vriska cosplayers who dont blow off their arm and gouge out their eye
Sollux cosplayers who don’t blind themselves and dye their eyes red and blue
Tavros cosplayers that aren’t paralyzed.
Hussie cosplayers that haven’t written a web comic.
Aradia cosplayers who aren’t dead
Sober Gamzee cosplayers who aren’t crazy…
Any cosplayers who aren’t fictitious
Wear American Eagle clothes if you want to be touched all over by men twice your age!
Also I think that’s a cast on her finger so if you want to get your fingers broken too
For those who don’t know, the Exquisite Beast is a series of drawings in which two artists take turns supplying a reiteration of the previous monster, “evolving” from its previous design. Each artist adds to or alters the original form.
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I’ll apologize if my post came off as hostile, but your post certainly seemed to me like an attack. You specifically called many of their iterations ridiculous. If that’s not a criticism, well, I don’t know what is.
Even through your added explanation, you still seem like you want it to be accurate, that you want it to be more realistic. It should not be more realistic. I am saying it is perfect the way it is.
Yes, this may be your personal opinion, but it is condemning your subject for being unrealistic and unscientific. Even so, your expectations of what is realistic and scientific are based on your understanding of Earth’s biology and ecosystem. As someone else so eloquently stated, this is on a separate planet. They could have any number of different features. It’s possible for endoskeletal creatures to come from exoskeletal creatures because this is purely speculative and alien creatures could have a physiology completely alien from anything we know on Earth.
You said that the oversimplification should not be “something of this magnitude.” You seem to be insinuating that they have simplified an ecosystem to a ridiculous degree. This is untrue — the environment becoming cold is an environmental change and as complicated as it needs to be. Why it’s cold is irrelevant because that does not affect the organism in question — again leading away from their original purpose.
I know you said that Exquisite Beast was meant for artists, and I said that too. And it is — but it’s also made for anyone else who likes interesting things, which I also said. My point is that it’s fiction and it doesn’t need to be overly detailed and realistic (even though it is, which was the point of everything I said previously), and though you seem to have implied that it is for artists and artists only, I am saying that it is for everyone.
I never said that YAEBC was uncool — it is fascinating and exciting and it is awesome too — but it is also fiction.
I don’t mind that you have a personal preference for higher degrees of realism and/or immersion into a world, and not just a singular creature, and that you’ve voiced these opinions, but I do mind that you seem to be condemning Exquisite Beast for having simplification of “this magnitude” and that a “whole bunch of those iterations are just ridiculous.”
For those who don’t know, the Exquisite Beast is a series of drawings in which two artists take turns supplying a reiteration of the previous monster, “evolving” from its previous design. Each artist adds to or alters the original form.
Since then, the idea of evolving art has…
I am going to have to disagree with this. You have said that the biodiversity of today is because of the splitting of multiple lines of ancestry and while this is true, you seem to have disregarded the fact that all animals of today have a common ancestor.
And though it’s true that exquisite beast does not have thousands of species which would ordinarily evolve through cladogenesis, this is because it would be absolutely ridiculous to trace an entire planet’s ecosystem through hundreds of millions of years.
The point of exquisite beast was to trace a single species/organism throughout its various iterations, not to trace an ecosystem or a genus. Perhaps exquisite beast only tracks the anogenesis of this species, not the cladogenesis — but perhaps it does track cladogenesis. Perhaps it does simulate the splitting of a single species into multiple species but chooses to focus on a single side of that split, which was their intention to begin with.
You say that for something to evolve that drastically would take absurd amounts of time, well, this is true. But perhaps it did take absurd amounts of time — its creators never specified a time scale. Yes, it surely did take millions and millions of years. To go into as much detail as to how each generation looks compared to its predecessors would be ridiculous! They obviously only chose to represent its iterations at very large intervals of time — this point is moot.
You say that it is an oversimplification to have an animal grow fur because it became cold, yet you haven’t specified what they should have included instead. It is a simplification, yes, but it’s an accurate one — animals do grow fur when it gets cold. You want them to include why it got cold? Maybe they migrated — but then why did they migrate? Predators? Why did the predators get there?
What I’m saying is that everything is an oversimplification. You want them to make a food web, well, food webs are simplifications. You want them to invent an ecosystem, well, the word ecosystem itself is an oversimplification. Nature is complicated. Even naturalists and scientists have difficulty representing it in anything other than a gross oversimplification.
You lift up Yet Another Exquisite Beast Clone as being better for scientists and more logically minded people — yet it has none of your listed requirements either. It is oversimplified as well. It is unrealistic. It has leaps in time. Yet Another Exquisite Beast Clone is nice too, it’s fun, it’s interesting, yet it is fiction.
You say that Exquisite Beast is for artists. Well it is. It is for artists and writers and anyone who wants to read something interesting. That is called fiction, sir, and if you don’t want to read it, go read your Animal Encyclopedia or something.
RYAN WHY WOULD YOU STEAL MY IDEA?What if I do a mini-t-Rex mini-giveaway…..??T-Rexes were born in wee little eggs, and they came out all tiny and adorable. I know, I know: paleontologists have been saying this for years, but we never believed them because they couldn’t produce tiny adorable plushies to prove it. UNTIL NOW.
Micro T-Rex is three inches of soft and fuzzy adorable, and comes with that removable plastic keychain clip you see pictured, so he’s ready to hang out wherever you go! He is Down for Hangouts!
I would type more but he’s TOO CUTE, look at his little arms, i’m DYINGGuys these just came out today and I really think you should buy one. Only $8.50! How can you put a PRICE on LOVE
This is a great idea! EVERYONE who reblogs this gets one entry, and tomorrow I will choose one reblog at random and send them one! REBLOG AWAY AND T-REX MIGHT COME LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE / HANG OFF YOUR FINGERS AND KEYS
Whoah we are now have over 400 notes on this giveaway! That’s nutty! And as a 1 in over 400 chance hardly seems THAT fair, I’m going to award ANOTHER Key Rex for every 400 notes this post gets. A reblog is your entry to win, go nuts, according to these rules I could give away HUNDREDS of adorable green dinosaurs if things get really implausibly crazy!!
I am very happy that these little guys will be going to enthusiastic Tumblr homes!
I can’t resist free things
actually the other suggestion is that Ditto is a direct descendant of Mew
which is even more terrifying
I prefer to think that there is no such thing as a Mew, just Dittos pretending to be something in their own twisted imagination.
I warned you of this day, Flummox. The day I’d log onto the internet and see your comic plastered and jpeg’d over the late content aggregates of the internet.
How does it feel, Flummox?
This is horrible, but damn you are famous
Gah
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0FZ8dgWSd2Q
WARNED YOU FLUMMOCKS
ABOUT DEM COMIKS
oh my god
