Just A Couple Photos I Wanted To Share. We Hiked Up Beech Mountain On Mt Desert Island A Little Bit Ago,

Just a couple photos I wanted to share. We hiked up Beech mountain on mt desert island a little bit ago, and these are some pictures from the summit. The firewatch tower is really old, and volunteers occasionally go up to look for fires when it gets really hot in the summer.

I made an ace pride flag in Minecraft at my base!

Appreciation post for my dog Emily

First time free painting! I've gone to 'wine and canvass' events before, but never anything serious. I used some old gouache paints I found. This is of an island you can see from my grandparent's house in Maine. Sorry about quality, my phone's camera sucks.

masked boy

World Building- Omens- General Overview

     So I’m working on a species and I need a place to throw out ideas. The species in question are called Omens (for now, I am beginning to hate the word cause I type it so much), and they’re a solitary nomadic race of ‘reapers’, so to speak. They eat the energy of dying creatures as sustenance. Not sure how that entirely works yet. Basically, their powers/abilities include: 

Shape-shifting: They can shift to mimic the physical traits of a different species (Omens will stay on one planet for years at a time before moving on, they live for quite a while). They longer they mimic a species for, the better they get at it. If one gets particularly good, they can change internal organs to match those of the other species. The only thing that none of them can change is blood color, which will always be blue.

Time-sense: Based off of the one from Doctor Who. Since Omens deal with Death, they needed a way to tell when a creature was about to die. So, they can sense timelines. It’s nothing fancy like in Death Note, and it’s not absolute either. So, to explain, timelines in this context are when a person is most likely to die next. It’s a divergence in a creature’s timeline specifically at times when the wrong decision means death. It plays into the butterfly effect just a little bit. I still haven’t figured it all out yet, but I wanted to keep the aspect of free will in with the idea of being able to see someone’s death date. A little build off of this is an Omen’s ability to know the Time anywhere in the universe. This is usually non-linear, so it makes little sense to humans, who use and measure time in a linear fashion, but they make good stopwatches. 

Unlike Time Lords, though, Omens have no control over Time and cannot travel through it or change the past.

So, that’s a very general overview. I’m having a lot of fun trying to build my own species from the ground up! I want to flesh out the entire society of the species, including their own planet! I have a character from this species named James. I love him with my heart. I should probably go to bed.