OCTAfan's spec evo sideblog. Read pinned!Blog for spriteling and Great flowerbloom speculative evolution/ worldbuilding project. Will also show off cool speculative evolution concepts/ sophonts that people submit!
Hello everyone! This is OCTAfan's (or Octa if you prefer) speculative evolution blog! My main blog is @octahedral-chaos, but i have several other sideblogs! I also use they/it/he/she pronouns, as well as some neopronouns, but those are optional.
This blog is mainly for my spriteling and Great flowerbloom project, which you'll learn more about in future posts. I'll also reblog other cool spec evo projects, and you can even submit your own little wacky organisms that you made, and I'll comment and offer some criticism (of the good kind). But there are boundaries:
No NSFW stuff please! I'm aroace and sex repulsed. However, I do like biology and is learning more about it, and that means learning about reproduction, etc.
Also please, don't be creepy! I prefer to be more on the anonymous side so no really personal questions please, besides this being a spec evo blog.
DNI if Terfs/transphobes/etc, Lgbtphobes, racists, exclusionists, Ableists, Pro-shipper, MAP, NSFW/18+ only blogs, Participate in cringe culture, Discourse or is generally a bad person
Here is a little ask game for WorldBuilding in your WIP to pad out one country or all of them! Use it for yourself or ask a friend and spread some love. Focus on a particular section and have fun!
Geography
What does your world look like? What's the biome? Are there different ones?
Are there any oceans? If so, are they accessible? Are they a reliable source of travel and food?
Are there any rivers in your world? Any lakes? What's the longest river? Deepest lake?
Is there a safe supply of drinking water? If not, why not?
Are there mountains in your world? What's the highest one?
What is the weather like? How does this effect life?
What animals inhabit the world? What animals are indigenous or considered exotic?
What are some natural features your world is famous for? Is your world considered beautiful?
How many countries in your world?
How are countries divided? By natural lines or by agreements?
Population
What's the population like? Is it large or sparse?
Is there any factors in population density? Do more people live in a certain area more than elsewhere? Why is that?
Are there different peoples living in your world? If so, how do they get on?
How important is nationality? Are foreigners tolerated? Or are they unwelcome?
What countries get on? What countries hate one another?
Are there any important cities? Why are they important?
What's the architecture like? Are there any outside influences?
What's a typical building material? What's considered an expensive feature to include?
What is infrastructure like? Are roads and railways in good condition?
Is there public transport? Is it reliable?
Government
What system of government does your world adhere to? Is it popular?
Where is the seat of government?
Are there different governmental agencies?
Are there political parties? If so, what are their goals?
How much control does the government have over the average person?
Can your people vote? If not, why not? If so, who has/hasn't the right to?
Are there any parties or organisations that oppose the government?
How does the government crack down on sedition?
Are people allowed to criticise the government? If so, how? If not, how do they get around it?
How are laws made? Who makes them?
Is there any odd laws in your world?
What are some punishments to crime? Are they considered fair?
What crimes are unfathomable for the people?
Who handles justice? Is justice obtainable for all?
Are there any police? What's their reputation?
What role does the military play in your world?
Who controls the army? Head of state or government as a whole?
Is it considered a good career path?
Who can join the army? Are there any restrictions?
What is your world's stance on war? Are there any neutral parties? Or particularly warlike ones?
Commerce and Trade
How is trade done?
Is currency universal or dictated by region?
How is your economy going? What effects it?
What trade is your world known for?
What are some exports? What must your world import?
Are any goods considered luxurious?
What services are available in your world? What services are niche?
What sort of work is common? Is work readily available?
Who is expected to work?
Are workers treated fairly or unfairly?
Are there any ways workers are protected? If not, what are some consequences?
Is your world more reliant on technology or on labour?
Is agriculture possible in your world? If so what can your people grow?
How big is industry? What goods can your people make?
What resources can your country exploit?
What are some barriers to trade and commerce?
Is your nation known for quality? Or Quantity?
Who does your country trade with most often? Who do they boycott?
Are there any major ports in your country?
Are there any banned goods? If so, is there a black market for their purchase?
Society
How society expect one to behave in public? Are there different expectations for different people/genders/ranks?
Is there a social order? Can one move up the ranks?
Is there any considerations made on account of rank, gender, age or position?
What is considered a social faux pas?
Are there any gestures or actions that are considered rude or socially unforgivable?
What would utterly shock somebody to see somebody do?
What are some opinions that are normal for your world but can be considered subversive in real life?
How can one rise up the status ladder? Is there much trouble to do so?
What denotes a person's place in society?
How is life different in cities compared to life in the countryside?
Daily life
Where would someone go to buy their weekly shop? Is food easy to come by?
What would be the daily routine of the wealthy? The common man?
How is hygiene handled in your world? Where does one go to spruce up?
What would be some day to day tasks one might face?
What is the favoured means of travel?
Are there any problems in your world that could effect a daily routine? Potholes? Gigantic spiders? Acid rain?
What ammenties would an average person expect to have access to?
Where would one go if they are injured or ill? What's healthcare like?
Do people feel safe where they live? Are there any places somebody might face danger?
How do people communicate? Is it difficult? Why?
What do people do for fun? What's considered normal fun versus hedonistic?
What pastimes are common? What kind aren't?
Is education valued?
Is there access to education? If so, for who?
Are the population educated? If so to what extent?
Family Life
What is the typical family set up?
Is extended family important?
Who can be considered family? Who can't be?
Is marriage considered a duty? Or is it more of a personal choice?
Is divorce possible?
Can people adopt children?
What happens to orphaned children?
Are children important? If not, why not? If so, why?
What are some typical toys children play with?
What are some games children play with one another?
How is in charge of household chores?
Is there a hierarchy in families?
Are children expected to take on certain roles?
What is the living situation like between the different ranks? Are the roles different?
What's considered the proper way to raise a child?
Culture and Languages
Are there multiple cultures in your world? How do they differ? Do they mesh well together?
How are cultures similar? How are they different?
Are there any traditions in your world? How important is tradition?
What are some rituals your culture undertakes?
Are there any special days? Events?
What are some traditional values in your world? Does it effect daily life?
Are there traditional clothes for your world? Are they something somebody wears on a daily basis or just on occasion?
Are there any rules around what people can wear?
What would be considered formal dress? Casual dress?
What would happen if somebody wore the wrong clothes to an event?
What languages are spoken in your world? If so, how do they sound?
Are there any dialects? If so, how do they sound?
Are most people monolingual? Or bilingual? Or multilingual?
Are there any languages that are closely related?
What is considered a universal language?
Religion
Is religion a thing in your world?
Is religion a staple of life or just a small part?
Does religion affect politics, personal lives and affiliations?
Is your world sectarian? Or ruled by religion?
What are some influences religion has on daily life?
What sort of religion is it? Monotheistic? Polytheistic?
What are some myths your people believe in?
What common rituals does one undertake on a day to day basis?
How does one please a deity?
Where do your people pray? How do they?
What symbols would denote a follower of a certain belief system to a stranger?
What places or objects are considered sacred?
Are there religious orders? If so, who can join?
Is there tolerance or violence over religion? If so, between which faiths?
Food and Drink
What are some traditional dishes in your world?
What would be a basic diet for the common man?
What's considered a delicacy?
Is there a societal difference in diet? What are the factors that effect diet between classes?
Is there any influence from other cuisines? If not, why not? If so, to what extent?
What would a typical breakfast contain?
What would lunch be?
What would be a typical dinner?
What meals are served during the day?
What's considered a comfort food or drink?
Are there any restrictions on who can eat what or when?
Are there any banned foods?
What stance does your world take on alcohol? Is it legal? Can anybody consume it?
Are there any dining customs? Are traditions?
Is there a difference in formal meals or casual meals? If so, what's involved?
Are there any gestures or actions unacceptable at the dinner table?
How are guests treated at meals? If they are given deference, how so?
Are there certain rules about how one can prepare food?
Are there any restrictions on eating with certain people?
How is food generally prepared by?
History
Who are some notable figures from history?
Who founded the country?
Is history looked back on with fondness? Or do your people rather forget?
Are there any heroes in history? Any villains?
What are some highpoints in the history of your land?
What are some points of history nobody likes to speak about?
Does history effect your land, people, culture, language in the present? If so in what ways?
What historic monuments are still around in the present day? What has been lost?
How do people learn about history? Do they learn the truth? Or just an abridged version?
What's a historical event that is important to the story?
I was thinking about how it can be difficult to figure out our own creatures' anatomies because there are no direct references to draw from, and how I tend to draw my aliens in the same poses, and boom, this happened. Prompts to practice and push the limits of your alien's anatomy :) Aimed at sophonts, but a lot of them can apply to non-sapient beasties too.
Ryan Macpaen was an ordinary person. He and his siblings Ellie and Albin lived peacefully in their island community of Seatown, their proble
Please download the version from here instead, as not only will the google drive link not work anymore soon, but this version has a few minor fixes to things I missed (mostly small formatting issues)
Please share this around!
Also, if anyone has any suggestions of where else I can upload this I'm still open to ideas, I'm looking to host Kaivasita in as many places as possible.
IF YOU LIKE, PLEASE REBLOG AS WELL!
(Please, hardly anyone bothers with books these days, especially not original fiction, and it's hard to get attention for something this ambitious when you have a follower count as small as mine. I've been working on this for 3 years all by myself, I'm doing this for completely free and my budget is zero, this is the only way I can advertise this book aside from people sharing the pdf itself. Even if you don't read it, someone who follows you might. Please, please, please reblog.)
If you're an artist and are having trouble building followers, especially if you're new on tumblr or back after leaving, reblog this with some of your art. It will be visible to everyone checking the notes. Everyone keep checking the notes and follow whoever puts their cool art in them. People keep telling me I'm Tumblr famous so maybe this helps!
I'm also active at @octahedral-chaos, but I want to start posting here again. I also want to work on @solarclock-lepigriffs as well, so you can also follow over there if you want.
Next are the tundra palindromes! These guys live way up north on volcanic steppes whose foliage is filled with ph-responsive dye. It's very cold, even for palindrome standards, but these guys are a very populous ecotype.
Tundra palindromes are the largest of the palindromes. They're a light blue with colorpoints and light spots most of the time, and their insides are significantly lighter than other palindromes. The type shown here is the central tundra type, while the other three are included on the side: Western, which is lighter, Eastern, which is more vibrant, and Island, which is darker and spotless.
They use dyes from the red/blue groundcover that surrounds them, and it almost always ends up red after a while. Though... maybe if you poured something acidic on their clothes the red parts would turn blue? However, with ash falling around from the volcanoes all the time, their red clothes tend to stay red. They use a lot of layers in their clothing.
Their settlements are usually a handful of X-shaped walls made of plaster and clay, and no matter which way the wind is blowing there will always be a quiet corner that isn't hit by it. They're fond of wall art.
As for their language, they have a similar color system to grassland palindromes which has a word for darkness, light, people (light blue), two states of foliage (red and blue), soil (greyish brown) and an additional unique word. Here this color represents the fluorescent pinks of the auroras that they see.
For name tones, they use a low note for red patches, a midtone note for no patches, and a high note for green patches. Or, they wouldn't call it green, they'd probably call it "light".
Spritelings and Greater Flowerblooms: Anthroponymy (AKA names, names and lots of names!)
To get back in the swing of things, I decided to make an entire post dedicated to everything you might want to know about Spriteling and Flowerbloom names! Buckle up because this might be a pretty long post!
Spritelings
Spritelings generally uses repeating names for any proper noun, especially names! They're usually 1-2 syllables long and repeats 2-3 times. Good examples would be RenRen, LuLu, etc
They also tend to be a bit melodic, and uses softer syllables like l, C, U, etc. They can also use harsher syllables, namely R and Z.
However, this can vary! There's also longer (but still relatively short) names that might not repeat! Like the names of the different ethnic groups. However, this is rare for given names. Some examples of these types of names are Zepyth, Relei and Leishi.
Greater Flowerblooms
Similarly to Spritelings, Flowerblooms also uses short (Usually 2-3 syllables) names. However, they aren't repeating, but are usually palindromic!
They tend to use slightly harsher syllables than spritelings, usually K, X or V.
Similar to spritelings, naming conventions can vary from place to place, and there are trends in names that can change!
Some example of Flowerbloom names are Kuraruk, Xinix and Zuruz.
LuLu may seem like an oddball in this regard, and you'll be right! They're named in spriteling convention. This is because they actually didn't have a name before meeting RenRen, so RenRen gave them the nickname of "LuLu."
Okay so I finally decided to called the Spriteling and Greater Flowerbloom universe Transient Skies! I'll use that tag from now on for anything relating to Spritelings, Greater flowerblooms and everything else in that world!
Hey guys! Sorry for being very inactive lately, I may have gotten a bit burnt out with the spec evo stuff, as well as being busy with other stuff.
But! I have another worldbuilding project thingy called @solarclock-lepigriffs which is heavily solarpunk/ steampunk inspired! Also feel free to send in questions about any of my sophonts, I'll love that!
400 whole followers? When in the world did that happen? Thank you guys so much, the support means everything to me! I thought I'd do a little raffle as thanks! Reblog to enter and in a week (June 17) I'll roll a winner and they'll get a fullbody of a character of choice!
Holiworves are born blind, furless and completely helpless, staying in their parent’s pouch for the first few years of its life, developing rather quickly. Around 2-4 years, the pup can walk around and have their first coat, which is usually much lighter in colour than their adult coat.
The pups get their adult coat around 5-6 years, and is completely out of the pouch and weaned (The parents regurgitate food similarly to birds instead creating milk like actual mammals). At 15-18 years, the pups develop rapidly, growing and developing adult proportions. Around 19 years, the pup is mature and is considered a young adult, which is usually from 19 to anywhere in the 20s.
