SQUAMAFLY and other book art
Above, a squamafly, a nightmare predatory insect, whose wing scales (squama) are so finely wrought and fractal-branching that they leak into time (fractals blur the jump between dimensions, they are in fact fractional dimensions...). This gives the squamaflies a distinct advantage over their prey and anything that might eat them (being time-leaking, they can see into the future).
From TIME AERIALS: "Time-leaking scales had made the insects precognitive and fast-evolving, and they'd evaded all predators, and bred until the food ran out. Then they had turned on each other, and the resulting time-vortices had torn reality apart."
When one fly attacked another, the victim would see it coming, and take evasive action. But the attacker would expect the evasion... That's the vicious circle paradox that rips the universe apart.
As an aside, real butterflies have fine, scaly wings and belong, along with moths, to the order Lepidoptera (Linnaeus, from the Greek lepidos, scale + pteron, wing). I made up Squamafly from squama from the Latin for scale (Squamata is the order of lizards and snakes) + fly, from butterfly. It was a bit of a nod to the butterfly effect.
From TIME AERIALS: "Time-leaking scales had made the insects precognitive and fast-evolving, and they'd evaded all predators, and bred until the food ran out. Then they had turned on each other, and the resulting time-vortices had torn reality apart."
When one fly attacked another, the victim would see it coming, and take evasive action. But the attacker would expect the evasion... That's the vicious circle paradox that rips the universe apart.
As an aside, real butterflies have fine, scaly wings and belong, along with moths, to the order Lepidoptera (Linnaeus, from the Greek lepidos, scale + pteron, wing). I made up Squamafly from squama from the Latin for scale (Squamata is the order of lizards and snakes) + fly, from butterfly. It was a bit of a nod to the butterfly effect.
BOOK GRAPHICS ON PRINTS & MERCHANDISE
Illustrations and covers on shirts, prints, puzzles, and more.
Illustrations and covers on shirts, prints, puzzles, and more.
1: Big Flossy, the great mill that rubbed fibres so much that they frayed so finely that they leaked into time...
2: tree-like neurons (brain cells) in blue and green, the real Time Aerials...
3: close-up of a coronavirus rolling along, the plague virus from RETRO VIRION...
4: a purple squamafly with its fractal wings and razor teeth...
5: The Mind Library, a vast collection of impossible books stored in the cathedral of memory...
6: A time aerial, growing like a bonsai tree. The blue liquid calms it down and stops its branches leaking into time...
2: tree-like neurons (brain cells) in blue and green, the real Time Aerials...
3: close-up of a coronavirus rolling along, the plague virus from RETRO VIRION...
4: a purple squamafly with its fractal wings and razor teeth...
5: The Mind Library, a vast collection of impossible books stored in the cathedral of memory...
6: A time aerial, growing like a bonsai tree. The blue liquid calms it down and stops its branches leaking into time...