Survogel Asks the Biosphere

NOTE: Canonically, this short story is an excerpt from an interview with a surprisingly disgruntled Tyrannosaurus whose story nobody believes. Grab a snack and enjoy.  Where am I? No clue. How’d I get here? I only have a vague idea. What are my chances of getting free? Zero. So, what do I know? I’m now in a place with alien plants, as hot as my old home, and being fed alien animals by aliens. The place I am trapped in is surrounded by alien grey structures that make lightning. There’s also some more alien grey stuff, that looks more like rocks, that surrounds the alien grey lightning structures. On the other side, beyond more lightning structures, are animals I actually know. So far, I’m the only one in here, and my prison is surrounded by an excited crowd of the aliens that abducted me. This place, though, seems a lot easier to live in than my old home. It’s lonely, but food, water, heat, and healing aliens are provided. But nah, there were healers of my own kind back ho...

INTRO:  PIED: I'm Pied, a pied urvogel, or an Archaeopteryx!  MR BLOOMSIP! I'm Mr Bloomsip, a purple sunbird who has two blue Lego bricks!  P: I use my other name for this title here!  We're Pied-  B: and Bloomsip-  P: hosts of...  P & B: Survogel Asks the Biosphere!  CLARIFICATION NOTE:  Pied speaks like this.  Mr Bloomsip speaks this way.  Valeriya the Siberian crane's lines are in this manner.  Ryba the osprey's voice goes this way.   Reddy Sheldon honks in this font. Any combination of these, like this , represents the characters speaking together. (This is the closest I can get to emulating the different voices in a podcast in text. :P)  P: Zdrastvuitye, readers!  Zdrastvuitye!   Well, your pronunciation's OK.  Thanks, Valeriya! So, today's episode is about some very special things in winter: Christmas and migrations towards the equator.  Ooh! Also, my breeding season!  Of course, Mr...

((RECAP FOR NEW READERS: In the last episode, Survogel, a pied urvogel/Archaeopteryx, and Mr Bloomsip, a purple sunbird, made their debut. Survogel, also referred to as Pied in this episode, asked Mr Bloomsip to explain to his audience why he wasn't really blue, and he got mad.))  Hey, readers! After a month or so of radio silence, I'm back on air! And also, you remember Mr Bloomsip? He's back.  And bluer than ever, if I say so myself!  Hmm... you don't look very blue. And we need to talk about a topic.  Wait, YOU HAVEN'T DECIDED ON A TOPIC?!  Well, er...  *firework explosion*  I have, actually. You heard that sound? That's a firework, the menace to birds that comes around Diwali- *another firework* We really need to soundproof our recording studio.  Yeah, those things are LOUD.  Hey, wait, Mr Bloomsip! We have our topic now! Fireworks!  *sound director cat starts playing Katy Perry's song Firework*  Please revert the song to our us...

NOTE: T he tiger uses they/them, but they're fine with he/him and she/her.  When they did it, they knew there was no turning back. Humans had this nice, buffalo-like taste. As a cub, they’d heard stories of relatives who’d grown to relish people and ended up dead. The stories were supposed to put them off of eating humans, and it generally worked. But they just had to. The forest they grew up in was being cut down by humans for reasons they could never really understand. It was time for them to move to one of the hill-towns in search of more food. Unfortunately, their upper-left canine was cracked because of a misguided attack on a gaur. They spotted a herd of deer nearby. Attempting to latch their teeth onto one of the older ones was painful, and the old deer kicked them away, so they knew it was time for them to eat easier prey. They lay in the thick bush by the field, watching the grass-cutters work. There was one nearby. It seemed too simple, almost like a trap. But they ...

   "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."  -Thomas Henry Huxley  Hello! So I now have a blog. This post, made on the thirtieth of August in 12022 of the Holocene calendar, exists for the following purposes:  -Because yes (for fun)  -Because I want to write about different ecosystems in different time periods  -Because biodiversity is worth learning about  -Because even though I'm an artist, animator, and voice actor, writing's the thing I'm best at doing quickly, and I might make this into a podcast if I find a club of people (but it'll just be in writing for now)  -Because I wanted to open a blog  So that summarises my purpose.  Also, a bit about me:  I have an urvogel as an OC. Being my canonical animal form, they use the same pronouns I do, she/they, and are the narrator/host of this blog podcast. The title is almost self-explanatory; in each episode/post, she asks one animal from the ecosystem a...