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After Man After Man - A one-off scenario.

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 Hello again, I have been a little quiet on here, from putting my backlog of Aion stuff and other things together into some coherent shapes in order to make them into project-websites. But I'm back in order to share with you a fun idea I recently had, that could go without being drawn.' A much maligned but classic book in Speculative Evolution as a genre is Dougal Dixon's "Man After Man". Criticized as being rather unfeasible, and often downright uncanny, it is nevertheless influential in the genre of post humans, following in the footsteps of Olaf Stapleton, and inspiring the likes of Memo Kosemen. It was dogged by some issues of theft of intellectual property, of which there is some backstory that remains a closely guarded confidence among some people in this profession. Regardless of that, it was an influential book in my upbringing as a child, an aspiring speculative-zoologist and creature designer. Thanks to my boyfriend I eventually got my own copy in good s...

Important news about The World of Aion!

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 Hello, It is my pleasure to inform you that my world-building project, The World of Aion is in the final stages of being fully written up, uploaded and polished as a proper website. All being well it should be published tomorrow, and it contains full descriptions of each fictional creature, and extensive lists of familiar fauna and flora that are also found there. Also present are the maps and race-entries from this blog, all of this project's material, old and new.  So please be patient just a little while longer and you will be able to enjoy it in its full glory. For the sake of space I have deleted the original posts from this blog, as everything has been transferred over.  Excelsior as always, from Tim.  - All images, designs and writing on this site are the property of Timothy Donald Morris, do not use, reproduce, or copy them without my permission. © Timothy Donald Morris 2022-2025

The Cryptozoologicon Response - Re-post

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 Hello again,   After ill-advisedly deleting some of my old project-websites as a sort of spring-cleaning a few months ago, I promised to re-post them here. So here we are.   I am posting below all of the portraits of different cryptids I did for my Cryptozoologicon responses project. The text always felt superfluous so I will only do small captions now.   -     The Clawed Pygmy Goat, shown here as a relative of the American Mountain-Goat.   The Kappa, shown here as a sparse-furred, aquatic kind of Macaque.   Father of All the Turtles, portrayed as an enormous pelagic Protostegid Turtle. Ahuizotl, here portrayed as a leopard-sized semi-aquatic Opossum.   Iraq Anfish, shown here as a species of Perch that is notable for a coating of fleshy filaments.   The Southern Narwhal, portrayed as a tusked Monodontid Whale.   Auli or Water-Calf, portrayed here as a freshwater kind of Protosirenidae.   Bis-Cobra, portrayed here as a venom-s...