#paleo-fiction

[averyghe]

“On the back of a giant”

[paleobeastentertainment]

Mason is continually haunted by the memories of how she got her scars, the worst one being her regret for not being able to save her friend from death in this scene from the Ainrann Chronicles prequel, Gods and Demons. Art done by the talented @emilystepp

[troythecatfish]

[royalreef]

(( I probably won't be on much today ( cleaning + watching something + working on other stuff ), but since it's Munday, if you hop into my inbox and ask for biology facts/common misconceptions and inaccuracies, I can give ny'all some advice and such.

[badlandscola]

Here it is. Episode 11: "The Mud" Pt. 1

The final call.

Listen. Transcript.

[phillipiswriting]

#WorldbuildingWednesday Fauna of the Ennead: Introduction

It’s about time I post more about the spec-evo side of my writing. On Earth, the evolution of life has been defined by occasional mass extinction events which often form the boundary between geologic periods, such as the Great Dying (the Permian-Triassic extinction event). In the Ennead, such extinction events did occur, but were spread out across nine planets; migration between the Nine, however, was almost always impossible due to a great everstorm blocking the portals. The result is the preservation of ancient species in some planets while others evolve and diversify after their own extinction events, with very occasional mass migrations when Abations briefly opened the portals.

By the present day, TA 2605, each of the Nine feature unique flora and fauna which roughly correspond to different geological time periods of Earth. Eutopos is home to “egg mammals” descended primarily from Permian fauna; Sassan features huge chalicotheres and other Paleogene fauna; Maurya is home to Cretaceous dinosaurs. Other planets have their own unique fauna mixed from many different geologic periods. There is of course nuance, and all of these “Permian” “Cretaceous” etc animals have continuously evolved and continue evolving through the present day.

Xia, the setting of the novel, is closest to modern Earth fauna, with the obvious addition of kites (pterosaurs) and other flyers. Our main characters are familiar with hawks, dogs, cows, bears, squirrels, etc – but they are also familiar with domesticated shield gaur (ceratops), rani (ankylosaurs), and tuskies (diictodons), as well as wild forestwalker kites (quetzalcoatlus) and even sparrowkites (anurognathids).

[abbeyofcyn]

Hi there, I love your stuff, I hope you don't mind but I wanted to do an ask the artist

Where are you from?

What's your favorite color?

How long have you been creating art for?

What drives you to make art?

What is your favorite piece of artwork of yours?

What is your favorite fan artwork that was done for you?

What character of yours is your favorite?

If you could go to any fictional world which one would it be?

Do you consider what will please your audience or do you just do your own thing?

What made you want to start your AU?

1. The Netherlands

2. Cyan? Turquoise? Hatsune miku hair?

3. For as long as I remember

4. I don't know, really. Which is hard when you lose whatever that is...

5. Oof I'm pretty happy with anything that has a fully coloured bg haha

6. I love anything anyone draws for me 🥺

7. I have a very old OC named Ayumu....I sometimes still think about him and other oc Melody.

8. Right now paleo pines cause cute dinos....

9. Both

10. Seeing everyone else's amazing AUs making me feel

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Some more #paleostream sketches.

Although these don't have much paleo in them, you see here some of my interpretations of various Rhinogrades, a fictional mammal clade and one of the oldest instances of speculative evolution.

[bestfictionaldinosaur]

Best Fictional Dinosaur Tournament: Saurischian Bracket; Round 1E, Poll 1/8

[spacelazarwolf]

Seen you rb from them a lot but there's easily 100s of posts calling out Jewish Kulinadromeous on this blog just FYI this is just a few

https://www.tumblr.com/is-the-owl-video-cute/731044766029086720/meig-is-fucking-taking-her-parrot-to-a?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/is-the-owl-video-cute/731043649173012480/i-literally-dropped-out-of-paleo-courses-because?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/is-the-owl-video-cute/731024787478118400/not-the-same-anon-but-i-used-to-follow-dino-days?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/is-the-owl-video-cute/731029592394137600/im-anti-harrasment-over-fiction-my-brother-in?source=share

stop fucking sending me your tumblr beef. also “hey jew, i noticed you reblogged from a jew i don’t like. stop that.” fuck off.

[spiribia]

i do like a calendar system in games where there are festival days and birthdays and the seasons change, but the issue of where it tracks in game time elapsed in years is that this is one of the first areas in a game where narrative immersion starts to fray apart for me. I’m on like Year 21 of Paleo Pines. A moment for me years ago when I was in Stardew Valley was seeing someone’s playthrough where they were on Year 100. Nothing had changed at all - how could it be expected to - I wasn’t under the illusion I wasn’t playing a game in a fictional setting, but there’s something that becomes uncanny about that small narrative reality disconnect. The characters aren’t going to acknowledge it - what are they to do; should your wife go “Can you believe it’s been 50 whole years since you first arrived here, it feels like just yesterday!” and she looks exactly the same as she did as does everybody and your child has been a baby exactly the same as they were for 45 years? I think a lot of these games bank on the fair assumption that the player will eventually be fulfilled and leave off at a reasonable point of years in of their own accord, but for the people most devoted to the fantasy of the game to stay in it for much longer past that point, is that not all the more subtly jarring to witness. 100 annual summer festivals

[averyghe]

Some ancient scrimblos. DUDE ON THE RIGHT IS AN ANTIQUE STATUE FROM ANCIENT ROOME PAINTED TO LOOK LIKE A LIVING HUMAN AND NOT A LIVING HUMAN AT ALL

[paleobeastentertainment]

Among the Sauropods

Robin and Briar, it has been too long. Happy to see you both doing romance things again.

[troythecatfish]

Here’s my personal recommendation of a YouTube video to check out:

[howtofightwrite]

The fun part with this is that there already is some crossover between aliens or UFO encounters and cryptid folklore. Now, this does betray that, to some degree, modern folklore has taken a more science-adjacent tone. You can see this in terminology. Instead of folklore, we have pseudo-science fields like cryptozoology or parapsychology.

The difference between cyptozoology and folklore centering on strange creatures in the forest is simply that we, as individuals, would like to see ourselves as less superstitious, and more rational, than those who came before us. And those who came before us felt the same way about their predecessors. The terminology changes, but the underlying idea of looking for something inexplicable, or finding something new remains the same. This is something you may want to keep in mind while creating new strands of pseudoscience to account for the supernatural creatures in your world.

The irony is, in scratching off the comic book approach, you're skipping over something interesting and fun. What happens when the supernatural creatures of folklore and myth are aliens? Erich von Dänikenis probably the most prominent advocate for this idea. If you've ever seen Stargate, his idea of, “paleo-contact,” and the idea is that major mythological figures were aliens should be familiar. This is specifically a branch of pseudo-archeology and psuedo-history.

It's not hard to spin this off into the idea of, “supernatural,” creatures that are actually exiled aliens. The Fey are particularly good for this, if you've spent any significant time looking at Celtic myths, though this also works with any sufficiently detailed pantheon. Again, that's basically the route Stargate went with the Egyptian pesedjet, and gradually expanding into more cultures as the TV series' continued. This is also the route Marvel went with Thor, meaning this is, literally, a comic book approach.

While the actual comic book is much darker, the original Men in Black film does a wonderful job of existing as a quasi-fever-dream suggestion for a world where supernatural entities operate as a kind of police force regulating visiting extraterrestrials. The technology they're playing with is said to be of alien origin, but really, we're solidly in Clarke's Third Law territory here.

The fuzzy territory Men in Blackbrings into focus also illustrates one difficulty with this idea. The difference between an extraterrestrial and a fey or demon is the perspective you bring to the discussion. They're allalien beings. Aliens have become a new form of outside creature. The difference between the premise of War of the Worldsand Doom II lies in the aesthetics of the monsters that came from Mars. This doesn't mean you can't use both, but you should be aware that they will naturally, “fill the same slot,” in your story, and it's something to be conscious of. At the same time, this also creates a natural delineation if you want to mix and match different approaches to the supernatural and aliens.

The short version of this idea is that you can divide most supernatural fiction into a few general approaches. Either the monsters are hidden from the world via some (probably magical or technological) means, hidden via their own actions (which is to say, staying hidden), or they're a part of the daily world. With some play between the second and third category depending on how many people are in on the secret. Mixing fantasy monsters and aliens gives you a good excuse for why one group might fall into one of the above categories while another does not, and allows for some wild combinations. Such as a world where aliens are a part of everyday life, but the supernatural is hidden by some mystical veil, a world where aliens hide among the population using technology while monsters try desperately to avoid being discovered by the modern world, or a world where supernatural  beings are simply a part of everyday life, but the world is currently under a covert alien onslaught. Really, there are a lot of options here, and the only limit is your creativity.

I will say, this is something that is tailor made to have fun with. It's is a wild mix, and there is a lot of freedom to how you approach this, including a lot of ways you can shake up conventional interactions between the groups.

-Starke

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[cheerful-sixears]

Finnigan "Fitz" Barnes || he/him/his || pygmy/jamnapari goat || 30

update for a dear OC of mine ;u; <3 don't consider myself a real furry [moreso enthusiast] , so yeah! Finnigan or "Fitz" was one of my first 'coming out' OC's that I created with the help of my brother, @monkie-deej. <3

Profile below the cut ;u;

\\\-Basics-\\\

☽｡⋆Name: Finnigan Olivander Barnes

☽｡⋆Nickname(s): Finn, Finny, “Fitz”, Finners, Fizzy, Fizzles, 

☽｡⋆Species: Pygmy Goat, Jamnapari Goat & 0.2% fainting goat

☽｡⋆Age: 30

☽｡⋆Height: 5'3"

☽｡⋆Weight: 290+lbs

☽｡⋆Hair Color: curly and dyed pink

☽｡⋆Eye Color: Kelly Green

☽｡⋆Fur Color: rich cream colored w/ Rusty, Reddish Brown markings + "pink nose"

☽｡⋆Hoof/Horn Color: pale, pastel slate brown

☽｡⋆Tattoos: none

☽｡⋆Scars: right elbow; knees [scattered]

☽｡⋆Piercings: Ear lobes, bullring/septum

☽｡⋆Notable Accessories: Occasionally; a paperboy hat, fingerless gloves, kandi bracelets galore

\\\-Personality-\\\

☽｡⋆Occupation/Specialties: Zombies/Ghouls, Drawing, Writing, and Currently Unemployed from a REAL jobbb

☽｡⋆Fears: *murky [deep] water, heights and most high speeds, losing Audron

☽｡⋆Hobbies: Drawing, writing, scrapbooking, collecting various things, reading, cooking

☽｡⋆Clothing: Prefers clothing to be on the more comfortable side, edgy. He doesn’t have much of a ‘fashion’ sense, and he doesn’t really care what others think of his personal, artsy choices. As long as it’s comfortable and brings good feelings, he’ll wear it. Hee mostly prefers graphic tees, dark colored band tees, sometimes with silly phrases alongside fitted jeans [in pink or purple] and crazy hoof-shoes.

☽｡⋆Personality: Finn has a gentle heart, and a childlike nature and mind most often. He can be very sensible, yet very sensitive, and is always willing to accept those willing to accept him. He adores and is always willing to make new friends of all walks of life, but has a hard time doing so, making him seem somewhat imposing and difficult to approach. He may see the glass half empty on some days, but never doubts a rainy day having a chance to be a genuine, good one. It’s hard to make him cry, but when he does, he spills his heart, and usually feels better by the end of it. Overall, he is a very generous, kind, and caring individual, who is fun loving, and adventurous at best.

☽｡⋆Relationships: 

–Romantic: Closed // [fictionally]

–List: Macaque [Lego Monkie Kid], Ryo Asuka//Satan [Devilman Franchise], Kumatetsu [The Boy and the Beast]

–Friends: Audron/OddyMoo [ @monkie-deej], Shadow/Shade [ @evil-dad-evil], 

–Friendships: Open // [just ask! <3]

\\\-Weaknesses/Negative Traits/Disadvantages-\\\

☽｡⋆Illnesses: short temper, sad very often, tummy troubles, common migraines and symptoms

☽｡⋆Weaknesses: pollen/allergies, social anxiety, anger issues, 

\\\-Other Preferences-\\\

☽｡⋆Likes: Cooking, Eating, Star Gazing, Mythology, Vampires and cryptids, All nighters with friends, drawing, rodents/marsupials, winged things, dinosaurs and paleo, undead things, dark poetry, loud music, swimming, plushies, reading, the undead, cooking, being lazy on comfy days

☽｡⋆Dislikes: negative thoughts, bright lights, migraines, losing control over himself, repetitive noises, fake people, fakes and liars, assumptions, cleaning, control freaks, 

☽｡⋆Romantic Preference: Demi-Asexual