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ixiomdraws · 6 years

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[CLOSED SPECIES]

I would like to officially introduce a creature species I've made. They arent really new since I've had them for years and posted them several times on a couple different blogs, but they were originally just one, not really a species, but I love them and i just wanted to expand on them and what they were, so here we go.

Please read under the cut for full info on budbugs.

BUDBUG is the species name, named after the original, Pillbug.

(this is Pillbug^)

Pillbug was the only of their kind, created in a lab for testing purposes, and not good ones. They were practically tortured, cut open countless times, experimented on, ect. They were made to be docile and obedient, no aggressiveness at all, to the point of almost being just a living stuffed animal.

Pillbug is quiet, and pretty much completely incapable of choosing to do anything. They will wait for someone to tell them to do something, sitting in the same spot till they starve to death. Think of the sims with free will option turned off. This is specifically Pillbug, the first and original, and does not apply to the whole species. All budbugs come from Pillbugs DNA, so, in a way, Pillbug is the mother/father to all of the others.

now onto the species:

BUDBUGS

Scientific name:Vitula mollisparva

CLOSED species

Lifespan: unknown. Oldest living budbug is 36 (human) years old.

Average height: on all fours:around 1 foot. Standing: 2 feet(bitty versions also available)

Average weight:15 pounds

Sex: Budbugs are a genderless species, and cannot reproduce. if you adopt one, you can choose any pronouns youd like to call them, they don’t care.

DIET: they can pretty much eat anything. Their diet is whatever is offered to them or available, including things like bark. They have no specific needs, but there was a recorded overall preference of fruit and sweet things. Sweet milk is the number one way to attract them. It seems to be their absolute favorite, warm or cold. They have some semi-sharp molar like teeth in the back of their mouth that they use for crushing/chewing harder materials.

YOUNG: a hatchling(called pups) will not have vision, or be able to walk. they have feeling and scent to go on, much like a puppy. they have slight hearing that comes through to them as muffled sound. they are bottle fed milk like substance and sugar water(or a mix of both) for 3-4 months.

since budbugs dont have the ability to reproduce, nor a gender, there is no mother to nurse them and is done by bottle. there is the possibility of an adult budbug attempting to nurse young, but it’s unlikely theyll produce milk in time before the young starves.(we of course have the ability to make ‘nursemaid’ parents, bottle feeding the hatchlings until their milk comes in from stimulation((e.g pups attempting to nurse on them for prolonged times))

It's best to feed them mushy like food up to 6 or 7 months old. eyes open around 2-3 weeks old, along with better hearing. they start walking shortly after, 4-6 weeks. they will follow after people or animals in a fashion similar to ducklings, seeking a bigger ‘parental’ figure to protect them and make small chirp noises.

PLANT GROWTH:

Typically has any type of plant matter growing on their head, sometimes it can trail down their back and tail or even have random patches of plant matter elsewhere. the plants that grow on them are a part of them, for instance- cutting off a flower will cause a pinkish blood drop to emerge. They don’t seem to feel the pain of cut flowers/plant matter, nor does it need to be bandaged or treated, its fairly similar to regular plants in that aspect. [note:please do NOT use a mower or weedeater on your budbug]

The plants that grow on them are similar to regular plants, but often are more 'sturdy' and a little tougher to break/cut. This can vary somewhat by the individual, some will have more fragile type plant matter that easily comes off, others may have plant matter that is thicker, rooted and more connected to them. Usually youll know depending on plant type, thicker looking stems and such are most likely more rooted and a part of them and we highly recommended not trying to pull any plant matter out/off of them.

its best to let the plant naturally die/fall off, and typically the plant doesnt overgrow to a point of causing difficulty to the budbug.

BEHAVIOR:

a common site is seeing the budbug grooming itself; licking like a cat and patting or somewhat 'pulling' on leaves or whatever plant matter they have, to shed the dead leaves, ect. If left with water, they might bathe themself, somewhat like a hamster or cat, except they dip their arms in the water instead of licking them.(if water is available)

They have horn-like nubs on their head covered in fur/felt, the horns stop growing at a certain point and then remain that way for life. Their horns have no use other than for hatching out of an egg at birth. Its extremely rare for them to be aggressive toward anything, including others of their species. They’re very sharing, and around their own kind, they will often groom each other, make soft calls, and sleep in piles.

The few aggressive ones only did some mild growl like sounds and avoid the others, most of which stopped within an hour and joined in the regular activities.

There have been no cases of any attacks or biting, whether to their own species or other animals/people.

Meeting other species, they wont typically make the same call noises as they do to each other, but will still act friendly and try to sit next to or sleep with, and even try to groom them.

They’re quiet, almost mute. They can make soft call noises and various other light toned sounds, they cant bark/moo, and even in distress or extreme pain, they typically only make soft whine noises or stay silent. they also make rumbling like sounds similar to a purr. They have a very high pain tolerance, some people might even claim they cant feel pain, but trust me, they do.

heres some similar noises they can make(budbugs sound a bit more soft though, kind of like cooing? if that makes sense)

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urgent call/trying to get attention(rare)

young/baby chirps

distress/pain call(rare)

Their arms are flipper like, though still usable as paws if needed, they prefer walking upright. their eyesight differs greatly, some excellent, some poor. If you don’t like things staring at you, this isnt the pet for you. They are very observant, watching others is probably like tv to them. smell is their best sensory, along with hearing. their fur type can vary from otter-like(waterproof) to very fine silky soft fur and many others.

Personality:

trusting, obedient, friendly, happy, quiet, patient. They will spend the majority of their time observing their surroundings or others.(some are 'lazier' than others, falling asleep instead)

Intelligence:

varies. They can learn a lot, but they typically have low functioning free will and require commands or encouragement to act on things.

As an example, we set a waterer that works similar to a fountain, needing a button to be pressed to release water for drinking. The creature sees us operate it and with mild encouragement, will press the button and drink. We leave them alone for days, and while they know how to operate the device, they do not, simply waiting.

It took several days of being completely alone before they finally activated the water by pressing the button. By their straightforward action, we could tell they knew how to operate it and it wasn't an accident. This test was ran on several others, all similar reactions. On average, only 3 out of 10 would react sooner, within 24 hours, 5 took about 3-5 days before reacting, and 2 passed out from dehydration and had to be taken to medical. (test was ran on 5 groups of 10)

Many other tests provide similar information: they typically wait for something to encourage or command them to act, even on simple survival such as food and water. If it isnt offered to them, they seem to get confused and wait for an offering, even if theyre next to a stream.

In some tests conducted, when in groups, they will follow suit after others, even of different species. e.g, one walks to a stream to drink, they follow suit to drink as well. It’s possible this is a faulty instinct of survival, watching others to drink or eat something to make sure its safe for themself, the faulty part being that even once they know a source is safe, they’ll still often wait for encouragement to engage.

thankfully, about 74% of them will get over this faulty instinct over time and regular encouragement towards a water/food spot. moving their dish or having a non-regular feeding area can cause this faulty instinct to return or worsen. it’s recommend to have a designated water and feeding spot set up for them to help them overcome that behavior.

other than that, they are extremely adept at learning commands and copying (to the best of their ability). they learn tricks incredibly easily. (e.g, roll over, sit, fetch, ect)

again, this is a CLOSED species. you do not have permission to make one of these without my consent. below are permissions if you get one- RETURNS: If you decide you do not want your budbug anymore, you can message me and I’ll take it back, either keeping it or putting it back up for adoption. but i can not and will not refund you. Which should be obvious, but just in case, i’m stating it here. PERMISSIONS: -you have complete permission to draw/write/ect of them. harm/violence/gore is allowed. I dont mind gore or sad angst stories, so whatever you want to do with them once bought, you can. However, you do not have permission to include them in anything sexual. if they’re just being the pet that watches their owners do it, like how cats sometimes do, then that’s fine. But absolutely no fucking the budbugs or other sexual activities with them. -You do not have permission to resell them or sell merchandise with them on it.

This post will be updated as needed if anything changes to their species info. Last update: 10/18/2018

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ibroughtthisonmyselfpixels · 6 years

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Let’s (5) Statistic

Here’s something else I haven’t done in a while! When I recently accidentally corrupted my old USB pen, my ‘distribution spreadsheet’ got lost in the shuffle. However, I had an earlier copy on the old laptop itself which I took to the new and I managed to update it to where I’m at now, which made me realize that I should really outline where I’m at, now that I have more Sims to show for myself than I did last time I had the chance.

I have thirty-six Sims who have been officially placed and ranked in BCs old and ongoing (the most recent of which are Rowan and Garbhan), eight who are currently making the rounds, thirty whose BCs or involvements are no longer active or otherwise dubious, and seventeen in reserve for future competitions or story-based projects. This makes ninety-one Sims in total. We’re up eighteen from our previous total of seventy-three, starting from Mollie and ending at Emery Elizabeth.

I say starting from Mollie, but Daw was made literal years ago, between Hopkin and Cordelia and thus before her. Since one is technically only ‘new’ in the sense one is only now being acknowledged in the spreadsheets, though, this makes Mollie the oldest Completely New.

Further, Tania is still not included in the reserves as she too is currently much too dubious. I do still have her .sim file, fortune of fortunes, but she may need a makeover when all is said and done.

Special Snowflake Status (newcomers go here to see why I call them that) has become a little more difficult to determine in recent weeks, what with all the ‘sorta’s, ‘?’s and ‘unknowns’ in various categories. However, counting only Yesses and Nos in the categories of transness, queerness, and disability, we have thirty-six special snowflakes, twenty-nine that nearly count, fourteen that barely count, and twelve that do not count. As before, though, only the four listed last time are completely devoid of snowflakeness.

Of the ninety-one, forty-four are designated as male in-game, while forty-five are designated as female, and Alex and Eun are still their own thing. That’s nine new DMACs and nine new DFACs. You see why I left it now?

To say that none of the new arrivals are cis, as last time... would honestly be a lie. Though I haven’t released him yet, Max Uccello is the first Sim I’ve made deliberately cis for a very long time. Angel gets away with it by virtue of being cis in life and non-cis in death, much like Madison; Angel’s brother, not so much.

And honestly, a case could be argued for Rowan as well (though I’ve still pegged him as non-cis until he confirms otherwise) - though he is stated to be exploring, it’s never stated what to, and he still uses he/him/his pronouns with no statement of alternative or demiguy justification, so he could fall on either side of the fence. I’ve also opted to solidify Peter as cis rather than demi after all as I pondered in the last statistics, since he was made before the boycott, and trans vloggers are rare to non-existent. (There are still two older unreleaseds who I’m uncertain about, though, Butch and another one; they can keep the side up.)

Twenty-nine cis Sims, therefore, out of ninety-one accounts for 31.9% of my contestants... or, put another way, 68.1% of my Sims are un-cis. A very good standard.

Using the same ratio of types of pronoun sets as last time, and excluding Butch and Angel, twenty-one of my non-cis Sims use entirely standard sets (she and he), nineteen combine standard with non-standard sets (including omnipronoun Sims); and twenty use entirely non-standard sets (including none at all - can’t remember if I counted Jake as combined or non-standard last time). Moving ‘they’ to be part of the standard sets, those numbers become twenty-eight, eighteen and fourteen respectively. My non-cis Sims encompass twenty-five unique pronoun sets, including those standards.

Sixty-seven Sims are confirmed to be on the LGBTQ+ spectrum through either sexuality or gender identity (Max is bisexual); fourteen more are assumed to be through any category; Butch and Xyq are unknown. The fourteen includes Rowan again, who is perpetually uncertain in both categories except for liking Nathaniel. That’s a range of sixty-seven to eighty-three of my ninety-one contestants - 73.6% to 91.2%.

Myron remains the only Sim I have ever had to have been killed specifically for being on the spectrum.

Sixty-one of the eighty-nine, or 67%, are disabled. Thirty of those forty-five have at least one mental disability; sixteen have a physical one; four have both; eleven are hidden.

The only News not to have a disability at this time are Mollie (lacking the schizophrenia of her sisters), Avdotya, and one other. However, the latter two are in similar circumstances to Skylar in that they are only placed there on a temporary basis, until more of their character can come through to me.

Racheal, The Cheat, Moira, Anissa Alea, Gideon and Max join the Mental category; Rowan and Garbhan the Physical category on account of their HIV status. Emery Elizabeth is also in Physical due to her disease-induced lower paralysis, as is Angel, on account of it was a different disease that killed her. Admittedly, I’m not sure which diseases affected which of the latter two... can one still get polio in this day and age?

The Distortionist (who I still count as a contestant despite earlier and later plans for mih) joins the Both category for reasons that will become clear - as does Peter of all people, who revealed something to me that, if you haven’t worked it out already from history repeating itself, I can’t tell you just yet.

Yori, Doireann, Osamu and Daw join the Hidden category. Being A Rhesus-Negative isn’t technically a disability for Yori per se, though it does make things damned inconvenient, and their dependency on Megumi is quite hard to define as anything in particular at this stage. Doireann has memory issues and difficulty with language, but this is in part tied to occult status, or at least to being feral. Osamu, meanwhile, is plagued by constant intrusive thoughts about his own death, but no real diagnosis can be made at this point as to what is the cause; Daw’s circumstances for one’s dissociation are similarly vague, though at least this can be narrowed down to either Depersonalization Disorder or Other Specified Dissociative Disorder.

I have twenty CAS-intended Supernaturals out of eighty-nine. No additional witches, but we have gained a Moonpup, a vampire, a pure mermaid, a fairy, and my very first pre-project/Folkvangr ghost. Guess which is which. Mollie and Auribus are the only two to have recently become Death-induced Ghosts. Gideon may become a legitimate occult further down the road, though?

Thirty-seven Vanilla Sims, eight van/ban cusps (due to either ambiguously vibrant hair color or it simply being dyed), seven Banilla, two ban/berry cusps (again, guess who and how), and thirty-seven Berry. At least this one, I’m exactly split down the middle!

Believe it or not, some of my news are still only going for two pieces of CC instead of three, at a six-eleven split in favor of three. It works in the favor of the Eklund girls for once that they have two bits each, and of Daw that he has only one, or else three would have completely dominated this sector. As it is, twenty-nine Sims total have two bits, twenty-two one-bit, and twenty-four three-bit. Castor’s still the only one with 1.5 bits, and Vanilla still the only one with four.

Admittedly, though, if we’re going to be technical, Osamu has 3.5? Sort of? His hair is an in-game hair in a package form that makes it acceptable for use on DMAC rigs, so sort of CC but not really. He’s still counted in three for categorization purposes.

Same with Emery Elizabeth; ze uses a wheelchair, but all the wheelchairs I’ve seen are downloadable objects that can be integrated separately as a prop as opposed to attached to the .sim file.

Lyra is also considered to have three, as opposed to the like five or six she has in SoS; but that’s solely because in all regards but name and gender, she is being categorized as the pre-transition state that Placed Competitors keeps her as. With that said, though: do you think I should take “Rigel”’s download link down? With her going in for surgery now, the last unwanted aspects of “him” ought to be wiped away completely; I’ve only been keeping it around to ensure every Sim that’s public has a download link, but is that actually helping anybody? Lissa has suggested that I just update the DL link with her new design like I did with Sera, but is that a viable solution, do you think, or will it just make things worse, given she’s a bachelorette?

Unbelievably, I’m evens on As, Cs and Ss with regards to first names right now - eleven each! I’ve finally added not one, but two Gs to my roster, Garbhan and Gideon.

Note: at time of configuration, The Distortionist, the exception, and Emery Elizabeth do not have traits. I will probably wait until I know for sure I need them before assigning any to these three, so I don’t end up pigeon-holing myself. So going forward, know that I’m technically three Sims short from a complete picture.

With that said, as things currently stand, I’ve used: six traits once; seven twice; seventeen three times; twenty-three four times; twenty five times; eleven six times; five seven times; seven eight times; and two traits NINE times.

My most frequently used traits are Hot-Headed - Castor, Cashlin, Sprite, Racheal, The Cheat, Dalibor, Betty, Al, and Butch, with Racheal and The Cheat being the ones to take it to nine - and Hopeless Romantic - Madison, Daisy, Doireann, Moira, Pumpkin, SLIP, Elliot, Joe, and Osamu, with Doireann, Moira and Osamu being the boosters here.

Traits used eight times are Coward, Family-Oriented, Flirty, Friendly, Loner, Proper, and Snob. Of these seven, only Snob hasn’t been used among the newcomers; the rest have been boosted at least once, with Family-Oriented being boosted by three (Yori, Daw, and Angel).

Maybe that’s a trait I can give The Distortionist or Emery Elizabeth: Snob. Gotta do it for completionist’s sake, you know?

Cat Person and Grumpy have also been taken up by three each - Racheal, Max, and Angel for the former; Yori, Gideon, and Angel for the latter.

Percy, Casey-Mae, Octavio, SLIP, Lyra and Butch are the only ones to still have unique traits. Elanor has lost Commitment Issues to Max; Cree, Hydrophobic to Daw; and Riba and Elliot have both lost Equestrian and Heavy Sleeper to Avdotya.

The Sim with the ‘most unique’ / ‘rarest’ trait distribution is still Cree; their traits have been used a total of sixteen times across themselves and all the others, and the majority of xer traits still haven’t been used more than three times. (Hell, with Al being so obscure, Party Animal might as well be a unique trait... maybe I can give someone that too.) Conversely, the Sim with the traits who have had the most use among my set is Yori. Even their least used traits, Bookworm and Brooding, have both seen six uses total including them.

All in all, including every single repeat, my contestants share a grand total of 438 traits between them. Once the other three get traits, this will jump up to 453.

The fifth place squad has gained three members since my initially coining the term: Sera, Octavio, and Rowan. All three join the ‘Nearly’ Special Snowflake sector - Sera due to being cis, Rowan due to maybe being cis, and Octavio due to only sorta being disabled.

There’s an equal number of DMACs and DFACs in the group, though still only two are “properly” cis, Lila and Sera. Occults are a four-to-six split, with two more murder ghosts; coloration is a little more even with four berries, three vanillas, two banillas, and a van-ban cusp in Rowan.

Cashlin is once again the only one of the ten to not be disabled in any sense.

Four of the ten have one piece of CC; four two, one three, and one 1.5. All three of the newcomers bring custom hair to the table. It should also be noted that besides Madison, Cree now shares thon hair-skin-eyes configuration with The Distortionist.

Daredevil has seen the most uses among the squad, for Twink, Cree, and Rowan. Those with two uses are Computer Whiz (Midnight and Sera), Diva (Castor and Myron), Hot-Headed (Castor and Cashlin), Loves the Heat (Stellan and Rowan), Natural Cook (Lilavati and Myron), Nurturing (Stellan and Sera), and Perfectionsist (Myron and Octavio). Castor and Myron have the most traits repeated among the group [3]; Cashlin, Cree, Lilavati, Midnight, and Octavio, the least [1].

I haven’t had any breakfast yet. I’d better go do that, then get some Interviews Done Finally.

#facts and statistics #long post #what's an evil version of a blep? a blee?#it's a blee

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