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[2d-dreams]

Flatlander Mouths

short post but basically thinking about how they open their mouths used to bother me so i came up with this

closed mouth - all open mouth - half open mouth

Usually the all open mouth is for when they are ready to swallow the meal, half open would be usually to chew.

so there's little bones at the face angle that can slide back into the mouth/insides to "open". That's it. When fully open the beak parts join at the throat so that swallowing is only possible when the mouth is closed.

closed - full open - half open?

Women can do this crazy thing where, other than the usual beak movement, can 'unhinge' the jaw like a snake. They can probably do it with both, but its usually only one part of the beak that opens up like this. This is mostly to make birth a little easier.

[2d-dreams]

The body of the Flatlander: Lines

CY'S BACK AT IT WITH THE FLATBIO POSTS!

Remember: I am not a scientist/biologist/etcetera! I'm just some kid!

Remember 2: I should start looking into the possibility of getting someone to help me write IDs for these posts and the Flatland Encyclopaedia, because I can't do it always.

front endpoint of a Line

This has been sitting on my drafts since July 11 but I cant bring myself to finish the other endpoint or use my keyboard [my office is too hot] so I'm terribly sorry for the half baked post.

The eye is the brightest part of the body. You could argue that Lines have two eyes because of the division that allows them to breathe.. but it doesnt disrupt the brightness so meh. One eye.

I suppose that suction to the eye [through the respiratory hole sucking air in] could be another way for them to grab things, for as long as they can hold their breath.

Talking about holding their breath, they don't need air to perform their peace cry or to speak. Flatlanders have a tymbal-like organ, like an insect. So they can speak while eating etc. Some sounds do need air, but theyre mostly related to emotion and are used in conjugation to their tymbal chirps.

Around the Line's tymbal, above the lung, lays the occipital lobe and receptors. The receptors of the eye of a Flatlander are sensitive to light [Sight] and also extremely sensitive to touch [Feeling] – the occipital lobe's primary visual cortex right under the eye handles the information it receives and directs the tymbal.

The primary visual cortex's transmitters send and receive information and directions from the eye+vocal through the space that separates them [the lung] from the main brain. The other half of the occipital connects to the rest of the brain.

Under the brain, which extends for the vast majority of the Line's body, is the centroid/heart, which isnt actually situated at the center of the Line. [Still not 100% sure whether they have hearts, but I like the geometry reference—]

Under that is the digestive system. The "throat" from stomach to mouth is off to the side. On the other side is the reproductive system/womb. At last there's the mouth/beak, which unlike the eyepoint is much sharper. You can still die if you're stabbed by the frontpoint. Don't get cocky.

[2d-dreams]

Image of a Flatland Woman in a style similar though not exactly the same as FilmLadd's.

Picture without the letters.

Just a little few things I wanted to say on my interpretation of these gals cause, why not? Also I know these aren't quite accurate to my personal Flatland thingy but I like drawing them this way and if you remove the feelers and bendiness it is pretty accurate. Anyway..

First off a very quick rundown of the parts here..

A: Eye. Here's the thing I wanted to talk the most about, I'll explain it more below.

B: Feelers/cilium

C: Vocal organ or tymbal.

D: Lung.

E: Brain.

F: Centroid (AKA Heart because it isn't really a centroid here? But they call it centroid because its funny haha math)

G: Stomach.

H: Womb.

Anyway what I wanted to talk about. Eyes. In this style. Woah.

You look at them and go.. (probably) "hm yes pupil is there. Black dot in the middle of the eye" but I look at it a different way.

That's the pupil.

The black spot behind it is a mini-brain that deals with everything related to dilating or narrowing the pupil/respiratory and processing what they see. There is still a sort of channel connecting the eye nerves with the rest of the brain for other somewhat related stuff, though in most common adult Women where Sight Recognition is never practiced, these nerves are very weak and occasionally nonexistent, leading to complete inability to comprehend visual images beyond "Bright" and "No bright"

The dark part of the eye in front of the eye-nerve is the pupil, then what is everything else? The white part is the respiratory, taking in air, presumably filtering it and then with the pupil-like part opposite to the pupil, bringing it to the lung and vice versa.