So, I'm writing a book. It's about my very own special brand of dragons and the world they inhabit. I started writing it in December I think, and as of today (April 10) it has six chapters and over 21k words. This is the longest thing I've ever written, and the first book I intend to finish. I'm not entirely sure how to write a book, but I'm learning. Some things this book has in it right now: Queer characters, polyamory, violence, and found family. Oh and of course dragons that I've been creating for about a decade. The dragons I post art of here occasionally. I think what I'll post about it here will be character stuff and little updates, ie chapter progress and word count goals. Or this may be the last Tumblr hears about it. I don't know. Have a pair of the mains napping, as a treat
okay but this is a power move above any other
It gets even better, because he was doing all of this on a pitch black night. This dude swam towards a lure, slapped at it with his glove, and when it got caught; he let himself float and tugged on the line so the fisherman thought he had hooked a 100+ pound salmon. Once he was finally up to the shore, he turned a flashlight on in the guy’s face and walked out of the water, saying “good morning, gentlemen. State fish and game warden, you’re under arrest.“
At this point, the guy who had reeled him in had literally fallen over in shock, and the other people with him were scared shitless. The warden whipped some citations out of a plastic bag in his wetsuit, made the trespassers sign them, asked if they had any questions, and then gathered all of their fishing gear. And he just. Walked back into the river. And quietly swam away, without another word.
This man is a legend.
warden coming out of his river to shame fishermankind
I need to draw men being obnoxious to their partners and getting In The Way right now immediately.
it is it's nature to Be In The Way.
Just... Pick them up??? Grab a blanket, wrap 'em up, then move them out of the way.
the consequences of doing that:
just needed to make a conclusion to this
Awww
been thinking a lot about anticipatory grief lately. i love you so much that i know losing you will devastate me. i haven't lost you yet but i already miss you. we still have time, but it won't be enough. i think about what i would say at your funeral, and say some of it to you now cause i need you to know how loved you are before you go. you will go where i cannot follow, but you will never really leave me. it won't make it hurt less but it is a part of healing somehow.
Here you go gang: three papers on how dinosaurs went through "babyification" to become Bird
Another #paleostream sketch
Homotherium, struggling to stay on a branch after something spooked it.
Let Tumblr crowdsource dinosaur names!
As discussed by @a-dinosaur-a-day, several dinosaur groups have common names along with their scientific names, but there is no easily accessible place where they are compiled. And, most importantly - most dinosaurs don't have any yet!
That is why I'm launching a dinosaur name crowdsourcing. Reblog this post with common names for dinosaurs - either already existing ones, or ones you think would fit - and they will be added to the table!
There needs to be a third arm for "'baby' is used colloquially to refer to adult animals that are very cute, like birds"
IS THAT WHY THEY LOOK LIKE THAT
It is indeed!
Reminder that you should not boycott anything unless the unions call for it.
You can support the strike and still watch the Barbie movie, FNAF movie, Oppenheimer, and basically any other movie or tv show that comes out this year.
Also, not only can you watch these, you should watch any movie you want that comes out. Companies have admitted to waiting out the strike to let them starve.
Show Hollywood that they need the WGA. Show Hollywood that the efforts of WGA are indispensable.
Also, if you do want to help the WGA continue striking, you can donate to them and help them stay housed and fed.
Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.
If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.
The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.
When we come for the wasps you will not be spared
stop being a pussy and learn to appreciate the animals that operate to make your local ecosystem functional and flourishing
Teachers when a child shows a single ounce of individuality or creativity:
imagine if doorways grew back like scabbed over with fresh drywall and you had to keep carving them back out with a jabsaw to keep the doorway clear etc
Imagine if the membranes recoiled in pain every time you did this. Imagine if over time, some doorways became accustomed sensation. Imagine that very rarely, some even seemed to enjoy it.
*sleepover host voice* imagine if you two went to sleep
Oh for gods sake kids it’s like piercing an ear - that’s why you put a doorframe in - you don’t hang a door in drywall, you gremlins. You frame the door. It’s like those gauges that people put in their ears - the hole stays. It won’t scab over with a doorframe in it. You’ve lived around doors you whole life, you little clowns. Lights out
One of my first pieces of paleoart, but still one of my favorites: Styracosaurus albertensis.
If you write down the results and properly format the paper, it even counts as science!
When I was in college, there was a solid year where our lgbt group did this with two bathrooms at the end of a hall that were used by like, maybe 20 people. They would put up gendered signs and we kept stealing them. And then we started writing random things on the walls INCLUDING full word for word copies of personal ads from the back of 1980′s advocate magazines.
It got to the point where the building management was on a hunt trying to find who was doing this and we had to start hiding our faces so as to not get caught on the security cameras. Our faculty advisor came down to the office one day and was like “do you guys know anything about this” essentially as we’re trying to close a comically full drawer of stolen bathroom signs, and we’re like “no” and they were like “great.”
They never caught us.
joy is found in the explosive laughter that occurs seconds after Justin McElroy processes the Absolute Bullshit that just came out of one of his brothers’ mouths
and then, while still laughing, he says something like “you dumb motherfucker” and then keeps laughing
A PRIME example ty @lumosflies
Thrilled to share the version animated by @everydaylouie
Man. Sometimes you just feel your brain resonate like a tuning fork. Like I definitely wanna talk Making Weird Things with that guy.
The end is what got me
Hah! It's Irish Mike again...