Anthropomundus Website
Hello everyone,
After several months in development, Anthropomundus now has its own website!
Below is a reposting of the first update log entry on the website:
"Hello, and welcome to Anthropomundus's first official domain website! As a brief introduction to the project, Anthropomundus is a speculative worldbuilding project involving the evolution of future human species on an alien planet, descended from a mutated common ancestor and with no other animals present.
Several months in the making, from learning HTML and CSS code on my own to actually putting together the pages in the process, Anthropomundus now has a central place online as opposed to being scattered across forums and DeviantArt, where one can find everything about Anthropomundus and its post-human inhabitants all in one place!
This website, admittedly, is barebones; the only life showcased (i.e., with clickable links) as of this log entry are posthumans, and even there, there are posthuman clades with no respective pages for them. Moreover, not every posthuman for Anthropomundus I've ever created is showcased on this website as of this entry. This is because either no members of those clades have been illustrated or an insufficient number of them have been to warrant putting up a page yet. Rest assured, this will certainly change in the near future as this website expands and I realize more and more posthuman illustrations, for the clades even listed on the posthuman page is far from a complete listing, anyway.
Once again, I cordially welcome you to the Anthropomundus website, and hope the best things are in store for the project from here on out. Please enjoy! And. Expect big things!"
Hello everybody,
I am pleased to announce that the Snaiad website, which I had been hosting from 2014 to 2020, has now officially moved back in with its creator, C.M. Kosemen, on his domain!
http://www.cmkosemen.com/snaiad.html
The website I host will be gone in five days, so adjust your links accordingly!
I also wish to take a moment to provide a link to a .zip file containing ALL of Zippo4k's Snaiad art before he deactivated his account here on DeviantArt, complete with detailed commentary on each set of work.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JHtV-GjfTKjuD0ng9JEpu-KWexw5dyyO/view
Snaiad Hosting in Limbo
Hello everyone,
Since July 2014, I have been hosting C.M. Kosemen's Snaiad on my content collection server at my university after four years of being offline. This was a joyous moment for the entire speculative evolution community, who were long-time, adoring fans of C.M. Kosemen and all of his work, especially for the newcomers in the community who never saw Snaiad and its full alien glory before.
Unfortunately, my alma mater will be phasing out its Blackboard system and possibly the content collection system with it next month. This will mean that Snaiad become offline once again.
I have contacted C.M. Kosemen to hopefully try to arrange something to keep it online before this happens. I will keep everybody posted on what happens next. And in any event, regardless of what happens, the Snaiad website sits safely in both my and Memo's storage devices, for, rest assured, it won't suffer the same fate as the scrolls of the Library of Alexandria.
Until then, here's the link to the website as it stands as of this entry: https://canopy.uc.edu/bbcswebdav/users/gibsonic/Snaiad/index.html
Starting on a Fresh Page... At Last
Before turning a quarter of a century old, I have cleared my entire journal (with select entries and their comments screen-captured for personal keepsake purposes) to start on a fresh page, before purchasing a Core Membership after buying one for Boverisuchus in exchange for a $5 commission piece (hey, I hope you enjoyed it while it lasted!), and making some changes to my gallery with the new versatility it affords me. Now I write this announcement entry, after saying for months, now going onto years, that I would "officially" return to DeviantArt. Well, consider this "official."
To be honest, I wish this post was completed around the time I bought my Core Membership and started making changes to my gallery. But given a multitude of factors, such as my slow mental processing speed, perfectionism, being easily distracted, and, above all, school, it has but taken this long to finally post.
Since I have just recently completed my coursework for the semester and await my diploma, I have the burden of the six years of college ― a mixture of passion, woe, torment, mediocrity, failure, some smashing success, and finished most unremarkably, quietly, and quite friendlessly ― lifted off my shoulders. In between searching for a job and learning how to drive, I will now have the time to return to what I truly care about doing: bringing the worlds we don't live in (real or imagined) and their inhabitants to life, grounded in scientific plausibility; worldbuilding and speculative evolution.
Yet I still continued to delay this journal entry, since I was hoping to coincide it with a major submission (I have two Anthropomundus entries in the production pipeline at the moment, taking longer than usual due to the level of detail involved in them, though one of them is on the verge of submission). But I have now decided that there's greater utility in signalling my "official" return to this website than continuing to give off the impression of moribundity.
Without further ado, here are a series of lists detailing all the changes concerning my gallery and its curation, projects (Anthropomundus), artistic brand, etc.
Overall Gallery Updates
- I had rearranged my page and added new content. This includes a gallery panel for Anthropomundus, random featured works, a slideshow for latest deviations, and a little reminder to check out my deviant scrapbook!
- I had created two new galleries complete with subfolders: Anthropomundus and Other Spec.
- I had stored deviations that I feel don't fit with the overall theme my gallery conveys or even find cringeworthy due to their corniness. Other deviations were removed from featured gallery for largely the same reason, but were not altogether purged, for they were moved to their respective subfolders of the main galleries of my DeviantArt space.
- The scrapbook will be dedicated solely to sketches of concept ideas, and not merely to works I no longer find desirable.
- I have even set up a little forum below my profile box on my page to discuss matters related to my work. I don't know how useful this will end up becoming, but I hope it could be useful in discussing the scientific and creative aspects of Anthropomundus, even though this may be redundant since I could just start a new thread on the new Speculative Evolution forum ― but then again, not everybody here on DeviantArt is on there, so, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- All entries created prior to the Baby Grumpy Grampus had been de-canonized, due to major changes I made in the direction of the project (i.e., maxillary barbels are no longer being common to Anthropomundan posthumans, and would be a derived trait in only a few clades; gills are overlapped with a fleshy operculum rather than being separated by interbranchial septa as in sharks, though... perhaps this could be mooted). Any of the deviations with the baby blue background are affected by this, and they all have been put into a subfolder called 2014-2017. This doesn't mean most of the concepts have been entirely discarded, however, as many of them may see remakes in the future.
- Since I mentioned deviation storage in the previous list, I have un-stored old Anthropomundus entries from 2008 to 2009 and placed them in their own subfolder called 2008-2009. They too are no longer canon, but I thought that it would be nice to bring back the nostalgia from when the idea first came into being.
- Both of these subgalleries serve to document stages of the development of the Anthropomundus concept.
- All Anthropomundus entries within the main space of the Anthropomundus gallery are currently considered canon, but are still subject to change.
- Who's "Kīraz Fiskahrōfą?"
- If I am ever to have any works officially published under my person, I am not keen on using my birth name, but nobody ― no human, at least ― would take "Giant Blue Anteater" seriously. Maybe perhaps as the name of a publishing company or studio, but surely not the name of an author. Thus, I decided on using a pseudonym that would be cool to use.
- One name I ended up adopting was "Cyrus Theedishman," the name under which I was credited on the rehosting of C.M. Kosemen's Snaiad website to my content collection on the servers of my university. It is from Cyrus II, one of my favorite historical figures (and because I think Persian culture is cool), and from the fact that most of my ancestries are from Germanic cultures (German, English, Dutch, Scandinavian, etc.), hence, Theedishman (from thede, 'people,' cf. Deutsch, and -man).
- Later, I rendered it in Proto-Germanic as Kīraz Þeudiskamannō, because I think linguistics and proto-languages are cool. After a while, I thought this name was too generic. It would be better, I thought, to have a name that reflected my personality, my desire to stand out, so I finally settled on the name Kīraz Fiskahrōfą, with "Fiskahrōfą" meaning "fish roof," for it is a direct calque of Ichthyostega, one of my favorite prehistoric animals and one of the usernames I've gone by in my history on the Internet.
- Excepting possible permutations of this name in the daughter languages of Proto-Germanic (I've toyed around with the idea of modernizing it as "Cyrus Fiskroff," "Kire Fiskroff," or "Kyre Fiskroff" in English, possibly becoming my publishing name ― hell, that's probably what I'm going to do, leaving Fiskahrōfą for when I draft documents in Proto-Germanic as a little side hobby like I already do with Latin), this will remain permanent (and so too will whatever English modernization I choose for it).
- But fear not! Giant-Blue-Anteater will remain in use on this website and in Spec-world until Hell freezes over (and beyond that, in fact). And by the way, Tamandûátobygûasu is its rendition in Old Tupi (tamandûá, self explanatory; toby, 'blue' [or 'green'] ― for animate things, otherwise it's soby; and gûasu, 'big'), being that giant anteaters are South American animals after all, in case anybody was wondering.
- Politics
- Going forward, I will not be getting political in any direct manner on this page. This does not mean that there won't be any political themes or commentary in any of my works, but I just won't be posting opinionated rants or the like here. Further, any deviation I upload here that does end up being centrally political will have its comments disabled, as I do not have the time or energy to debate and to argue with bad-faith trolls. I want to have solace in this corner of the Internet from the toxic shit stew involving politics elsewhere online, and these are truly turbulent times, marked by ever increasing acrimony and polarization. It's so damn exhausting. But it is, whether we like it or not, an ubiquitous part of life and it is necessitated if one wants to fight for a better world. Nevertheless, here will be sanctuary from such the acridity of political discourse found on social media, which I am admittedly wont to engage in but concede that it is ultimately an unproductive pursuit.
- Miscellaneous, etc., etc.
- I'm not interested in getting married.
- I'm not interested in going to graduate school either. At least, not right away.
- The new look for DeviantArt is truly hideous. HIDEOUS!
- I once again apologize for being slow or mum on your comments.