#steven's biology

[cressidium]

Arandaspis in Life on Our Planet (2023)

#life on our planet #arandaspis #marine biology #biology #netflixedit #steven spielberg #paleontology #paleoblr #paleomedia #prehistoric #prehistoric animals #dinosauredit #animalsedit #documentary #documentaryedit #natureedit #tvedit #gif #*

[djsadbean]

Art trade with @turtletoria !!!!

Thinking about Steven enjoying himself post villain era. Also thinking about how maybe he goes back to the warehouse to check on the mousie population and there’s more and more greenery every time he visits. Also he’s a NERD he likes to read :] the only person who checks out more books than him is this random little girl named Becky Botsford

#AUGH hes so cute #he has such high school biology teacher vibes #the kind where he has a million class pets that are living lives of luxury #genuinely one of my favorite portrays of Steven #my-art #art #wordgirl #steven boxleitner #fanart

[mc-survivalist-steven]

I've been thinking and thinking. Call me a researcher or just a stranger. And something's been gnawing on my mind.

I didn't know Herobrines could reproduce let alone be female. There's an overabundance in males and females are a rarity from my observation. That is such an odd thing. Not to mention that Herobrines don't really- reproduce. Of course with exceptions, but the cases I know do it rather traditionally.

Your mother- (likely a brine all the same - as you describe yourself one too) Your mother produced children by spreading spores of some kind. Some parts of herself I guess. A power to mend into the elements and create another living being in such a way is baffling.

To get to the point and my actual question.

I've been pondering- spreading Herobrine offspring on such a wide scale (as you mentioned you had plenty of siblings) and seemingly not weakening herself if she could do that en mass. Maybe it's less of making more Brines from herself but something more akin to Brine-Spawns. (like vampire-spawns- a weaker kind of vampire sprung from a true one)

With that odd thought- you are the child of a Herobrine, but not a full brine yourself? Do you think that is kinda true?

Brines are such a rarity, your mother releasing tousands of offspring into the world and them being true Brines seems a little unreasonable.

Of course I may be mistaken as every elusive indivitual of a brine works different than the next. Maybe you and your "species" aren't actual brines by many a definition from each their own flaws.

Ah..... I've been talking a lot. What do you think about this whole- thing? Maybe you know more than I do. Probably.

#whoever you are this ask makes my day thanks for being a champ and i hope my answer does it justice!! #mcss #mcaskblog #herobrine #steven #sigma #lore #somewhat ooc? #SORRY FOR NERDING OUT THIS POST PROBABLY MAKES LITTLE SENSE BUT I FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT THIS THING #basically I have crazy imagination and i thought of all this lore that i didnt use because it's a little too... nonsensical #also the scope got way too big #and im not that invested to the story to dedicate my time and make a shonen comic outta it #plus Mother is a triggering character and i dont want this blog to get too depressing #so theres a lot of lore setups but no payoffs IM SO SORRY #but i think blog's already p lore biology heavy as it is so this is all yalls gonna get #before it gets even more confusing #Steven is an alien's kid!! congrats!! :D

[tiredtransalien]

The speculative biology of crystal gems

So i dont know why i thought this but this randomly popped into my head but i was wondering how crystal gems from steven universe work on a biological level and so i got a theory to share. As we know the crystal gems form is just a physical hologram that can be touched and touch things, And that the crystal gems themselves are their gems, Now i also read all tomorrows and so of course i bet you can see where this is going. So what if the crystal gems are like the gravitals, so basically the crystal gems in my theory are almost microscopic organisms that once born are put into a casing (gem), and that the injectors (which intentionally look like bacteriophage that inject dna into bodies) inject crystal gems into earth and perhaps thats their form of asexual reproduction, them birthing a gem and encasing it while injecting it into a planet to absorb organic material to make up their hologram.

#speculative biology #spec evo #alien species #alien #media theory #media analysis #xenobiology #alien biology #speculative evolution #sophont #steven universe #crystal gems #su future #cartoon #cartoon analysis

[entrapta27]

Today in biology class at school, we learned about bacteriophages, which are the viruses that infect bacterial cells, but what is more important is the picture of their structure

they look just like the kindergarten probes from Steven Universe

and even their way of working is the same, which I think is very cool and I just decided to share it !

#steven universe #biology #school #rebecca sugar

[puddleorganism]

Alright. So while we’re all thinking about Steven Universe again I wanna talk about something I’ve been thinking about for a while

I don’t like that the gems are human-shaped. Like, I get why they are from a design standpoint - and specifically as a children’s show. I don’t even dislike the designs! I just. Am insane about speculative biology and aliens. I would like them to be weirder. So I will make them weirder

(Now, take this whole thing with a grain of salt because it has been a very long time since I’ve actually watched Steven Universe and a lot of the lore is a bit fuzzy to me.)

Ok! Disclaimers aside, let’s get into it!

So, (if I’m remembering right) there are three key facts pertaining to the appearance of gems:

Gems’ physical bodies are projections of/from their gems.

These projections are heavily influenced by their mental state and identity, and are capable of not only being subconsciously influenced, but also consciously influenced.

Gems are capable of extremely accurate mimicry.

This means their appearance could basically be anything.

Homeworld gems tend to have elaborate, inorganic crystalline forms. Especially in high-ranking gems, there’s a lot of posturing involved. Their forms are just barely even function, capable of completing the tasks they were assigned and all else dedicated to looking pretty and complicated and wholly inorganic.

Gems created in kindergartens would be the exact opposite, especially when they first crawled out of the ground. Their forms would be built to dig and… not really anything else at first. As they get older they become more specialized, their bodies evolving to suit their assignments - and eventually adding whatever personal flair they can get away with (which really isn’t much). This is why gems of the same type tend to look nearly identical.

It’s also possible for - and actually likely that they would mimic things that they really like, or otherwise had a great influence on them. Friends may begin to look like twins over time. Curious kindergartners may look like some strange life form that caught their eye, before they learned it was a very bad idea to express any sort of affection for such beasts. Lapises and aquamarines often look like living water.

It makes sense, then, that the Crystal Gems looked like humans. But what if they didn’t? What if they looked like tigers or herons? Flowers or frogs? Isopods, trees, squid, extinct megafauna, or any of the incredible, bizarre organisms that shared Earth with them!

This is also why I think corrupted gems look the way they do; animalistic and strange, that is. They don’t know what they’re supposed to look like. They hardly know who they are. How are they supposed to make themselves a form with no knowledge of themself? Well, mimicry. They mimicked the creatures they saw on Earth, but not super well because honestly perfect mimicry isn’t really what they were going for anyway.

Now, imagine if you could pick anything, anything at all, what you would look like. Imagine a gem who looks like their mental picture of a strange creature from an old myth. Imagine a gem that looks like an ever-flowing sheet of rain. Imagine a gem that looks like a miniature nebula. Imagine a gem that looks like a waveform of their favorite song. Imagine a gem that looks like a sunset in a storm cloud. Imagine a gem that’s an amalgam of all they’ve ever loved - people, creatures, places, things.

So, yeah. More fucked up gems please

#I’m probably gonna draw them later #this is technically inspired by gemyct but I don’t think I should tag it because it’s not explicitly about that #steven universe #steven universe au #speculative biology #? kind of

[bodyhorrorbeatdown]

Body Horror Beatdown, Match 12, Round 1

Vote for your favorite:

Propaganda under the cut.

Bad Biology: A godawful love story.

"is this a good film? debatable. should it win? maybe not. but it's a film that you can't really say much about, but it will shock you. for better or for worse. funniest horrible film that i love showing people."

The Void:

There is a Hell. This is worse.

"some SERIOUSLY fucked up eternal torture going on in a few scenes in this movie. It's not the central point of the movie but the sheer horror of it and the incredible effects really really stand out."

#bodyhorrorbeatdown #body horror beatdown #gore #body horror #round 1 #polls #bad biology #bad biology 2008 #the void #the void 2016 #frank henenlotter #jeremy gillespie #steven kostanski

[quotesfrommyreading]

Waste recycling is a crucial attribute of the earth's most diverse ecosystems. We value tropical rain forests because they squander so little of the energy supplied by the sun, thanks to their vast, interlocked system of organisms exploiting every tiny niche of the nutrient cycle. The cherished diversity of the rain-forest ecosystem is not just a quaint case of biological multiculturalism. The diversity of the system is precisely why rain forests do such a brilliant job of capturing the energy that flows through them: one organism captures a certain amount of energy, but in processing that energy, it generates waste. In an efficient system, that waste becomes a new source of energy for another creature in the chain. (That efficiency is one of the reasons why clearing the rain forests is such a shortsighted move: the nutrient cycles in their ecosystems are so tigh that the soil is usually very poor for farming: all the available energy has been captured on its way down to the forest floor.)

Coral reefs display a comparable knack for waste management. Corals live in a symbiotic alliance with a tiny algae called zooxanthellae. Thanks to photosynthesis, the algae capture sunlight and use it to turn carbon dioxide into organic carbon, with oxygen as a waste product of the process. The coral then uses the oxygen in its own metabolic cycle. Because we're aerobic creatures ourselves, we tend not to think of oxygen as a waste product, but from the point of view of the algae, that's precisely what it is: a useless substance discharged as part of its metabolic cycle. The coral itself produces waste in the form of carbon dioxide, nitrates, and phosphates, all of which help the algae to grow. That tight waste-recycling chain is one of the primary reasons coral reefs are able to support such a dense and diverse population of creatures, despite residing in tropical waters, which are generally nutrient-poor. They are the cities of the sea.

 —  The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (Steven Johnson)

#book quotes #steven johnson #the ghost map #the ghost map: the story of london's most terrifying epidemic - and how it changed science cities and the modern world #science #ecology #environmentalism #botany #microbiology #marine biology #zoology #chemistry #biology #cell biology #energy #recycling #rain forests #coral reefs #coral #zooxanthellae #photosynthesis

[ocean-empire-ask]

What are the gods each based on?

Ahah! This whole this started because of Steven universe.

And the how much I adore marine biology in general.

#ask blog #drawing #marine biology #oc ask blog #oc asks #asks open #oc ask #ocean gods #ocean empire #deep ocean #deep sea #steven universe #the diamonds #white diamond #yellow diamond #blue diamond #pink diamond #gem galaxies #gemstone #my ocs #my oc art #oc art #ooc post #ooc #out of character. #digital art #traditional art #ocean life #steven universe future #crystal gems

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)

12/03/2024

Jaws is a 1975 film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that kills swimmers on Amity Island, prompting the local police chief to try to kill it with the help of a marine biologist and a shark hunter. The film stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shart hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as the mayor of Amity Island and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife Ellen. The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the screenplay during production.

Filmed mostly on location on Martha's Vineyard, Jaws was the first major motion picture shot offshore and, as a result, had a troubled production, exceeding its budget and schedule. Because the mechanical sharks created by the art department malfunctioned, Spielberg decided, in many scenes, to merely suggest the shark's presence, employing a menacing theme created by composer John Williams to indicate its approach.

Jaws was the prototype of the summer blockbuster and is considered a watershed in the history of cinema. Its release was considered a turning point in the history of cinema and the advent of the New Hollywood.

The film was released in US theaters on June 20, 1975. Generally well received by critics, Jaws became the highest-grossing film in history, and remained so until the release of Star Wars (1977). It won three Oscars for editing, sound and soundtrack for John Williams, as well as consecrating the fame of Steven Spielberg, then a little-known director aged just 28, and is often cited as one of the best films of all time. It was followed by three sequels, none of which featured Spielberg or Benchley, and many knockoff thrillers.

In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in forty-eight place in the list of the 100 best American films of all time, while in 2007 it dropped to fifty-sixth place. In 2001, Jaws was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

In the seaside town of Amity Island (New England), a young woman leaves a late-night beach party to go for a swim, but while out at sea she is viciously attacked and dragged underwater by something. After the medical examiner concludes that it may be a shark attack, newly hired police chief Martin Brody wants to close the beaches, but Mayor Larry Vaughn convinces him to reconsider, fearing that the town's summer economy will suffer.

#jaws #film #1975 #steven spielberg #peter benchley #great white shark #marine biology #roy scheider #richard dreyfuss #robert shaw #Murray Hamilton #lorraine gary #Carl Gottlieb #martha's vineyard #john williams #blockbuster #new hollywood #List of highest grossing films #star wars #academy awards #American Film Institute #AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies #library of congress #national film registry #Isola di Amity #new england #Medical jurisprudence #shark attack #martin brody #mayor

[cressidium]

Gorgonopsid in Life on Our Planet (2023)

#life on our planet #gorgonopsid #netflixedit #steven spielberg #paleontology #paleoblr #paleomedia #prehistoric #prehistoric animals #dinosaur #dinosaurs #dinosauredit #animalsedit #documentary #documentaryedit #natureedit #tvedit #biology #gif #*

[weedle-testaburger]

the two genders

#personal crap #amphibia #anne boonchuy #steven universe #su steven #i had to get this in before the finale tomorrow #sorry but pink is a BOY'S colour and blue is a GIRL'S colour that's just biology!

[tama1313]

If I had to create a gem species like in Steven Universe and Houseki No Kuni (I know, I know. But as a MADD, a mineralogy nerd and a huge fan of both series, I want for once to pacify this little whimp of mine), I'd probably make them live in a cave/underground enviroment. Their cities would be build underground an their houses/room, inside cave corners.

A town of Minerals (the species' actual name) is called a Colony and it's not lead by the ones whos "gem-core" (the irl gem who matches their biology/appearences) has the strongest hardness on Moth's scale. They are chosen on reliability and empathy/simpathy and other factors.

A baby mineral is called a geode and a group of minerals is called a cluster

While I still like this species to look a bit more humanoid, they wouldn't look just like colorful people! I want to give them some features that distances them a bit from our fav gems: what about something like horns (perhaps made out of crystals??) And crystal grows over their bodies? Maybe a tail??

These mineral-people aren't actually made out of pure gemstone. They are called "rock elementals" for their biological structure: their blood, flesh and other bodly parts share the same chemical composition of IRL gems (a citrine quartz have both silicius and steel in their body).

This determines a few factors: the blood/flesh/skin/irises and other features' colors who are very close to match the irl gem, and also some health-related things (Mineral whose "gem-core" is colorless such as phantom quartz or goshenite would be very sensitive to the sun-light, like albino creatures, because there are not impurities that colors their skin. For example, a "Sapphire-person" would get bluer if they get a sunburn).

Also, there can be metal-cores too but they are rare. Metals can be born from two minerals who have a gem-core (and this usually happens because the metallic impurities in their body are commoner than the other rock impurities), or can be born from a metal and gem couple

Also Minerals are not immortals!!

Their life lenght depends on many factors, but they get old and die like any other living being (I'd like to think that the type of gem-core is a factor on the duration of the mineral)

Speaking about gem-core, Minerals are not named after that ofc (it can works as a nickname such as Dora for a Labradorite, but most of the time the name is not linked to the irl gem)

And that's it prettu much...

What do you think about it? Feel free to let your questions in the ask box

And any suggestion is more than welcome!

#one last thing: #in both SU and HNK gems are also asexuated and genderless #which is something very valid and I do respect a lot #but to not make my species too close from those series I decided the minerals here are not asexuated and can have any gender #the biological sex part isn't relevant actually #There are also two words to describe the different sexes: gems are for females and crystals are for males #I just wanted to specify #I hope this isn't an issue #it's just that I have this stupid obsession to make everything as furthest as possible #also they do eat and sleep like any other living being #Tama's thought #original species #original character #oc #minerals #mineralogy #fictional biology #steven universe #houseki no kuni #also this should be obvious but I'm not gonna publicise any of this outside the internet #unlike my other projects this is very clearly inspired by those two medias and I don't want to get any money #this is just for purely fun! #maladaptive daydreaming #paracosm #fan paracosm #madd #actually madd

[moider-time]

Jake: I used to drink pond water as a kid.

Marc:

Steven: W-what?

Jake: *shrugs* You know when you're on a walk and you get thirsty, like what else are you supposed to do?

Marc: GO GET NORMAL WATER??!

Steven: *in shock* Pond water has been in my mouth....

#moon knight #moon knight 2022 #moon knight incorrect quotes #incorrect marvel quotes #marvel incorrect quotes #steven grant #marc spector #jake lockley #based on what a girl said to me today in biology class

[sagesilentfire]

Happy genderfluid pride! This is Jengu, a mermaid, or rather Merfalania, from a water world in a distant solar system. And yes, she's genderfluid.

This year I'm doing character paintings in the colors of (one of) their pride flags. Feel free to suggest a character and headcanon from any of the tagged fandoms, or just a random flag and I'll find one that fits. I'm a slow artist, but I'll try to get to everyone. I will not draw non-queers this is the one month out of twelve we have to ourselves, shove off.

Or 🥹 you could ask for one of my characters... i only have one (1) cishet guy... WoF 1, WoF 2 (i have so many wof guys), Original Work, FR

#let's see... #the magnus archives #wings of fire #flight rising #the owl house #steven universe #idk #tma #speculative biology #speculative evolution #ops #other people's stories #art #artists on tumblr #toh #wof

[yourplaceinaugust]

the poets as things me and my friends have said pt 2

cameron: "i think they should make a karate kid type movie where some guy teaches a kid to fight using the power of trigonometry yknow?"

meeks: "sorry what did you say? i was thinking about dolphins"

#dead poets society #richard cameron #steven meeks #rn I can't actually remember what career meeks was going into #but in my heart he is a biology nerd #but not like a human biology nerd #more like a plant animal fungi nerd #(yes i know technically humans are animals but shhh)