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Human-socialized.

as you can see tbh this is less of a traditional webcomic format and more of a graphic novel situation. the prose is written the way it is kind of intentionally, you'll see how things proceed, hehe.

this also really helps me in giving the ecosystems of our (many) alien homeworlds some life without endlessly pondering on their looks. I also decided to turn the thoughts looming in my mind down into a sort of log entry commander Eight would draw/write into a digital sketchbook.

A lil Western Interior Seaway scene!!! Nyctosaurus and Pteranodon flapping around the sea cliffs while a mama and baby Albertonectes hunt fish in the shallows

working out some perfectly regular dogs

how this week has felt

And some more fun Baleen random facts: Baleens can get drunk! They will take certain local plants and ferment them, usually a plant similar to kelp. Generally it's saved for special occasions, due to the time and effort it takes to make the drinks.

A drawing of an alien species from a sci fi world I’ve been writing

Overall canihyir have four sexes and five genders. Queens are females who undergo a sex change later in life and provide the family with children. Queens are larger than every other sex and have longer feathers on the neck. Females are the main workers of the clan and often form a council lead by the queen. In most cultures a member of the council is picked to be queen once the current one gets too old or passes away. Bright males are the only sex that reproduce with the queen. They are usually not expected to work and are required to look fancy and pretty for their queen. Dull males either work in the family or are brood fathers. Brood fathers are a different gender expression and activity nurse the queens tick like larvae with their blood until pupation. Brood fathers and females often raise children together after pupation.

In canon they can't communicate verbally, the sounds they use to communicate can't be recreated by one another. I'm still not sure what other method they should use to talk, I'm considering creating a shared sign language, using ASL or PJM, or just making them write letters to each other. So until I figure it out, they are granted a magic power of language comprehension. lmao

Individuals are aided in their search for a mate by their developed olfactory cheek pads, located at the corners of the mouth. This multifunctional sensory tissue once served only to muscularly support the jaw, but over time, the olfactory organs migrated to the surface of the cheek tissue. Thanks to the highly humid atmosphere and the flapping motion of these organs, evildoers detect odors and other chemical information, including mating pheromones. At the end of evildoers abdomen, you can see a fluffy red tuft—this is their pheromonal bush, localized, stiff, hair-like filaments that become soaked with odorous secretions during the breeding season to find mates. Their specialized vocalizations also aid in this process; the anatomy of their respiratory midlimbs allows them to contract their lungs very rapidly, giving their calls a "popping" or pulsating sound. After a short period of incubation, mothers dig a small, semi-vertical nest (burrow), usually near tall tree trunks or rocks. Females possess a long ovipositor, which they use to lay about a dozen eggs at the very bottom of the burrow. They then carefully guard the nest with their young for several weeks, bringing them food. The young quickly emerge from the nest, within about a month. They stay together and hunt small prey and parasites for approximately two to three years. They reach sexual maturity at approximately five years of age and live to be around 20 years old.