appreciation post for beastmen anatomy
penile spines
“many mammalian species have developed keratinized penile spines along the glans and/or shaft.”
“felines, especially domestic cats, are well known for having penile spines. Upon withdrawal of a cat's penis, the spines rake the walls of the female's vagina, which may serve as a trigger for ovulation”
“Like those of other cats, the male lion's penis has spines that point backward.”
i love anatomy so much! leona having a spiky dick brings me immense joy!
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Oscars 2024 winners:
Best Picture – Oppenheimer
Best Actress in a Leading Role – Emma Stone, Poor Things
Best Directing – Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Best Actor in a Leading Role – Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Best Original Song – “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, Barbie
Best Original Score – Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Best Sound – Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn, The Zone of Interest
Best Live Action Short Film – The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Best Cinematography – Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Best Documentary Feature Film – 20 Days in Mariupol
Best Documentary Short Film – The Last Repair Shop
Best Film Editing – Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Best Visual Effects – Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima, Godzilla Minus One
Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Best International Feature Film – The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)
Best Costume Design – Holly Waddington, Poor Things
Best Production Design – Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek, Poor Things
Best Makeup and Hairstyling – Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston, Poor Things
Best Adapted Screenplay – Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Best Original Screenplay – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
Best Animated Feature – The Boy and the Heron
Best Animated Short Film – War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
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I was reading back through the comic and noticed that sans and papyrus’s blaster face markings look like gasters, and I was curious is that was intentional or not
Ah, do you mean the split in their snouts? They don't really have markings, so that's the only thing I can think of...
If so, then.... kind of? In a roundabout way, due to headcanons XD
See, sans' blaster is just based on the sprite from the game, so I can't take any credit for that. But in designing papyrus' blaster, I looked at both sans' blaster and the other skull-based object in the game: the DT extraction machine. It has a long split going up between the eye sockets like the original gaster blaster, but the gap also continues through the tip of the snout. It's this part of the design I referenced for papyrus' blaster! It has the excellent effect of making the shape of the attack's nose look like both a heart, and half of a cartoony bone, which feels extremely fitting, while also giving it the uncanny anatomy the original blaster and the DT extraction machine both have.
Where the connection with gaster comes in is that I headcanon that Gaster's blasters (lol) look like the DT extraction machine, because he based the machine's form on his attacks.
So I didn't directly reference gaster himself, but the link is there. :>
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"You opened the box. Now you get to lie in it. You don’t get to dissect, take out what you want, and tell me to hand over his heart. It's a package deal. So open your fucking eyes. Stop barking orders at your dog. And listen."
— Chapter 7: Nothing, Beasts of Burden, by @quarlyle
Now tell me what's so good about picking up the pieces, what if we don't even want to?
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the other day I had the thought that since human babies are largely unimpressive at birth given their incomplete development at that stage in life in order to fit through the birth canal, perhaps the ability of elves to speak at birth despite similar anatomy (as far as we know) indicated a smaller brain that would be able to complete development in utero without causing birth complications. in which case, a smaller brain could correlate with lower intellectual capabilities, and could that mean they actually weren't smarter than humans after all? or did it indicate an entirely different aspect of their development, such as greater concentrated brain capacity, giving more computing power in the same mass? what allows for such cognitive development at birth while not doing the same for physical development (presumably)?
I was very articulate in making note of this thought in my drafts:
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