"menstruation is punishment for original sin" is a fairly common doctrine (altho in my experience it's usually more implicit than just baldly stated like that)
anyway this implies that of all the animal kingdom, humans are not UNIQUE in sinning, but are joined by bats, the elephant shrew, and the spiny mouse species Acomys cahirinus. (according to my 5 seconds on wikipedia at least)
It is with the UTMOST pride and joy that I announce to you, the project is finally finished!!! The past four months have been VERY worth the wait. I would like to thank everyone who helped make this a reality, as you are all some of the most talented people on Earth, and I would also like to thank Team Starkid for having the amazing characters who brought it together.
For the characters who did not have full names, we had their artists name them! Those characters are:
Smoke Club Girl (tgwdlm) - Suzy English
Danny (tgwdlm) - Danny Reynolds
Deb (tgwdlm) - Deb Hirsch
Hatchetfield Bee (tgwdlm) - Eliza Florez
Ziggy (nightmare time) - Ziggy Miller
Gabe (abstinence camp) - Gabe Anderson
Mary (abstinence camp) - Mary Shaw
Noah (abstinence camp) - Noah Henry
PJ (npmd) - Patricia Johnson
Reese (npmd) - Reese Woods
Brenda (npmd) - Brenda Briggs
Stacy (npmd) - Stacy S. Murphy-Owen-Martin
Brooke (npmd) - Brooke Chandler
Caitlyn (npmd) - Caitlyn Hayes
Angela's Drama Student (npmd) - Lily Myers
Joey's Drama Student (npmd) - Ezra Richter
Rudolph (npmd) - Rudolph Svensson
Miss Mulberry (npmd) - Missy Mulberry
I'm linking the flip book AND the slideshow versions of this project because I feel like there's an image quality difference, and I want everyone's pieces showcased in the best possible quality. In the flip book, hover your mouse off of the pages, because when you have it on the page blurs a bit.
Flipbook
Slideshow
One more enormous thank you to those who brought this project to life:
Writers:
@dawningfairytale @theiloveyousong @that-was-anticlimactic @amethystunarmed @bellqmione @tnoy-keraxisraxis @icarus-o7
Artists:
@mansion-of-haunts @witchstormm @booigi-boi @zstarcatsz @bird-likes-to-fandom @muppetmagic @l8dawnsovrmonroeville @nibblelinephym @notanerdyprude @peterstankoffski @ren-from-mars @astrolotte @blankensnappeas @angelwiththeblue-box @margo-mania @tipsy-agnostalgic @ratsarecute4 @rat-on-string @spigosaur @wispexists @ampers-and @ruthflemwad @feathertru @oniomn @daiwild @bajablastflavoredsaxreed @cardinaldust @thalassous @idk-tbh-idk @anispelix @lillazyboithings @cloddot @ophii @stephanie-lauter @janet-the-interplanet @alliumroze @kentucky-fried-goth-attire @nonbinarymichaelafton @spiny-dogfishes @gay-little-axolotl @vicariousscrolling @spyruce @thecrabbybarista
flat facts friday.... 2! featuring april this time :) and me using my drawing tablet instead of my mouse. crazy how that works.
thank you all so much for the response on the first comic!! definitely inspiring me to make more. maybe one week i'll even make one that's short. probably not.
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references under the cut
softshell turtle wikipedia page
turtle shell wikipedia page (generic turtle skeleton image comes from here)
A list of the animals I discussed in my fish essay, but for those who don't want to scroll through paragraphs of text to find out if an animal is or isn't a fish. Just CTRL+F your way through here!
I'll add onto here more animals whenever I get asked about them being fish. See my fish essay here!
Some notes before you proceed:
Yes, all tetrapods are fish! We are phylogenetically fish, as we are and our ancestors were lobe-finned fish! "Fish" in the phylogenetic sense is a paraphyletic group if you try to exclude tetrapods, so it is frankly impossible.
How come tetrapods aren't listed as fish then? Long answer, read my essay. Short answer, me and other fish accounts tend to operate on the morphological definition of fish, so does most of the world. Here I use the morphological definition of "fish".