#creature rankings

[crevicedwelling]

rank five bugs uou can see from where you're sitting

Alfonso (Phrynus whitei) - he’s my son. you too congratulate him on his recent molt.

Rank: Skittering-Prince of the High Earth, Twice-bejewled

Nauphoeta cinerea: a common knave who did shit upon my hand but spared me the usual bile-expulsions. gracious I suppose

Rank: Gnawer of Filth (Greater)

Scolopendra dehaani pedeling: chaos

Rank: Great Crawler of the Lower Earth

Pink mutant Porcellio scaber: a goodly beast and one I’m proud to have produced

Rank: Gnawer of Filth (Greater)

random springtail: *nods back*

Rank: Gnawer of Filth (Lesser)

#bugs #creature rankings

[chikkenhawke]

watch that little fella go 🏃‍♂️

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #owlbear #owlbear cub #dnd #dungeons and dragons #animation #run cycle #chicken scribbles #ranked top 5 funky little creatures i would take home #HAD TO REUPLOAD lol

[abrahamvanhelsings]

crozier being kidnapped and telling goodsir not to worry because edward will be there on the morrow, completely sure of it, like it's inevitable. edward in fact immediately going to rally the men to get crozier back and finding they held a vote without him and it's been decided they'll leave without crozier (and without the sick). edward having the choice between being left alone with no chance at crozier's rescue or his own survival, or taking up his duty and leading the men onward. crozier in hickey's camp believing in edward's sense of loyalty and edward not showing up, not knowing how edward fought for him. crozier showing up at the final camp seeing edward mutilated but alive like he told him to, only to die. thinking about edward's absolute sense of loyalty to his captain and duty towards the men tearing him apart and it never saves anyone

#crozier thinking edward left him behind kills me #out there with jopson dying thinking crozier left him behind. things that will haunt me forever #the terror #was having lunch with colleagues (media scholars) who were discussing oscar nominated films #but i was silent for the whole of it bc i was sitting there like *autism creature* <- full of terror thoughts #imagine watching anything else. lmao. not me for the coming three months at the very least #im about to write another post abt edward's loyalty to crozier and how that's both a strength and a flaw in fact #also thinking abt le vesconte holding that vote bc like... w/o crozier edward is ranking #like the hierarchy is in shambles but the vestiges of it are still there #something so insidious abt making sure the men are united in their decision against edward bc dundy Knows what edward would want #and it isn't to leave. so he takes away the option entirely #im not saying this is completely evil. dundy is also acting in a way that he thinks will save the most men (i.e. cutting out the weak links #and not embarking on some desperate rescue mission #but it is so underhanded still #edward little

[hollymacycomic]

Holly & Macy and Everyone Else

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#original character #oc art #oc artist #webcomic artist #webcomic update #webcomic page #character story #drama webcomic #narrative art #I'll bury a little personal thing here in the tags 4 myself and 4 you who reads it: #the 'game' or whatever you'd call it where Eli picks Macy up and spins and throws her back on the bed is brought to you by my memory of #my dad doing the same thing with me #he would pick me up off the couch and carry me all the way upstairs with me hanging upside down and then toss me in the air and onto my bed #I loved this soooo so so much. from what I remember he did this up until the point I was too big for him to carry anymore. #which took a few years longer than you might expect because I was (and am) a very tiny creature. #It is probably one of the top three things I miss about my dad. although I don't really rank stuff like that. I love him and I love that he #was the type of person to do that sort of thing. <3

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

I need the 12 year old Rangi with her mother lore dropped like yesterday FC Yee. Don't leave me hanging. TT0TT

#rangi #rangi sei'naka #rangi seinaka #hei-ran #hei-ran sei'naka #hei-ran seinaka #please theyre so funny TT0TT #is it because she didn't have military rank until rangi was like 14 or something???? jfdkls;jfa #i'll take like 8 fics of them bickering please #screw it spoilers #shadow of kyoshi spoilers #shadow of kyoshi #i know i talked about this before but that was my first read through! TT0TT I'm taking a second look! #i have more thoughts now! #did rangi go on travels with Yun before? i feel like she must've once or twice #she mentions going to other places in the earth kingdom #i need to know #did hei-ran not give her shit during that time? (she must've) #i need a series of rangi/hei-ran travels pre Yun and during yun kaljsfdlkjafsakf #rangi must've graduated at like 12/13 and then finished the junior corps at like 13/14 then she meets yun/kyoshi #wait where does Rangi/Hei-ran sleep? Kyoshi lives in the estate #do they not live in the estate? #please tell me Rangi/Hei-Ran are on an indefinite camping trip in a tent right outside the estate TT0TT #please that'd be so funny akljdfskjf;a #it'd explain how Kyoshi had never seen Rangi in normal attire too fkdasjdflf;k #please I need Rangi/Hei-Ran to be just such CREATURES! #ok ok last post for awhile #(don't mind the random meta/analysis in the tags on the pre Kyoshi novel events TT0TT)

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

when dodie said isnt it weird to be so mean im guessing that ive grown horns i guess im human no more i can tell ive rotted in your brain oh how easily passion twists you think im a crazy bitch that's it that's the post

#so maybe i will talk to you the only way i know how to #ive said my speech through sharpened teeth #well this ends bad then--we knew it would #look- we know that I've seen this before. high and mighty at the top of your list adoring every move now my rank is sinking #but we're both guilty of black and white thinking #two ugly creatures two sinister preachers. blind to the past like a couple of monsters

[in-flvx]

How does Sirius feel about the muggle space travel!!!!!!!!!!

He is utterly fascinated by it!

Before he is able to read, even before his birth, there have been dogs and people floating around on their way to the stars. Whenever he is out of gp12, Sirius then goes to read about the space race in muggle newspapers. At home, his parents talk about it often, of the political aspect of it. About how to use the technological progress as a tool to devide the muggles and wix further. They meet juri gagarin in Russia when Sirius is 7yo, in St Petersburg, and Sirius is allowed to ask him a few questions. Sirius breaks out from home in 1969, to go out and watch the moon landing through the window of a TV store. It's what inspires him to learn more about technology, and about muggle astronomy. Let's him see the world in new ways he hadn't considered before.

And his parents don't like that. Their early talk about how to use space travel as propaganda against muggles has turned into them believing their own propaganda. Walburga became more and more disgusted by muggles and the filth they bring everywhere. Orion has already had tendencies to paranoia, but it only gets worse throughout the cold war. They have to sell their last two country estates over the duration of the 60s, and that alone fills them with so much shame and humiliation that they need a scapegoat. Muggles are a good first step. And their muggle lover son the next.

Anyway... When Sirius comes to school, he meets a boy who never looks at the night sky, who avoids it like the plague. Who knows just about every fact there is to know about the stars, but nothing about the moon. And he teaches him then. About space travel. About the men on the moon. Is able to take some of the fear off his friends shoulders. Bc if there's muggles who can just walk around on the moon no problem, it can't be all that magical and dangerous, can it?

#sirius black #Bat tag #I hope this makes sense #But imo the higher pureblood families would be well connected both to muggles and to other magical creatures #They make propaganda for other pureblood families #And for the muggle borns and half bloods in their ranks

[longnecklupin]

yes

srb2 styled chatty drum 4 @chattiestdrum

#worlc’s most terribying creature ranked from 40 states

[spotsupstuff]

the memories and feelings of her interests and relationships like that prolly wouldn't survive in a lizard brain (n also all those lives she'd have to go thru before falling low enough to become Lizor), unfortunately 😔 maybe she'd be a curious kind of lil fella though n would go explore around a lot!

#Spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #the creatures position in the incarnation ladder depends on their sentience n sapience instead of place in the food chain #so she would first need to go thru the social ranks of creatures like the scavs n slugcats before gettin to lizards

[spidersunday]

really bad hilda character tier list

(making a separate tier for evil children was so smart of me i have the mind of a mastermind) (link to the tier list maker)

#severin.txt #don't ask why gil and the sparrow scout leader are on the same ranking as various fantasy creatures #or why baba and trylla are problematic #idk i'm going stir crazy a month after hilda officially ended #hilda the series #hilda netflix #hilda

[catabasis]

thinking of how heaven seems to keep visual records of everything that goes on in their realm (and the deliberate decision to show this to the audience and show us how it works, almost like foreshadowing its use again in s3), and how now Aziraphale in his new position will probably have access to all those records, and the possibility that he will search for Crowley's files and learn more about him and his time as an angel and (most importantly) witness his fall, and how witnessing that would affect Aziraphale and his views about heaven

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #good omens spoilers #go2 spoilers #we will probably see a lot of heaven bureaucracy in s3 now that aziraphale will be *inside* so i expect the records to come back #and there's so much we still don't know about crowley like what rank he had; did he have a different name; and most importantly: his fall #a part of me wishes they don't reveal *everything* about crowley because i like not knowing everything and i enjoy that air of mystery #but yeah there's an opportunity there and aziraphale is a very curious creature and i expect him to be very thorough in his work in heaven #also i'm curious myself because i'm beginning to wonder if crowley was truly cast out or if he quit and then was cast out #so many possibilities for revelations in s3 #txt #my thoughts

[crevicedwelling]

taxonomic nightmare but may i request a chelicerate order ranking

sticking with extant ones, here.

Amblypygi - S

my little tree flatcrab spindle angels. maybe other arachnids have chemically interesting venom or are more colorful (amblys can do gray!! and sometimes brown) but amblys are really just suited to my tastes. long-living with both sexes having indeterminate growth, spiny, fast, nonvenomous, arboreal/scansorial, curiously social, and they just look great.

Alfonso says hi.

Thelyphonida & Schizomida — Uropygi? - A

great bugs for most of the reasons shared with above, being fairly closely related to amblys. vinegaroons are the tanks of the tetrapulmonates, built to burrow and clobber things with their freakishly muscular pedipalps. schizomids are very funny guys that deserve better. each group took “ain’t broke, don’t fix” even more literally than the amblypygi and truly all look identical; if you hid arachnologists’ microscopes there’d be a crisis.

Solifugae - A

fast, furious, fluffy: I love these little (and not-so-little) freaks. again, doing it all without venom, their crazy snipping chelicerae are some of my favorite insect anatomy. plus, they’re bizarrely diverse, from the mouth-on-legs of the rhagodids to the classic camel spider look and then there’s the hexisopodids that look like angry fur pillows.

Opiliones - A

there’s so much more to these than the ball-on-sticks (though that’s iconic!) that I used to think they all were. ornate armor and parental care (paternal, in some cases!) from the Laniatores, spindly guys abound, alien drone robots from Dyspnoi (Trogulus), and then whatever pudgy little Siro has got going on. possibly the most creative use of pedipalps, with funky lobster claws, bear trap spike-hell, “spoons?” (cosmetids), pinchy bits, glue traps, and spare leg all represented.

Araneae - B

sure. spiders are cool. everyone knows what a spider is. points for diversity, points for bizarre forms, yeah yeah. can we go home now? also, webs are cheating.

if it was only Liphistius, they’d get an A.

Ricinulei - ????

mysterious. elusive. built like a baked bean. what are they even doing? we don’t know. pay researchers more

Pseudoscorpiones - B

great bunch of little guys! phoresy is fun, and so are venomous crabby pedipalps. they have the best element of surprise—never know where you’ll find them next. in a book? under bark? in a beetle? lots of points for weird social lifestyles in certain species and associated chemical mimicry, plus all the wacky insular species and host specialists.

Scorpiones - C

they’re like pseudoscorpions, only less so. cute in a very dopey way. learning that a scorpion’s anus is at the tip of the tail ruined them for me forever.

Palpigradi - D

adorable but they’re not really doing anything let’s be honest. and I love them for that. you do you little eyeless guys I’m sure I’ll find you someday in the dirt

Acari/Parasitiformes - S

aha! I bet you thought I’d rank them poorly, but no, mites are the best arachnids (though not my personal favorites). if you disagree with that, it probably means you don’t know enough about them. mites can do anything and you are a fool if you doubt them.

yes, this includes ticks. ticks are cool and if you have an issue with this—sounds like a vertebrate problem

~~~~~under the water~~~~~

Xiphosura - C

overrated. great, and I love them, but just slightly overrated. stop stealing their blood pls

class Pycgnogonida - ????

Huh? What?

What? I don’t know. Maybe.

#creature rankings

[eldrigeonsss]

Do a 2023 shrimp recap

Or just. Top 10 shrimp of 2023

OH. MY. GOD.

i am not an ordained shrimp expert, I have no real pull in terms of shrimp judgement.... but I DO have quite a lot of shrimps in my ask box........... very well then.

here it is!!

#i had to screenshot this bc apparently it was too big for tumblr #there are no ranks #shrimp deserve no rank #they are beautiful creatures #shrimp posting #shrimps #shrimp

[chuchayucca]

Pros of creating AUs that takes place in the Hidden City:

Having to create the world building from stratch

Cons:

Having to create the world building from stratch

#chuchayucca.text #rottmnt #Excited just this is a good writing excuse and the possibilities are endless but also the possibilities are endless and I need to figure- #out how balance everything since currently in my version of the Hidden City. Every mythical creatures and gods from earth does exist #Also the ranking and classifying systems for yokais and jewelry

[bravevolunteer]

michael's au verses ranked from just a little guy to off his hinges, unglued if you will

werewolf (baby. argue with a wall) --> fear street/stranger things/crazy fun park (equal level of Normal Michael) --> hunger games --> the last of us --> yellowjackets --> the magnus archives

#this is an important ranking i think #yes the au where he is a literal creature and assistant to murder is the most 'he did NOTHING wrong' to me sorry JHDGSFHJSD #tlou there is. *usually* good reason for being like that because it is literally an apocalypse he just. you know. you murder a bunch of #people to save your kid ONE time- #yj. it's yj. i don'thave the time to elaborate #AND THERES SOMETHING SO SPECIFICALLY UNGLUED ABOUT TMA AJHDGFHSJ #you CANT be an avatar without being off your hinges. ESPECIALLY desolation. #it's more unglued than yj specifically because it's the closest he has gotten to a villain arc if that makes sense KFHDJSGJ #like sure maybe his mental state is a little more There but your honor he's killing with fire and it's not for survival it's revenge #⁂ ･ﾟ: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Was looking through old drawings to find my first paleoart to recreate it and here are some gems I found:

What

Why did I name this spec squid “funko pop”

The worst part is that this is from around last year

Then there is the most detailed species in a spec bio project of mine that I ever did…

Only did this species who are intelligent, never expanded on this world

What the fuck

#speculative biology #speculative evolution #spec evo #original species #funko pop #squid #what the fuck is that #flesh amogus #??? #old art #also the intelligent dragon creature has like different military rankings #sophont