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Here’s a bunch of early pieces from The Magic Fish. Some of them are concept art, some made it into the book, and some are unpublished. Enjoy!
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Concept: wainscot cyberpunk. Families of five-inch-tall, inexplicably British people living inside the ductwork of the crumbling arcology, maintaining a society hidden from all the normal-size inhabitants. The protagonist is a girl with a cyborg arm made of Lego Technic, powered by a nine-volt battery that she wears as a backpack. Instead of hacking in cyberspace she physically goes inside the megacorporate mainframes and beats up the tiny robot cops guarding the hard drives.
(At first the presence of tiny robot cops inside the mainframes is just an unexamined premise the audience is encouraged not to question, but eventually it's revealed that one of the families has secretly sold out to the corps, and that's why they have anti-tiny-person defences. The matriarch of the traitor family shows up for the final confrontation wearing teeny mirrorshades and a little Armani suit.)
It appears to me a lot of people's impression of Sherlock Holmes' drug use out of context is "he's running around solving murders while coked out of his mind" which is really funny BUT!
As someone who reads acd canon & has the autistic urge to correct people about my interests, I'd like to let it be known that he actually primarily uses drugs between cases, because he gets painfully bored with nothing to do, stating "my mind rebels at stagnation." This is because he has adhd but the diagnosis hadn't been invented yet. Anyway
This can still be funny because it means the rest of the time he's acting like that while completely sober. He's just quirky. He IS a cokehead but it actually calms him down. Because he needs adderall
You may hear "Sherlock Holmes does cocaine" and think "oh, that explains why he's so fucking weird" but you would have it backwards. He does cocaine because he's already just Like That. He does this specifically when he's understimulated. They didn't have adhd meds in victorian london he's taking whatever stimulants are available. And That's why he's coked out of his mind. But Not while currently working on a case, because that keeps him busy
*note: I have adhd I know how it is
You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love
soberdruguser asked:
Is big bird a dinosaur
a-dinosaur-a-day answered:
yup!
I actually hypothesize that big bird is a late surviving direct descendant of Deinocheirus
would you be willing to expand on this hypothesis
same general body structure, has hands instead of full wings, has a slight hump, similar beaks
clearly Deinocheirus' descendants evolved to have more upright postures, a shorter tail, and forward facing eyes over the past 66 million years
This implies Big Bird slowly evolved into a carnivore.
look, it's been a while since I saw Follow that Bird, because it makes me cry every damn time, but I'm pretty sure Big Bird eats grains
that said, this means Big Bird is an herbivore that convergently evolved carnivore-like traits, which should be significantly more alarming to all of us
Ok, I want to know why it should be more alarming. Am I missing something?
Are you trying to imply that this is batsean mimicry of a big bird looking actually carnivorous species, or is this stretch?
I'm not a scientist, just an enthusiast.
So herbivores are more alarming than carnivores in general because carnivores get full. Herbivores are always on alert for predators and either have one of two responses: run (these can trample us) or fight (these will destroy us). This is why herbivores are usually much more dangerous than carnivores - for one quick example, more people are killed by the herbivorous hippopotamus each year than by sharks (yes, all species thereof)
so, an herbivore convergently evolving carnivorous traits means its an herbivore designed to take out potential dangers with the swiftness and lethality of a predator
that is extremely alarming
consider the cassowary. now imagine it more exact and capable. now imagine it the size of big bird.
we should all be glad he is a friendly presence on sesame street and not the unholy terror he should be
To add more to Big Bird's biology, it should be noted that his species is either very diverse in morphology, or his clade contains many species that live in various countries' Sesame Streets. Some of them, like Bibo from Germany, look pretty much the same as American Big Bird, but others are quite different. In the Netherlands we have Pino, who could easily be the same species but has a more pronounced crest, orange beak, and blue feathers everywhere except the area around the eyes. On the rare occasions he has actually met Big Bird, he called him Cousin Jan.
Brazillian Sesame Street is inhabited by Garibaldo, who judging by beak and leg morphology is likely a different species. Between the sleeker legs and the very sharp beak, I think a stork-like lifestyle is likely for his ancestral population.
Then there's Abelardo from Mexico, who seems to come from a population that convergently evolved several parrot-like traits. An interesting detail about this is that, unlike most other vertebrates, parrots don't absorb their pigments through their diet, but make their own pigments called psittacofulvins. Given that his relatives are quite colourful themselves and can probably obtain plenty of carotenoids from their diet, I don't think that is likely to be the case in Abelardo.
Caponata from Spain looks very different from all her family members, even the more divergent ones. This could be since she is the only female member of the clade I have managed to find so far. However, the very different feet make me think she might hail from a very derived species instead. I can't even imagine what sort of evolutionary pressures could lead to a bird evolving such strange feet.
Other Sesame Street birds are a little harder to find information about, with mostly older sightings. There seem to have been sightings of one named Toccata in Quebec. His shaggier white feather coat covering more of his legs and being thicker around his neck does suggest adaptations of the harsh winters up north.
Portuguese Poupas has different colouration and seems to have some sort of feather puff going on around the ankles as well. The feathers around the head are notably swept backward as well. I think this is a somewhat derived population of the American species. Minik Kuş from Turkey may hail from this population too, or perhaps from some intermediate or interbred population, as they seem to be more morphologically similar to the more typical Big Birds.
someone needs to throw together a phylogeny and I recognize that, as a bird researcher, who has done too many phylogenies of birds, I am the prime candidate, but I have too much to do for SVP...