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Calappa lophos

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Name: Dilophosaurus wetherilli

Debut: Real Life, Circa The Early Jurassic (roughly 280 million years ago)

Hi I'm gonna talk about my favorite dinosaur now and you're gonna like it! Or maybe you won't, I don't know you! But y'know what I do know? Dilophosaurus!!! It's my best friend. They named it after the fact that it's got two (di) crests (lopho) on its head and also it's a reptile (saurus). A big reptile at that! In fact, it was the largest known animal of its time to walk the land in North America, and was almost certainly the apex predator of its environment, the Kayenta Formation (located across several of what are now the South-Western United States).

As you can see, this size chart demonstrates that the largest specimen discovered was about 7 meters (23 feet) long; no Tyrannosaurus rex, mind you, but still far larger than... some popular depictions might lead you to believe.

Also contrary to what some popular depictions might lead you to believe, Dilophosaurus would not have required the use of various biological mechanisms such as, for instance, retractable neck frills or venom-spitting to take down its prey; mechanisms which, mind you, are exclusively seen in animals as methods of self-defense, and would therefore only serve to scare away potential prey items.

Speaking of prey items, this stunning piece by Chase Stone depicts a pair of Dilophosaurus as having just brought down a prosauropod (a name for early sauropod relatives). Dilophosaurus did in fact live alongside at least one prosauropod, Sarahsaurus, the Holotype specimen of which bears tooth marks very likely left by a certain two-crested culprit! On that note I want to address another prevalent misconception in regards to life reconstructions of this animal...

On the left we have a (frankly hilariously sock-puppet-like) restoration by a sadly unknown artist, and on the right is another absolutely breathtaking rendering by Chase Stone. As you can pretty clearly see, the way the crests (among other things) are restored is very different between the two! For a long time, the crests were restored as seen on the left: very thin, and with a little protrusion jutting out of the back. This is due to something called shrink-wrapping, a trend in paleoart exemplified by the omission of tissues such as muscle or fat when reconstructing the animal, leading to much of the skeleton being visible through the skin, particularly in the case of the skull.

Stone's restoration, on the other hand, wraps the skull in a much more naturalistic-looking amount of soft tissue, and completely envelops both crests in a keratinous structure, much like the casque of a cassowary or a hornbill (in fact I believe the coloration is actually referenced specifically from a knobbed hornbill's beak).

This is due to the fact that the crests were likely a kind of bony core which would have supported a larger keratinous structure as is to be expected of... sigh... horny structures such as this. Stop smiling. Don't you know there's no fun allowed when you're learning about things? That's what school taught me, anyway. Ahem. As I was saying, the original shape of the crest was extrapolated from incomplete remains, which you can see a restored illustration of above.

Also worth noting is the inclusion of a thin, fluffy covering of feathers along the head, neck, and back of Stone's restoration. This is entirely plausible, as the current consensus is that dinosaurs and their close relatives, pterosaurs, were descended from a fluffy common ancestor due to the fluffy-feathery coverings seen in both groups being found to be basically the same stuff!

I could go on about so many things, like how tremendously fucked up and addled with tumors and infections the Holotype specimen was, or how we have a trace fossil which seems to preserve a Dilophosaurus sitting down in the mud like a big dumb bird, complete with an impression of its butt, but I trust that if these things pique your interest enough, you'll seek them out on your own time. Just remember not to have fun, because as we all know, fun is the one thing learning should never be.

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The Murder Trial of Hermes

"Anticlides, following Xanthos the Lydian, describes the gods' response to the first murder performed by one of their number: "When Hermes had killed Argos, the guardian of Io, at Zeus' behest, he was brought to trial. He was arraigned by Hera and the other gods, because he was the first god ever to be stained with death. Now when the gods were holding this trial, they were afraid of Zeus, for Hermes had acted on his orders. They wanted both to remove this stain from their presence, and to acquit the god of murder: agitated as they were, they threw their voting pebbles at Hermes, so that a pile of stones grew at his feet." (FGH 765 F 29; 140 F 19; Eust. 1809.38-43. The sources note that passers-by are required to throw an additional stone on the pile). Both ancient and modern readers treat the incident as aetiological in design: it can elucidate the term Hermaios lophos, a cairn of stones dedicated to Hermes (Schol ad. Od. 16.471), or might supply a fanciful origin for the practice of voting with pebbles at trials." Stoning and Sight: A Structural Equivalence in Greek Mythology by Deborah T. Steiner

I wonder what Hera felt when she was tossing the stone (and if she was aiming at Hermes' head)

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Another FTO character I made.

Name: Ronnette; Age: 22; Height: 5'8"; Magic: healing(secondary fire); Rank: B or C.

She joined the protectors a few months before Bryan, Jakey and Kay joined, while Bri was still in charge. She joined so she could pay off her student loans for med school. She works part time for the guild for the flexible hours, and she can often be found working in the guilds med-bay. The guilds healer when LoPho is away. Is kinda aware of how the guild is slowly falling apart, but she just wants to finish the last of her schooling without being in debt. She is friends with Vinn, she's friendly with the rest of the guild but not as close to them. She doesn't have the strongest magic, but what she lacks in mana she makes up for in medical knowledge. She wears the maid outfit when working. Like Vinn she does a lot of care taking for quests. Fun fact she is anemic, which makes it hard to regulate her body temperature and made her dizzy if she moves too fast(ie. standing up). This is what leads to her wanting to learn more fire magic, she's not really efficient at it she just always cold otherwise. She also really likes to give hugs and physical contact in general (partially due to always being cold).

you have summoned my love of fire based healers kjfhsgjlfjghsg

I LOVE HER!!! gonna put her at a c rank and imagine she, like Bryan has a house on the main Atlantide island instead of living on the main island

I love her already she's awesome!!

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I was inspired by this reddit post by u/Transylianic to do this, so thanks for the inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ben10/comments/1e8yyqj/if_you_could_turn_any_incidental_alien_into_a/

I decided to make a few undertown residents into transformations. Powers aren't final so if you have any other suggestions, i'm open.

Mediogre is a Newtrocian from the metropolis planet of 1-ZUK. Newtrocians are often mistaken for deformed atrocians, which is something Ben also picked up on when naming this alien. Mediogre's body is made of a non-newtonian fluid. Meaning he's squishy & malleable most of the time, but enough pressure applied to him turns his skin rock-solid. While this does give him an excellent defense, he has little to no offense, much like an actual atrocian. his three antenna are quite sensitive. If all three are pulled at once, it leaves his body flip-flopping between hard & soft, which also causes immense pain for Mediogre.

Wayfind is a Pocharidyte from the oceanic planet of Lopho. He's a member of Rad Dudesman's species. I was looking on the wiki to see what Rad could do & found out his species have innate navigational abilities, so I took that concept & stretched it as far as I could. Wayfind's primary abillity is a low, practically untraceable, radar pulse that lets him know absolutely everything around him. This pulse is always active & is surprisingly potent, essentially turning him into a walking GPS. Alongside that, he can also glide short distances & is rather agile, but is barely above the average person strength-wise.

Thriller Whale is a Belu-Jeian from the aquatic planet of Smoov-Krimzul. Thriller Whale is covered in barnacle-like vents on his body that function almost like secondary mouths. Thriller Whale can replicate any noise he's heard before & blast it back out of his barnacles. He can do whatever he wants with the sound once he's heard it, like sentence-mix it, change the volume, change pitch, etc. This, combined with his more musical personality, allows Ben to blare out a "battle-theme" as he's fighting. Thriller Whale's attacks are always on-beat with whatever music he's playing, so as long as you can stay in-tune with him you can practically predict when he's gonna strike next.

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para lopho saurus <- definitely that guys name

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Lophomon

Nível Criança / Seichouki / Rookie  Atributo Vírus  Tipo Dinossauro  Campo Rugido do Dragão (DR) / Império do Metal (ME)  Significado do Nome Lopho de Dilophosaurus, Dilofossauro em inglês. 

Descrição 

Lophomon é fruto de uma experiência realizada por algum grupo pertencente ao Império do Metal que adquiriu dados de uma espécie antiga e a modificou, usando o Anticorpo X, com o objetivo de adaptar essa criatura ao ambiente hostil do Mundo Digital, como também pensando em atualizar seu código com características comuns entre Digimons Máquina. 

O resultado de tudo isso foi esta criatura que, mesmo mantendo quase 100% de sua aparência original, projeta membranas de energia nos braços e em volta da cabeça, estas que são afiadas o suficiente para cortar vários materiais, graças às altas temperaturas que emitem. Suas cristas também são capazes de rasgar seus oponentes, ainda que n��o sejam tão poderosas quanto suas membranas. 

Lophomon foi considerado um sucesso como Espécie de Combate, mas incapaz de ser submisso e seguir ordens pois seus instintos mais primitivos são de um predador solitário. Inclusive, é extremamente difícil formar qualquer tipo de laço afetivo com Lophomon, pois ele vê isso como fraqueza, e muitas vezes a primeira coisa que faz quando alguém se aproxima é expandir suas membranas e atacar. 

No fim, foi apenas solto pelo Mundo Digital para que observassem seu impacto no ambiente, dando tempo aos pesquisadores de acharem uma forma de controlar essa criatura que demonstra um potencial destrutivo além das expectativas. 

Técnicas 

Crista Dupla (Double Crest) Corta o oponente com as cristas em sua cabeça. 

Rasgo Dino (Dino Gash) Usa as garras das mãos ou dos pés para ferir o adversário. 

Lâmina Predatória (Predator Blade) Usa as lâminas em seus braços para desferir um corte poderoso. 

Fulgor Relâmpago (Lightning Glow) Expande as membranas de sua cabeça e lança uma rajada de energia que queima aqueles que estiverem e seu raio de ação. 

Linha Evolutiva 

Pré-Evolução  Fossilmon 

Evoluções Rasiermon

Artista Jonas Carlota  Digidex Empírea 

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Hestia - Goddess of the Hearth by Markus Stadlober 2019

"Hestia and Hermes: the Greek imagination of motion and place You live among men's and women's beautiful dwelling places On the foot of the big statue of Zeus in Olympia, Phydias represented the twelve Olympian Gods. Between Helios, the sun and Selene, the moon, he arranged them in six couples: Zeus-Hera, Poseidon Amphitrita, Hephaistos-Charis, Apollo-Artemis, Aphrodite-Eros and Hermes-Hestia [Pausanias, Descriptions of Greece 5.11.8]. Hestia and Hermes are not husband and woman, nor brother and sister, nor mother and son either. They are neighbors, or better: friends. Where Hermes loiters is Hestia never far. Where Hestia stays, Hermes can appear at any moment. In its polarity, the couple Hestia-Hermes expresses the tension which is proper to the archaic representation of space. Space needs a center, a fix point from which directions and orientations can be defined. But space is also the locus of motion, and that implies the possibility of transitions, of passage from any point to any other. Hestia and Hermes belong to very archaic, pre-Hellenistic representations. Hestia is the hearth. In modern Greek, istia still means the hearth or the household. The name Hermes comes from herma(x), hermaion or hermaios lophos, heap of stone. Before he became an Olympian God, Hermes was the personification of lithoboly, the gesture of throwing stones on tombs. He was the heap of stone or the wooden pole on a grave, but also the phallos. Hermes unites death and fertility in one figure. Hestia and Hermes, personifications of the hearth and of the protecting grave are the Gods of the domestic domain. They are also the symbols of the gestures of women and men and of their interplay. Through that interplay, the house becomes a unique place in the world, a topos in a cosmos. Hestia and Hermes allow us a glance into Greek domesticity. In their interplay, we can understand something of the Greek household and its works and of hospitality. "You live both on the superficies of the soil, in the beautiful dwellings places of men and women, and you are filled with mutual philía" said a homeric hymn. Hestia and Hermes are the epichthonian Gods, the Gods of the dwelled soil. They are everywhere where people make fire, trace limits, build walls and a roof over their heads. Together, they are the Gods of orientation and of the tracing of limits. (Jean-Pierre Vernant, "Hestia - Hermès. Sur l'expression religieuse de l'espace et du mouvement chez les Grecs:, in Jean-Pierre Vernant, Mythe et pensée chez las Grecs. Étude de psychologie historique, 2 vol., Paris, 1974, pp. 155 - 201. 2)

Hestia sits in the middle. She stands still, but she is ubiquitous. Hermes, the quick one, can never be caught, like mercury. He never appears where he is expected and reigns over the space of travellers. Hestia embodies the gestures of settling down, of enclosing and of keeping. Hermes manifests the gestures of opening, trespassing, and speaks of mobility and of the encounter with the other. He is the God of transitions . He keeps guard on doors and limits, the entrance of cities as well as crossways and has for this reason many heads: Hermes trikephalos, tretrakephalos. Since graves are doors to the underworld, he is in necropoles and cemeteries. He accompanies the souls of the dead to the Hades: Hermes psychagogos, psychopompos. He is the protector of thieves, but he also protects houses from thieves. He is the messenger between Gods and humans: Hermes angelos. All those different aspects of Hermes's activity become only coherent in relation to Hestia's. Hermes makes mobile, Hestia centers. Hestia's place is the hearth, whose deeply rooted stone is a symbol of constancy. Hermes's place is near the door, that he protects from his companions the thieves: Hermes pyloros. Hermes's characteristics and activities are the asymmetrical complements of what Hestia is and does. (Arnold van Gennep, Les rites de passage: étude systématique des rites, Paris: 1909.)

Asymmetrical complementarity At every step of our analysis, we have acknowledged a polarity, or better an asymmetrical complementarity between constancy and change, center and periphery, the closed and the open, the interior and the exterior. That complementarity shapes all spaces, as well as the condition of their inoccupants. We are introduced into a world where by telling me which space you occupy and how, you tell me who you are. Neither term of the polarity can be understood alone, but always only in complement to the other. The tension between these two poles mirrors itself even in the definition of everyone of the terms: there is a Hestia in Hermes, a Hermes in Hestia. As we have already seen with the paradox of hospitality. Hermes's activities can always be interpreted in a hestian light, and vice-versa. In this hestian light, activities like bartering, buying and selling, which are Hermes's prerogatives can be seen as extensions of the logic of gift, over which Hestia reigns. Inversely, Hestia reigns over keeping activities in the house. In Hermes's light, these activities look like an accumulation, an interpretation who became widespread in classical times, where the granaries of the polis, managed by men, were called the Hestia Koinê. So Xenophon compared Hestia with the bee queen, "that stays in the middle of the beehive and sees that honey be well kept". He gives the cells of the beehive the same name that was given to the chambers in which precious goods were kept: thalamoi. As Hestia Koinê, Hestia becomes the symbol of the accumulation power of the city and of the union of their inhabitants around their granaries.

Hestia and Hermes in Greek philosophy Plato gives us a striking example of the absorption of Hermes by Hestia. Hermes is, you remember, the stone heap, the wooden pole on graves. As such, he personifies the central pole of a house, the stem of the big tree in the house patio or the phallos. Hestia is the stone of the hearth, that roots the bouse into the soil, but also the column of smoke that relates the infraworld with the sky. Plato lets the two figures merge into one. Hestia is for him the axis of the world. He plays with etymologicaly not quite founded - homonimities, allowing himself to compare Hestia with the pillar (histiê), the mast of a ship (istós), the woman at the loom, whom he called histia. In Republic, he compares Hestia with the spinning Goddess Anankê, who sits at the center of the universe and whose spindle's motion regulates the revolution of the heavenly spheres. Anankê also means necessity, or the erected phallus. Plato even invents two poetic etymologies for Hestia: ousia, the essence, and hosia, motion."

-Jean Robert, Hestia and Hermes: the Greek imagination of motion and place

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Cryo-lopho-saurus

Cryolophosaurus with sexual dimorphism (the male has vibrant colours on the crest)

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3 things i want to anynoumsly know about you : fav cactus, steamdeck total play time, last manga you read that made you cry

omgg 😳 ure aware of me

fav cactus has to be lophophora lOVe the way they look when they flower. especially all the variations they can come in. i’m very much a “branching/paddle/arm” cactus type lover but i make the exception for lophos bc i find them to be so CUTE.

probably 6–12 hours lOL. i spent like a month customizing and tweaking. but only played like 6-12 hours in total. i could very much be underestimating tho. around the time i was starting to actually play on it i got distracted by minecraft so it’s been neglected 😅😅😅

last manga… yikes when was the last time i read anything o-o. sorry i really can’t remember right now >~<

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European crested tit

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