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oh i forgot to post this ages ago

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me noodling about vash and human plants and xenobiology cuz i read an absolute banger fic by jelly_doughnut on ao3 (putting under a read more only because the poast might be long as hell)

i think it would be really interesting to lean into the whole idea of him being a Human Plant where theres a tentacle genitalia situation going on because plants have stamens right? but then if thats the case my question is "where does the ejaculate come from" and it dawned on me that even since the homestuck days i genuinely did not know how to answer that. although i think the idea that maybe the tentacle comes out of a muscle/flesh structure that might be more similar to a human vulva is really interesting, i like it. i feel like a female* human plant might have a similar structure but maybe no tentacle. so maybe the dichotomy (if there is one) is structured more like, a male* tentacle would have a segment toward the tip with specialized microscoping pores that had the same functionality as an anther, and a female reproductive system has the same external look but internally has the stigma and/or ovaries to gestate.

however. pollen isnt like human sperm thats like, cells suspended in a biofluid. im seeing pollen as more like a sperm packet, because its the smaller germ cells inside of a hard outer structure (sometimes i see it presented like some kind of shell with pores but ive seen other ones where its like, a weird geometric matrix with pores) that will do the fertilizing once the hard outer layer is dissolved right

see what i think would happen is that like. maybe theres only one segment towards the end of the tentacle with microscopic pores that release the sperm packets suspended in a biofluid because vash is still humanoid.

so because im a filthy yumeshipper my next thought was "what if you let him fuck you raw and it takes WAY longer to realize you're pregnant because the 'pollen' cells take longer to dissolve in a fully human body than they would for another humanoid plant body" and maybe not even he knows fully how this works so he just assumes humans and human plants can't really reproduce (or at the very least its VERY hard)

i just listened to a podcast episode about coelacanths gestating eggs for around 5 years before giving birth to live young. i don't think it would take that long, but as far as the actual gestating process and birth goes i feel like thats how it would go if vash did successfully impregnate a regular human. i don't know that labor would happen similarly though. i think maybe it Would be similar but maybe the period for what constitutes labor is way longer and theres more bodily fluids involved because of the egg "hatching" (idk if thats the word for when animals do that)

*disclaimer: i use "male" and "female" in a sense of like "one side of a dichotomous sex system," but also we have no idea if human plants have a dichotomous sex system so im not hugely invested in that being definitive. like instead of A/B could also be A/B/C/D/etc. ykwm? especially because (afaik) i havent seen any female human plant characters. i know birds can have more than 2 sexes and funguses have been observed to have over 300 so why not human plants too

idk if anyone has more thoughts on this im open to it, im not that far into stampede yet so maybe theres more that i can work with later

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Introductory Post

Hello, and welcome to my blog! Above is an infographic I've made detailing the Milky Way as well as the commonality of life and intelligence itself across the galaxy, which will serve as an important base of reference for all else I plan to post on this blog. I won't say much in reference to this image that isn't already included in the infographic, so I'll go on to explain what my project is about, which I will elaborate on with future posts:

In short, the primary focus of my speculative biology sci-fi project takes place around the mid-Centaurus arm, as indicated on the infographic, in a region of the galaxy locally known as "Ruminaaan Space", which is the single largest interstellar community in the history of the Milky Way! Although the majority of these Ruminaaan residents have only began their joint interstellar societies within the past 3,000 years, an ongoing battle has been waging for the past billion years and counting between a species known as the Yn and an entity known as Xii, and while I'll leave more detailed elaborations for future posts, this is a story of a single species divided and disfigured by their own conflicts and the long-term consequences it holds on their stellar neighbours, even one billion years later.

Onto the blog itself, to help with organisation, I will use the following tags on my posts:

#Alien Person Asks (for when I answer asks in my inbox (feel free to send any if you want to know more about my world!)), #Ruminaaan Theomachy (for posts relating to the central aliens of my project and the communities they've built), #Alien Person Spec Bio (for posts relating to the more biological aspects of my worldbuilding) and #Alien Person Worldbuilding (for other posts about miscellaneous or more general features of my worldbuilding process)

Besides transcripts for the featured image, that's all for my introductory post, so stay tuned for more!

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The Milky Way The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy about 100,000 light years across, which happens to be the galaxy in which Humans are located, as well as over a couple hundred other intelligent species. The galaxy is estimated to be about 13.6 billion years of age and has thus far been identified with two major arms (the Perseus and Scutum-Centaurus Arms) which branch off into many smaller minor arms.

The galaxy is estimated to contain anywhere between 100 to 400 billion stars, most of which host a minimum of one orbiting planet. Although on Earth many may consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life to be a rarity, it is more common than one may think, with there being roughly 14.33 billion planets and moons combined which host native life. However, only about 8.59 million of these worlds host multicellular life (around 0.06% out of the total life-bearing celestial bodies), which is due to eukaryotic multicellularity being a very challenging hurdle to get over for life everywhere for a variety of reasons.

This being said, approximately 91.67% of these worlds do host sapient life forms, as high intelligence is almost an inevitability with multicellular organisms given sufficient time, though an extremely lower fraction of these planets and moons are actually home to sophont, technological civilisations comparable to anything humanity has accomplished throughout the past 200,000 years, with there being only 237 star systems with native sophont life (as indicated by the bright white dots shown to the right), and 268 sophont species overall, accounting for only 0.000028% of worlds with multicellular lifeforms. Among these 268 civilisations, very few actually aspire to be spacefaring, with there being less than 40 such civilisations, such as the Jodomii or Sirt, who even have space programs to begin with. Most either do not have the desire to explore outer space, as is the case with the Shreau, Uut, Samrinians or Aniin, do not even have the means to discover that outer-space exists in the first place, such as the Fline or Udrae, who have limited or nonexistent vision, or the Katudit, who live in the subglacial oceans of a rogue planet, or may never leave their home planets for any other multitude of reasons.

While the abundance of technological, cultured civilisations across the Milky Way is fortunately higher than most may be led to believe, it’s important to keep in mind the fact that the space which separates the majority of these civilisations is tremendous, with even the closest being hundreds of light years apart. Despite this, only four interspecies interstellar communities have managed to spring up across the interstellar medium (not counting the Yuruuc, who have yet to encounter any other intelligent species despite how far they have dispersed throughout their corner of the Outer Arm), which is simply due to the fact that interstellar travel is nigh-impossible without the use of warp technology, though only one of these such communities has managed to grow to such an extensive size which incorporates over a dozen unique civilisations; Ruminaaan Space. Ruminaaan Space (the blue area marked along the mid-Centaurus Arm) is the single largest community of interstellar civilisations with the widest reach in interstellar space in the entire history of the Milky Way thus far, with the Boueue and Scerere only having came into contact nearly 3,000 years ago. This region of the Milky Way will be the main focus of my ongoing project, titled ‘Ruminaaan Theomachy’, as you’ll all get to see more of as time goes on, so stay tuned, and welcome to the Ruminaaan Theomachy project!

{Milky Way Labels Transcript}:

Norma Arm, Sagittarius Arm, Perseus Arm, Orion Spur, Scutum-Centaurus Arm, Outer Arm

{Sophont Labels Transcript}:

Scerere, Boueue, Udrae, Samrinians & Aniin, Shreau, Jodomii, Humanity, Sirt, Yuruuc, Fline, Katudit, Uut

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Greetings Fellow Specbio Enjoyers!

So, back in The Day, I did an art piece as an homage to the creativity of species-makers, and drew a big ol' thing with 101 different species all grouped together. I've since mostly fallen out of the strict Species communities for a variety of reasons, but my guys have remained and have become a specbio project.

The specbio community on Tumblr is wonderful, and I'd like to pay tribute to it.

I am going to try and do this again. If you've created a specbio species, and would like to see it included in the piece, send me a reference of a character (in color, if such a thing exists) and I'll include them, and ping you when its done!

This will probably take me a while, but i think it'll be fun, so I'm going to try.

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siggy give me as much wyvern info as possible

ENABLER!!!!

-Wyverns is invertebrates. They have a lobster-like shell-skeleton-thing beneath their skin that keeps their shape and protects their organs. Their beaks and resonating chambers are coated in keratin to reinforce them. Its much more "Wyvern-shaped" than Earth vertebrate skeletons.

-Wyverns don't have feathers, but rather coarse "hairs" like insects. The hairs are very thick (some individuals acclimated to colder climates can have up to 10 hairs per follicle, but its usually 1 or 2) and stiff. Touching a Wyvern feels like running your hand over a soft-bristle hairbrush. They usually range from 1-4 inches in length and stand straight up and away from the body, but sometimes can be longer and/or "shaggier."

-They come in lots of colors, from purples and blues to reds and oranges! Their color runs down to their skin, so a hairless Wyvern would still retain their color and pattern. Colors are genetic and related clanmates usually share similar colors, inherited from their parents. Brighter colors are considered more attractive, with the exception of pink. Pink wyverns are a form of hypopigmentation where the skin and hairs don't fully develop normal color, so they appear varying shades of pink depending on the levels of pigment in their skin. Rikki is a good example of a hypopigmented Wyvern- he retains some red pigment but is mostly pinkish in color. Pink is often used as an alarm or threat color, as their blood is magenta.

-Wyverns have a bisex system, but it doesn't quite work the same way ours does. One sex can only reproduce sexually with another Wyvern, while the other can reproduce parthenogenically (asexually) as well as sexually. There is no sexual dimorphism between the two. Exclusively sexual reproducers can mate either with the opposite sex or with each other (hence why I hesitate to call the sexes "male" and "female." The closest analogue here on Earth that I can find is gynodioecy, where females and hermaphrodites coexist, with the asexual reproducers being the "females" in this scenario. Confusing, I know. This is also totally prone to retcons as I'm not sold on it yet.)

In line with reproductive stuff while keeping it as SFW as possible, Wyverns are sort of marsupial-like in young development. They form a marsupium (a sort of weird external sack to hold developing offspring in. Isopods do it, its totally cool and weird) on their abdomen, where the offspring develop for a few months before they break out as little scraggly cotton balls called whelps. The whelps can't walk on their own, and are totally dependent on their parents for the first few years of their lives. They can eat solid food from birth but depend on their parents (and other adults in the clan) to carry them around, feed them, and protect them until they're old enough to start flying and their wings get strong enough to walk on. As soon as they're fully flighted, they're considered adults in the way of becoming a full-fledged clan member, but don't become fully physically mature until they're about 20, when their resonating chamber starts to grow out into its full display structure (which takes another year or so to finish.)

That's all I got off the top of my head without further prompting atm!

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