Being A Pretty Small Blog I Pay A Lot Of Attention To The Tags People Put On Reblogs Of My Art Since

Being a pretty small blog I pay a lot of attention to the tags people put on reblogs of my art since I'm usually only sifting through like 5-10 of them. This caught my eye and I may as well throw a bit of explanation in here for @sleeping-cliche for this post :)

I've been playing off and on with this species for a REALLY long time and the mortuary infanticide / birth defects page was from 2021 or something? I don't think mortuary infanticide is a real term lol (it sounds kind of redundant) I think I meant something more like ritualized filial cannibalism. A lot of animals consume their young especially if they are weak/runts, because the nutrients from eating the baby is actually worth more and is less of a burden than caring for that baby.

Anyways, with this species at some point I had this idea going where their reproductive organs are housed in those fatty sacs protecting their neck, and they were birthed out of the mouth in eggs??? Something like that. I don't know if that was fully scrapped at this point or not but the filial cannibalism would be done with newborns with severe birth defects or stillborns and it would be sort of a way to return the child to where they came from. Sort of.

In every sense it would appear as though they would return to the womb, but of course would actually be eaten by the birthing parent because true "unbirthing" isn't physically possible. Not a joyous occasion by any means, it would be a very quiet and secretive, perhaps almost shameful act viewed only by the other biological parents and maybe religious leaders or something like that.

Their "crest" or fat sacs would probably be scarified or tattooed after a miscarriage/stillborn/severely defective birth. I think some real world cultures have similar practices of body modifications to mark loss though I don't recall exactly which ones do that.

buaicphointe ón calalóg 2031 ón IUFBA

Highlights from the 2031 catalogue from the IUFBA

Leanaírud 1: *dusigh suas*

Leanaírud 2: tá tú suas faoi dheireadh...tá smaonieamh agam

Leanaírud 3: anois dhrapfaidh muid ar mama!

Babyguy 1: *wakes up*

Babyguy 2: hey you're finally up...I have an idea

Babyguy 3: let's climb on mama!

mar a scríobhtear sa póst "organ imhéanach agus structúir cnámha", chun chuir suas leis demáiste ó gas agus deatach dánséarach i chónaí fanas, ta beirt organ darbh ainm lamhnán taos acu.

like what was mentioned in the post "internal organs and bone structure", to put up with the damage caused by dangerous gas or smoke in the fauns' environment, they have two organs called tar bladders

Nuair atá inomarcha tarra nó saliácar sa scámhóga chun cossacht suas, brúeann na mattán ar taobh amuigh den scámhóga síos, ag tosú ó Barr go bunn (ar fadh 15 nómead- uiar a chog) chun an tarra a brú go dtí na lamhnán taos. Feiceann an próseis seo ar an taobh amuigh mar an inalú tapúil agus íseal. Briseann na lamhnán taos an tarra go dtí gur nach fedir leis an fán a nibhe, ansin bogtear é go dtí an laithán agus an taé chun é a scaol amach as an corp.

When there's so much filth or tar in the lungs and it starts to impact their function, the muscles that directly surround the lungs will start contracting rapidly, going from top to bottom (this process lasts around 15 minutes to an hour) to push the waste into the tar bladders. On the outside, this makes the faun breathe quick, shallow breaths. The tar bladders then break down the filth so it doesn't poison the faun, and lymphocytes from the spleen are sent to kill any dangerous microbes. then what's left is transported to the liver to break it down further, then it's removed from the body.

Cloverfield memes for the people (fucking no one)

Fánas cabharach ag leadbh an iarmhar greamaitheach as na masín ReTurn!

Helpful fauns licking the stickyness off the ReTurn machines!