Optimistic Mantelope

Welcome to our wonderful grassy world of song and hoofprints! Could you please lend us a hand...?

[optimistic-mantelope]

𝕸𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖔𝖕𝖊 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖙: All Tomorrows (Remastered)

[optimistic-mantelope]

Hey Mantelopes!, I have a very, well, sensitive question that you will find as equally sensitive but painful. Since you guys are already 17 at a time, since your overlords (qu) abandoned you, I wondered if you guys were aware of other post-humans, like really aware of it. And what you thought on such a post-humans. Also let me be list in order to not make things already confusing. Blind Folk

Bone Crushers

Colonials

Finger Fishers

Flyers

Hand Flappers

Hedonists

Insectophagi

Lizard Herders

Lopsiders

(Mantelopes aka (you guys

Parasites

Predators

Prey

Ruin Haunters

Spacers

Striders

Swimmers

Temptors

Titans

Worms

Oh! A signal over the comm channel! Hello, hello!

Do we know of other post-humans? Well, sure, we do! We witnessed a lot of their fates during the Qu age, anyways. But now that the empire is gone, we don't know what's happened to the rest of post-humanity.

I'm sure us manties are doing relatively great!

[digestedvocalcords]

ow my throat hurts from singing

character is my AT oc, Delta

[ewbrad]

i read All Tomorrows and im different now

[optimistic-mantelope]

it tends to change a person

[digestedvocalcords]

All Tomorrows Oc

does anyone still like AT??

[optimistic-mantelope]

I have a hard time believing Mantelopes call themselves ‘Mantelopes.’ I bet Nemo Ramjet and other xenoarcheologists just came up with the term based on fossils and what they gleamed from surviving Qu records. The quadrupedal posthumans would have a completely different name (or several) for themselves.

[optimistic-mantelope]

189 votes and 8 comments so far on Reddit

[optimistic-mantelope]

311 votes and 21 comments so far on Reddit

[veluni]

all tomorrows high school dating sim

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[optimistic-mantelope]

I need this game. I want to romance that emo mantelope.

[optimistic-mantelope]

Funny to think about how the galactic reign of the Qu was comparatively a great time for the Mantelope, what with being cared-for bipeds who still felt they had purpose (however menial and involuntary it may be).

[optimistic-mantelope]

r/AllTomorrows - Mantelope Sketch

58 votes and 1 comment so far on Reddit

[angerlopestomorrow]

YALL THOUGHT I WAS GONE FOREVER!?

Have a Wi'lli, a Forsaken freelancer. Formerly a fighter pilot before crashing landing on a Killer Folk world, surviving the wilderness and locals until a Mourner ship appeared to retrieve their missing herdmates. Since then, the rush of it all awakened an adventurer out of the mantelope.

And yes, he made friends with the local Killer Folk and got one in his adventure squad.

[optimistic-mantelope]

We aren’t about to vanish, yet! I’m always so glad when I see new All Tomorrows works like this. Mantelopes actually getting to interact with the Second Empire.

[angsttronaut]

getting goth about mantelopes in this house

thinking about the first generation of baby mantelopes, quickly traumatised by the way they're treated by the Qu, and the stories of what they have lost from their parents (and perhaps they can feel how wrong their bodies are, what they should be but never can be again)

and it goes on and on through the generations, until the Qu leave. utter slaugher, creatures that were never designed to survive alone and still painfully aware that their original forms would've helped them. they wander the freshly empty world and sing sad songs. maybe they have a bit of hope that they'll evolve and things will be better for their species again.

then, after a few generations, something bad starts to happen. the newer mantelopes don't remember as much, struggle to grasp concepts that their ancestors could even as they feel the same sorrow. their songs become like screams as they lament even greater loss, their diet and lifestyle selecting for those that focus more on the basic matters of survival, nevermind things like stories or thinking or sentience. and one day there's a mantelope born, their herd as dull eyed as the rest of the beasts around them, knowing and feeling more than they should. and when they die, everything that their species once was is gone

[screenshotsofdespair]

[optimistic-mantelope]

‘A Mantelope’s Hymn’ by Chuchoter Cauchemar, from their album 0UR0B0R0S. Lyrics below.

We, oh we, have lost what it means to be With our cold and broken psychology Centuries wasted in our biology

Our blood tastes like honey, And our skulls don't fit our heads. Please don't give us mercy, All we want is death.

Our prosper and our fervor, Was melded at the seams. For an unforgiving end, Our nerves and veins all plead.

We're no longer human, The gods have bent their knee. Misery and hopeless lives, Living in futility.

So when we eternally lie, In these cold husks. Just let us remember, What was once us.

Everything we've lost, Will one day come back. We just know, We were made to die.

[neildylandy]

nowhere to run

[optimistic-mantelope]

I love seeing things like this, even though I don’t post as much! I always feel I’m into a very niche aspect of All Tomorrows, so it really makes my tears happy when I see how much of a chord it strikes with other humans!