dromeoraptor

[dromeoraptor]

You know, ants have factored into a LOT of fiction out there as monsters, just like any well known animal, but I can’t think of a single fantasy/sci fi/horror setting where ant monsters have stingers, which is just as common in ants as their bee and wasp cousins, let alone any fiction taking advantage of the fact that some ant species literally squirt acid.

[dromeoraptor]

Oh also, do you use 3D models to draw the vehicles and other such things in your comic? Apologies if you've already answered this at some point aygsyuef

Also while I'm here, I love your writing (and art) sooo much, its so cool to finally see ur comic being released now!!

yeah.

[dromeoraptor]

DendroGaster in the spine suit

[dromeoraptor]

It seems The Thousand-Year Door remake has a whole art gallery which feature concept art of Doopliss.

The fact that he started out with clown features makes sense out of his hilarious party hat.

[dromeoraptor]

Spideerse daanceee

[dromeoraptor]

An elowey woman yawning dramatically, thus conveniently exposing interesting dental features.

Unlike most lemuroids, elowey have very large cuspid teeth, which are longer on average in females. This is rooted in the social dominance structures and territoriality of their ancestors, with large cuspids being an effective agonistic display feature.

Like many lemuroids, the bottom six teeth are flattened and narrowed into a specialized tooth comb that assist in grooming. Elowey also possess a sublingua (effectively a hardened second tongue)that is used primarily to clean the tooth comb. The tooth comb is reduced (but not vestigial) in elowey compared to their ancestors, as dexterous hands (and specialized tools) are far more useful and effective in grooming. 

Forms of social grooming are ubiquitous to elowey cultures. Cleaning and caring for ones’ fur is an involved process in of itself, (and fleas and lice are an unfortunate fact of life for most people in this setting, furred, feathered, or otherwise) so assisting a compatriot in upkeep is only polite and respectful.

The exact traditions vary tremendously, but to make a very broad generalization- Between polite acquaintances and allies (or when performed on high ranking members of society by lower ranking members), it is accomplished with tools (there are a great variety of brushes and combs made for this purpose). Grooming with the hands, or especially the tooth comb, is far more intimate and reserved for only close relations.

This commonality is because elowey in close relations will mark each others’ manes with their wrist scent glands (this is nearly ubiquitous in all elowey cultures, as deeply rooted social behavior). Grooming with the hands may have the same result, and grooming with the tooth comb results in mane to mane scent transfer, so it is rarely deemed appropriate in relations where scent would not otherwise be directly exchanged.

[dromeoraptor]

Smooth Helmeted Iguana (Corytophanes cristatus), family Corytophanidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Hans Hillewaert

[dromeoraptor]

[dromeoraptor]

"con artist" is maybe the profession with the biggest gap between How Cool They Are In Media and How Cool They Are In Real Life

[dromeoraptor]

Breaking news: giant reptilian monsters spotted climbing all over Chicago landmarks!

This month's CHS Junior Herpers (a reptile club for kids that I run) was all about movie monsters. We talked about reptiles in the film industry and then I showed the kids how to use miniature sets and low angle photography to make their little friends look like giants. The ball python had a little trouble, but his owner was super pleased. CC the crested gecko was easily our best actor- he loved our bridge sets. The kids had a blast casting their creatures in a hypothetical movie.

[dromeoraptor]

you know what really gets my goat?

[dromeoraptor]

Honestly the whole Tall-Man thing is such an elegant solution to the whole human problem in dnd. So much language like "have some humanity" gets so awkward when there's a group called humans. Having humans instead refer to all humanoids just makes so much sense in this context!

High key gonna bring this up to my dnd groups and am gonna hard code it in if/when I make my own system.

[dromeoraptor]

'Dinosauria' is rooted in Greek and frequently quoted as meaning 'terrible lizard'. But in coining the term in his report, Owen refers to dinosaurs instead as 'fearfully great', acknowledging their large size - significantly surpassing that of any living reptile.

[source]

[dromeoraptor]

What’s everybody’s most useless skill? If you show me any picture of Godzilla I can tell you exactly which Godzilla suit it is and who was wearing it.

[dromeoraptor]

What are the origins of Yurf? I keep seeing them pop up in your ytps. I think they're v silly but I wanna know where they came from

Yurf first appeared in The Bat Is in a Sack - Upon hearing the phrase "And even your friends" from the source video, I thought it'd be funny to cut it off early and create a nonsense word in the process "And even yurf--". I had done this kind of joke before (for example, "The toaster pastry doughf" from WIM 3) but this time I wanted a visual to go with it. So I imagined what the word Yurf could mean, and my first thought was that it could be the name of a gnome or something.

I didn't want Yurf to be a gnome necessarily, just to vaguely give the vibe of one. To that end I added some elements to make Yurf distinct - namely the double-pointed hat, mittens, lack-of visible nose, and the lipstick.

After I had found excuses to throw Yurf jokes into other videos like Guns & Ropeses and Thing of Da Hill it became apparent that this character would be a recurring bit - so I commissioned my pal @dukeofash to bring the design to life further, and as usual he nailed it! You can see in the attached image the alternate design I sometimes use which takes heavy inspiration from Duke's version.

Yurf is kinda everything-ambiguous and I prefer it that way. Yurf is a stand-in for any time a sentence is said about an object or concept, but would be made funnier if it were about a silly lil' blorbo instead. There isn't much to know about what Yurf is "like" or "about" - just that they're happy to be included!

I think it's funny and awesome that my intention was to create a character that looked unique enough that nobody would mistake it for being a reference to anything else - but in doing so I instead created a character that everyone initially thinks is some outside reference they can't quite place.

[dromeoraptor]

Please look at the native range of this truly rare tree called Florida Torreya...how did you even make it

[dromeoraptor]

Today's Seal Is: Motherfucker Unlimited