#neocene

[thewriterasura]

The Neocene Wildes

[salixalba8]

[thesumlax]

One of the best things I ever made (done in Inkscape, and I`ll probably never have the patience to do something like this again), a species of big pelagic mantis shrimp for the Neocene project, which is probably the best “future evolution” project in the world (and definitely the biggest). Pavel Volkov is a damn legend (though web design is admittedly not one of his strenghts, alas).

And if you`re into spec bio, take a look at this.

[salixalba8]

3/3 of aprilcolors

Неоценовые виды: дикобраз Aepythizon cryophilus, змея Scannerpeton thermovisor (не само животное, а вид его глазами на тему "тепловое зрение"), специализированный к рытью потомок кроликов Lepospalax caecus, оленеподобные потомки зайцев Lepolopa sylvatica и орхидея Rhizophyllanthos keuakepo. А ещё тут есть моя собственная "драконоформа" на пункт "Wrong Elemental Colors". [Neocene species: porcupine Aepythizon cryophilus, snake Scannerpeton thermovisor (not the animal itself, but its thermal vision for that prompt), specialized in digging descendant of rabbits Lepospalax caecus, deer-like descendants of hares Lepolopa sylvatica and orchid Rhizophyllanthos keuakepo. Also here is my own "dragonsona" for "Wrong Elemental Colors".]

[salixalba8]

Пара устричных уток Pelagotachyeres ostracophagus (на заднем плане самец, на переднем самка) из главы "Суровые острова юга" проекта "Путешествие в Неоцен".

[A pair of "oyster ducks" Pelagotachyeres ostracophagus (male in the background, female in the foreground) from the chapter "Bleak islands of the south" (RU) of the "Tour to Neocene" project.]

[salixalba8]

Каркаданны (Monoceratherium carcadann), самка с детёнышем. Крупные травоядные, потомки даманов, из проекта "Путешествие в неоцен": https://sivatherium.narod.ru/mammals.htm#monoceratherium_carcadann_ru _ 300-граммовая хлопковая бумага Paul Rubens (17Х23,5 см), акварель Qor, простые карандаши (механические с грифелями разной твёрдости), цветные карандаши Derwent Drawing.

[Monoceratherium carcadann (female with her calf). Large herbivores, descendants of hyraxes, from the "Tour to Neocene" project: https://sivatherium.narod.ru/englver.htm

Paul Rubens 300gsm cotton paper (17x23.5 cm), Qor watercolor, mechanical graphite pencils (leads of different hardness), Derwent Drawing colored pencils.]

[izanyas]

@neocene i don’t even care about discourse tbh i’m just not here to be baited by random anons into justifying everything i like. i know my own morals and limits and if they want to have a discussion about those for their own peace of mind they should message me privately.

[clouds-of-wings]

In place of the misleading label “Anthropocene,” then, I’d like to propose that we call the geological interval we’re now in the Pleistocene-Neocene transition. Neocene? That’s Greek for “new recent,” representing the “new normal” that will emerge when our idiotic maltreatment of the planet that keeps us all alive brings the “old normal” crashing down around our ears. We don’t call the first epoch after the comet impact 65 million years ago the “Cometocene,” so there’s no valid reason to use a label like “Anthropocene” for the epoch that will dawn when the current transition winds down. Industrial civilization’s giddy rise and impending fall are the trigger for the transition, and nothing more; the shape of the Neocene epoch will be determined not by us, but by the ordinary processes of planetary change and evolution.

The Archdruid Report: The Myth of the Anthropocene