#tiny dinosaurs :D

[aspiringwriter1111]

#stegosaurus #dinosaurs #dinosuar #crochet #amigurimi #Literal thread #Cute #adorable #ADORABLE #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH #D #I #N #O #S #A #U #R #tiny #miniature

[a-book-of-creatures]

It’s been nagging at me for a while, so I’m going to try to put together my thoughts on the Quetzalcoatlus sequence in Prehistoric Planet 2. In the grand scheme of things it’s tiny, insignificant, and I loved Prehistoric Planet, but I’m not going to turn down the opportunity to talk at length about scavenging birds.

(Spoilers (?) for Prehistoric Planet 2 ahead. Go watch it!)

I’m talking about the part where a Tyrannosaurus is driven off from an Alamosaurus carcass (presumably carrion and not killed by the tyrannosaur). The tyrannosaur is expressly stated to be concerned about losing an eye to those Whopping Big Beaks. The pterosaurs aggressively fly over it a few times and honk angrily until the tyrannosaur walks away in Shameful Defeat, leaving the carcass to the pterosaurian pterrors.

And that confused me.

Before I go on, I want to point out that this is not a Who Would Win discussion, I’m not going to argue for or against one or another. Not going to discuss if Tyrannosaurus should really have won because of the massive weight advantage and lack of fragile bones/wings, or if the big landlubber had it coming and the numbers and aerial advantage was too much. I’m not arguing about Quetzalcoatlus being scary or not either (it’s scary as all hell).

No, the issue I had was with the beaks.

This is the Quetzalcoatlus as it appears in the show.

Impressive beak, isn’t it?

But it’s not the beak of a flesh tearer.

Let’s back up a bit. Birds that eat meat by tearing it into manageable chunks typically evolve sharp, hooked beaks to make up for the lack of teeth. Like this eagle for instance.

Majestic. They make the cutest sounds too. Look up golden eagle sounds, don’t believe the red-tailed hawk propaganda.

Raptor bills look intimidating, but they’re not there for killing. They’re cutlery. The talons do all the work, and then the beak tears up the meat into delicious gobbets of protein.

Even shrikes get in on the act. They don’t have killer feet, so they use their ripping bills to impale prey and tear at it.

Aw, look at it, it thinks it’s accipitrids.

The Quetzalcoatlus’ bill, though, doesn’t have that hook. It doesn’t look like the bill of a bird that dismembers its food. The closest thing I could think of to compare it with was stork bills. Specifically the marabou.

Ol’ pickaxe-for-a-face. This is the beak of an animal that stabs smaller prey and swallows them whole with minimum processing.

But a bill this long and pointed, turns out, is good for stabbing but not for tearing meat. Marabous are scavengers, but they won’t tear apart a carcass on their own. The “[b]ill [is] not well designed for dismembering carcasses, so [it] normally steals scraps from vultures or snatches up morsels that are dropped” (del Hoyo, Elliott, and Sargatal, 1992).

As you can see, vultures retained the hallmark accipitrid steak knife face, and are much better at Ripping and Tearing. This one (the lappet-faced vulture) generally goes first, being big and strong enough to Rip and Tear tough hide and get to the fleshy interior.

In fact, “[d]espite its huge bill, the [marabou] stork can rarely dominate a carcass and normally stands by the much more numerous vultures and nips in from time to time to snatch morsels which are dropped by others, though Tawny Eagles (Aquila rapax) in turn often steal food from the stork. The bill is not apparently very effective for cutting up meat and dismemberment is normally carried out quite simply by pulling” (del Hoyo, Elliott, and Sargatal, 1992). And if marabous have trouble with the average carcass, I wouldn’t imagine Quetzalcoatlus would fare much better with a titanosaur, which presumably has rather thick skin too.

One big happy family. That’s a much smaller carcass being shared (with the obligatory squabbling) by a whole bunch of dinosaurs. Neither vultures nor marabou are trying to monopolize it.

So... I don’t see why the big stork pterosaurs would chase away a perfectly good meat processor. I know everyone wants to see Big Prehistoric Animals Fighting With Lethal Intent, and everyone wants to see Tyrannosaurus Getting Knocked Down A Peg By The New Hotness, but I think it would have been a more interesting and believable scene - not to mention more in keeping with Prehistoric Planet’s attempt to be as scientifically believable as possible - if the pterosaurs acted like marabous the size of giraffes, both them and the tyrannosaur keeping a respectful distance of each other, and snapping up bits of meat left behind. And maybe the pterosaurs pulling the dinosaur’s tail for good measure, the way ravens bully eagles.

But it would make for a much less exciting scene. Who wants to watch a bunch of scavengers milling around a carcass and honking at each other as they jockey for the best morsels and settling their differences in ways that involve as little risk as possible? I mean, I do, but I don’t assume the average viewer does.

And that concludes my altogether far too long opinion on a single scene from a great series. Of course, I’m not a paleontologist and never will be, I’m only approaching this with what I know about birds, so please feel free to let me know if there’s any details of Quetzalcoatlus anatomy that do in fact suggest it could rip and tear!

References

del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; and Sargatal, J. eds. (1992) Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 1. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

#prehistoric planet #prehistoric planet 2 #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #quetzalcoatlus #birds #paleontology #paleoblr #long post #disclaimer: I am not in any way throwing asparagus at Prehistoric Planet 2 #I'm not panning it in any way #tyrannosaurus #azhdarchids

[undercoverpigeon413]

Frisk and my idea of what monster kid would look like in Slumbertale! ^^ [au by @rainingskeletons - sorry for the tag. Love your au and art <3]

Monster kid's boots are based on Undyne's, and their stripes are shaped slightly more like Undyne's gills bc they look up to her in Undertale! I also gave them a little hood and tiny stars on the dinosaur (is this how you spell it?) like spikes :] update: didn't realize we had already gotten to see what monster kid looked like! :'D

#slumbertale #this has been the only thing ive been thinking of for the past 2 days #undertale au

[the-forest-library]

February 2024 Reads

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands - Heather Fawcett

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

Mislaid in Parts Half Known - Seanan McGuire

Love at 350 - Lisa Peers

I Hope this Email Doesn't Find You - Ann Liang

The Lily of Legate Hill - Mimi Matthews

Set the Record Straight - Hannah Bonam-Young

At Her Service - Amy Spaulding

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend - Emma R. Alban

My Fair Brady - Brian D. Kennedy

Simon Sort of Says - Erin Bow

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears - Tehlor Kay Mejia

A Knot in the Grain - Robin McKinley

Freshman Year - Sarah Mai

When I Was Your Age - Kenan Thompson

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt - Madeline Pendleton

White Supremacy is All Around - Akilah Cadet

Sex with a Brain Injury - Annie Liontas

All the Women in My Brain - Betty Gilpin

One in a Millennial - Kate Kennedy

I'll Be Just Five More Minutes - Emily Farris

Outofshapeworthlessloser - Gracie Gold

The Woman in Me - Britney Spears

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

The Liars' Club - Mary Karr

Secure Love - Julie Menanno

The 5 Resets - Aditi Nerukar

Tiny Traumas - Meg Arrow

A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home - Melissa Dilkes Pateras

Gut Renovation - Roshini Raj

Veg-table - Nik Sharma

Soup Club - Caroline Wright

Soup Season - Shelly Westerhausen Worcel

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

Emily Wilde II didn't disappoint, but Mislaid in Parts Half Known did. I was really hoping we'd be immersed in a world of dinosaurs similar to Across the Green Grass Fields, but we spent such little time there.

The non-fiction reads this month really outshone the fiction reads. I especially enjoyed Betty Gilpin's All the Women in My Brain. It was weird and wonderful.

Goodreads Goal: 76/200

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads | 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads

#2024 reads #book reviews #book recommendations #books #booklr #bookish #reading #bibliophile

[thathomestar]

dragon's dogma 2 thoughts so far, roughly 7 hours in:

out in the field, performance is mostly fine. it dips for me sometimes but it stays around 60 fps for the most part. being in the big city is rough, there's like 150 npcs all walking around doing their own thing and it makes the game chug, on my pc it drags it down to 30 fps average, sometimes 20 fps at the lowest points. they really need to clean that up.

i've just been playing fighter so far, and i'm enjoying the new combat system. it feels a lot looser than dd1, the soft lockon from dd1 is even softer. getting staggered and stunlocked by enemies is a real threat, you take much longer to recover from getting knocked over than you did in dd1. the revamped heavy attack button being more used for dealing decisive high damage hits on staggered or stunned enemies is such a good idea.

they swapped the buttons for block and special sword attacks and that kept throwing me off at first lol. perfect parry timing feels about the same as it did in dd1. you can actually use your heavy attack while mounting a monster without instantly jumping off, it's great. my pawn is an archer and honestly i think she does more dps than me sometimes, she's come in clutch so many times already.

the main kicker i've been feeling is the how they treat your health pool. in dd1 you could just spam consumables to cure your health back to maximum at any time, but they've changed how it works here in dd2. now, whenever you take damage, you lose a tiny bit of your max hp. whether a mage casts a heal or you drink a potion, you can't get all the way back up to full until you rest at an inn or a campsite. so now you play a longer-term game of "do i go find a camp and rest to full or do i go fight this ogre at 50% max hp". i enjoy being stupid so i tend to not rest until i absolutely have to lol.

you can actually preview which vocations have what augments now, which saves a trip opening up a browser and searching for that info. you do have to unlock warrior and sorcerer as well as the other new vocations, but warrior and sorcerer was literally "go to a cave, kill some goblins, get the stolen weapons back, ok you're good to go now". took like 30 mins after reaching the big city.

i have encountered every single microtransaction item within the first 5 hours of playing. they mostly either cost gold or rift crystals, and are relatively cheap. i got a camping kit for free for reaching the first oxcart. i got the harpy lure for free by helping a random person out and about. i've gotten four wakestones already. the microtransactions are stupid and so obviously mandated by some dinosaur executive but you're an even bigger moron if you think any of this stuff is meaningful or locked-off content.

uhh what else. turning your lantern on and off is nice and quick. your pawns actually talk amongst each other now. i don't know how different the inclination system is yet so i don't know if doing the d-pad pawn commands changes them. those commands seem to actually work properly now though. ran away from a fight and told my pawns "to me!" and they actually disengaged the fight and ran with me, so that's nice. don't like the music as much as the first game so far, we'll see how it fares once i actually fight a monster bigger than a cyclops.

#dd2 #dragon's dogma #dragon's dogma 2

[ozzgin]

Not a request, just something I feel I’d share after reading your Pickle stuff He gives off ‘little brother’ energy. Like his mom definitely had a handful of kids before him, and he turned out to be a feral child. Eating wasps or bees even after she’d warn him not to; oh there a wild dinosaur that’s been destroying everything in its path? Pickle must see this specimen obviously! He definitely gave her grey hairs.

No because his poor mom was probably up there in despair, wondering why her last child hasn’t joined them in the afterlife, until some other sibling points down and goes “Mom isn’t that him?”

And they all stare at Pickle in his jeans and baseball cap wrestling Hanayama in the middle of Tokyo, because somehow he ended up frozen for millennia and now he’s messing around with tiny modern humans. Mom is probably facepalming herself at this menace that quite literally transcended time and physics just so he could cause trouble once again.

So yeah, I like your approach a lot! Pickle is definitely the final boss of little brother shenanigans. Best part? He has a Reader that can help him secure a legacy, so you know the feral child curse will go on. :D

#baki #baki headcanons #pickle baki

[aceofsnacks]

I did a tour of GO filming locations

It was around London, so I didn't get all of them, but the trip has been such a blast I just have to share the pics!

1. St James park: so many birds! And tourists. Which is good because the secret government agents wouldn't be able to feed so many ducks. I saw pelicans too—they were huge and pink and funny!!

2. Berkley Square (they actually didn't film anything here, but still): it's a giant construction site now. The only birds I spotted were parrots, so many of them, at least 5 nests, and loud too. No sane nightingale would ever come there, this much is true. But the song is referenced on one of the bench plaques <3

3. The Ritz / The Criterion: they both look nothing like the restaurant in the show (maybe the Criterion changed since 2019?) But both are fancy! When my rich uncle leaves me a giant inheritance and I find my 6000 year soulmate, I am so taking them out there, just you wait.

4. The Globe: this is my favourite theatre now!!!Macbeth was magnificent! And the standing tickets were so worth it: actors were down in the crowd and interacted with everyone! I got some of Macduff's blood on me! (Can't get this anywhere else :D) The Globe is closed in winter, so I'm already planning to buy tickets for next year.

5. The Bandstand and the-place-where-Gabriel-was-running: after marinating on Tumblr for so long I felt shocked seeing the word "bandstand" on a physical sign in the park. Like, put up a warning at least, my heart needs to be prepared?? The actual bandstand was at the same time smaller and bigger than I expected. Also those red bits—apparently they were there the whole time; I was imagining it black and white for some reason.

Also I met another crazy fan taking pictures of the bandstand in the rain, and I remember thinking, they have to be just as crazy as me xD

6. Tavistock square (where they switched bodies): the filming crew must have moved the benches around, because the square itself is so tiny and you can only match the scene background if you stand all the way back in the bushes. Surely there must have been a better way.

7. Crystal palace: just as I suspected, you can't see the dinosaurs from the bench because of all the trees in the way. The dinos are hilarious though, they look more like🗿and not like 🦖. In the show Warlock seems to have written a rude word on the teleosaurus info card, how dare he!

8. Tadfield (Hambleden, really): I thought, it's just two hours from London, easy day trip, in and out, what could go wrong. Cue to me stumbling over muddy fields in the dark surrounded by menacing sheep and regretting everything. The village is cute and English and has literally three streets and a post office and nothing else. And sheep.

9. Bonus round, my take on Aziraphale's bookshop xD "Seducing women? I think you've got the wrong shop!"

10. Bonus bonus round, food! (am I or am I not the ace of snacks after all?) An oyster recipe from Marcus Gavius Apicius' cookbook (Rome, 1c CE, stumbled upon it in the museum of Reading), and Eccles cakes (soooo sweet they don't calm people down but give them instant diabetes)

And that's it!! Thank you for reading all the way <3 Here is a secret snack 🍎

#Good Omens #Crowley #Aziraphale #London #real life #good omens filming #good omens 2

[ddejavvu]

I’m not sure if you’ve written something like this before but reader and jack surprising hotch with morning cuddles for his birthday D: maybe they make him some pancakes that are a little weirdly shaped but jack insisted he could do it and that just makes it even better

this is so cute, tysm for the request :')))) <333

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You're stealthy, he'll give you that. Jack isn't, though, and he hears a thump against the side of the bed. Then your frantic, 'you okay, buddy?' and his son's eager, 'yes!'.

Then there's a knee in his stomach.

His eyes fly open and his stomach caves. He sits upright on reflex, and nearly tips Jack over onto his back like a wild turtle. The little boy giggles at the unplanned rollercoaster ride, and clings tight to his dad's pajama shirt to stay upright.

"Sorry," Aaron breathes, as if he'd been the one to kick Jack in the stomach. He curls his arms around his son's back, brain still switching on for the day as you stare fondly at him.

The Hotchner boys have matching bedhead, Jack's blonde strands intertwining messily with each other while Aaron's short, black hair sticks straight up. You always tease them about it, but Aaron can't bring himself to care at the moment.

"Happy birthday," You croon, a tray table in your hands, "Jack and I made you some breakfast!"

And what a breakfast it is. A mountain of pancakes, still steaming, a hefty topping of butter, and thick syrup that drips down the stack. It's something you'd seen in a commercial for a breakfast joint, except this time the real thing isn't underwhelming and slightly rubbery.

"Scooch," You command, seeing that Aaron has rolled into the middle of the bed in your absence. He's never been good at sleeping alone, and you tell him you're there to keep him in line.

"Yeah," Jack tugs at his shirt, little knees once again digging into incredibly painful places as he scrambles to his feet, "Scooch, Daddy."

"I'm scooching, I'm scooching," Aaron grumbles, shifting himself to the left. Jack seems hellbent on staying snugly in his lap, which is cute, but cumbersome. The boy's head knocks into his chin and Aaron tucks it underneath, neck now craned slightly upwards to accommodate it.

"Jack made you heart pancakes," You trail off at the end of your sentence, because the pancakes on his plate are very much circular, "Aren't they cute?"

Your tone warns him not to invalidate his son's efforts, as if he ever would. He smiles, leaning sideways just enough to kiss Jack's temple.

"Of course they are," He hums happily, "Thanks, bud."

The boy wiggles happily in his father's lap and you both smile.

"Try that one first, Daddy." Jack commands, tiny finger outstretched towards the pancake at the bottom of the stack.

He balks, "Uh, why?"

"It's the best one." Jack boasts, "'Made it last, after I had perfected my technique."

"Oh, did you now?" Aaron smirks, hiding the expression by tipping his face upwards again, "Well, how about I save the best for last?"

"O-kay," Jack pouts for only a second as you snuggle in beside them, your head resting on Aaron's shoulder. He chuckles lightly, now nearly unable to eat at all. He makes it work, though, because he'd be an idiot to move either one of you.

He somehow manages to slice off a piece of pancake, dipping it in butter and syrup respectively. He's halfway to his mouth with the fork, pointedly making sure that none of the stickiness is going to drip into his son's hair, when the boy opens his mouth expectantly.

"I want a bite, Daddy." He informs Aaron. Then, ever-polite, "Please."

His chest rumbles with laughter, and you feel it in the shake of his shoulder against your cheek, "Hey! Isn't this my birthday breakfast?"

"You made it for him," You tease Jack, pinching his side lightly so that he squirms with a giggle, "You have to let him eat it."

"But it looks good," Jack whines, the sleeve of his dinosaur-print pajamas tugged tight over his wrist. You cuff it back, not wanting it to get syrup-y.

"That's 'cause you made it," Aaron assures his son, brushing the boy's hair back with a curled hand. He finally gets a bite of his birthday breakfast, overdramatically humming at the taste.

"Delicious," He reports, lips shining with syrup that you long to kiss off of him, "Best pancakes I've ever had."

Jack is reluctantly permitted a bite, and after a moment he hums similarly, "Me too."

"Hey!' Aaron feigns indignance, peering down suspiciously at Jack, "What about the ones I make every weekend?"

"They're okay." Jack shrugs, and you stifle an incredulous giggle at the little boy's boldness, "They would taste better if they were heart-shaped, Daddy."

#aaron hotchner #aaron hotchner x reader #aaron hotchner imagine #aaron hotchner scenario #aaron hotchner oneshot #aaron hotchner one-shot #aaron hotchner one shot #aaron hotchner headcanon #aaron hotchner headcanons #aaron hotchner hc #aaron hotchner hcs #aaron hotchner fanfiction #aaron hotchner fanfic #aaron hotchner fic #aaron hotchner blurb #aaron hotchner drabble #aaron hotchner dialogue #aaron hotchner fluff #aaron hotchner x reader fanfiction

[vickysaurus-art]

My art in 2023

January

Microraptor and the Flowers. I started this year out making paleoart watercolours and never really stopped. This one is about a Microraptor investigating the first flowers she's ever seen. The flowers are Lingyuananthus, a lovely little fossil flower described in an even lovelier paper that was not behind a paywall for once.

February

Orthocones Descend. Having moved into a new apartment and made a timeline covering the walls, the paleozoic looked awfully empty, so I made a big effort to expand my horizons and do art showing creatures I'd never drawn before. Showing orthocones descending vertically on their prey made for a fun composition too.

March

Sinosauropteryx does not want to share its tree. I still can barely believe we know the colours of both Sinosauropteryx and Psittacosaurus. Dinosaur colours always felt like something we'd never figure out without literal actual time travel before we figured them out.

April

Hadrocodium's mossy home. I got the idea for one of the tiniest mammals of all time making its home in some moss on a tree while hiking in Switzerland and coming across some truly impressive moss beards.

May

Procompsognathus's cliff climb. Although the foreground cliff itself and the contrast between foreground and background didn't come out quite as well as I'd hoped, I still really like this art featuring the three main branches of archosaur (dinosaur, pterosaur, and pseudosuchian).

June

Anomalocaris, Dragon of the Cambrian. The realisation that most Cambrian creatures were tiny gave me the idea of a whole bunch of them hiding from a 40 cm long Anomalocaris while in positions reminiscent of a D&D party facing off against a dragon.

July

Caihong and the Kalligrammatids. Kalligrammatids were neuropterans that superficially resembled large butterflies, but unlike them their wings were transparent! I combined them with the gorgeous iridescence of Caihong and backlighting for a fun experiment.

August

Spring on the mammoth steppe. When the time came to do some art set in the Quaternary, I decided to depict a real life location and how it would have changed in the past few hundred thousand years. This spot is just west of Baden-Baden (which is in the glacier valley to the upper left), on the edge of the Schwartzwald. I also enjoyed depicting an ice age spring. It wasn't always snow and ice.

September

Darwinius and Geiseltaliellus's stare-off. The Paleogene was the last remaining Phanerozoic period I hadn't done any art of, so I drew this little scene in the Messel Pit formation.

October

Inostrancevia family at sunrise. I hadn't drawn Permian synapsids in a while at this point so they were overdue for a paleoart. I also felt like going absolute ham with my reds. The sunrise and Permian volcanism made for a convenient excuse but really, this is just for me.

November

Wind, Courage, and Wings. This one's a birthday gift for my friend, depicting a lovely fable in Genshin Impact about how the wind god Barbatos taught the first birds to fly.

December

The Zanclean Flood. 6 million years ago, the movement of the continents cut the Mediterranean off from the oceans. Since more water evaporates from the Mediterranean than it receives from rivers, this resulted in the sea drying up and becoming an incredibly deep, dry, salty lowland. Until 5.3 million years ago, when the Strait of Gibraltar formed and the entire sea was refilled in a massive flood. This depicts the early days of said flood seen from the tip of the Rock of Gibraltar.

If you've enjoyed my art this year, consider leaving me a tip! Or have a look at last year's art too.

#paleoart #my art #palaeoblr #2023 #my art in 2023 #watercolour #definitely not gonna tag every creature appearing in these #cw: bugs

[cosmiconix]

Hello :D

I was wondering, if the villains (and Onix) could pick a Partner Pokemon what would it be?

Okay, so do forgive me, but I don't know too much about Pokemon like most people do, it's not that I don't like Pokemon, I just didn't fit watching the show into my schedule & I don't have the consoles or the storage to play any of the games. But I did look up a list of beginner Pokemon from the different series & chose some to give the villains. Hope this will do.

So I gave Onix a Chikorita since it kinda looks like a dinosaur & she loves those.

Hades got a Torchic cause the idea of a god having a tiny chicken looking creature following him around sounds absolutely hilarious.

Shan Yu gets a Litten, similar to Hades the idea of a big strong war lord having a tiny kitten is too good of an opportunity to let up.

Frollo has a Snivy because it looks very regal like Frollo & it's also not associated with fire which Frollo attempts to avoid every chance he gets.

Syndrome received a Piplup since I head cannoned that his favorite animals were penguins so it would make sense to give him a pokemon that looks like one.

And finally Facilier, he got Eevee. My reason, in this au Doc likes all things fluffy, especially animals, so of course he's gonna choose the fluffiest one of the bunch when given the opportunity.

Keep in mind, this is the first time I've drawn Pokemon in my life, apologies if I didn't get these too close to their original designs. 🥹

#villain #oc #pokemon #onix #hades #shan yu #claude frollo #incredibles syndrome #dr. facilier #chikorita #torchic #litten #snivy #piplup #eevee

[kobold-royalty]

Hierarchy of gendered terms for me. This gets lewd. This is not a comprehensive list juust all the stuff i can think of. Except for 1 s tier one that i was too shy to put down.

F tier: dude, bro, guy (do not use these)

D tier: man, woman(doesnt feel right but will accept from strangers walking on the street)

C tier: handsome, anything in f tier but you add lil in front of it. Yes there is a difference. Fag (These are fun but be careful)

B: lady, beautiful, your majesty, prince, princess, queen, girl, boy, king, fleshlight,. Jester, clown, fool, queer (encouraged well liked but there are more)

A: kobold, creature, pet, pretty, cutie pie, toy, yoshi, critter, dragon, draconic scion, cowbold, thing, girlthing, boything, lizard, dinosaur, dummy, klutz, clumsy, hungry gal, hungry guy, hungry thing, tubby, chubby, fat, little one, tiny thing, little thing, femboy, fembold, good girl, good boy, good bold, darling( really really like, get extra points)

S tier: Snack, meal, tummy fat, you gonna finish that? , deliscious, scrumptious, sweetie pie, dinner, gut slut, candy, gusher, capri sun, juice box, cookie, pastry, sweet-tart, roast, meat, MORSEL, tasty dummy, bimbold, bimbo, idiot, >///< (really really love please use theze terms for me)

#princess rambling #princess rambles

[which-qsmp-egg-would]

I’d love to hear your reasoning for some digimon partners!!! especially giving empanada veemon & pepito a caprimon that digivolves to gotsumon :D

AN EXCELLENT QUESTION ALLOW ME TO ANSWER.

Chayanne got the hyokomon like since it's a yellow chicken and training to be a warrior. They have similar motivations and personalities, I thought they would work together very well. I also considered giving him wormmon, but the reasoning was very loose so I decided otherwise.

Tallulah gets the gekomon line since they're musically based. I think the change from Otamamon to Gekomon parallels Tallulah's journey of love as well. I keep thinking about Tallulah in that attic holding onto Otamamon's egg, okay?

Dapper and Pomme's digimon don't really match with their personality or motivation or anything, but instead its more of a destiny thing! Lopmon and Terriermon always come together and so Dapper and Pomme are linked by fate. Its also one of those situations where it feels like Dapper should have Terriermon and Pomme have Lopmon, but it feels correct this way. Also. French Sniper. Gargomon has big guns.

Ramón got monimon because a little ninja TV that spies on people feels VERY fitting for that family. Monimon and Hagurumon are also very dumb on their own, but that wouldn't bother Ramón too much, I think. I also considered giving him the Kakkinmon line, since they are shield digimon, but I couldn't resist how cute Monimon was.

Leo got dogs. That's pretty much it. They struggle to get attached but once they do they are very attatched to their tamers, you know? Wolf. I also considered giving her Gabumon but I think her personality would overpower him too much.

Richarlyson got the Gomamon line purely because their mischief would line up PERFECTLY. Tell me Gomamon from Adventures WOULDN'T try to set up people on dates. I also thought about giving him Renamon but I.. don't quite remember why? Big protector? I guess?

For Pepito, its a Caprimon into a Gattsumon mostly because I couldn't find a preevolution for Gattsumon. I chose Gattsumon (because it's my favorite) because it feels very childlike, and very protective, and I think that's what Pepito needs. Gattsumon would color with Pepito. I can't explain it. I also considered Upamon and Armadillomon, since Upamon is a axolotl, but I couldn't resist my favorite rock baby.

Empanada got the Veemon line because I feel like their enthusiasm would align very well! They love to love and won't back down, you know? Also imagine Empa carrying Demiveemon like a stuffed animal. Exactly.

Sunny got Bowmon and Herissmon not only to match with Leo, but also because of how Herissmon avoids combat and runs/hides. And I think that it could keep our sunshine princess safe. I also thought about giving her Impmon, actually. Despite his demonic attitude, Impmon is actually such a sweet digimon to his trainers and also very lonely, which pairs with Sunny's feelings very well. Also, I imagine that Impmon's attempts at "warming up friends" wouldn't turn out so well and frankly would make things worse lmao. But I chose against Impmon for some reason. Weird.

Chunsik was a difficult one, I had a hard time finding anything for him. The bear was cute and protective and Chunsik is cute and tiny. Also, Wanyamon gets attached to people if they love him like an animal and. Chunsik is named after a cat, so. It was funny.

And finally Nacho. The Shaomon line is an artificial digimon that can't evolve past a certain point, gets attached very easily, and is very very loyal to their tamer. It fits very well. I also considered Pawn Chessmon (White) for obvious reasons, or Gammamon, for being a white dinosaur.

Thank you for the ask I am so thrilled does anyone else have a question 🖊

#not a poll #qsmp #qsmp eggs #I'm very very normal about this show

[gallusrostromegalus]

Updates from the garden of Berry-dise:

Squirrel Patrol is in top form this summer, with Charlie teaching Herschel the pincer manuver Arwen taught him for rabbits. Very nearly took one off the fence this morning, and my berries remain unmolested by tree rats.

Garlic, herb and Salad bed coming in nicely. Corn in the back row went in really late but is coming up well, alone with flower seedlings.

Lingon berries are throwing a tantrum because it hit 100F in the shade yesterday and they DID NOT CARE FOR THAT SHIT AT ALL. Cranberries are having a great time and have even set fruit.

Full sun bed doing ok and the black currants are setting roots properly. German chamomile is taking a while to really set up, possibly because it's competing with the horseradish, which set roots clear into the bedrock and is sending up runners.

Big Bed Blueberries doing well despite three of them pretending to be dead until last week. Added columbines and echinaceia to keep Charleston from digging it out and attempting to plant his toys. (He has a designated dig zone already)

Pillbugs very nearly took out all of my melons and pumpkins but a combination of dandelion bait/removal and coffee grounds around the stems seems to be protecting them. Crimsoned sweet seems to have gotten the concept in of the trellis, sugar baby is struggling.

Broccolini and dahlias doing well, as are the dinosaurs.

Lettuce seeds final came in, canteloupes seem determined to spread horizontally rather than up the trellis. Zip ties may be needed. Yes, Herschel follows me around like a tiny bodyguard. Who knows when the squirrels might attack!

Shallots are absolutely off the shits and I'm very proud of them. Pumpkin and other sugar baby are #suffering after the pillbugs

FINAL BED FINALLY INSTALLED. Husbeast very politely insisted that the Free Dirt be removed from the driveway so he could have D&D so I moved 2 cubic feet of dirt this morning and planted raspberries, blackberries, strawberry and coral bells for pollination.

#the garden of berry dise #dogs #charleston chew #herschel the hannukah goblin

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D word matty is hurting my soooul bro 😭 this doesnt even have to be specifically that verse but given how completely dilf he’s looked lately i cant stop thinking abt your parenting/baby plots… i feel like he’d be such a good dad 💔 i’m crying real tears rn it’s so over

no let's talk about d word matty and parenting... actually, let's talk about the moment you adamantly decide you want to have that man's babies, because i haven't really ever discussed the baby fever that would inevitably plague you after seeing matty interact with kids. i think this happens just after you move into his house, and things are obviously pretty bloody serious. and one of your friends is pregnant, another has a toddler, and you've been feeling a little bit broody after seeing them but like... full-blown baby fever has evaded you thus far. that is, until you're (technically working) backstage after the boys' next show, when their guests and friends and family are backstage chatting and laughing and generally having a nice time. and matty's obviously exhausted, so he excuses himself from conversations for a bit to have a sit down and a drink of water; within a few minutes, though, one of the many children in ross's family - like a tiny little boy, probably like 2 or 3 - wanders over to matty and tugs on his trouser leg to get his attention. and as tired as matty is, he immediately scoops the kid onto his lap and chats to him quite animatedly, asking him if he liked the show and generally chatting to him about dinosaurs and superheroes and whatever else, responding to the kid's babbling with interest that you think might actually be genuine. when the little one starts to get sleepy (matty does say "you've done so well staying awake for everything! i couldn't have done that when i was as small as you!"), matty just lets him fall asleep against his chest, softly talking him into his slumber and rubbing his tiny back so gently. you're talking to matty's dad through all this, and then when you see your boyfriend gently rocking this tiny child to sleep you literally trail off whatever it is you were saying to just stare - tim follows your gaze and smiles when he sees what you're looking at, and goes "aye, he'd be a good dad, our boy". and you're like "he really would be" with this like dreamy look on your face, and then you smile back at tim like "he learnt from the best though, i suppose". and while all this is happening, matty's looking at YOU all dreamy, so incredibly happy to see you get on with his family so well and thinking about the two of you adding to it with your own kids... yeah, i think the kids discussion is had not too long after that night <3

#mads muses #mads answers asks #matty asks #fluff asks #d word matty

[ghost-bxrd]

HAHHAA

You’ve come to a person with enough knowledge about paleobiology to possibly get a phd, I happen to have had a special interest in prehistoric animals since I was 3

So I present to you, my favorite thing ever created ever….

MICRORAPTOR!!

This is a non avian dinosaur (yes, birds are dinosaurs, however not all dinosaurs are birds. They’re all reptiles. Either a sparrow is a reptile or a nile crocodile is a bird, pick your poison.) that inhabited early Cretaceous China roughly 125mya! The iridescent black coloration was found in the pigmentation cells preserved in the feather impressions of multiple specimens (yes! We can tell a feathered dinosaurs colors if we have enough feather impressions! Archaeopteryx is a light beige with black tips on the edge, pictures further below)

This is the Microraptor Gui holotype specimen, or the specimen that is currently most representative of the species. You see all of those dark lines along the body and limbs? THOSE ARE FEATHER IMPRESSIONS!!!!! How cool is that?

Microraptor is currently in taxonomic limbo, however it’s known to be at least somewhat related to the dromaeosaurs, or “raptors” (YES, they were also covered in feathers and even had arm wings!). It and Velociraptor are sorta very distant cousins

Also, microraptor is 2’6” long including the tail, and 4” thick at its thickest point (YES, I MEASURED IT). Teeny tiny, I love this guy so muchhh

As for some others, here’s a few cool little guys!

This is Yi-Qi, an absolute weirdo of a little guy who is just wonderful to me. They’re a dinosaur that lived in the Jurassic, roughly 159mya. They’re perfect, no notes

This is archaeopteryx! A sort of transitional form for early birds, this guy lived in the Jurassic, a whole 160 million years ago. The feather impressions shown on Microraptor are less prominent here, but are still noticeable if you know what to look for! This guy is not a true bird, but was a big first step in the evolution of flight feathers and the bird body plan :D

Yes, I will infodump about prehistoric animals at any given opportunity, if you want anything else just ask I reached the image limit :(

I’ll just… leave this here I guess?

#I don’t know what brought this on but that’s a lot of pretty Dino’s #so… slay #the first one is gorgeous #ghost talks

[cheapsweets]

The Recondite Haesorog

My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge from @maniculum

Now, I actually have a suspicion what this creature might be - I wasn't deliberately trying to work it out, but when I was throwing around concepts for the drawing, something clicked... If it is what I think it is, it's at the same time a really cool description, with some bits which are wildly out... I didn't pursue that particular line of thinking with my piece this week, but I'm going to be interested to see what this one turns out to be :D

Jinhao shark fountain pen with a fine, hooded nib, with Monteverde Raven Noir ink, over initial pencil sketch. I'm going to do some experimenting with the brush pen and the fude-nib in future pictures again; I appreciate the consistency of the lines that this pen is giving me, but I suspect those other pens would give a little more character to the lines.

As an aside, I'd genuinely encourage anyone looking at these challenges to give it a try; its given me a bit of focus to get back into something I used to enjoy, without too much pressure (both in terms of the time and also this mostly being about fun!)

As ever, reasoning under the cut…

"Ethiopia is the home of a creature called the Haesorog, as large as an ox, with the footprints of an ibis, branching horns, the head of a stag, the colouring of a bear and the same thick coat."

Okay! For such a short description, we've actually got a fairly good amount of detail. Of course, some of it doesn't really make sense together - bird feet with horns and a bear's thick coat? What could be going on here?

I figured that, rather than trying to work out something realistic, I'd actually treat the description at face value as much as possible. As such, we have an ox-sized, deer-headed creature with long, bird legs and feet, covered in shaggy hair! I actually tried to put a bit of deer anatomy into the legs, but they were primarily referenced from ibis photos - I'd set myself on that particular pose, but it was impossible to find a front-facing picture of an ibis with its leg raised (not perfect, but turned out better than I was fearing!)

The horns gave me cause for thought - horns don't tend to branch, but they're very distinct from antlers (antlers being bone, and shed yearly, while horns are covered in a keratin sheath which is not generally shed). In the end, and given the description of it having a deer's head, I went with antlers, specifically taking inspiration from the wapiti (American/Asian elk) and red deer for the grand, branching antlers rather than palmate antlers of the fallow deer I'm most familiar with. I did give them a little texture, as a nod to the horn though.

Charles Knight's Animal drawing was really useful here - the short essays in that book made me consider more carefully some aspects that I wouldn't have just looking at the drawings, including things like ear position, and the general vibe of the animals I was referencing.

Still experimenting with plants and trees for the background - some came out better than others, but I've learned a few more things from this about what does and doesn't work well!

I'm now kinda wishing I'd drawn a fuzzy horned dinosaur for this, but I'm still happy with the directionI went 😅🦖

"It is said that the Haesorog changes its appearance when it is afraid and, when it hides itself, takes on the likeness of whatever is near — a white stone or a green bush or whatever other shape it prefers."

Well, this is cool; an ox-sized animal that is also a master of disguise. You can see my nod to this in the background where a hunting party (plus dog) are walking straight past a Haesorog disguised as a tree...

I did a little look into medieval costume (and dog breeds) from Ethiopia; I know that this is a bit of a catchall term for Sub-Saharan Africa, but it gave me a place to start. Turns out that the figures were too tiny to put in any detail of the clothing (or to make the Ethiopian Highland Dog) distinct, but the history there is fascinating (including Ethiopian delegates to Florence in 1441 being frustrated about the Europeans constantly referring to their kind as 'Prester John' 😆

This seeming magical power of disguise also gave me a couple of extra influences in the style - the forest god from Princess Mononoke, and the goats from that film and from the Nausicaä manga. Not sure how much it came across!

#Haesorog #maniculum bestiaryposting #bestiaryposting #my art