THE MISH MASH
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    The Bleeding Earth

    Fanart for the wonderfully surreal worldbuilding project by @extrajigs, in which the Atlantic Ocean has been transformed into a sort of super-organism, an ocean of blood

  • AMAZING ART BY AN AMAZING ARTIST! Honestly so thankful to @thefallencomet for this piece. Just look at those gore-geous colors. ABSORB THE BEAUTY! Also this is a pretty good ref for the world! From the crusted expansive scab fields and the swirling blood pockets! Even those currents, AH, so accurate. Makes my heart cry tears of joy.

    But yeah! For a lil extra info for the effort the Northern half of the planet is mostly encased in ice while the Southern half is hot and arid. This is due to the blood ocean tangentially in that a lot of magic in this setting is fueled/conducted through blood. So a main use of the blood ocean was to fuel the adjustment of Earths axis! While the Northern lands are enjoying eternal night, Antarctica gets sun 24/7. This heat seeps up to the North in the form of scalding hot storms that keep things from permanently freezing over. The heat from the blood ocean also helps a lot since that always stays above 90 degrees! Just fun place in general.

    Anyways that’s that! Now GO FOLLOW HER FOR GOOD ART!

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    Is humanity extinct in your world? Because if not they should build a submarine were the door has been welded shut. There are no window’s, and there is no way to see anything outside of a camera on the front of the submarine.

    Maybe also have the submarine controlled by a wireless game controller to top it all off?

  • Markiplier is down there as we speak.

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    Is it possible for Chimeras to have twins? (as in, two babies from the same chimera)

    You mentioned that they can only gestate one baby and the others get absorbed, but is there anything that could cause that process to go wrong/lucky? (like the embryo splitting in the case of the identical twins we can get)


    These things are really cool, I LOVE how in-depth you are with their rules, and when I make species of my own, I find it pretty fun to also think about the ways those rules can be broken.

    Cheers!

  • Ah thank you! I always like to make the rules first before thinking of how that can be bent, because most can be! UNFORTUNATELY. This one for chimera is pretty concrete due to chimeric torso structure. Most of their spine/ribcage is fused together so it limits the flexibility they have. Growing a baby is something that already pushes the limits of their anatomy, most chimera cant eat much if at all for the last stretch of their pregnancy. So in the case that two embryos manage to start a-growing in there, they will run out of space p quick. This could be due to failing to absorb spare embryos or splitting of the one already in there. In any case! True twins either have to be born very prematurely, taken out via c section, or have the pregnancy terminated. Or the gestating parent can just pop.

    If true twins are born though they are treated as one individual since chimeric religious belief teaches that one soul can originate from pregnancy. So twins are considered to have one soul to share. (This is not true, they are in fact completely separate.) In more archaic practice the decision was usually made to ‘condense’ the soul into one body, IE one of them gets the axe. However in modern practice while you might get some old timers referring to them with one name, they can be their own people. These 'triplets’ usually get along as well as the typical sibling set, albeit with the chance to develop third wheel syndrome.

    The biggest issue with twins in the modern day is when a chimera is trying to body swap, that pretty much necessities a womb reset. And is just a hassle.

  • Anonymous
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    so its only one of the oceans thats blood? i checked the abbatoirs tag but didnt see a full map of the world, do you have one?

  • Yeah! Just the Atlantic, the change is man/magic made and turning all the oceans would have cut into the magic budget for later plans! So the justification is that the goal was only to turn one third of the ocean to blood! Whether that math checks out is unimportant. The main reason outside of Biblical themes is that the blood ocean was needed to support a much bigger global spell.
    I been meaning to make a more detailed one but here’s the rough!

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    Out of curiosity, do you have a master post for your abbatoirs world?

  • I do! Unfortunately it is languishing in my drafts forever unfinished lmao. I will eventually get around to finishing it, I just struggle with making the wording concise!

    Also as per your other ask it’s like abba-twar
    It’s an existing French-based word so it’s got that flair to it!

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    I love your pentapods! Theyre really cute. I have cephalopod-like aliens myself that walk on their tentacles on land, and I'm wondering if the tentacles need a rigid internal structure to be able to support their weight on land, like spines or something.

  • Ah thank you! Terrestrial tentacles are ALWAYS choice! And while I don’t know about NEEDING a super rigid internal support I gave mine something kinda like that!

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    Not like anything as hard as bone but a little bit of cartilage to mostly house the big nerves and blood vessels and support the actual weight a bit more. I think that’s the biggest issue with tentacles. They can sploot out under the body a lot easier than a rigid skeleton. It all comes down to what feels right, less gravity will be a lot easier on a squishy limb!

  • &. zinnia theme by seyche