#spectacled fruit bat

[mg549]

happy halloween!!!

#vampires #a wilder kind of west #halloween #original character #ocs #painted bat #virginia big eared bat #pallid bat #vampire bat #honduran white bat #spectacled fruit bat #little brown bat #bats #character design #my art

[flittermousing]

via stonedeafwildlife on Instagram

#spectacled fruit bat #spectacled flying fox #fruit bat #flying fox #cute #baby bat #bats #chiroptera #pteropodidae #queued #bat fun

[transgender-chiroptera]

Kuri, the Spectacled Flying Fox, via lubeebatconservancy

#Spectacled flying fox #flying fox #fruit bat #bat #q #pretty....

[the-moon-in-the-gutter]

Thinking about how in Phantom's phone everyone's contact photo is a bat he associates them with.

Aurora: Honduran White Fruit Bat

Cumulus: Northern Ghost Bat

Cirrus: Pied Butterfly Bat

Dewdrop: Greater False Vampire Bat

Mountain: Eastern Red Bat

Swiss: Egyptian Fruit Bat

Rain: Spectacled Flying Fox

Aether: California Leaf-Nosed Bat

#the band ghost

[ditzgrayson]

The Batfam and What Bats I think They Would Be

Since twitter is probably going to explode I wanted to put my favorite thread on here.

Bruce Wayne: Livingstone's Fruit Bat

Dick Grayson: Mexican Free Tailed Bat

Jason Todd: Hardwicke's Wooly Bat

Tim Drake: Little Red Flying Fox

Damian Wayne: Common Vampire Bat

Cassandra Cain: Black Flying Fox

Stephanie Brown: Spectacled Flying Fox

Duke Thomas: Mariana Fruit Bat

Alfred Pennyworth: Lesser Short-Nosed Fruit Bat

That's all, hope you enjoyed! <3<3<3

#batman #batfam #bruce wayne #dick grayson #nightwing #jason todd #red hood #tim drake #robin #red robin #damian wayne #cassandra cain #stephanie brown #alfred pennyworth #dc comics

[etoilesbienne]

ok heres my hybrid au list so far

brief note i'm using the (american) english name for most of these 👍

wilbur: red fox(/anteater)

quackity: ducky

charlie: bnuuy

mariana: i think im leaning ouppy but like husky kind of dogy. he sings and cries

phil: carrion crow

missa: between mexican black bear 👍

jaiden: parakeet

roier: HYENA

foolish: shark

vegetta: monky but he only gets a tail (hes a saiyan duhhhh)

maximus: mouse as a play on the great mouse detective

dantdm: he doesn't change visibly and everyone debates what he is constantly whenever he appears once in a blue moon

bbh: fruit bat

luzu: idk but i think a black cat works

spreen: spectacled bear (it has glasses)

fit: sphinx cat <3 a little like this

cellbit: jaguar

felps: coati

forever: maned/guara wolf

pac: hyacinth macaw(/maybe pink river dolphin?)

mike: capybara (in an ironic way)

baghera: ducky as well

etoiles: weasel

aypierre: marmot

antoine: kitty cat

kameto: sasuke

#posts from the aether #qsmp hybrid au

[dewinabsentia]

Which species of bats have you worked with??

- @the-moon-in-the-gutter

literally had to pull up where i used to work to get the full list lol

african straw colored fruit bat, egyptian fruit bat, gray headed fruit bat, little golden mantled flying fox, indian flying fox, malayan flying fox, rodrigues fruit bat, spectacled flying fox, variable flying fox

i mostly worked with the big flying foxes but i had a hand in everything :)

#ask #the-moon-in-the-gutter

[para-imperium]

Terraforming Biodiversity

The seedships that arrived at Alpha Centauri had limited space on board for genetic samples, with parahuman and uplift DNA given the highest priority. The unfortunate result being that the vast majority of Old Terra's rich biodiversity died with that planet, leaving Secland and later terraformed worlds an extremely limited gene pool to work with. 

During the terraforming process scientists struggled to fill in the niches left open by a gene bank weighed heavily towards domesticated and laboratory test animals. The possibility of making "downlifted" versions of the uplifted species was proposed but almost universally rejected by the uplifts in question. Instead, the Bureau of Ecosystem Management offered jobs to uplifts filling the ecological roles of their progenitors. This strategy worked surprisingly well, especially with apex predators such as dolphins.

Another approach was to modify the animals they did have using the non-human genes that had been incorporated into parahuman genomes. For instance Secland "bats" are actually heavily modified mice while the procyon is a fox given hand-like paws and a ringed tail.

Late in the terraforming process scientists made a breakthrough that would simplify later efforts. Large complexes of genes that could be activated or deactivated with specific epigenetic triggers were added to the genomes of many species that could produce massive physiological changes in later generations. That way a single breeding colony of ultra-ferrets could give birth to 20-centimeter long mini-ferrets, semi-aquatic ferr-otters, or two-meter mega wolverines as the ecosystem needed.

List of source species:

Mammals:

Cat (Felis catus)

Cattle (Bos taurus)

Dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

Ferret (Mustela furo)

Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)

House mouse (Mus musculus)

European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Sheep (Ovis aries)

Birds:

Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Canary (Serinus canaria)

Chicken (Gallus domesticus)

Rock dove (Columba livia)

Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

Reptiles:

Green anole (Anolis carolinensis)

Spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus)

Fish:

Goldfish (Carassius auratus)

Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Amphibians:

African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)

Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)

Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)

Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)

Arthropods:

Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

House cricket (Acheta domesticus)

Yellow mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor)

#worldbuilding #sci-fi #scifi #sci fi #sciencefiction

[the-maddened-hatter]

I can't art, but I made a Welcome home OC!

His name is Ozz, he's a half vampire bat half fruit bat (meaning he only drinks fruit juice!) and lives in the rafters of Poppy's barn.

Made to show children that most things aren't as scary as they first appear, he often helps fellow characters to feel better when they have to do something they find scary by finding ways to brighten up their bad situations or feel better while they get through it (often relating to the dark, medical matters, or inclement weather, but not exclusively).

He always wears a brightly colored hat that is apparently unaffected by gravity, though this is never directly addressed within the show. Most of the time Ozz's feet are not visible and his wings are wrapped about him to make him easier to puppet, but he's shown to have massive wings when he's unfurled (which he often allows other characters to temporarily use a section of as a cloak, blanket, or shield).

The fabric swatches that make up the puppet's rainbow wings apparently changed frequently, likely because the rods used to move them would damage the material. He does not have visible eyes, rather a set of spectacles with colors that swirl in the lenses. One of the lenses has a spiderweb crack running across it, but it is unknown if this is part of the original design or simply due to wear.

#bat #welcome home #welcome home oc #I used tate paint to make him #like I said I can't art lol #digital art #kinda

[spacefinch]

Star Trek characters as Octonauts characters AU: an update:

TOS crew:

Kirk: Golden retriever.

Spock: Black cat.

Bones: North American River Otter. An old friend of Ranger Marsh, with whom he shares similar opinions about technology.

Uhura: African Grass Owl.

Scotty: Scottish Wildcat.

Sulu: White-tailed Deer.

Chekov: Eurasian pine marten. I originally had him be a Siberian Lynx (since he’s from Russia) but it didn’t quite work. Chekov needs to be a small lanky boy and that is not what lynxes are. Pine martens, however…

Chapel: Tawny Owl.

TNG crew:

Picard: European River Otter

Riker: Alaskan Malamute dog

Data: Still an android, but in this version, he’s modeled after a short-eared owl. His brother Lore is modeled after a long-eared owl.

Tasha: Black-tailed jackrabbit

Geordi: Serval cat. Born blind, but uses a high-tech visor to see. Best friends with Data.

Beverly and Wesley Crusher: Red foxes. Wes has darker, almost brown fur.

Worf: Fisher. (A type of mustelid.)

Deanna: Spotted Owl

DS9 crew:

Ben and Jake Sisko: Swamp rabbits— same species as Tweak and Marsh. The Siskos have dark brown fur, rather than green.

Jadzia: Red Salamander

Garak: Lizard (doesn’t matter what species)

Major Kira: Gray Fox

Odo: Still a Changeling in this AU. Usually assumes the form of a beige-colored cat.

Ezri: Spotted Salamander.

Bashir: Sea Otter

O’Brien: European Hare

Quark (and all other Ferengi characters): Fruit bats. With gigantic ears.

Voyager Crew:

Janeway: Red Fox

Chakotay: Canada Lynx

Tom Paris: Dog.

Harry Kim: Sea Otter

Neelix: Fishing Cat

Kes: Brush Rabbit

Seven of Nine: Cat, with cybernetic implants.

B’Elanna: Badger.

Tuvok: Spectacled Owl

The Doctor: Hologram, takes the appearance of a penguin. (Which looks a lot like Peso’s species.)

Connections to the Octonauts and Octo Agents:

Scotty is an old friend of Shellington, and even recommended him for the position of the Octopod’s head scientist. Barnacles invited Scotty to be Chief Engineer, but Scotty declined the offer. After all, he’d seen Tweak’s work firsthand. The Octonauts would be in good care with her as its engineer.

Similar to Barnacles, Chekov was an old student of Professor Natquik. He’s always boasting about how everything great was invented in Russia.

Voyager’s Doctor was modeled after one of Peso’s many cousins. Despite being a program of a social species, he does have trouble actually socializing.

Jadzia is one of Dashi’s friends from school.

Ben Sisko and Ranger Marsh have been friends for a long time. And their kids get along quite well! Tweak is older than Jake by quite a bit.

Bashir is one of Shellington’s old classmates. The two of them bonded over their love of science and their sea otter heritage.

#star trek #octonauts #star trek tos #shellington #Star Trek tng #star trek ds9 #star trek voyager #Star Trek AU

[bloodrosebriars]

@albertkensington said: "I-I didn't know where else to go." Says man who never knows where to go, frequently.

from send ‘i didn’t know where else to go’ to show up at my muse’s door [accepting!!]

Alberich taps one long-nailed fingertip to his chin, theatrically contemplating the other’s words. How honest he seems, truly… and yet so unsure. Shy, coy, perhaps cowardly…? No, no, he has yet to run after all… So does that make him, quite simply, stupid? Or has he a devious plot behind those spectacled eyes?”

Hm…

What an interesting person.

“I see… and so you decided that ‘over the banister’ was the most logical option of where to head next…?

“…”

Fingers then snap, the index and middle pointing like a fired pistol in this newcomer’s direction. “Unique. Adventurous. Daring. I like it. Outside the box, as they say — or, well, over the railing, as it were.”

A pause to laugh at his own joke, then the red-clad phantom slams the butt of his staff against the ground, a clang ringing through the room as he does so. Glintstones jingle. A small powder of frost falls from the sceptre’s branches and falls like snow onto Alberich’s boots. The sorcerer shifts his weight casually, keeping his scythe holstered to his back… for now.

“Are you clueless, then?” he asks. “About your purpose here? And what all this means? Or are you just trying to trick me into thinking you are?” A bat of the hand. “Ah, I’ll fool you not: though I’ve picked my fair share of devious fruits from their brambled bushes of lies before, I don’t claim to be good at it. You could lie to me if you wanted to. Really! I might even believe it! It’s more fun that way, I’ve found. When people lie, I mean. Go on. Lie to me. Make it a good one.”

His question got buried by babble, but it’s still there… somewhere. He sways his hips gently as he waits for an answer.

#alberich [muse] #albertkensington #HI I HAVE ASKS FROM U IN MY INBOX FROM LIKE YEARS AGO I NEVER ANSWERED I AM SO SORRY FJFNDND #HEEEEEEERE’S ALBERICH!!!!

[mg549]

Allaster Constancia is a vampire inspired by the Spectacled Flying Fox. A budding botanist and dandy freshly moved to the town of Gearhorse Gulch from Queensland, he doesn't know much about the field yet and is hoping to broaden and legitimize his research by collecting and describing the most dangerous flora in the desert. He simply MUST have this for his menagerie.

#vampires #a wilder kind of west #halloween #original character #ocs #spectacled flying fox #flying fox #fruit bat #bats #character design #my art

[tiny-bat-teeth]

The Spectacled Flying Fox, a mega fruit bat of Australia.

#bats #flowers #nature #digital painting #digital art #my art #nature painting

[nebuleuse-mirobolante]

Prophétie révolutionnaire 

Le ciel chialle des larmes de poupées

Eventrées dans ce soleil noir décharné 

Ces putains de chiens vendront le ciel sur Amazon

En Amazonie ,tout brûle et comme on chantait le monde est stone 

Ils vendront la terre verte pour des billets puants 

Ils vendront l'éther contre internet et l'inerte néant 

Le ciel brûle, pue, chie , crie 

Un jour renaîtra la prophétie 

Celle des monstres troués 

Dans les ronces oubliés 

Celle les handicapitaines de bateaux 

Abolissant les drapeaux et la haine

Brûle le drapeau, la frontière, la barrière

Brûle la norme gregaire et amer

Nique les rois ,vive les rats 

Nique l'état, vive le malfrat 

Malfrat des codes, tu nique les style et les modes

Malfrat des modèles,sans forme ni mode

Arrache tes chaines, vole comme le piaf puant 

Fait couler dans tes veines le cri Rouge du firmament 

Nique la princesse ,le beau,le flouze 

Vive le clodo à l'ouest et la bouse 

Vive cet âge d'or où la beauté est dans le cri

Vive l'aurore des corps ou la liberté est le premier fruit 

Nique le mâle dominant 

Nique le mal domino 

Nique ta race de robot

Nique ta crasse derrière le beau

Je suis une salope mais mon bureau est complet

Patronne de ma propre entreprise ,t'est tricard  ,t'est trop laid

Laid dans ta thune et ta Lamborgini

Je suce pas vos bites ,moi j'avale l'anarchie 

Car le ciel dois être une meuf qui mouille 

Les reufs machos auront la trouille 

La révolution des rats niquera l'état

La démission des rois invitera la foi 

A bats la télé ,vive les visions ,les prophéties 

La prophétie des monstres ,des freak 

Qui piquent niquent et niquent les riches en abolissant tout institutions psychiatrique 

A bat les apartheid, les séparations

A bat les aides pour les riches qui touchent déjà  trop d'allocations 

A bat l'eugenisme, vive les tordus et leur cris

A bat le nazisme ,on t'a crue toi et ta poésie

A bat les spectacles de ces clown

Où les humiliés sont un cartoon

A bat les patrons ,les trop couillus 

A bat le patriarcat et vive les meufs trop poilues 

A bat le culte du corps mince

A bat le cul et l'or du prince

A bat le keuf raciste dans la banlieue 

A bat le reuf machiste et vive le feu 

Le feu des femmes ,la flamme des cieux 

Des cieux qui prendront feu

Pour les travelos, tox et les pute  pourtant si belles et  beaux 

Pour les clodos ,les homos et les brutes qui se levent déjà si tôt 

 

Les punk  trop pieux et les pieux trop junk 

Les funk trop feu et la prude trop skunk 

Les triso qui veulent devenir mannequin 

Les schizo géniaux et les divins clandestins

Pour tout les rejettés splendides de cette société vide!

Il est enfin venu le temps de la  grande prophétie !

Nébuleuse 

[kazeofthemagun]

@areapermostcapricious asked the summoner:

“So the purpose of the spectacles with the single lens,” hand on his cheek, elbow on the table. “Purely for aesthetics? Or is there a practical reason behind such a fashion choice?” And will it be yet another reason for Kuja to make fun of Black Wind?

Kuja is being a fabulous lil shit once again

There was one thing Kuja should have learned by now: and it was the fact that asking Black Wind about his fashion choices was the kind of endeavor not likely to bear fruit.

Then again, similar could be said about asking Black Wind about anything. Finding him in a mood for idle blather was a rare occurrence indeed. Additionally: the Hunter of Chaos was one such man who could be mocked ceaselessly and not bat an eye.

Unless said Wind-mockery came from White Cloud, but we are not presently discussing the matters of weather.

He turned his head slightly, only half-acknowledging the other mage's presence.

"....You done?" He asked in perfect deadpan. First, his trousers - now, this. The gunmage's bored eyes almost seemed to wordlessly say, If you have any more useless questions, now is the time to get them out of the way.

Not that he would feel particularly inclined to indulge them. He mostly wanted the other to finally run out of ammo and find value in silence.

#hahahah Kuja annoying the Windy yet again. thank u I always like these 😊 #areapermostcapricious #[[ask response #[[Kuja

[bavart]

Le silence et la peur, mis en scène par David Geselson – Théâtre de la bastille (Avril 2023) :

Le clavier du piano est une métaphore de la condition du personnage ; elle est la touche noire entre deux touches blanches, elle est en minorité sur le clavier, elle sonne tout aussi juste mais est injustement moins convoitée, – contrainte au silence –, elle semble oppressée entre ses égales blanches qui l’encadrent, la contrôle – contrainte à subir la peur.

Le silence et la peur nous raconte l’histoire de la chanteuse noire américaine Nina Simone – Eunice Waymon de son vrai nom – et à travers elle, l’histoire d’un pays habité par la ségrégation raciale, phénomène qui avait déjà pris racine lors de la conquête sanglante du « nouveau continent » par les européens. Il souligne ainsi les liens entre l’histoire individuelle et intime, celle d’une femme noire aux Etats-Unis qui s’engage pour la lutte des droits civiques, et la grande histoire – politique, sociale et culturelle d’un pays.

David Geselson exploite la force de la narration, grâce à laquelle le spectateur revit ce plaisir simple et enfantin d’être bercé par une histoire, qu’il écoute et qu’on lui raconte. Les acteurs sont tantôt narrateurs tantôt personnages et prennent part, ainsi, à la construction non linéaire et très fine de la pièce, qui fait l’effet d’un montage cinématographique : se succèdent des scènes de récit, où les acteurs s’adressent au public en gardant la position du personnage qu’ils interprètent ; des scènes jouées où les acteurs brillent, malgré la difficulté de parler plusieurs langues sur scène, langues qui creusent et soulignent d’ailleurs, la différence de culture entre les noirs américains et les blancs. Des scènes où Nina est très jeune succèdent à d’autres où elle est en fin de carrière, tissant ainsi des liens de cause à effet entre les évènements tragiques de sa vie et le besoin viscéral de création.

Nous assistons à une rencontre très fertile entre documentaire et fiction. Les informations historiques, fruit d’un travail de recherche mené par toute l’équipe du spectacle, sont rapportées par le personnage de la professeure de piano, qui raconte tendrement la chanteuse, la petite Eunice devenue grande. Le mari de la pianiste, professeur d’histoire, qui entre le personnage et le chroniqueur informe lui aussi – bien que plus factuellement – le public sur la vie de Nina et son lien avec l’histoire des Etat-Unis. La fiction surgit dans des scènes jouées qui imaginent et donnent à voir l’intimité de la chanteuse : ses histoires d’amour, la relation entretenue avec son père et avec sa professeure de piano.

Certes David Geselson ne vise pas à mettre en scène une imitation de la chanteuse, comme en témoigne l’interprétation de l’admirable Dee Beasnael qui ne reproduit pas fidèlement les attitudes ou la voix de la protagoniste, et met plutôt en avant sa propre singularité d’actrice afro- américaine...Mais l’oscillation entre l’épique et le dramatique vient paradoxalement rendre justice à Nina Simone, peut-être davantage que si elle avait été seulement incarnée et imitée sur scène.

Les acteurs – certains afro-américain et d’autres français – tiennent leurs personnages avec précision et intensité, tant et si bien que la peur et l’impression d’une menace saisit le public, peur qui reflète l’état d’angoisse de la chanteuse, commun aux noirs américains à une époque où le racisme bat son plein. De même, l’intensité du sentiment d’injustice et de révolte sont contagieux. Si le monologue final de Dee Beasnael, longue dénonciation de la violence de l’humanité aurait pu faire une conclusion pour le moins mélodramatique, le discours apparait davantage comme le point culminant, juste et justifié, d’une indignation en crescendo.

Des panneaux amovibles assurent le décor de la pièce : ils s’ajustent en un instant aux sauts temporels qui séparent chaque scène, et le spectateur se laisse porter sans résistance. Seul un élément n’a de cesse d’intriguer : cette terre qui reste étalée tout au long du spectacle sur une partie du plateau. Peut-être symbolise-t-elle l’unité du sol malgré les changements de décor : une terre d’Amérique qui réunit à la fois la vie de Nina Simone, celle de ses ancêtres amérindiens, et enfin celle de milliers d’hommes et de femmes noirs, dont la naissance sur cette terre en particulier les condamne au silence et à la peur.

#David geselson #theatre #scene #spectacles #nina simone #le silence et la peur