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.
These are a bunch of alien themed items for The Sims 2.
Ufo Lamp, Signs and Ufo tv are 4to2 conversion from Sims41ife. Cow Lamp is from Pixelvibes. Ufo Neon is from Mechtasims.
I managed to reduce the polygons for all the items.
Cow Lamp will be green when turned on. The Ufo Lamp must be turned off at first use (or it will appear too bright) and can also rotate. Tv is functional.
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My MC from Sea of Stars, Val Moran, chilling in the Outlands with Churro.
If you haven't checked Sea of Stars yet, I recommend you doing it. It's a interactive sci-fi story where you can create your character and romance all the aliens. I designed the main cast and the aiczeots species, I had to add Moran to the combo as well.
Go show @13leaguestories your support for the amazing story!
Current thoughts rn is a half human half made up alien species visiting their alien family’s planet, and they come off weird to all the non-Humans there, not because they’re half-Human, but because their family is super old-school and they drilled all these traditions and customs into the oc that a majority of people don’t even know about, much less follow
(Meanwhile, the poor oc who had all of this drilled into their head and was constantly told that other people would notice immediately if they didn’t follow everything to a T hasn’t realized that people don’t actually follow these rules anymore and keeps thinking they’re being snubbed for being half-Human)
You're the pet of a powerful alien. You've been his pet since longer than you can remember. You think that your parents were human ambassadors, or perhaps traders, but either way, they ended up leaving without you, weather they wanted to or not.
Your owner's species isn't anything like yours. They don't have most of the same body parts, they look much different from you. They're about as smart as your species but it's hard for them to communicate with you, because your mouth parts are so different. But your owner tries really hard to treat you kindly, it's hard for him but he tries.
Your owner is nice to you. He pets you a lot, and feeds you and takes care of you, and treats you almost like a member of his family. Though he never does really talk to you, and you can't leave his house, but that must just be because he's worried about you. You're not sure if he knows you're as smart as him, he hasn't even given you clothing, thought to be fair there's no human clothing on the planet.
Sometimes things aren't as good for you. He'll squirt his fluids at you if you misbehave, though it's never that acidic. When you were young, he had a doctor take out the parts that would have made you sexually develop, they didn't knock you out when they cut you open. But then again you don't know what a sexually mature human looks like, maybe it would be a bad thing to be.
Sometimes you'll watch entertainment on the screen he watches things on. His species have shows with episodes that last hours. You only get glimpses of them. It's the only way you can see the outside world, you wished you could actually stand there, in streets, in forests, on space stations, you wish you could stand anywhere in the entire world.
You met a pack of traveling humans recently. They had come to your owner's planet, and they came to his house when they detected a human there. They were hard to recognize as the same species as you in their space suits and power armor. It was weird that they talked to you instead of him, weirder still that when you told them you didn't want to be touched, they didn't touch you. You're not sure why they cared so much for you but they did, and they told you that there were humans all over the galaxy, and if you wanted to see them, if you wanted to be more than an exotic pet you could be. They handed you a device to call them if you wanted to be picked up. They also handed you a laser gun.
You're not sure if you could ever hurt your owner. You know it's dangerous out there. But even if you've never been to human space, been somewhere free, some part of you misses it. Some weird part of you must not want to be safe or maybe that weird part of you doesn't think you're safe at all as a pet.
I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.
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"We call it vff," said the alien. "It's - it's hard to describe to a species without vffsense. Imagine trying to describe light to a species that never evolved eyes. But there are forms of life that are only perceptible with vffsense, and they've visited Earth and fed on life as long as it's existed here."
There was a pause.
Then the human said, "That's the worst thing you've ever said."
"Don't worry about it."
"I think I have to, now."
"No, because - well - you have a species of spider which pretends to be an ant, correct? It's not capable of understanding the fact that it's mimicking an ant, but it instinctually mimics an ant in order to deter predators."
"Sure?"
"Humans produce a vff to mimic varths, predators only perceptible through vffsense. The organisms that would like to feed on you are terrified of varths, and so they leave you alone. You aren't aware you do it, you don't have the capacity to understand you're doing it, but you evolved to instinctually do it to deter predators you can't see."
There was a pause.
Then the human said in a very soft and thoughtful voice, "And are there varths on Earth?"
"Yes," said the alien. "Everywhere. But don't worry about it."