#dinosaur headworld

[papermonkeyism]

I had an unexpected experience of someone recognizing me in a bus yesterday on my way back from the annual cottage "road trip" adventure! There hasn't been many cases of me being recognized out in the wild, at least outside of conventions.

The person mentioned specially liking my dinosaur stuff, so here, have a quick sketch of a dinosaury kind! Spot the dinosaur cat playing in Dancing Shade's tail mane. He might need some rescuing soon-ish.

[kettle-bird]

Late night in Downtown Mesozopolis

Commissions | Ko-Fi

[junuve]

i bring a sort of "treat the characters like they're already public domain" energy to modern fandoms that other fans don't like

[kc-rising]

WORLDBUILDING WEDNESDAY!

Ask me about my dragons or my FR headworld!

Anyone in my active lair is fair game! Below is a directory of my different lore groups and their associated lair tabs/pages:

🔴The Sanctum of Outcasts (Main)

- Bonewardens

- The Swarm

- The Bazaar

- The Black Market

🌿The Bog

⚙️Neon Alley

- The Neon Fangs Mafia

- Coglight City Locals

- Those Who Devour the Moon Cult

⏳Sand Nomads

🌒Crypt Keepers (Monsters)

🌊High Seas

- Crew of the Ashspine Widow

- Sea Monsters and Cryptids

🦖Timeworn Isle (Dinosaurs)

- Front Desk/Education Center/Lab

- Raptor Paddock

EDIT:

You can ask me questions even if it's not wednesday!

[dracononite]

7, 19, and 22 for the ask game !!

sorry this is a long one

7. What are your favourite relationships between your OCs? (romantic or platonic!)

oh I love this question. I'll focus just on my main headworld Sparrowmage for this one since character relationships are the main focus of the story.

Ryuuji and Haru. there's a secret third character in this relationship, Jun'ichi, belonging to my girlfriend - the three end up in a polyamorous relationship (all dating each other) and Ryuuji is such a big gentle giant for Haru and she kinda teases him for it LOL. there's a lot of intricacy to the story outside of just their dating, but like. bisexual queen pulling two literal spirit boyfriends is kinda iconic. I could talk about these three all day.

speaking of Haru, she's also besties with Juji, who's friends with Jun and Ryuuji as well. they're the type of friends to do spontaneous silly things, go clothes shopping, buy snacks, talk about dramas and music, have sleepovers and do each other's nails. they are SO cute.

Benjamin and Iosefa are the two that started it all. from the beginning, Benjamin was the "main" character and Iosefa his eventual love interest. The two have a very interesting and nuanced dynamic that I'm still working out... It takes until years after they both graduate for them to get together, because Benjamin has commitment issues and Iosefa has confidence issues. But finding each other again, they both saw how much the other had grown, and the puppy love stage they were in at Sparrowmage quickly grows into an actual relationship.

I love these two wives, Olivine and Jiya. they still need a LOT of fleshing out, but already the dynamic is lovely. Olivine is a trans femme lesbian wyverntaur, and a magical beasts professor. Jiya is a butch lesbian beastfolk who also works at the same academy as a dueling instructor/referee. Olivine is like three times Jiya's size which is the cherry on top. I NEED to draw them together (and finalize Olivine's design oops..)

honorable mention: Reuben and Lucian. these two rich boys fucking haaaate each other they HATE each other. they feud at school. it's so funny.

19. What are some things that inspired your stories? Real events? Maybe a dream?

I mainly pull from various media for worldbuilding inspiration! any narratives are inspired by my life or stories I like.. in order to nail those down I'd probably have to write an essay, so here are some media inspirations:

Sparrowmage: Harry Potter (decided I'd make a magic world of my own, as I have a lot of childhood nostalgia for the first few movies, but... yeah), Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (some of the areas like the academy being on the edge of a big cliff, giant crystal caves, etc). this is the story I've most projected my life events and relationships into

Dungeon RPG (unnamed story/world, but technically an AU for my main sonas?? I guess): Dungeon Meshi, Sword Art Online (yea. I know. look the setting and aesthetics of the first season go fucking hard and that's all I care about). I wanted a classic dungeon RPG setting to make cool areas and monsters and boss battles for. and a whole class/equipment/mount/etc system. sighs dreamily. It's not started in earnest but we're getting there.

Magica Terra: definitely Avatar. the alien planet one. I wanted to create a unique combination of sapient bipedal species (some anthros like insectoids, giants, elf- and troll-like humanoids), megafauna (giant bug creatures, draconic animals, dinosaur-like animals combined with the first two, etc) and magic (the magic system for the planet is quite literally fueled by the cosmic bodies in the same solar system and in the galaxy.. which is actually Arp's Loop. so basically what time of the orbit you're born ties you to the magic of whatever cosmic body is closest / in the most power. this includes the planet's multiple moons, the solar system's sun, recurring comets, etc)

Arp's Loop: it's a space bounty adventure with eldritch horror undertones. Lilo & Stitch, Space Dandy, Interstellar and probably some Star Wars thrown in, just with the alien design though

22. What are all the “kinds” of writing/art you do? (short stories, poetry, screenplays, digital, painting, clay, etc.)

Digital art for business mostly, traditional for fun ONLY. I scrapbook, doodle, very rarely paint.. I don't do any 3d art, I don't have the finesse really. occasionally I'll write poetry on my phone. short stories and blurbs featuring my OCs. I've written chapters for single-player TTRPG challenges but I'm not good at sticking to long projects so those have all been abandoned. I've written quite a few short fanfics in my day. a mini comic here and there.... I'm good at small projects cause I like the thrill of setting up and starting new things. that's probably why I have so many headworlds at this point :')

[papermonkeyism]

Eeeeeeeeeee, I love this so much!

Pet shenanigans, a dinosaur edition! Just brilliant. Amazing. Delightful. Great job with them overall! I love how you did the floof and the lighting

Oh, shoot, I still have to finish my half of the trade!

An ACEO trade for @papermonkeyism through a trade group in dA! It's always funny to get a familiar face to be an art trade partner. :v

Dinosaur version of dog yelp will occur within a second. Bug the bird hound (Dromaeosaurus) getting a wake-up bite from Toes the "cat". How rude. Bug had a good sleep while forgetting how to anatomy like any sleepy nowadays dog.

[papermonkeyism]

You know what! Let's do a redraw of the old thing, just to see how my muscle memory on drawing the horned potatoes has stuck in the last decade and some.

The old drawing was made pretty much without proper references, just out of my head how I thought the dinosaurs looked like. So, keeping things even, I only referenced the old drawing to get the composition looking the same. Everything else here is muscle memory and my own knowledge after drawing these things for a decade.

No more swayback cows, they should be much more archosaur shaped!

[theophagyy]

Dinosaur sketch from today! Big boy goes honk

[elliejaybird]

Lightning Bird

“There are beautiful birds in the jungle, but I don’t think you want to find them.”

Choros range in size from 1.5 to 2.5 meters tall. Thunder choros are omnivores. When pursuing prey they hunt in bonded pairs.

2020 EDIT: this post is out of date and has nothing to do with my headworld anymore

[papermonkeyism]

Reblogging for gorgeous art and also look! An Einiosaurus glyph! 8D It even has tail floof!

1 commission spot left, samples above! I’ll likely finish this batch and then close.

http://ko-fi.com/monarobot/commissions

[papermonkeyism]

A little coffee shop doodle. I recently bought myself this tiny pocket notebook (like, actually pocket sized thing I can carry in a pocket), and it's bow been travelling in my pant pocket for a while now. It's fully plastic free (it has leather covers with swappable interior paper and a brass pen!)

I was "forced to" stop at a coffee shop after going to this slightly more remote mall, and my phone ran out of battery, so I just *had to* stop at this place I know has free to use plugs. And, well, I had the new notebook. Hadn't even tried out the pen before. (Deeeeefinetely not the usual ballpoint pen I usually use, this one has way more liquid ink)

Turned into a dinosaur. Been a while since Singing People!

[ez3kiell]

SPECIAL POST

Booyah! My tongue finally arrived from Poland, now I have all the parts to really get to work on K’rahmyteh! So excited 😆

The tongue looks whiteish because I immediately smothered it in talc to stop fluff sticking to the silicone.

I’m still undecided on this set of eyes as they have a slight surface imperfection. If I can polish it off the surface then they should be good to go.

[gatorbeast]

HEY HEY WHATS UP!!! you can call me gator, heres some things about me!!

🐊 16, they/he/it, silly goofy little guy

💚 INSCRYPTION, deltarune (spamton), fnaf, bugsnax, spec bio, paleontology/dinosaurs, cartoons, wof, character design, lemon demon/oingo boingo, your MOM

🐊 little dude in the gif waving is my sona randy, hes what i use to show myself, but my other main mascot guy is grimley, the protagonist of sweetbeast!! (below)

🐊 i draw my characters from a project/headworld called SWEETBEAST!! go check it out here, its about a bunch of cartoon monstery guys living in an interdimensional city its rlly fun

-> @project-sweetbeast for updates

-> https://project-sweetbeast.carrd.co for archived summary and chapter 1, general info

🦖 if you like dinosaurs PLEASE talk to me about them. please. i’m gnawing on the bars of my cage and growling if u like paleo stuff TALK to me… NOW..!!!

🐊 fyi i swear and talk in all caps a lot

🐊 go check out my spamton playlist it’s organized by what time in his life the song fits and it has little phone sound effects and stuff and it’s great

-> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7GT5xzacDuQ7sHB1dm7No5?si=Ck7hZAYMRkq6dKD8mjNboQ

🐊 dni if you hate furries (i am one lol), dream smp/mcyt fan, or a general freak (terf, proship, etc) if you are one of these and you’re still here you have Five Minutes until Beast Attack

🐊 @gatoronmain is my main and what i follow/like from, i put random things i like there sometimes but otherwise don’t use it

🐊 art tag is #gatordraws

🐊 most of my socials (yt, buzzly, artfight) are either @/GATORBEAST or @/jurassix. i’m mostly active only on here though

🐊 things i like

[papermonkeyism]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! Look how absolutely amazingly adorable this is! All of the floof and look at those dinosaur puppy eyes!

The pet dog of @papermonkeyism’s dino world! Their name is Bug :)

[papermonkeyism]

You said a while ago that the Singing People consider all bulls to be wild. How does this interact with the bull calves born to their own cows? Do these bull cows get names? If a family runs into a bull that had been born to their herd, now a grown bachelor independent of them, how do they tend to feel about it? Do grown bulls recognise their birth herd and feather-family?

(Sorry for the pile of questions, I got suddenly curious and dug around on your blog, but knowing the search function on this site I have very likely missed some stuff)

Ooh, great questions!

Many of them will end up butchered for food when they are still small hatchlings, but it's not recommended to cull all bull calves either, if you can afford to keep them, so young bulls will travel as part of the herd for up to three years before instincts, hormones and social pressure drives them to disperce on their own. The Singing People treat them very hands off kinda way, letting them mostly do whatever they want and letting nature handle itself, understanding the relationship is only temporary, but that's still a long time, and it's perfectly natural to form bonds anyway.

The Singing People geneally only name calfs they intend to keep, at least officially, so normally even female calves don't get proper names untill they're over year old. That doesn't mean that they wouldn't nickname their favourites, though a lot of the times the bull "names" end up the equivalent of "the boy", or variations of it.

Once the bulls do disperce they are considered wild and belonging to nobody, but bumping into a familiar bull during your nomadic travels is usually treated like seeing an old friend or acquaintance. It's recommended you keep distance, as wild bulls are basically ferals and can act unpredictable specially during breeding seasons. It can still be a moment of pride to see a bull you raised again, specially if it's gotten strong and successful and they might even end up travelling with you for a while again, untill leaving once more to continue their wild bull life. They often do recognize their origin herds, specially the cows they lived with, but some bulls with more personable personalities might even seek out their favourite People from growing up. (At that boint you better hope you didn't let them to climb into your lap as a hatchling...)

[elliejaybird]

Asherex (blessed king)

Human explorers bribed the asherex with food in exchange for information on their much more reclusive neighbors, the carokaro. Regular feeding at the hands of humans allowed the asherex population to increase exponentially, but left them hungrier than ever when the explorers left for home. To solve this problem, some asherex learned to hunt carokaro.

The asherex are an old creation from my alien-themed headworld. They aren’t inherently violent, but they do like food. The original asherex were heavily inspired by the toruk from Avatar, as well as my love of dinosaurs. I’ll have to dig up my old drawings sometime... Other than the asherex and the bird-like carokaro, this world was home to intelligent flora of dubious intentions, and small, colorful, human-hating four-armed raptors. I guess most of my aliens just look like messed up dinosaurs... I’m probably not going to change that.