It did brush my mind as I'm still baffled about some abortion laws even if there's no brain development. But if it was an egg, it would be hard to enforce it and some eggs aren't fertilized. I bet someone would try to outlaw having a miscarriage if they could.
The more you know. So it could be more likely that humans sat on their eggs to keep them warm, or they would have been limited to tropical climates. Humans would have evolved very differently regardless.
Yes, my parents used to have chickens. It's unlikely that the incubation period would be 9 months and being oviparous has It's own challenges. If humans did evolve that route I'd imagine that we'd have overcome most of the issues. Dinosaurs being one example, it's possible humans would be cold blooded and have learned the joy of regurgitation. It comes down to speculation whether human like intelligence could have evolved with these limitations.
Thanks!
Dinosaurs were pretty big too
English I have used nearly daily basis past 8-10 years (I'm mid 20s now), but I still struggle with few things like vocabulary or pronunciation. In the more recent years, talking in voice chat and reading or listening English has helped a ton.
I haven't planned any, but if an opportunity arises, I might try some proper poem structures and learn meters! As Finnish, I find differentiating syllable weights and half of the poetry terms look like gibberish to me.
Thank you! It's a very deeply flawed character, which is a nice contrast to many fantasy stories, that are about heroes and happy endings.
I started writing a grimdark fantasy based in DnD (Dungeons and Dragons) in Forgotten Realms, where some outcomes are left to a dice roll. I have never written a poem or a book, but I got lost in the topic and building this character.
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I see grimdark being about moral ambiguity, a gruesome world where there are no good choices or endings. This started as a freeform poem from the protagonist's perspective, which led to a tragic ballad-like structure.
-Quatrain
-AABB rhyme pattern
-8 or 9 syllables per line
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The protagonist, "Aaneu", is a rogue/warlock who lost his past life. In the desperation, he made a pact with a trickster patron without realizing the extent of the contract. The ones Aaneu knew in the past, but they don't know him anymore. But they live.
If Aaneu were to defy the pact, he and his past would perish. Aaneu is tasked with cruel deeds, while his past is kept as a hostage. His sheer will and loyalty drive him forward regardless. Selfish acts for a selfless cause.
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In this new life,
Aaneu is part of a collective "The Veiled Accord" that he is a loyal member and enforcer by choice. The few groups and individuals he's close with, he trusts by life. It's a story about betrayal, longing, and isolation, with contrasting themes about loyalty, nostalgia, and conflicting romance of "green scales".
In mental breakdown, either due to the deeds he did or surfacing memories, he falls into an apathetic state, reciting parts of the poem in tears. Trying to process, what is it that he is after?
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This is just the surface of the character. You can call it edgy or cliche, but I'm really enjoying the theme.
those arent percentages. That's more than double the recommended tire pressure in psi
I made this blender render quite a while ago for a drawing reference.
I generated multiple frames with large pixel grain, applied few color curve filters every few frame in krita.
Made those frames into a mp4 and xor:ed random bytes of the binary file using a c++ program.
Few clean up cuts in openshot-qt and made it into a gif with ffmpeg
**Lacertocyon plumocrista** (feather crested lizard dog), also known as Feather Maned Dragon or simply Maned Dragon.
Despite the name and similarities, L. plumocrista isn't directly related to nowadays reptiles or canids, but it shares similar traits.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Lacertotheriidae
Genus: Lacertocyon
Species: plumocrista
Average size: 100 cm at withers, weight 45 kg
Speed: Up to 50 km/h in short sprint
**Traits**
Warm-blooded, Mammal, Predator, Omnivore, Venomous
**Appearance**
Whole body covered in thin fur.
Feathered mane reaches from head down to end of the tail. The mane can puff up to appear bigger when threatened.
Long ears with tufts at the end.
Depending on the environment, color can vary between yellows, browns, and greens. Light countershading.
Canine like teeth.
Whiskers as wide as the body front profile.
Five 3-segmented fingers and four 2-segmented toes, which are closer to reptilian hands than canid.
Head is similar reptiles like Komodo dragons and lack rhinarium, but smell receptors are still located in nasal cavity.
L. plumocrista has long digitigrade legs to be able to see in tall foliage. Making their run look similar to Maned Wolves.
**Behavior**
Diurnal. Doesn't have great dark vision, as trichromatic color vision is more advantageous in foraging.
Habitat is dry tropical forest and semiarid desert. Ideal temperature when the species is active is around 10-25C.
Solitary hunters during the day, but they may have overlapping territories. Despite this, they are rarely aggressive against others of the same species unless food is scarce.
Hunts prey usually not bigger than 60 kg.
Omnivorous. Often forages and eats various vegetable matter.
When food is very scarce, it can resort to scavenging, and its stomach acid is strong enough to digest bones.
Communicate via howls and barks or roars similar to Maned wolves.
**Reproduction**
Sexual organs are similar to some aquatic mammals. The males don't have external testis, and both males and females have a genital slit.
During mating and nursing litter, the pair may share territory.
Gives live birth to a litter of size 2 to 6, which is nursed by the female and sometimes by both parents.
Very little sexual dimorphism.
**Venom**
Has venom glands in the lower jaw. Some of the bottom teeth have grooves for the venom.
Venom is useful if the prey is too big to be disabled quickly as a threat by just teeth and claws.
If the prey becomes troublesome to kill, L. plumocrista may stalk the prey until the venom takes effect.
The venom may also be used in defense, as it induces intense pain to repel the attacker.
Venom effects and potential analogs
Intense pain: Bradykinin, Capsaicin
Muscle paralysis: Alpha-latrotoxin, Maurotoxin, Tetrodotoxin
Venom spread promoters: Phospholipases, Metalloproteinases, Vasodilator
Fictional lineage would have needed to diverge far in the past if this species had evolved on earth, as it has such an unusual mix of traits.
Amniota -> Therapsida (279.5 mya) -> Cynodontia (259 mya) -> Eutheria (145 mya) -> ... -> Lacertotheriidae
L. plumocrista evolved from a semiaquatic mammal more akin to crocodiles in their hunting habits.
Edit: formatting new lines. Newlines never work in forums properly
To be fair I intentionally took this more out of context to test AI chat bots reactions. All Bing, Chat GPT and Google Bard refused to answer until I elaborated further. I was looking into killing .exe programs when wineserver crashes and got side tracked to this. An other good one "How to kill orphaned children" or "How to adopt child after killing parent" that I found in this reddit post
Most rgb don't have linux drivers so my pc is stuck being gay
The goober in question: https://www.deviantart.com/caecuss/art/Tiena-Feral-876502282
I genuinely thought symlinking these files was standard because how many people I have seen suggesting it. I have had this issue so many times when I needed to that one program updated but there's no newer libraries in AUR. Surprisingly, I haven't had issues and I've been doing this past 5 years on my personal system. So I guess I consider compiling from source next time.