Late spectember Post : The "Awwien"
Hello again, I hope you will all excuse me for not doing the Sectember challenge, I had done a lot of work on "Demons of the Deep" just before that and was a bit out of ideas. But I do have this, which I was meaning to post in September. This piece came to me when I realized that all of my speculative-Exobiology-style aliens, while well-reasoned enough, always somehow evade being cute by aesthetic human standards. This may not matter much, because humans only find the appearance of animals that echoes newborn mammals, to be "cute". What is objectively cute on an alien planet may look hideous to humans, who knows?? But I sort of brainstormed and landed upon sort of "jumping spider-fox-owl-moth" alien thing that I think future space-farers on an earth-like planet would find really cute. So here it is, the scientifically plausible cutesy alien critter, the "Awwien". All images, designs and writing on this blog are the property of Timothy Donald M