#i call it evolution

[egberts]

A haunted herse Pokémon called ‘cardaver’

anon, this idea spoke to me when i first got this ask a few months ago, and after a lot of procrastination and a little bit of drawing, I present to you:

hauntwheel, cardaver, and vanslaughter

they look like cars but they are pokemon

#i just learned so much about drawing cars #listen theyre pretty basic but its on purpose. i was trying to convey cars without getting too cartoony #vanslaughter was going to have a plow but I changed my mind #maybe its a gender variant lol #also they have a special move called rundown #i also decided vanslaughter is a trade evolution so people can easily keep cardaver without evolving if they want #my art

[clannfearrunt]

they're so annoying I wish I could draw more so you can see how annoying they are and also so that I can finally fucking finish the Money/Fame/Love Splatfest comic

#splatoon #squid 2 the evolution of the squid #splatoon ocs #inkling #octoling #salmonid #Thresher Lagan #Buddy Lagan #Rill Nykur #Conarts #i think the thing that sold me on Rill eventually catching feelings is that u can combine their names to make Thrill which is funny 2 me #it's very one sided and also Rill would rather walk into the ocean than call it what it is though

[locusfandomtime]

see the fandom has this thing where the hermits are different species and when they’re part animal/mob they’re a hybrid but nobody talks about the even funnier canon lore that they’re all the exact same species. Their species is hermit.

[long post - lots of worldbuilding and speculative biology below]

Jevin looks like a slime, Doc looks like that, most of them look human, but in actuality they’re all just hermits. The only information we have about this is that hermits are shorter than the average player, some references to hobbits, some references to hermits being hardworking, the fact that gem isn’t a hermit and had to wear antlers to pretend to be one, and that’s it.

I love biology and worldbuilding and this is fascinating to me. When you take into account previous seasons and events and throw-away lines this gets even more insane. Grian and Hypno are acknowledged to not have mouths (and even more hermits don’t have them on their skin). Mumbo turned into a potato. Cleo had snake hair at one point. There are a million other weird things I’m forgetting. You could handwave some of this with an explanation like “hermits are shapeshifters” or “hermits are gods” and that is a very valid and fun take but I think it is SO much funnier if these are just normal things that happen in the hermit species, which aren’t fantastical at all and are adaptations with elaborate mechanics and explanations.

Perhaps hermits, similar to bugs, regularly shed their skin (or a process similar to it) and change their appearance. Some insects change colours/appearance due to their environment rather than genetics, ie macleays spectre stick insects can turn lichen colours when raised around lichen. Maybe the hermits shed their skins on a regular basis, including during their adult life, and this allows them to better match their environment- causing physical changes related to what they have been exposed to. This causes potato Mumbo and medusa Cleo and DM Tango and any other example of a specific skin change. For more constant differences in appearance - maybe life cycles could be considered?

this may be the weirdest thing I’ve ever made. For those that don’t know, “n” is the number of chromosomes, where n is the haploid number, so 2n is diploid. Diploid cells are necessary for sexual reproduction. Of course, a lot of these life cycles are centered around reproduction, as is the nature of a life cycle, but in reality the hermits are in no rush and are happy to stay at whatever point of the life cycle they’re at, this is just an outline of the species’ mechanics.

I mean, most of this diagram is conjecture… but I think it is interesting to consider! Jevin especially reminded me a lot of slime mould life cycles so this is heavily inspired off that, but also inspired by bug life cycles as well.

If you want to get even more indepth we can consider the gender roles of hermit society (remember that clip where Grian implied builders were housewives and redstoners were breadwinning husbands?). Perhaps we can get meta and consider respawn an aspect of being a hermit as well - are they able to regenerate after death? What is Cleo’s place in all this, being undead? Is arm thickness, where your arm can either be 3px or 4px wide, an example of sexual dimorphism?

but. well. tldr: the hermits being one species is a very fun idea we should be doing more with, i think

#this started out as haha funny the hermits are one species and ended with me making scientific diagrams #decided to call those stages imago. like insects. best fit i could find for what i wanted #please ask me about my thoughts on courtship and evolution and early life stages and respawn and anything else please god #locus fandom time #i should have a tag for my insane antics #locus worldbuilding time #hermitcraft #long post #hermitblr #speculative biology #the ideas here are heavily biased towards slime moulds and insects because. well. autism.

[decisions-at-3am]

How cruel it is, To have so much love. And no one To give it to.

#writerscreed #original poem #poem #spilled ink #dark academia #poetry #my poetry #original poetry #poets on tumblr #writers and poets #my poem #writerscommunity #love poem #love notes to no one #love #just a silly little scribble #because i am feeling the big sad rn #and i would like to be productive and write instead of wallowing in sadness + insomnia in bed #also hilarious evolution here #my gp called me to tell me i'm showing signs of anxiety + depression #so i have to go in for a chat with the mental health specialist #my mum is acting very concerned lol - and whilst ik it's coming from a good place #i wish she'd stop #there's too much that i've hidden from her for various reasons #and i will not be getting into it ever - i have no resentment #if i could go back i would do it all the same #however i am considering being completely honest with the mental health person #i've never told anyone the full extent of everything and i'd like to...

[rebouks]

OC Evolution Tag

tyyyy for all that tagged me.. i've left it so long i've forgotten some of u now but YAY for this.. ig i used it more to look back over Oscar's evolution as a character more than the visuals 🤔 idk it's more fun!! (obviously the look changed over time too tho but eh 🤷‍♀️)

what a colourful life the boy has led 😅 is it cheesy to be proud of an oc.. maybe but idc lmaoo yaaay for our favourite ginger trashman and all that he's been thru and become 🤸‍♀️🧡

i'm tagging YOU cos i'm lazy but also cos i rlly seriously think everyone should do this cos it's super fun to see the journey our lil guys go on :')

#ts4 #oc evolution tag #oscar #weeeeeeeeee #i needed to include him called artie pookie cos how could i not #skdjskj #brave boi #twgun #i could've gone crazy with screenies if i'm honest lmao #i never get tired of looking back at his journey #;-;

[front-facing-pokemon]

#alolan sandshrew #in my personal pokémon canon‚ especially since it's PMD‚ where main series pokémon regions don't exist #i tend to call regional forms by completely different names as opposed to “alolan sandshrew” #and i've taken to calling this one “snowshrew‚” which is one of the few that i find sounds Much better than “alolan sandshrew” #i also call the evolution “snowslash” obviously #so. you're all welcome for that

[teddyhoneybear]

𝓣𝓪𝓶𝓵𝓲𝓷 - 𝓗𝓲𝓰𝓱 𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓽

#tamlin week #tamlin week 2024 #acotar #high lord of spring #high lord of the spring court #spring court #moodboard #i could call this an evolution of my moodboards #i really wish people would love this character more #tamlin #tamlin acotar #pro tamlin #acotar series #a court of thorns and roses #pro tamlin healing arc

[microwavesludge]

thought abt the chao garden for too long + got carried away lol

#hlvrai #benrey #tommy coolatta #chao garden alignments makes me crazy. what do you mean you only can raise an evil baby if you play as certain characters. #mostly i just kinda started thinking abt what if the characters weren't aware of their alignments. #like shadow and rouge are barely villains at all but they still raise evil baby #anyways. this is mostly inspired by the sylveon/umbreon + espeon evolution thing that ppl like to make posts about. #i've got a critical condition + it's called putting the science team in all my favorite games. draawing chao is fun. ok bye. #my art

[ravings-of-a-mad-scientist]

Gently hands you these so w can watch together.

HORSESHOE CRAB BOIS!

I love these guys. It's so crazy you can just walk out on a random beach and see a bunch of heckin' 480 million year old living fossil dudes just sitting there, minding their own business. It's bonkers. Physiological evolution is for chumps. (also they unlocked a rare unique blood perk so that's cool).

It's also a case of the English word for something being very underwhelming. 'Horseshoe crab', really? This thing that doesn't even look like a crab and is one of the very few things left on this earth that is not (yet) carcinized? That only in the most abstract way possible actually resembles a horseshoe? All the alternate names for them are also just "thing crab".

I dunno, they're just so weird and unique that it just seems wrong to name them after other things. I would like to call them Blomblers™ instead.

#science #biology #evolution #marine biology #horseshoe crab #blomblers #i mean it would literally be more accurate to call them “horseshoe trilobites” #asks

[sojourner-between-worlds]

You know what, no, I'm not done talking about this because the symbolism is god tier.

Yusei starts out as a Satellite. In essence, a fake star. Anyone who knows anything knows that when you look up at the night sky, the brightest objects are planets and satellites. They look like stars, but they aren't stars. They are man-made to serve a purpose, and when they wear out, they are easily replaced, the offline ones left to float around as space junk for the rest of time.

But Yusei's not a fake. He's the real deal.

He breaks out of Satellite and earns the moniker "Satellite's Shooting Star". But the thing about shooting "stars" is that they still aren't really stars at all, and worse yet, they burn out so quickly they barely exist for a moment in time. This is what was expected for him, too: he could have stayed where he was, a man-made object with a given purpose, but because he decided that wasn't good enough, he was going to get his moment to shine but then burn out into nothing.

But Yusei isn't a shooting star, either. He's not burning out.

No, he was just getting started.

He pulls other people to himself with all the force of a black hole yet without destroying any of them. (Well, except for one. One who willingly allowed himself to be destroyed to allow Yusei to shine all the brighter.) He gathers them and the future is so bright that there is nothing else to see and you get this sense that, even though you don't know what will happen, anything is possible.

Yusei's not a satellite. He's the real deal.

And he's not a shooting star. He's not burning out.

He's a quasar. He's creating endless possibilities.

#yugioh 5ds #yusei fudo #fudo yusei #i have a lot of Feelings about this okay #i didn't even get into the progression of his dragon evolutions #or the fact that its called ACCEL sychro and black holes have ACCELERATION disks #OR the fact that bruno literally gets sucked into a black hole that is SPAWNED from his delta accel #(look. i'm probably 15 years late to this party but i don't care.) #(we can get on the writers about a lot of mistakes they made. but this. this was not one of them.) #(this was SUCH good writing on their parts. kudos for this.) #(....provided it was intentional. it just think its too good to have not been but *shrugs*) #(anyway)

[mikeyp16]

|| Day 9: Rare Pair ||

a very rare pair Ive found myself liking a lot, very little content, unfortunately :'] Idk how to explain it but I think they work in certain context plus its canon they've known each other since WWII

I made a few doodles, but I couldn't choose which one I liked so I uploaded them all lol

#I blame Xmen: Evolution #Operation: Rebirth introduced me to this as a possible pair and I love the potential #That ending is what really made me ship them #Plus how they've described each other in the very few cases they have worked together #Crying TM #Cringevember #cringetober #drawing challenge #Marvel #MCU #Marvel Captain America #Captain America #Marvel Wolverine #Wolverine #Logan Howlett #james howlett #Steve Rogers #CaptainClaws #?? #I call them StarClaws #StarClaws #There's so little content it makes me sad #You can count the Fics on your hand #Theres like 2 peices of fanart not made by me #crying inside #Cant find content? Fine I'll make it myself #I have a lot of Headcannons #Some are a little OOC but its my mental illness I get to choose what gives me seratonin

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Art by phfreitas_art

#dragon ball z #spider gwen #miles morales #x men evolution #supergirl #Sasha Calle #the batman #Wednesday Addams #enid sinclair #son goku #vegeta #house of the dragon #viserys i targaryen #artist spotlight #the last of us #television #fan art #comics #marvel #dc #spider man

[sheltershock]

Something that seems really obvious to me, but what I haven’t seen very much is that Milla has a really good second reason for wanting to change how her name is said. In PN2 she says that her full name is Camilla, but when she started working with the Psychonauts Sasha mispronounced it and she didn’t have the heart to correct him. So she’s been going by “Me-yah” ever since. It’s a cute story. But it also makes sense that since her nightmares call her “Me-Lah” from her memories of reaching out to her children with telepathy, that she’d want to distance herself from that name. I mean it would probably trigger her to be called that name. Since she (wrongfully) blames herself for not being to help, she probably feels that “Me-Lah” was the failed mother who couldn’t protect her children.

So she starts her new job with the Psychonauts, protecting the world and exploring the human mind. She’s going to be a cool spy now, but ever since the accident whenever someone calls out to her she is filled with guilt and the feeling that she can’t protect anyone. Then she meets her new field partner, he’s cute, she thinks. And then he gets her name wrong, maybe out of ignorance or nervousness, but it doesn’t matter. “Me-yah.” And she didn’t get that feeling of dread. There wasn’t that doubt or guilt, just…her. Just “Me-yah.” She knew that she should probably correct him, it would be rude to just let him get it wrong, but she just….doesn’t have the heart.

Then she starts introducing herself to others as “Me-yah” and they say it back to her. And she feels fine, happy even. Sure, it doesn’t erase all the bad feelings about the accident, it’s still effecting her a lot. But for this tiny little thing, it’s easier for her.

And as she pulls off mission after mission, she feels less like that failed mother. She wasn’t “Me-Lah,” the woman who could only tearfully plead that everything she loved stopped burning. She was “Me-yah,” the Psychonaut.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #milla vodello #sasha nein #small idea ramble #i haven’t seen anyone else talking about this #but her nightmares calling out to her is really creepy #and it’s the only place in the franchise that she called “me-lah” #we don’t get to see milla or sasha between their worst memory vaults and the present and how they recovered from those experiences #but i think milla changing her name would be a good evolution for her character #also think of how cool it would be if sasha accidentally helped her out this way and milla is secretly appreciative

[jacnaylor]

Who's Sicarius?

Tara says that's what they're naming the shipping container unsub.

#seeing their dad swear lmao #listen i LOVE that they let them swear i need to hear the girls say fuck #criminal minds #cmedit #criminalmindsedit #criminal minds evolution #david rossi #jj jareau #jennifer jareau #luke alvez #i also vote we start calling all the unsubs fuckhead

[bottombaron]

i have a very scientific way of telling when Nandor has gone 'serious' its called my pussy getting wet and lemme tell you that this man has gone Predator mode:

this is the look of a man who wants to kill

#wwdits #nandor #what we do in the shadows #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #wwdits spoilers #and if guillermo is a gay like me and i think he is #we have a very special 4th option to the flight fight or freeze fear response #its called 'spred your legs' #or colloquially: the fuck response #that deadeye look he has omg im going to need to like sit in a shower for 45 minutes #how did the gays survive evolution when some of our primal responses to a predator is to bend over? #anyways #~nandor wants to kill guillermo and some of y'all arent strong enough to realize that makes their ship hotter~

[radioactivepeasant]

Brief note on small worldbuilding things for my aus:

So, like the JnD wiki, I've been calling their species "human" this whole time because...well, because of one deleted line where Praxis says "we're only human" in the second game.

But it never fit right with the long ears high on the skull and the body proportions more like a Lombax than a human. So in my particular aus, I was inspired by what humans are called in Dungeon Meshi and have decided to call them hu'men instead. With the backstory being that when Precursors and Ottsel Precursors interacted with the sentient species on the planet, the Ottsels called Jak’s species "the huge men". And then over time, "huge men" became the contraction "hu'men".

Admittedly some of this is so I only have to make minimal edits to my documents, but I apologize for nothing.

#jak and daxter #my aus #my writing #worldbuilding #jak and daxter headcanons #this is just for stuff i write. I've seen other people call them a variety of things and they all worked well in my opinion #i just wanted to play with fantasy language evolution and word etymology while not having to make big changes to docs