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returned from hiatus, i now use they/them pronouns exclusively! (i'm not super uncomfortable with she/her usually, but i much prefer they/them and i'm testing out using those only atm!!) ❤️

One of my nichelings gave birth to the flag of Poland

O Christmas Meringue, O Christmas Meringue, Your snotty branches delight us!

DONE!

Island

Genetics Head Gene Dominance Derp Snout Short Nose Big Nose Cracker Jaw (recessive to sticky tongue) Poison Fangs Platypus Beak Gills Sticky Tongue (dominant to Cracker Jaw) Bat Head (recessive to Sabertooth Fangs) Purr Snout Sabertooth Fangs (dominant to Bat Head) Digging Trunk Bird Beak Bearyena Snout Body Gene Dominance Medium Body Lean Body Water Body Spiky Body (but recessive to Toxic Body) Big Body Toxic Body (but dominant to Spiky Body) Armored Body Heat Body Tail Gene Dominance Medium Tail Swimming Tail Fishing Tail Stinky Tail Tailfin-Hammer Tail (Tail gene inherited from mother is dominant) Scorpion Tail Peacock Tail Hindleg Gene Dominance Normal Hindlegs Webbed Hindlegs Bearyena Hindlegs Horn Gene Dominance No Horns Ram Horns Savanna Horns Antlers Megaloceros Horns Antenna Ear Gene Dominance Medium Ears Big Ears Round Ears (Most dominant if inherited from mother) Bearyena Ears Eye Color Dominance Black Eyes Brown Eyes Yellow Eyes Green Eyes Blue Eyes Purple Eyes (dominant over Yellow if inherited from mother) Orange Eyes Eyesight Dominance Normal Eyesight Shortsighted Blind Marking Gene Dominance No Pattern Dots Mask Stripes Other Animals Bearyena Movement Range: 2 tiles per turn Turns per Night: 2 Eyesight: 5 Smelling: 5 Attack: 3 Killer Bearyena Movement Range: 2 Turns per Night: 2 Eyesight: 3 Smelling: 3 Attack: 5 Defense: 3 Balance Bear Peaceful Bear Arctic Ramfox Walrus Deer The Three Apes

update?? i still use any pronouns but i slightly prefer if you would mix my pronouns up (people call me like,, only she/her and it's starting to annoy me like,, you can call me anything?? just fgfdg)

Fun fact: I can still do raster art! if you've been here a little while, you might recognize this guy 👀

O Christmas Meringue, O Christmas Meringue, Your snotty branches delight us! Comment below if you'd like to a be a Secret Santa and recipient. With this comment, include a picture of the nicheling you'd like drawn, as well as any info you can give about them (genes, personality, differences from photo, even a toyhouse link!). If giving a picture not from the game, please include their official niche genes. Signups end the 4th of December! This will give everyone 3 weeks to complete their art and send it in. I will use a random generator to pair participants. (I will not be a participant.) I will pm everyone with their recipient's name, nicheling and info. Everyone makes their art. It can be traditional, digital, pixel, a sculpture, whatever you want; animation, gif, plain, anything! Do not sign your art or post it on any platform, including the forums. Everyone PMs their art to me as soon as they are finished. Art is due the 20th!!! If you do not send in your art in time, I will request art from an Emergency Santa to fill the place. You may post your art AFTER the rest of the art is released. On or near December 25th (my schedule may cause delays), I will post the finished art with the recipient's name (I will not reveal the Santas myself). Everyone may make their guess on who was their Secret Santa. Secret Santas may confirm or deny these guesses. Please wait for your recipient to guess you and then confirm the guess rather than announce that you were so-and-so's santa. If your recipient has made a correct guess and you confirmed, you may post your art to other places (DA, Fanart section, etc). You may also sign the art. (If you'd like your signed art used instead of the unsigned version if posted elsewhere by other people, just say so.) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ❤️ IMPORTANT Like the last 2 years, we will have Emergency Santas (ESs). ESs will make art for anyone whose Secret Santa did not finish or submit their art by the 20th. ESs need to be able to quickly make art. This Emergency Art (EA) does not need to be of the same quality of the official art; EA is just so everyone can receive something at the same time. ESs can also be a regular Santa at the same time but are not required to be. Just ask if you'd like to be an Emergency Santa. They're documented below for my own convenience lol Emergency Santas: @Sky @Pebble the derp snout @flower -she-he- @ralsei deltarune @Lilytuft with antlers TIPS -Try out a new style or a style you haven't revealed before. It will be harder to guess the Secret Santas. -Don't start a big project if you're not 100% you can finish it. Go with something simple to give yourself time to finish and not be rushed. -You can ask me for a critique if you want. This would be especially helpful if you're trying a brand new style and you're not sure if it's good, or if you just want to get your art right. Just tell me what level of critiquing you want: Light, Medial or Heavy. OTHER -Check out @Pebble the derp snout's Secret Santa here! -This is the 4th annual Secret Niche Art Santa, hosted by yours truly!! : D -Check out previous Signups here: 2018, 2019, 2020 -Check out previous Art here: 2018 (can't be found?), 2019, 2020 REMEMBER THIS -Send in your nicheling submissions by December 4th. -Start your art as soon as possible once I PM the info. -Send in our art no later than December 20th. -If you do not submit your art by then, a volunteer will make art in it's place. Save your late art for the 25th or later. -On or near the 25th, the art will be released. Make your guesses and make sure to confirm or deny if they're directed to you! -MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL

CONTENT TIME!!! my ocs Finch (left) and Morgan (right) and tristan from the book crown of feathers

WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT

We have Akorra, who's shy and caring Her bother Noku is very imaginative and smart, but keeps to himself most of the time Anarata is the last of the Snowroses and thinks very highly of herself Snowfrog has traveled from the jungle, hoping to live up to her name Tataro is very secretive. Perhaps he originally called the lands of Niche Mobile his home? Firefish was eager to come along, but is already starting to regret his decision Emberghost, who followed Firefish from an oasis is very unsure about all of this Skydust avoids both eye contact and conversation. She's clearly hiding something Ecfdd doesn't know how she got here or where she came from

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So... Lets go! Quaver empire. My goal is to be an ecologist race in space stage, so I will be: Herbivorous in cell stage Predator (just angy) in creature stage Friendly in tribal stage Economic in civilisation stage LONG LIVE QUAVER EMPIRE! @HOLD THE MAYONNAISE wanted this

GUYSGUYSGUYSGUYS IMPORTANT PSA HIPPOS HAVE TOE BEANS

(@pepper_) why not celebrate epper's birth by drawing the traumaed child?? all jokes aside happy birthday!!!!!!!! you are so insanely cool!!!!

Days 7-10 Julie sees another rabbit and darts off after it. She successfully catches the rabbit in 2 moves, demonstrating her excellent hunting abilities. Raana meets the newcomer Ismi and is amazed to learn where she came from. Tahai is instantly impressed by Ismi. She is exotic and kind. Ember praises Julie for her hunting skills and picks up the meat. The next day, the group hears some rustling in the grasses. Julie runs to check it out, thinking it might be something to hunt. Ember runs after her, trying to warn her it might be dangerous. Julie is shocked to find that it is a huge bear. Ember braces for the worst as Julie slowly backs away. But the bear merely grunts and sniffs Julie before turning back to munching on grass. Meanwhile Raana goes fishing. This time she unfortunately has no under-water breathing plants to help her. Still, she enthusiastically dives in, but with no fishing skill it doesn't do her much good to be surrounded by fish. Still fun to try, and that's good enough for her. The next day the bear runs away as a new, more threatening bear shows up out of the grasses. It bears its teeth at Tahai, ready to attack the group. Tahai makes a small dodge as it snaps at him and strikes it with his claw. He then runs back just a bit to give it time to catch up to him so he can strike it again. Ember frantically tries to call everyone to her side. Tahai is attacked by the beast, this time it successfully rakes him with its huge claw and chomps him with its huge snout. He wishes to keep fighting the beast, but Ember insists that he run away... And he listens. The whole group bunches together near the first bear and prepares to escape. Ember makes sure that everyone is accounted for.

Challenge rules that I may or may not forget exist and thus break and my own addition @Modeer @Lizardcake I know you have been waiting for this! Here it is: Our starters arrive on the island. They are teenagers sent by their tribe to a new land to complete an epic generational quest. Grey Eyes is happy to find a clam next to him. He skillfully cracks it open with his nimble fingers. Raana has always been obsessed with the sea. She finds a plant someone showed her once that gives the ability to breathe underwater if you eat it. So she does. As everyone else leaves the ports to go about scouting the island and collecting food, Raana dives into the sea. She finds the plant has worked! For now she can breathe. She explores a seaweed patch. Then she notices the leach right next to her and kills it before it can latch onto her. Yummy, leach dinner! Tribe overview. As of yet Tahai is the only one affected by the cold. Ember is watching over her sister Julie and responsibly gathering berries. Tahai sets out to explore and scout for a good place to make camp. He finda a river and decides to explore that. Grey Eyes realizes Raana is missing and hurries back to the port. Hearing splashing he stands at the edge of the water and calls out to her. Raana comes to the surface but another leach has decided to try and avenge the one she had for dinner. Grey Eyes gingerly pulls it off her. She is grateful.

Days 3-7 Julie is left alone for a minute as Ember scolds Tahai for straying from the group because he is going to freeze to death if he is alone. He explains he is exploring the river for a suitable place to camp. She tells him he can if he wants but he should stay within yelling range in case he gets hypothermia and she will come warm him up. He agrees, but is greatly annoyed. She is also annoyed at him, and annoyed at herself for caring so much about making sure he doesn't freeze to death. Why should I care? He's trouble, anyways. But no matter how much she scolds herself, she still cares. Tahai dives into the river to demonstrate how annoyed he is and that he really doesn't care what she thinks, he's not a baby and can take care of himself. Ember is horrified and worries this will speed up the process of him freezing to death. Julie is now a teenager. She went off rabbit hunting to help with the tribe's dwindling food supply. While hunting a rabbit she has stumbled upon an odd object. Meanwhile, Grey Eyes has been picking berries over here this whole time and now Raana and Tahai are next to him and have created the first huddle of the playthrough. They have figured out how to keep warm in numbers. Ember has come to check up on her sister. Seeing Julie's discovery, she realizes it is one of the Ice Chunks they are supposed to break open in order to find the nicheling their tribe sent them to find. Ember excitedly breaks open the Ice Chunk. She does find a nicheling inside, but it is odd looking and not at all the one described by their tribe. "T-thank you," the nicheling said. "Wow!" said Julie, "How'd you get inside that thing?" "I-I...don't remember," said the nicheling, panicking a bit. "Well, that's alright. I just don't know how you coulda survived in there," Julie said. "Me either," admitted the nicheling, "so, uh, I'm Ismi, what's your name?" she said this to Ember. "Ember of the Rock Salt Exploration Group," she said, "and this is my sister Julie." "Is tha-that your t-tribe name?" she asked, a bit skittish. "Yes, it is," said Ember matter-of-factly. "C-can I j-oin your t-tribe?" she looked down at the ground. "Well...." said Ember, she isn't the nicheling we're menant to find, and she'll be one more mouth to feed. "Sure!" said Julie, excited. Ismi looked from Julie to Ember fearfully. "As long as you can contribute," Ember decided, not wanting to scare the poor thing to death or disappoint her sister. Ismi makes her way to the beach, knowing how to sift in the sand using her duck beak. Julie continues excitedly talking to her new friend Ember watches and keeps the newcomer warm with her heat body. Grey Eyes is able to pick berries once more with Raana sight assisting him. All the original group except Julie grow into adults.

Yes Aw man

phantom

apparently i can draw somewhat good on ms paint

They also got an email from the year coordinator to use my preferred pronouns heck I'm so happy.

Yo My teachers at school have managed to get my name changed on the roll and on my email and the EuphORIA

Day 9, Weather sunny, no threats Our pair has been seen travelling together so far: a sign that they might be starting a pack and even be mates once Riley matures. They've found a non-toxic berry bush- this could serve as a great source of food. In this area there are also abandoned nests, as well as a creature called a dodomingo. However, since dodomingos are mostly fat that nichelings don't need much of, they aren't worth hunting. Day 17, Weather sunny, 2 threats (bluebird, rogue male) For the past few days we were unable to track the Nichelings as well as busy. However, it seems that Riley has matured! Not only that- but she has given birth to Emiliano's son! The child has been dubbed 'Altan', but is nicheling number 003. r A lone nicheling has also arrived. Her genes are incredibley unique! Her twisted snout is not a handicap, but can fend off predators, and she has a deadly toxin in her body with a purple colour warning predators about it. On top of all that, she has the incredible mutation of having a wing! Even though it is only a single wing, one of her descendants could be born with two. Luckily enough, this newcomer is friendly and joins the group! She is nicheling 004, but her affectionatley given name is Eliza. It seems a rogue male was hiding next to Eliza. Luckily, 004 runs away in time, and 002 chases it away. Day 20, Weather sunny, 2 threats (bluebird, rogue male) Today, we have begun to notice that Atlan is growing! He has his 1st gem, meaning he can now walk around a little bit. Today he's opened his eyes and leaves the nest. Additionally, Eliza is pregnant, hopefully with Emiliano's child and not the rogue male's. Day 21, Weather sunny, 3 threats (bluebird, rogue male, bearyena (red means it's very important) A predator called a bearyena bursts out from the grasses! It is very threatening to the tribe! Since they are the ones who seem to have the best genes for active fighting, 001 and 002 step up to fight it. The bearyena went to attack Eliza! It was poisoned, allowing Emiliano to finish it off. Nichelings often eat the carcasses of predators they defeated. The meat from the bearyena is a lot of food that might last a while.

So I know I haven't posted my playthrough yet of the Black and White (created by @Lizardcake ) X Prehistoric Salt (created by @Modeer) Challenge and this post contains some spoilers... Oh well. So uh while playing this I had a relaly fun time just chilling in Niche and I got lost in playing it. Though I was technically doing 2 challenges there were no constant requirements to remember and no real story directives so it was nice and relaxing. (I do like complex challenges and story but sometimes its just nice to relax and let some story unfold without worrying about it making sense or building a plot). As a result of this I uh kinda forgot to do some aspects of the Black and White Challenge... Only grey babies were born, though if there had been a white or black bb I woulda prob forgot to seperate them out lol. The one thing I actually broke was the changing wanderers and rogue males to grey. And so to -cover up- *cough cough* give a story/challenge reason for this I began to think. And the Ketchup Challenge was born! Basically what happened was a creature in an ice block was red and I never changed their color to grey (there was also that one wanderer but she was old and never had children so we'll ignore that). And then they had a child with a red rogue male. You see where this is heading, right? So withour further ado, the rules: -Have rogue males enabled -Console all rogue males to red or variations of red (dark red, for instance). They must have at least one and preferrably 2 red color genes. -Rogue children may be red and are usually reffered to as 'ketchups'. The word ketchup may also refer to rogue males and any other red nichelings. -Rogue children are usually mistreated by their birth tribe. Sometimes killed or banished. Other times considered a second class to be trodden upon. On rare occasion they may be fully accepted like any other member. -Ketchups may leave their tribe to create tribes of only other ketchups. Or, rarely, tribes welcome to all nichelings. -There is a chance wanderers will be ketchups. You may let it be decided by the game (all nichelings with any red color genes be ketchups), or roll. For males 1/6 chance. For females, 2/6 chance. (Because all rogue males are ketchups). If they are a ketchup console their color to be red or a variation of red. They will then be treated like any other ketchup would be treated by the tribe. Though they may be treated slightly better than rogue children if they have favorable genes. This applies to nichelings in ice blocks too. -Only other ketchups can invite ketchups into the tribe. So you might want to keep a rogue child around to invite in useful wanderers. That's it! So you can add this to any color challenge, or any challenge you want to add -racism- *cough cough* hillarity too. I mean, you could have a whole tribe of rogue children called ketchups, that would be kinda funny. And you can add a twist like the ketchups taking over the world! I am officially adding this to my prehistoric salt black and white challenge playthrough, btw, if it wasn't clear already. LONG LIVE THE ROGUES LONG LIVE THE KETCHUPS

FIRE Outfit! :0 I NEED one! fwend! (for context, its a thing I made, I have a space stage save with them and it's based off my pet birb)

Perfect targets for the last eradication! bwahahhah OMG YES THE FINAL QUAVER! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

So close to sapince... I tweak Quaver one more time. LONG LIVE QUAVER EMPIRE! We're migrating again! Thanks game I got the eaten But I made it!

I finnally expanded my pack to it's max potential! With a group of 4 Quavers, including me, we could take down one of the most powerful species- the Ookgoh- and extinct them More species are taken down... Perfect! extincting one more species will both let me achieve my creature stage goal, AND move into tribal stage!

fu- THE ROGUE IS BACK Ah yes weak targets yay! Quavers evolved muscular wings and bony shoulder plates!

I died to some aggressive bois then gave Quaver better strike and spit moves.

its back to normal without reset huh what :0 a rogue! The Quavers attack the rogue, furiously bringing it down to half health with their dangerous strike and spit moves. Unfortunatley... I respawn and replace my Quaver pack. Ew whats that

The bunny frog things are Salmugs, and I finished off the entire species. Targets: the 5donkeys hol up I gotta restart my pc, the screen is glitching

Woah I forgot the name of these before posting My brain grew after murdering them! I reached the nest and gave Quavers better horns. Reaching the nest was a BIG challenge, a lot of the species that I passed were aggressive and powerful.

I'm back! Time to play as le Quavers I begin to migrate, and on the way I met an aggresive species called Eye Monkeys and eradicated them. Ah yes a herd of Rammo I question whether to kill them, since they have a lot more hp than a Quaver.

Eloise,,,,,, 💕💕💕💕💕💕

Brain size increased! More tweaking, just a little... Packmate! More eradication... And at last we migrate!

Other creatures- the Angel Pods The Quaver is unusually aggressive for a herbivore. Just like that, Angel Pods are EXTINCT. Lewees I have destroyed them. Oh yeah and tweaked the Quavers.

So around 2-3 pm EST like usual?

Cell stage over! hehe

spawning tweaks used spikes for a warcrime Shape tweaks More tweaking Bit later on, moar Ah yes the part of cell stage I die 15 times in (I only died once this time)

GUYS?????????????????????????

ok ok please don't murder me /lh https://www.deviantart.com/tundrak1tsune/art/Let-me-see-what-you-have-898404377

It's me, ya boy, Kat, finally joining a SS anyway uh. Doxx my beloved I'll try my best to explain his personality but he's just so. weird. so if my explanation doesn't work and you really need something to go off of: Kokichi from Danganronpa (that's the thing I based him off initially) He's very uh. Eccentric. And odd. He's never really seen with anything but a smile on his face, and he has this uncanny ability to tell if someone's lying or not, and be able to know pretty much anything about them even if they've never met before. Oh yeah, he also killed a guy idk man i just woke up

happy thanksgiving!!!

@ChiyannaHello! I’m alive! Somewhat! And holy s***, it’s been awhile. 53 days, actually. Things got super hectic: moving, folks got covid, that slowed the moving( not stopped, just postponed, currently revving back up again)and got quarantined. remote school sucks, and still sucks. And now we’re here? Still, that doesn’t remove the a**holey-ness of me,, just,, leaving? With no warning? for almost two months? and I’m really, really sorry about that. It was selfish. and me returning is probably pretty unexpected, because…well…53 days… still, I hope I can join the rp again, but if I can’t, it makes sense.

i love this krita brush

Gah (it’s pretty bad sorry 😔)

TREASON! TREASON! OFF WITH THE HEAD!!!