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The Origins of Mankind
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"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...." 

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38 deviants said is merely a narrative device framing Star Wars as a science-fantasy fairy tale taking place in outer space
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29 deviants said literally means that the events portrayed in Star Wars take place in the distant past of an alien galaxy
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20 deviants said reflects the perspective of a far-future historian looking back on events in our own future galaxy
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2 deviants said "Your lack of faith...disturbs me." (Please elaborate)

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Featuring a number of thrilling repetitous themes!!

:bulletblack: LEO - Aldebaran!  Betelgeuse!  Antares?!?  My library doesn't have that one yet!
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Abandoned human colonists stranded on paradisiacal extrasolar worlds!  Isolation results in social strife, political oppression, and leftist revolution!  Multicultural harmony and discord!  Tropical techno minimalism!  Picturesque alien flora!  Barlowe-esque fauna!  Gargantuan metamorphic starfaring marine symbionts!!  Fotonovela histrionics!!!  Who's sleeping with who?!?!!  ONLY THE MANTRIS KNOWS.

:bulletblack: Tsutomu Nihei - NOiSE!  Blame!  BIOMEGA!!
A vast dystopian realm of grotesque uncontrolled cyborganic construction!  Alien viruses and pathological nanoassembers fabricating surreal nightmare architecture far outside OSHA safety standards!  Entire ecosystems of competing artificial life forms!  Cyborgs, bioroids, and zombie drones!  Feral transhumans!  Nanocyborganic monstrosities too weird and horrible to describe!  Net worship!  Tech fetishism!  Nihilistic violence!  BIG GUNS!!!
- NOiSE (prequel to Blame!):  [link]
- Blame!:  [link]
- BIOMEGA:  [link]
*** 'Ware these links unless you're packing heavy virus protection and a Graviton Beam Emitter!  They WILL at some point try to infiltrate your PC and redirect your browser like a rogue nanoassembler!  Don't click any pop-ups or outgoing links--just close down your browser and try again! ***

:bulletblack: Daisuke Igarashi - Children of the Sea!
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Aquatic origin myths!  Ancient marine deities!  Disappearing fish!  Mystical meteorites!  Whale songs from outer space!  Feral children raised by dugongs!  Undead Helicoprion!  ANTARCTIC NINGEN?!?!

:bulletblack: Ricard Delgado - HIEROGLYPH!!
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A lone astronaut exploring a vast and forbidding alien desert!  Panoramic William Stout-ish environments!  Hostile Barlowe-esque wildlife!  Megalithic Lovecraftian ruins!  Massive fossilized remains of extinct marine cultures!  Extraterrestrial burial practices!  Alien magic, or at least psi-sorcery!  A puzzling abundance of sentient races--more than you could shake a stick at, were you able to find one on this barren world.  So many sentients, but no sticks??  What gives??

:bulletblack: Paul Chadwick - The World Below!
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A bottomless pit in my own dreary corner of the Pacific Northwest!  Who knew??  Not me!!  Subterranean alien ecosystems!  Anatomically unsettling monsters!  Exotic technology!  Aberrant underground quasi-humans!  Brain-enhancing symbiotic octopus hats--or are they mind-controlling parasitic octopus hats??   FEAR THE TENTACLES!!  FEAR THEM.

:bulletblack: Pete Von Sholly - MORBID!
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Hilarious B-grade horror movie photo pictorials in graphic novel format!  Alien safaris!  Hoary rituals!  Ghoulish experiments!  Beastly transformations!  Blasphemous hybrids!  Atomic mutants!  Star-crossed prehistoric love, the Starry Wisdom of Lovecraft, and more!!

:bulletblack: Fantastic Four/Iron Man:  Big in Japan!
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Superheroes!  Monster museum!  Kaiju cults!  The Mole Men!  Sub-dimensional servitor races!  Moar arcane organic Antarctic artifacts!  Lovecraftian spatial ruptures!  Yet another gargantuan panspermic starfaring monster with an entire symbiotic ecosystem living in its body!!  What would we do without the panspermic starfaring alien symbionts???

--Also, highlights from Kentarou Miura's BERSERK, posted to my ImageShack page:
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Volume 13 - Animistic Japanese Boschian hellishness! Mouths where eyes should be! Eyes where mouths should be! Multiple heads/bodies! DA FEET EVERYWHERE!!
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Volume 15 - Ectomorphic and endomorphic ideals of posthumanistic morphology--both anthropoid and entomological!! WHERE WILL IT ALL END?? STAY TUNED!!!
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  • Listening to: Some indie pop $#!* from an iPhone commercial
  • Reading: See above
  • Watching: All teh usual
  • Playing: Rush 2, Metal Slug 3
  • Eating: Reuben sandwich, but no banana
  • Drinking: Coffee, too much coffee

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  • Interests: Art, science, nature, metaphysics
  • Favourite band or musician: HallowsEveSlayerAnthraxExodusMetalChurchMaiden IcedEarthBlindGuardianGammaRayScannerFirewind
  • Favourite genre of music: Thrash/Metal
  • Favourite artist: Wayne Barlowe, Masamune Shirow
  • Favourite poet or writer: H.P. Lovecraft, Octavia Butler, Paul Di Filippo, James Patrick Kelly, Robert Charles Wilson
  • Favourite photographer: Piotr Naskrecki, Art Wolfe, Andrew Zuckerman, Poul Beckmann, David Doubilet
  • Shell of choice: Chitinous
  • Wallpaper of choice: Peeling
  • Skin of choice: Epidermous

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~AmnioticOef:iconAmnioticOef:
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Sat May 12, 2012, 3:11 AM
*thomastapir:iconthomastapir:
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Sat Feb 11, 2012, 11:43 AM
*thomastapir:iconthomastapir:
What's not to love about turbinate eyes? Even the phrase gives me chills!
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 9:32 PM
~AmnioticOef:iconAmnioticOef:
Here's lookin' at you. [link]
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 11:10 PM
~AmnioticOef:iconAmnioticOef:
You win :D .
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 5:15 PM
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:iconamnioticoef:
I shouted this at you, but I don't think you heard. [link]

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Do you like biology/worldbuilding? [link]

Help save rhinos: [link]
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:iconthomastapir:
No, I gotcha! I meant to note you about this, believe it or not I've actually had this one stored on my harddrive for years now. I only had a thumbnail of it though, so thanks for linking me to a high-rez version. :)
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No problem. :D

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Help save rhinos: [link]
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~commander-salamander May 14, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
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Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
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:iconthomastapir:
DO WANT. I mean, I REALLY WANT THIS. Have I ever mentioned my predilection, while out and about, to fantasize about what it would be like to live in micro-environmental niches like railway bridges and vegetated lane dividers and air-conditioning ducts and cracks in cliffs?

This also reminds me of a weird dream I had a long time ago where I found a structure like this in a tree and casually recognized it as a "Grey nest" (like, the Grey aliens). One of my friends thought that was the f'in' coolest thing he'd ever heard, and we wasted quite a bit of time and gas driving around in the country looking for something that might fit that description.

To paraphrase from Futurama, I probably should have ended that story a sentence earlier.
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~commander-salamander May 15, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
...what it would be like to live in micro-environmental niches...
No you haven't but it sounds wicked cool.
I so want to build one.

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Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
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:iconthomastapir:
You know, oddly enough I've seen a glut of books lately with imaginative titles like "Living in Tiny Houses." I guess it's supposed to be green 'n edgy (if something can be both) but it kind of delights me because a lot of eponymous Tiny Houses do strike a chord with my tawdry microenvironmental fantasies!

Hey, do you remember that video you sent me a while back with the dinosaurs trying to kill each other in slow motion? You know, the finches or sparrows or whatever at the bird feeder? Do you still have that handy?
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Ye gods, I'd be a fool not to +watch your dA. Your scrapbook is filled with by far some of the most creative biological abominations I've ever seen.
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:iconthomastapir:
Hah, thanks man, I'm glad you think so! Thanks also for the watch. I'll do my best to keep 'em coming. :)
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~commander-salamander May 5, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
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