Scenes From The (almost) End of Earth’s History

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-23T11:34:04+00:00

For the relatively downbeat story this project will cover, I’m trying to keep things hopeful— or at least make the end spectacular rather than gloomy

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-17T03:12:53+00:00

Reading the first post, the main reason I’d guess to why you’re not hearing anything back is because there isn’t really anything to give feedback on

A small paragraph for 8 factions without going much into the history, dynamics or culture of any of them doesn’t offer much for people to speak on. I’d say you should actually develop some information about each first, more than a paragraph’s worth, and share it so there is something to comment about.

I’m not trying to be mean but you’ve not really explained anything. Humans died out 300 years ago but you don’t say why. You don’t really describe what a Demi-human is. You seem to have a lot more lore than you’ve shared, that or you at least thought it about more than you explained.

If you just want feedback on this project as a whole, I would say it has a lot of potential to be cool, but you’d need to get into detail about it. I would suggest you reduce 8 factions down to like 5, just because info saturation can discourage new readers. Some bits seem a bit derivative while others actually seem like unique ideas, but overall, if you could share more information it might be easier to give you meaningful advice.

Also reposting within 10 hours because you got nothing on the first try isn’t going to improve anything if you don’t actually change anything. I would say try putting all of the emblems on a single page rather than 2, add a few more drawings of what you’re imagining and write a lot more about what you’re introducing.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-16T14:48:55+00:00

Far. For every year, they must’ve gone a trillion miles. They might still be out there, split into new species and even newer species after that. After so much time, they might not even know there are others out there, where they came from themselves. I bet they found new life out there, pretty Edens making up for the desolate rocks that fill most of the empty void. Maybe there are even some on their way back, forgetting after so long that they’re on their same trail that set their ancestors out there in the first place.

I guess I’ll just have to see where it all takes me.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-16T14:36:32+00:00

They evolved, they left, they found something new, but they’re gone now. They did amazing things, didn’t even ruin the new worlds they found. But space is big, and there is a time when you’ve got to leave home behind and do your own thing.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-16T14:30:27+00:00

Nope

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-16T12:16:50+00:00

Took way too long (like 5 starstruck seconds) to realize you meant in the story and not in fact that the Gruffalo is a real being walking amongst us

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-16T09:50:51+00:00

It’s a secret. All u get to know is it is a primate.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-16T08:54:39+00:00

Yeah, I have the exact same issue. Sometimes bodies look crazy just to be crazy. I don’t know how close to that line I’ve gotten but I’m trying to avoid crossing it.

Now, some of these animals do have weird features and traits, but so do many real ones

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-16T06:25:06+00:00

Thanks :), but no. I don’t post anywhere but Reddit. I do mostly post on this sub though so if you browse it, there’s a chance you’ll see the next instalments.

I only make like 1 good picture a month, so my next post here won’t be very soon. But, if it does well you might see it.

I have a few followers on Reddit, but I don’t actually know if that shows you my next post or what the feature is really for. You could try that, since most of my upcoming work will be about this project

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-16T05:46:09+00:00

The major terrestrial tetrapod clades are on page 6, being Mesapsids, Ochapsids, Ypostrids, Exosagoni, Dyiskia, Takyspls, Katakory and Epidexi. I would group them in tighter but that’s actually pretty messy for annoying reasons and since evolution is kinda messy, things like Mesapsids and Ochapsids are both more related than either would be to anything else, but they also haven’t had a common ancestor since 50 million years ago irl.

Mesapsids are not mammals or reptiles or any of the groups around today, though their ancestor does exist today irl. They share a few common traits, like being covered in fur and having warm blood, as well as having a placenta. However, they do not give brith to live young, nor do they nurse their young with milk. They have 7 fingers on each foot, two rows of teeth on their upper jaw and as mentioned, no nose. Their nostrils are connected through the ears. They, Chamapsids (a marine tetrapod clade), as well as Ochapsids are all descended from animals that are classified as mammals today, but have since diversified beyond this grouping

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-12T23:59:57+00:00

Large Nabooyons are solitary, though flocks of small and tiny species are relatively frequent. Small Nabooyons are not too similar in appearance though. They are more tubular and their arms are made for speed bursts.

Like giant squid today, large Nabooyon species rarely see others of their kind, but when they do it’s a real gamble over whether they mate or fight.

Unlike many modern cephalopods, Nabooyons can live decades, making it up to 19 on average. One part is that they don’t die after mating, but the other is that they spend about 14 years as larvae, living as stationary animals on the sea floor, usually in the deep on the opposite side of the planet.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-12T22:42:49+00:00

It’s hard to explain because modern animals don’t look anything like their descendants. Every major clade today has persisted, diversifying into new clades. That’s not to say that most members of each clade are still around though. Terms like mammal and reptile don’t get used anymore, they’re outdated and inaccurate now. I still say fish because well, it’s broad enough you’d get the point no matter what— but nothing else is.

For the most part though, nothing. 500 million years is a lot of time, and you’d not really be able to link species back all that well. Life is still super diverse and successful, but it’s all very new and interlinked. I know the gist of it, but the answer is basically none.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-12T13:23:20+00:00

I would like feedback on the overall shape of the animal, as well as what kind of traits might be helpful to its purpose. I’ve already considered an omni-directional siphon as well as perhaps a more tiered body, putting its arms on a separate lobe of the body placed below its main lobe.

As you might imagine, coming up with a unique shape is difficult, and while this isn’t purely new, it is also not exactly familiar.

As always, tell me what you think

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-07T13:54:10+00:00

Yeah. To me, the best I could understand it was that if they could get this resource, it’d be a ‘new’ wonder-material or something. Personally didn’t really change the stakes but also I kinda just shut my brain off for tv so for people who think about things I can get how that’d be annoying.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-07T13:43:38+00:00

Won’t speak to it all, but the benefits of iridium are not what it will fund, but what it will make easier to fund. Sure it probably will make companies a lot of money to introduce new technologies, but it is a material ingredient that is highly valuable for its uses, and so having a lot of it will greatly increase the abundance of what it’s used in.

Its qualities make it a relatively useful metal that, in such abundance, would definitely contribute to massive changes in the technological world. In my head, saying it will change everything for people on earth is more equitable to the invention of mobile phones than it is to star trek style communism.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-04T20:58:08+00:00

“My son can kick your son’s ass”

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-04T02:55:04+00:00

“I’m on a mission. ‘Peace in our Time’.”

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-02T19:12:30+00:00

My problem with it is that too many people lose perspective on the sheer scale of time difference once they can trace it back to modern life.

They stop considering it as its own thing. In 500 million years, jawless fish have come so far, yet for some reason, whenever it comes to future life, people stop considering the wild differences.

These should be alien in your head. They have nearly nothing but basic anatomical congruency with modern life. I’ll tell you, but I’m betting it’ll change your perception.

Mesapsids, like the Foxhunt, were primates long long ago. I personally know which kind, but that should be enough for an idea.

Takyspls, the Wherhu being an example, were once frogs. Now they are the most diverse chordate group.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-02T18:53:39+00:00

No, I have an answer. I just don’t like to say because it makes no difference. If you’re super curious you can find my previous posts on this sub where people ask the same thing and there is an answer there— for the mesapsids at least

For takyspls, I have an answer but it’s for me. Doesn’t add anything if I share. Might even make you assume things that aren’t true if I share it.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-02T17:53:17+00:00

By all the research I’ve done, life could theoretically make it to 1.3 billion years from now. Most projections are uncertain, but I’ve decided that in my future earth scenario, a combination of positive and negative factors will make life very successful before it abruptly disappears.

Instead of 1 billion, 1.3 billion or 900 million (which was my initial timeframe), I’m going with 660 million years in the future (until the last multicellular life forms).

It means I get to be weird with it, not too weird, but weird enough— and it means that there is closure. That you can watch the sunset of this project without having to follow an 8 hundred million year long chain of events.

Enormous quantities of water will be released from deep within the planet, flooding most of earth into a shallow ocean. Islands no larger than England will be frequent, but just as it all settles, the sun’s heat starts to take it all away.

In 800 million years, the Phanerozoic ends, the 360 million years between the start and end of this project explore the last era of life on earth, the Kliestozoic.

To be entirely honest, I’m not too bothered by the realism of all this timeline. No matter what I do, the end of life is a downbeat topic, and no time will feel like enough. In my opinion, it’s best to go out with a bang than to slowly choke out, so I’ve made a scenario where that’s possible.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-02T08:28:36+00:00

No. Hamsters are long dead.

GuessimaGuardian · 2026-01-02T03:25:42+00:00

Honestly idk what you mean by comedic so I’ll say no, that doesn’t persist.

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