Top to bottom: Platybelodon, a prehistoric elephant; Opabinia, an extinct arthropod relation; and the modern Saiga antelope.
Talktotransformer is proving to be a potent tool for me. I usually have to run things through a few times, and fine-tune and collate the results, but am mostly assured of a fecund list. By which I mean a list that makes the mind wander, cooking up possibilities (and story ideas) for people, places, and things.
Running a list of animals both real-world and me-generated created the creatures listed below. Some sound reasonable (Mississippi Batfish) others slightly off (Honeyeater Puffbird) and others, “no way in hell could this exist” (Dangerous Walking Tarantula). But, considering the animal kingdom of today and its forebears, there was more than a little WTFuckery going on in real life anyway. Consider the Platybelodon elephant above with its abnormally long jaws, the five-eyed Opabinia, and Asia’s Saiga antelope, an otherwise-normal looking antelope with an inflated nasal cavity. Makes you think, doesn’t it.
Unlikely Animals
| Honeyeater Puffbird
Soggy Cur Black Gleaming Li-Ang Red Chested Perkin Pionus Black-Inbred Tiger Cervid Ostriche Blue-cheeked Racoon Dangerous Walking Tarantula Gloomtooth Beetle Red Tuttabot Grimclaw Primitive Poachie Haervo Berrybush Cheeky Lobel Super Fine Tuned Fondue (Tuna) |
Little Brown Bat-Orca
Longear Whale Blackest Graybear Sunkissed Kestrel Rat Tail Sharpy Subpanda Cast Iron Nautilus White-legged Krait Wyrmscale Hydra Ealdarmere Habib’s Gizzard Shrimp Mississippi Batfish Gray Aurora Behemoth Muscoth Makeshift Roundworm |
