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friteyard

So, those new chapters

rhekiki

go my josuyasu yuri

gulpd

porunareff

Am I the only one that is terrified by John Rod??

....why terrify frend..... he j ust.... little gu y

catneychu

A wip but Holly would have loved Caesar

daisanfar

🌟 for our future

nopanamaman

my best friend in the whole entire world

lattescribble

happy birthday, heathcliff

limbus-company-badly

GIVE HER HER HAIR BACK AUUEUEU :(((

she is greedy and takes up half the screen . take up the full screen next time ishmael :(

ah..... such glorious sunset....

catneychu

Part 1 | Part 2

I guess I’m gonna have to trust you.

jayrockin

Almost Real's POP CULTURE issue is live on Kickstarter! Time to introduce the cute yet vaguely horrible cover critter, a living gachapon toy bioengineered by scud aliens!

The wild gachapede is a segmented worm-like arthropoid that lives parasitically inside a bivalve-like "giant diatom" in shallow, sandy-bottomed seas of the scud homeplanet. The giant diatom's shell is made of two interlocking lid-like frustules of transparent silica, allowing light to pass through to its veins of symbiotic unicellular algae. Much like the microscopic diatoms of earth, giant diatoms reproduce in two different ways, asexually and sexually. Asexual reproduction is carried out by the two frustules separating and each generating a new frustule, a phase during which they may be parasitized by the gachapede. But because the new frustule is always smaller than the old one, like the lid and body of a box, eventually one lineage of giant diatoms is too small to safely carry out asexual reproduction. These tiny ones will finally give up and reproduce sexually by releasing sperm and eggs that will join to create new larvae and maximum-size giant diatoms. The parasitic gachapede has a relatively low impact on a large healthy giant diatom, as it lays dormant until the frustules split, surviving off the "bloodstream" of unicellular algae.

Scuds have used the unique properties of these two organisms in combination with their civilization's advanced biotech to create a collectable toy; twisting the basic bodyplan of the gachapede into thousands of variations of "funny little guys." The wild diatom has been modified into a "gachapod," which is far more spacious and transparent than its wild counterpart. To obtain the toy, you crack open the two frustles and recycle the gachapod (which will now grow into two new pods). However, once removed from its food source, the gachapede typically only lives a couple days at most. At the end of its life, its cuticle calcifies and makes them into a rigid figurine. Scuds who are really into the gachapede scene will pose their gachapede into a desirable pose like a insect collector pinning a bug.

Anyways, if you want to read about even more strange, horrifying, and fascinating intersections of biology and pop culture, check out Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine. We've also got a big thick book of the previous issues with different themes, including Mythology, Biotechnology, Aquatics, and Flight.

hijx

For Gloria 🌼

bakedbrownpotato

my first post

I present to thee: Don Quixote fanart inspired by the cover art for the song I Want Things To Be Beautiful. No I have not finished C7. Yes I know enough info on it.

not super satisfied with it but it is what it is. I like it :)