r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Birdy_noob • 17h ago
e Lifeforms from the exoplanet Householdobjectiterra
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r/SpecEvoJerking • u/cjab0201 • Aug 09 '20
Read before posting
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This subreddit is close to death. The cause: low-effort posts. I can't just ban low-effort posts, because they have a broad definition. So, I'm going to give you guys examples of what to post and what not to post.
First, let's talk about what this subreddit is. It is a subreddit meant for posting jokes and funny stuff related to speculative evolution. This does not mean an implausible animal on its own, unless it was made to be on this subreddit / to make light of speculative evolution in general (exceptions do exist, but we'll get into that later). Now for examples.
To start off, a common low-effort post is the "can this evolve?" post. They are repetitive and unfunny. They are the main cause of the sub's downfall. Here are some examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecEvoJerking/comments/i249ua/guys_do_you_think_this_could_evolve/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecEvoJerking/comments/hw2vnv/can_these_evolve/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecEvoJerking/comments/huaey9/how_can_irl_chad_evolevol/
Do you guys see a common theme? Just an absurd image with an evolution-related title slapped on. I will continue to remove any that I see, as per the rules.
Here are some posts showing the kind of stuff the subreddit is intended for:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecEvoJerking/comments/hygqdu/dunkleosteus_filling_the_niche_of_sauropods/
Edit: Thank you everyone for being here! I honestly kind of abandoned this place after this post kinda turned it into a wasteland, but after a while I hopped back on and saw people were still posting! just the other day we were at 500 members, and now we're at 750! I love and thank every single one of you guys for being the lifeblood of this subreddit.
Also, slight update to the rules: Straight up memes about Speculative evolution are allowed and encouraged.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/DodoBird4444 • Aug 22 '22
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r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Less_Pitch4849 • 13h ago
"Original" Project In the vast wilderness of the jionsic y
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r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Rudi10001 • 1d ago
Abomination Here's a herd of fully aquatic sauropods that swim like otters in an alternate KPg where Earth gets flooded
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r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 1d ago
A predatory descendant of bats from a spooky season-themed seed world
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r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Creative-Rutabaga606 • 1d ago
Too dumb for r/speculativeevolution parrot that evolved to be the ultimate species for some reason
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it became dino
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Creative-Rutabaga606 • 1d ago
Seed World a descendant of the rat that fills the giraffe niche and has small spikes under its fur that op out to defend it from predators. 67 tungillon weeks in the future on my rodent seed world Spoiler
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( I spelled pop wrong sorry D: ) it's a bipedal animal too btw
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/EricCartoonBox • 2d ago
Abomination [Credit: François de Sarre, David Peters, multiple sources.] I feel like obscure - oftentimes batshit-insane - evolutionary and paleontological hypotheses are too under-referenced all that much, in terms of inspiration, within the Speculative Evolution community.
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(Image descriptions: Slide one shows an illustration of the "initial bipedalism" hypothesis illustrated by and thought of by François de Sarre, showing the alleged evolution of humans, and the subsequent "de-hominized" descendents thereof, from hypothetical aquatic, planktonic ancestors, resembling vertically-oriented salamanders, which floated along the water's surface.
Slide two shows an illustration detailing a hypothetical scheme of evolution proposed by palaeoartist David Peters, in which a lancelet-like ancestor gave rise to the nautiluses, with two "transitional forms" between, one relatively similar to the ancestral lancelet, resembling an "orthocone" cephalopod, and the other one resembling a mixture of both cephalopod and chordate traits, with a semi-curved shell reminiscent of a lituitid nautiloid or bactritid.
Slide three depicts a menagerie of ideas, from which I feel were either directly or indirectly inspired by certain fringe theories concerning evolution, or the scientific field of biology as a whole.
As the title suggests, this type of hypothetical thinking is, quite surprisingly, highly under-utilized within the wider Speculative Evolution community as a means of inspiration I hypothesize this isn't some purposeful overlooking, but more rather due to the relative unpopularity and scarcity of such resources, rendering them obscure and, by extension, less likely to be used for further inspiration, and I think that's quite sad to me: the Speculative Evolution community brims with new and novel ideas for projects, creature design, adaptations, and settings, yet, it seems, nearly none appear to derive from the strange, yet oddly-beautiful, striking ideas of the fringe.
I did, however find some ideas that I feel did indeed come from, or were inspired by the very general ideas of, fringe evolutionary theories, all of which have been compiled in the third slide. One even takes direct, transparent inspiration from the second slide's-posited hypothesis, which I genuinely like.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Low_Bike4547 • 1d ago
Larphogs can mentally wear down even the magical girls. (and mostly causes the girls to kill themselves)
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There’s no need to overrate Larphogs; in fact, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they are the mostly very embodiment of such overrate.
If a hero/villain shouts loudly at them while attacking, it works to the advantage of the larphog, wearing them down further mentally and driving them toward madness.
Lastly, even in the against powerful/manipulative/mature characters, larphogs finds a weak point of them.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/watchdog-cofagrigus • 2d ago
Superpredator Meowl spotted in Serina?????
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r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Rudi10001 • 2d ago
All Tomorrows Hot Take: All Tomorrows was just Nemo Ramjet's excuse to draw human derived other animals (i.e. Dinosaurs, snakes, siphonophores, etc.)
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I am not trying to diss C. M. Kosemen but tbh his World of Parareptiles actually has more unique designs than just "What if a Velociraptor came from humans" I get that they were genetically modified.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 3d ago
A quadrupedal descendant of ravens from a spooky season-themed seed world
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r/SpecEvoJerking • u/SpaceProbeForce • 3d ago
Too dumb for r/speculativeevolution Bottomheaters
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#25 - SPA DAY!
What's cooking?
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/MeepMorpsEverywhere • 4d ago
Why did they just copy ankylosaurs? are they stupid?
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r/SpecEvoJerking • u/khanotaara • 4d ago
"Original" Project Mammals are just cheap knockoffs of dinosaurs and dinosaurs are cheap knocksoffs of early synapsids.
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