#technically dinosaur

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

I wish there were more gay couples in kids media. Watch The Dragon Prince.

I wish there were more trans characters in kids media. Watch The Dragon Prince.

I wish there were more disabled characters in kids media. Watch The Dragon Prince.

I wish there were more kids shows that dealt with heavy topics. Watch The Dragon Prince.

I wish there were more serialized animated shows. Watch The Dragon Prince.

I wish there were more young adult-esque shows. Watch The Dragon Prince.

I wish there were more kids shows that take their audience seriously. Watch The Dragon Prince.

[qwantzfeed]

PLUS i ALSO forgot how I needed to observe outside the universe to have an objective point of reference for movement of the universe itself!  FRIGS!!  AND DANGS

[omg-snakes]

With my ongoing promise to share other pet photos rarely and randomly, here's my little-big finch, David. He is a diamond firetail, Stagonopleura guttata. David likes things that are light-colored (cotton, white feathers) and also things that are long (grass, my hair) so a paper towel cut into thin strips was the best of both worlds. He is very, very smart. He understands some human words (you're okay, water, seeds) and he will play with my hair if I stay very still. He has a flock call that sounds so sad and plaintive but he only uses it on me because I am his food-giver. His song is a rattling raspy buzz and is accompanied by a bobbing dance while holding something long. He has an arranged marriage to Alice, another of his species. They have different interests but they mostly get along okay. They cooperate on foraging enrichment and they share a nest for sleeping. I think David might be a human imprint.

Birds aren't snakes but they are dinosaurs so, like, close enough.

[afterartist]

So anyways

I like dinosaurs

Dilophosaurus my beloved <3<3

I’d like to say I’ve improved since 2020 but idk bro, this old image is fire 😎🙏🙏✌️😘 (SARCASM HEAVY SARCASM NOTHING BUT SARCASM)

[velvetwyrme]

Importante Lore question about the crotch rust comic.

We know Megs had it and I wanna say he was probably the one that spread it to the Petrol pump too infecting poor prowl and the twins

BUT…………,,….. how did Megatron basically get the robo clap/rhea/ lower herp.

Is he the true patient zero or are they still out there.

i'll answer that in a second but hey. i think we should give Megatron the benefit of the doubt here. there are PLENTY other Decepticons (and Autobots, probably) that have STIs...

that being said, Megatron giving a fuel pump an STI is an INCREDIBLY funny image because in many continuities he doesn't turn into something that would fuel up at a gas station, which means one of the following presumably happened:

a) he goes and fuels in bot mode. inherently hilarious and terrifying.

b) a fucking tank rolls up to a petrol station.

c) a jet/stealth bomber rolls up to a petrol station?????

d) gun.

anyway. that aside, ive reviewed the available data and i think patient zero was Shockwave.

i reckon he was keeping a strain of it for testing and it got loose one day when Frenzy/Rumble were poking around his lab and they knocked something over.

i mean... either that or.....

................................ i meant to write injection oh ymgod

[sombertide-0]

day 4, argentavis!

[albino-parakeet]

"The Towering Guard"

I know it’s not possible because the Spinoceratops hybrid is made for colder climates. But the idea of Sammy and Yaz keeping Angel and Rebel similar to farmers using donkeys to protect livestock, wouldn’t leave my mind until I drew something for it.

(little practice sketches)

Yes I gave them a more accurate sail and kind of a paddle tail. lol

[viviraptor-art]

wanted to post the ending of this vid by itself too 💕

[mammoth-clangen]

Do you have any source websites about mesozoic wildlife/ecosystems? I want to make a clangen or just comic thing about some form of dinosaur (either the microraptor, velociraptor, or kulindadromeus) and I'd like to figure out what other species were a part of their life

Nope sorry, research is rarely that easy buuuuut...

*cracks knuckles*

H'okay I have some advice but it'll probably be long and rambly.

Disclaimer:

I am a professional Nothing and am not an authority on anything. There is no right or wrong, this is just how I Personally do research.

Short answer:

Work out what geological formation(s) your chosen main-character-species is found in and Wikipedia it. (E.g. Kulindadromeus is fron the Russian Ukureyskaya Formation). Then go to Wikipedia's sources and skim at least the abstracts of scientific papers to get an idea if things.

If the Formation is lacking info, try searching the Epoch they're from. By that I mean "middle Jurassic" not just "Jurassic" 'cause each of these is already Huge, you want a decent idea of the overallworld they lived in! (Better yet, get it to stage, like Callovian or Maastrichian)

Also learn to draw ferns, lots of ferns, there's no grass in the Mesozoic so the groundcover is Weird cx

Long answer

(to be considered before even getting to the above step):

When choosing a setting for a story, particularly a paleo one, I find it useful to decide on what kind of story I want to tell first, then pick a species that compliments that.

A clangen, for example, relies heavily on the species being very social (such as herding hadrosaurs or sauropods). Telling a story about a lone traveller might be better with a large pterosaur or wandering ceratopsian. A story about warring factions would be better set a high competition environment like the Kem Kem or Morison, with several fighting predator guilds. Conversely a story about working through personal differences may be better with different species of herbivores living in symbiosis; hadrosaurs and ornithomimids acting like modern gazelles and zebras.

Etc etc

Choosing a species first is fine, but you'll likely have to work the story around what makes sense within that! Otherwise you end up with the aforementioned social tigers and patriarchal hyenas.

Also don't shrink-wrap your dinosaurs im begging on my hands and knees

tl;dr: research everything, choosing a species before a story is climbing ass-first up a tree, Wikipedia is your friend because they compile and summarise primary sources

[brokenolivejar]

Hi it was my birthday like 2 days ago lmao have some uh doodles ig

[martinblackwoodofficial]

Now that we're talking about teaaa, .. sweet, hibiscus mango, with oatmilk, yes or no?

—The Magnus worker. 👁 @eryntheartifact

You don't add milk to herbal tea?? No. Why would you even ask that? No??

[rabbiscuit]

I LOVE DRAWING ON STRAWPAGE!!!

[qwantzfeed]

yes hello where is this end of history i was promised

[raptorregalia]

Nomen oblitum posting

[blorbohoarder]

wait guys look at this headcanon of mine

he gets too excited at times and then speaks too fast and stutters on every word

[mecha--maniac]

Tumblrs gonna make this super crunchy, innit? Click if so; or not it's just a wip

Anyway do you see my vision?

Bonus I'm assigning Metal a dinosona of Micro 'Literal Actual Dragon' Raptor cause he deserves to be a total diva freak