Nyoomymph - I Have No Idea What I'm Doing

there is something to be said for going to zoos and aquariums on weekdays to avoid school-aged crowds but going to the aviary on a weekend is fun because going into big greenhouses and watching toddlers who just learned to walk encounter loose tropical animals taller than they are is part of the overall experience for me.

to me a three year old is just as much an entertaining and strange beast as an egret. and here they can interact directly. incredible.

"Humans as space orcs/space Steve Irwins" is always a fun worldbuilding exercise, but imagine if our behavior is fairly normal but something we take for granted is utterly alien to the galaxy at large.

Like, what if Earth was one of the handful of biomes to crack photosynthesis but none ever saw it adopted and adapted to the scale we see it one earth.

Chemotrophic tree analogs that fill the role of mushrooms on earth, whole forests of the dead just how things are done.

The idea that the forest can be a living place is utterly shocking to the august civilized peoples.

Sure, says the galaxy's archivists, photosynthesis works on the cellular levels and there are some impressive bacterial mats on Cestus XI, but a field of wild grass is beautiful and terrifying simply because it's so far out of their experience and context.

love her.

he's so prettyyy

Dual ego

(You can tell I liked Seele can’t you)

Hit him where it hurts, Cassandra! (Apollo is the WORST.)

scars

I've met other people, yeah. the lamb is cuter though