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One of my favorite moments in Rossi's "L'Odissea" (1968) was this tender scene between Telemachus (Renaud Verley) and Penelope (Irene Papas)

Telemachus comes back from his trip and goes to have a bath and when he comes out of the bath he goes and places his head on Penelope's lap and we have the most tender scene between mother and son with Penelope tending to her son and Telemachus asking her information on how his father was.

I definitely would say @yararts should make an image of one or our beloved mother characters like that! 👍 with her son! ❤️

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is this a ssafe space to say sometimes i see crickets and spiders at the corner of my vision

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ughhh

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kinda thought you were gearing up to send me a dick pic but sure man

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i donr wanna do digital art anymore i hate adobe fresco i want them to open up my sketchbook after i die and assume i went mad from mercury poisoning .like the good old days

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my guys 8bit style horror game era

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saint kristen applebees

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low quality ahh odysseus

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My favorite detail about Jurassic Park is that it has a baked-in justification for any and all retcons it might need to make due to paleontology advancing forwards.

Because there is not a single dinosaur that has ever appeared in Jurassic Park.

Not one. Not in the books. Not in the movies. Not ever.

"Now what John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park was to create genetically engineered theme park monsters." ~Alan Grant

Grant says that in a moment of cynicism. It's part of his arc for the film. But it's not inaccurate. What Jurassic Park has, what it's always had since the very first novel, are "Mostly Dinosaurs".

"And since the DNA is so old, it's full of holes! Now, that's where our geneticists take over!" ~Mr. DNA

It's impossible to recover a fully intact gene sequence from an ancient amber mosquito. Cloning a pure dinosaur would have been completely impossible, and so the park filled in the gene sequence with whatever works. Frog. Lizard. Bird. Whatever they need to get the result they are trying to get.

Every single dinosaur is a chimeric beast made up of mostly dinosaur and a bunch of other stuff that some scientists thought would achieve the appropriate dinosaur-like result.

"Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different." ~Dr. Henry Wu

Which, from a writing perspective, is fucking genius. Because now you have a preset excuse for each and every plot hole your movie has.

Like. Why don't the raptors have feathers? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why do dilophosaurs spit venom? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why do T-Rexes have movement based vision? Oh, they don't. But Rexy does. Because of her chimera DNA.

Why is the Spinosaurus so fucking big? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why are the velociraptors mislabeled? Because Hammond's a dipshit.

Like. I've always marveled at the way Jurassic Park started out by giving itself a blanket excuse to be wrong about every single thing it ever said about the central attraction of its franchise. It's honestly beautiful, and allows the series a degree of immortality well into the era where we know better about its animals.

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who is this guy

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hector and paris i never posted

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Gaiasia, a massive recently described stem-tetrapod from the Early Permian.

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If you're into selfcest go fuck yourself.

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Me and @miss-mcshapey were tweaking a bit over this one screenshot of Paris and Hector from Troy (2004) so I wanted to redraw it with my designs!

(Also assumed they were younger in this so welcome back your hairline boys)

og screenshot undercut

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Gannicus & Amicus (& Lentulus lmao rest in pieces) during the gladiator jailbreak in Capua, 73 BCE :)

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discostyle penelope portrait