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I need a second question mark.
"Do you want A or B?"
If I say it rising, it's open to a possible C
If I say it falling, it's implying they are the only options
scifi concept I haven't seen and don't plan on using Space ships repurposed as land ships People putting wheels on the habitable sections of space ships to make mobile homes.
Maybe some salvaged old world tech. Maybe it's stolen by rebels.
Jokes on us. This is Why the Tarakonan show up
I need a memeologist to explain to me how 2004 spit out two different movies with the "one weakness. Bullets" joke
Common Dinosaur Mistakes
- you know the "bunny hands" pose everyone does to indicate t. rex? with the hands folded down, palms facing the chest? yeah. almost no dinosaurs could do that. it would break their wrists. only one unique group evolved to do that, which doesn't include any of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs. the term for this is "pronation" and actually the vast majority of land vertebrates can't do it. mammals can. mammals are weird.
- not a single dinosaur has claws on their fourth or fifth fingers. not a single one. not even if they're quadrupedal.
- most dinosaurs have very stiff tails and can't wiggle them around like a lizard tail. the tails were stiff for balance.
- the "tongue flick" thing that lizards do is a lizard thing. dinosaurs wouldn't have done that. they don't do that today (birds, birds don't do that)
- "nonavian" dinosaurs with feathered wings had them like birds. they covered the hands. and attached to the hands. stop giving Velociraptor hands. it had wings. and very big ones, too, based on Zhenyuanlong.
- dinosaurs with scales don't have lizard scales. lizard scales are a derived trait found only in lizards. they had scutes similar to those of living birds, but much smaller compared to body size, and often in crazy shapes and patterns. dinosaur scales are super weird tbh
- sauropods don't have elephant feet. they handled the problem of size in a much weirder way: instead of spreading out the weight, they turned their feet into columns. like pillars. some of the biggest species didn't have any fingers, their front limbs just. end. for maximum column support.
- dinosaurs were chonky. you could not see the bones like a silhouette under the skin. some might have been skinnier and some of the features of the bones would be somewhat like with skinny bird legs, but most of the time? no. so stop making the holes in their skulls visible on the outside like damn. jurassic park/world is the biggest offender for this one.
- the whole unique feature of dinosaurs is having their legs DIRECTLY under their bodies. they do not sprawl. I can't believe I have to say that, but I do.
- hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) front feet were hooves. like, seriously, hooves. not little flippers. not three fingered hands. hooves.
I reserve the right to add more to this post as I think of things.
other people can too, but just research before you do.
Megaraptors! Or at least, Australovenator could pronate a bit. probably to help with grabbing prey.
I didn't say the group name because I just *know* someone would misinterpret and think that the group includes the raptors from jurassic park. when dromaeosaurs (including Velociraptor) are very far removed from megaraptors.
Wouldn't "megaraptoran" be the proper term for a member of Megaraptora? Or "megaraptorid" if you're just referring to the family Megaraptoridae? That would be less easy to conflate with "raptor" as a generic term than calling them "megaraptors"
Tbf, there is no official term, but even then people will still see “raptor” and “mega” and go “oh Jurassic park”
I think the only part of this set I still have is the little thing that goes on her hair. Wonder if I can find the binoculars.... I know I had those for a long time too....
Prehistoric Planet 2 screenshots + a Guy for scale
(sizes roughly approximated using skeletal diagrams)
The ludo narrative in Unpacking is so good I was really looking forward to it getting to elderly ages and I was very sad that it cut off before then
I don't know who needs to hear this but
You aren't supposed to cross your eyes to see magic eye pictures
"birds aren't dinosaurs" ❌ wrong, misinformed, way too common
"all vertebrates evolved from fish, and are therefore technically fish" ✅ mischievous, technically true if you look at it from the right angle, demonstrates how cladistics work
"whales are fish but not for the reason you might think" 😈 this is funny to me specifically
Whales technically being fish is the funniest about face evolution has given us
I dreamed I was one in a crowd of people trying to make it through a molten landscape. As we progressed, some were turned into fiery beasts and tried to stop the ones who remained, burning themselves into nothing in their efforts. When we reached the top of a red hot cliff, there was a dragon waiting. He breathed a stream of fire that only stopped when he had exhausted his flame and he shriveled into a mummified husk of a man. A woman stopped to cradle his head in her lap and cry. I alone pass the two before passing a final red wall of heated rock and find a path of ash and coal dust. The swirling patterns don't create any hard outlines but I can make out the forms of trees and a cottage. It is calm and beautiful but still and unchanging.
I dislike that anthro snakes almost always have arms
I have tried drawing Moipa in clothes at least once!
The Moipa equivalent to a phone is their compy. They maintain a forcefield when in crowded or inhospitable environments. This one also carries around a pet fish~
Plips aren't afraid of Moipa~ And Moipa often think plips are cute~
I'm glad it aligns with the rest of my world building for Moipa and Tarakonan to not care about clothes. Because I'm bad at clothes orz
Plips are native to some regions of the Moipa home world~
I haven't decided what about them is poisonous to humans but Do Not Eat them!