Could 1 be GeeBizzle? And 4 The Librarian? (A very Discworld-ly connection there)
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GeeBizzle’s image was already posted, so he won’t be an answer. I don’t think there is a username “The Librarian”? Not that, anyway.
I am guessing 4 is acacia. It’s the only plant name I can think of.
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A web search for “acacia monkey” tells me “Most Patas monkeys live in Acacia woodland”, so that sounds to me like a solid guess.
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Looking it up, it is also commonly called “thorntree” so I am feeling good about this guess.
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Acacia is spot on (I thought it would generate an image of a tree, but apparently not).
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A shark mermaid! My daughter would love this - two of her favourite things!
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She still has legs, or at the very least, a leg. Looks more like she split the shark in two.
I don’t think she does - that looks like a fin to me
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Ah, now I see it.
When I tried generating a few images from my username I got quite a few anime style avatars as well.
I tried in the Microsoft Designer thing which seems to be different from what others are using. I only get 2 results maxmium.
(moving my username thingy to another thread)
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Agree. I think that makes her the shark-human equivalent of the horse-human centaur.
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Centaurs drive me crazy. They’ve got two thoraxes. What the help us going on in there? Four lungs? Two hearts? And how the hell does the diaphragm work? Maybe they’ve got air sacs or something but then you have to have birds in the mix…
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See that’s the same reaction I have when I listen to the Orville’s chief engineer trying to explain how he is accessing a 500 year old mobile phone.
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You want Anatomy of the centaur, in Annals of Improbable Research (Sep-Oct 2006)
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Thanks! I’ve had a read of this but it offer no solutions to the anatolmical nightmare that having four lungs in two seperate body cavities or how the diaphragm(s) work(s)… I suppose maybe I’d head cannon it that the human lungs atrophy as essentially useless… except that centaurs clearly have well-developed intercoastal spaces and can pant, as well as talk and take deep breaths in very human-like manners. Hmmm. Alternatively, if the horse lungs atrophy, the puny human lungs couldn’t deal with the oxygen demands on the huge horsey body… they’d probably faint if they started galloping.
Maybe the human lungs shut off during exercise and hand over to the equine lungs, but then the diaphgram problem really becomes exactly that. Maybe the human diaphragm becomes completely rigid during signifcant exercise, possibly rendering the centaur essentially muteduring these times. Either way I suspect it would affect the external morphology of the human top half. Urggh now I’m thinking about the expaxial muscles, and the size of a horse trachea versus a human. There’s a reason horses evolved with big long heads and necks and not puny human ones.
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Perhaps the horse/human appearance is a particularly weird example of biological mimicry, and centaurs are actually a very large type of insect…
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Nah, it’s magic, innit?
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See also the weird, but supposedly more viable, centaurs in Philip José Farmer’s World of Tiers series. They have breathing intakes in the second thorax, if I recall.
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