Even though they don’t occupy the “apex” niche (does anything, really?), the Crescents are still predators of small prey. Their elaborate, multispecies respiratory system gives them the ability to move faster than anything else in their ecosystem, but, like the sauropods of Earth’s past, they prefer to move their body as little as possible, preferring to reach from where they are.
Continue reading “The Crescent and its Prey”The Deep Biggos — Filter Feeders With a Plan B
The Crescent/Frond symbiote is a pretty badass predator. But there’s always a bigger fish. The Deep Biggo (I’m really hoping to come up with a better name before publication) is a filter feeder with a symbiotic trick up its sleeve for getting bigger prey.
Continue reading “The Deep Biggos — Filter Feeders With a Plan B”OVERCURRENT: Futarchaeology
OVERCURRENT, live at the Iconica Social Club in Northampton, MA on November 24, 2019.
Three Companions
When two enormous hero-type people come out of the desert demanding your lentils, why might you have a confident smirk on your face?
Continue reading “Three Companions”Almost Real Symbiote, Sketch 3
I’m starting to work out the specific physiology of the Crescent symbiont in the Crescent/Frond symbiote project that I’m doing for Almost Real.
Its gills look like eyes, its eyes look like mouths, its mouth looks like genitals, and its genitals are in its gills.
Continue reading “Almost Real Symbiote, Sketch 3”Almost Real Symbiote, Study 2
The Crescent/Frond symbiote I’m working on for Almost Real, here in some greater detail as the design develops.
Continue reading “Almost Real Symbiote, Study 2”Almost Real Symbiotes
This month, I started work on a piece for issue 3 of Almost Real, the biannual speculative biology zine. The theme through the issue is undersea creatures, so even though I’d wanted to work on previous issues and hadn’t really been able to, this one made me sweat. And then they shared the assignment list.
One of the available assignments was symbiosis. So I started falling all over myself to do it, and now I am! And I’m really happy about it. There are going to be a few developmental sketches before it comes together, with the final appearing first in the magazine, itself.
Continue reading “Almost Real Symbiotes”Protected: The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze 0.3 (Kickstarter & Patreon backers)
Getting Ready to Go Out
The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze includes a little section about makeup and hair because the game asks you for descriptions of stuff all the time and I want to seed the conversation with imagery from outside the European aesthetic (and the European second-artistry that is modern Fantasy)
This image will be very small on the page. But since I set out to draw someone beautiful, I kinda…couldn’t stop. A little bit, I fell in love.
That Which Is Made to Give
We here in 2019 in the post-colonial late-stage Capitalist Earth are really hooked on the idea of money. But it’s not an obvious idea, and modern economists even have a hard time describing what it is.
The World of Names is big and Earthen-Being are small; While the Giants strode across it like a single field; and to the Descendants of Heaven all distances are as one; to even the boldest Earthen-Being, the reach of their life is like a single poppy seed in a field stretching far past the reach of the eye.
And so, when an Earthen-Being has a desire and does not wish to force its satisfaction, what have they to trade in foreign lands that those recognize as worthy of the satisfaction of that desire?
