Wrapping up the northern, polar continent of Omuros now! The biggest pain in the ass was filling in all of the floating islands just past the mountains there. As you can see, a lot of those mountains near the coast are preventing quite a bit of moisture from getting further inland, resulting in much of Omuros being dominated by drier steppes and grasslands, where it isn't ice caps and mountains.

Hi, y'all! Some of you may already be familiar with my work with some of my previous posts about Project KARYA's native organisms; the images I'm most proud of (and all made in MS Paint!) I've attached to this post. However, I'd like to maybe take a break from my own endeavors to hopefully help others out :3

According to the subreddit's Rule №3, one person's post may be able to "contribute to...someone else's work", and admittedly I'm in a bit of a slump over trying to encourage myself to continue with my own worldbuilding. So, I'd like to offer my (admittedly still amateur) art skills to those who may want it! Especially in this modern day where people may be more tempted to use the knowingly unethical technology of genAI, I'd like to maybe help show people that they can still rely on the tried and true method of human ingenuity to help them out ❤️ so, the rules are simple: give me, at the very least, a thorough written description of an organism found in your setting - its size/dimensions, its coloration, its environment and/or diet, and anything else to help me flesh out the full picture! If possible and you feel up to it, perhaps submit a crude drawing so I can get a better starting point of having your inner vision come to life.

Let me hear what beautiful creations you all have come up with down below ⬇️ I'll probably regret this lol, but I want to give this a shot if you're willing to give me the chance! I'll most likely stop taking requests after 24 hours, so ask while the offer lasts ;3

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Edit - specifically, we have here today:

• One slice of chicken and onion pizza, with barbecue sauce as the base
• Two slices of pepperoni and sausage, with extra of the original red sauce
• An entire 12-pack of Barq's Diet Root Beer
• Signature Reserve Dry Gin

TW: I will be talking gently about the non-traumatic death of an elderly individual, while talking about my mildly traumatic experience with dealing with the body. So...I think this is the kinda place to post this, because hoo-boy is it still on the mind.

I work as a nursing assistant, which essentially means I help take care of people who can't fully take care of themselves. My workplace primarily deals with the elderly, but I've interacted with a wide range of people from a variety of backgrounds as my patients. In the end, though, you usually have the same tasks of wiping ass and crotch every 15 minutes or sooner; among other things, this leads to not much really grossing me out. Today, though, was really something else entirely (note, I will keep this all HIPPA-appropriate).

A resident of ours died, which wasn't entirely unexpected considering her age and pre-existing conditions. Sure it sucks when someone isn't able to pass away at home/in more ideal conditions, but it's part of the job and you've got to move on.

Then one of the nurses pulled me aside and asked me to help the nursing assistant in charge of that resident to prepare the body; we clean it up of any voided urine or fecal matter, wipe away any food stains, change out their clothes for fresh ones, and otherwise make the deceased presentable for the family to be seeing them for last farewells. While a little uneasy with this still, I know it's just something I need to keep getting used to, and went to work.

Things started out smoothly enough, as the resident was already pretty clean to begin with, having received a shower just the day prior. However, upon turning the body, I discovered that, apparently, this resident had been pocketing food in their cheeks prior to their death; not only that, but apparently this resident had taken some supplementary protein shakes shortly before passing away.

How do I know this? Because >!upon turning the body to change out the brief the resident was wearing, all of the stomach and mouth contents came pouring out in a steady, brownish-grey flow. With how I was positioned and holding the body for the other nursing assistant to clean, the contents flowed entirely over my gloved and gowned arm, and became so much that it slowly began coming out of the body's nostrils as well. This went on for a solid minute-and-a-half or so.!<

Thankfully we were able to finish the cleaning process before the family came, but....that's certainly a new experience that I've not had before. Not gonna quit my job over it, because I absolutely love working with the kinds of people that stay at my facility; it's definitely reminding me to go back to school for my master's degree, though lol

I think this is the kinda place to post this, because hoo-boy is it still on the mind.

I work as a nursing assistant, which essentially means I help take care of people who can't fully take care of themselves. My workplace primarily deals with the elderly, but I've interacted with a wide range of people from a variety of backgrounds as my patients. In the end, though, you usually have the same tasks of wiping ass and crotch every 15 minutes or sooner; among other things, this leads to not much really grossing me out. Today, though, was really something else entirely (note, I will keep this all HIPPA-appropriate).

A resident of ours died, which wasn't entirely unexpected considering her age and pre-existing conditions. Sure it sucks when someone isn't able to pass away at home/in more ideal conditions, but it's part of the job and you've got to move on.

Then one of the nurses pulled me aside and asked me to help the nursing assistant in charge of that resident to prepare the body; we clean it up of any voided urine or fecal matter, wipe away any food stains, change out their clothes for fresh ones, and otherwise make the deceased presentable for the family to be seeing them for last farewells. While a little uneasy with this still, I know it's just something I need to keep getting used to, and went to work.

Things started out smoothly enough, as the resident was already pretty clean to begin with, having received a shower just the day prior. However, upon turning the body, I discovered that, apparently, this resident had been pocketing food in their cheeks prior to their death; not only that, but apparently this resident had taken some supplementary protein shakes shortly before passing away.

How do I know this? Because >!upon turning the body to change out the brief the resident was wearing, all of the stomach and mouth contents came pouring out in a steady, brownish-grey flow. With how I was positioned and holding the body for the other nursing assistant to clean, the contents flowed entirely over my gloved and gowned arm, and became so much that it slowly began coming out of the body's nostrils as well. This went on for a solid minute-and-a-half or so.!<

Thankfully we were able to finish the cleaning process before the family came, but....that's certainly a new experience that I've not had before.

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For context, my partner and I are both large people (over six feet tall and 300 lbs each). We also aren't in the best economic situation.

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We bought this couch from IKEA a little under a year ago now. While we may *occasionally* sit down a little hard, we aren't, say, throwing ourselves on top of the couch ever single time we go to be on it. A few months ago, however, we heard a strange **THWANG** and felt a jolt in the part that is a little storage space underneath. We checked and, sure enough, a spring had popped out from one of its sockets.

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This has now been an ongoing problem for the last few months, where, whenever one of us is sitting directly on this spot, and we shift even a *little* bit that puts too much pressure on one spot, it pops out a spring. We can't exactly replace this couch, and nothing actually *seems* broken, it's just that we're a bit hefty individuals. The only thing we've tried so far is attempting to use zip ties to maybe employ tension in keeping the springs in place, but while this is good for a time it will then lead to then both of the ziptied springs popping out.

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My next thought, and idk if has even the remotest chance to work, is to apply a heck ton of super glue into the slots and hope to all fuck it's strong enough to hold a 300+ lb person's weight. This is why I figured I'd go to where reliable (if also unconventional) solutions take place, to look for help.

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Thank you for your time and consideration!

Hi, y'all! Project KARYA is a sci-fintasy setting in the works, in which, as I describe, "various iconic tropes found in fantasy and folklore/mythoi are viewed through the lens of science fiction"; the worldbuilding project intends to fully theorize "realistic" ways in which a variety of things from fantasy settings could exist, if they were to exist in a science fiction setting instead.

Today, I wanted to share...well, Karya! I've talked about several of the creatures now in my recent posts, and talked about the various people, places, and things spread throughout the world in various comments on this subreddit, but it's about time you all see the world that my worldbuilding project derives its name from. This map and the accompanying globe show the relative height of landmasses and bodies of water across the planet's surface. Each "step" in color is approximately 1,000 feet in elevation change. I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have on Karya's geography, climate, or anything else y'all would like to know :3

Hi, y'all! Project KARYA is a sci-fintasy setting in the works, in which, as I describe, "various iconic tropes found in fantasy and folklore/mythoi are viewed through the lens of science fiction"; the worldbuilding project intends to fully theorize "realistic" ways in which a variety of things from fantasy settings could exist, if they were to exist in a science fiction setting instead.

Today, I wanted to share a depiction of one of the 2000+ species that are unique to the titular world of Karya: coastal polar furtrout (Hyperboreotrichus litoralis). Despite the common name, this fish is not an actual trout, nor is it, along with other members of the clade Nothotrichicthidae, actually furry. Nothotrichicthids are sarcopterygids like coelacanths, lungfish, and tetrapods, sharing a common ancestor with other deinostomicthid fish in the coelacanth species Mawsonia karyaensis; they are not closely related to ray-finned fishes (including real trout) at all! The hair-like growths that extend from the skin of nothotrichithids are spinules much like those on some frogfish, and typically are filled with toxins that make the fish rather distasteful, if not outright poisonous to consume. The spinules are almost always absent from the faces of nothotrichithids, and can vary in shape and size depending on the species.

Polar furtrout (genus Hyperboreotrichus) are restricted to the northern continent Omuros, within its landlocked Great Frozen Sea; they diverged from their closest relatives, drab furtrout (genus Xanthotrichus) approximately thirty-two million years BR (before the Restructuring). Two distinct populations are recognized as separate species; the above-illustrated coastal polar furtrout, and the deep polar furtrout (H. maritimus). The coastal polar furtrout is active year-round, unlike the deep polar furtrout which only comes closer to the surface from deeper waters during the winter months when the sea has frozen over. Polar furtrout specialize on hunting molluscs and polychete worms, the enlarged teeth on their lower jaws perfect for piercing the soft flesh of their prey while the shorter teeth on the upper jaw saw through the bodies and process them into smaller pieces.

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Like what you see? Feel free to ask questions and/or provide positive criticism! Want to know more about Karya's life forms? Then I heavily suggest reading The Full and Comprehensive List of Unique Karyic Organisms! I'd be happy to talk about it more to those who are interested :3 if you also have any questions pertaining to Karya's furtrout and their relatives, please feel free to ask!

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Hi, y'all! Project KARYA is a sci-fintasy setting in the works, in which, as I describe, "various iconic tropes found in fantasy and folklore/mythoi are viewed through the lens of science fiction"; the worldbuilding project intends to fully theorize "realistic" ways in which a variety of things from fantasy settings could exist, if they were to exist in a science fiction setting instead.

Today, I wanted to share two of Karya's species: the ruddy hippogryph (Ornithohippo rufus; left), and the common gryphon (Pennaleo vulgaris; right). While a mature gryphon would be more of an equal match for a bull hippogryph, this particular gryphon's young age and inexperience with hunting larger prey like this opponent has proven to be a fatal error. Gryphons and hippogryphs both share a common ancestor with an animal similar to the Gaiaic genus Lisowicia, and have developed marvelous keratinous structures analogous to feathers in birds despite being a synapsid; this makes them more closely related to mammals than to reptiles. While gryphons and other therrynchids still lay eggs akin to monotremes, hippogryphs have independently evolved vivipary much like placental mammals. Hippogryphs also possess spurs on each of their legs that they use as both protection against predators, and, in the case of bull hippogryphs, for interspecific fights during mating seasons.

Want to know more about Karya's life forms? Then I heavily suggest looking through The Full and Comprehensive List of Unique Karyic Organisms! I'd be happy to talk about it more to those who are interested :3 if you also have any questions about either gryphons or hippogryphs in particular, please feel free to ask!

In the warm summer waters off the coast of some islands within the Hemfian Archipelago, a small pod of southern sea drakes (Dracana panoceana boreale). These archosaurs have truly diverged greatly from their pterosaur ancestors, being extremely well adapted for life in the water; this is in large part to their evolved ovavivipary, a feature shared with only one other species of tridactylocheirid, the sophont Dracans (Draconis sapiens). Being more closely related to dinosaurs than pseudosuchians, sea drakes are covered in a dense coating of downy coat. These feathers have evolved to both insulate the sea drake's body from the water, as well as to reduce drag as much as possible.

Across all D. panoceana subspecies, there is displayed quite a bit of sexual dimorphism; females tend to be notably larger than males, up to twice the size, but the latter's cranial crests are larger and more colorful than the former's. There appears to be a certain preferred body-to-horn ratio among sea drakes, however, more studies need to be performed.

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Hi, y'all! Project KARYA is a sci-fintasy setting in the works, in which, as I describe, "various iconic tropes found in fantasy and folklore/mythoi are viewed through the lens of science fiction"; the worldbuilding project intends to fully theorize "realistic" ways in which a variety of things from fantasy settings could exist, if they were to exist in a science fiction setting instead.

Today, I wanted to share a depiction of one of the 2000+ species that are unique to the titular world of Karya: southern juggernaughts. Like what you see? Feel free to ask questions and/or provide positive criticism!

Want to know more about Karya's life forms? Then I heavily suggest reading The Full and Comprehensive List of Unique Karyic Organisms! I'd be happy to talk about it more to those who are interested :3

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Southern juggernaughts (Sirenosuchus australis) are one of two species of pseudosuchians in the genus Sirenosuchus, along with northern juggernaughts (S. borealis). Occupying similar niches as modern sea turtles, these fascinating reptiles are able to survive in colder regions than their similarly shelled cousins, thanks largely to being endothermic, being able to maintain their body temperatures independent of the environment.