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Playing with some ideas mostly regarding gender/reproduction in RW, and slugcat colonies.
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Creatures in Rain World are typically simultaneous hermaphrodites but require partners to reproduce, with either individual capable of being a genetic donor or carrier. Alongside what we are familiar with, this has lead to interesting reproductive strategies such as rotating donor/carrier roles, or dual/simultaneous genetic swaps.
Rotating donor/carrier roles - A K-selection reproductive strategy. One partner carries the first child, the other partner carries the next child, and so forth. Allows each partner to recover from the demands of childbearing.
Rain Deer aren't quite monogamous, but they tend to choose the same breeding partner whenever mating season rolls around. They serve as a donor one season, then bear and raise a child the next. Calves are raised away from the rain and worm grass, in places that have less food but more safety. Calf wool is softer, not yet gunked up by the dirty rainfall. Their legs are sturdier as children, allowing them to run for cover while the parent wards off threats.
Dual/simultaneous genetic swap - An r-selection reproductive strategy. Parents fulfill the donor and carrier role for each other. The more children you make, the more likely some are to survive!
Multiple batflies lay thousands of eggs in a single "blue fruit." Several eggs congeal and become nutrient paste for the surviving eggs (and for hungry slugcats). Like some plant seeds, batfly eggs that are consumed before pupating can survive passing through the digestive system. Ew.
Ancients also fell under this umbrella. Their genders (and the genders of iterators by extension, who have no sex anyways) could have been determined by a variety of other factors, such as societal role, donor/carrier preference, or simply different categorizations of personal expression.
It's difficult to say how well their common pronouns would translate to ours, but it seems they can translate to an extent, given what Moon and Pebbles use canonically.
Slugcats, like real slugs, can have children with a partner or self-fertilize. Unlike real slugs, they are often known to adopt.
In the case of self-fertilization: children who are born from one parent may display a large amount of genetic diversity despite the circumstances. Maybe slugcats have some sort of... genetic reservoir independent of their own genetic code?
Slugcats live 20-30 years on average... if they manage to reach adulthood. Their mortality rate is sadly rather high, especially in pups. If they were to develop as a civilization, it's likely their lifespan would increase dramatically.
Slugcats in a colony are more likely to have more children, and to successfully rear those children to adulthood, than those who wander alone or in small groups. The safety and stability of a colony cannot be understated.
Colonies either have a set, cycling migration path, or wander continuously. Survivor and Monk's tree home was a nesting site that their colony frequents about once a year. So it's likely that they'll see their family again!
...also, the strength of large colonies are why scavengers are likely to become the dominant species. In the time of Saint's era, continuous migration has become more of a risk, and it has become more difficult to support large populations. Slugcat populations have shrunk back to the more forgiving equatorial zones.
Saint's tongue is pretty unusual and probably unique to them, or to a small population that they hail from. Fur (of varying thickness) is much more common.
Meanwhile, scavengers are bulkier and covered in thicker insulating fur. They:
have seemingly massive populations
have a burgeoning society (the existence of merchants, tolls, bartering, elites and leaders)
are adept at communicating (non-verbally)
manipulate their environment
can build structures (scavenger-made structures were a scrapped idea from Saint's campaign)
can create complex weapons and tools
may have agriculture behind the scenes (unsure if scout parties prioritize exploration or hunting)
I would wager on scavengers developing more quickly than slugcats, but it would be nice if there was a future where both could co-exist.
#oops! impromptu rendering practice!#rotating donor/carrier roles could also be an r-selection strat#but i feel like it'd be more common as a k-selection strat#rain world#worldbuilding#headcanons#flickerdoodles#art#um#ask to tag?#that goes for all of my posts#rw spoilers#dp spoilers#saint spoilers#long post
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Day 21
[ID: Artificer, Spearmaster, Rivulet and Hunter as musketeers. They are wearing similar garbs but in different colors and patterns, with different shapes of hat feathers and symbols that match their respective iterators. They raise their different spears, uniting them in the air. The overall color palette is warm and oldish. /End ID]
#rain world#rainworld#fanart#rainworld downpour#slugcat#rain world downpour#dp spoilers#downpour spoilers#my art#rw art month#panseared art
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family meeting misunderstandings (although, Dani is technically right...)
#danny phantom#danny phantom fanart#danny phantom a glitch in time#dp agit#dp spoilers#danny phantom spoilers#welp the train of dumb comics is starting#get ready folks
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#danny phantom#danny fenton#dp#a glitch in time#DP spoilers#agit#agit spoilers#the ultimate enemy#TUE on its own is wild but man the graphic novel uh
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the pain i feel when i think of dps is so bad, but i’m so interested as to why everyone feels this way. why do we all feel genuine loss towards neil? why do we all feel sadness start to grow whenever we think about the movie too much? is it because of how real it felt? how the scenes were shot and the dialogue was read? was it the settings? the actors? perhaps the fact that the story was just a part of their lives and that there was no happy ending? or that we’ve all felt as low as neil has and have all been at that point? when the snow’s falling and the night is chill we’ve all gone down that rabbit hole of thought and wondered how people would react, and his friends’ reactions were so raw and real. the movie properly captures and portrays a certain type of reality that we can relate to, even if we’ve never been there. the heaviness of the topics accompanied by the actor’s acting makes us all live it in such a heartbreaking way. something like this has happened before and will happen a million times more, and we’re helpless to stop it. we were helpless to stop neil, and we’ll be helpless to stop everyone else. hell, even neil’s friends couldn’t save him. i think the fact that neil was this happy, go lucky guy who always had a smile on his face was what hit the most. no one could stop what was coming, and no one truly saw it coming. even throughout the movie todd was the one with the more prominent issues, however neil was the one to step forward and do the unimaginable. neil was trapped and the only way he saw out was, well, out. and everyone can relate to that.
#dead poets society#dead poets fandom#dead poets headcanons#todd anderson#charlie dalton#neil perry#knox overstreet#gerard pitts#richard cameron#steven meeks#john keating#dps#dps boys#dps fandom#dp spoilers#anderperry#dead poets
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Find the comic funny with Dan and Vlad because it was basically
Dan: I HAVE NO WEAKNESS
Vlad: See that’s where you’re wrong you’re a part of me- and being part of me makes you an epic fail cringe loser with issues a therapist will need a therapist for
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some ideas on how he'd do his hair
#literally what the fuck do i call him#i dont want to call him Dan tbh#but just 'phantom' is suuuuper confusing#guess theres always 'dark danny' to fall back on#agit spoilers#a glitch in time#danny phantom#dp spoilers
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#i'm never gonna move past these panels#i'm gonna be here emotionally forever#danny phantom#dan phantom#agit spoilers#a glitch in time#dp spoilers#my posts
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quickly doodled a few val agit outfit ideas since she didnt get any </3
#danny phantom#a glitch in time#danny phantom a glitch in time#dp spoilers#my art#fan art#valerie gray#danny phantom spoilers#agit#a glitch in time spoilers
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shout out to neil perry, your ass would’ve LOVED asleep by the smiths
#i am projecting#i’m gay and sad#neil perry#dead poets fandom#dead poets headcanons#dead poets society#dps fan fic#dps fandom#steven meeks#charlie dalton#todd anderson#dead poets#anderperry#the smiths#dps#dps boys#dp spoilers#dps headcanons#dps memes#dps fanfiction#dps fanart#dps fic#dps hcs#dead poets memes#dead poets fanfic#dead poets society memes
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ah yes, the iterator to which nothing bad happens: slivered straw
#ETA: halloween was two months ago. i have no sense of time actually#rain world#flickerdoodles#art#rw spoilers#dp spoilers#saint spoilers#sliver of straw
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Badly
#rain world#rainworld#fanart#rainworld downpour#slugcat#rain world downpour#dp spoilers#downpour spoilers#my anthro au#comic#panseared art#my art#artificer#long#no id
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same energy
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Edit: Read the entire fucking rant i am done with people misunderstanding this over & over
I AM SO SICK OF PEOPLE ALWAYS TALKING HOW ARTIFICER IS IN THE WRONG & NEVER TALKING ABOUT HOW THE SCAVS STABBED HER CHILDREN OVER A PEARL LIKE YES ARTIFICER IS IN THE WRONG & SHE DID WORSE THAN THE SCAVS BUT COULD WE PLEASE ALSO TALK ABOUT WHAT THE SCAVS DID WAS HORRIBLE ASWELL??? I SEE SO MANY PEOPLE TRYING TO JUSTIFY SCAVS BECAUSE THEY STABBED HER CHILDREN & THAT FUCKING PISSES ME OFF LIKE THEY SAY "Scavengers can Kill whoever steals their things" EVEN BABIES??? Fucking tell me how Is that ok stabbing a fucking baby over some object isnt the Life of the baby more important??? I feel sorry for the innocent scavs ngl but- WHAT 😭 Bro if 99% of scavs werent fucking assholes nothing would have happened, the pups were the ones who died for a very stupid fucking reason permanently too, the scavs respawned, Scavs have all the rights to kill someone when taking their stuff but - NOT THE PUPS😭 they dont even know what a scavenger is all they know is what food & mom are
This Is my First rant about Artificer's story because i am very pissed off about how i never see people talking About How scavs value Objects more than the lives of babies
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lumity is canon in the danny phantom universe
#danny phantom#danny phantom a glitch in time#lumity#a glitch in time#dp#agit#danny phantom spoilers#danny phantom a glitch in time spoilers#a glitch in time spoilers#agit spoilers#dp spoilers
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yeehaw ??
#agit spoilers#a glitch in time spoilers#danny phantom spoilers#dp spoilers#girl help is that enough#i havent even read it yet💥💥💥 i just saw cowboys and blacked out and found these on the paper#idek if hes human at all in the cowboy outfit i just wanted to see what itd look like swapped around skfhf#need this outfit honestly#danny phantom#doodles#danny fenton
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