Planets and plants are weird
Context one, two and three (the comments here heavily influenced this)
"It caught on fire again!"
Exclaimed Everie for the third time in as many months. His colleagues - Henrietta and Gieverne - are pondering their own problems. The three scientists (plus five currently normal Human not-mutated interns) were busy being frustrated with the dinosaur planet they named Ramforinkus.
Large swathes of the planet seem to just... catch on fire randomly, probably due to the high oxygen concentration. What's weird is that even though the atmosphere is mostly homogeneous the fires don't spread more than about 7-9 kilometers at a time, and only burn the top layer of vegetation. The ferns are quite fire retardant, and the lower levels of the insanely deep forests and jungles are rich in carbon dioxide.
It appears the plant-life maintains some sort of semi-gaseous moisture layer that traps the CO2 below, but releases it once they detect their upper leaves are burning, quenching the flames. The burnt leaves fall down and create a kind of natural fertilizer.
In a similar manner, the algae layer covering every body of water we could discern also regularly catches on fire. This, however, burns up almost the entire area, which can be from a few thousands to several hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, creating a very awful sludge layer that slowly sinks and poisons the water. Well, it would be poisonous if this planet had any kind of fish or other fauna. As it stands, it just becomes a very healthy source of food for the algae spores.
Due to this volatile nature, the local atmospheric composition shifts quite wildly in short bursts, rendering it impossible for any unshielded creature we were planning to introduce to survive. Even if we made it fire resistant (which we did after quite a few trials) we have so far been unable to make one that can breathe air that has almost no CO2 and high O2, to almost the inverse.
Even by Human standards, we have to admit that this is, in fact, a Deathworld.
In the upper layers that is.
It took Gieverne almost a month to get approval to transfer the station here plus a nightmarish effort to actually tow it through hyperspace. We are not giving up that easily.
The lower layers, especially down by the root systems, are actually quite stable. And the soil is incredibly rich. Okay, the air down there is almost entirely unbreathable for any known species within the Galaxy, save for some extremophile bacteria, but it is a stable impossibility, and we can work with that.
If we can't have flying dinosaurs here, then we'll make burrowing ones! Henrietta finished a mug of extra strong cup of cocoa and muttered ominously, to the dismay of her intern:
"Mark my words, Ramforinkus. You will either sustain dinosaurs I make for you, or I'll remake you into a world where the ones I grew up with in picture books can live on."
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I drew out my idea for Selene’s sabotage (I wanted to make one for Wisp too but couldn’t think of anything ;—;)
(For context Chizuki sawed off half the rope Selene’s aerial hoop would break in the middle of the show and since it happened so quickly Selene wasn’t able to react in time and crashed into the ground. She had to be sent to the hospital from major fall injuries)
You literally read my mind!
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I am 1 follower away from 100 followers WHAAAAT?!?!?!
I want to hug you all and just keep you all safe in a little box 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for enjoying my little doodle and ramblings!!!
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Gá is nurna gangan yng yng pjar
Hang hang gang gang
Hymir ganda skadla hym hym gan
Fold fold Har har
Ou mi galdr maðr áss áss æt
Óm óm gal gal
Fu thork haniast bjamlyr futh fu thork
Futh futh bjam bjam
Hyndla horskr móðr má má kat
Hap hap tak tak
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Apparently I thought that I’m the only one who needed inspired by Christmas Barbie Atreus Yule Edition with Heilung inspired horns, but reception of WIP for this artwork proved me wrong, which is great.
So, here he is, with his full glory, bearing Kratos sprear, Feyes shield and warpaint in honor of this father.
All I have left is wishing you Marry Christmas (as it is Christmas artwork, sorta), as well any other seasonal celebration you may currently have <3
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I just got the best freaking news ever!!! Or for a long time at least...My bachelors thesis that was the worst nightmare to write this year, and that I was sure I would fail at I just received the news that I have passed. It definitely wasn't good grade (3,0 = satisfactory) but I didn't fail... Only one more assignment and then I am out of this hell 😭😭😭😭
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