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Simon Roy (@simon-roy) asked me to invent a guy (alien organism) for his newest book, Refugium, which comes with a guy emporium (alien life guidebook). There's a kind of radially symmetrical bug called pinwheels on the planet that will split into wedges as a defensive mechanism, so I Junji Ito'ed them into a eusocial spiral that workers snap off of once "ripe."
Refugium is out on Kickstarter right now and if you like alien ecology, failed utopias, and frontier stories I can highly recommend it. I've greatly enjoyed the previous books from the same universe.
#speculative biology#speculative evolution#spec bio#specbio#spec evo#specevo#scifi#hard scifi#aliens#alien#refugium
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I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.
If you experience bugs with the site report them to me. Some things may occasionally break, as coding problems tend to be a very "whack-a-mole" affair; and I'm still getting used to the interface.
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It seems like the wordpress site RSS isn't serving the comic pages - it seems to only have an announcement post.
Working on this issue right now. I'll holler when it's fixed.
There's always a bug you missed!
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I’m sure I’m not the first to bring it up but it is very funny to me that the launch date of Runway to the Stars as a webcomic is also the date of the homestuck comic starting.
This is a coincidence because I'd originally wanted to launch on the first of April, but website work got drawn out. In retrospect that probably would have been an even worse idea though
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btw RttS is still contracted to a book publisher, I just got permission from them to share the comic online. This is beneficial for two reasons: it's functionally advertising for a printed book when the comic is complete, and also I am quite shallow and primarily motivated by attention so sharing pages makes pages happen faster 👍
I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.
If you experience bugs with the site report them to me. Some things may occasionally break, as coding problems tend to be a very "whack-a-mole" affair; and I'm still getting used to the interface.
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I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.
If you experience bugs with the site report them to me. Some things may occasionally break, as coding problems tend to be a very "whack-a-mole" affair; and I'm still getting used to the interface.
#jayart#comic#webcomic#runaway to the stars#talita#aliens#speculative biology#spec bio#speculative evolution#spec evo#science fiction#scifi#hard scifi#uhhhh i can't think of anymore engagement tags#I'm terrible at advertising things#show your friends! show your dad! show your dog!
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Centauroid body plans are really overused in spec bio aliens nowadays so I've made the difficult decision to redesign Talita, even though I'll have to redraw 127 pages of my comic. What does everyone think
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Ugh, everyone's a critic. 🙄 Ok, I gave Talita her arms back. Happy now?
Centauroid body plans are really overused in spec bio aliens nowadays so I've made the difficult decision to redesign Talita, even though I'll have to redraw 127 pages of my comic. What does everyone think
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You have been booped! >:3c
Yeah I've been boop'd to hell and back
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To be clear I painted them I just didn't lay them
Look at my eggs boy. (Eggs not mine, laid by my girlfriend's fourteen beautiful 1 year old daughters)
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Look at my eggs boy. (Eggs not mine, laid by my girlfriend's fourteen beautiful 1 year old daughters)
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Centauroid body plans are really overused in spec bio aliens nowadays so I've made the difficult decision to redesign Talita, even though I'll have to redraw 127 pages of my comic. What does everyone think
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Easter bunnies (aka chabbits, skvaders, or boultry) are GMO designer pets turned practical livestock from Runaway to the Stars. Each breed has a distinct egg color! They are popular choice for small spacer colonies, since they’re quiet and produce eggs and meat on a completely vegetarian diet.
PATREON | STORE | Runaway to the Stars
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By the way, the stuff arrived.
They are no longer preorder items. They are... order items.
At last it's here, a shop update. Yippee! Whoo! Featuring:
The very first color printing of Airsled! Available as a softcover or a pdf, colored by @korybing! It's a short story on the pre-industrial avian homeplanet about a livestock-drawn airplane, confronting an internalized colonialist mindset, and biting large wild predators in the neck!
A new sticker bundle! You can get a discount on it if you also buy the Airsled softcover, use code COLORVISION.
A restock of Growth Chart, the collection of short stories about Talita growing up in human foster care.
Restocks on the first 4 volumes of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine.
Sales on a lot of older Almost Real merch and other miscellaneous older store stock. I want this stuff outta my house.
That about sums it up.
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AAAAAAAA STREAMING ART WARERGLEBLARGLE
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Your recent post with the doodles made me curious, how would the different sophonts represent themselves in art? Especially concerning non-artists; like how our human shorthand is a stick figure?
Answered a long time ago:
https://jayrockin.tumblr.com/post/177773167563/
https://jayrockin.tumblr.com/post/177773546818/
But this is also something I doodle a lot. Though they lean towards exaggerating some different traits than humans do, there is immense variety in the style of alien self-depictions.
Here's some more recent stuff:
Wiggly bug ferret
Avian self-depictions, sexual symbols, and textile patterns
Centaur self-depictions and the nomadic sister deities
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With tube plants, I’m really curious if any are edible, and if so what’re they like, and how avian culture sees them. While Taxonomically they’re animals, does avian culture consider them plants? For a random example, let’s say the avians, like us, had a religious period where they can’t eat meat. Would worm plants be considered off limits, or the same as anything else? Not saying that religion or whatever exists, it’s just the first frame of reference I could think of. Another example might be how fungi are considered vegetables, but are an entirely different kingdom.
As for eating, I’m curious if they have a more meat-like texture and taste, or a more plant-like one. I’m assuming the former. If they’re eaten, what are the parts that are eaten and how are they usually prepared? Do the avians have any traditions or culture regarding the tube, like we do with wishbone breaking or bone carving? Is it possible to farm them, and are they?
Avian cultures usually classify plantworms in the same group of food as shellfish, which they resemble the most nutritionally. They are more like a clam than a plant. Many are toxic as a defense against being eaten, but the ones avians can consume are usually cooked whole (in or out of shell) unless a specific body part is unpalatable (usually the gut or frond tentacles). For larger worms, they may be trimmed down to the tastiest part, the retractor muscle. It's very possible to farm them, and many are also cultivated for their beauty as landscaping plants. Their tubes are most commonly used to make plaster for building, or beads.
Vegetarianism is overall more rare in avian cultures than ours because they have a higher calorie-per-pound requirement than humans and many live on small islands where grain agriculture is more difficult to live off exclusively than fishing. There are several grades of culturally distinct pescetarian diets in modern avian cultures though, some of which view eating large "vertebrates" as unacceptable, land animals as unacceptable, vertebrates in general as unacceptable, only plantworms are acceptable, or hardline only plant matter and eggs (which may or may not include plant worm "leaves and flowers"... which can grow back). Hardline vegetarianism or veganism is more common among flightless avian cultures, who historically have had the most arable land.
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