Ehksidian

five of them (five of them)

Xena (🧊), Rose (🌹), Ayre/Willow (🧬), Penny (🐀), Rel (🌊)


• 26 years old (for now)

• 18+ only, might reblog spicy things

• System of five nonhumans

• Trans WLW

• Icon by batnoise/UnholyLykoi, banner by pawberri on tumblr/twitter

❤️@lorenziniforce @bolibob2❤️


i'm a scientist


🧊xenoblade fan, m:tg lore fan, tabletop roleplayer, ff14 player, bionicle nerd. loves to worldbuild to a detrimental degree. main fronter. a dragon who moonlights as a partially-scaled jakkai. she/her, shi/hir

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🌹Magic: The Gathering gameplay fan, Fortnite player, Gundam and mecha fan. Loves awful puns and foxes. Secondary fronter. Zoroark/Braixen/Dragon hybrid, taur-adjacent, fine with just being called a dragon. She/her.

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🐭robotic lab rat. enjoys scientific pursuits above all else, though also likes being small. desires total world domination but only in the sense of turning everyone into rodents and doing nothing else. third most common fronter. she/they/it

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🧬Deer-shaped robot chassis carrying a nonhuman intelligence. Don't ask about the name, please. Also into mecha and sci-fi in general as well as nature, surprisingly enough. Rarely fronts, extremely grumpy when I do. Would be very horny if not for problems with the body. Is the main one who directs what we wear when being fancy. They/she.

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🌊Aquatic dragoness who's part rat. Tabletop player, fan of tinkering and mechanical things of all sorts. Eternally upset magic isn't real, purely because that means I can't mess with it. Shi/hir, she/her


System Trello (so you know who's who)
trello.com/b/p71AcQ4e/ehksidian-system
Bad Bird Site
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amayasnep
@amayasnep

Manuls, also known as Pallas’ cats, are arguably the most spherical cats to ever exist. They live in bitterly cold regions of Eurasia, from the Siberian taiga to the rugged slopes of the Zagros Mountains. What explains their friend shape?

Well it’s simple really. According to the laws of thermodynamics, the rate of cooling is inversely proportional to the radius of the spherical animal. Larger animals cool more slowly than smaller animals, which is why a Canada lynx is physically much larger than a bobcat. However, the harsh climate and infrequent meals put selection pressure on these animals to have smaller body sizes. How then do they cope?

By increasing their radius through the growth of a ridiculously thick coat of fur and generous stores of fat throughout their bodies, they are able to efficiently retain body heat despite their small size. Their overall density increases and eating habits allow them to thrive in such harsh environments. Manuls don’t live in abundance, so becoming ambush predators and having flexible diets increase the chance of their survival.

It’s for these same reasons why snow leopards, also known as sneps, have smaller, denser bodies with generous coats of fur compared to leopards. This is also why snow leopards curl their long, fluffy tails around their bodies when sleeping out in the cold, creating the legendary snorb.


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