#citysaurus

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So my love for amphiterra actually goes way back and starts with early highschool kaijuking.

Back around 2016 I found the spec evo forms, and while I never joined them and only officially joined the internet in 2017 when I made this tumblr account (dear god don’t go digging for 2017 kaijuking I was a much different and cringier person than I am now), I liked surfing through the forms even though the website was broken and being abandoned. It was a good time killer when I was stalling in class.

Through that I found Warren Fehy’s Fragment (writing a review of which is next on my to do list so I should probably get started on that), Trollmans’ Diyu, and amphiterra. Diyu is among one of my favorites, but Amphiterra grabbed my attention since it was colorful, had a website, and was the most in depth spec evo project I had seen at that point. It offered not only descriptions and illustrations for creatures but anatomical diagrams as well which just tickled my not fully formed teenage brain. I also just liked the designs.

So I was a pretty big fan of the project from the onset and not long after its inception too, way before Curiosity Archive’s video on it. I think I actually even made the first amphiterra fanart on the internet too… which has aged like sour moldy milk because it was a “dat boi” meme reference. I actually personally asked Citysaurus to not put it up on the fanart section of the website. God I feel old.

I would definitely love to see the project revived and maybe we might get that in the future. One day.

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I’m actually unsure myself. I think the latest update was the inclusion of literal flying squids in one of the almost real zines that wasn’t immediately obvious it was part of that world until you see an arctic fraggon at the bottom of one of their pages, but I think citysaurus considers the project more or less complete or has no intention of continuing.

They do have a tumblr (citysaurus) and Twitter (BigHugeFrog) so you can ask them.

I wouldn’t call myself the speculative evolution guy, but I guess I am more speculative evolution focused than most in the circle of blogs I’m associated with.

A good one to start with is @citysaurus’s amphiterra project. You can read it here! It’s filled with colorful frog creatures, and they’re all very cute! (To me at least)

Another good one is the Diyu made by Trollman.

Dougal Dixon’s books are considered the founding works of the genre, and while they’re outdated they’re still fun reads.

If you want an action packed speculative evolution story with vibrant horrifying creatures then you should read Warren Fahy’s books Fragment and Pandemonium.

All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet is a good read as well.

It’s for my other blog @creatureprompts. I can generate concepts for organisms on my own pretty well (on a good day I can come up with an entire new organism every 2 hours), but I want to see what other people come up with.

I will give credit to you when I post your prompt.

I know a few people who might be interested, so I’m tagging them. @a-beepbop @theload @dinosaurana @ask-drakos @skies-and-stars-and-shit @serpentking456 @cyberneticfamiliar @godzillakiryu91 @mari-ca7 @citysaurus @tyrantisterror (those last two are probably busy so it might have been a bad idea to tag them.