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[bongwater-kun-deactivated202507]

[lichenaday]

Rhabdodiscus granulosus 

Frosted volcano lichen

Is he pretty? No. Is he unique and easy to identify? Also no. Do we know any particularly interesting facts about him? Also no. But you know what? You gotta give it up for the ugly, milquetoast, inconspicuous fellas out there, sometimes. Every lichen has its day, and today its his, so here we go. R. granulosa is a crustose lichen that grows on the bark of trees in tropical habitats. It has a thin, warty, greenish-gray thallus dotted with sunken-disked apothecia immersed in the surface warts. The center of the disc juts up toward the surface of the wart in a dark brown columella, often obscured by a thick layer of floury pruina. In North America, R. granulosa is particularly fond of bald cypress as a substrate.

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[noot4444]

I love him

[forgetmenautical]

rainworld slugs! :V I put way too much thought into this

other notes under cut cause I thought about it a lot

their skeleton isn’t normal bone, it’s actually a mix of normal and prismatic cartilage! this keeps their bones light and flexible while still giving them the ability to tightly grasp and bite things. they all have prismatic cartilage for their jaws except for spearmaster, which discourages them to eat using their mouth since it’s extremely time consuming and uncomfortable given that their diet otherwise isn’t intended to be small plant particles and plankton.

spearmasters spines/spears from its tail are also full of digestive enzymes. this won’t kill prey by itself, but once downed spearmaster can just chillax as the enzymes do their thing inside the body and the visceral mush is returned to spearmasters digestive system for processing.

all of them have some sort of internal shell in their mantle except for saint. Rivulets is vestigal and very thin to allow for more complex movement but they do still have it. In the evolutionary timeline of scug—>furred scug, at some point it became more efficient to develop thick, dense fur that could deal with the cold while simultaneously protecting them. saints pneumatostome is also almost entirely gone and is more just an unusually soft spot on their back.

I interpret artificer, gourmand, and watcher to be apart of a “future” generation of scugs far beyond survivor, hunter, and monk—though obviously not as far into the future as saint is. they developed cerata to mimic lizards, since a lot of organisms will think twice before messing with a lizard rather than a slugcat, which is (typically) much less deadly.

hunter, artificer, and spearmaster are all malnourished, which isn’t super noticeable in the way I drew them but I’d just like to point it out cause it’s important 2 me lol.

[sheerricetorrent]

Day 1 - Noodlefly

[noot4444]

Thinking of making a scug type based on this anatomically inaccurate snail pin

[doodlepede]

hey Rain World fans. I'm gonna show you a lore interpretation that I personally have never seen anyone talk about except myself. If you know me as Sliverist, then you know what's up.

Everyone knows the first five Karma glyphs represent the so-called Five Natural Urges. Violence, reproduction, trade and social connection, eating, and self preservation. People generally believe the next Karma glyphs before the tenth are meaningless, but this is WRONG. Understanding this revelation requires seeing the big picture, which I will guide you through.

Rain World really likes to blur the line between organic and inorganic, with the most obvious example being the Iterators themselves, these biomechanical superstructures whose function in large part is outsourced to their "microbe strata" (Purple SL pearl), but it goes even further, into the very world design.

Five Pebbles' internal structure resembles a brain with its many sections all divided into specific regions with specific purposes. His chamber makes the resemblance even more obvious, where you can clearly see the brainstem.

Within Five Pebbles' dark interior swim swarms of colorful neurons which turn white in broad daylight, each one a carrier of information. Often, they are brushed along by cilia lining the computer halls.

The Void Sea writhes with a swarm of beings enormous beyong reckoning which closely resemble real neurons. The void worm that takes interest in the slugcat uses a dendrite to make a tether to drag the slugcat to its final destination.

As the slugcat swims and swims, it is joined by countless many just like it, and together they swim toward the light, referred to in the code as "TheEgg" (VoidSeaScene.cs)

This is the table of Karma, showing every level above Five. Doesn't it look rather like..

dividing cells being crossed out?

In Rain World, birth and life, cognition and enlightenment, death and ascension are all inextricably connected concepts. You might even say they're connected in a cycle. The imagery and themes are rich and complete, integrated fully into the world. This is even without mentioning the voidspawn which also resemble sperm, swimming to the same place. This is why Ascension is the best ending :artiyoy:

[noot4444]

I wanna make a rain world mod where the noodleflies are worms on a string

I'm never gonna have the time but if someone else does it I will love you in every lifetime

[noot4444]

Halfway through 2022, I gave up on playing Rain World. My baby gaming skills weren't up to the task. But it didn't give up on me. In the year since, the world has lived in my mind and my dreams. It sank into my skin. It was patient, happy to bide its time. It knew I'd be back.

It was right. I started playing again a few weeks ago. I've spent several entire days exploring the urban jungle, often ignoring real-life ambitions to do so. After all this time, I'm nowhere near tired of it. Think it's time to run up the white flag and let this be my Next Great Xeno Obsession.

Let's make a deal, Rain World, and leverage this for good. You can fixate me, and in return, I'll use this love to get better at art. I'm going to make so much Rain World stuff. Through that, I'm going to get better at drawing, more consistent at writing, and motivated to finally build that website. Welcome aboard, mutual.

This will be quite the symbiosis.