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Cecelia and the Living Fossils

Shameless dinosaur necromancer story plug

I wanna play a Kenku ancestral barbarian who's ancestors they summon include ghost dinosaurs. Like the idea of summoning ghosts from your evolutionary lineage sounds so, so cool. Unfortunately I haven't found a dm who takes the idea seriously enough to let me play it. 😔

an actual understanding of prehistory has SO much worldbuilding potential for games of all kinds, STORIES of all kinds, and I'm sick of it just being "monsters that people can shoot and/or tame I guess"

#i hope you get your D&D paleomancer bro that would be sick

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I always feel sort of complicated about the idea of terraforming other planets because it's a totally untouched natural landscape. I don't think building and farming is bad, but I think it's worth considering that things just won't be the same there ever again. This may not be realistic but I wish we could protect and preserve planets like national parks, maybe building research outposts but largely leaving them intact. Definitely adds some extra considerations if there's unique microbial life there.

#once we start transforming a landscape we can't get that 'virgin' native state back #as a person who does a lot of prairie restoration stuff now i feel like this is worth thinking about #because as i'm ripping johnson grass out of the ground i'm thinking 'this will never be exactly like it was 10000 years ago' #we can get very close #but never quite the same

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You're an paleontologist digging up a dinosaur fossil... when suddenly you awaken:

MAGICAL DINOSAUR GHOST✨️🦖👻

#help it's beautiful #catlf

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nyehhhh there's a circle now

#lol i dont care that much but it does feel slightly weird right #free them #tumblr update #memes #tumblrinas

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HERE WE GO GANG

#heavy breathing

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CatLF Q&A!

Do you have questions about Cecelia and the Living Fossils? Questions about dinosaurs? Questions about prehistoric humans? Drop me an ask or comment on this post and I'll try to answer it when we hit 1000 reads!

#catlf #catlf boyfriend #deinonychus meme #do you love this masterpiece philosoraptor #it took all my love and skill

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Told him we could go to chuck e cheese after his doctor appointment

The Dunk Shrunk Event, 2023

In the wake of the recently released publication by Engelman, the famous Dunkleosteus got its size cut from the previously humongous 7 metres long beast of an Arthrodire have now downsized into 3 - 5 metres long Hydrogen bomb shaped fat fish. Here are my rendition of the new dunk, honestly, I am fond of the new form of this animal.

Figure 1. Size estimate and skull diagram of Dunkleosteus terrelli based on the specimen CMNH 5768, the most popular of its species

Figure 2. Size comparison of the older version of dunk (above) compared to the new and chonkier version of dunk (below).

On other platforms, such as twitter and instagram, I have been called a prophet, for the gift of premonition have been bestowed upon me in the year of 2021 because I created this round fellow, aptly named "Dunkball", it was a local sensation when it first conceived.

Figure 3. The Dunkball, look at this boi, bask in his glorious spherical presence, for he is a perfect specimen.

Also just for fun, I created these joke dunk forms for you fellow enthusiasts to enjoy:

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Source publication:

#Fig. 2 sent me #Imo fat dunk is a major upgrade #The hero we need

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If you're following Cecelia and the Living Fossils, Chapter 29 just dropped!

If you haven't had a chance to read, you can catch up on the website or on Wattpad.

I'm at like ⭐930-something reads⭐ on Wattpad right now, which is really exciting for me. I've never posted any writing online before, so the reads and comments are keeping me going. It's so fun and wild to get live feedback.

What should we do if we hit 1000 reads? It's a big number to me and I really want to celebrate and thank you guys, so I feel like something cool should happen.

Is there anything you'd want to see or do? Art? Polls? Q&A? Maybe I could make a silly personality quiz or something? I have a playlist for this story. I could show you that if you want?

#catlf #cecelia and the living fossils #p.s. #I've been struggling with my mailing list plugin on my website #so I haven't been able to send out chapters in a few weeks. It's driving me crazy. I'm going to try really hard to get that fixed this week

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If feel like this ignores the implication that if earthbenders can bend limestone then they can bend calcium which means

bone bender

#Crunch crunch

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I'm bored

there are more than ten options so I had to do some smushing

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This is an illustration for an article I wrote about Acrocanthosaurus!

Acrocanthosaurus appears in Cecelia and the Living Fossils, a story about a teenage necromancer who brings dinosaurs back to life.

I'm thinking about maybe making a sticker pack out of this illustration series or something similar.

#acrocanthosaurus #acrocanthosaurus atokensis #palaeoblr #paleoart #dinosaur art #theropod #catlf spoilers #cecelia and the living fossils #catlf #palaeontology

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Zoology - Textbook for Schools. Edited by D. Naumov. 1985.

Internet Archive

#me

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Seasons greetings from Cecelia and Pine. 🎄

No new chapter this week, but if you have some catching up to do you can read Cecelia and the Living Fossils here.

#cecelia and the living fossils #catlf #neanderthal #neanderthalensis #early human #oc art #my ocs #made with krita #we had a cold snap here in texas and actually got a couple snowflakes so i'm so in the holiday spirit it's not even funny #christmas eve #catlf pine

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This is an illustration for an article I wrote about Deinonychus antirrhopus. You can read it here.

Coloration is based on a screech owl. I gave him speculative ear tufts because I think they're cute.

This raptor is from a weekly serial I'm writing called Cecelia and the Living Fossils. It's about a teenage necromancer who brings dinosaurs back to life.

#rebagel for the morning crowd

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This is an illustration for an article I wrote about Deinonychus antirrhopus. You can read it here.

Coloration is based on a screech owl. I gave him speculative ear tufts because I think they're cute.

This raptor is from a weekly serial I'm writing called Cecelia and the Living Fossils. It's about a teenage necromancer who brings dinosaurs back to life.

#catlf #cecelia and the living fossils #palaeoblr #paleoblr #deinonychus #deinonychus antirrhopus #raptor #raptor red #palaeoart #paleoart #cecelia and the living fossils spoilers

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⭐Heads up⭐

For my CatLF friends--I had an emergency happen at work this week. Everything turned out okay, but it was pretty exhausting and set me back on writing. I'm gonna go easy on myself and give you my best, so instead of a chapter I'm gonna post a Cecelia: Unearthed tomorrow with some new paleoart I'm really excited about.

#catlf #spoiler alert #it's deinonychus

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I will say, worms are a lot more horrendous-looking when they're dead and their jaws are fully extended. This is also a picture of the belly of the worm, and honestly that's never really any bug's good side. On video, they're almost kinda soft-looking. I love the way they row their bristle-scales in rolling body waves to move through the water. You can skip to :37 if you just want to see the worm.

Also, some scale worms are rainbowy--like Peinaleopolynoe. They do have pretty serious chompers. You can see where this one had a few bites taken out of its armor by other scale worms.

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Let's combine your two scary animals into one antarctic scale worm

Every part of this creature looks like it causes pain.

#Antarctic scale worm #worm #bugblr #marine science #marine biology #annelid #Youtube