clothing, as pet dogs, some types such as the brown rat, black rat, and the home mouse, are significant insects, ruining and also eating food kept by individuals, and spreading out illness such as Hantavirus & Salmonellosis.

Huge areas around pipes should be covered in mesh initially, and afterwards secured with cement. Metal panels at the base of wooden doors or home windows can help protect against rodents from eating through. You need to also cover aerated areas with mesh.

Nocturnal rats commonly have bigger eyes as well as some sensitivity to ultraviolet light. Many likewise have vibrissae (long, thick as well as sensitive whiskers) used for "whisking" or touch.

Rodents use scent marking in communication, noting food routes as well as developing regions. House mice specifically usage urine down payments including pheromones for team recognition as well as social framework. Rodents can identify kin using olfactory (feeling of smell) from urine, gland secretions and faeces.

Rodent Damage and Illness

There are three commensal rodent insects that have long been connected with individuals: - Black rat - Rattus rattus - Brown rat - Rattus norvegicus - Home mouse - Mus musculus

Some rodents are viewed as crucial farming parasites, consuming or providing not fit to eat large quantities of stored food. It has actually been estimated that in Asia in just one year, rats as well as computer mice can get rid of rice from the human food cycle that might have fed virtually 200 million individuals *. The curiosity and also inquisitiveness of rats as well as computer mice when checking out for food sources and shelter triggers damage to home and frameworks as well as food. Their consistent gnawing can harm insulation, pipes, doors, floorboards and also they will certainly likewise shred soft materials for nesting.

People have ended up being a reputable resource of food as well as sanctuary for these rodents because our ancestors proceeded from hunter gathers to farmers. Rats are careful yet investigative and also have found out to prevent capture and be cautious of poisons, making them complicated parasites to control.

They are also providers of condition as microorganisms in their pee and also faeces send diseases such as Hantavirus, Salmonellosis and the case of rats Weil's disease (Leptospirosis), along with Rat bite fever.

REMOVE INSIDE ATTRACTORS

Cleanliness is important to rodent control. Rats need regarding 1 to 2 ounces of food per evening as well as a minimum of dual the amount of water. Computer mice require less food and do not require water daily. Do not leave food out on the counter or in open storage. Place all food in closed containers and also keep it saved in pantries and closets, or in the fridge. Toss trash out every night, tidy crumbs off of counter tops as well as vacuum cleaner floors if necessary.

Get in touch with the pest control experts

Protecting against access to harbourage and also food is just the primary step to maintaining rats out of your residence. The most reliable approach requires a multi-step pest technique. A variety of baits as well as traps are likewise available. However, these approaches can be dangerous as well as require to be made use of appropriately to be effective. Consequently, they need to not be employed without the assistance of a pest control expert. Ensuring that your house is not a welcoming area for mice or rats will certainly assist make any kind of other kind of control extra efficient. However making use of a solitary approach alone is not enough.

To establish one of the most efficient rodent control strategy in your home, call your local Pest Control Firm. An experienced specialist can check your home as well as discuss reliable methods for eliminating as well as stopping rats.

- Water vole-- Arvicola amphibious - Wood or Field mouse-- Apodemus sylvaticus - Area vole-- Microtus agrestis - Red squirrel-- Sciurus vulgaris - Dormouse, Hazel-- Muscardinus avellanarius - Yellow-necked mouse-- Apodemus flavicollis - Home mouse-- Mus musculus - Financial institution vole-- Myodes glareolus - Harvest computer mouse-- Micromys minutus - Eurasian beaver-- Castor fiber

Rats as well as computer mice may enter various other locations of the residence too. Rats can nest in paper and also cardboard items. Do not store boxes on the floor and also maintain mess to a minimum. In bathrooms, ensure faucets are maintained off which there is no standing water on the flooring.

The most visible function all rats have is their razor sharp incisor teeth. As the incisors do not stop expanding the rats need to continuously nibble to wear them down and avoid them obtaining also long. These awesome teeth are additionally made use of to excavate burrows, broaden spaces to squeeze with and also defend themselves.

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BLOCK ENTRANCEWAYS

For effective control of rodents, it is very important to guarantee that rats and also computer mice have no other way of entering your residence. Do a complete assessment of your house, examining for cracks, crevices and also various other openings. It is advisable to seal all voids with an exterior-grade sealant, or cement whenever feasible.

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lord-dusk · 5 years

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Jurassic Emblem-Chapter 10

Scales are quite tricky to draw. Anyhow, there’s the second boss of the game!

Nifl was a cold, desolate land of snow,bones,ice,and blood. Frozen blood. It wasn’t quite the Kirby-esque happy place you’d thought it would be, after the Nifl-Muspell incident where Askran forces killed off warped versions of video-game protagonists and The elder Nifl princess Guunthra being roasted alive like some yummy Barbie-Cute pork. And the situation got particularly better when the sun-dragon Helios was frozen solid, condemning the whole area into everlasting night.

At least the stars and moon looked very charming and exquisite, white stellar bodies illuminating the aqua-blue sky.

Blue and Lucina were marching through the snow, huddling each other for thermal radiation. Blue, having grown up on a tropical island for much of her life, had borrowed Lucina’s scarf and cape for extra warmth(don’t get into that frappucino debate on feathers please). Lucina, having grown up in a desert country with enough rainfall to sustain a 15m-tall scythe-wielding flesh golem, found it rather uncomfortable trekking through the snow. Ryukami the mosasaurus had stayed behind at the ice-floes to catch up on some Nisioisin novels.

The raptors were marching onwards to the north of Nifl, sometimes passing by some shrubs and frost-covered rocks. Just when Lucina thought things were getting rather monotonous, she saw something rustle out of the bushes. Blue took notice as well and saw what appeared to be a penguin-like bird with white spots on its face waddling in a panicked manner before a fox-squirrel thing pounced on it and tore apart its head from its socket, crimson blood and pieces of esophagus and vocal cord spilling out unto the snow and dying it red. Blue and Lucina were eyeing the fox-squirrel as it dug heavy mitten-like foreclaws into the bird’s torso and stringy pink intestines splooged out. Lucina decided to look away and went on her way. Blue paid no attention to the carnage after that as well.

“That was a Repenomamus devouring a Great Auk,” Blue explained. “The world where I from, InGen didn’t simply revived dinosaurs, they brought back Paleozoic and Cenozoic fauna as well. Although if I were you, I wouldn’t dare pet a reppy.”

“Why? Are they dangerous?” Lucina asked. Blue can easily tell right off the bat that humans like Lucina had a profound desire to prod and hold small,furry mammals.

“Oh yes. Reppies are one mammal you do NOT want to pet; despite looking like a Pomeranian with mole-claws, they WILL try to eviscerate you; for a mammal from the Mesozoic they are quite big enough to eat small dinosaurs.”

“Hmm? I assumed mammals evolved after the demise of the giant lizards.”

“Actually, they co-existed with the dinosaurs, though they were bit characters in a world dominated by reptiles bursting with presence and charisma. Repenomamus was the biggest furry during its time, but most of its kin were barely any bigger than an Amiibo figure.”

“And that penguin-looking bird?”

“Uh-huh. That great auk was NOT a penguin-it’s actually more closely related to puffins than to the famous diving birds south of the Equator. Although, it was the the only auk that converted its flight power to swimming power completely, and those damn humans wiped its existence off the face of the Earth.”

“You know quite a lot about animals before the dawn of man, don’t you?” Lucina commented.

“I’m a creature from before man myself, though I wouldn’t be too surprised if InGen resurrected species routed by humanity, like the dodo and the gastric mouth-brooding frog.” Blue replied.

“Come to think of it, isn’t it harder to clone a mammal than say, a reptile or a fish?”

“Yes, Henry Wu of InGen has cloned mammals occasionally, but found it quite tedious because mammalian red cells do not have nuclei, where the DNA are located. You would need to find white cells, which are much less common than their red counterparts in a ratio of 2 to 12.”

“Reptiles and birds, on the other hand, have nuclei within their red blood cells, and Henry Wu is a genius when it comes to manipulating DNA.” Blue explained, frowning.

“Who is this Henry Wu that you speak of ?”

“Why, as a human being, Dr.Henry Wu is a tacky SOB who creates red-eyed, mangled-toothed fatherfuckers and is considered a most dangerous man with the most dangerous technology in the sad history of humanity. He attempted to use my blood to create a line of Indoraptors to sell off for military purposes.”

Seems Wu sounds a LOT like that sperm-slurper Validar, Lucina grimly thought.

The two of them chatted like this for the entirely of their walk until they reached Nifl Castle.

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Blue and Lucina had arrived at the castle of Nifl, but they were no guards to greet them. Well they were guards present-but they were frozen solid, and clusters of repenomamuses were busily gnawing away at the frozen body cavities.

I guess a species changes its behavior accordingly to the environment, Blue though as she and her partner pushed the gates open. They went inside the interior and up the stairs.

“Something tells me the weather outside isn’t the reason those soldiers were icicles,” Lucina said, walking behind Blue.”Would it be a bad idea to go into the kitchen wing and grab some potions for the upcoming boss fight?”

The charcoal velociraptor sniffed the solid,icy air. It stinged her nose. “I don’t see why not,” she answered. “though if you see some ANY creature, reppy or not, attacking you, don’t hesitate to knock their heads off.”

Blue waited at the second floor while Lucina brisky walked to the the kitchen downstairs. A few minutes later, she was back.

“Are you ready for certain? During the boss-fight there will be no pee-pee breaks, and no daddy in white shining armor with a shotgun and a motorbike crashing through the windows to save either of us. Understood?” Blue interviewed.

“No need for any of that,” Lucina replied. “Let’s get this over with. I feel as though my body is becoming a gelato cone.”

“Good. If my nose knows, she is just around the corner. Follow me.” the raptors headed to the corridor on the right and came across a door that read “Hrid’s Room: Out for Lunch”. They entered.

“Ugh. That was the fifth time someone has stepped in without my consent,” an icy voice hissed. “Do any of you thin-telligent organisms register the concept of knocking?”

A woman was lounging on an oblong bed spotted with various books. But not a regular woman. Her lower half was that of a boa’s, turquoise-green with purple stripes, and covered with icicles.Her hair-piece were icicles as well, and her Victorian-style corset colored electric blue and black made the entire “cool” effect perfect,considering her expressions suggested otherwise.

“What do you bipeds want?” The snake woman demanded. “Did you interrupt my inspirational reading just so you can become like those popsicles outside?”

“We just want to talk,” Lucina answered.

The snake snorted. “Don’t be honest with me, be honest with you. What you really came here for is my bloody limp body that you can use to nail onto this country’s gates like a crooked Christmas decoration. Is that it, O Exalted Princess?

“Why did you freeze the sun-god? Do you recognize the biblical effects the entire world will face?” Blue questioned, her face contorting in defense for her friend.

“Let me tell you this,” the Victorian boa began. “I am the future best-selling novelist Basilice, and I sincerely have no desire to kill you. But my mistress Sha’Rad Yuwi denied my request and forced to to sacrifice my writing skills for combative means. My writing may be on hold, but my mind is certainly not. Exalted Princess, have you ever actually considered the misery of your foes that killed them because you desired to make “everyone happy”?”

“.....You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs,” Lucina replied.

“ ‘I want everyone to be happy,’ ‘let’s end all suffering in the world,’ those are lines that make me want to vomit out the Niflites I ate yesterday. Those are the shallow,one-dimensional philosophies of idiotic eukaryotes who do not face reality.” Basilice sputtered out. “The light is full of lies, lies! People willingly bask in the glory of light so they never again have to experience the truth of the darkness below! Light is harmful, harmful! And not just the fact that overdosing on UV light promotes cancer on light skin. Do any of you bipeds know anything at all about plants other than the vascular system in high-school?”

“When plants grow, they break down soil to suit their roots for sufficient nutrient intake,” Blue raised her hand in reply.

“Precisely! Around 400 million years ago, during the Devonian period, mosses and ferns were starting to grow onto rocks near the coastlines, and inevitably, these early pioneers of the new world crumbled the rock into fine soil which washed out into the sea over thousand of years, and do you know what happened? Vertebrates started choking! Fishes here and there had no idea how to cope with this influx of mud particles from the land, their gills clogged with minerals. This, combined with volcanic eruptions, consumed all the available oxygen in the water and there were massive, massive, casualties everywhere! Because fishes and run-off from terrestrial photosynthesis do not go well together! This catastrophe makes your petty carnage across Jurassic Park and Fire Emblem look like a squabble between toddlers in comparison. And you little humans use the opportunity to view more serious issues as a excuse to lounge in your chairs eating chicken nuggets.”

“So I killed him! I killed that sick son of a bitch Helios because he’s a major liar, and I’m going to teach everyone that people deserve bad endings, everyone!” Basilice took out her Dragonstone. “And if you girls are truly good character down to the nRNA sequence, you might be spared and see everyone in the world smothered in the darkness that is free of any lies! No more pain, no more sadness!”

Blue and Lucina prepared their weapons. “Let’s fight!”

#jurassic emblem #fire emblem heroes #jurassic world #blucina #blue(jurassic world)#lucina #basilice #fire emblem #fanfiction #nifl #and you thought plants were the good guys during AP biology in high school

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 5 years

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What messages are behind today’s cults?

Cults are coming. Are they crazy or bearing critical messages?

From May 1997 APA Monitor

By Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D.

Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD, was professor of psychology at Stanford University and a former APA president. He has interviewed and worked closely with survivors of Peoples Temple and their family members, as well as former members of the Unification Church, Scientology, Synanon, International Churches of Christ and other cults.

How do we make sense of the mass suicide of 21 female and 18 male members of the Heaven’s Gate extra-terrestrial “cult” on March 23, 1997? Typical explanations of all such strange, unexpected behavior involve a “rush to the dispositional,” locating the problem in defective personalities of the actors. Those whose behavior violates our expectations about what is normal and appropriate are dismissed as kooks, weirdos, gullible, stupid, evil or masochistic deviants.

Similar characterizations were evident in the media and public’s reaction to other mass suicides in The Order of the Solar Temple in Europe and Canada, murder-suicide deaths ordered by Rev. Jim Jones of his Peoples Temple members, as well as of the recent flaming deaths of David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the gassing of Japanese citizens by followers of the Aum Shinrikyo group. And there will be more of the same in the coming years as cults proliferate in the United States and world wide in anticipation of the millennium.

Avoiding the stereotypes

Such pseudo-explanations are really moralistic judgments; framed with the wisdom of hindsight, they miss the mark. They start at the wrong end of the inquiry. Instead, our search for meaning should begin at the beginning: “What was so appealing about this group that so many people were recruited/seduced into joining it voluntarily?” We want to know also, “What needs was this group fulfilling that were not being met by “traditional society?”

Such alternative framings shift the analytical focus from condemning the actors, mindlessly blaming the victims, defining them as different from us, to searching for a common ground in the forces that shape all human behavior. By acknowledging our own vulnerability to the operation of the powerful, often subtle situational forces that controlled their actions, we can begin to find ways to prevent or combat that power from exerting its similar, sometimes sinister, influence on us and our kin.

Any stereotyped collective personality analysis of the Heaven’s Gate members proves inadequate when tallied against the resumes of individual members. They represented a wide range of demographic backgrounds, ages, talents, interests and careers prior to committing themselves to a new ideology embodied in the totally regimented, obedient lifestyle that would end with an eternal transformation. Comparable individual diversity has been evident among the members of many different cult groups I’ve studied over the past several decades. What is common are the recruiting promises, influence agendas and group’s coercive influence power that compromise the personal exercise of free will and critical thinking. On the basis of my investigations and the psychological research of colleagues, we can argue the following propositions, some of which will be elaborated:

No one ever joins a “cult.” People join interesting groups that promise to fulfill their pressing needs. They become “cults” when they are seen as deceptive, defective, dangerous, or as opposing basic values of their society.

Cults represent each society’s “default values,” filling in its missing functions. The cult epidemic is diagnostic of where and how society is failing its citizens.

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. As basic human values are being strained, distorted and lost in our rapidly evolving culture, illusions and promissory notes are too readily believed and bought—without reality validation or credit checks.

Whatever any member of a cult has done, you and I could be recruited or seduced into doing—under the right or wrong conditions. The majority of “normal, average, intelligent” individuals can be led to engage in immoral, illegal, irrational, aggressive and self destructive actions that are contrary to their values or personality—when manipulated situational conditions exert their power over individual dispositions.

Cult methods of recruiting, indoctrinating and influencing their members are not exotic forms of mind control, but only more intensely applied mundane tactics of social influence practiced daily by all compliance professionals and societal agents of influence.

The appeal

What is the appeal of cults? Imagine being part of a group in which you will find instant friendship, a caring family, respect for your contributions, an identity, safety, security, simplicity, and an organized daily agenda. You will learn new skills, have a respected position, gain personal insight, improve your personality and intelligence. There is no crime or violence and your healthy lifestyle means there is no illness.

Your leader may promise not only to heal any sickness and foretell the future, but give you the gift of immortality, if you are a true believer. In addition, your group’s ideology represents a unique spiritual/religious agenda (in other cults it is political, social or personal enhancement) that if followed, will enhance the Human Condition somewhere in the world or cosmos.

Who would fall for such appeals? Most of us, if they were made by someone we trusted, in a setting that was familiar, and especially if we had unfulfilled needs.

Much cult recruitment is done by family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, teachers and highly trained professional recruiters. They recruit not on the streets or airports, but in contexts that are “home bases” for the potential recruit; at schools, in the home, coffee houses, on the job, at sports events, lectures, churches, or drop-in dinners and free personal assessment workshops. The Heaven’s Gate group made us aware that recruiting is now also active over the Internet and across the World Wide Web.

In a 1980 study where we (C. Hartley and I) surveyed and interviewed more than 1,000 randomly selected high school students in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, 54 percent reported they had at least one active recruiting attempt by someone they identified with a cult, and 40 percent said they had experienced three to five such contacts. And that was long before electronic cult recruiting could be a new allure for a generation of youngsters growing up as web surfers.

What makes any of us especially vulnerable to cult appeals?

Someone is in a transitional phase in life: moved to a new city or country, lost a job, dropped out of school, parents divorced, romantic relationship broken, gave up traditional religion as personally irrelevant. Add to the recipe, all those who find their work tedious and trivial, education abstractly meaningless, social life absent or inconsistent, family remote or dysfunctional, friends too busy to find time for you and trust in government eroded.

Cults promise to fulfill most of those personal individual’s needs and also to compensate for a litany of societal failures: to make their slice of the world safe, healthy, caring, predictable and controllable. They will eliminate the increasing feelings of isolation and alienation being created by mobility, technology, competition, meritocracy, incivility, and dehumanized living and working conditions in our society.

In general, cult leaders offer simple solutions to the increasingly complex world problems we all face daily. They offer the simple path to happiness, to success, to salvation by following their simple rules, simple group regimentation and simple total lifestyle. Ultimately, each new member contributes to the power of the leader by trading his or her freedom for the illusion of security and reflected glory that group membership holds out.

It seems like a “win-win” trade for those whose freedom is without power to make a difference in their lives. This may be especially so for the shy among us. Shyness among adults is now escalating to epidemic proportions, according to recent research by Dr. B. Carducci in Indiana and my research team in California. More than 50 percent of college-aged adults report being chronically shy (lacking social skills, low self-esteem, awkward in many social encounters). As with the rise in cult membership, a public health model is essential for understanding how societal pathology is implicated in contributing to the rise in shyness among adults and children in America.

A society in transition

Our society is in a curious transitional phase; as science and technology make remarkable advances, antiscientific values and beliefs in the paranormal and occult abound, family values are stridently promoted in Congress and pulpits, yet divorce is rising along with spouse and child abuse, fear of nuclear annihilation in superpower wars is replaced by fears of crime in our streets and drugs in our schools, and the economic gap grows exponentially between the rich and powerful and our legions of poor and powerless.

Such change and confusion create intellectual chaos that makes it difficult for many citizens to believe in anything, to trust anyone, to stand for anything substantial.

On such shifting sands of time and resolve, the cult leader stands firm with simple directions for what to think and feel, and how to act. “Follow me, I know the path to sanity, security and salvation,” proclaims Marshall Applewhite, with other cult leaders chanting the same lyric in that celestial chorus. And many will follow.

What makes cults dangerous? It depends in part on the kind of cult since they come in many sizes, purposes and disguises. Some cults are in the business of power and money. They need members to give money, work for free, beg and recruit new members. They won’t go the deathly route of the Heaven’s Gaters; their danger lies in deception, mindless devotion, and failure to deliver on the recruiting promises.

Danger also comes in the form of insisting on contributions of exorbitant amounts of money (tithing, signing over life insurance, social security or property, and fees for personal testing and training).

Add exhausting labor as another danger (spending all one’s waking time begging for money, recruiting new members, or doing menial service for little or no remuneration). Most cult groups demand that members sever ties with former family and friends which creates total dependence on the group for self identity, recognition, social reinforcement. Unquestioning obedience to the leader and following arbitrary rules and regulations eliminates independent, critical thinking, and the exercise of free will. Such cerebral straightjacketing is a terrible danger that can lead in turn to the ultimate twin dangers of committing suicide upon command or destroying the cult’s enemies.

Potential for the worst abuse is found in “total situations” where the group is physically and socially isolated from the outside community. The accompanying total milieu and informational control permits idiosyncratic and paranoid thinking to flourish and be shared without limits. The madness of any leader then becomes normalized as members embrace it, and the folly of one becomes folie à deux (shared psychosis), and finally, with three or more adherents, it becomes a constitutionally protected belief system that is an ideology defended to the death.

A remarkable thing about cult mind control is that it’s so ordinary in the tactics and strategies of social influence employed. They are variants of well-known social psychological principles of compliance, conformity, persuasion, dissonance, reactance, framing, emotional manipulation, and others that are used on all of us daily to entice us: to buy, to try, to donate, to vote, to join, to change, to believe, to love, to hate the enemy.

Cult mind control is not different in kind from these everyday varieties, but in its greater intensity, persistence, duration, and scope. One difference is in its greater efforts to block quitting the group, by imposing high exit costs, replete with induced phobias of harm, failure, and personal isolation.

What’s the solution?

Heaven’s Gate mass suicides have made cults front page news. While their number and ritually methodical formula are unusual, cults are not. They exist as part of the frayed edges of our society and have vital messages for us to reflect upon if we want to prevent such tragedies or our children and neighbors from joining such destructive groups that are on the near horizon.

The solution? Simple. All we have to do is to create an alternative, “perfect cult.” We need to work together to find ways to make our society actually deliver on many of those cult promises, to co-opt their appeal, without their deception, distortion and potential for destruction.

No man or woman is an island unto itself, nor a space traveller without an earthly control center. Finding that center, spreading that continent of connections, enriching that core of common humanity should be our first priority as we learn and share a vital lesson from the tragedy of Heaven’s Gate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo

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I am sort of frustrated that the default for wing shifts is on the back. like I get most winged ‘kin are non-terrestrial creatures, but I think it’s weird that the default for birds and bats is to feel their wings as an extra set of limbs instead of as an altered part of existing anatomy.

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dailycharacteroption · 6 years

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Pack Hunter (Barbarian Archetype)

It is very common for cultures with a large amount of importance placed on hunting to revere and emulate pack hunters such as wolves, lions, and the like. Few do so with as much passion as the ones known as pack hunters, however.

These savage warriors specialize specifically in fighting alongside allies that also call upon rage and battle-lust to fight, regardless of whether their allies are also pack hunters, though they do work best with those who are at least familiar with fighting as a group.

While not used to solo fighting, these barbarians can be lethal when fighting alongside like-minded allies.

While these warriors can still learn various rage powers, they can also choose to learn various forms of teamwork tactics.

Like real pack animals, these barbarians fight by surrounding a foe from a safe distance, and rushing in and out to strike at their prey, and they have learned to guard their retreat each time, becoming hard for foes to get in a strike while they move.

Resonating with the battle fury of others, these braves can maintain their battle-enhanced state even if unconscious, which could save their life by retaining the increased vitality for longer. However, they can only maintain this for a short while until their own fury is depleted.

Meant to be used with at least one other barbarian or bloodrager in the party, preferably another pack hunter, if you’re looking for a teamwork-based character with rage, you’ve come to the right place. Given that their bonus teamwork feats are optional, they can pick and choose how much they invest in such things depending on their party composition and their willingness to sink feats into teamwork feats. While most useful as a group of npcs, I recommend a flanking build above all else, though others are possible.

Given their emulation of packs, these barbarians might go great lengths to emulate them, wearing skins of said beasts or otherwise decorated with their motifs on their clothing or skin. The beast totem is also a strong way to further cement this connection if you can fit it into the build.

Not every pack hunter tribe is terrestrial, and generations ago, the tritons of Remorn took a shine to the local dolphins, fishing and protecting their lands using the group herding tactics of the cetaceans, drawing upon their summoning magic to create extra allies to aid in the hunt.

While there is no love lost between the munavri and morlocks, the psychic corsairs recognize there is some value to the swarming tactics of their degenerate kin, channeling their fury into a lethal group dance that rushes in towards foes one moment, and dances away from their reprisal the next.

The local tribe, known for their reverence of wolves and their penchant for fighting like them, have begun acting strangely. They turn away friends of the tribe, and even attack strangers who have not trespassed on their land, which is now full of strange shrines and carvings. If asked, they make mention of the “Old Wise One” whom has come down to command them, an ancient hundun seeking to spread chaos on the world.

#pathfinder #archetype #barbarian #pack hunter #triton #munavri #morlock #hundun #Ultimate Wilderness

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vanilla-blessing · 6 years

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Spirit Companions, Ranked

As I’ve been watching Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how characters like Ai are represented and used within the franchise. For lack of a better term, these spirit companions show up in each Yu-Gi-Oh! series as a guide for the protagonist, someone they can talk to and confer with in and out of duels. They play a slightly different role than the main character’s group of friends, often sharing a mental or spiritual connection that elevates their relationship to something closer to kin. Ai is one of the most active deuteragonists throughout the franchise, and so I wanted to take a look at all six of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series and talk about how they play into the story and whether their inclusion helps to further the themes of the series.

6. The Crimson Dragon, from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s

The Crimson Dragon is a being made of sacred fire that, along with the six legendary dragons (the titular 5 D’s), fought against the evil Earthbound Immortals and sealed them in the Nazca Lines. He is the source of all the main characters’ powers, which include energy manipulation, psychic powers, and creating miracles. Although he is the reason the cast gathered together and were able to become a team, the Crimson Dragon otherwise only appears when the plot demands it.

When I first started thinking about this list, I wasn’t even sure if 5D’s had a spirit companion of some kind. It’s really downplayed within the series, since all of the main characters have to share parts of the Crimson Dragon, and it doesn’t really play into the series outside of its role as a plot device. Unlike the other characters in this list, the Crimson Dragon doesn’t talk or interact with the cast, acting more like a guardian than a proper character. There’s no personality there and nothing to real talk about, besides it being kind of a lame design for a dragon.

5. Yubel, from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

Yubel is sort of a weird case compared to the rest of the characters on this list, since her first appearance is over halfway through the series as an antagonist for Jaden. She was originally a magical guardian meant to protect an individual known as the Supreme King, who wielded the power of Gentle Darkness. Thousands of years after this pact was made, her spirit was placed into a Duel Monsters card, and eventually the card ended up in the hands of Jaden. As it happens, Jaden is a descendant of the Supreme King, and so the spirit within the Yubel card promised to protect Jaden from any and all threats. Unfortunately, Yubel considered any sort of friendship with others as a threat to their relationship, and so everyone who dueled Jaden fell into a coma. In the hopes of helping her find the “power of justice”, Jaden sent the Yubel card into space in a KaibaCorp satellite, but she ended up encountering The Light of Destruction which only corrupted her further. Eventually the satellite crashed back onto Earth and Yubel was freed, allowing her to take revenge against Jaden for betraying her. She does this by torturing all of his friends via Shadow Duels and eventually doing the same to Jaden, equating their shared pain as a sort of love. But, thanks to Jaden’s incredibly large heart, he is able to eventually forgive Yubel and accept her, which allows the two of them to fuse together and free Yubel from The Light of Destruction.

I’ve never really been able to come to terms with Yubel as a spirit companion. She’s an extremely out-of-place element in the otherwise goofy series, to an uncomfortable extent. Between her weird sadomasochism fetish and her overly possessive relationship with Jaden, the whole thing comes off as a strange thing for a kid’s show to do. There’s no real conclusion that effectively explains why Jaden would suddenly forgive her outside of him being such a stand-up dude and destiny-bound to be with her. This is several steps above GX characters talking about “playing solitaire” with their favorite sexy cards from the classic memetic shared video, and I’ve always found it uncomfortable on reflection.

4. Astral, from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal

Astral is an extra-terrestrial from the Astral World, which is a thinly-veiled sci-fi allegory for Heaven. He is initially sent to Earth in order to garner enough power to destroy the Barian World, which is a thinly-veiled sci-fi allegory for Hell, but is intercepted partway and attaches himself to Yuma Tsukumo, a third-rate duelist with big dreams. When he reaches Earth, Astral’s memories scatter in the form of 100 “Number” cards, and now he’ll need to help Yuma learn how to duel so that they can win back all of the Numbers and Astral can complete his mission.

Astral’s just a real weenie, and a pretty boring character overall. His only narrative purpose for a majority of the series is to bail Yuma out when he makes a bad play, and to talk about how weird human customs are compared to his pseudo-angel alien customs. And there was that one time Astral felt so betrayed when Yuma kept a secret from him that he went crazy and almost killed the both of them via a corrupted fusion. It’s nice that he’s part of the show from the beginning so the plot starts right away, but that ends up leading to another problem, thanks to the Number card gimmick. Because only Number cards can destroy other Number cards in a duel, the way that he’s integrated ends up making almost every duel go the exact same way, all the way up to the very end of the series.

3. Yuto, from Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

Yuto is one of three characters from an alternate dimension, called the Xyz Dimension, that shares the same look and build of protagonist Yuya Sakaki, who is from the Standard Dimension. Initially believed to be a villain, the truth is eventually revealed that he comes from a world that was decimated by an army from another alternate dimension, the Fusion Dimension, and he’s come to the Standard Dimension to get his revenge on the Fusion invaders. Although he ends up dying in a duel, his soul fuses with Yuya’s, and so he begins to explain more about this dimensional war to Yuya, in the hopes that Yuya can succeed where he failed in stopping the Fusion forces.

Yuto isn’t the most exciting or memorable companion, but I think he’s ultimately one of the ones that was best integrated within his franchise. From his original role as an uneasy antagonist to his revival as a spirit companion for Yuya, he consistently helped push the story forward and provide background information on the main conflict as it became important, which helped further to expand the world and the narrative as a whole. While I think all of the Yuya clones in Arc-V ultimately contributed to the story, Yuto was the one who solidified how the series was going to develop.

His Phantom Knights deck is also cool as hell.

2. Atem/Pharaoh, from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Atem is the spirit of a pharaoh who ruled in ancient Egypt, remembered for stopping a great catastrophe that threatened the future of the entire world. His soul was sealed away in one of the Millennium Items, a set of ancient artifacts that granted great powers to their wielders, and locked away his memories so that they couldn’t be used to threaten the world ever again. Thousands of years later, after his grandfather excavated the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi Moto completed the puzzle, and the pharaoh’s soul was fused into Yugi’s body. Although their relationship was shaky at the beginning as they learned how to handle their shared body, eventually the two were able to work together to help the pharaoh recover his memories and pass on to the next life.

Atem, the OG companion and (in)arguably a more relevant character than Yugi after the first season. While in some ways he stole the spotlight whenever arcs weren’t directly centered on the pharaoh, his mysterious connection to the game of Duel Monsters and the expansive world of Yu-Gi-Oh! was interesting to watch develop and grow over the series. He definitely has the best rapport with his series’ cast, and I like the way the relationship between Atem and Yugi was built up, all the way to the end. The original series was really well connected, and the bond between Atem and Yugi was a big part of that.

1. Ai, from Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS

Ai is an Ignis-class artificial intelligence, meaning that he has free will, and he lived along with other Ignis AIs in a digital world called the Cyverse. After a shadow organization known as the Knights of Hanoi tried to capture the Cyverse and its power, Ignis was able to steal information from the Cyverse and hide its data within his AI body. Since then, he’s been hunted by the Knights of Hanoi, as well as SOL Technologies, a company that had used the Cyverse to power its virtual reality Duel Monsters program, VRAINS. After a widescale attack on VRAINS by the Knights of Hanoi, the hacker protagonist of the series Yusaku Fujiki was able to capture Ai, only knowing that he would act as a trump card during his fights against the Knights of Hanoi. So begins the shaky friendship of Yusaku and Ai.

I guess this is a little unfair since the series isn’t over, and the true nature of this character has yet to be revealed, and he’s an AI, but Ai has been the only source of whimsy in a series that otherwise lacks it. VRAINS is a very self-serious series with some heavy themes and crushing implications within its narrative, and Ai plays an important role to help keep the series fun with his flippant attitude, providing some well-timed bits of comedy. He’s very much the comic to Yusaku’s straight man, creating this fun dynamic between the two of them, both in and out of duels. Ai is definitely the most like a mascot of any character in this list, as a lot of his interaction with the world is through exaggerated reactions and mischief that Yu-Gi-Oh! as a franchise has never really leaned into. I also think even the way he interacts with Yusaku within duels is interesting, since granting Playmaker the ability to pull new cards from raw data storms helps keep the main character’s deck fresh and exciting from duel to duel.

-ChorpSaway, Card Game Tycoon

#Yu-Gi-Oh #Yu-Gi-Oh!#Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters #Yu-Gi-Oh! GX #Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's #Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal #Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V #Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS #Vanilla Blessing #List

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IT ENDS TODAY! THE FINAL SEVEN ENTRIES ARE HERE! HUZZAH!

Our first monster today is @bonelessnerd‘s island monster, Nogad. There were a couple of attempts to take the mythological concept of “an island that is also a monster” and give it an Atom Age revampe for this contest, but Nogad went the extra mile and also worked in a reference to The Fantastic Voyage and other “people shrink down and experience the terrors of life at a very small size” movies that coexisted with the kaiju films ATOM pays homage to. Massive even for a kaiju, Nogad is a brain-dead, comatose creature whose internal organs are an ecosystem all their own - and one that people actually end up exploring! That’s right, he’s a literal Monster Island. I had no idea what the rest of Nogad’s body was supposed to look like (his original picture cuts off at the waist), so I tried to keep it as taxonomically dubious as possible.

@polygonfighter‘s tar skeleton monster Index (original entry here) is next on our list. There were a few different attempts at giving ATOM a blob monster (I suppose the Writhing Flesh’s features are too well defined for it to count), and Index mixed the whole “living tar monster” concept (a well known variant of the blob monster archetype) with a cool grim reaper motiff, giving ATOM a nice ghost kaiju in addition to a blob. And yes, Index is literally a ghost in the ATOM interpretation of its bio - ectoplasm and all.

Torgong (original entry here) by SirKaijuofVaudeville is our next entry. Like other entries in the contest, Torgong’s bio homages other prominent trends in atomic age monster fiction that ATOM otherwise overlooked - specifically the idea of “mole people” (which I suppose ATOM kinda skirts close to with the Reptodites but doesn’t fully embrace), ancient civilizations, giant monster god worship, and human sacrifice. There are also some neat ties to ATOM’s hints that aliens might have experimented with hybridizing terrestrial fauna - Torgong may be Mothmanud’s kin by way of genetic modification! Also he’s a big gnarly rock dog man, and that’s pretty rad.

Cervere (original entry here) by @scatha5 is our next monster, and a particularly bonkers one at that: he’s a big smelly cat. Like, super smelly. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way, depending on what kind of smells you appreciate. Powerful odors aren’t tied to felines all that often, but considering how often they rub or spray their fluids on things to mark their territory, it makes a lot of sense. Cervere’s color scheme is also pretty rad - I particularly love that punk rock purple crest of hair. All in all, a good smelly cat.

@cstalli‘s beautiful flower fairies, the Trifitan Arum (original entry here), are our next monster, though calling them monsters might be a bit slanderous. They reproduce rapidly, sure, but their effect on the environment is nothing but beneficial, and they’re completely non-malicious so long as their gardens are protected. I’m a sucker for heroic monsters, especially ones that are environmentalists, and I’m also a sucker for the idea of plant people, so these fairies are pretty fuckin’ awesome on a lot of levels to me.

Our penultimate monster is @profcene‘s well meaning amphibious hyena, Gevlek (original entry here)! Taking ATOM’s design themes to heart, Gevlek uses a traditionally “evil” animal as a base and builds a really sympathetic and benevolent personality for it, making a lovable scavenger whose desire for friendship is hampered by his own social awkwardness. It’s ok, Gevlek, you’re in good company. There are a lot of cool little design details that make Gevlek more than JUST big hyena, from the giraffe-like horns to his slightly sea-monstery dorsal fin and lizardy tail. He’s a good boy.

Our final monster is @ask-drakos‘s enormous blackbird, Okhalee (original entry here)! After tons of weird prehistoric, flightless, and/or vampiric birds, it’s kind of nice to get one that’s basically just a big normal bird with a few extra claws and wattles. Okhalee has a fun personality too, having been the result of a sudden kaiju-fication and thus retaining all the aggressive territoriality of his much smaller kin. He’s one of those “heroic to humans because he does not tolerate other monsters” style kaiju - an asshole to other giant monsters, but a protector to the tiny mammals living in his territory.

And that’s it! No more files! However, there are a few prizes left for me to give to our Grand Winners, so check out after the cut, won’t you?

I’ve said it a lot already, but picking winners for this contest was tough. So many quality monsters were submitted that I couldn’t narrow anything down - there were just too many good concepts out there! I’ve also said before that I’d like to one day make files for EVERY KAIJU ENTERED. I have no idea if I’ll ever reach that goal - I have a lot of other projects to do - but I really cannot overstate how much I love all the monsters you guys made!

That said, if you recall the original contest posting all those months ago, I did say there would be a Grand Prize Winner for the person who went above and beyond. Narrowing it down to just one winner proved to be impossible (just as narrowing down the entries to just five kaiju files proved to be impossible), but at the same time, there were a few people whose multiple entries wowed me so consistently that I had to take notice. These people didn’t just make choosing a few kaiju out of twenty seven entrant’s lineups hard - they made it hard to choose a single winning entry from their entire offering.

Or, more simply, they made a new criteria for the Grand Prize Winner: “Which person made it almost impossible to choose which monster of their lineup was the best?”

Everyone made excellent monsters, of course, and I love every monster submitted, but with most people who made multiple entries you could tell there was one they had thought through just a bit more than the others - one that shined the brightest from their bunch. But a few entrants bucked that trend and produced a whole slew of well thought out and creative creatures. These entrants are our Grand Prize Winners:

@cerothenull

@canadian-tuxedo-mask

@akitymh

@quinnred

@bonelessnerd

As per the rules of the contest, you five get the grand prize of Forcing Me to Watch and Liveblog a Movie of Your Choice Provided It Is 1. Legally Available In the USA At A Reasonable Price and 2. Not a Porno. That, uh, probably seems underwhelming after getting a kaiju file, but I didn’t plan on giving a kaiju file to everyone so uh, there we are I suppose.

I cannot thank you all enough - not just the grand prize winners, but every single one of you who entered this contest! You made a whole pantheon of wonderful, wild, and weird monsters for the whole world to enjoy, and in particular you made me very happy! I hope to hold another contest like this in the future - and if I do, I hope to see every one of you among the entrants! Thank you all again!

#Nogad #Index #Torgong #Cervere #Trifitan Arum #Gevlek #Okhalee #Atomic Time of Monsters #ATOM Create a Kaiju Contest #kaiju #bonelessnerd #polygonfighter #scatha5 #cstalli #profcene #ask-drakos

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cyclethroughtheseason · 7 years

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Extra Terrestrials

I've travelled far to a barren land where all the inhabitants are filled with sand. Gasping for air just to sustain greed without a thought and suffer without need. Miles of bodies bound and begging to be freed. I'm not one of you, we are not kin, I'm not one of you your lies are stretched thin. Don't plead or you'll learn when true suffering begins. I have a mind that is lined with lead and love for the dead because I saw the world dressed in satin upon the devils bed. I'm not afraid of evil men or women. I don't belong here, I'm not at home. Your demon is foreign and weak, your world is sad and bleak because I was born from stars and there is a light inside me that can end wars before they begin, beat away the pain of sin, and it's all for you kind hearted, loving, devoted view.

#Extra terrestrials #poetry #poems #poem #poet #poets

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Continuing with the Jakatins we have Chióni the aspiring and somewhat angst filled tailor and musician.

Being the younger sister of a powerful warp-user Chióni always felt overshadowed and starved for attention as the two grew up this only got worse as her brother became a successful hunter and shaman in training she felt left in the dust. Renegated to stitching clothing for the tribe her only claim to anything special was her skill with the Jakatin instrument “Strumbér” a basic string instrument. While she didn’t find knitting scarves and playing songs at festivals too exhilarating she did appreciate the little things she was doing for the tribe knowing that in her heart as long as those she cared for where happy she was happy.

Chióni cares very deeply for her tribes-kin and always aspires to do more being a touch patriotic she wears an over-sized scarf with a repeating pattern of her tribes colours. Yet whenever she tries to take part in anything adventurous or dangerous she gets sent back home, she understands her place as a crafter and performer but deeply craves the hunts, rituals and adventures her brother gets to partake in and jealousy is evident in her behavior towards him. She however continues her musical practice and studies textiles with her mother hoping that what she does can one day make a big difference and help the tribe thrive. Yet with the arrival of some unknown extra-terrestrial life her entire world is about to be flipped on its head, will she sit on the sidelines like her tribe desires or rebel and follow her spirit of adventure?

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