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drferox answered:
I adore my stegosaurs, but I also have a soft spot for little protoceratops. They’re just friend-shaped.
I loved Bix the ambassador in Dinotopia. She’s definitely friend-shaped.
Anonymous asked:
drferox answered:
I adore my stegosaurs, but I also have a soft spot for little protoceratops. They’re just friend-shaped.
I loved Bix the ambassador in Dinotopia. She’s definitely friend-shaped.
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#dinosaurs #protoceratops #dinotopia #friend-shaped #book recsDinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurus who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. The first book has “appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies.”Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and Dinotopia: The World Beneath both won Hugo awards for best original artwork.
God these images still send this ENTIRE thrill through me. They just evoke that feeling of being a child with a book too large for you, staying for so long on a single picture that you feel like you could turn around in it.
Gurney consistently produces a world that feels completely reasonable and real. The color, the light, the relationships between fore- and background,
the fact that it seems like a real world, where people are engaging in perfectly reasonable cultural activities…
The natural gestures, implying the personalities and relationships of characters in a single image…
And it’s quite creative. I mean, look at this pair of bagel sellers. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO SELL BAGELS?
I feel like there is so much to learn from the way Gurney does his work - his blog is here http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com
I will love Dinotopia forever and ever. And that book looks great.
Motto:
Everything is friend-shaped if you’re a determined enough friend.
what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them?
Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too
look at this shit
They radiate peace
capybaras are friend shaped
I love this post
This is actually a cool thing I know about!
In the wild capybaras live in large groups so naturally a female capybara will take care of not only her own offspring, but all of the other offspring in the group. So capybaras are super great mothers who will adopt pretty much anything and take care of it.
Lots of places that rescue different animals will give a group of baby animals to a capybara to raise if they have one.
Like puppies
Ducks
Deer
Emus
They are just super calm animals so they’re naturally great at mothering or just existing in a group!
mom shaped
Humans are the capybaras of the galaxy, and you cannot tell me otherwise.
“She’ll want to pet it,” said a smug voice from the next room. “Humans will pet anything.”
“Even spiky things?” asked the skeptical voice that I recognized as Zhee. “I’ve never had a human want to pet me, and this thing is much worse.”
As curious as I was to see our newest cargo and judge for myself, I first had to finish setting out food for the animals in the next bay. I lugged in bags of dried pellets and fish jerky as the door slid shut behind me, cutting off the sound of Zhee insisting to the delivery person that there was no way under several suns that I would want to touch this new mystery animal. We’d see about that.
I stashed the pellets in the appropriate closet and pulled out a sheet of jerky for each of the three fangy monstrosities that twined around each other, trying to hypnotize me through the bars. I ignored the moving pattern of stripes that probably worked on prey from their world. Working quickly, I set the sheets down on the floor outside the cage, spaced as far apart as possible, then used a gravity wand to lift them through the bars without losing a finger. Left one, right, one, then the middle, to keep the beasties from all jumping on the same treat.
A chorus of happy growls and chewing noises filled the air. Success. I put away the gravity wand and reflected that I absolutely would have liked to scritch all three terrifying predators on the head, but I valued life and limb too much for that.
On to the next room! The doors opened and closed in quick succession. I passed other people loading and uploading various crates, but I only had eyes for the terrarium that looked like it was made of force fields instead of glass. Or maybe some room-temperature version of hard water, given that the person chatting with Zhee was a Waterwill. They had some pretty bizarre tech.
“Ah, here’s the human!” the Waterwill said happily, her voice burbly and vaguely female. “What do you think of your newest live cargo?” She extended what passed for an arm from her column-of-goo body. Beside her, Zhee spread purple pincher arms in a silent display of “ta-dah.”
Classwork
#oh god this kind of fantasy architecture/environment is my JAM
#dinotopia vibes…
That really is Dinotopia vibes! If the story took place at Cliff Palace instead of a secret island! (People know about Cliff Palace, right? If not: here’s your cool thing of the day. I visited as a kid, and it’s amazing.)
I love how bright and colorful and HOPEFUL this picture is. Cliff Palace as it could have been.
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drferox answered:
I would most definitely take a job at Jurassic Park, IF I got to make recommendations that would be actually listened to and wouldn’t be fired for swearing. The job of a veterinarian should not be to do what you are told by your employer, it should be to solve problems and advocate for the welfare of the animals in your care.
(Image reads: #there would be fewer catastrophes #and boring movies #but I’m here for this)
Oh no no, we could have the best movie ever.
We just need a really good, enthusiastic, Steve Irwin type character who just thinks these dinosaurs are wonderful, let him do whatever he wants, and make Ian Malcom follow him around.
Steve: This is a T Rex.
Steve: She’s a beauty.
Steve: I’m going to wrestle her.
Ian: I, uh, must politely protest.
Idea for an eventual story: there was a pre-human society that we haven’t found a record of yet, and the crater from The Huge Dinosaur-Killing Comet is actually the launch site of the spaceship that they used to leave Earth.
Atlantis was made by the few of them who got left behind accidentally, though they were rescued later. That’s why the city sank; they didn’t need it anymore.
Eventually humans will meet a spacefaring race, and be verrry surprised to find intelligent velociraptors or the like, instead of Little Green Men.
Someday I will write this, and it will be great. (If someone wants to beat me to it, feel free!)
OMG it’s Sting from this post: