Non-Mammals Exist Yo
Added 2024-08-08 04:39:35 +0000 UTCI used to be really strict about the worldbuilding and character designs in FB, but over the years it’s all kinda relaxed into whatever I think feels cool/is fun to draw. In the beginning I tended to default to mammals when coming up with characters, but that doesn’t mean non-mammals don’t exist! Many of them live inside my notebook with the bajillion other characters and lore bits I haven’t gotten around to exploring, haha…
In FB, all animal species are sapient except for insects and fish (sharks being the only exception, being both sapient and capable of life on land). Mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, etc- all evolved intelligence, humanoid proportions, and dexterous hands with which to manipulate their environment.
Flo is a big tall twenty-something dumbass. A literal birdbrain, it’s possible she’s never had a thought in her entire life. Vapid and extremely distractible, Flo is often seen noisily chewing gum with her beak open and playing mobile games at max volume. Her best friend is Rajni, a spoiled mean girl. A world class champion at the Bitch Olympics, Rajni regularly brings home gold in snide remarks, casual gaslighting, and an inability to care about things that don’t affect her personally (I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?). She is the leader, Flo is her follower. They both work at Priscilla’s beauty spa. As they regularly stress out their boss with their general incompetence/apathy, they must often be corralled by Doris.
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This is so interesting, I’d love to see some art showcasing the consequences of the egg and dairy industry in Fuzzbutts! Birds can lay unfertilized eggs, but what about dairy workers? In the real world, we’ve selectively bred farm animals to produce way more milk than they’d ever need to feed their offspring, and keep them lactating for longer periods of time. In this furry universe, do mammals need to be pregnant/have given birth to lactate? Or is it the simplified elementary school logic of “they are cows, and all cows can produce milk, so don’t think about it too hard?” Again, in real life, it’s possible to take medicine that mimics the hormones that cause lactation, making you capable of producing milk regardless of any pregnancies. People with medical issues, as well as same-sex couples, have used this medicine before. But lactating on its own is already physically and emotionally draining enough, so adding a drug that could come with negative side effects into the mix sounds even less fun (not to demonize medications like this, I’m glad they exist, but I take a handful of stuff for my adhd, anxiety, and migraines, and not every side effect is positive). I know I’m rambling at this point, but I do love your worldbuilding and all the questions it brings to the table.
FloweryFruitFangs
2024-08-11 17:36:58 +0000 UTCMy guess is that she milks herself
CardstockBroth
2024-08-10 19:11:10 +0000 UTCI was gonna say she also has a poison type with Isla but I believe she is cis….unless 👀
Heather
2024-08-10 14:21:04 +0000 UTCStoned? Nah, man, they're high on life
Corinne Stephenson
2024-08-10 06:57:10 +0000 UTC...I kind of wonder if other species' dairy products are a luxury good or delicacy? Like - at one point I ended up in a rabbit hole of seal milk macros, and it's crazy high in fat. Any mammal is able to overproduce milk beyond what their babies need, so... That being said, our society finds breast milk products to be...concerning, at best. And I've never heard of someone, say, milking their pet dog after she has pups despite the potential for coming up with dog cheeses. Idk! On a related note, breast milk (or in pigeons, crop milk) substitutes have to be an absolute nightmare of misinformation. I feel like Mona has had at least one person ask about the source of her cheeses...but maybe for desperate reasons. Or misinformed ones.
Scyllarus
2024-08-09 21:44:56 +0000 UTCMaybe Mal would be interested in coming in to the salon for a spa day? :o
Mastodon
2024-08-09 20:38:43 +0000 UTCThat's so dark and yet so realistic. Big companies taking advantage of the less fortunate. FB is such a wonderful mix of light-hearted fantasy and dark reality. Just amazing story telling and fascinating lore. Thank you so much for answering x
Lauren Heron
2024-08-09 18:59:33 +0000 UTCThanks! Eggs come from the same place they do in our world. Artificial eggs are definitely a thing and come either in liquid or powdered form, it's a cheap and readily available foodstuff. But if you're willing to pay a bit more money, you can purchase real eggs, most commonly laid by domestic hens, who naturally lay an egg about once a day. The egg and dairy industry in FB is the absolute stuff of nightmares. Factories filled with hen and cow laborers who perform various jobs in between creating their "product", which is of course harvested and sold to the public. These factory workers are often very poor, and often migrants- and their industry fights against worker rights and unions with every dollar they've got. These horrors are kept under lock and key, and many dairy/egg companies hire friendly mascots to create a wholesome family-friendly image of fresh white eggs laid by happy, motherly hens just for your breakfast table. Hens and cows may also opt to sell their eggs and milk independently at local farmer's markets, but the egg and dairy industry continue to make it harder to acquire an independent seller's license. Mona, our favorite British goat, loves making and selling artisinal cheeses, do not ask where the milk comes from.
Lopoddity
2024-08-09 18:21:24 +0000 UTCShe's already got a water-type transfem (Rajni), a flying type (Flo), and a normal/fighting type (Doris)! She'll need to collect more if she wants to be the transfem master! >:O
Lopoddity
2024-08-09 17:51:09 +0000 UTCPriscilla is collecting her fellow transfems like Pokemon cards and I am living for it
Lammergayier
2024-08-09 14:41:46 +0000 UTCI know. I'm just playing ping pong. Which I'll stop now.
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-09 14:16:19 +0000 UTCThey're not actual boobs, just a slightly pronounced chest, the kind that animated movies like to slap on non-mammal girl characters. Princess Tiana has the same thing when she's in her frog form. Neither Rajni nor Flo have breasts, that's a mammal-only feature. Also I'm not sure they'd have prominent boobs if they were mammals either because neither of them are cis
Lopoddity
2024-08-09 14:13:15 +0000 UTCUnstoppity frogetty can do great big flipity flopities
Heather
2024-08-09 13:24:33 +0000 UTCAh amazing, I love that they have so many options. Your universe is so well fleshed out (no pun intended) One more question if I may. Where do the eggs come from? Do the bird species have the option to sell their unfertilised eggs or has science found a way to replicate them?
Lauren Heron
2024-08-09 12:45:06 +0000 UTCHippity hoppity, them froggos non stoppity
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-09 12:39:05 +0000 UTCHippity hoppity, that frogs got some nice bitty bobbities in that crop toppity (I’m so sorry don’t block me)
Heather
2024-08-09 12:37:33 +0000 UTCHippity hoppity, that crop toppity.
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-09 11:59:14 +0000 UTCOMG I love them! I'm stuck a sucker for less conventional species of animals and you're so good at them.
pookaWOODS
2024-08-08 23:12:22 +0000 UTCHer name means Queen~
Lopoddity
2024-08-08 21:16:53 +0000 UTCI would pay money to be in a room with Brogan and Floseph as they get stoned
Heather
2024-08-08 20:13:21 +0000 UTCThat eyeliner is so sharp it could cut someone She’s totally that girl in the picture that uses a knife to put it on
Heather
2024-08-08 19:52:34 +0000 UTCRAJNI! I love this frog girl. I don’t believe she’s ever gaslit anyone, I think whatever she said was right. If those big beautiful red eyes tried to manipulate me I would let them
owlcoholik
2024-08-08 18:56:23 +0000 UTCOh that gymnast one is CANON now baby. LOVE the idea of a burnt-out superstar athlete ending up sweeping up hair at a rinky-dink bodega beauty spa. Also Flo basically doing the shrimp monologue from Forrest Gump. XD And hell YES to Logan and Flo being friends!! Them greeting each other like: Flo: BROGAN Logan: FLOSEPH *cue aggressive chest bumps and noogies while Silver and Rajni SEETHE with jealousy in the background*
Lopoddity
2024-08-08 18:51:28 +0000 UTCFish and insects do indeed feed predators worldwide, but FB is a world awash in modern industrial innovation, and this has created a booming, grossly underregulated meat industry. Meat exists in FB. With the advent of the supermarket, food companies created fake "meat" made of hyper-processed protein slurry (usually made of insects, soy, or beans), then dyed, jammed full of flavor additives and sodium, and reconstituted into "authentic meat-like shapes and textures". Fake meat came to taste more and more palatable as the science improved, but the 80s gave birth to ACTUAL meat, grown in labs from animal cells. The public's response to this ranged from curiosity to outright horror, but this newly created lab meat industry, with the help of titan investors, developed a three-way punch of a propagandistic advertising campaign, a massive lobbying front, and aggressive research and development to produce lab-meat cheaply enough that they could still rake in aggressive profits. Carnivores have no shortage when it comes to options for protein, whether they want tasty meaty-flavored kibble fritters (think fries made of potatoes mixed with cheap meat-flavored protein paste), a handful of grubs, an egg salad sandwich, a peanut butter protein shake, a sandwich made of pink deli "meat" slices, or a genuine lab-grown steak made of the very same matter as their bovine neighbor up the street. The options are endless! And just a little horrifying (so just like your standard American supermarket)
Lopoddity
2024-08-08 15:31:05 +0000 UTCAhhh can't wait to see more of these two!
forthehonor-ofgayskull
2024-08-08 15:01:40 +0000 UTCI'm not sure if this has been discussed before and I just missed it but do predators just eat fish and insects? or do they have a more omnivore type diet with fish/insects and some veg to bulk up the diet? I remember talk of the drug that drives carnivores wild with blood in, but do carnivores ever go wild and take a bite out of others?
Lauren Heron
2024-08-08 15:00:27 +0000 UTCYep! Besides your basic fur/feather dye, there's a popular fizzy drink series in FB that can induce a full-body color change if one drinks it regularly enough (this is why Finn is a very unnatural blue-green instead of brown). A fun fact about these "chroma sodas" is that they've been in a decades-long battle with the FDA because they may or may not be tied to causing certain diseases. They're really popular with kids!
Lopoddity
2024-08-08 13:22:09 +0000 UTCRajni is technically way smaller than Priscilla, but she has very long legs, so they stand at about the same height. Rajni cannot be intimidated by size, she can always hop up to Flo's shoulder to glare down at you.
Lopoddity
2024-08-08 13:15:22 +0000 UTCsilly question but since flamingo turn pink from eating shrimp in FB if they eat things other than shrimp do they have the chance of being multicolored? is that something a flamingo might do on purpose? or are the flamingos in FB doomed to pink regardless (which admittedly looks good on them)
gamigami
2024-08-08 12:57:04 +0000 UTCOh lordy Logan and Flo friendship would be so funny… makers of questionable shrimp/protein powder smoothies, bringers of headache to everyone in the vicinity… meanwhile you have Rajni and Silver, who their respective besties REALLY hope will get along but who kind of. hate each other. They roll up to the group function and sit in mutually prickly silence. The bestie of my bestie is NOT my bestie.
knickknacks
2024-08-08 11:59:16 +0000 UTCDORIS MENTION 🔥🔥🔥 These two give off the vibes of. Coworkers I would haaaaate sharing shifts with, but this is fiction so! I love them actually!
knickknacks
2024-08-08 11:55:46 +0000 UTCI wonder if Rajni didn’t like Flo at all at first but the flamingo stuck around long enough to be considered one! “Oh she’s still here, I guess we’re friends or something” And now they have matching BFF bracelets
Emily Lemur
2024-08-08 11:54:00 +0000 UTCI’m OBSESSED!!!!! 🤩 😍 Lil hcs from 1st impression ;) -Flo is indeed a shrimp enthusiast and if her sweet fluffy head ever had a coherent thought she might have made her own cookbook FILLED with nothing but shrimp recipes. She proudly invents her own dishes and shares(forces) them with her friends. How appealing these…concoctions are varies greatly. She was quite sad when no one seemed to love her shrimp and pineapple smoothie -OK you said bitch Olympics and hey guess what I’ve been watching, soooo hc is that Rajni is a retired gymnast that might have finally burnt out (or injured herself) from her extreme competitiveness and overworking herself. Gold is her favorite color and she needs to be the BEST. Probably has a chip on her shoulder that she can no longer compete and maybe still watches competitions to live vicariously through those who still can -Flo and Logan are BFF’s (she joins his gym). There is no brain cell to be seen for miles. They are blissfully happy -Raj has a Thing for Irie and she HATES it/denies it. Channels her suppressed lust into a one sided rivalry that Irie fully indulges and encourages for her own amusement
Heather
2024-08-08 11:30:45 +0000 UTCAWWW THEY ARE SO PRETTY! I love a gal pals episode :)
Tibbles Yorkie789
2024-08-08 10:16:21 +0000 UTCFlo does yoga and gets so relaxed that she falls asleep in the scariest looking positions because her legs look broken and her neck has somehow turned into a pretzel.
Corinne Stephenson
2024-08-08 08:00:15 +0000 UTCI’m def curious to see how their sizes are! Like if Rajni is smaller than Priscilla ? And how that might affect their work etc
D
2024-08-08 06:57:38 +0000 UTCThe emphasis of the "me-yuh!! 🥺" has me snort laughing at 2am. This is a treasure, and I will cherish it until my donk brain allows sleep to grace me tonight, thank you so much 😂💕 Also, I will protect Flo and her half a braincell with my entire life
mirarevias
2024-08-08 06:01:05 +0000 UTCPriscilla, sighing: Flo, can you please open this jar for me? Flo: What? Priscilla: The jar, Flo. Flo: What about the jar? Priscilla: Can you. Please open it. Flo: Oh yeah! :) I can definitely do that, yah. :) Priscilla: ...... Priscilla: ........Are you? Flo: Am I what? Priscilla: Going to open it?? Flo: Open what? Priscilla: THE JAR, FLO Flo: Oh my gawd stop yelling at me-yuh!! 🥺 Priscilla: I-! Fuck, fine. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled. Flo: Yah. >:( That was actually like, really unprofessional of you. Like show some decorum, Priscilla, this is a place of business. Priscilla: ...Right. Can you just. Please. Take this jar into your hand. And unscrew the lid. I need your help to open it. Please. Flo: You got it, boss. :) *instantly fumbles the jar, shattering it*
Lopoddity
2024-08-08 05:52:34 +0000 UTCI love how my brain was like, "haha I bet they work at the spa and drive Priscilla nuts" AND WHADDYA KNOW. Between them and Isla's, um, odd business decisions (that are smart don't get me wrong!! Just, uhhhhhhhhhhhh, quite a scene as a mammal, for sure!) I imagine that Priscilla keeps up quite diligently with her Zoloft. Zosloth? 🥴 The spa's such a fun playground for this because of the variety of clientele they undoubtedly bring in, so I'm excited to see what other designs you might have cooked up 👏🏼
mirarevias
2024-08-08 05:21:44 +0000 UTCI understand, it's hard though not to worry. I hope you know the concern comes not from a distrust of your judgement but a genuine value of your well-being. I only wish you health and good company
Louis Esposito
2024-08-08 05:14:41 +0000 UTCI appreciate the concern, but I'm an adult, friend. My job has alternating shifts and I don't need to wake up early tomorrow. Leave the worrying about my sleep schedule to meeee
Lopoddity
2024-08-08 05:08:21 +0000 UTCOn one hand I'm tempted to say yes, because I always thought it was hilarious how bird people in Bojack Horseman have regular human arms but can still fly just by flapping em really hard. But nah, bird folk can only fly if they still have their flight feathers. Many opt to have them removed or clipped out of convenience, it's tricky to navigate the world with long stiff feathers hanging off one's arms (they also need constant maintenance and oiling). Flo's full unaltered wingspan is like six feet across and extremely cumbersome for her day job, she can't do precise beauty care with them. Flight feathers grow back, so birds always have the option for flight if they truly desire it.
Lopoddity
2024-08-08 05:07:04 +0000 UTCThere's something so cool about animal words, like how each artist create for these creatures their own culture, daily lives, even the difference struggles that they have when the world is made for the bigger or first dominant group. It's like every thing is because something you know? Well, maybe that's why I love Dungeon Meshi (I highly recommend the anime and manga, for a fantasy world is very realistic in a weird way, like is a complex word, where characters are... Very much people with all their great and problematic parts) I love your designs, it's nice when animal characters still feel animal 😊❤️
MiyaTheGoldenFlower
2024-08-08 04:52:08 +0000 UTCI love them both already. I dig Flo’s vibe. Can birdfolk like Flo actually fly or nah?
Millions of Bees
2024-08-08 04:51:45 +0000 UTCOoo! Love the froggy gal! She has that cold stare and I am very curious about her!
PrincessMuffinArt
2024-08-08 04:47:37 +0000 UTCI LOVE THEM
RagingRiptide
2024-08-08 04:45:06 +0000 UTCI can feel the aura of queerness coming off of both of them lol. Idk how to describe it but they are both so gender.
Dean
2024-08-08 04:44:04 +0000 UTCMy day is always brightened by your posts but I hope you get some actually rest lop!
Louis Esposito
2024-08-08 04:43:37 +0000 UTCAh, yes, I would immediately die for Flo
Blizwolfthewolf
2024-08-08 04:41:37 +0000 UTC
