#spelunking
………Maybe, at least in fantasy settings where the cave systems are more like ours, dwarves typically have stockier builds for their height because dwarves with lighter frames had lower survival rates.
(cw: caving/claustrophobia) caves don’t need to be occupied by something alive or sentient to be dangerous. A lot of caving tragedies involve people who got stuck in places rescuers couldn’t properly reach, because the trapped caver had fit into tighter squeezes.
If there’s spaces where only you’re able to crawl through, and you get stuck in there, you’re pretty much screwed. In a lot of cases, it isn’t even safe for rescuers to retrieve the body, and they end up sealing off that tunnel, shaft, sometimes the whole cavern.
I think there’s a lot of untapped potential in relating subterranean worldbuilding to real-world mining and spelunking.
Also it’s harder to get nutrients underground, so smaller size would mean you need fewer calories. There’s also a standard body type for borrowing creatures, of which “short stout limbs” is a trait, seen in everything from crickets to reptiles to marsupial, Laurasiatherian, and Afrotherian “moles” (“true” moles are the Laurasiatherian ones; the African ones are more related to aardvarks, elephants, and manatees).
I don’t think cave species meet all the same physiological criteria as burrowers, but I do like the idea of dwarves having more shovelly hands than other anthropes.
Then again, it’s also possible that they’re still relatively early into their evolutionary track toward cave/burrow adaptations, like how rabbits aren’t built as much like a mole or earthworm.
That’s another angle that I think would be interesting to explore more in the genre. If human-adjacent races were to share a genus with humans, what could be inferred from, say, elf physiology? (This may also depend on details specific to the canons of traditional folklore vs. D&D, LotR, WoW, etc.)
………Maybe, at least in fantasy settings where the cave systems are more like ours, dwarves typically have stockier builds for their height because dwarves with lighter frames had lower survival rates.
(cw: caving/claustrophobia) caves don’t need to be occupied by something alive or sentient to be dangerous. A lot of caving tragedies involve people who got stuck in places rescuers couldn’t properly reach, because the trapped caver had fit into tighter squeezes.
If there’s spaces where only you’re able to crawl through, and you get stuck in there, you’re pretty much screwed. In a lot of cases, it isn’t even safe for rescuers to retrieve the body, and they end up sealing off that tunnel, shaft, sometimes the whole cavern.
I think there’s a lot of untapped potential in relating subterranean worldbuilding to real-world mining and spelunking.
The only caves I wish to enter are adorned with your lips. -Jonny Ox
#spelunking #exploring #caves #underwoodtypewriter #jonnyox #lipsfordays #redlips #pinklips #exploreroftheseas #enteratyourownrisk #passiontwist #hotonbeauty #oldpoetry #ancientwisdom #lipstickcollection #beautifullips
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Today I met two lovely girls in a cave!
That’s not a sentence I think I’ve ever said before! XD It turns out one of them is a big fan of waterfalls and she runs a really impressive instagram page with so many beautiful waterfall photos. Go check her out: @_annabelclaire_
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#tinyplanet #littleplanet #theta360 #lifein360 #360 #spelunking #cave #caves #cavern #outdoors #hiking #getoutside #hike #mountain #exploremore #traveler #travelling #outdoor #traveltheworld #discover #wander #wilderness #adventuretime
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This is actually part of a larger splash page. The finished page is pretty spoilery, but I gotta post SOMETHING. So check out these cave walls that took me forever.
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#KURU #kurukave #caves #cave #spelunking #cuevasdecamuy #stalactites #stalagmites #independentcomics #indiecomics #horrorcomics #mangastudio #mangastudioex5 #comics #art #blackandwhite #horror #clipstudiopaint #clipstudiopaintpro #madewithwacom #supportindiecomics (at The Cave)
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Arachnocampa, in it’s larval stage is bioluminescent. It spins a nest out of silk on the ceilings of caves and then hangs long snares covered in sticky mucus. The larva’s glow attracts prey into the threads. HOW COOL IS THAT SHIT!?
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#KURU #kurukave #cave #caves #spelunking #bioluminescence #nature #science #natureisawesome #damnnatureyouscary #independentcomics #indiecomics #horrorcomics #mangastudio #mangastudioex5 #comics #art #blackandwhite #horror #clipstudiopaint #clipstudiopaintpro #madewithwacom #supportindiecomics
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I always loved the cross section gags that the Simpsons would do. I’ve been waiting for an excuse/opportunity to rip it o- (ahem!)- pay homage to them.
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#KURU #kurukave #allosaurus #dinosaur #skeleton #cave #tunnel #underground #spelunking #fossil #crosssection #thesimpsons #simpsons #independentcomics #indiecomics #horrorcomics #mangastudio #mangastudioex5 #comics #art #blackandwhite #horror #clipstudiopaint #clipstudiopaintpro #madewithwacom #supportindiecomics (at Dinosaur World, Kentucky)
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We all hide.
Opal, mexico. field of view 3mm
(A photomicrograph is an image taken with the aid of a microscope. Not to be confused with microphotography, which is photography using very small equipment.)
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some things are too strange and they’re beyond my skills to explain -
so i just photograph them.
opal. jalisco, mexico. fov = 3mm.
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Getting to the shot.
This is a fraction of the test shots it takes before I commit to a lighting environment.
A Close Thing.
3mm field of view inside #opal from Jalisco, Mexico.
White #rhyolite matrix added pleasure and pain to this photo.
The working title for this one was Valhalnilla.
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Going back through my older photos and making these (short) videos is pretty great. It reminds me of how I was feeling when I set up the shot and all the things I was trying to light. Love it.
Back from a much needed holiday during which I found a cave Totoro <3
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#spelunking #cave #caves #caveexploring #caveexploration #rocks #rockformation #totoro #myneighbortotoro #undergroundedition
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The Astronauts Who Go Spelunking
Before you visit deep space, you need to go deep underground.
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A hollowed out cavern with a rock art covered walls. One of many found around the base of the Uluru monolith in the landscape of Australian outback flatness.
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