#Dinosaurs on the Brain

[creaturesfromelsewhere]

My Poor Brain

Here's a little window into how my poor brain works. I'm at Publix in the produce section, thinking, "Must get bananas," when out of the corner of my eye I see this mural

and a part of my brain thinks, "Oh how nice, they've hung a saurapod mural in Publix." Then I furrow my brow for a moment as the rest of my brain chimes in with, "Wait, Publix did what now?" So I fully turn to look at the mural and see it isn't in fact a saurapod mural in the produce section - because why would anyone do that - and it is instead a mural of 3 green peppers with long stems. Which makes sense as this is the produce section & not the dino-meat section.

Fortunately, my poor brain was rewarded with what it was clearly craving just a few aisles over when I found this

which was precisely what I though I'd seen in mural form a couple sections over. So with this image in hand, we can finally see what my poor brain thought it saw in the produce section.

And there you go.

There is a part of my brain that thinks, "Perhaps the world would be a better place if there really were saurapod murals in the produce sections of grocery stores," and you know, it certainly couldn't be any worse.

But then everything suddenly made sense once I realized that I'd forgotten to fed my alligator this morning & this was my brain's way of trying to remind me that my pet dinosaur, Buttercup, must be fed.

You can just imagine my relief once I understood that my brain's odd actions made sense after all. For a moment there, I thought I'd gone quite mad. ;-)

creaturesfromelsewhere 4-16-2025

[saint-nevermore]

this jurassic park thing is pretty easy idk why that other place flopped

[dysfunctional-doodle]

Someone let Donatello sleep before he tries to eat uranium, please.

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Based on an anon ask way back about how 2003 Donny will just sleepily hand out dinosaur plushies to anyone close by if he gets too sleep deprived which I love the idea of. It’s cannon now.

[millidew]

i think he deserves the therapy dinosaur

ft. lyra’s own ominous ass chikorita

[vaguely-concerned]

It’s really too bad that the stiff kind of awkward ending point of it being held so long kind of distracts from the effect of Lucanis walking over to Rook at the end of the second café romance scene*, because the symmetry of how it fits into the pattern of his other scenes is really beautiful to me. 

In all three main-ish romance scenes for Lucanis — pantry near-kiss experience, café scene post loyalty mission, and post-Tearstone/breaking Rook out from Fade jail — we get Lucanis crossing a floor to go to Rook. Not only is it a mirror to Rook in Inner Demons walking and walking and walking undauntedly towards Lucanis until they find him when he is lost and stuck in his own mind, but it’s also sooo… do you understand how important it is that every time, it’s Lucanis, however stumblingly and uncertainly from how unpracticed he is at it, seeking out something he really wants, actively, from a place of desire, not fear. Not because it’s something that has been asked of him (Rook in fact looks quite sweetly surprised in the café scene especially haha), but because it’s something he longs for. Are we all on the same page about what a massive thing that is for him. That in every state he’s in through those three scenes — the helpless vulnerability, existential confusion, hope and despair of the pantry scene, the relief and refound sense of equilibrium and inner coherence of the café scene, and at long last the certainty and tenderness and unafraid devotion of the main romance scene where he is finally able to return the comfort and steadiness Rook has been giving to him the whole game when they are the one who needs it — the one thing that stays consistent through all of it is him seeking to be close to Rook. He wants!!! The wordless but consistent way it shows you how he wants to be with them in such a physical, literal way, even when his shattered state of mind (and nervous system :’) ) makes him flinch back from it in overwhelm at times because in that place everything, even joy, feels like pain. And Rook is so kind in how they wait for him that way without asking anything of him he is not able to give. They’re really just happy to, as it were, hang out with him and his imaginary friend exactly as they are, with no transactions, expectations, debts or contracts to dictate that relationship.

(Which is probably why it’s such a potent counterweight to his relationship to Caterina, based so much in what he can do for her, in how her love is contingent on his performing her perfect poor little golden child boy who doesn’t want anything for himself and gives himself over freely as a weapon for her to use. Who rises to her expectations even when it breaks him to do so. Rook could and would never, rip to Caterina but Varric’s poor little meow meow is just built different) 

There’s so MUCH beautiful symmetry all over the place in this pairing, honestly!! Some of which will only be clear on a second playthrough in some *chef's kiss* ways. Rook seeing dead Lucanis and Varric overlapping before Solas slam dunks them into hell as a sort of insult on top of the injury of bereavement (solas I love you but I’ll never forgive that one that was fucking MEAN). Rook starts the game helping break Lucanis out of a terrible prison, he helps them break out of one at the end. They’ve both had their souls and minds meddled with through blood magic and still find each other, through everything they can’t remember and everything they can’t forget. They’ve been walking together and walking towards each other patiently the whole game step by stubborn baby step, and finally reach each other by the end and it’s so good and quiet and safe, such a deep relief to find yourself still yourself at the end of all that violence and invasion, and to have the further and greater miracle of having somehow found each other as well. 'and with you. but here we are'. and here is finally, finally a good place to be. because you are here with me.

Hhhhhhhhow does it not make you feel crazy to think about????!!!! I’m sorry if I sound unhinged here but it really does make me feel like a feverishly muttering Bloodborne character whose head is about to explode into something celestial and unfortunate

*Though if you want to see a place where the animation budget seemingly similarly abruptly ran dry, and in my opinion an even more egregious case, look at Taash’ romance scene after we find out what the old Qunari tablet says, where Rook wordlessly leans into them as a gesture of support and it’s really sweet in theory, but the way it’s animated looks. Real odd for a moment. Listen the animators on this game have pulled such fucking heroic feats again and again and I will not hear a single bad word against them, these weird beats are clearly a case of resources or time running out rather than incompetence or lack of care. I only wish they’d been given what they needed to finish the polish on some of these last awkward spots.

[warmfuzzyanimal]

cowasaurolophus

[keydekyie]

"Sir, we've got a magnitude 6 distraction event incoming."

"How much time to we have?"

"Disengagement is immanent, sir. Impact in less than 10 seconds."

"Good God, the task will never be completed in time. Contact executive function and have-"

"Sir, there's been a stimulation breach! Dopamine levels are skyrocketing!"

"What?! Sound the alarm! All hands to stations! Quick, shut down the prefontal cortex before it's too late!"

"It's not working! Hyperfixation commencing! We've lost all control of focus and attention!"

"Nooo!!! And we were so close to finally finishing the laundry!!!"

[deafening-radio-silence]

True story.

(Some leftover ideas I had when I drew this one lol.)

Bonus:

[dinosaurwithablog]

I really like painting with watercolors!! Can ya tell? 😉😁🤣 I decided to try to paint flowers. Do you know what kind of flower I tried to paint? I hope so, but I'm not sure if you can tell or not. At least, they look like flowers!! 😁I like the bottom one a lot. I think I'm gonna focus on flowers for a while. I like to play with the paint and the shapes. Watercolors are so much fun!!!

[psie-smutki]

This baby I met today lives rent free in my head

[blondebrainpowered]

The Far Side

By Gary Larson

[fangirl-nadir]

I was talking about pop culture dinosaurs vs scientifically accurate dinosaurs, only my brain glitched and I ended up saying "biblically accurate dinosaurs" instead

[dani-m-art]

Been working on some paleoart between commission work since I leave for SVP in 2 weeks and dinosaurs are understandably on the brain

Here's a Riparovenator hunting, inkwash and inkpen on a sketchbook that's probably meant for neither lol

[monarchbutt]

this chart somehow convinced me for like a solid minute that the phanerozoic was the length of 5 precambrians. it looks so big :(

[awesomebutunpractical]

I changed my mind. No adorable cat for the Straw Hats. They are getting the World's Worst Raptor instead.

[ladiesman217paleo]

CONCAVENATOR CORCOVATUS

Concavenator Corcovatus, translating from the Greek words Conca, aka Cuenca the area it would have inhabited in Spain close to the capital Madrid, venator (-hunter) and Corcovatus (-hunchback) roughly translating into “The hunchback hunter of Cuenca” named and described relatively new in 2010 with a nearly complete fossil from the Las Hoyas fossil site of the La Huérguina Formation.

What made it unique were the unique crest formations on its back. Unlike a Spinosaurus sail (or any other dinosaur with a sail) the vertebrae didn’t gradually ascend and descend and instead were two suddenly crests forming on its back. Possibly for thermo-regulation or a mating display or maybe even fat storage similar to camels, it was probably multi-functional as most of the time when animals have outward structures they serve more than a single purpose. One of my favorite depicted by a Mark Witton paleoart is that the hump structure helped them blend in with their environment or that it could have helped identification between individuals. It’s sort of a mystery, all we know is that it had two very tall vertabrae on its back.

But the crests on its back aren’t the only reason it’s cool (aside from the fact it’s a dinosaur making it automatically cool). On the fossil from 2010 the fore limbs had bumps which were possibly quill knob’s, meaning it possibly had feathers or could have at least been partially covered in feathers.

Scientific Classification//

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Clade: Dinosauria

Clade: Saurischia

Clade: Theropoda

Clade: Charcharadontosauria

Genus: Concavenator

Species: Concavenator Corcovatus

Anyways it’s my first time writing something like this and definitely my first time sharing it I’m kinda stressed it’s not good enough so TvT. Anyways if anyone wants to correct me or tell me more about the Concavenator please don’t feel free to do so I’d absolutely love to learn more about this incredible dinosaur.