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Some cool tiled backgrounds (and single tile) I made for My Webbed Site. Unfortunately these aren't visible unless you go look at the desktop version specifically due to the way my site's mobile format is laid out.

I wanted a design that had all my nonhuman sophonts in the background! Not necessarily to scale.

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Hello there, I was scrolling around and came across your post about cheneshts and I really like your species and their design, never seen anything like them before!

If you don't mind me asking these two questions- idk if you already have been asked these before

1: can people make ocs or sonas of your creations and 2: can they have moles, freckles, etc?

Hello! Thank you very much, i'm glad you like them! And I haven't received either of those questions before so congrats on being the first asker! 1: Absolutely! Feel free to tag me if you post them too, I'd LOVE to see ocs made of my work! 2: Chenesht can, bonkeys and beastbirds can't, gmh can. Chenesht only typically get freckles off-planet though, their planet's atmosphere is thick and hazy and has a layer of aero planket flying about that blocks out a good portion of the UV that'd cause the freckle reaction. Their freckles will typically match the darkest color of their patterning. Bonkeys and Beastbirds don't because their body just doesn't have the programming to cause freckles. And GMH can! Cause they're humans.

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Hi!! Your Scarlet Estuaries aliens ares super good!! I did have a question about them. Do they like hugs? If not, whats a social equivalent for them? How acceptable would it be for a human to do it?

Well, trying to hug a Chenesht the human way can get a little awkward given the size difference. Chenesht forelimbs also don't bend the same way human arms do, so it's a little difficult for them to make the 'hug' motion we're used to. Having the human buddy hug the head is usually the best way to go about it, given that it's similar to Chenesht neck twining or head pressing which are their main displays of affection.

Culturally, most Chenesht are ok with hugs from close friends and family, but won't accept much physical contact from strangers. Course this is different for kids and adults, Chenesht kids like all kids don't have a great sense of boundaries and will sometimes ram their heads into their smaller friends to "hug" them much to the dismay of whatever adult is watching them.

Bonkeys are pretty chill with hugs all around, given that they're intensely social.

They'll just cling to you if you're taller than them (which most people are).

Same can't be said for Beastbirds, the co-sophont. That's more of a case to case basis.

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Massive Sacred Estuaries Sketch Dump

I'm gonna try in vain to organize these but this is what i've been doodling behind the scenes whilst at college. Art be upon ye. Chenest Planet (Wildlife + Clothes)

I wanted to do some more development of the flying wildlife on the Chenesht homeplanet + got around to drawing some more traditional clothes for other cultures. There is one (1) wing-walker because I couldn't help myself. The Crew

Now including Reeva (character from a Very On Hiatus Short comic I had an idea for) and Alex (Childhood bestie of Temiraan). Reeva's an aquatic GMH from the 3 clades made to work up on Atlantis. Alex is an unmodified human who moved with her dad from the Philippines up to a space colony (i'm still plotting out where these are) when she was pretty young and is, by proxy, calmer than most earth humans with the other sophonts. [Mostly] Just Reeva

Assorted sketches of my favourite nervous pinniped-esque guy. Bottom 2 pages are their initial design (mostly unchanged) + some ideas for atlantis and a vauge plot for the aforementioned short comic that I have like 15 pages plotted out for. Bonus Whechâp moment. Also the first instance of me moving the wrist joints of the Chenesht up a little.

Bonus

Very unserious image that I thought deserved its own place. Enjoy. Eat well. I'm gonna nap.

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Bonkeys and their Thermopigmentation ft SURPRISE CO-SAPIENT Bonkeys and Beastbirds (Name pending) share a cery close [in evolutionary terms] common ancestor but have diverged enough to be considered two entirely separate species. (Think how Gorillas and Chimpanzees are both Great Apes. That's the most accurate representation of their relation). However, Bonkeys highly social nature as pack-bonding animals, and Beastbirds generally friendly, group oriented instincts led to an interesting case in which both species became sapient at the same rate. This phenomenon is referred to by Xenobiologists as Altruistic Co-Developed Sapience [AlCo-Dev Sapeince, sometimes called Alco sapience for ease of speech]. Both Bonkeys and Beastbirds have developed Thermopigmentation, a similar mutation to Acromelanism found in some earth mammals like cats and rabbits, where the color of their bristly, feather-esque coating maps to areas of high and low heat on their body. Specifically, the plumulaceous areas tend to be warmer, while the pennaceous areas tend towards being cooler. It's worth noting the pennaceous feathers are closer to bristles or porcupine spines than proper feathers, but the form of development/growth and the cycle at which they replenish is closer to feathers than fur. The same applies to the plumulaceous areas.

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It's that time Featuring Kot-aa attacking Temiraan on a scenic landscape of the chenesht homeplanet's northern polar region.

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Rough and Less Rough animations of the two currently designed Sapients of Sacred Estuaries. Left shows a Chenesht walking with their bipedal gait, right shows a bonkey pitching a ball. More information on each animation under the cut.

Chenesht, despite being technically capable of bi-quad movement, look somewhat awkward and front heavy while walking bipedally and will often revert to four legged movement after a short period of time or when their social obligations no longer call for a bipedal stance. Their Bipedal walk is slower and often assisted with a cane when necessary for extensive periods of time. Bipedalism is considered the polite norm for interacting with other sapients, with a quadrupedal stance being seen as childish, uncouth, or even condescending/intimidating to those shorter than them (which, as of now, are all other sapients). Bonkeys throw a pitch much like a human would! Their arm structure, though oriented more like a bird's wing, doesn't keep them from having a wide range of motion with their tosses. Bonkeys have excellent hand-eye coordination and, once introduced to the sport, quickly began to form and dominate baseball and softball leauges. Baseball is also similar to a Bonkey home planet sport, Tkee-ta, in which a ball is pitched towards a set of two 'swatters' (batters) and two 'chasers' (catchers). When a swatter hits the ball, the opposing team's chaser must run after it at top speed to stop it from hitting the ground. If they catch the ball, they must then run it to the end of the field and throw it into their team's basket or hoop (baskets being more traditional) to score a point. The chaser of the same team as the swatter who hit the ball has the job of stopping the opposing team's chaser before the point is scored, and can only stop them by making them drop the ball. Each team also has three runners who's job it is to prevent the chasers from scoring point depending on their team. Runners may interact with other runners and may only interact with the opposing team's chaser. Tkee-ta has gained some traction in the sports world of humans, but humans lacking the thickened skulls of Bonkeys makes the tackling aspect of the sport more dangerous, and they often have to wear a combination of american football and baseball gear to remain safe.

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New Sophont just dropped Meet Bonkeys! The name isn't permanent, but it's too funny to stop using right now. They're a bipedal carnivorous mammal hailing primarily from the arctic steppes regions of their home planet. They're fairly small, only about chest height for the average human, but make up for their lack of size with their speed and numbers. Interestingly, Bonkeys are not the only sapient to emerge from their planet, and are a rare case of altruism enabling dual sapience to emerge. I haven't come up with much for them biologically yet aside from their blood being green and their scent-marking organs present on their wrists.

Bonkeys are part of the Sacred Estuaries setting and will be drawn with Chenesht in the future! They'll be developed alongside them as I keep worldbuilding, and hopefully get a proper species name in the future. The portrait is of Kot-aa, a xenoanthropologist specializing in pre-contact cultures. (She/Her)