#velocoraptor

[peridoxikal-redux]

Maki could barely handle one of him already!

[rightarrowcurvingleft]

Hes about to do the forehead flick thing

[the-idiot-17]

FLUFFY DINOOOOOOSSSSSSSS

Also I know it's adorable but this thing is 6ft tall, shorter compared to some other dinosaurs but definitely tall enough to attack you.

But then on the other hand fluffyyyy dinnoooooossssss

fox themed utah for a friend :3 what she lookin at i wonder

[thexie-and-stars]

runnin through the house screeching like a velocoraptor call me the tism dinosaur

[changingplumbob]

Still pretty tired but not as wiped out as yesterday. I've almost finished the outfits for Simblreen. It should surprise no one that so far Devin has the longest list of cc used, it's funny seeing the screenshot of her tracked cc list beside some other characters that have maybe 2 items of cc other than defaults. But Devin is my favorite so I will allow her her extravagance.

Tonight was watching the Sixth Sense, I haven't seen it for a few years despite loving it. I don't know, my brain has this thing where it appreciates when effects are done with costumes/make up and not cgi, it appreciates the things looking like they're truly there I guess you'd say. Like when they have the baby velocoraptor animatronic in the first Jurassic Park.

Anyway Glenn meets Silver tomorrow! I'm very excited about it and hope it reads well. Had lots of help from my co-editor today, see below picture from where I stepped away from my laptop for a minute...

[electric-s0da]

Oh to be a little robotic Velocoraptor unbothered and free of taxes in this life

[beastlybardou]

From @wolfislost

For the lycanthrope ask game!

🌕 - Do moon phases affect your form? If so which phases?

⭐️ - How conscious are you when shifted? (Can you understand words, stuff like that)

🌙 - Do you consider yourself human at all?

🌕 - Well yes but actually, no. I'm not forced to shift under any moon phase like the classic werewolf archetype - but I am very influenced by the lunar rhythm. A lot of times around the full moon, I feel especially restless and am more prone to accidentally letting parts of my werewolf form bleed out onto my human body. I also tend to use this time to connect more with the spiritual part of what it means to be a werewolf for me. During the new moon I tend to be a bit more aggressive and a "darker" creature so to speak, without my guiding light.

⭐️ - The analogy that I like to use for my consciousness and intelligence in shifted form is Toothless from HTTYD or a Jurrasic Park velocoraptor. I am still near human intelligence and am capable of understanding some human language, but I am not thinking in human ways, so to speak. So I can remember what it is I'm doing and consider my responsibilities, use problem solving, etc, and if someone talked to me I would be able to get the gist of what they're saying, but I probably wouldn't be able to keep up with an in depth hypothetical conversation or anything of that sort.

🌙 - Only in action, if that makes sense? I am not a human, but I am frequently acting as a human in human society and have a human form that is a part of me. I guess you could say my species of werewolf is highly analogous to humans but not the same.

[confused-canid]

ME I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT DINOSAURS

Did you know the reason we got large grazing dinosaurs is because of the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere ??? The amount back then would suffocate a human or other small mammals but it was perfect for literal giant reptiles, sauropods and insects!

RAGHHHHH

And I don't think I knew that!!! Thank you!!

I already said this in another response to an ask but the reason the irritator is named that is because when a museum (i think) first received it, its skull was tampered with and they spent many IRRITATING hours trying to restore it!

Also, when iguanadon was first discovered they only found one of its thumbs and they thought it was a horn on its nose! This was later proven false when they found a different iguanadon and they found both thumbs! Also, they originally thought it was just. A big iguana!

Also, scientists right now think that the tyrannosaurus couldn't roar, but instead rumble, too quiet to hear, do they wouldn't scare off prey but could still communicate!

Also, the "velocoraptors" in Jurassic park / Jurassic world were actually based off of Deinonychus! The fossils that the "velocoraptors" were based off of were also sold for a LOOOTTTT of money!

I love dinosaurs so much. Also, I have seen the theater release for all three of the Jurassic world movies! But when I saw dominion in theaters everyone was TALKING SO LOUD😭 but I saw it later out of theaters and watched int on repeat for like a whole week lol

[hiddenwashington]

time goes by quickly, & before you know it, april is here. the snow has given way to the spring warmth, the birds already singing outside windows & the squirrels already scurrying across the trees. the days beckon dc’s citizens to venture outside of their cozy, winter-proof homes, inviting to even some of the most unimpressed of people after a long, cold season. things have seemed almost ... perfect, for most, these past couple weeks. however, the first of the month also brings the notorious april fools, & the city must think it’s about time to play its tricks. so when morning comes, it’s not the the beautiful, spring sunrise that brings people to consciousness, but instead, it’s the loud, vibrating stomps of dinosaurs roaming the streets. huh.

OOC INFORMATION

hello, hi, welcome friends !! happy april fools !! some of you have been begging for dinosaurs, & despite the stubbornness from a few of us ( myself included ), we are good admins, so we are here to deliver! this isn’t a very plot-heavy event in the slightest, but it’s meant to be a quick fun thing to celebrate a particularly silly little day. so just ride with the flow, go wild, & do with this as you will! ♥

DATES :

APRIL 1 - APRIL 3

unlike our other events, there is no plotting period – this event starts IMMEDIATELY.

this event will last for 12 hours in character, 2 days out of character!

THE DINO-SHAPED FRIENDS :

the magic has brought dinosaurs to the streets of washington dc! however, even the most aggressive types are content to mind their own business unless provoked, a rare treat from the city. most would still snap if people were to get a little too close, but as long as one were to keep their distance, it wouldn’t be unexpected for the dinosaurs & humans to live together in harmony, for just this one day.

then again, humans aren’t exactly known for their common sense & self control. so.

any dinosaurs you can think of ( + your pterosaurs because they might as well be dinosaurs ) can be found in dc for this day of fun! this might include, but is certainly not limited to the :

t-rex, pterodactyl, spinosaurus, brontosaurus, diplodocus, triceratops, chicken, velocoraptor, stegosaurus, & brachiosaurus!

QUICK HOUSEKEEPING :

please be sure to TAG ALL MINIEVENT THREADS as something similar to ‘hwminievent5′, ‘hw dinopocolypse’, ‘mini event’, ‘my dinosaur adventure’, something that makes it clear that these threads are taking place during the event!

please, please, please tag all triggers. if a thread feels like it is getting too intense, remember to use a read more. we will be monitoring threads and messaging about triggers. A REFRESHER FOR THOSE IS RIGHT HERE

this is supposed to be a fairly chill event, so if you plan on using this event to kill off or majorly injure your character, please DO message the main first as per our usual rules!!

we will be offering ONE FREE STARTER FOR EACH WRITER, not each character, just as we always do!! that is only for saturday the 1st!

unlike our full events, you DO NOT have to put other threads on hold! this is another minievent so it is not mandatory for anyone to participate in, so you’re more than welcome to continue on as normal!

again, just have fun & go wild! please feel welcome to get creative with this & and we hope this means you stop askin– i mean, that your characters like this once-in-a-lifetime chance to live with friendly-ish dinosaurs! we can’t wait to see what you all do with this! please do not hesitate to ask any questions that may arise & let us know if you need help! with that all said, as always, PLEASE LIKE THIS WHEN YOU HAVE READ IT ALL! ♥

[hyacinthhhhh]

💖 ASK GAME 💖

📷 What’s set as your phone’s lockscreen? Its a green background with bunnies all over it

🍫 Cheese or chocolate? Chocolate

✨ Do you have any nicknames? Yes multiple

🎵 Last song you listened to? Silk and colonge from spider man across the spider verse

✏️ Have you ever written fanfiction? Yes when i was like 11

😏 Are you on discord? Yes

💛 Do you have any piercings? I have 4

🐰 What do you think says the most about a person? Their shoes.

🍪 If you were a cookie, what kind would you be? Chocolate chip :3

🐶 Are you more of a dog person or a cat person? Neither bunnies

🎧 Headphones or earbuds? Headphones

🌼 What’s the last thing you said out loud? "Ima watch cars :3" (talking to myself)

🙃 What’s a weird fact that you know? I know too many to js choose one

🦉 Are you a morning person or a night owl? Night owl

🧸 Favorite place to nap? My bed 😌 or the kitchen floor after a meltdown

🏳️‍🌈 Are you a member of the LGBTQIA+ community? Yes im trans, pan, and demisexual

🦋 Describe yourself in three words. Emo silly caring

👖 Jeans or sweatpants? Jeans

🥤 What’s your go-to Starbucks order? Venti iced chai with cinnamon dolce cold foam

🧡 A color you can’t stand? Yellow.

💎 What’s your most prized possession? My umbreon mini backpack

☕ Coffee or tea? Yes.

🦖 Favorite extinct animal? Dinosaur specifically velocoraptor

🌙 How long have you been on tumblr? I have no idea a few months i think

🌴 Desert island item? Idk 😭

🐸 Describe your aesthetic. Emo

🔮 What’s your dream job? Costume designer or VA

💙 Relationship status? Sadly single 😔

🌿 Describe your favorite outfit. Green jeans with stars a black and white star crop top and my grey star jacket with my converse

🎤 Is there a song you know all the lyrics to? Many

🤎 What color is your hair? Natrually brown but usually dyed so rn blue and purple

💌 Do you talk to yourself? Yes

💄 Do you wear makeup? Yes.

🌸 Best compliment you ever received? One of my friends said that my obsession with cars was very endeering

💞 @ your favorite blog. @kookielucas

[kora-kat]

Talking to my dad about my comic ideas is always helpful cuz I don't realize at first that my comics have weird, batshit premises.

For example: two cowboy alien velocoraptors encounter a feral Mexican human child that crash lands on their planet from a research spaceship and have to hide her from their tyranical velocoraptor government.

Should I trim down the details and make it less complicated? Yes, but I was raised on anime and I like velocoraptor cowboys and feral children.

[niiwa-angel]

It's like Chris Pratt talking down the velocoraptors but for Karens

isn't it so funny there's such a thing as "customer service voice"? Like I have to speak to you like a child or you'll rip my face off like a wild chimp

[jsaunderswrites]

Watching Jurassic World Dominion, hoping for it to be less bad than the others but ready for it to be the worst.

My various opinions pro and con:

Pros:

The cretaceous prologue was cool, if not entirely accurate.

Seeing dinos in the wider world is cool, the found footage in the newsreel is all reused from Battle at Big Rock but still rocks.

Poachers and breeding mills make perfect sense in this kind of world.

The apatosaurus at the lumber yard was kinda magical.

I never gave a shit about Blue, but dinosaurs building nests in the detritus of human industry is soooo cool!

Neil and Dean IMMEDIATELY have so much better chemistry than Pratt and Howard, it's night and day.

I wanna pet the baby dino too!

Grant being unhappy to learn the T. rex is at the sanctuary, and sarcastically deriding Malcolm's personality are references that feel organic, not forced.

Turning Henry Wu into a supervillain was stupid, so I'm glad they're backtracking that.

Okay Ramsay is cool!

Grant catching Malcolm was a nice moment, should've been built up to more, imagine a version of the movie where they're rocky relationship is the emotional throughline instead of Maisie's clone mum. But it was still nice.

Ian gives shitty directions.

Rexy framed in the water feature was cute.

I hope Rexy (being a very old gal at this point) gets to enjoy her new family in her last years. Apparently they're now theorising that tyrannosaurus was a social hunter too!

Cool shots of dinos in the world.

Cons:

The T. rex's appearance at the drive-in was filled with people acting pointlessly stupid for no reason. Why weren't they watching a monster movie so them assuming the screams and roars were from that, instead of an ad for the snack bar?

Owen is still in these movies.

The newsreel brings up Maisie for absolutely no reason as there was no connection to the topic she was discussing, it's just for bad exposition.

I am soooo sick of the clone question in fiction. DNA isn't your identity, identical twins and even natural clones already exist. It's a quirk, not a sign you're not "real". Stop whining about it already.

They got through literally 8 words of trying to be nice, and immediately went "Ew, sincerity? Gross! Better cover that up with a joke before people start to think our characters have souls!"

Maybe it's just me but I think hiding your child from the world is waaaay more suspicious than her sharing the face of a woman who died decades ago that no one has ever heard of. If I were a perfect clone of some 80s guy how would anyone who met me ever learn that?

Owen has a psychic raptor sense? What was that shot after Blue attacked the hunters trying to communicate?

Ellie shows up in the exact pink top and dramatically removes her sunglasses the same way as in '93. Did they think they were being too subtle?

Teenagers and phones jokes, gotta play to the septuagenarian crowd. And why is he giving a presentation to just two teenage girls who didn't care?

Owen being able to talk to Blue always feels unjustified, I bet when our ancestors were first domesticating wolves they had big sticks for when they didn't listen.

Hipster coffee jokes, the height of comedy is that young people suck.

The small feathery dinosaur does a chicken thing because we think it looks chicken like, despite all the therapods being just as genetically bird. Details like that pull me out of the film because you know they wouldn't have the velocoraptors or compys run around headless.

Claire sucks at investigating.

Owen's stupid hand thing isn't cool no matter how much they think it is.

Just interrogating a guy while he's being eaten, good guy things.

People just standing around watching while giant predators rampage behind them.

Every chase that relies on the heroes being faster and more agile than raptors feels so dumb.

Oh god two-person hand thing.

Evil smuggler lady signed up for a 1940s noire and doesn't know why no one is matching her lack of energy.

Raptor gets hit by a truck, no problem, because they aren't animals but super monsters.

The movie says "you the audience only care about what happens to Maisie, you have no concern for the people of Malta as they're eaten on screen. That's just fun spectacle."

In some movies having to jump a motorbike onto a plane before it lifts off would be cool, these movies have robbed me of the ability to enjoy that.

Owen shouting "ARE YOU HURT!?" at claire is the first sign he actually gives a shit about her, and it still feels douchey.

(looking back and seeing how long since I listed a pro, nothing in the Malta scenes!)

How are you cloning "pure" dinosaurs? The whole franchise is based around the idea you need to bridge the inevitable gaps!

Maisie's backstory is all retconned for more clone BS.

Figures miss "let's release all these incredibly dangerous creatures into society because I'm sad I share my genetic code with someone else" wouldn't care about stopping the apocalypse.

Quetzalcoatlus murders a plane because... <shrug>

That "I love you" felt fake, how are they so bad at being a couple?

Gotta make sure the new character is military like her parent, because what idiot would make a non-soldier hero!? I am so goddam sick of characters just having a military background for no fucking reason in movies, bring back unlikely heroes!

I'm sorry but I don't care about Maisie's mum and the movie is banking on me actually caring.

Genetic Power is a dumb term.

All the classic heroes met Rexy once and it changed cinema forever, Owen bumps into her every week and we couldn't care less!

There's no reason the bad guy had to be that random guy from JP1. That guy didn't read like evil Steve Jobs.

Dimetrodons do not read dangerous pack hunters to me.

Owen strangles a dilophosaurus because he is a Mary Sue. It's just to show how cool he is while undoing the actual threat of the scene.

When the chamber specifically built to contain and immolate the locusts fails without any kind of sabotage or outside interference. Because NOTHING just works.

And Ian just parks and suddenly they're teetering on the edge of a cliff!? Can't they put in reasons why things are going wrong!?

They try to parallel the old heroes with the new ones and I'm sorry but the old ones have actual fun personalities.

The LARGEST TERESTRIAL CARNIVORE OF ALL TIME eats single bug. Big scary entrance ruined.

Treverrow said the giganotosaurus is "like the joker" it's not in the movie but it's still stupid.

It's chasing them is so understated, where's the freaking music? It doesn't sound big at all!

Oh man this whole giganotosaurus sequence is so bad! So slow and clumsy!

Owen tries to explain how raptor training works, still doesn't work.

Ellie talking to Claire about regrets, why? What regrets is Ellie talking about?

Goddamit Maisie AND Grant double hand thing!? I do not like this movie!

The computers reboot and the bugs come back to life, so the scene communicates that the bugs were rebooted.

Dodgson getting Nedry'd to the extent of LITTERALY HAVING THE SHAVING CREAM. And the cream has no purpose in this film, it's ONLY a blatant reference.

From the dumbass motherhood stuff in World to the obsession with Maisie's biological mum in this, these movies have an incredibly basic and bland view on parenthood. (Goldilocks > Maisie Lockwood)

"It's always him!" Except those times it wasn't, including YOUR OWN movie!

At the start the giganotosaurus killed the T. rex, later they mention there can't be two alpha predators, and now they're fighting. But unlike HtTYD2 that alpha stuff has nothing to do with the rest of the film, so this "rivalry" feels meaningless.

Genetic dino memory.

Why should I care that giga is dead? The humans had already escaped, the fight was meaningless.

Every relationship that is being wrapped up in this ending wasn't built up adequately, Grant an Ellie were ready to get back together in scene one and Maisie ONLY sees that Owen and Claire come to find her and immediately gets over her mummy issues.

Kayla was such a nothing addition to the movie. I don't know why she's here.

"Life has existed for hundreds of millions of years" and "life existed 65 million years ago" dude life has existed for BILLIONS of years! Dinosaurs are our next door neighbours on the ocean of time!

The ending speech is about coexistence, unlike the entire rest of the film.

Neutral:

Atrociraptor is so fake sounding when I saw the toys I thought they would be the new hybrid dinos, not just an actual name some palaeontologists came up with. Honestly, that makes me chuckle.

Howard is shot weirdly, I looked up if she was pregnant during this film because I feel like she's always either wearing heavier coverings or just has her torso blocked behind something. (specifically I am about 1 1/4 hours in) Apparently she was dealing with weight shaming behind the scenes, I don't know if that has anything to do with it though.

So this is the Jurassic Park III; Alan Grant is asked to travel to a location full of free range dinos, and they're searching for a missing kid.

The gate code should've just been 1234 because no one bothered to change it from default.

Final opinion:

Probably the least bad of the three Jurassic Worlds, still an utter mess made up of disparate moments and meaningless speeches that do not add up to any thesis.

I hope Edwards' Jurassic Park 7 is ANYTHING of value, despite not caring for his Godzilla or Rogue One.

Now to get back to Camp Cretaceous.

[heartfeltbygeorgia]

A picture of my largest Dino to date! This particular one was made as a commission. #dinosaur #dinoplush #dinosaurplush #dinosaurplushie #custom #customplush #velocoraptor #commission #heartfeltbygeorgia #plushies #plush #fleeceplush # https://www.instagram.com/p/Ceuj5GbtkB_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[log-the-monster-maker]

Velocoraptor, I'd train it to attack on command

You can have any animal for a pet. Any complications such as “keeping the animal healthy and happy” and “the time and effort it would take to keep happy and healthy pet” and “keeping yourself uneaten” and “the pet I want is kind of extinct” have all been solved perfectly. You don’t have to think of that.

What is your pet?

[bluewingedcoyote]

Inktober day 4- Freeze

pen and marker on brown paper