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bluexiao · 2 years

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it’s 1am and im out here thinking… maybe the pulcinella in the fatui video is not who’s gonna be playable?? like a different form or something,,, like he certainly has a far different aura in the first trailer hmm i could be wrong tho

well anyway this def means he’s gonna be playable tho, as he’s in the first trailer.

#🎐#cw speculations #and also pulcinella i mean the villain in frozen lookalike #i dont have a close up pic of him atm im sorry #maybe im just overthinking anyway

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jayrockin · 9 months

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A centaur from the Shess ethnicity poses with their clan's small flock of Tep, a livestock animal that is farmed for its meat and cheese-like edible silk. To their right are the hens of the flock with their large silk glands and spinnerets, in the centaur's arms is a distressed yearling newly weaned off silk, and to their left is the rooster with flashy (but useless) display spinnerets. In the background is the tough yellow chaparral flora of the harshly seasonal Shess peninsula. Hanging off their fore shoulder and hooked to a belt on their rear waist is a 2 meter long black powder rifle, characteristic of centaur firearms developed before first contact. The shepherd keeps it with them while herding the flock to ward off wildlife that competes with or likes to eat Tep. It's also useful for bagging game meat.

PATREON | STORE | Runaway to the Stars

#rtts centaurs #aliens #speculative biology #jayart #runaway to the stars #cw guns

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valdevia · 6 months

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The Bloodpecker (Haemophagus stokeri), one of the few avian parasites, has often been credited as the origin of the vampire myth.

The bird opens a wound to feed on the host's blood, using analgesics in its saliva to reduce discomfort.

Bloodpeckers have been known to feed on deer, cattle, and humans.

#unreality #happy halloween! here's a classic halloween creature I think #horror art #vampire #speculative biology #cw blood

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paladinfigueroth · 4 days

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an aspect of the bobby dawn and sandra lynn grooming situation i haven't seen discussed is that, at least how it's presented in Freshman Year (I'm rewatching it rn so it's fresh in my mind), the church of Helio/Sol isn't very welcoming to non-humans. Kristen lived in a human neighborhood in a very not human town, and her parents don't seem to have met a lot of elves, let alone the other species of spyre. highcourt from what i can tell is a largely human theocratic nation.

sure helio and sol work with galicaea but that partnership isn't felt in how their worshippers act. it's very seperate spheres of influence, the high elves for galicaea and humans for helio/sol.

sandra lynn was a recent high school dropout, taken in by an older and more experienced adventuring party that was led by a man very devoted a religion that is human centric. it adds another lay of vulnerability to sandra lynn, another point for bobby dawn to pick at until she was under his thumb and another way for him to cast her aside. she's an elf to be saved by sol until she's the elven temptress to cast excommunicated when they are caught.

#sandra lynn faeth #bobby dawn #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #d20 #fhjy spoilers #fhjy speculation #grooming cw #grooming tw #religious trauma cw #religious trauma tw

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nknatteringly · 3 months

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Gunhounds are a rather diverse paraphyletic clade of caniform biological constructs derived predominately from Canis familiaris. Given the highly derived biology of gunhounds, IE extensive modification of the head and upper digestive tract into a biological firearm with included tracking system, it is hard to believe such creatures could reproduce.

Which is absolutely correct, gunhounds are not a self perpetuating germline construct, but are the result of modifications to base species! Some older models can still be found, which require intravenous nutrient injection in conjunction with manual loading of ammunition. However, the modern gunhound usually has a decoupled esophagus capable of extending out from the body to eat normally. Heavy metals, ubiquitous in the environments of most of the known world, are bioaccumulated and formed into bullets in a series of gun glands within the torso of a gunhound, and then moved via peristaltic action to the hound's ammo gizzard. This projectile is then regurgitated upward into the loading sinus to be fired.

Gun hounds are very easy to train inexpensive to procure or make, and take orders well, though prone to scope irritation in dry environments by default- consequently adding a crystalline lense to their main eye is a standard part of the modern gunhound package, and recommended retrofitting for older breeds.

#gunhound #drawing #ink illustration #concept art #my art #speculative biology #speculative fiction #body horrow cw #Annotated Guide for Casual Enthusiasts

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rolybug · 8 months

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Um. my little creatures..

some more info about them, they are pretty heavily based on jerboas, they can go quite a long time without water in situations that demand it (though unlike jerboas they do still need to have a drink after too long).

they take dust baths! usually in big public dust bath houses where the dust is guaranteed to be cleaned.

churill have loads of energy and take many short naps instead of one long sleep like humans. those who live in more urban areas often don't have to worry as much about spending their energy on foraging/farming for food and escaping from predators, so lots of time can go towards leisure, technology, artistic pursuits, etc.

+ version of this w/o the text. that hole back there is a fire pit where food can be cooked.

there isn't one on this particular street, but large cities tend to have trolley systems. there are also train railroads here and there to connect cities.

#oc #art #churill #speculative biology #worldbuilding #← UH. i guess. very light and casual and bare bones but maybe. yall would enjoy. ?? ?#digital art #no idea if i'll stick with the name i gave them but i'll see #smoking cw #in a little corner but nonetheless

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mothsakura · 4 months

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hi hello *throws a sketch of speculative biology of an iterator puppet's chest cavity, and runs off*

#does this need any cws or is this good?#rain world #rw #iterator #speculative biology #GRAHHHHHHHH #honestly this was easier than expected #the puppet vents ARE opened. most of the time they are closed

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theboombutton · 3 months

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Bad Fictional Data vs Fictional Bad Data

WARNING: This post will include discussion of a name that might be Alice Dyer's deadname. I won't be calling Alice by this name or using it in the context of that name being a pointer to Alice, but I will be using the name, uncensored, when talking about where and why the name appeared in chdb.xls .

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You may know that as part of the ARG, the sleuths on Statement Remains uncovered a document called chdb.xls, allegedly a list that has something to do with The Magnus Institute. There's a list of names, ID numbers, first and last names, dates of birth, and information apparently related to each person's "score" in an assortment of psychological/personality tests. Three of the names in particular have stood out in a lot of analyses: Samama Khalid, Gerard Kaey [sic], and Connor Dyer.

You likely don't know that the commonly linked version of the spreadsheet, ported to Google Docs and linked in the TMAGP ARG Masterdoc, is presented out of order. (I'm guessing they didn't lock down editing until it was already all out of order from various people messing with it - totally understandable, this is not a callout post, thank you for making this easily accessible to people.)

But let me tell you about something I discovered by looking at the spreadsheet in its original order, and the almost certainly incorrect rabbit hole of theorizing it has sent me down.

Bad Fictional Data

Until episode 2 I had the same thought about the Dyer listed in the spreadsheet that I think most people did: that it was Alice's deadname, and that she had therefore been one of the Institute's young subjects. But after Alice had absolutely no reaction when Sam mentioned the Magnus Institute to her in episode 2, I now think this is significantly less likely.

Don't get me wrong: it's still reasonable to think that the Dyer listed in chdb.xls is Alice. Maybe she had some kind of supernatural experience that wiped her memory. (It probably wasn't that Alice was too young to remember, as the Dyer on the spreadsheet is listed as being at Piaget Stage 3, which occurs from 7-11 years old; but it's always possible that the Magnus Institute was using the names of legitimate psychological tests to hide their tracks when recording more esoteric data.) The point is, this isn't hard evidence that Alice has no connection to the Magnus Institute; it just made me go looking for more evidence.

I went back to the spreadsheet to look for more clues about whether or not this was Alice's deadname. What I found instead was some extremely sloppy fake data at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

For context, here are first ten names in the spreadsheet:

Note how each ID begins with the name's first and last initial.

Now check out the last ten names:

Not only do these IDs no longer always match their subjects' names, they occur in order: CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV. The first names of each pair match the first letter of each ID, but many, though not all, of the surnames don't match the second letter.

My first thought was that whoever Rusty Quill had contracted to generate these names had gotten sloppy at the end of the list, created the IDs all at once using this alphabetical pattern, and picked names to fill in that roughly matched the IDs. But hey, we could use this to our advantage! Any name that was filled in as part of a series of IDs with an alphabetical pattern like this could be removed from consideration for red string analysis - we'd know they were meaningless fakes added by a lazy contractor, and not clues or characters that might show up again later.

Scrolling back up the spreadsheet, we can see the person generating the data having more care the earlier we go. We find the beginning of the AA/BC/DE/FG/HI pattern at line 136, but at first, the names mostly conform to the initials they've been given. JK09874 "Josie Jordan" at line 154 is the first break from the "first two letters of the ID are their initials" pattern; and breaks occur more often the further you go down the sheet.

Scrolling up to before line 136 (AA09911 - Aaron Atkinson), while the pattern isn't yet at AB/CD/EF/GH levels of obviousness, the first initials are still in alphabetical order. Zoe Hart follows Yara Logan follows Xavier Freeman follows Wyatt Edwards. The data creator skips a few letters - for example Niamh Fenton is followed by Phoebe Emmett, and S and T are together in the same line in Skye Travers.

We can follow this less-obvious version of the alphabetical pattern up to an abrupt break right at line 118, above which the IDs don't follow an alphabetical pattern at all. (They might follow a different pattern, but it's not one that I've found yet.) So that means we can discount all the names in line 118 and below as purely fake, generated lazily by a contractor, and not worthy of our attention for the purposes of red-stringing. Right?

What the fuck?!

(highlight is my own, it is not present in the original document)

My first thought was that the sloppy data generator had done the funniest thing imaginable, sending everyone on a wild goose chase about Alice's deadname just by having the name "Dyer" on the brain while looking for a surname that started with D. This would be Very Funny. No plot relevance, no implications, just the brain fart that launched a thousand theories.

My second thought was that maybe Connor Dyer was the last legit name on the list, and whoever started filling the rest of the sheet in with alphabetical junk data was inspired by the "CD" initials in the first place - whoever it was went on from there.

These are both valid thoughts! But I prefer my third thought:

What if it's on purpose?

Fictional Bad Data

There is a very obvious break between the set of data that doesn't look obviously* fake, and the set of data that is immediately identifiable as such. If we assume that this was intentional - and I want to reiterate that it all being unintentional is still a very real possibility here - why would someone at Rusty Quill want the data to be structured like this?

If the sharp dividing line between reasonable-seeming data and obviously fake data is intentional on RQ's part, it would suggest that we should take the data above row 118 as in-universe real data, and the data below row 118 as in-universe falsified data. It suggests that someone, either at the Institute or after its demise, was adding nonexistent children to the roster of The Magnus Institute. Why would someone want to do that?

There are all kinds of possible reasons, but here are a few off the top of my and my theorizing buddies' heads:

Financial fraud (institutional edition). If the Magnus Institute received funding on a per-child basis, they'd have an incentive to inflate their numbers.

Financial fraud (researcher edition). One or more people on staff were blowing off their child-analysis sessions and recording fake numbers for fake children. This would be ballsy as hell if they could be fired for it, but it was the Magnus Institute, so there's decent odds they couldn't be.

Scientific fraud (faking conclusions edition). The Magnus Institute in the Protocolverse claimed to be doing research on giftedness in children, which is the kind of thing that you'd normally publish in a scientific journal. It's not unheard-of for dickhead academics to falsify data to generate statistically significant results, since statistically insignificant results aren't going to get you published.

Scientific fraud (obscuring paranormal bullshit edition). If the Magnus Institute was using legitimate psychological test names to record Fear-related test results, it's possible their results showed different patterns from what you would expect from the real tests. They could have added the fake children to balance out the dataset as a whole.

Pseudonyms. The children are all real, the Institute just started using fake names for them for privacy purposes. They couldn't go back and change the names they'd already written properly for some reason. Probably something paranormal.

Those are all pretty interesting possibilities, and if we could narrow them down, it might tell us something about what things were like at the Magnus Institute before it burned down!

And the other big question is: why did RQ make the dividing line between the two sections, the first likely-fake entry, Connor Dyer?

One straightforward reason could be as a troll, a red herring to watch fans get in a lather over. And once the community inevitably noticed all the obviously falsified entries, RQ could eat popcorn and watch us lose our minds over whether or not that's even a real entry! (That sounds really fun, I would absolutely do that.)

But let's dig a little deeper, and look at what Connor Dyer being on the border between the real and fake entries would mean in-universe. Because of its position as the border between real and fake, it would be very easy for that entry to be accidentally included in the wrong group - a real research subject discarded as fake, or perhaps more interestingly, a fake research subject accidentally reclassified as real.

Remember, if a name is fake in the context of the Magnus Institute's research, that doesn't mean that the name itself is made up. If I was trying to think of a name that fit the initials CD, and those were the initials of my next door neighbor's kid, I might just write their name in as a lark. Especially if it was my first time trying to get away with falsifying information: this is a kid that verifiably exists and lives in the area.

My theory, supported primarily by my love for The Implications instead of actual evidence

Twenty years on, after all institutional memory of the fraud was long gone, trans icon Alice Dyer applies to work for the OIAR - an institution that (according to this theory) has an unofficial preference for hiring former Magnus Institute kids.

They are very confused when Alice proceeds to act nothing like a former Magnus Institute kid. It doesn't occur to anyone that her entry might have been falsified. What reason would anyone have to do that?

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* Of course people with a background in data analysis or statistics will see immediately that even above line 118 this is a wild-ass dataset that would raise red flags for falsification, but at least it's not "the alphabet over and over" levels of obvious.

#tmagp theory #alice dyer #tmagp arg #chdb.xls #tmagp speculation #tmagp #the magnus protocol #cw deadnaming

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bluexiao · 2 years

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Hi blue! I know this is random but I just want to share this to you. Do you think the Sakura blossom in our inventory is related to scaramouche somehow? Since iirc it's there existing because of someone's will. It even said to check it from time to time since one day it will disappear. There will be a time that the we will meet scara again, I don't know but I felt like the Sakura blossom will play a big part. What do you think?

omggg do you mean this?? Tbh after reading it it can only go ei/makoto’s way or scara’s way and i don’t mind either way:)

if it involves the sakura tree, i don’t think it will involve scara? Since he’s gonna be in sumeru rn are we gonna travel to the tree then…. so if it does, it will most likely be ei or so.

if not, which is possible, then it’s gotta be scara. after all, he is still connected to both ei and makoto, plus ei’s story with makoto is kinda almost finished imo. (tho hoyo can add more too)

#📨#cw speculations #cw leaks

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jayrockin · 2 years

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Some Runaway to the Stars worldbuilding. The poles of the avian homeplanet both have permanent sea ice fields, which are difficult for life to colonize for the same reason sand dunes are. The surface constantly shifts (although much slower than a dune) as it's shaped by wind, currents, melting, and precipitation.

In the North pole, the dominant ecosystem on the ice is globe fields, which are full of conglomerate balls of moss and frost tolerant worm plants. They very slowly roll across the ice, being pushed uphill by the worms into sunlight as their thermal mass slowly melts whatever ice they sit upon.

All of the moss globes are host to a suite of small cold tolerant invertebrates, but a small fraction are also nests for globe bunnies. These small endotherms hollow out the inside of mossball and pack it with insulation. They feed voraciously on invertebrates and other mossballs, though they will also trim the "lawn" surrounding their house, to keep it at a manageable size and roundness for rolling about.

Polar avians find the globe bunnies tasty. The watercolor painting here features one of the larger coastal cities on the North pole landmass. It is essentially one large interconnected building, in classic polar avian style.

PATREON | STORE | Runaway to the Stars

#ask to tag #cw blood #cw guns #avians #speculative biology #runaway to the stars #globe bunnies are like a rain frog with ears and fur lol #aliens #jayart

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fellshish · 4 months

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Kinda dark maybe but what if aziraphale walks into crowley’s apartment in s3 and it’s full of taxidermied nightingales

#good omens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens speculation #cw taxidermy

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cinnamonglaive · 7 months

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“I hope the ATN marriage is Griddlehark!!!”

Is it not enough for you that they are soul bound? That they reside inside each other? That Gideon gave herself as a sacrificial lamb to Harrow, and Harrow rejected this sacrifice even though it would have honored the god they were both supposed to worship? I hope Gideon marries Ianthe and everyone is miserable about it. I hope Naberius’s body is married to Noodle as some sort of sick prank on Ianthe’s part. I hope Alecto marries The First (the planet, no one else). I hope Varun marries Dominicus so the solar system remains habitable even after John is dethroned.

#mine #tlt #gtn #ntn #htn #atn #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #ianthe tridentarius #cw ianthe tridentarius #alecto the first #alecto speculation #john gaius #naberius tern #griddlehark

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monsterfangss · 1 year

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Seraphim are anomalous creatures that inhabit the InBetween.

They exhibit mammalian features such as homeothermy, fur, feathers, and the ability to lactate. However, they follow a life cycle similar to insects.

When seraphim pupate, they form a cocoon around their soft bodies. Over the course of about 20 years, the muscles and soft tissue will break down and reshape. The only part of the body that does not melt are the bones, which remain mostly intact through the entire metamorphosis.

#creature art #creature design #speculative fiction #speculative zoology #creature #fangssart #monster design #original species #speculative evolution #speculativedesign #speculative biology #speculative design #speculative ecology #speculative writing #body horro tw #body horrow cw

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felassan · 21 days

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Now in the BioWare Gear Store: Isabela Romance Bundle

Item description:

"GIVE IN TO THE SIREN'S CALL. What could Isabela possibly be doing out at sea? Drinking? Dueling? Getting into trouble? Actually, she might be daydreaming of sailing into the sunset with you. The Dragon Age Isabela Romance Bundle makes for a great gift for those who played Hawke and fell in love with the self-styled Queen of the Eastern Seas. It includes a piece of jewelry and a never-before-seen love letter—all housed in a gorgeous wooden box carved with a portrait of your beloved Rivaini pirate. Includes: A Letter from Isabela 3.15 x 4.55 in (8 x 11.6 cm) antiqued worn edged love letter Necklace inspired by Isabela's Rivaini Fertility Talisman"

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Transcription of the letter:

"My dear Hawke, Do you know anyone with a flock of parrots? I'm trying to cheat on a bet with Varric and the stakes are exceedingly high. If you help me, I shall take you to that breathtaking beach you so crave. Free of ancient horrors, too. I think. I'd hate to take respite from all my adventures, but there are other ways to make the heart flutter. In fact I'm already imagining a few. Aren't you? Sailing there can be fatal, but Admiral Isabela will keep you safe. Are you interested? I would love to see you again. Yours, Isabela"

🥺🥺

"Admiral Isabela".. this letter was written in 9:41 Dragon or after.

(thanku to @iceta for helping me figure out a word in the letter for the transcript!)

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#dragon age #bioware #feels #video games #long post #longpost #gpoy #alcohol cw #AAAAA fuck...#🥺🥺🥺..#thanku to user iceta for helping me with the transcript :)#also if anything in my transcription of the letter is incorrect pls let me know :)#this makes me think of the theories/speculation some ppl have that in DA:D our 'base' will be a boat with Isabela as the captain hh :)#hmm lately tumblr coding is doing something weird with italics when used in indented blocks of text sorry :(#iceta

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