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Map of my current fantasy world, Theia. The one on the top is an updated version of the map with some improved borders, bottom is a more outdated version of the map, but with accompanying lore, though I'll fully update everything in the future. Main premise is that the world is undergoing a cold war between major mago-industrial powers with one story I'm working on taking place within the Io Consortium, which is an unstable megacorporate state being fought over by the Demonic Confederacy and the Avalonian Empire.
I was thinking about how it can be difficult to figure out our own creatures' anatomies because there are no direct references to draw from, and how I tend to draw my aliens in the same poses, and boom, this happened. Prompts to practice and push the limits of your alien's anatomy :) Aimed at sophonts, but a lot of them can apply to non-sapient beasties too.
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Sleeping lightly or having a nap
Sleeping deeply after an exhausting day
Scratching an itch in a hard-to-reach place
Carrying an infant
Carrying another grown individual
Holding a piece of food
Sipping a liquid
Reaching for something high up
Making themselves as small as possible
Freezeframe of moving at topspeed
Relaxed, half resting position e.g. sitting or lounging
Inspecting a novel object
Cleaning themselves
Being cleaned by another individual
Fighting without weapons
Preparing to fight with a weapon
Showing casual affection displayed with any kind of loved one; family, friend, partner, etc.
Showing intense affection reserved for a specific kind of loved one
Yawning/stretching mouthparts to their full extent
Gripping a branch or high surface, trying not to fall off
Tripping or slipping on a wet surface
Actively balancing e.g. crossing a tightrope
Suddenly noticing something near them and getting spooked
Engaged in conversation
Treating an injury
For meat eaters: in the middle of a hunt For others: foraging and collecting food
Preparing food for a meal
Tending to a crop
Using a tool
Shaking or brushing something off their body
In a state they don’t usually live in e.g. aquatic being on land, terrestrial being in water
Putting on clothing or accessories
Getting a body modification e.g. tattoo, piercings
Using fine motor control to craft something
Trying to block out unpleasant stimuli e.g. covering ears, closing off nostrils
Reacting to an unpleasant stimulus
Loading cargo for transport
Working on building construction
Riding a vehicle or pack creature
Squeezing into a small space
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We need more scary infinite variants of manmade environments like the Infinite IKEA or the Backrooms.
May I suggest, The Lot:
each god is also the patron of one of the setting's local city-states, and each city-state espouses their own version of the pantheon's org chart that positions their patron as King or Queen of the Gods. The gods themselves decline to weigh in on who's correct.
the god of war died in a bizarre trebuchet accident several decades previously; a coalition of other gods have been playing Weekend at Bernie's with their priesthood ever since, doing their best to answer their prayers with variable plausibility and success.
there are two separate gods of knowledge with two separate, non-overlapping cults. Each god's cult is apparently unaware of the other's existence. There's nothing obviously supernatural about this separation; they just never seem to bump into each other.
the supreme god of the Nice Pantheon of Goodness and Light and the supreme god of the Icky Pantheon of Evil and Darkness are clearly the same guy wearing two different hats. Most NPCs react to having this pointed out as though it's obviously absurd.
the obligatory Squiddy Alien Gods From Beyond The Stars are treated as just another branch of the pantheon alongside the usual faux-Greek deities. Nobody thinks it's at all odd that the god of thunder's sworn blood-sibling is a shapeless cloud of blazing eyes.
https://youtu.be/Tr2FBsNijdc
am maked a yoo toob video :D
Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.
The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.
You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character
europeans have types of racism i didn't even know existed
on the other hand there are some characters that i KNOW in my heart are not cis but heres the thing . THEY wouldn't know. they would have no idea. or they're not acknowledging it. i love trans headcanons as much as the next guy but angel devil from chainsaw man does not know that he's not cis because all angel devil is thinking about is that he's got a job to do and he'd rather not be doing it but ah well its that or being killed. oh well
theres also some characters that if you took them out for drinks for like 2 hours and talked to them they would realize very quickly they arent cis. but the resources simply dont exist in the situation they are in. do you understand my vision