Catch, And Release

Idnrik-beast (rus. Индрик, derived from old rus. Inorog (Инорог) — “unicorn”) — is a mythological “father of all beasts” from russian legendary. Mentioned in famous Golubinaya (Голубиная) Book (a collection of Eastern-Slavic folk spiritual poems and psalms of the late XV — early XVI century). It is believed that Indrik took form of an enormous creature with a bull’s body, head of a horse and legs of a deer. The can have both one or two horns. Indrik is a master of all groundwaters and underground troves, the protector and king of animals. According to many works of folklore, under certain circumstances Indrik can act as a magical helper of the hero, helping him to find treasure and get rid of the enemies.

Heinrichite

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Locality:

Schmiedestollen dump, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Field of View: 1.84 mm

Coll.& photo Ko Jansen

I wish I knew how to outline stories. I’ve tried so many times but I never get it.

I need an outlining coach or tutor or some shit. Someone who will sit me down, talk over what’s supposed to happen with me, and walk me through the process of outlining.

Because this fic is plot heavy and I’m a total pantser and I’m gonna screw it up or hit a writers’ block of the “uh…what’s supposed to happen now?” variety if I don’t get my shit together.

In memory of some of the amazing, talented and beautiful people we have lost this year. May they rest in peace.

Ethereal Scarves By El Costurero Real

Soft sculpture by UniversesSwirls on Etsy

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I'm pretty new here, and I don't actually know much about dinosaurs (just followed this blog because it seemed really cool and interesting) so could you explain what shrink-wrapped means?

Of course! See, modern animals have a lot of muscles, fat, fluff, etc, and end up looking very little like their actual skeleton. For example, look at how much fluff owls have:

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However, lots of palaeoartists completely ignore this! They basically stretch skin over the bones and call it a day. One especially bad example that was featured on @palaeofail is this poor pterosaur:

It barely has room for its digestive system. It’s definitely missing the air sac system that allows it to breathe. It’s got virtually no muscles on the arms - how does it fly?? - on the head (no wonder its mouth is open. It has no jaw muscles to close it!), on the torso (it needs to flap), or on the legs (walking) It doesn’t have any fat at all, so it’s definitely starving (maybe because it can’t fly or close its moth?). The skin is much too thin; you can see all of the bones and its wing membranes should be much, much thicker. And it’s missing the hair-like pycnofibres that should be covering its body!

Many palaeoartists have started to strike back at this by drawing modern animals like we might draw them if we found their bones:

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[House cat]

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lakshmi menon in vanity fair italy, 2011

i just want to look like her

imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

Pink Halite - Owens Lake, Olancha, Owens Valley, Inyo Co., California