#tbh the feathered dino animation reminds me of like

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do u ever see comments on posts and artwork full of effort and thought and passion etc and like. think about that post that talks about how people have the darndest time interacting with art without trying to crack a joke about it. is it really so boring to take someone's art seriously? is it necessary to demean someone's efforts, however unintended, for a 'joke' that consists of you being like "ooOOoOh how weird lol!!" like i don't want or mean to be a killjoy. but i think about that post a lot. like y do u need to add a punchline to something that doesn't need one. who asked u. why does it need to be funny. and u don't even have the decency to acknowledge its merit ;/

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fun facts about my creature designs bc idk anymore

this was only supposed to be about journal and TC i got a little too silly this is pretty long

journal's paper feathers can't really be written on in the same way as his pages can (this is a hc but i think he can just think of something and just write things in himself with his mind), he has to use an actual pencil to draw the patterns himself. objects that have feathers like this will opt to use whatever drawing thing to draw with

It's sorta like nail polish ig how it slowly goes away over time and has to be replaced a lot, as the pencil will rub off smudge whatever in high contact areas like his arm feathers. the pencil marks can obv be removed with erasers. I think he would like to change his patterns a decent amount to whatever he was interested in that day so he probably wouldn't want to draw on himself with pen

journal used to be on top of making sure his feather patterns were clean looking until his mental health started to decline so as of now they're probably decently deteriorated by now

journal is a great horned owl, because i saw one picture of an owlet sleeping flat on his face and for some reason it reminded me of him faceplanting twice

treasure chest's scales are actually straight up gold, to fit with his theme of treasure he is also the treasure heh. it's probably kind of heavy but whatever he can handle it he probably sounds like a bunch of coins jingling when he moves around

I'm not sure what all of his scales would be worth but i wouldn't recommend trying to steal them from him that would hurt him

tc has probably had many occurrences of objects pulling on his scales and asking if it's actual gold

tc is a gold dust molly, because gold and also it can live in saltwater which is what I was aiming for

paint palette was actually supposed to be a wolf literally wearing wool, like in lockdown she wouldn't be wearing the sheep wool but she'd put it on in lockout

but i didn't like that it felt a bit too cliché ig so she's just a sheep but she still has the vibe

unlike journal notebook's creature features are not made out of typical paper they're made out of cardboard like a notebook cover no reason for this i just felt like it

notebook is a dino specifically bc that one scene in sob where they just go "RAAARGGGH" after being provoked sometimes i put deep thought into the animals for my creature objects and other times it's literally just one thing that speaks to me /silly

bucket can make really interesting noises considering he's a mix of a cat and a dog/kittydog, he might not do that in front of random people but when he's alone/with his friends

I don't know what sounds kittydogs make i just assume they make noises like a mix of noises from both animals (like a meowbark??? I made that up idk)

now that i think of it i can't remember why bucket's a kittydog anyway but i like it so it stays

rook being a guinea pig is because of the guinea pig's history in being pets that different royalty had

he also has a blue earring on his ear, this references shieldy

idk where he got that earring from tbh on the ground somewhere maybe??

shieldy has a gold one to match rook, along with being the same breed of guinea pig iirc (abyssinian) i can't remember if that breed specifically was a breed that royalty had maybe it was

I remember the earring connections being unintentional i think but by the time I designed shieldy i did make it intentionally

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Both laughter and tears on the divorce paragraph.

Anyway! Yeah hybrid creativity would be better for sure, it's less that it's nonviable genetically and more physically. IE, if one has an anklysaur tail they probably can't be bipedal to use it the best way but on the other hand it could be great counter balance for some hybrids.

Imagine Moy seeing these kids and realizing that they have Vel's own DNA in them. Imagine her thinking about their little baby when she sees his markings and feathers on these kids. Maybe that's when the kids she helped found out?

And yeah, I agree that she laid an egg for her baby.

The conflict and the angst this man is going through. He too can't help but see that lil kid in them too. (He won't admit it but part of him wishes he had made them years ago so they could have properly grown up instead of being rapid aged or whatever).

I feel like Moy and Vel kinda both latched into their teams and are probably reminded about their kid and can't help but wonder if the kid would have ended up similar. TBH, part of me wants to run with the animal imprint thing and apply it to shifters. So while the team has their human parents, when they first shifted Moy was there to help them so she's basically their Dino parent. Basically, she saw them like children before she even sent them out but, again, Vel was already bad before and she was reaching her limit of handling his schemes. Moy was attached before she sent them out, but Vel didn't truly attach until after he sent his team out.

But now I gotta wonder about the family members. Was these kids' DNA so exact to what was necessary for the shift, or could their families possibly have had it happen to them? Maybe teens were such a good candidate because of puberty and close years making it easier to force the gene unlocked?

Also, that damn dog. That thing is a mixed up mess. 😂

Time to feed the DinoSquad Fandom a little.

Have a sketch-esk re-draw of the circling scene in the last episode and little character sketches for the scrungle Veloci and tired teacher Moynihan. I gave her wrinkled because i can.

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Super random but what's your favorite dinosaur? I like velociraptors, they remind me of cats tbh

Frick yeah I love dinosaurs!!! My personal favourite dinosaur is the Gigantoraptor~!

Its like a giant ass chicken, imagine a large dino, but with feathered "wings" (it's more like arms,,,) Nd feathered tail. That's it, a Chicken dino

BUT THEN, OKAY IM LETTING MY INNER FAN OUT BUT,, the current arc one piece is in??? Latest chapters? Yes they all feature dinosaurs,,, *the tobi roppo* oml all of them my beloved. Idk if any of yall are up to date with one piece, I mean I don't expect yall too, it's super long, but the dino transformations for the tobi roppo better be good in the anime or imma throw hands. It includes the spinosaurous, allosaurus, triceratops, pachycephalosaurous, and other ancient animals.

**how did u know I loved dinosaurs when I was younger???** /lh :0))))